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Show REPORT OF THE COMM188IONER OF INDIAN BFFAIR~. 105 Creek Nation holding certiioates of allotments made prior to the mtifiwtion of the Creek agreement, under the act of March 1, 1901, were entitled to compensation for thevalue of the land taken by the company and that the company, in order to comply with the provisions of section 3 of the act of March 2, 1899, will have to effect settlement with those allottees before it can commence the construction of its road through their lands. The office also requested assent by the com-pany to the a~sessment of damages in favor of the Potawatomi and Sac and Fox allottees in Oklahoma. No reply has heeu received. The company has submitted, under the act of February 28,1902, map of definite location from Okmulgee, Creek Nation, easterly 26.8 miles, and map showing the survey of 14.45 miles westerly from Muskogee, ' which maps were transmitted to the Department May 28 and June 5, 1902, respectively. June 3, 1902, there was submitted for recording, under the act of February 28,1902, a deed of trust covering those lines executed by the company to the St. Louis Union Trust Company, of St. Louis, Mo. Six miles of road in the Creek Nation have been completed. St. Louis and San Francisco Railwny Company.-This company is the successor in interest of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, with respect to that portion of it8 line extending from a point onthe Missouri- Indian Territory line in township 27 north, range 25 east, sonthwest-erly to Sapulpa, Creek Nation, thence 37.25 miles to the Oklahoma- Indian Territory line, and thence to Oklahoma City, Okla. The company operates the road constructed under the name of the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railway Company, under the act of March 18,1896 (29 Stats., 69). The line extending from Fort Smith, Ark., southwesterly through the Choctaw Nation to the Red River at a point in township 8 south, range 17 east, was constructed under the act of August 2, 1882 (22 Stats., 181). Twenty-six plats of station grounds on the line from Fort Smith to Red River, in the Chockmy Nation, were approved February 28,1901, except Wister and Red River, approved March 27 and April 22,1901, respectively. With respect to 22 plats showing station grounds in the Cherokee and Creek nations, between the Missouri-Indian Territory line and Sapulpa, the company was advised March 16, 1901, that the plats of gro3nd in the Cherokee Nation would not be approved until satisfac-tory evidence had been submitted showing that the lands appropriated are "only for such length as may be absolutely necessary." The com-pany was also requested June 22 and 26,1901, to show what amount of ground was claimed originally at each station in the Cherokee Nation, when such claim originated, whether it continued the same up to the paasage of the act of April 25, 1896, and the reasons for such claim. It was also called upon to submit within thirty days from notice any showing it might desire to make-in view of the opinion of the Assist- |