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Show 82 REPORT OF THE OO~S8IONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. above-named company and tacitly granted authority for it to locate and survey a line of road through a portion of the Cherokee Nation, com-mencing at the Missouri State line near Southwest City, Mo., in sec. 27, T. 25 N., R. 25 E., in the Cherokee Nation, and extending thence in a general westerly direction to and across Grand River, in sea. 24, T. 25 N., R. 25 E., a distance of 14.87 miles. The map of definite loca-tion of said line of route was also approved by the Department on the same date. January 13, 1900, the Department designated Special United States lndian Agent Samuel L. Taggart, to make the appraisement of dam-ages for right of way of said company.through the Cherokee Nation, as shown by the company's approved map of definite location; and also to assess and determine the compensation that sbould be paid to the individual members of the Cherokee tribe for right of way through their personal holdings. April 21, 1900, the Department approved the assessment of tribal damages for right of way of the road through the Cherokee Nation as made by Special Agent Taggart, and also approved the asses~menot f damages in behalf of eight of the individual occupants with whom amicable settlement had been effected. May 9,1900, the Department authorized the collection of a draft for $919.54, the amount assessed as tribal damages. May 28, the Department accepted and approved receipts of twenty-four individual occupants sbowing settlement by the company for right of way through their lands. May 29, 1900, the Department appointed Dew M. Wisdom, Robert B. Ross, and W. G. Nelms, a commission to assess damages for right of way through the lands of individual occupants with whom amicable settlement could not be effected under the negotiations by Special Agent Taggart. July 24, 1900, the board of referees submitted their report and findings in behalf of the Indian occupants. This report was submitted to the Department September 7, and September 10 the ofice was authorized to notify the parties in interest of their rights in the matter of appealing from the award and findings of the board of referees. The office was also authorized to collect the several amounts awarded and to pay the same to the allottees rightly entitled thereto in case an appeal was not taken. This notice was given to the interested parties on September 14. Arkansas Western Railroad Company.-January 19,1900, the Depart-ment tacitly granted authority for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of road from a point on the Kansas City, fithaburg and Gulf Railroad near Heavener, Choctaw Nation, extending thence eastwardly to the west line of Arkansas, a distance of 9.848 miles. On the same date the ~epa r tmenta pproved the map of definite location of the company's line of road. January 27,1900, the Department designated Special Agent Samuel |
