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Show COMMISSIONER INDIAN AFFAIRS. 55 Rum 16. No will or other instrument purporting to be a will covering the lands of a restricted Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes, whether such land be his indt-vidual allotment or inherited land, when submitted by the allottee or other person to the proper probate court. as required under existing I;Iw, shall receive the acknowledgment of nor be admitted to probate by such probate court until after notice shall hare been given to the local probate or tribal attorneys for the tribes or for the Department of the Interior, or a representative thereof. These rules shall also apply to executorships and administrations in so far 88 they are applicable, especially inasmuch as sales of property and accountings are concerned. RULE 18. All advertisements not required by law may be waived with the consent of the county court upon the approval of the probate attorney or tribal attorney. I t is ordered and directed br the suvreme court that the j~udge. o f anr court wherein said rules may be applicable shall, immediately after conference with the probate attorney assigned to his county or district by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, fl11 in all blank spaces in said rules left recant by the justices of the supreme court to snit the couveuiencea of said judges and facilitate the efficient and orderly transaction of business in their respective courts. A11d it is further ordered and directed that the rules so rvromulgated and adopted shall apply to the supreme court, district courts, superior courts. county courts, and all other courts of record throughout the State in which they may be applicable, and that they shall be of fill1 force on and after the 15th day of July, 1914. CEBTIPICATE. STATEO F OKLAHOMAC,a cnty of Oklahoma, as: I, W. H. L. Campbell, clerk of the Supreme Court for and in the State of Oklnboma. do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true. correct, and com-plete copy of certain rules ~rumlllgated and adopted by the justlces of said supreme court for the proper and expeditious conduct of the business of snid court and other courts of record of said State as the same appear of record in my bmce. In testimony where of I hereunto set my hand and affix the beal of said court this 24th day of June, 1914. [SEAL.] W. H. L. CAMDELL, Clerlc of the Buprme Court of the Btata of Oklahoma. NEW YORK INDIANS. The Indian situation in New York is one of the most peculiar problems with which this office has to deal. Shortly after assuming duties as Commissioner of Indian Affairs instmctions were given that a thorough and exhaustive study of the entire situation be made, with a view ultimately of working out some feasible solution of the present anomalous condition. In the seventeenth century jurisdiction over certain territory now in the western part of the State of New York was claimed both by the Plymouth Colony and the Duke of York under conflicting grants |
