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Show REPORT OF THE (10~8810NER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 95 and 884 of the company's survey, as represented on sectional map No. 14. The map was submitted to the Department for appropriate action August 9, 1901, and returned approved August 26, in like manner as sectional maps Nos. 14 and 15. Denison and Northern Railway Company.-March 10,1899, the Depart-ment extended the time for the completion of this line of road through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for two years from March 29,1899, under the act of July 30, 1892 (27 Stats., 336), such extension being granted under the act of March 2,1899. The maps of definite location of sections 1 and 2 of the main line of the road were approved by the Department May 4 1895, and the maps of sections 1 and 2 of the northwestern branch line were approved May 25, 1895. November 24,1900, the Department approved maps of definite location of sec-tions 3 and 4 of the main line. The line of survey, as shown on maps of sections 3 and 4. is coincident with the line of survey shown upon the maps of definite location of the Western Oklahoma Railroad Com-pany. The Denison and Northern Railway Company, by W i l l i i J. Scott, president, protested against the granting of permission to sur-vey to the Western Oklahoma Railroad Company, and was given a hearing January 11,1901, before the Secretary of the Interior. Fur-ther action relative to the protest will appear under the head of Western Oklahoma lidroad Company, page 111. Fort Smith and Western Railroad Company.-As stated in the last annual report, this company was granted right of way, by act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stats., 1368), for railway, telegraph, and telephone lines through the Choctaw and Creek nations. June 8, 1900, the D e p a w t approved the company's maps of definite location from a point on the eastern boundary of the Choctaw Nation, near Fort Smith, Ark., extending thence westerly to a crossing of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in sec. 14, T. 7 N., R. 15 E., a distance of 80.49 miles. June 14, 1900, the Department designated Special Agent E. B. Reynolds to act on behalf of the individual occupants of land in the Choctaw Nation in negotiating amicable settlement with the company for right of way through their holdings. Special Agent Reynolds was taken from this work to attend to other duties in con-nection with the Indian service, and was not returned until Novem-ber, 1900. His report was submitted to this o6ce January 24, 1901, with schedule showing awards of damages to individual occupants for the value of the land included within the right of way. June 8,1901, George Hayden, the president of the company, dissented from the award ar prepared by Agent Reynolds. The schedule, together with the railroad company's dissent, was transmitted to. the Department June 14,1901, and on June 18 was returned to this office disapproved, and Special Agent Samuel L. Taggart was designated to reappraise the damages along the entire line of ixilroad. |