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Show EEPORT OF THE CO~SSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 89 Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company (Special Legislation.)-By act of April 17,1900 (31 Stats., 134, andp. 522 of this report), theabove named company was granted right of way for the construction of a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through the ceded lands of what was formerly the Red Lake Indian Reservation, commencing at a point at or near the terminus of the Manitoba and southeastern Railway, on the boundary line between the State of Minnesota and the Province of Manitoba; thence in a southeasterly direction through townships 164,163,162,161, and 160 to a, point on Rainy River, forming the northeastern boundary of the State of Minnesota. at or near the mouth of Bandette River. GRANT8 REFERRED TO IN PRETIOUS ANNUAL REPORTS. Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-A~has TGalllq and Gulf Rail- ~ o a Odm pamy.-Mention is made in the lmt annual report of the grant-ing of authority on March 7, 1899, for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of road through Oklahoma and the Indian Ter-ritory. On November 21, 1899, the company submitted a map of the preliminary survey of the line of road through the Kansas Indiin Res-ervation, Oklahoma, a distance of about 22 miles. Certain defects appeared in the execution of the map and the same was returned to the company on December 5, 1899, the defects being pointed out. No fur-ther action has been taken. Eastem Oklahoma Railroad Company.-November 15, 1899, the Department approved the maps of definite location of sections 1 and 2 of the company's line of road, commencing on the line of road of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opposite the northern end of the passenger depot of the company at Gnthrie, Okla., and extending in a general easterly direction a distance of 44.33 miles. The Depart-ment on the same date designated Special United States Indian Agent Taggart to assess the tribal damagw for right of way throngh the unallotted landsof the Indians and also to act with and for the allottees in negotiating amicable settlements with the company for right of way through their lands. December 27, 1899, the Department approved the schedule of damages m assessed by Special Agent Taggart for right of way of the company through the allotted lands of the Sac and Fox and Iowa tribes. No tribal lands were crossed by the line of the road. The entire assessment through the lands of allottees was $1,405.44. This amount was tendered by the company in settlement of said dam-ages, and the Department on the same date authorized the payment of the 8ame to the Indian allottees rightly entitled thereto. January 2i, 1900, the Department approved the maps of definite loca-tion of sections Nos. l and 2 of line No. 3 of the company's line of road from a connection with line No. 1 south of Cimarron River in the SW. a of sec. 20, T. 18 N., R. 4 E., and extending in a general northerly and |