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Show 70 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. embracing an area of 7.57 acres. The governor of the Chickasaw Nation declined to accept the statutory amount of $25 per acre for said land, and the matter is now pending negotiations between the company and thenation as to what amount theuation will accept for said lands. Denino* and Norther* Railwq Company.-On March 10,1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior extended the time for the completion of the line of road of said company through the Choctaw and Ohicka-saw nations for two years from March 29,1899, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 30,1892 (27 Stats., 336), such extension being granted under and by virtue of the act of Congress approved Maroh 2,1899 (30 Stats.,990). Section 4 of this act provides: That the Secretary msy when he deems pfoper extend for a, period not exceeding two years the time for the completion of any road for whiohright of way hs. been granted and a part of which aha11 have been built. The maps of definite location of sections 1 and 2 of the main line of the road were approved by the Department May 4,1895, and the maps of sections 1 and 2 of the northwestern branch line of road were approved on May 25,1899. Choctaw, Oklahoma and (tuW Bailroad Company.-January 18,1899, the Secretary of the Interior approved the report of the board of ref-erees assessing damages for land taken for additional station-ground purposes at Sonth McAlester, Ind. T. The land taken includes 13.07 acres; damages were assessed at $1,500. February 13,1899, the com-pany forwarded vouchers showing that the expenses of the referees, witnesses, and stenographer in the matter of the assessment of dam-ages for additional station grounds at South McAlester, amounting to $41.65, had been paid. February 18, 1899, the company submitted voucher No. 173, in the natnre of a draft on the National Bank of Deni-son, Tex., for $1,500, which was tendered in payment for additional station grounds at South McAlester, Ind. T. February 17,1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved map No. 13 of the definite location of the line of road of the company from Fort Reno, Okla., in a general westerly direction to the north boundary of the Wichita Res-ervation, a distance of about 233 miles; plat of station grounds along that portion of the road at Calumet, situated in Canadian County, Okla. At the same time the Secretary declined to approve the map of definite location designated "fractional part of map No. 13 west from Bridgeport," through the Wichita Reservation, a distance of 18.09 miles. February 17,1899, the Acting Secretary approved map of definite loca-tion from Howe, Choctaw Nation, eastward to the west line of Arkan-sas, a distance of 11.17 miles. February 17, 1899, the Department declined to aocept voucher No. 4 of the wmpany, in the natnre of a draft on the State National Bank of Denison, Tex., for $890.50, which was tendered by the company for right of way of the road at the rate of $50 per mile for 17.81 miles of the road through the Wichita Reser-vation, Okla. The Department declined to accept said voucher, hold- |