Chapter 5. To provide for two additional associate just ices of the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 5.— An Act To provide for two additional associate just ices of the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes.December 21, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Oklahoma.Composition of supreme court.Vol 26, p. 85. That hereafter the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma shall consist of a chief justice and tour associate justices, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum; but three judges must concur to render an opinion reversing a. judgment or other determination of the district court.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the President to nominate andAdditional justices to be appointed. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint two additional associate justices of said supreme court, who shall hold their office for the term of four years, or until their successors are appointed and qualified, and who shall receive the same compensation as now provided for the justices of the supreme court of Oklahoma Territory. Sec. 3. That the said Territory shall be divided into five judicial Districts,Five districts established. and a district court shall be held in each county, as now provided by law.
The supreme court of said Territory shall define said Terms.judicial districts, and shall fix the times and places at each county seat in each district where the district court shall be held, and designate the judge who shall preside therein. Each judge, after assignment, 21 shall reside in the district to which he is assigned. The supreme courtAssignment in certain eases. of said Territory, or the chief justice thereof, may designate any judge to try a particular case or cases in any district when the judge of said district has been of counsel, or is of kin to either party to the action, or interested, or is biased or prejudiced in the cause, or if for any other reason said judge is unable to hold court.
Sec. 4. That the district court in each of said districts shall have theJurisdiction. same jurisdiction that district courts of said Territory now possess. Sec. 5. That no justice of the supreme court of said Territory shallDisqualification of judges. sit as a member of said court in the trial or hearing of any case decided by him in the district court, or wherein he has any interest. Approved, December 21, 1893.