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Show 100 BEPORT OW THE OO~ISSIONER OF IiTDIBN AFFAIRS. a point in sec..27, T. 7 N., R. 7 W., and the west line of sec. 10, T. 4 , N., R. 4 W., I. M., all in the Chickasaw Nation. January 25? 1901, the office transmitted to the Department maps of definite location filed by the attorneys of this company showing the line of survey from the poinbwhere the line as relinquished terminated, near Erin Springs, in sec. 10, T. 4 N., R. 4 W., to a point near Panls Valley, in the NE. A of sec. 17, T. 3 N., R. 1 E., with the recommen-dation that the company be required to relinquish the remaining por-tion of the original survey, between the west line of said sec. 10, in T. 4 N., R. 4 W., and Panls Valley, Indian Territory. The Department concurred and the attorneys for the company were advised accordingly February 4, 1901. . March 15, 1901, this office transmitted to the Department a resolution of the board of directors of the company relinquishing this last-mentioned portion of the original right of way %ud resubmitted the map of definite location showing the new survey from Erin Springs to Pauls Valley. March 20, the Department accepted the relinquishment and approved, under the provisions of the act of March 2,1899, the map of definite location, designating Inspector Cyrus Beede to appraise the damages arising by reaason of the loca-tion of the new line of road. . July 29 Inspector Beetle filed his report, together with schedules of damages assessed in favor of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes and individual occupants along the line of the road. The schedule of tribal damages showed an award of $6,849.78 and the schedule of damages to individual occupants showed that settlements had been effected by the railroad company with all exoe'pt five, compensation to whom will have to be determined by referees appointed under the provisions of the act of March 2,1899. The matter of the appointment of referees was sub-mitted to the Department August 26, last. August 7, 1901, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ilailway Com-pany, by E. Wilder, secretary and treasurer, tendered New York exchange in the sum of $6,849.78 in payment for right-of-way dam-ages over Chickasaw tribal lands, which draft was forwarded to the Department August 23. Bfisaouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company.-This company, since the date of the last annual report, has filed applications for permission to locate and survey extensions of its branch lines of road, which were approved as follows: April 13, 1901, the Department approved the application for permission to survey an extension to the Krebs branch, and May 13, 1901, it approved the application for permission to make survey for an extension of the Edwards branch. The maps showing the survey of these extensions have not as yet been submitted to this office. DInskogee and Western Railway Company.-April 29, 1901, this company submitted an application for permission to survey and locate |