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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the year 1883
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Indian legislation passed during the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress, pp. 184-191
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INDIAN LEGISLATION PASSED DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. PUBLIC ACTS. [PUBLIc-No. 7.] CHAP. 13. AN ACT to provide for holding a term of the District Court of the United States at Wichita, Kansas, and for other purposes. [Vol. 22, p. 400.] District courts Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United U. S., Kansasand States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be one term of Texas; term at the United States district court for the district of Kansas held at Wich- Wichita, Kansas. ita in each year, on the first Monday of September, from and after the passage of this act; but no cause, action, or proceedings shall be tried or considered in the court herein provided.for unless 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 re- side and keep their offices at Wichita, who, in the absence of the prin- cipals shall do and perform all the duties appertaining to their said of- fices respectively. But the city or county authorities shall provide a suitable building, without expense to the Unite$ 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 hundreth meridian not set apart and occupied by the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian tiibes 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 Dis- trict of Kansas, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all offenses committed within the limits of the territory hereby annexed to said dis- trict of Kansas against any of the laws of the United States now or that may hereafter be operative therein. Northern dis- SEC. 3.-That all that portion of the Indian Territory not annexed to trict Texas, en the district of Kansas by this act, and not set apart and occupied by larged. the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole Indian tribes, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and consti- tute a part of the United States judicial district known as the northern U. S. court, district of Texas; and the United States district court at Graham, in Graham, Texas, said northern district of Texas, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction to have jurisdic- of all offenses committed within the limits of the territory hereby an- tion. nexed 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 af- fect in any manner any action or proceeding now pending in the circuit or district court tor the western district of Arkansas, nor the execution of any process relating thereto; nor shall anything in this act be con- strued to give to said district courts of Kansas and Texas, respectively, any greater jurisdiction in that part of said Indian Territory so as afore- said annexed, respectively, to said district of Kansas and said northern district of Texas than might heretofore have been lawfully exercised Treaty rights therein by the western district of Arkansas; nor shall anything in this preserved, act contained be construed to violate or impair in any respect any treaty provision whatever. Approved, January 6, 1883. 184 L-
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