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Show REPORT OF TBE 0 0 ~ 8 S 1 0 N E R OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 107 maps of amended definite location were transmitted to the Department July 10. July 13 the Department approved the schedules and the amended map of definite location in so far as it affects Indian all3t-ments and amends the original survey from the international boundary line to the north end of Curlew Lake. July 15, 1901, T. P. Coffee, vice-president of the company, inclosed exchange for $5,54S.05 in paj-- ment of damages to Indian allotments, and the Department on the same day directed this o5ce to make payment to the several Indian allottees through ~ ~ eAnndet rs on, of the Colville Agency. The draft was accordingly forwarded to hi for thatpurpose on the 30th of last July. July 9,1901, W. C. Morris, counsel for the company, transmitted affi-davits relative to the unlawful survey being made by the Washing-ton and Great Northern Railway Company across Indian allotments in the north half of the Colville Reservation along a line adjacent to the right of way of the Republic and Kettle River Railway. Agent Anderson, of the Colville Agency, was directed by this office not to permit the Washington and Great Northern Railway Company to make unauthorized surveys across Indian allotments. August 16, 1901, the Department referred to this o5ce a telegram from W. C. Morris protesting against the encroachments by the Washington and Great Northern Railway Company, stating that the latter company was constructing its line of road over the line surveyed by the Republic and Kettle River Railway Company. August 19 and August 29 Agent Anderson was gjven specific directions to cause the oonstmction work by the Washington and Great Northern Company to be stopped. Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway Company.-This company is the successor in interest of the Seattle-Tacoma Railway Company, which company, on May 2, 1900, had approved maps of definite location showing its line of survey across the Puyallup Reservation in the State of Washington. It appears that the Seattle-Tacoma Interur-ban Railway Company desired to extend its line along another route than that surveyed by the Seattle-Tacoma Railway Company. March 2, 1901, the office transmitted to the Department an application fiied by Messrs. Carlisle & Johnson, attorneys for the Seattle-TacomaInter-urban Railway Company, for permission to survey and locate a lineof road across the Puyallup Reservation along a route southerly from the one surveyed by the former company. March 18 the Department approved the application and authorized the company to make survey, imposing a condition that it furnish the relinquishment of the Seattle- Tacoma Xailway Company to the right of way shown on thz maps approved May 2, 1900. April 29,1901, tbe Department approved maps of definite location showing l&e line of survey and located route of the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway Company, subject to the provisions of the act of |