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 276 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 888. 1902. commissioners and constables, respectively, for said district until their u¥&’Q€§g¤,*;§°°· successors shall be apppinted and qualified. That the clerk’s office at vol. ¤. p. nw. Vinita shall also be the recorder’s office for the northern district, except that the clerk’s office at Miami shall continue to be the recording office for the Quapaw Indian Agency as now provided by law. mw" md “The United States marshal of the (present northern district s all be ` marshal of the western district, an them shall be séppointed by the President} by and with the advice and consent of the nate, a district attorney or said western district, and a United States marshal for the northern district. The said officers shall be appointed and shall hold office for the (period of four years, and shall receive the same salarv and fees an discharge like duties as other similar officers in P°¤°’“¤ °•“°°¤ said Territory. The cases now nding in that part of the northern district whic is hereby made this western district shall be tried the ¤,’*`c{'”'°°'*"“""*"‘ same as if brought in said western district. Terms of court shall convoi. zs, r- M tinue to be held within the territory remaining in said northern district at the places now provided by law for the holding of courts therein, and in addition thereto at the towns of Sallisaw, Claremore, Nowata, and Pryor Creek, in the Cherokee countily. All laws now applicable to the existing judicial districts in the In ian Territory, and to attorneys, marsha s, clerks, and their assistants or deputies therein, not inconsistent herewith, are hereby made applicable to the western dis- trict. In addition to the places now provided by law for holding courts in the southern and central districts, courts in the southern district shall also be held at Tishomingo and Ada, and in the central °¤¤=¤“°·”°¤¤*· district at Durant. The United States judge for the central district of the Indian Territory, after the approval of this Act, may appoint a constable for the commissioner located at Durant. ·l,'g{‘·»’ p_m_ To enable the Attorney—General to carry out the provisions of the ` Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the erection of three jails in tge Indian Territory, and also to erect one additional United States jail in said Territory, forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, to be immediately available, and to remain avail- Umm S""' l*“* able until expended. And the Attorney—General is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be erected a United States jail at each of the ”“‘°°'°°· three places already formally desi nated by him, namely, at Muscogee ’°“"‘ "°‘“°"°'· in the western district, at South lVIcAlester in the central district, and r i at Ardmore in the southern district, and one additional United States lm °" jlail at Vinita in the northern district, at a total cost not exceeding one mmm__ to com undred thousand dollars. usmngui ma. That for the purpose of acmiring sites for United States jails as provided herein in the Indian erritory, there shall be appointed by the j udge of the United States court in the district where such land is situate, on application of the United States by petition describing the land sought to be condemned, three disinterested referees, who shall determine the compensation and damage to be paid any owner, occupant, tribe, or nation by reason of the appropriation and condemnation of such land for the use and benefit of the United States for a jail at any of the places hereinbefore mentioned. Such referees, before entering u n the duties of their appointment, shall each take and subscribe beige the clerk of the said United States court an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his appointment, which oaths, duly certified, shall be returned with the award of the referees to the ,,g*;'“""‘°“‘ °‘ d'““’ clerk of the court by which they were appointed. Before such referees shall proceed with the assessment of damages for any lands sought to be condemned under this Act, ten days’ personal notice of said hearing shall be given to all persons interested, and service may be had upon each tribe or nation in which said land may be located by service upon the principal chief thereof, and in case personal service can not