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Show 98 REPORT OF THE (10~SSIONER OF INDIAN AFTAIRS. session. With this report there waa submitted a draft of the legisla-tion thought necessary for the carrying out of the agreement between the company and the Indians. Since then bills at different times have been introduced in Congress granting the Jamestown and Northern Kaiway Company a right of way through the Devils Lake Reserva-tion, but none of these reached final action until the one approved March 3, 1901(31 Stats., 1447). This act embodi~sa ll the legislation thought necessary, and is an exact copy (excepting where "State of North Dakota" is used instead of "Territory of Dakoka") of the draft of the bill accompanying office report of December 11, 1884. The matter will be taken up with the company at an early date, with a view to a speedy settlement, as per memorandum of agreement referred to in the act and on file with the Department. Kansas City, IUexico and Orient Railway Company.-December 20,1900, Messrs. Trimble & Braley, of Kansas City, Mo., acting as attorneys, submitted the application of that company for permission tosurvey and locate a line of road and telegraph through Indian iandv in the Territory of Oklahoma. This wmpany was organized under the laws of the State of Kansas, and its charter describes the purposesf or whichit is formed, m follows: To construct and operate a line or lines of railroad and tele-graph lines from some point in or near Kansas City, Kans.,-thence by the most practicable route through certain counties in the Stateof Kansas to the boundary line between that State and the Territory of Oklahoma, thence in a general southerly direction through said Ted-tory or the Indian Territory and the State of Texas, thence in a gen-eral southwesterly direction through the States of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, or Sonora, in theRepublic of Mexico, to the waters of the Gulf of Cali-fornia. or Pacific Ocean. The application was made under the act of Mar& 2,1899, and the papers accompanying the same were in con-formity with the regulations prescribed under that act. January 4, 1901, the Department approved the application of the company and authorized it to survey and locate a line of railroad through Indian lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, more particularly described in its applir~tiono n file in this office. July 2,1901, the Departqnt referred to this ofice a wmmunication fmm the company transri itting maps of definite location showing the line of survey of its roadkrough the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. This office reconlmended the approvalof the maps July 13, and on July 22 the Department returned them approved, subject to the provisions of the act of March 2; 1899, and directed that the maps and papers be filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, inasmuch a uo Indian allotments in the reservation were affected by the line of survey. They were accordingly transmitted to the qeneral Land Oftice. |