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Show 96 REPORT OF THE DOMXI9SIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. S o u t k Rmm Railroad Company ( h e d to the Atchison, Tqeta and Smta F e Railway Convpmy). J u n e 29,1900, the company snb-mitted a voucher in the nature of a check, payable at the Mechanics National Bank of New York, for $85.50, in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands for the &cal year ending June 30, 1900. St. Lou6 and O k l a . 7 m Ci@ Raihoad Company.-June 21,1900, the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, lessee of the above-mentioned company, tendered a draft for $558.75 in payment of the annual l x of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands for the fiscal yearaending June 30, 1900. St. Louis, Oklahoma a d S o u t h Railwag Company.-September 13,1899, the Department approved a map in eight parts showing the preliminary survey for the definite location of the company's line of road from Sapulpa, in the Creek Nation, extending thence in a general southerly and southwesterly direction through the Creek, Seminole, and Chickasaw nations to Red &ver, near the town of Willis, a dis-tance of 185.18 miles. April 13, 1900, the Department approved the maps of definite location of the first and second sections of 25 miles each of the company's line of road from its connection with the St. Louis and Sau Francisco Railroad, near Sapulpa, in the Creek Nation, extending thence in a general southerly and southwesterly direction a distance of 50 miles. These maps were approved in lieu of the maps of definite location of the first 50 miles of the line of road which were approved on September 13, 1899. April 25, 1900, the Department designated Special United States Indian Agent Taggart to act with and for the individual allottees of the Creek Nation in negotiating amica-ble settlements with the company for right of way through their indi-vidual holdings for the first 50 miles of the road. May 24, 1900, the Department accepted the relinquishment by the company to the Creek Indians of all rights acquired or claimed by it under the originalmap of definite location of the first 50 miles of its line of road through theCreek Nation as approved September 13,1899; and also accepted and approved the relinquishment of the company to the United States and to the Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw Indians of all rights acquired or claimed by it under the original map of its line of road through said nations, also approved September 13,1899. On the same date the Department approved the company's maps of definite location showing the entire line of the road through the Indian Territory from Sapulpa, in the Creek Nation, extending in a general southerly and southwesterly direction through the Creek, Seminole, and Chickasaw nations, to a point on Red River at or near the crossing of the same by the Missouri, Kansasand Texas Railroad. These maps of definite locition were approved in lieu of the former maps of prelim-inary survey which were approved by the Department on September |