The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-02
/ NEW RECORDING BILL
Full Text Of Bill Recently Passed BY
Congress and Effective Ia Indian
Territory.

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ongress andS al become 2 law ID
Indian Territory:
An act providing for the record O
deeds and conveyances and In
struments in writing ID Indian
Territory and for other purposes
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the
United States Of America In Con-
gress assembled:
That each place whore court Of
record il now held in Indian Ter
titory shall Be I recording district,
with jurisdiction % record Al In.
strunents permitted or proper tc
be recorded under the laws now in
force 10 said Territory. The dep
uty clerk ia charge Of said court
shall keep in his Office all neces.
'sary books Of record for the pur-
pose o. recording said instruments.
The name fees shall b allowed
said deputy clerk for such services
y are now allowed the clerks Of
the recording districts In said Ter
fftory.
The deputy CLERK a each plscs
of holding said court shall Be, and
IL hereby, made the sx.oficio
'rocorder thereof. Said three re-
! cording districts now existing are
hereby continued, but their juris.
diction is hereby limited 70 the
actual limits Of the jurisdiction Of
no court held in their respective
districts. The new recording dis
txicts hereby created shall have
Jurisdiction over all Of the Terri
tory covered BY .hs jurisdiction Of
! aeir respective courts.
A
The judges Il said respective
courts shall, Immediately after the
passage Of this act, define BY an
order duly entered on their dock
ete. the boundaries Of each record
Ijne .1trict herein provided for end
shall make all orders necessary 10
carry into effect fhe provisions Of
this act; and chapter twenty seven
Of the Digests OF the Statutes Of
Arkansas. known as Mane6sid's
Digest Of 1884, is hereby extended
to the Indian Territory, so far as
the same be applicable and not In
consistent with any law Of Con-
gress: Provided. That the clerk
OF deputy clerk Of tho United
States court Of each Of the courts
Of said Territory shall be ex,ofiicio
recorder for his district and per-
form the duties required Of record
or in the chapter aforesaid, aud
use the seal OF such court In cases
requiring . seal, and keep the
records Of such Office At the Office
OF said clerk or deputy clerk.
II shall be the duty Of each clerk
or deputy Of such court TO record
in the books provided for his Office
all deeds. mortgages, deeds of
trust, bonds, leases, covenants, de-
feasances, bills of sale. and other
instruments Of writing OF or con
corning lands, tenements, goods or
chattels; and where such instru-
ments are for a period of time linn
tied on the face OF the instrument
they shall be filed and indexed, If
.SSssired BY the holder thereof, and
such filing for the period Of twelve
mop.s:trom the filing there ofshall
h1ve the ssme effect in law as If
recorded at length. The fees Cor
filing. indexing and cross.indexing
such instruments shall be twenty
five cents. and for recording shall
|be ss set forth in section thirty
two hundred and forty three Of
Mansfield's Digest Of 1884
That the said clerk or deputy
clerk Of such court shall receive
az compensation as such ex-oflicio
recorder for his dis trict ell fees re
celyed by him tor recording in
R.fuments provided for ia this Act
mounting 10 one thousand eight
undred dollars per annun, or less;
hd all fees 50 recsivsd by him as
aforesaid amounting to more than
the sum of one thousand eioht|