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Show REPORT OF THE OOMMSSIONEE OF INDIAN ABPAm. 93 tember 4 the Department accepted the draft and authorized this office to collect the same, and to pay the proceeds thereof to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. November 25, 1899, the acting agent of the Kiowa Agency, Okla., submitted certain vouchers of the company showing that payment had been made by the company for right of way of its road through the lands of the individual occupants of the Kiowa and Wichita reservations whose lands were crossed by the first southwestern branch line of the company's road. March 9, 1900, the Department approved the map showing the definite location of the fourth 25- mile section of the first southwestern branch line of the road from a point in the NW. of sec. 12, T. 6 N., R. 19 W., on the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation, to a point in the NE. i of aec. 24, T. 6 N., R. 23 W., in Greer County, Okla. July 7,1900, the company tendered a draft for $1,712.50 in pay-ment of right of way of the company, at the rate of $50 per mile, for the remainder of the southwestern branch line of road through the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation, aggregating 34.25 miles. July 18 the Department accepted said draft and authorized this office to collect the same and to pay the proceeds thereof to the Kiowa, Coman-che, and Apache Indians. July 12, 1900, the Department accepted the company's draft for $2,438.89, tendered in payment of the annual tax for each mile of road constructed by the company through Indian lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900. August 29, 1900, the Department approved the plat of station grounds on the ninth 10-mile section of the company's southwestern branch line of road, situated in the SE. of sec. 4, T. 6 N., R. 18 W. September 4, 1900, the Department approved the plat of station grounds filed on April 5, 1890, by the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company (the above-named company being the successor of said company), situated along the main line of the company's road in the E. +of sec. 28, T. 10 N., R. 7 W., Indian meridian, in the Indian Ter-ritory. September 6,1900, the Department approved three plats of station grounds on the southwestern branch of the cornpanj's line of road through the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation, situated on the 7th, 8th, and 10th 10-mile sectionsof said branch line of road, in theNE. & of sec. 22, T. 7 N., R. 16 W., the SW. of sec. 27 and the SE. a of sec. 28, T. 7 N., R. 17 W., and the SW. a of sec. 18, T. 6 N., R. 19 W., respectively. Denison and Wmhita Valley Railway Company.-July 12, 1900, the Department accepted the company'^ draft for $150, tendered in pay-ment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900. &lf, ColwacEo and Santa Fe Ba d ~ o a d0 bmpany. Jnne 25, 1900, said company tendered audiL voucher No. 14607, in the nature of a |