Chapter 1824. To provide for additional United States judges in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1824.— An Act To provide for additional United States judges in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 12647](/us/bill/33/hr/12647).][[Public, No. 256](/us/pl/33/256).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there shall be appointedIndian Territory.Additional judges authorized. by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, four additional judges of the United States court in the Indian Territory, one for the northern district, one for the western district, one for the central district, and one for the southern district.
And saidPowers, term, etc. judges shall have all the authority and exercise all the powers, per-form like duties, and receive the same salary as other judges of said court, and shall each serve for a term of four years from date of appointment, unless said offices are sooner abolished by law. NeitherNot members of court of appeals. the additional judges, nor their successors in office, shall be members of the court of appeals for the Indian Territory, but they shall hold such courts, in their respective districts, as may be directed by the court of appeals of the Indian Territory, or majority of the judges thereof in vacation: *Provided.* That none of said judges shall have*Proviso.*Limit of power. power to appoint clerks of courts.
United States commissioners, or United States constables in said districts, and hereafter at least threeTerms. terms of court shall be held in each year, at each place of holding court in the Indian Territory, the times to be fixed in the manner now provided by law. Sec. 2. All the laws of Arkansas heretofore put in force in theExtension of laws to all persons and estates. Indian Territory are hereby continued and extended in their operation, so as to embrace all persons and estates in said Territory, whether Indian, freedmen, or otherwise, and full and complete jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the district courts in said Territory in the settlements of ail estates of decedents, the guardianships of minors and incompetents, ’whether Indians, freedmen, or otherwise.
That theAppropriation for judges' salaries. sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriate, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of salaries of the judges hereby authorized, the same to be immediately available. Approved, April 28, 1904.