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 FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 350+. 1906. 343 Thlat there is helpeby created in Indian Territory an additional record- N(f**;§°’_;{,Q*;§),,g*j1f,§**¤* ing istrict, to be nown as recording district numbered twent *—eight.``` Said district shall be bounded as follows: Beginning at the sohthvgiiest corner of the Cherokee Nation; thence north along the western boundary line of the Cherokee Nation to the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north; thence east along the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north to the range line between ranges fourteen and fifteen east; thence south along the range line between ranges fourteen and fifteen east to the township line between townships sixteen and seventeen north; thence west along the township line between townships sixteen and seventeen north to the range line between ranges twelve and thirteen east; thence north along the range line between ranges twelve and thirteen east to the township line between townships eighteen and nineteen north; thence west along the township line between townships eighteen and nineteen north to the range line between ranges ten and eleven east; thence north along said range line to the Arkansas River; thence northwest up said river to a point where it crosses the north line of the Creek Nation; thence east along the north line of the Creek Nation to the place of beginning. That the judge of the western judicial district of Indian Territory com: at Tulsa. shall hold not less than three terms of court in each year at the town of Tulsa, in said recording district numbered twenty-eight; and a United States commissioner’s court shall be established and maintained in said recording district numbered twenty-eight, which commissioner shall maintain his office at Tulsa, in said district, and an Act of Congress entitled “An Act providing for the recording of deeds and other VDI.32, p.s41. conveyances and instruments in writing in Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, shall have the same force and effect in said recording district numbered twenty-eight as it has in the districts created by the said Act approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three. That all that portion of territory included in said recording district digitjltgghedwivwtern numbered twenty-eight, as herein defined, lying within the boundaries ‘ ’ ' of the‘Cherokee Nation, and bein now a part of the northern judicial district of Indian Territory, shadl become, and the same is hereby, attached to and made a part of the western judicial district of Indian Territory; and all of the power, authoritéy, and jurisdiction of the United States court of the western judicial istrict of Indian Territory and of the judges and marshals thereof are hereby extended to and put in force over all the territory included within the boundaries of said twenty-eighth recording district as herein defined and established. That in addition to the places now provided by law for holding cr.»in·t in numm. courts in the southern judicial district of Indian Territory courts shal be held in the town of Duncan, and all laws rc nlating the holding of. the courts in the Indian Territory shall be applicable to the said court hereby created in the said town of Duncan. That the territory next hereinafter described shall be known as xe:;>m1¤€l_ gisérict recording district numbered twenty-nine, beginning at a pxoint where I`"' "‘ asm "` ° ` township line between townships two and three north reac es the east boundary line of Oklahoma Territory; thence east on said township line twenty-four miles to where it intersects with range line three and four west; thence south on said range line twelve miles to where it intersects the base line between townships one north and one south; thence east along said base line six miles to the range line between ranges two and three west; thence south twelve miles along said rangle line to the township line between townships two and three sout ; thence west thirty miles along said township ine to where it intersects with the east line of Oklahoma Territory; thence north along said line twenty-four miles to the lace of beginning; and the place of recording com M p.mc.,,_ and holding court in said) district shall be Duncan.