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FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 34, 134. 1902. 43 CHAP. 34.-An Act For the relief of parties for property taken from them by F¢b¤¤¤¤'>‘27· 1902- military forces of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 f Representatives of the United States of America in Oemgress assembled, That the Quartermaster-Gen- Pr¤r>g¤y of €<>¤f¤d- eral is directed, under such rules and regulations as may be approved Hiitevsgsiiigriieiou of by the Secretary of War, to investigate, or cause to be investigated, the °l“‘m’· claims of artillery and cavalry officers and private soldiers of the Confederate army for horses, side arms, and bag ge alle d to have been taken from them by Federal troops, at anduafter ’£ surrender at Appomattox, acting under orders, in violation of the terms` of surrender of the Confederate armies, and he shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, issue his voucher to such persons as shall be flww l·:¤d vermw shown by such investigation to be entitled thereto, which voucher shall ° v°°° °"` be paid out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise _ appropriated: Pr0m'ded, That the expenditures under this Act shall f{,‘Q{,"f°·0, €,,W,d,_ not exceed fifty thousand dollars. ¤¤r¤¤· Smo. 2. That no claimant shall be entitled to or receive any voucher P‘°°* ’°°“"°“= as herein provided unless he shall establish to the satisfaction of the Q,uartermaster—General that he, or the person through or from whom he asserts said claim, was paroled at the time of said surrender; that he had kept his parole in ood faith; that he was the actual owner of the horses, side arms, am? baggage for which he claims compensation; that such roperty was taken from him by troops of the United States acting undzer orders and in violation of the terms of the surrender under which he was paroled. And if the soldier has died since his parole was P¤Y¤¢¤¢ *0 heirs , received, the sum he may be entitled to shall be paid to his wife; if she be dead, then to his children; if he has no wife or child or children livin , then to his parents, or either of them if one of them be dead; and no other shall be entitled to receive the same. If he has minor children, the same may be paid to their guardians. Approved, February 27 , 1902. CHAP. 134.-An Act To grant the right of way through the Oklahoma Territory Fol>¤¤¤¤’>’ 2**- i90?- and the Indian Territory to the Enid and Anadarko Railway Company, and for other "“EL{,bmI},,;'26_j ' P“YP0$€B· . Be it enacted by the Senate and House $fRqn·t·se2atat£2:eas of the Uni ted States of Amefrica in Congress assemblez , That the Enid and Anadarko R,§§‘,l,‘},;'}$f,$',}Q[,"{f“° Railway Company, a coi ration created under and by virtue of the mRizhf of gsi; ¤··. laws of the Territory of Ohlahoma, be, and the same is hereby, invested tnhmgrnaiiit argh`; and empowered with the right of locating, constructing, owning, equip- ’°"'°"· ping, operating, using; an maintaining a railway and telegraph and telephone line throng the Territory of Oklahoma and the lndian Territory, heginningr at a point on its railway between Anadarko and ¤>¢¤¤¤¤- Watonga, in the erritory of Oklahoma, thence in an easterly direction by the most practicable route to a point on the eastern boundary of the Indian Territory near Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, together with such branch lines to be built from any point on the line above described to any other point in the Indian Territory as said ra1l· way company may at any time hereafter decide to construct, with the C°¤S'¤f°'*°°- right to construct, use, and maintain such tracks. turn—outs, sidings, and extensions as said company may deem it to its interest to construct along and upon the right of way and depot grounds hereby ranted. g Sec. 2. That said corporation is authorized to take and use for all "'*d“*· urposes of a railway, and for no other purpose, a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Oklahoma Territory and said Indian Territory, and to take and use a strip of land two hundred feet