The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-01-08
COURT Of CIVIL
APPEALS AIM OF
BILL TO SOLONs
Establishment Of Such a Tribunal
Supported by Oklahoma Bar
Association: To Be In.
troduecd Soon
CHICKAsHA WOULD BE
ONE NEW COURT TOWNS
This City With Enid, Tulsa and NC
Aletter Named In Measure;
Two Districts Outlined In
Entire State.

A bill providing for the creation
of n court OF civil appeals to sit In
ChIckasha, Enid. Tulsa and McAles.
ter will he introduced in the Okla
homa legislature. now in session In
Oklahoma city. according to u. b.
Barefoot. local attorney and member
Of the state bar association.
The establishment of such court
was endorsed by the state bar asso-
citation In preference to the "uni.
fled" court plan.
Attorney Barefoot has just receiv-
ell copy OF the bill from Judge W
w. kornegy, of Vinita.
The bill provides that the officers
of each division--western an. east
ern- shall consist OF three judges. a
marshal, q clerk, one or more deputy
clerks and three law clerks. that the
qualifications of the judges shall be
the same as the judges of the SUI
preme court, and the judges shall he
residents OF the division for which
selected at the time of selection.
and shall continue TO reside therein
during their continuance in office.
That the marshal and clerk o.
each division shall be appointed by
q majority of the judges of said di-
vision, and Shall be residents Of the
division for which they are appoint
ed, and shall be qualified electors at
the time Of their appointment and
shall reside in the division during
their continuance in. office, and
shall hold. office during the pleas
ure Of the majority of the judges OF
the division for which they may be
appointed.
Each judge may appoint law
clerk, who shall be an expert steno-
grapher and shall perform such
duties as may be required of him by
the judge appointing or the court
and shall hold Office during the pleas
ure OF the Judge appontn hm!
Any qualified elector of the divis-
ion shall be eleigible.
Chickasha in Western.
Chickasha and Grady county is To-
Gated in the "Western division pro-
posed in the bill, which further pro-
vides that the Eastern division shall
consist of the following counties:
Ottawa Delaware, Adair, Sequoyay,
Cherokee, LIE Flore, McCurtain, Choc-
taw, Pushmataha, Latimer, Has
kell, Muskogee, Wagner, Mayes,
Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Mcintosh,
Pittsburgh, Atoka, Bryan, Marshall,
Johnston, Coal. Pontotoc, Hughes,
Seminole, Okfuskce, Okmulgee,
Creek, Tulsa, Washington, and
Usage. The remainder of the, late
shall constitute the Western divis-
ion.
That the places of holding court
shall be at Tulsa and McAlester in
the Eastern division and Chickasha
and Enid in the Western division.
The clerk for the Eastern division
shall reside in Tulsa and for the
Eastern division shall reside in
Tulsa and for the Western division
shall reside in Chickasha. All appeals
and proceedings in error brought to
said court from the Eastern division
shall be sent to the clerks Office at
Tulsa, and those brought from the
Western division shall be sent to
the clerks office at 'Chickasha.
Two Terms Yearly.
The bill provides that the court
shall hold two terms each year;
that the Jurisdiction Of the court
shall be concurrent with the appel
late jurisdiction Of the supreme
court, invoked in the same manner,
and the procedure shall be the same
as far as practicable with that Of
the supreme court, to which appeals
may be made.
Salaries of the court officials are
fixed as follows: Judges $4,000 per
year; clerks, $4,000 per year; mar
shals, $4,000 per year; law clerks
and deputy clerks, $500 per year,
payable In monthly installments,