The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-07
For Territory supreme Court.

torness, held in the United States
court room. Tuesday, G. l.. Her
bert, president of the Ardmore
Bar association, presiding, resolu-
tions were passed approving bill
to create a supreme court for the
Territory of Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory and requesting its
passage by Congress. The object
of this court is to retain the feder-
al Judges now on the bench in
their various districts, allowing
the appellate or supreme court to
be controlled by other judges
whose time will be divided on cases
appealed from the resident federal
judges of the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma, giving two sessions
each year at South McAlester and
two at Guthrie. The bill, as ap-
proved by the bar association, has
been submitted to Judges Town
send, Springer and Clayton and by
them endorsed. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Con-
gress assembled:
Section 1. That there is hereby
created a supreme court for the Ter
ritory of Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory, which shall be known as
the supreme court of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory.
Sec. 9. That said court shall con-
sist of chief justice and two associ-
ate justices, two of whom shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction
of any business or the decision of
any question that may come before
it. Said chief justice and associate
jus ices shall be appointed by the
President of the United States by
and with the consent of the senate,
and they shall hold their Office for
the term of four years from the date
of their qualification and until their
successors are qualified, unless SOON
er removed according to law. The
said chief Justice and associate JUS
tices shall each draw salary of s5,-
900 annually and actual and neces-
sary expenses while engaged in the
performance of their official duties,
which shall be paid as the salaries of
circuit judges of the United States
are paid. That not more than two
members of said court shall belong
to the same political party.
Sec. 8. Said court shall hold two
sessions in each year at the city of
Guthrie, in the Territory of Oklaho-
ma, and two sessions in each year at
the city of South McAlester, in the
Indian Territory. Said court shall
regulate the time of holding such
terms by order duly entered of rec
ord; and said court may also pro-
vide for such special sessions, at
either one of said places of holding
court, as the business before said
court may require.
Sec. 4. Said court shall be court
of record, and it shall have the same
appellate jurisdiction in the Indian
Territory in both civil and criminal
cases as is now exercised by the court
of appeals in the Indian Territory;
and appeals anJ writs of error from
the United States courts in the In
dian Territory shall be prosecuted to
it in the same manner and under the
same laws as appeals are now prose-
cuted to the court of appeals in the
Indian Territory. It shall have such
appellate jurisdiction in the Terrific
ry of Oklahoma in both civil and
criminal cases as the supreme court
of said Territory of Oklahoma now
exercises under existing laws; and
appeals and writs of error shall be
taken and prosecuted from the lower
courts in the Territory of Oklahoma
to said court in the same manner and
under the same regulations as ap-
peals are now taken under existing
laws to the supreme court of said
Territory of Oklahoma. Appeals
and writs of error from the decisions
of the appellate court herein created
shall be allowed in all cases, both
civil and criminal, and may be taken
to the circuit court of appeals for the
Eighth judicial circuit and to the Su-
preme Court of the United States, in
the same manner and under the
same regulations as appeals and
writs of error are taken from the
circuit and district courts of the
United States.
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