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Show the information that the application was denied, since, by the act of March 2, 1899, under which the company secured permission to survey and locate its line of road, such an extension of time is autbor-ized only where a part of the road shall have been built, and in the case of this road no part of the line bad been built. The office was directed to notify the company of this action, which it did Feb-ruaiy 23. May 1, 1901, the president of the company submitted for reap-proval maps of definite location showing the survey of a line iden-tical with that shown on the maps approved January 10 and January 11,1900. May 9,1901, the Department reapproved the map of definite location showing the survey through the Chickasaw Nation, Ind. T., and the counties of Canadian and Oklahoma, in Oklahoma, and on June 6,1901, reapproved the maps of definite location showing the line of survey through the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, in Oklahoma, under act of March 2, 1899. Acting Agent Randlett, of the Kiowa, etc., Agency, was desig-nated to assess the damages suffered by Indian allottees in the Kiowa, ete., Rese~~at ionA;g ent Patrick, of the Sank and Fox Agency, to assess damages suffered by Indian allottees in Canadian and Oklahoma counties, Okla. August 5, 1901, the Department referred to this office a communication from the president of the company inclosing a dsaft for $4,109.35, tendered in payment for right of way through the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; this was at the rate of $50 per mile for the entire length of the line through the reserva-tion. The office, reporting thereon Auguut 13, submitted the matter for the action of the Department as to whether or not the company should be required to pay for right of way through the lands of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation other than those allotted to Indians. August 6, 1901, the Department referred to this office a commnni-cation from the president of the company, inclosing a draft for $1,471, tendered in payment for right of way through the Chickasaw Nat,ion. The office, reporting thereon August 14, recommended, inasmuch as the assessment had not yet been made for the right of way through the Chickasaw Nationunder the act of March 2, 1899, that the draft be returned to the company. The appraisement of the damages through the Chickasaw Nation will be made so soon as an agent of the Department can be detailed to the work. Ozark rkd Cherokee Central Railway Company.-This conlpany, for-merly the North Arkansas and Western Railroad Company, was authorized by the Department, July 2,1900, to survey and locate a line of road commencing on the eastern line of the Indian Territory in T. 13 N., R. 33 W., fifth principal meridian, and extending thence in a general westerly direction to a point on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway between a point just north of Wagoner, Ind. T., and a |