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June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be paid for by said Pawnees at the rate of thirty cents per acre.

Sec. 5. That the Secretry of the Interior shall cause to be made to each head of a family or a single person over twenty-one years of age belonging to said Pawnee Tribe of Indians, and residing upon said reserve, who shall so elect, an allotment within said reservation, of one hundred and sixty acres of land, as near as may be to be governed by the lines of public survey; and upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior of such allotments, certificates shall be isseud therefor by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Provided, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that any allottee has occupied and cultivated any portion of his or her allotment for the period of five successive years, and has at least twenty-five acres of the same fenced and in crop, such allotee shall be entitled to receive a patent for his or her allotment, with the condition that the same shall not be aliened or conveyed within fifteen years from the date thereof, and then only with the consent of the Secretry of the Interior, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

April 10, 1876.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Sir:

Washington, June 25, 1881.

Agreeably to your recommendation of the 13th instant, the following described lands in the Indian Territory, west of the ninety-sixth degree, west longitude, in the tract ceded to the United States by the Cherokees, for the settlement of frindly Indians, by the sixteenth article of their treaty of July 19, 1886, are hereby designated and assigned for the use and occupation of the Confederated Otoe and Missouri Tribes of Indians, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1881, namely: Township 22 north, range 1 east, containing 23,013.70 acres. Township 23 north, range 1 east, containing 23,018.79 acres. Township 22 north, range 2 east, containing 23,049.27 acres. Township 23, north, range 2 east, containing 22,945.91 acres.

Township 22 north, range 3 east, containing 22,986.69 acres.

Also that portin of township 23 north, range 3 east, lying west of the Arkansas River, containing 14,098.84 acres.

Total acreage, 129,113.20. acres.

The papers which accompanied your letter before noted are herewith returned.

Very respectfully,

S. J. KIRKWOOD, Secretary. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

ESTABLISHMENT OF FORT SUPPLY

April 17, 1882.

War Department. Washington City, April 17, 1882.

Sir: I have the honor, upon recommendation of the commanding general, Department of the Missouri, concurred in by the Lieutenant-General and the General of the Army, to request that a military reservation may

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MEMBERS OF OKLAHOMA SENATE, EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 1905

2, Jno. Threadgill. 3, F. L. Winkler, President. 4, C. R. Alexander. 5, E. J. Murphy. 6, J. R. Scott. W. P. Francis. 9, L. G. Niblack. 10, B. N. Woodson. 11, E. L. Cralle. 12, J. P. Jayne, Chief Clerk. 14, J. A. Menefee.

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be duly declared and set apart by the Executive for the Post of Fort Supply, Indian Territory, and with the assent of the Interior Department, that it embrace the following district of land, viz:

Township 24 north, range 22 west, in the Indian Territory. Area, thirtysix square miles, or 23,040 acres.

I have the honor to be sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, ROBERT T. LINCOLN, Secretary of War.

The President.

(Endorsement.)

Executive Mansion, Washington, April 18, 1882.

The within request is approved and the reservation is made and proclaimed accordingly. The Secretary of the Interior will cause the same to be noted in the General Land Office. CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

FORT SUPPLY MILITARY RESERVE ENLARGED.

To the President:

War Department. Washington City, January 16, 1883.

Sir: I have the honor, upon the recommendation of the commanding general Department of Missouri, concurred in by the Adjutant General, and approved by the General of the Army, to request that the United States Military Reservation of Fort Supply, Indian Territory, originally declared by executive order dated April 18, 1882, as announced in General Order No. 14, of May 10, 1882, from department, headquarters, may be enlarged, for the purpose of supplying the post with water and timber, by the addition of the following described tracts of land adjacent thereto, viz:

The south half of township 25 north, range 22 west, and the southwest quarter of township 25 north, range 21, west, in the Indian Territory.

It has been ascertained from the Interior Department that no objection will be interposed to the enlargement of the reservation in question as herein indicated.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, however, with the concurrence of the Secretry of the Interior, recommends that a provision be inserted in the order, making the proposed addition, so as to cover the entire reservation, "That whenever any portion of the land so set apart may be required by the Secretary of the Interior for Indian purposes, the same shall be abandoned by the military, upon notice to that effect to the Secretary of war." I have the honor to be, sir, with great respect, etc.,

ROBERT T. LINCOLN, Secretary of War.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR HOLDING A TERM OF THE DISTRICT
COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AT WICHITA, KANSAS,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

January 6, 1883.

District Courts, U. S. Kansas and Texas. Term at Wichita, Kansas. Be it Enacted, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That there shall be one term of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas held at Wichita each year, on the first Monday of September, from and after the Sig. 26.

passage of this act; but no cause, action, or proceedings shall be tried or considered in the court herein provided for less by consent of all the parties thereto, or order of the court, except as otherwise hereinafter provided. The clerk, marshal and district, attorney for said district of Kansas shall perform the duties pertaining to their offices respectively for said court, and the clerk and marshal shall appoint a deputy to reside and keep their offices at Wichita, who in the absence of the principals shall do and perform all the duties appertaining to their said offices respectively. But the city or county authorities shall provide a suitable building without expense to the United States, in which to hold said court.

Sec. 2. That all that part of the Indian Territory lying north of the Canadian River and east of Texas and the one hundredth meridian not set apart and occupied by the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indian tribes, shall from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and constitute a part of the United States judicial district of Kansas; and the United States district courts at Wichita and Fort Scott, in the district of Kansas, shall have exclusive, original jurisdiction of all offenses committed within the limits of the Territory hereby annexed to said district of Kansas against any of the laws of the United States now or that may hereafter be operative therein.

Sec. 3. That all that portion of the Indian Territory not annexed to the district of Kansas by this act, and not set apart and occupied by the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole Indian tribes, shall from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and constitute a part of the United States judicial district known as the northern district of Texas; and the United States district at Graham, in said northern district of Texas, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all offenses committed within the limits of the territory hereby annexed to said northern district of Texas against any of the laws of the United States now or that may hereafter be operative therein.

Sec. 4. That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect in any manner any action or proceeding now pending in the circuit or district court relating thereto; nor shall anything in this act be construed to give to said district courts of Kansas and Texas, respectively, any greater jurisdiction in that part of said Indian Territory so sa aforesaid annexed, respectively, to said district of Kansas and said northern district of Texas than might heretofore have been lawfully exercised therein by the western district of Arkansas; nor shall anything in this act contained be construed to violate or impair in any respect any treaty provision, whatever. Approved January 6, 1883.

CHILOCCO INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL RESERVE.

July 12, 1884.

Executive Mansion, July 12, 1884.

It is hereby ordered that the following described tracts of country in the Indian Territory, viz: Sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and the east half of sections 17, 20, and 29, all in township No. 29 north, range No. 2, east of the Indian meridian, be, and the same are hereby, reserved and set apart for the settlement of such friendly Indians belonging within the Indian Territory as have been, or who may hereafter be educated at the Chilocco Indian Industrial School in said territory.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

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