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Show REPORT OF THE OOMXILIBBIONEB OF MIXAN ASPAIRS. 91 There has been assessed against this company and paid by it, on the above lines, damages in the sum of $24,095.71. There were also approved March 20 and April 29 maps showing the selection of the station grounds at Johnson and Pauls Valley, respect-ively, in the Chickmaw Nation, for which tribal damages in the sum of $105.80 have been assessed and paid. July 25,1902, there were submitted under act of Febmry 28,1902, two maps, one showing grounds selected for a reservoir station at Youngs Summit, containing 80 acres, and the other showing additional station grounds selected in section 35, township 24north, range 5 east, both in Pawnee County, Okla. Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota.-Scheduleof damages assessed by the agent of the La Pointe Agency for amended right of way through the Fond du Lac Reservation in the sum of $256.10 was approved October 21,1901. Enid and Anadarko Railway Company.-This line is being constructed and operated in connection with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. December 26, 1901, the company filed for approval, under the act of March 3, 1875, two maps of definite location of a line from Watonga to a point of connection with the first southwest branch of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, near Anadarko, Okla., a distance of 56.77 miles; and January 1,1902, it submitted two addi-tional maps showing lines of survey from a point of connection with the second southwest branch of that railroad, near Lawton, Okla., to a point of connection with the main line near Sugden, Chickasaw Nation, a distance of 40.43 miles. These maps were returned because the survey and location through Indian lands were not authorized by the act of March 3,1875. They were resubmitted under the act of March 2, 1899, and approved February 6,1902. As the proposed line through the Wichita Reservationcrossed an Indian burial ground, it was finally arranged that the company would defray the expenses of exhuming and reburying the Indian remains. The company has paid damages for its right of 'way as follows: Reinterment of Indian remains ...................- . $675.00 Allottees Wichita Resenration ............................ 2,512.13 Allottees Kiowa, etc., Reservation 0 ........................ 676.30 nibal Kiowa, etc., Resenration ............................ 50.00 Tots1 ............................................... 3,913.43 February 26, 1902, the o5oe reported adversely on engrossed bill H. R. 3104, granting right of way to the company through Oklahoma and Indian Territory, also incorporating the provisions of the general act embodied in H. R. 10065; but the bill, nevertheless, became a law - ~ ~ ~ QSee voucher No. 11 b., fourth quarter report of Agent Randlett, approved Auguet 9, 1902. |