Chapter 70. To validate the appointments, acts, and services of certain deputy United States marshals in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 70.— An Act To validate the appointments, acts, and services of certain deputy United States marshals in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. January 20, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the appointments of Indian Territory. Appointments and acts of deputy marshals ratified.deputy United States marshals in the Indian Territory made by the marshal in either district of said Territory since the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and prior to April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and all oaths taken by such deputy United States marshals in good faith, and all acts and services rendered by such deputy United States marshals in pursuance of law and in good faith, are hereby ratified and validated.

All accounts for the payment Accounts.of such deputy United States marshals shall be subject to the approval of the Attorney-General. Sec. 2 That hereafter United States marshals in said Territory shall Marshals’ bonds.give bond, with two or more sureties to be approved by the judge of said district, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned as by 494FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 70, 83, 86. 1897.law required in regard to the bond of other United States marshals: *Proviso.* Increased bonds.*Provided,* That whenever the business of the courts in said Territory shall make it necessary, in the opinion of the Attorney-General, for the United States marshal of any district therein to furnish greater security than the official bond herein required, a bond in the sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars shall be given by said marshal when required by the Attorney-General, who shall fix the amount thereof.

Approved, January 20, 1897.