The Iola register., 1889-04-12
THE NEW COURT.
Jurisdlctlon Of the Court Estsblishea q
the Indian TERRITORY.


the Indisn Territory.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The jurisdic.
ton Of the new court for the Indian Ter.
ritory extends over the Indian Territory
bounded as follows: North by the State of
Kansas, east by the States of Missouri and
Arkansas, south by the State Of Texas and
west by the Territory of New Mexico. The
judge holds, his office forfour years and
until his successor ia appointed and quali-
fed. The salary is s. year. The
court has exclusive original Jurisdiction
over all offenses against the laws of the
United States committed within the Indian
Territory not punishable by death or by i'm.
prisonment at hard labor; also jurisdiction
in all civil cases between citizens Of the
United States who are residents Of the In.
dian Territory and citizens Of the United
States or any State or Territory, and any
citizen Of or person or persons residing or
found in the Indian Territory. and when
the value Of the thing in controversy or
damages or money claimed amounts to
500 or more, providing that nothing con.
tained in the act creating the court shall
be SO construed as to give the court turis.
diction over controversies between persons
Of English blood only and all laws having
Greek, Chickasaw and Seminole Nations, or
either Of them, from lawfully entering in.
to leases or contracts for miniug coal for
a period not exceeding ten years are re.
pealed and the court has jurisdiction over
all controversies arising out OF the mining
leases or contracts and Of all questions OF
mining rights or invasions thereof whore
the amount exceeds 800 and the provi.
sfons Of chapter Is title 1a Of Revised
Statutes, govern the court 40 far as ap.
plicable, and all practice pleadinGs and
forms Of proceedingin civil causes must
conform as near as may be to those Of the
courts Of record OF the State of Arkansas,
and the plaintiff is entitled to like remedies
by attachment or other process against
the property of defendant and for like
causes as are now provided by the laws
of said State. The final judgment or de.
cree of said court in cases where the value
of the matter in dispute. exclusive of costs,
to be ascertained by oath of either party,
or OF other competent witnesses, exceeds
$1,000, may be reviewed and revised or
affirmed by the Supreme Court Of the
United States upon writ of error or appeal
in like manner and under the same regu-
lation as final judgments or degrees Of
circuit court. Two terms Of court are to
be held each year at Muskogee on the first
Monday in April and September and such
special sessions ut such times as the judge
may deem expedient for dispatch Of bust.
ness, and he may adjourn such special
sessions to any other time previous to q
regular term. In all criminal trials had
in said court in which a jury shall be de.
manded and in which the defendant or
defendants shall be citizens Of the United
States none but citiz.ns of the United
States shall be competent jurors and
the judge shall have the same au.
thority to issue writs of habeas corpus
and injunctions, mandamus or other rad.
ical process as exists in the Circuit Court
Of the United States. All proceedings in
said court shall be had In the English
language and bona fide male residents of
the Indian Territory over twenty zone
years Of age and understanding the Eng
lish language sufficiently to comprehend
the proceedings of the court shall be com.
petent to serve as jurors in the District
Court Western district of Arkansas