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Sec. 35. A. That exclusive original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the United States court in the Indian Territory to enforce the provisions of chapter four, title seventy, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, entitled "Crimes Against Justice" in all cases where the crimes mentioned therein are committed in any judicial proceeding in the Indian Territory and where such crimes affect or impede the enforcement of the laws in the courts established in said territory;

B.-Provided, That all violations of the provisions of said chapter prior to the passage of this act shall be prosecuted in the United States courts for the western district of Arkansas and the eastern district of Texas, respectively, the same as if this act had not been passed.

Sec. 36. A. That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the United States court in the Indian Territory over all controversies arising between members or citizens of one tribe or nation of Indians and the members or citizens of other tribes or nations in the Indian Territory, and any citizen or member of one tribe or nation who may commit any offense or crime against the person or property of a citizen or member of another tribe or nation, shall be subject to the same punishment in the Indian Territory as he would be if both parties were citizens of the United States.

And any member or citizen of any Indian tribe or nation in the Indian Territory shall have the right to invoke the aid of said court therein for the protection of his person or property as against any person not a member of the same tribe or nation, as though he were a citizen of the United States.

Sec. 37. A. That if any person shall, in the Indian Territory, open, carry on, promote, make or draw, publicly or privately, any lottery, or scheme of chance of any kind or description, by whatever name, style or title the same may be denominated or known, or shall, in said Territory vend, sell, barter or dispose of any lottery ticket or tickets, order or orders, device or devices, of any kind, for or representing any number of shares or any interest in any lottery or scheme of chance in said Territory, or shall be in any wise concerned in any lottery or scheme of chance, by acting as owner or agent in said Territory, for or on behalf of any lottery or scheme of chance, to be drawn, paid or carried on, either out of or within said territory.

B.-Every such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined for the first offense not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, and for the second offense shall, on conviction, be fined not less than Five Hundred Dollars and not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars, and he may be imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, not exceeding one year.

C. And jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this section is hereby conferred upon the United States court in said Indian Territory, and all persons therein, including Indians and members and citizens of Indian tribes and nations, shall be subject to its provisions and penalties.

Sec. 38. A. The clerks and deputy clerks of said United States court shall have the power within their respective divisions to issue marriage licenses or certificates and to solemnize marriages. They shall keep copies of all marriage licenses or certificates issued by them, and a rcord book in which shall be recorded all licenses or certificates after the marriage has been solemnized, and all persons authorized by law to solemnize marriages shall return the license or certificate, after executing the same, to the clerk or deputy clerk who issued it, togther with his return thereon.

B. They shall also be ex-officio recorders within their respective divisions, and as such they shall perform such duties as are required of recorders of deeds under the said laws of Arkansas, and receive the fees and compensation therefor which are provided in said laws of Arkansas, for like service.

C.-Provided, That all marriages heretofore contracted under the laws

of tribal customs of any Indian Nation now located in the Indian Territory are hereby declared valid, and the issue of such marriages shall be deemed legitimate and entitled to all inheritances of property or other rights, the same as in the case of the issue of other forms of lawful marriage:

D.-Provided, Further, That said Chapter one hundred and three of said laws of Arkansas shall not be construed so as to interfere with the operation of the laws governing marriage enacted by any of the civilized tribes, nor to confer any authority upon any officer of said court to unite a citizen of the United States in marriage with a member of any of the civilized nations until the preliminaries to such marriage shall have been arranged according to the laws of the nation of which said Indian person is a member: E. And Provided Further, That where such marriage is required by law of an Indian Nation to be of record, the certificate of such marriage shall be sent for record to the proper officer, as provided in such law enacted by the Indian Nation.

Sec. 39. A. That the United States court in the Indian Territory shall have all the powers of the United States circuit courts or circuit court judges to appoint commissioners within said Indian Territory, who shall be learned in the law, and shall be known as United States commissioners; but not exceeding three commissioners shall be appointed for any one division, and such commissioiers when appointed shall have, wtihin the district to be designated in the order appointing them, all the powers of commissioners of Circuit Courts of the United States.

B. They shall be ex-officio notaries public, and shall have power to solemnize marriages.

C. The provisions of Chapter ninety-one of the said laws of Arkansas regulating the jurisdiction and procedure before justices of the peace, are hereby extended over the Indian Territory;

D.-And said commissioners shall exercise all the powers conferred by the laws of Arkansas upon justices of the peace within their districts; but they shall have no jurisdictinon to try any cause where the value of the thing or the amount in controversy exceeds one hundred dollars.

E. Appeals may be taken from the final judgment of said commissioners to the United States Court in said Indian Territory in all cases and in the same manner that appeals may be taken from the final judgments of justices of the peace under the provisions of said Chapter ninety-one.

E. The said court may appoint a constable for each of the commissioners districts designated by the court, and the constable so appointed shall perform all the duties required of constables under the provisions of Chapter twenty-four and other laws of the State of Arkansas.

G.-Each commissioner and constable shall execute to the United States for the security of the public, a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, to be approved by the Judge appointing him, conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office and account for all moneys coming into his hands and he shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully perform the duties required of him.

H.-The appointments of United States commissioners by said court held at Muskogee, in the Indian Territory, heretofore made, and all acts in pursuance of law and in good faith performed by them, are hereby ratified and validated.

Sec. 40. A. That persons charged with any offense or crime in the Indian Territory and for whose arrest a warrant has been issued, may be arrested by the United States marshal or any of his deputies, wherever found in said Territory, but in all cases the accused shall be taken, for preliminary examination, before the commissioner in the judicial division whose office or place of business is nearest by the route usually traveled to the place where the offense or crime was committed; but this section shall

apply only to crimes or offenses over which the courts located in the Indian Territory have jurisdiction:

B.-Provided, That in all cases where persons have been brought before a United States, Commissioner in the Indian Territory for preliminary examination, charged with the commission of any crime therein, and where It appears from the evidence that a crime has been committed, and that there is probable cause to believe the accused guilty thereof, but that the crime is one over which the courts of the Indian Territory have no jurisdiction, the accused shall not, on that account, be discharged, but the case shall be proceeded with as provided in section ten hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Sec. 41. That the judge of the United States court in the Indian Territory shall have the same power to extradite persons who have taken refuge in the Indian Territory, charged with crimes in the States, or other Terri tories of the United States, that may now be exercised by the Governor of Arkansas in that State, and he may issue requisitions upon Governors of States and other Territories for persons who have committed offenses in the Indian Terirtory, and who have taken refuge in such States or Territories. Sec. 42. That appeals and writs of error may be taken and prosecuted from the decisions of the United States court 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.

Sec. 43. That any member of any Indian Tribe or nation residing in the Indian Territory may apply to the United States, and such court shall have jurisdiction thereof and shall hear and determine such applications 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 beocme citizens of the United States under the provisions of this act do not forfeit or lose any rigths or privileges they enjoy or are entitled to as members of the tribe or nation to which they belong.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, that portion of the Indian Territory, commonly known as the Cherokee Strip, or outlet, has been for some years in the occupancy of an association or associations of white persons under certain contracts, said to have been made with the Cherokee Nation in the nature of a lease or leases for grazing purposes; and

Whereas, an opinion has been given to me by the attroney general, concurring with the opinion given to my predecessor by the late attorney general, that whatever the right or title of said Cherokee Nation, or of the United States to or in said lands may be, no right exists in said Cherokee Nation under the Statutes of the United States to make such leases or grazing contracts, and that such contracts are wholly illegal and void; and,

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Whereas, the continued use of said lands thereunder for grazing purposes is prejudicial to the public interests;

Now, therefore, I Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and give notice:

First, That no cattle or live stock shall hereafter be brought upon said lands for herding or grazing thereon;

Second, That all cattle and other live stock now on said Outlet, must be removed therefrom not later than October 1, 1890, and so much sooner as said lands or any of them may be or become lawfully open to settlement by citizens of the United States; and that all persons connected with said cattle companies or associations must, not later than the time above indicated, depart from said lands.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this seventeenth day of Februrary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and fourteenth.

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Art. I. Providing for Absentee Shawnees.-Defining land reserved. Art. II. Providing for arbitrary allotment.

Art. III. Defining number of allottees.

Appropriation for making homes.

Art. IV.

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Appropriation for paying absent Indians.

Fixing manner that citizen Pattawotomie Indians may select

allotments.

Sec. XII. Jurisdiction conferred upon U. S. Court of Claims and U. S.

Supreme Court.

Sec. XIII. Referring to Cheyenne and Arapahoe agreement.

Art. I. Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians cede land.

Art. II.

Art. III.
Art. IV.

Art. V.

Art. VI.

Said land subject to allotment in severalty.
Majority members may select allotments.
Classification and description of land.
Restricting time permitted for allotments.
Titles held in abeyance for 25 years.

Art. VII.

Art. VIII.

Art. IX.
Sec. XIV.
Sec. XV.

Money for payment of land ceded to be distributed per capita.
Granting certain allottee privileges.

Providing for ratification.

Fifteen Thousand Dollars appropriated for special agent. Appropriations to Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians, and Two Million nine hundred and ninety one thousand, and fifty dollars, to be paid to the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. Sec. XVI. Unallotted land to be sold under direction Secretary Interior. Sec. XVIII. Providing that lands before opened to settlement shall subdivided into counties.

Sec. XVIII. Provided that school lands shall be leased.

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Articles of Agreement made and entered into at Shawnee Town in the Indian Territory, on the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, by and between David H. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson and Warren G. Sayre, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians, in the Indian Territory.

ARTICLE I.

The citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians of the Indian Territory, in consideration of the fulfillment of the promises hereinafter made, hereby cede, relinquish and forever and absolutely surrender to the United States all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character in and to the following described tract of country in the Indian Territory-according to Merrill's survey, under contract of September third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two-to-wit:

Beginning at a point on the right bank of the North Fork of the Canadian river, in section twenty-one, of township eleven north, range five east, where the western boundary line of the Seminole Reservation strikes said river; thence south with said boundary line to the ert bank of the Canadian river; thence up said river along the left bank thereof, to a point on said left bank, in the northeast quarter section thirty-six, township six north, range one west, thirty-nine chains and eighty-two links (by meanders of the river west) from the point where the Indian Meridian intersects said river, or thirty-eight chains and fifty-two links due west from said Indian Meridian; thence north as run by O. T. Merrill, under his contract of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to a point on the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian river; thence down said river, along the right bank thereof, to the place of beginning, comprising the following, viz:

Fractional township five north, ranges one, two, three, four and five east, north of the Canadian river. Fractional township six north, one, three, four and five, north of the Canadian river.

Townships seven, eight and nine, ranges one, two, three and four east. Fractional townships seven, eight and nine north, range five east.

Townships ten and eleven north, range one east. Fractional township ten north, ranges two, three and four east, south of the North Fork of the Canadian river. Fractional township ten north, range five east. Fractional township eleven north ranges two, three and four and five east, south of the north fork of the Canadian river. Fractional township twelve north, ranges one and two east, south of the north fork of the Canadian river.

Also that portion of sections one, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four and twenty-five, and section thirty-six north of the Canadian river in township six north, range one west, lying east of the western boundary line of the said Pottawatomie Reservation as shown by the Merrill survey, and that portion of sections one, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, twenty-five and thirty-six, in townships seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven north,

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