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Show REPORT OF THE UOXMSSIONER OF IXDIAN AIWAIR8. 83 L. Taggart to make the appraisement of damages for right of way of 1 the company through the tribal lands, and also to act with and for the individual occupants of the Choctaw Nation in securing amicable settlements from the company for right of way through their per-sonal holdings. March 28,1900, the Department approved the sched-ule of appraisement of damages for right of way of the company through the Choctaw Nation as shown by its map of definite location. Special Agent Taggart's report shows that there were no lands of individual occupants crossed by the line of the road. The Depart-ment also authorized this office to call upon the company for the pay-ment of tribal damages as assessed by Special Agent Taggart, amount-ing to $492.40. July 30, 1900, the company tendered a draft for 88492.40, which was accepted by the Department August 14, and the ofice was authorized to collect the same and to pay the proceeds thereof to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in the proportion of three-fourths to the Choctaws and one-fourth to the Chickasaws. Chicago, Bnrlington and Quincy Railroad Company.-January 22,1900, the Department waived the formal proof of incorporation of said com-pany and the further requirements of the rules and regulations of this Department under rules 3 and 4 relative to the filing of a copy of the State or Territorial laws under which the company was organized, and directed that the company be permitted at once to file its map of defi-nite location through the Crow Indian Reservation, in Montana, from Toulca, on the main line of the road, extending thence in a southerly and southwesterly direction to the north boundary of the State of Wyoming. March 27,1900, the Department accepted the proofs and papers end approved the maps of definite location and plats of station grounds of the company in the Crow Reservation. The Department on the same date designated and appointed John E. Edwards, United States Indian agent of the Crow Agency, to assess the tribal damages for right of way of the company through the tribal or unallotted lands of the Crow Indians, and also to act with and for the individual allottees in determining the damages that should be paid to each by reason of the construction of the road through his land. June 16,1900, the Department approved the schedule of appraisement of damages as made by him. The assessment of tribal damages amountedto $1,156.25. The assessment of individual damagesamounted to $3.861. July 2,1900, the company submitted a draft for $5,017.25 in payment of said dmgea. July 6,1900, Agent Edwards was directed to GO lect the same and to deposit $1,156.25 of the proceeds to the credit of the Crow tribe of Indians, and to pay the remaining $3,861 to individml members of the Crow tribe rightly entitled thereto. Columbia Valley Railroad Company.-December 21,1899, the company submitted formal application for the location and survey of its road along the north bank of the Columbia River from a point opposite |