United States Revised Statutes, (The following parts of the Revised Statutes of the United States, passed since August 14, 1893, applicable to the Territory of Oklahoma, are referred to for convenience.) ARTICLE. 1. Additional associate justices. 2. Railroads to establish stations. ARTICLE. 7. 6. Vacated town sites and ad- 4. 5. 3. Abandoned reservation grant- 10. Permitting the use of Fort ARTICLE 1.-ADDITIONAL ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, AN ACT to provide for two additional Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes. co position of Supreme Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled: SECTION 1. That hereafter the supreme court of the Oklahoma; Territory of Oklahoma shall consist of a chief justice Court. and four associate justices, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum; but three judges must concur to render an opinion reversing a judgment or other determination of the district court. Justices to be SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the President Additional to nominate and by and with the advice and consent of appointed. the Senate to appoint two additional associate justices of said supreme court, who shall hold their office for the term of four years or until their successors are appointed and qualified, and who shall receive the same compensation as now provided for the justices of the supreme court of Oklahoma Territory. Five districts i erms. SECTION 3. That the said Territory shall be divided established. into five judicial districts, and a district court shall be As signment in certain cases. Jurisdiction, Disqualification of judges. held in each county, as now provided by law. The supreme court of said Territory shall define said judicial districts, and shall fix the times and places at each county seat in each district where the district court shall be held, and designate the judge who shall preside therein. Each judge, after assignment, shall reside in the district to which he is assigned. The supreme court of said Territory, or the chief justice thereof, may designate any judge to try a particular case or cases in any district when the judge of said district has been of counsel, or is of kin to either party to the action, or interested, or is biased, or prejudiced in the cause, or if for any other reason said judge is unable to hold court. SECTION 4. That the district court in each of said districts shall have the same jurisdiction that the district courts of said Territory now possess. SECTION 5. That no justice of the supreme court of said Territory shall sit as a member of said court in the trial or hearing of any case decided by him in the district court, or wherein he has any interest. Approved, December 21, 1893. ARTICLE 2.-RAILROADS TO ESTABLISH STATIONS. SECTION. 1. Territories. Railroads on SECTION. 2. To be established in three months. Penalty for failure AN ACT to require railroad companies operating railroads in the Territories over a right of way granted by the government to establish stations and depots at all town sites on the lines of said roads established by the Interior Department. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled: SECTION 1. That all railroad companies operating railroads through the Territories of the United States to have stations over a right of way obtained under any grant or Act of Congress giving to said railiad companies the right of Territories. rights of way at townsites. way over the public lands of the United States shall be required to establish and maintain passenger stations and freight depots at or within one-fourth of a mile of the boundary limits of all townsites already established in said Territories on the line of said roads by authority of the Interior Department. lished in three alty for failure. SECTION 2. That said railroad companies are hereby To be estabrequired within three months from the passage of this months. PenAct to establish at or within one-fourth of a mile of the boundary limits of all townsites provided for in the preceding section, passenger stations, freight depots, and other accommodations necessary for receiving and discharging passengers and freight at such points, and upon failure of said companies to establish stations and depots within said time said companies shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars for each day thereafter until said stations and depots shall be established, which shall be recovered in a suit brought by the United States in the United States courts in any Territory through which said railroad may pass. AN ACT granting a certain military reservation to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, to aid the public free schools thereof, and for other purposes. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled: SECTION 1. That the abandoned military reservation Ok'ahoma at Oklahoma City, in Oklahoma Territory, comprising the abandoned southwest quarter of section thirty-four, township twelve grantedto; for City, Okla: reservation schools. north, of range three west, is hereby granted to said Oklahoma City in trust for the use and benefit of its free schools, to be used and applied for the benefit of all children of said city of scholastic age without distinction of race, except such portions of said reservation as are reserved for the purposes and uses hereinafter described. SECTION 2. That not less than ten acres of said reservation shall be set apart and used by said city for the way Choctaw location of public buildings and for a public park. That way Company, within ninety days after the passage of this Act the For buildings and parks. Sale to Southern Kansas Railway. Right of Coal & Rail Survey, etc. Southern Kansas Railway Company shall have the right to purchase from said city, adjoining said company's present right of way, for depot grounds and other railroad purposes, not to exceed six acres of said reservation, the value thereof and the price to be paid therefor to be fixed by the appraisers to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior within said ninety days. That the permits heretofore granted to the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company by the Secretary of War for lands across and upon said reservation, shall remain in force until such time as the land so granted shall cease to be used for railroad purposes, when the same shall pass to said city. SECTION 3. That said city shall cause the remainder of said reservation hereby granted to be divided into lots. and blocks corresponding as near as practicable with the plat of said city. All streets, alleys and avenues to be laid out on the reservation are hereby dedicated to and shall be held for the use of the public, and the lots and blocks shall be sold for the use of the public free schools of said city. When sales are made and the purchase money all paid, said city shall execute proper deeds to the purchasers. Approved, August 8, 1894. AN ACT to establish and provide for the government of Greer County, Okla. organized. County officers. Oklahoma Laws ap plicable. Transfer of erty.: Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled: SECTION 1. That the portion of the Territory of Okla Greer County, homa_bounded by the North Fork of the Red River and the State of Texas, heretofore known as Greer County Texas, be, and the same is hereby, established as Gree public propCounty of Oklahoma, with Mangum as the county seat. The present county officers of said county shall be continued in office until the first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, or until their successors are elected and qualified, at an election to be held on the said first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and ninetysix, as provided by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma. All provisions of law applicable to the organization and government of counties in Oklahoma shall forthwith be applied by the proper officers thereof to said Greer County, the intention being to provide without delay the same organized government for said Greer as for the other counties of Oklahoma. All public buildings and property of every description heretofore belonging to Greer County, Texas, or used in the administration of the public business thereof is hereby declared to be the property of said Greer County, Oklahoma, and the officers thereof shall, as soon as appointed, take immediate charge and custody thereof; and all school property in said county shall become the property of the respective school districts in which the same are situated. ceedings in SECTION 2. That all proceedings and actions of every Judicial prokind in or before the several courts and officers of Gree, Texas courts binding County, Texas, shall have the same force and effect as if said courts and officers had been legally authorized courts |