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 648 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1362. 1902. be necessary to enable said court to determine the very right of the controversy. And said court shall have power to ma e all needful rules and regulations prescribing the manner of taking and conducting said appeals and of takin additional evidence therein. Such citizenship court shall also have lie appellate jurisdiction and authority over judgments rendered by such courts under the said act denying claims to citizenship or to enrollment as citizens in either of said nations. Such appeals shall be taken within the time hereinbefore specined and shall be taken, conducted and disposed of in the same manner as appeals by the said nations, save that notice of appeals by citizenship claimants shall be served upon the chief executive officer gggge- _ of both nations: Provided, That paragraphs thirty-one, thirty-two ‘and thirty-three hereof shall go into effect immediately after the passage of this Act by Congress. Jgggmsggg 33. A court is hereby created to be known as the Choctaw and cmmi. Chickasaw Citizenship Court, the existence of which shall terminate . upon the final determination of the suits and proceedings named in the last two Ipreceding sections, but in no event later than the thirty- §,‘;;°;·,‘f,§f· first day of ecember, nineteen hundred and three. Said court shall ` have all authority and power necessary to the hearing and determination of the suits and proceedings so committed to its jurisdiction, including the authority to issue and enforce all requisite writs, process and orders, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the transaction of its business. It shall also have all the powers of a Circuit Court of the United States in compelling the production of books, papers and documents, the attendance of witnesses, and in punishing contempt. "°°"*“¥°·°‘°· Except where herein otherwise expressly provided, the pleadings, pgactice and proceedings in said court shall conform, as near as may , to the pleadings, ractice and proceedings in equity causes in the Circuit Courts of thexllnited States. The testimony shall be taken in court or before one of the judges, so far as practicable. Each judge shall be authorized to grant, in vacation or recess, interlocutory orders and to hear and dispose of interlocutory motions 110t adecting J¤d8°=*· °*°· the substantial merits of the case. Said court shall have a chief judge and two associate judges, a clerk, a stenographer, who shall be deputy clerk, and a bailitl`. The judges shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall each receive a compensation of five thousand dollars per annum, and his necessary and actual traveling and crsonal expenses while en aged in the performance of his duties. 'lihc clerk, stenogra iher, and bailitf shall be appointed by the judges, or a majority of them. Compensation of and shall receive the following yearly compensation: Clerk, two "l°""°‘°‘ thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer, twelve hundred dollars; bailitf, nine hundred dollars. The compensation of all these officers ’*PP’°P'*¤**°"· shall be paid by the United States in monthly installments. The moneys to pay said compensation are hereby a propriated, and there is also hereby appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to pay such contingent expenses of said court and its officers as to such Secretary may seem proper. Said court shall have a seal, shall sit at such place or places in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations as the jud es may designate, and shall hold public sessions, beginning the lirst Monday in each month, so far as may be prac- 0***** ticable or necessary. Each judge and the clerk and deputv clerk shall Wm'- be authorized to administer oaths. All writs and process issued by said court shall be served by the United States marshal for the district in Fm- which the service is to be had. The fees for serving process and the fees of witnesses shall be paid by the party at whose instance such process is issued or such witnesses are subpmnaed, and the rate or amount of such fees shall be the same as is allowed in civil causes in