being approximately twenty-four acres, for a free public bathing beach, under conditions which will allow the fullest use of the land for recreational purposes. Such permit shall remain in full force and effect as long as the county complies with the conditions therein and maintains such land as a free public bathing beach. Such land shall not be subject to the mining laws of the United States, in the absence of an express order of the Secretary of the Interior restoring the land to such laws with such restrictions and limitations as the said Secretary may prescribe. Approved, April 5, 1926. CHAP. 107.-An Act To grant extensions of time under oil and gas permits. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any oil or gas prospecting permit issued under the Act entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain," approved February 25, 1920, or extended under the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant extensions of time under oil and gas permits, and for other purposes," approved January 11, 1922, may be extended by the Secretary of the Interior for an additional period of two years, if he shall find that the permittee has been unable, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, to begin drilling operations or to drill wells of the depth and within the time required by existing law, or has drilled wells of the depth and within the time required by existing law, and has failed to discover oil or gas, and desires to prosecute further exploration. SEC. 2. Upon application to the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to valid intervening rights and to the provisions of section 1 of this Act, any permit which has already expired because of lack of authority under existing law to make further extensions, may be for a this Act, period of two years from the date of the passage of Approved, April 5, 1926., CHAP. 108.-Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to lend tents and camp equipment for the use of the reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held at Birmingham, Alabama, in May, 1926. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to lend, at his discretion, to the reunion committee of the United Confederate Veterans, for use in connection with the Thirty-sixth Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 18 to 21, 1926, such tents and other camp equipment as may be required at said reunion: Provided, That no expense shall be caused the United States by the delivery and return of said property, the same to be delivered to said committee at such time prior to the holding of said reunion as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and Val J. Nesbitt, general chairman of said reunion committee: And provided further, That the Secretary of War, before delivering said property, shall take from said Val J. Nesbitt a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of said property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States.md500 Approved, April 5, 1926. -OCHAP. 110.-An Act To change the title of Deputy Assistant Treasurer of the United States to Assistant Treasurer of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the title Deputy Assistant Treasurer of the United States as designated by the Act approved March 3, 1901, as amended by the Act approved July 16, 1914, be, and the same is hereby, changed and shall hereafter be designated as Assistant Treasurer of the United States. Approved, April 9, 1926. CHAP. 111.-Joint Resolution Authorizing the Librarian of Congress to return to Solomon's Lodge, Number 1, Free and Accepted Masons, of Georgia, the minute book of the Savannah, Georgia, Masonic Lodge. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Librarian of Congress is hereby authorized to return to Solomon's Lodge, Number 1, Free and Accepted Masons, of Savannah, Georgia, the original manuscript of the record of the proceedings of said lodge, which is contained in one bound volume, duodecimo, now in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, marked "Savannah Masonic Lodge, 1757," the said manuscript having been identified as originally the property of the said lodge. Approved, April 9, 1926. CHAP. 112.-An Act To amend section 99 of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary, and the amendment to said Act approved July 17, 1916, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, chapter 248. + April 10, 1926. [H. R. 290.] [Public, No. 95.] United States courts. 37, p. 60. North Dakota judivi Southwestern sion. Southeastern divi Northeastern divi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 99 of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary as amended by the Act of July 17, 1916, be amended to ed. read as follows: Sec. 66 SEC. 99. That the State of North Dakota shall constitute one dicial district. judicial district, to be known as the district of North Dakota. The territory embraced on the 1st day of January, 1916, in the counties of Burleigh, Logan, McIntosh, Emmons, Kidder, McLean, Adams, Bowman, Dunn, Hettinger, Morton, Stark, Golden Valley, Slope, Sioux, Oliver, Mercer, and Billings shall constitute the southwestern division of said district; and the territory embraced on sion. the date last mentioned in the counties of Cass, Richland, Barnes, Sargent, Ransom, and Steele shall constitute the southeastern division; and the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the sion. counties of Grand Forks, Traill, Walsh, Pembina, Cavalier, and Nelson shall constitute the northeastern; and the territory embraced sion. on the date last mentioned in the counties of Ramsey, Benson, Towner, Rolette, Bottineau, Pierce, and McHenry shall constitute the northwestern division; and the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Ward, Williams, Divide, Mountrail, Burke, Renville, and McKenzie shall constitute the western division; and the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Griggs, Foster, Eddy, Wells, Sheridan, Stutsman, La Moure, reservations. and Dickey shall constitute the central division. The several Indian reservations and parts thereof within said State shall constitute a part of the several divisions within which they are respectively situated. Terms of the district court for the southwestern division shall be held at Bismarck on the first Tuesday in March; for the Northwestern divi Western division. Central division. Terms. Offices. Provisos. southeastern division, at Fargo on the third Tuesday in May; for the northeastern division, at Grand Forks, on the second Tuesday in November; for the northwestern division, at Devils Lake on the first Tuesday in July; for the western division, at Minot on the second Tuesday in October; and for the central division, at Jamestown on the second Tuesday in April. The clerk of the court shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each No expense for rent, place at which court is held in his district: Provided, That the Government of the United States shall incur no expense for rent, light, heat, water, or janitor service for the building in which court shall be held until such time as the Government may erect its own Terms at Bismarck court room: Provided further, That until such time as a public until public building building with court room and offices for court officials be erected at the city of Jamestown, all cases now pending in said central division, or hereafter brought there, be tried at Bismarck." Approved, April 10, 1926. etc. for central division erected at Jamestown. April 10, 1926. [H. R. 7616.] [Public, No. 96.] CHAP. 113.-An Act To amend section 89 of chapter 5 of the Judicial Code of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States courts. United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 89 of chapter 5 of the Judicial Code of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: Vol. 36, p. amended. 1115, Judicial "SEC. 89. The State of Minnesota shall constitute one judicial district, to be known as the District of Minnesota. It is divided into six divisions, to be known as the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth divisions. The first division shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July, 1910, in the counties of Winona, Wabasha, Olmsted, Dodge, Steele, Mower, Fillmore, and Houston. The second division shall include the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Freeborn, Faribault, Martin, Jackson, Nobles, Rock, Pipestone, Murray, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Blue Earth, Waseca, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Brown, Redwood, Lyon, Lincoln, Yellow Medicine, Sibley, and Lac qui Parle. The third division shall include the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Chisago, Washington, Ramsey, Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, and Scott. The fourth division shall include the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Hennepin, Wright, Meeker, Kandiyohi, Swift, Chippewa, Renville, McLeod, Carver, Anoka, Sherburne, and Isanti. The fifth division shall include the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Cook, Lake, Saint Louis, Itasca, Koochiching, Cass, Crow Wing, Aitkin, Carlton, Pine, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, and Benton. The sixth division shall include the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Stearns, Pope, Stevens, Big Stone, Traverse, Grant, Douglas, Todd, Otter Tail, Roseau, Wilkin, Clay, Becker, Wadena, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Marshall, Kittson, Beltrami, Clearwater, Mahnomen, and Hubbard. Terms of the district court for the first division shall be held at Winona on the fourth Tuesday in January and the third Tuesday in June; for the second division, at Mankato on the third Tuesday in January, and the second Tuesday in June; for the third division, at Saint Paul on the first Tuesday in April and the first Tuesday in November; for the fourth division, at Minneapolis on the first Tuesday in March and the fourth Tuesday in September; for the fifth division, at Duluth on the first Tuesday in May and the first Tuesday in December; and for the sixth division, at Fergus Falls on the first out got offices. Tuesday in January and the fourth Tuesday in May. The clerk of Deputy clerks and the district court shall appoint a deputy clerk at each place where the court is now required to be held at which the clerk shall not himself reside, who shall keep his office and reside at the place appointed for the holding of said court." Approved, April 10, 1926. CHAP. 114.—An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved March 12, 1914. April 10, 1926. [H. R. 6117.] [Public, No. 97.] Alaskan Railroad. Vol. 38, p. 306, amend Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Alaskan Railroad Act approved March 12, 1914, is hereby amended so as to on, extended. permit the issuance of passes to ministers of religion, traveling secre- ed. taries of Railroad Young Men's Christian Associations, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work when engaged in their work in Alaska; to indigent, destitute, and homeless persons, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to newsboys on trains, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons; the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, and their families; and the carrying of passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation. Approved, April 10, 1926. CHAP. 115.-An Act To amend section 9 of the Act of May 27, 1908 (Thirtyfifth Statutes at Large, page 312), and for putting in force, in reference to suits involving Indian titles, the statutes of limitations of the State of Oklahoma, and providing for the United States to join in certain actions, and for making judgments binding on all parties, and for other purposes. April 10, 1926. [H. R. 4761.] [Public No. 98.] Tribes. ed. Vol. 35, p. 315, amend tions removed by Conveyances by full Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9 of Five Civilized the Act of May 27, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 312), entitled "An Act for the removal of restrictions on part of the lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 9. The death of any allottee of the Five Civilized Tribes Alienation restricshall operate to remove all restrictions upon the alienation of said death of allottee. allottee's land: Provided, That hereafter no conveyance by any full- Provisos. blood Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes of any interest in lands blood Indians of interrestricted by section 1 of this Act acquired by inheritance or devise its acquired from alfrom an allottee of such lands shall be valid unless approved by the Vol. 35, p. 312. county court having jurisdiction of the settlement of the estate of the deceased allottee or testator: Provided further, That if any stead of allottees of member of the Five Civilized Tribes of one-half or more Indian half blood or more. blood shall die leaving issue surviving, born since March 4, 1906, the homestead of such deceased allottee shall remain inalienable, unless restrictions against alienation are removed therefrom by the Secretary of the Interior for the use and support of such issue, lottees. Distribution of home during their life or lives, until April 26, 1931; but if no such issue In case of no issue. survive, then such allottee, if an adult, may dispose of his homestead by will free from restrictions; if this be not done, or in the event the issue hereinabove provided for die before April 26, 1931, "Issue" construed. wills. Orders in county court. open the land shall then descend to the heirs, according to the laws of descent and distribution of the State of Oklahoma, free from all restrictions: Provided, That the word "issue" as used in this section Acknowledgment of shall be construed to mean child or children: Provided further, That the provisions of section 23 of the Act of April 26, 1906, as amended by this Act, are hereby made applicable to all wills executed under this section: And provided further, That all orders of the county court approving such conveyances of such land shall be in open court and shall be conclusive as to the jurisdiction of such court to approve ances by full-blood in such deed: Provided, That all conveyances by full-blood Indian heirs heretofore approved by the county courts shall be deemed and held to conclusively establish the jurisdiction of such courts to approve the same except where more than one such conveyance of the same interest in the same land has been made by the same Indian to different grantees and approved by county courts of different counties prior to the passage of this Act, and except that this proviso shall not affect and may not be pleaded in any suit brought before the approval of this Act." dians. In Oklahoma statutes of limitations applicable dians, etc. Effect of. SEC. 2. The statutes of limitations of the State of Oklahoma are against restricted In- hereby made and declared to be applicable to and shall have full force and effect against all restricted Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes, and against the heirs or grantees of any such Indians, and against all rights and causes of action heretofore accrued or hereafter accruing to any such Indians or their heirs or grantees, to the same extent and effect and in the same manner as in the case of any other citizen of the State of Oklahoma, and may be pleaded in bar of any action brought by or on behalf of any such Indian, his or her heirs or grantees, either in his own behalf or by the Government of the United States, or by any other party for his or her benefit, to the same extent as though such action were brought by or on behalf of Extension to actions any other citizen of said State: Provided, That no cause of action which heretofore shall have accrued to any such Indian shall be barred prior to the expiration of a period of two years from and after the approval of this Act, even though the full statutory period of limitation shall already have run or shall expire during said two years' period, and any such restricted Indian, if competent to sue, or his guardian, or the United States in his behalf, may sue upon any such cause of action during such two years' period free from any bar of the statutes of limitations. Provizo. heretofore accrued. Notice to be served on Superintendent of suits in Federal or SEC. 3. Any one or more of the parties to a suit in the United Five Civilized Tribes of States courts in the State of Oklahoma or in the State courts of State courts affecting Oklahoma to which a restricted member of the Five Civilized restricted allotments, Tribes in Oklahoma, or the restricted heirs or grantees of such etc. Appearance United States. of Indian are parties, as plaintiff, defendant, or intervenor, and claiming or entitled to claim title to or an interest in lands allotted to a citizen of the Five Civilized Tribes or the proceeds, issues, rents, and profits derived from the same, may serve written notice of the pendency of such suit upon the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes, and the United States may appear in said cause within twenty days thereafter, or within such extended time as the trial court in its discretion may permit, and after such appearance or the expiration of said twenty days or any extension thereof the proceedings and judgment in said cause shall bind the United States and the parties thereto to the same extent as though no Indian land or question were involved. Duplicate original of the notice shall Filing of notice, etc. be filed with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending and the notice shall be served on the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes or, in case of his absence from his principal office, upon one of his assistants, and shall be served within ten days after the general appearance in the case of the party who causes the |