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 268 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3335. 1906. treaties, agreement, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to make if this Act had never been passed. . C<>¤¤¢ii¤*·i<>¤¤l °°¤· Sec. 2. That all male persons over the age of twenty-one years, who vcdiiiiiiiacauons or are citizens of the United States, or who are members of any Indian "°'i“g f°' °°l°g’“"" nation or tribe in said Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and who have resided within the limits of said proposed State for at least six months next preceding the election, are hereby authorized to vote for and choose delegates to form a constitutional convention for said proposed State; and all persons qualibed to vote for said delegates shall be eligible to serve as delegates; and the delegates to form such conven- From 0¤¤¤<>¤¤¤- tion shall be one hundred and twelve in number, fifty-tive of whom Indian ·rm-nary. shall be elected by the people of the Territory of Oklahoma, and owe nemvueion. fifty-five by the people of Indian Territory, an two shall. be elected by the electors residing in the Osage Indian Reservation IH the Ter- Veiiriz districts. ritory of Oklahama; and the governor, the chief justice, and the Okiahcmu- secretary of the Territory of klahoma shall apportion the Territory of Oklahoma into fifty-six districts, as nearly equal in population 0¤¤seR¤¤¤rv¤¢i<>¤- as may be,·except that such apportionment shall include as one district the Osage Indian Reservation, and the overno1·, the chief justice, and the secretary of the Territory of Oklaboma shall appoint an election commissioner who shall establish votin precincts in said Osage Indian Reservation, and shall appoint the judges for election in said Osage Indian Reservation; and two delegates shall be elected from said Osage I¤di¤n1‘erri¤>rr. district; and the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, and two judges of the United States courts for the Indian Territory, to be designated by the President, shall constitute a board, which shall ·. apportion the said Indian Territory into fifty-five districts, as nearly equal in population as may be, and one delegate shall be elected _ Prociainationerder- from each of said districts; and the governor of said Oklahoma mg °l°°°°"' Territory, together with the judge senior in service of the United States courts in Indian Territory, shall, by proclamation in which such apportionment shall be fully specilied and announced, order an election of the delegates aforesaid in said proposed State at a time designated by them within six n1onths after the approval of this Act. which roclamation shall be issued at least sixty days prior to the time <‘·>¤fiii··¢<>i¤iMi<>¤- of holding said election of delegates. The election for delegates in the Territory of Oklahon1a and in said Indian Territory shall be conducted, the returns made, the result ascertained, and the certiticates of all persons elected to such convention issued in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma regulating hOi5:j¤¤— elections for Delegates to Congress. That the election laws of the " Territory of Oklahoma now in force, as far as applicable and not in conflict with this Act, including the penal laws of said Territory of Oklahoma relating to elections and illegal voting, are hereby extended to and put in force in said Indian Territory until the le islature of said proposed State shall otherwise provide, and until all persons olfending against said laws in the election aforesaid shall have bcendealt within the qtgjgijgjigsef *’¤i¤~>d manner therein provided. And the United States courts of said Indian `Territory shall ave the same power to enforce the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, hereby extended to and put in force in said I`erri~ ggjggjjomcem hl_ tory, as have the courts of the Territory of Oklahoma: Provided, uaimremwry.}1.0w0a•e2·, That said board to apportion districts in Indian Territory shall, for the puijpose of said election, appoint an election commissioner for each istrict who shall distribute all ballots and election supplies to the several precincts in his district, receive the election returns from the judges in precincts, and deliver the same to the canvassing board herein named, establish and define the necessary election precincts, and appoint three judges of election for each precinct, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, which judges may appoint the necessary clerk or clerks; that said judges of