Feb. 7, 1903.

CHAP. 514.-An act providing for free homesteads on the public lands for actual and bona fide settlers in the north one-half of the Colville Indian Reservation, State of [Public, No. 65.] Washington, and reserving the public lands for that purpose.

32 Stat., 803.

ervation.

Colville Indian ResIssue of patents to half part of.

settlers on north one

31 Stat., 1965. Vol. 1, p. 1000.

Provisos.
Right to commute

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all settlers under the homestead laws of the United States upon the agricultural public lands in the north one-half of the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, opened to settlement by Executive order on the tenth day of October, nineteen hundred, who have resided or shall hereafter reside upon the tract entered in good faith for the period required by existing law, shall be entitled to a patent for the land so entered upon the payment to the local land officers of the usual and customary fees, and no other or further charge of any kind whatsoever shall be required from such settler to entitle him to a patent for the land covered by his entry: Provided, That the right to commute any such entry and pay for said lands in the option of any such settler and entry continued. in the time and at the prices now fixed by existing laws shall remain in full force and effect: Provided, however, That all sums of money so released which if not released would belong to any Indian tribe shall be paid to such Indian tribe by the United States, and that in the Deficiency to be paid event that the proceeds of the annual sales of the public lands shall not be sufficient to meet the payments heretofore provided for agricultural colleges and experimental stations by an act of Congress approved 26 Stat., 417. August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, such deficiency shall be paid by the United States: And provided further, That no lands shall be herein included on which the United States Exceptions. Government had made valuable improvements, or lands that have been sold at public auction by said Government.

Payments to certain Indian tribes.

by United States.

12 Stat., 503.

SEC. 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions Repeal. of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved, February 7, 1903.

Feb. 9, 1903.

[Public, No. 74.] 32 Stat., 820.

Public lands.

CHAP. 531-An act to extend the provisions of chapter eight, title thirty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, entitled "Reservation and sale of town siteson the public lands," to the ceded Indian lands in the State of Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter eight, title Town-site entries exthirty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, entitled tended to ceded Indian "Reservation and sale of town sites on the public lands," be, and is R. S., Title XXXII, hereby, extended to and declared to be applicable to ceded Indian ch. 8, p. 435. lands within the State of Minnesota. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.1 Approved, February 9, 1903.

CHAP. 542.-An act granting to the State of California six hundred and forty acres of land in lieu of section sixteen, township seven south, range eight east, San Bernardino meridian, State of California, now occupied by the Torros band or village of Mission Indians.

lands in Minnesota.

Feb. 11, 1903.

[Public, No. 80.] 32 Stat., 822.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, Mission Indians, Cal. granted to the State of California six hundred and forty acres of land, fornia in lieu of land to be selected by said State, under the direction of the Secretary of occupied by. the Interior, from any of the unappropriated public lands of nonmin

1 34 L. D., 94.

26 Stat., 712. Vol. 1, 383.

eral character in said State, in lieu of section sixteen, township seven south, range eight east, San Bernardino meridian, State of California; and the selection by said State of the lands hereby granted, upon the approval of same by the Secretary of the Interior, shall operate as a waiver by the State of its right to said section sixteen, and thereupon said section sixteen shall become a part of the reservation heretofore set apart for the use and occupancy of the Torros band or village of Mission Indians, of southern California, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California," according to the terms and subject to the conditions imposed by said act.

Approved, February 11, 1903.

Feb. 19, 1903.

[Public, No. 102.] 32 Stat., 841.

Indian Territory.

Recording of deeds, etc., in.

extended to.

CHAP. 707.—An act providing for record of deeds and other conveyances and instruments of writing in Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter twenty-seven of the Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, known as Mansfield's Laws of Arkansas Digest of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, is hereby extended to the Indian Territory, so far as the same may be applicable and not inconsistent with any law of Congress: Provided, That the clerk or deputy clerk of the United States court of each of the courts of said Territory shall be ex officio recorder for his district and perform thẹ duties required of recorder in the chapter aforesaid, and use the seal of such court in cases requiring a seal, and keep the records of such office at the office of said clerk or deputy clerk.

32 Stat., 842.

Clerks, etc., to be ex officio recorders.

Duties of clerks.

1905, ch. 1479, 33 Stat., 1077, post, p. 153.

Fees for filing, etc.

Compensation

fees.

It shall be the duty of each clerk or deputy clerk of such court to record in the books provided for his office all deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, bonds, leases, covenants, defeasances, bills of sale, and other instruments of writing of or concerning lands, tenements, goods, or chattels; and where such instruments are for a period of time limited on the face of the instrument they shall be filed and indexed, if desired by the holder thereof, and such filing for the period of twelve months from the filing thereof shall have the same effect in law as if recorded at length. The fees for filing, indexing, and cross indexing such instruments shall be twenty-five cents, and for recording shall be as set forth in section thirty-two hundred and forty-three of Mansfield's Digest of eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

That the said clerk or deputy clerk of such court shall receive as in compensation as such ex officio recorder for his district all fees re1904, ch. 1402, sec. 24, ceived by him for recording instruments provided for in this act, 33 Stat., 224, post, p. 69. amounting to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum or less; and all fees so received by him as aforesaid amounting to more than the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum shall be accounted to the Department of Justice, to be applied to the permanent school fund of the district in which said court is located.

Limit.

Disposition of sar

plus fees.

ferred without cost.

Such instruments heretofore recorded with the clerk of any United Prior records trans- States court in Indian Territory shall not be required to be again recorded under this provision, but shall be transferred to the indexes without further cost, and such records heretofore made shall be of full force and effect, the same as if made under this statute.

That wherever in said chapter the word "county" occurs there Word substitutions. shall be substituted therefor the word "district," and wherever the words "State" or "State of Arkansas" occur there shall be substi

1 Shultis v. McDougal, 170 Fed. 1529; same 225 U. S., 561.

tuted therefor the words "Indian Territory," and wherever the words "clerk" or "recorder" occur there shall be substituted the words "clerk or deputy clerk of the United States court."

deeds, etc.

All acknowledgments of deeds of conveyance taken within the Acknowledgment of Indian Territory shall be taken before a clerk or deputy clerk of any of the courts in said Territory, a United States commissioner, or a notary public appointed in and for said Territory.

All instruments of writing the filing of which is provided for by law Places of recording. shall be recorded or filed in the office of the clerk or deputy clerk at the place of holding court in the recording district where said property may be located, and which said recording districts are bounded as follows:

Miami.

District numbered one shall comprise all of the reservations hereto- District No. 1. fore existing under the Quapaw Agency, and the place of record shall be at Miami, as provided in the Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.

Vinita.

District numbered two shall begin at a point where the northern District No. 2. boundary line of the Indian Territory intersects with the western boundary line of the Quapaw Agency, thence in a southerly and easterly direction, following the western and southern boundaries of the Quapaw Agency to the west line of the State of Missouri; thence south along said boundary line to the dividing line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north; thence west along said line to the dividing line between ranges seventeen and eighteen east; thence north along said dividing line to the northern boundary line of the Indian Territory; thence east along said boundary line to place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered two shall be Vinita.

District numbered three. Beginning at a point where the range line between ranges seventeen and eighteen east crosses the northern boundary line of the Indian Territory, thence south on said range line to the township line between townships twenty-four and twenty-five north; thence west on said township line to the western boundary line of the Indian Territory; thence north along said western boundary line to the northern boundary line of the Indian Territory; thence east to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered three shall be Nowata.

District numbered four. Beginning at a point on the western boundary line of the Indian Territory where same is crossed by the township line between townships twenty-four and twenty-five north; thence south along said western boundary line to the township line between townships nineteen and twenty north; thence east on said township line to the range line between ranges seventeen and eighteen east; thence north on said range line to the township line between townships twenty-four and twenty-five north; thence west to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered four shall be Claremore.

District numbered five. Beginning at a point on the eastern boundary line of the Indian Territory where same is crossed by the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north; thence south along said eastern boundary line to the township line between townships nineteen and twenty north; thence west on said township line to the range line between ranges seventeen and eighteen east; thence north on said range line to the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north; thence east on said township line to place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered five shall be Pryor Creek.

District numbered six. Beginning at a point on the eastern boundary line of the Indian Territory where same is crossed by the township line between townships nineteen and twenty north; thence

32 Stat., 843.

District No. 3.

Nowata.

District No. 4.
Claremore.

District No. 5.
Pryor Creek.

District No. 6.
Tahlequah.

District No. 7.
Wagoner.

District No. 8.
Sapulpa.

District No. 9.
Okmulgee.

32 Stat., 844.

District No. 10.
Muscogee.

District No. 11.
Sallisaw.

south on said eastern boundary line to the township line between townships fourteen and fifteen north; thence west on said township line to the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east; thence north on said meridian line to the township line between townships nineteen and twenty north; thence east on said township line to place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered six shall be Tahlequah.

District numbered seven. Beginning at a point where the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east crosses the township line between townships nineteen and twenty north; thence west on said township line to the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen east; thence south along said range line to the township line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence east along said township line to the meridian line between ranges twenty and twentyone east; thence north along said meridian line to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered seven shall be Wagoner.

District numbered eight. Beginning at a point on the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen east where same is crossed by the township line between townships nineteen and twenty north; thence west on said township line to the western boundary line of the Indian Territory; thence south along said western boundary line to the township line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence east on said township line to the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen east; thence north along said range line to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered eight shall be Sapulpa.

ary

District numbered nine. Beginning at a point on the western boundline of the Indian Territory where the same is crossed by the township line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence south along said western boundary line to the northern boundary line of the Seminole Nation; thence eastwardly along said boundary line of the said Seminole Nation to the northeast corner of the Seminole Nation; thence south along said eastern boundary line of said Seminole Nation to the township line between townships ten and eleven north; thence east along said township line to the range line between ranges thirtee.n and fourteen east; thence north along said range line to the townsh1p line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence west along said township line to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered nine shall be Okmulgee.

District numbered ten. Beginning at a point where the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen east intersects the township line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence south on the said range line to the township line between townships eleven and twelve north; thence east along said township line to the Arkansas River; thence up said Arkansas River to the intersection of said river with the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east; thence north along said meridian line to the township line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence west to the point of beginning. The place of record for district numbered ten shall be Muscogee.

District numbered eleven. Beginning at a point on the eastern boundary line of the Indian Territory where same is crossed by the township line between townships fourteen and fifteen north; thence south along said eastern boundary line to the Arkansas River; thence up said Arkansas River to its intersection with the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east; thence north along said meridian line to the township line between townships fourteen and fifteen north; thence east to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered eleven shall be Sallisaw.

District numbered twelve. Beginning at a point where the township line between townships eleven and twelve north intersects with the Arkansas River; thence down said Arkansas River to the mouth of the Canadian River; thence up said Canadian River to its intersection with the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east; thence south on said line to its intersection with the township line between townships seven and eight north; thence west along said township line to the range line between ranges eleven and twelve east; thence north on said range line to the township line between townships ten and eleven north; thence east on said township line to the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen east; thence north on said range line to the township line between townships eleven and twelve north; thence east on the said township line to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered twelve shall be Eufala.

District numbered thirteen. Beginning at a point where the range line between ranges eleven and twelve east intersects the township line between townships ten and eleven north; thence south to the township line between townships seven and eight north; thence east on said township line to the Canadian River; thence up said Canadian River, following the meanderings thereof, to the western boundary line of the Seminole Nation; thence north along said western boundary line to the northern boundary line of the said Seminole Nation; thence eastwardly along said northern boundary line to the northeast corner of said nation; thence south along the eastern boundary line of the said nation to the township line between townships ten and eleven north; thence east along said township line to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered thirteen shall be Wewoka.

District No. 12.
Eufala.

District No. 13.
Wewoka.

District No. 14.
Poteau.

District numbered fourteen. Beginning at a point on the eastern boundary line of the Indian Territory where same is crossed by the Arkansas River; thence south along said eastern boundary line of the 32 Stat., 845. Indian Territory to the base line; thence west along said base line to the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east; thence north on said meridian line to the Canadian River; thence down said Canadian River to its confluence with the Arkansas River; thence down said Arkansas River to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered fourteen shall be Poteau.

District No. 15.
South McAlester.

District numbered fifteen. Beginning at a point where the meridian line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east crosses the township line between townships seven and eight north; thence south on said meridian line to the township line between townships two and three north; thence west on said township line to the range line between ranges eighteen and nineteen east; thence south along said range line to the line between townships one and two north; thence west along said township line to the western boundary line of the Choctaw Nation; thence north on said boundary line to the South Canadian River; thence down said river to the point where the dividing line between townships seven and eight north intersects said river; thence east along said township line to the point of beginning. The place of record for district numbered fifteen shall be South McAlester. District numbered sixteen. Beginning at a point where the South District No. 16. Canadian River intersects with the western boundary line of the Choctaw Nation; thence south on said boundary line to the township line between townships one and two south; thence west. on said township line to the range line between ranges three and four east; thence north along said range line to its intersection with the South Canadian River; thence down said South Canadian River, following the meanderings thereof, to the place of beginning. The place of record for district numbered sixteen shall be Ada.

Ada.