Chapter 174. Granting chief justice of United States courts in Territories power to appoint commissioners to take proof in land cases, and so forth
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CHAP. 174.— An Act Granting chief justice of United States courts in Territories power to appoint commissioners to take proof in land cases, and so forth.March 2, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Territories.Commissioners to be appointed bye chief justices. That the chief justice of the court exercising Federal jurisdiction in the Territories shall have power to appoint commissioners in the several judicial districts, to be known when appointed as United States court commissioners.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall have power, and it shall bePowers, etc., under land laws. their duty on application by proper person, to administer the oaths in preliminary affidavits and final proofs required under the homestead, preemption, timber culture, and desert-land laws in their respective districts, in like manner as provided for in reference to United States Vol. 26, p. 121.circuit court commissioners, in the Act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety.
Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and twenty-one. Sec. 3. That no commissioner shall be appointed who resides withinDistance from land offices, etc. thirty miles of any local land office, nor shall any commissioner be appointed who resides within thirty miles of any other commissioner. Sec. 4. That this Act shall take effect from its passage.Effect. Approved, March 2, 1895.