Stanley, Knowlen, and that portion of the counties of Pratt, Jackson, and Sterling not included in any Indian Reservation, and the Standing Rock, Cheyenne, and Lower Brule Indian Reservations, shall constitute the central division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Pierre. (26 U. S. Stats. 14.)

WESTERN DIVISION.-All that portion of the State of South Dakota lying west of the central division, and in addition thereto the Rosebud and Red Cloud Indian Reservations, shall constitute the western division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Deadwood. (26 U. S. Stats. 14.)

TENNESSEE.-The State of Tennessee is divided into three districts, which shall be called the eastern, western and middle districts of Tennessee.The eastern district includes the counties of Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Cumberland, Grainger Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sevier Sullivan, Union, Washington and Grundy,' as they existed February 10, 1856. The western district includes the counties of Benton, Carroll, Henry, Obion, Dyer, Gibson, Lauderdale, Haywood, Tipton, Shelby, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy, Hardin, Madison, Henderson, and Weakley, as they existed June 18, 1838. The middle district includes the residue of said State. (Rev. Stats.,

sec. 547.)

1 Grundy was transferred from the middle to the eastern district by 21 U. S. Stats 175.

2 Perry county was transferred from the western to the middle district by 18 U. S. Stats. 4c0,

EASTERN DISTRICT, DIVISION OF. The eastern district shall be and is hereby divided into two divisions, to be known as the northern and southern divisions of the eastern district of Tennessee. The southern division shall consist of the following counties, to wit: Hamilton, James, Polk, McMinn, Bradley, Meigs, Rhea, Marion, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Grundy, Fentress and Cumberland; and the northern division shall consist of the remaining counties in said district. But no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district. (21 U. S. Stats. 175.)

1 The county of Fentress was detached from the middle district, and added to the southern division of the eastern district by 23 U. S. Stats. 280.

WESTERN DISTRICT, DIVISION OF. The western district of Tennessee is hereby divided into two divisions, which shall be known as the eastern and western divisions thereof. The eastern division shall include the counties of Benton, Hardeman,' Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Henry, Madison, McNairy, Harden, Dyer, Lake, Crockett, Weakley and Obion. (20 U. S. Stats. 206.)

1 Hardeman county was attached to the eastern division of the western district by act of January 15, 1883. (22 U. S. Stats. 402.)

WESTERN DIVISION. The remaining counties embraced in said district shall constitute the western division thereof; and terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States for said district shall be held therein at the times and place now prescribed by law. (20 U. S. Stats. 235.)

TEXAS, NORTHERN DISTRICT.-A judicial district is hereby created in the State of Texas, to be called the northern judicial district of said State, and the

territory embraced in the following named counties as now constituted shall compose said district, namely: Brazos, Robertson, Leon, Limestone, Freestone, Navarro, Ellis, Kaufmann, Dallas, Rock wall, Hunt, Fannin, Lamar, Delta, Collin, Grayson,1 Cooke, Denton, Tarrant, Johnson, Hill, McLennan, Falls, Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Bosque, Comanche, Erath, Somerville, Hood, Parker, Palo Pinto, Jack, Wise, Montague, Clay, Archer, Wichita, Wilbarger, Hardeman, Knox, Baylor, Haskell, Throckmorton, Young, Stevens, Shackelford, Jones, Taylor, Callahan, Eastland, Brown, Coleman, Runnels, Greer, Nolan, Fisher, Stonewall, King, Cottle, Childress, Collingsworth, Wheeler, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Gray, Donley, Hall, Motley, Dickens, Kent, Scurry, Mitchell, Howard, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Martin, Andrews, Garza, Crosby, Floyd, Briscoe, Armstrong, Carson, Hutchinson, Hansford, Sherman, Moore, Potter, Randall, Swisher, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, Hockley, Lamb, Castro, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Hartley, Dallam, Palmer, Bayley, Cochran, and Yoakum. (20 U. S. Stats. 318; Rev. Stats. sec. 548.)

1 The county of Grayson was detached from the northern and attached to the eastern judicial district. (26 U. S. Stats. 687.)

EASTERN DISTRICT.— -From and after the passage of this act, the territory embraced in the following named counties as now constituted shall compose the eastern judicial district, namely: Jackson,1 Matagorda, Wharton, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Colorado, Austin, Waller, Harris, Galveston, Chambers, Jefferson, O ange, Hardin, Liberty, Newton, Jasper, Tyler, Polk, San Jacinto, Montgomery, Walker, Grimes, Madison, Trinity, Angelina, San Augus

tine, Sabino, Shelby, Nacogodoches, Cherokee, Houston, Anderson, Henderson, Smith, Rusk, Panola, Harrison, Gregg, Upshur, Wood, Vanzandt, Rains, Hopkins, Camp, Titus, Marion, Cass, Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River and Grayson.2 (20 U. S. Stats. 318.

1 Jackson was transferred from the western to the eastern district by 21 U. S. Stats. 10.

2 Grayson was transferred from the northern judicial district by 26 U. S. Stats. 687.

Since March, 1889, the court of the eastern district of Texas has had jurisdiction over 'No Man's Land." (Re Jackson (C. C. D. Kan.) 40 Fed. Rep. 372. See 26 U. S. Stats. 97, sec. 34.)

TEXAS-INDIAN TERRITORY ANNEXED FOR JUDICIAL PURPOSES.-All that portion of the Indian Territory not annexed to the district of Kansas by this act, and not set apart and occupied by the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Indian tribes, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and constitute a part of the United States judical district known as the northern district of Texas; and the United States district court at Graham, in said northern district of Texas, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all offenses committed within the limits of the territory hereby annexed to said northern district of Texas against any of the laws of the United States now or that may hereafter be operative therein. (22 U. S. Stats. 400.) TREATY RIGHTS RESERVED. That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect in any manner any action or proceeding now pending in the circuit or district court for the western district of Arkansas, nor the execution of

any process relating thereto; nor shall anything in this act be construed to give to said district courts of Kansas and Texas, respectively, any greater jurisdiction in that part of said Indian Territory so as aforesaid annexed, respectively, to said district of Kansas and said northern district of Texas, than might heretofore have been lawfully exercised therein by the western district of Arkansas; nor shall anything in this act contained be construed to violate or impair in any respect any treaty provision whatever. (22 U. S. Stats. 400. country, see ante, sec. 533c and note.)

Indian

Crimes committed in "Indian country."-Until the act of June 17, 1814 (4 U. S. Stats. 733), United States courts had no jurisdiction to punish offenses committed in the Indian country west of Arkansas. (U. S. v. Starr, Hemp. 469; U. S. v. Joy, Hemp. 582.) Special legislation was necessary to invest jurisdiction. (U. S. v. Alberty, Hemp. 449; U. S. v. Ta-wan-ga-ca, Hemp. 304.) The jurisdiction of the United States district court for the western district of Arkansas over offeuses is not affected by the Act of March 1, 1889, creating a United States court in the Indian Territory. (Re Mills, 135 U. S. 263.) The exclusive jurisdiction given to the latter court does not include penitentiary offenses, or offenses punishable by imprisonment longer than one year in the penitentiary. (Id.) The "Cherokee Outlet" is within that portion of the Indi in Territory placed within the jurisdiction of the United States District Court of Kansas by the act of 1853 (22 Stats. U. S. 400), and jurisdiction of a murder committed there is in that court, and not in the district court for the western district of Arkansas. (United States v. Soule, 30 Fed. Rep. 918. See United States v. Rogers, Dist. Ct. Ark. 23 Fed. Rep. 658.) By the act of 1889, the court established for the Indian Territory was given exclusive original jurisdiction over all offenses against the laws of the United States committed within the Indian Territory as defined by that act, not punishable by deatn