Territory, and who have taken refuge in such states or territories.

S. Supreme

SEC. 42. That appeals and writs of error may be Appeals to U taken and prosecuted from the decisions of the United Court. States court in the Indian Territory to the supreme court of the United States in the same manner and under the same regulations as from the circuit courts of the United States, except as otherwise provided in this act.

become citi

SEC. 43. That any member of any Indian tribe or na- Indians may tion residing in the Indian Territory may apply to the zens. United States court therein to become a citizen of the United States and such court shall have jurisdiction thereof and shall hear and determine such application as provided in the statutes of the United States; and the confederated Peoria Indians, residing in the Quapaw Indian Agency, who have heretofore or who may hereafter accept their land in severalty under any of the allotment laws of the United States, shall be deemed to be, and are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States from and after the selection of their allotments, and entitled to all the rights, privileges, and benefits as such, and parents are hereby declared from that time to have been and to be the legal guardians of their minor children without process of court: Provided, That the Indians who become citizens of the United States under the provisions. of this act do not forfeit or lose any rights or privileges they enjoy or are entitled to as members of the tribe or nation of which they belong.

ations.

SEC. 44. That the following sum, or so much thereof Appropri as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed under the direction of the attorney general of the United States, in the same manner that similar appropriations are disbursed in the other territories of the United States, namely:

To pay the actual traveling and other expenses of the Same.
Judge of the United States court holding court in said
Indian Territory other than at Muskogee, to pay for the
rent of buildings for the court, to provide jails and sup-

port prisoners, to pay mileage and per diem of jurors and witnesses, to provide books, records, and stationery for the judicial offices for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the sum of ten thousand dollars.

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.

3. Abandoned reservation granted to Oklahoma City.

4. Greer county organized.

5. Divorce law.

10.

Permitting the use of Fort
Supply Military Reservation.

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

SECTION 3. That the said Territory shall be divided established. into five judicial districts, and a district court shall be

Terms. Assignment 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.

SECTION.

Railroads on rights of way to have stations at town sites.

2. To be established in three months. Penalty for failure

AN ACT to require railroad companies operating railroads in the Terri'tories 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 raili ad companies the right of

Territories.
Railroads on

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.

Approved, August 8, 1894

ARTICLE 3.-ABANDONED RESERVATION GRANTED TO

SECTION.

1

OKLAHOMA CITY.

SECTION.

Oklahoma City, Okla.; aban- 2. For buildings and parks.
doned reservation granted
to; for schools.

Sale to Southern Kansas
Railway. Right of way
Choctaw Coal & Railway
Company.

3. Survey, etc. Sales.

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.