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Show I 94 REPORT OF THE COMM188IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIREI. approved (except as to such portion of the definite location as is within the Fort Sill Military Reservation), subject to all the provisions of the act of March 3, 1875, and also of the acts of March 2, 1887, and June 27, 1890, and subject to all prior valid existing rights and adverse claims. The agent of the Kiowa Agency was designated to act on behalf of the Indian allottea suffering damage by reason of such snr-vey, and also to appraise damages on account of the survey through pasture reserve No. 1 of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians. Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company.-November 14,1900, this office transmitted to the Department a map showing the location of a branch line extending from sktion 161+00, or milepost 369.6 of the main line, to the mines of the Archibald Coal and Mining Com-pany, a distance of 1.64 miles. This map was approved by the Department November 17,1900, subject to the provisions of the acts of Februaiy 18, 1888 (25 Stats., 35), February 13, 1889 (25 t a t s . , 668), Augnst 24, 1894 (28 Stats., 502), and April 24, 1896 (29 Stats., 98). The company tendered in payment for the right of way of this branch line a voucher in the sum of $82, but the Choctaw Nation, by act of its general council, dissented from the statutory provision of $50 per mile as provided in the act of Febiebrualy 18,1888, and the voucher was not accepted. I t is proposed to take this matter up again when the ~h o c&wc ouncil shall have convened, with the purpose of effecting a settlement otherwise than by the appointment of referees, as provided in the act of February 18, 1888. January 17, 1901, the office transmitted for Departmental action maps of definite location, showing the survey of the extension of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company's line of r o d in the Territory of Oklahoma, being sectional maps Nos. 14 and 15, and extending from a point in the NW. + of sec. 27, T. 11 N., R. 21 W., a distance of 46.19 miles. These maps were approved by the Depart-ment January 19, 1901, subject to the provisions of the foregoing acts of Congress approving the map of the Archibald spur and, in addition, the act of March 28, 1900 (31 Stats., 52). The agent of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency was designated to rtot on behalf of the Indian allottees suffering damage by reason of this survey, and instructions were issued to him March 11,1901. February 9, 1901, there was transmitted to the ~ e ~ a r t m ean mt ap designated "Substitute map for amended map showing the additional station grounds at South McAlester." This substitute map was made necessary because the lines of the former amended map did not har-monize with the lines of the map of the town site of South McAlester as prepared by the town-site commission. The substitute map was approved by the Department Febrnary 14. August 2,1901, the com-pany submitted maps showing the station grounds at Washita, Okla., located in secn. 12 and 13, T. 12 N., R. 17 W., and between stationa 854 |