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Show 72 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. b't. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad Company.-October 18, 1898, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved the amended and cor-rected map of definite location of the company through the Creek Nation, said map being approved in lieu of the original nmap of definite location, which was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on October 24,1896, and March 16,1898, respectively. July 5, 1899, the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, lessee of the above-mentioned company, tendered a draft for $524.68 in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for each mile of road con. structed through Indian lands for the fiscal year ending June 30,1899. Arkansas, Texas and Mexican Central Railway Company.-March 29, 1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved the map of definite location of section 1 of the company's line of road from survey station O at Davis, Chickasaw Nation, extending in a sontheasterly direction to survey station 1320 at or near the town of Reagan in said nation, a dis-tance of 25 miles. On the same date the Acting Secretary declined to approve the three plats of station grounds along the line of road as shown upon said map, designated, respectively, Davis, Schley, Mill Oreek, on account of informalities in their execution. White Earth and Chippewa Reservations, Minu.-Daluth, Superior and We~estern Railura?, Company.-December 15,1898, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved schedule of individual damages for right of way through the allotted tracts on said reservations, amounting to $1,376.03; also the assessment of damages for right of way through tribal lands at $260 per mile, making a total assessment of $9,100. February 10,1899, the company submitted a draft for $9,100 in payment of said tribal damages. The individual damages were to be paid directly to the several allottees. March 18;1899, the company sub-mitted the maps of the constructed line of road through the said reser-vations, the constructed line agreeing exactly with the original location, as shown upon the maps of definite location as filed by the company. March 27,1899, the Department approved three plats of station grounds along the company's line of road within the Chippewa Reservation and one plat of station grounds within the White Earth Reservation. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company.-December 16, 1898, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved the schedule of indi-vidual damages for right of way of the company through the Chippewa Reservation, amounting to $481; also the assessment of damages for right of way through tribal lands at the rate of $182 per mile, making a total assessment of $2,730. February 10, 1899, the company sub-mitted a draft for $2,730 in payment of tribal damages for right of way through the Chippewa Reservation. The damages for right of way through the allotted lands were to be paid directly to the allottees. June 20, 1899, the Secretary of the Interior approved the map of the constructed line of' road through the Chippewa Reservation, the con-structed road differing from the line of definite location slightly. It |