north, of range three west, is hereby granted to said Oklahoma City in trust for the use and benefit of its free schools, to be used and applied for the benefit of all children of said city of scholastic age without distinction of race, except such portions of said reservation as are reserved for the purposes and uses hereinafter described. SECTION 2. That not less than ten acres of said reservation shall be set apart and used by said city for the way Choctaw location of public buildings and for a public park. That way Company. within ninety days after the passage of this Act the For buildings and parks. Sale to Southern Kansas Railway. Right of Coal & Rail Survey, etc. Southern Kansas Railway Company shall have the right to purchase from said city, adjoining said company's present right of way, for depot grounds and other railroad purposes, not to exceed six acres of said reservation, the value thereof and the price to be paid therefor to be fixed by the appraisers to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior within said ninety days. That the permits heretofore granted to the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company by the Secretary of War for lands across and upon said reservation, shall remain in force until such time as the land so granted shall cease to be used for railroad purposes, when the same shall pass to said city. SECTION 3. That said city shall cause the remainder of said reservation hereby granted to be divided into lots and blocks corresponding as near as practicable with the plat of said city. All streets, alleys and avenues to be laid out on the reservation are hereby dedicated to and shall be held for the use of the public, and the lots and blocks shall be sold for the use of the public free schools of said city. When sales are made and the purchase money all paid, said city shall execute proper deeds to the purchasers. Approved, August 8, 1894. AN ACT to establish and provide for the government of Greer County, Oklahoma, and for other pu.poses. Okla. organ officers. Oklahoma Laws ap Transfer of erty. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled: SECTION 1. That the portion of the Territory of Okla Greer County, homa bounded by the North Fork of the Red River and ized. County the State of Texas, heretofore known as Greer County plicable. Texas, be, and the same is hereby, established as Gree public propCounty of Oklahoma, with Mangum as the county seat. The present county officers of said county shall be continued in office until the first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, or until their successors are elected and qualified, at an election to be held on the said first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and ninetysix, as provided by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma. All provisions of law applicable to the organization and government of counties in Oklahoma shall forthwith be applied by the proper officers thereof to said Greer County, the intention being to provide without delay the same organized government for said Greer as for the other counties of Oklahoma. All public buildings and property 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. ceedings in binding SECTION 2. That all proceedings and actions of every Judicial prokind in or before the several courts and officers of Gree, Texas courts County, Texas, shall have the same force and effect as if said courts and officers had been legally authorized courts Transfer of pending suits. Court records, 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 final judgments of said courts and officers of Texas. SECTION 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 cases, 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 certified 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. When 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. etc. Contracts, SECTION 4. That all records, minutes, and files of any etc., filed Vali. prior to March 16, 1896. dation of judg- of the courts and officers mentioned in section two of this ment, etc., of State courts Act shall be preserved and kept by the proper courts and officers of Oklahoma, and they, or certified copies thereof, shall be competent evidence. All written contracts, conveyances, mortgages, liens, or other instruments which have been heretofore filed 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 file or record them. And all interests, rights, titles, and estates, conveyed, limited, encumbered, or in any wise affected by any contract, lien, conveyance, mortgage, or other instrument, or by any judgment or decree of any court of Texas of competent jurisdiction, and all judgments of said courts, civil and criminal, prior in date to March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall have the same. force and effect in all respects as if said Greer County had legally formed a part of the territory of the State of Texas up to 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. AN ACT making one year's residence in a Territory a prerequisite to obtain a divorce there. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Territories. residence re quired in divorce pro Pending divorce shall have resided continuously in the Territory ceedings. for one year next preceding the application: Provided actions. That this Act shall not affect any action duly commenced and pending at the date of the passage thereof. Approved, May 25, 1896. Oklahoma. Homestead entry authorized on vacated townsites. market. ARTICLE 6.-VACATED TOWNSITES AND ADDITIONS TO SECTION. 1. Oklahoma. Homestead entry SECTION. 2. Public sales of vacated lands. Sales of isolated tracts. 3. Repeal. AN ACT to provide for the disposal of public reservations in vacated town sites or additions to town sites in the Territory of Oklahoma. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled: SECTION 1. That in all cases where a townsite, or an addition to a townsite, entered under the provisions of ales in open section twenty-two of an Act entitled "An Act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be vacated in accordance with the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, and patents for the public reservations in such vacated townsite, or addition thereto, have not been issued, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon an official showing that such townsite, or addition thereto, has been vacated, and upon payment of the homestead price for such reservations, to issue a patent for such reservations to the original entryman. If the original entryman shall fail or neglect to make application for the reservations within six months from the vacation of such townsite, or from the passage of this Act, the reservations shall be subject to disposal under the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Public sales of vacated isolated tracts. SECTION 2. That if a patent has already issued, or lands. Sales of shall hereafter issue, for any such reservation, to any town or municipality, such town or municipality, upon the vacation of the townsite or addition thereto, as aforesaid, may sell the same at public or private sale, to the highest bidder after thirty day's public notice of such |