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Show 102 REPORT OF THE 00M%US810NER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. schedule of damages, which was transmitted to the Department June 7 and approved June 11, and this o5ce was directed to collect from the company the $1,458.26 due. June 27,1901, Hector Baxter, the president of the company, tendered a draft in the sum of $1,458.26 in payment for right-of-way damages, which was accepted by the Depart-ment July 11, 1901, and this ofice was directed to collect and pay the same to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. The schedule of damages to individual occupants, prepared by Special Agent MacComas, showed that the railroad company had effected amicable settlement with each and had made payment of the amount awarded. OregonRailway and NavigationCompany.-October 13,1900, this o5ce transmitted to the Department the application of this company for permission to readjust its line of survey through certain lndiin lands in the State of Oregon under the act of March 2, 1899, and October 23, 1900, it was held by the Department that a railroad company may readjust its line of road through Indian lands under the provisions of this act. February 18,1901, there were forwarded to the Department - maps and other papers showing the amended location of this line of road along the south bank of the Columbia River, State of Oregon, through the Indian homestead of Jack Coon and Charles Coon, de-ceased. The map was returned, however, unapproved by the Depsrt-ment, February 27, with the information that the wmpany should submit further evidence as to the necessity for a right of way exceed-ing 100 feet in width, as shown on its amended map. The map of amended location, accompanied by the a5davit required by the Depart-ment, was resubmitted by this o5ce March 28, 1901, and on April 9, the map was returned by the Department approved, subject to the provisions of the act of March 2.1899. School Supervisor Conser was designated to act on behalf of the Indiin allottees in the matter of effecting amicable settlement with the railroad company. June 26, 1901, he submitted a report showing settlement effected and acwm-panied the report with receipts showing payment made by the company to the Indians. Oklahoma City md Sontheastern Bailway Company.-March 5, 1901, the office transmitted to the Department the application of J. R. t Keaton, in behalf of the Oklahoma City and Southeastern Railway Company, for permission to survey and locate a line of road through the Choctaw andChickasaw nations from a point on Canadian River to Coalgate and thence southeasterly to the Texas line. March 11 the application was approved and authority granted to this company rwcord-ingly. No further action has been taken by the company relative to the survey. Omaha Northern Railway Company.-By act of Congress approved March 26, 1898 (30 Stats., 344), the Omaha Northern Railway Com-pany was granted right of way through the Omaha and Winnebago |