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 114 FIFTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 155. 1896. at au election to be held on the said `first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as provided by the laws of the Territory okmium laws ap of Oklahoma. All provision of law applicable to the organization ' by the proper omcers thereof to said Greer County, the intention being to provide without delay the same organized government for sand Greer '1‘¤-msfor of nubliv as for the other counties of Oklahoma. All public buildings and prop- """°"" erty of every description heretofore belonging to Greer County, Texas, or used in the administration of the public business thereof is hereby declared to be the property of said Greer County, Oklahoma, and the officers thereof shall, as soon as appointed, take immediate charge and custody thereof; and all school property in said county shall become the property of the respective school districts in which the same are situated. _ J¤•}i¤i»1 r¤>•=¤¤d· Sec. 2. That all proceedings and actions of every kind in or before '§E§$$.'Q_T°”° °°`"°° the several courts and officers of Greer County, Texas, shall have the same force andeifeet as if said courts and officers had been legally authorized courts and officers of the United States or of the Territory of Oklahoma, and the courts of said Territory having jurisdiction of similar matters shall make and issue all orders and writs necessary to enforce the orders, decrees,_and Hua] judgments of said courts and oflicers of Texas. rmmm ofpending Sec. 3. That all suits which were pending in the several courts of •“**•· said Greer County, Texas, on March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as shown by the dockets thereof, shall be entered upon the dockets of the courts of Oklahoma having jurisdiction of like eases, and the same shall proceed as if they had been brought in said courts of Oklahoma. Where an appeal or writ of error has been taken from a judgment in any civil or criminal case rendered by any of said courts of Greer County, Texas, to any other court of Texas, the judgment of such appellate court shall be binding upon all parties to such case, and upon the filing of a certilled copy thereof in the court of Oklahoma having jurisdiction of like cases, it shall be the duty of such court to enter the same upon its minutes and proceed in said action in all respects as though it had rendered the original judgment therein. All rights in the cases mentioned in this section shall be determined by the law of Texas applicable to the act or transaction involved, and the courts shall take judicial notice of such law for that purpose. Wlien any judgment affirmed by any such appellate court provides for imprisonment, such imprisonment shall be in such place as the proper court of Oklahoma shall designate. com records, em. Sec. 4. That all records, minutes, and files of any of the courts and officers mentioned in section two of this Act shall be preserved and kept by the proper courts and officers of Oklahoma, and they, or certic¤¤mm,m.,¤1es. fied copies thereof, shall be competent evidence. All written contracts, conveyances, mortgages, liens, or other instruments which have been heretofore tiled or recorded in said Greer County, in conformity with the laws of Texas, shall be held and considered to have been legally filed or recorded, and it shall not be necessary again to iile or record them. And all interests, rights, titles, and estates, conveyed, limited, encumbered, or in any wise aiiected by any contract, lien, conveyance, mortgage, or other instrument, or by any judgment or decree of any court mjalgdatiun of gag- of Texas of competent jurisdiction, and all judgments of said courts, c,,,f‘,,,;,,f,§;,,§’ MNQQ civil and criminal, prior in date to March sixteenth, eighteen hundred 1**- *896- and ninety-six, shall have the same force and etlect, in all respects, as if said Greer County had legally formed a part of the territory of the State of Texas upto March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and had upon that date been lawfully ceded by Texas to the United States with a reservation and ratification of all existing rights and liabilities according to the laws of Texas. Approved, May 4, 1896.
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