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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIOTYER OF INDIAN APFAIRS. 99 Kansan City, Fort Scott and Hemphis Railway Company.-April 15, 1901, Messrs. Britton & Gray, attorneys, submitted a map of definite location showing the survey of a line of railroad made by this company from a point at or near the town of Miami, in the Peoria and Miami Reservation, in the NE. t of sec. 31, T. 28 N., 11. 23 E., to a point on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad at or near the town of Afton, in the Cherokee Nation, in sec. 33, T. 26 N., R. 22 E., a distance of 13.12 miles. Accompanying it was a deed from the Arkansas North-western Railway Company, dated February 11, 1898, assigning and transferring t~ the Gulf, Arkansas and Northwestern Railroad Com-pany all the rights, privileges, and franchises held by it by virtue of the laws of the State of Arkansas, and also all the privileges, fran-chises, etc., vested in that company by act of Congress, which became a law without Presidential approval April 6, 1896 (29 Stats., 87); also a deed from the Gulf, Arkansas and Northwestern Railroad Company conveying to the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway Com- , pany all of its rights, property, and franchises, including the right of way acquired by it uuder'said act of Congress; also an instrument of relinquishment from the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Rail-way Company to the United States, relinquishing to the United States all rights, powers, authorities, and franchisbs, as well as all of the right of way which it had acquired by the above-named conveyances, except the right of way between Miami and Afton. The maps and papers were transmitted to the Department April 22, 1901, and on April24 the map of definite location was returned approved, subject to the provisions of the act of April 6, i896. Accompanying the application and map of definite location were cer-tain instruments purporting to evidence amicable settlement with individual occupants along the line of the surveyed road. June 15, 1901, the Department, upon the recommendation of this office, directed I that Agent Shoenfelt, at Union Agency, be instructedtoinvestigate the I matter of compensation made by the oompany to the occupants named in the several instruments. The report of the agent has not yet reached this oEce. K~owaC, hickasha and Fort Smitlpailway Company.-As stated in the last annual report, the Department, on December 26, 1899, approved maps of definite location showing the line of survey made by this com-pany, commencing at a point on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway near Chickasha, Chickmaw Nation, Ind. T., and extending in a general southeasterly direction a distance of 40 miles; also four plats of station grounds along the surveyed line. June 22,1900, the Depart-ment accepted and approved ielinquishments by this company to the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of so much of the survey and right of way of its original line of railroad as was shown on the maps of definite location approved December 26,1899, between I |
