16 U.S.C. § 153 — Existing laws unaffected by admission of Oklahoma; rights and jurisdiction of United States; indemnity school lands

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This law makes clear that Oklahoma's 1906 statehood act did not change federal control over the Sulphur Springs Reservation or other federal parks and preserves in the state. The United States keeps exclusive legislative power and jurisdiction over that reservation and any future national parks or game preserves there. Oklahoma courts can still serve civil and criminal papers inside these areas, but the state cannot claim substitute school land for sections that fall inside them.

Nothing in the June 16, 1906 Act that let Oklahoma and the Indian Territory become a state cancels or changes any earlier federal law about the Sulphur Springs Reservation, as that reservation was defined on June 16, 1906, or as it might later be redefined or expanded. It also does not change the federal government's power over the reservation, or over any other land that Congress later sets aside in Oklahoma as a national park, game preserve, or place to protect archaeological or historical objects. Nothing in the 1906 statehood act interferes with the federal government's rights or ownership in any land Congress later designates as a national park, game preserve, or other reservation, or in the Sulphur Springs Reservation as it existed on June 16, 1906, or as later redefined or expanded. Instead, the United States keeps exclusive lawmaking power and exclusive control and jurisdiction over all of this land, in every respect. Even so, this does not stop Oklahoma from lawfully serving civil and criminal legal papers inside the Sulphur Springs Reservation or any of these national parks, game preserves, or other reservations established later. And Oklahoma cannot select substitute ("indemnity") school land for the state's traditional thirteenth, sixteenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth sections if those sections fall within the boundaries of the national park, game preserve, other reservation, or the Sulphur Springs Reservation, as defined on June 16, 1906, or later.

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Nothing in the Act of June 16, 1906, chapter 3335, Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 267, entitled, “An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States * * *”, shall repeal or affect any Act of Congress relating to the Sulphur Springs Reservation as defined on June 16, 1906, or as may be thereafter defined or extended, or the power of the United States over it or any other lands embraced in the State hereafter set aside by Congress as a national park, game preserve, or for the preservation of objects of archaeological or ethnological interest; and nothing contained in said Act shall interfere with the rights and ownership of the United States in any land hereafter set aside by Congress as national park, game preserve, or other reservation, or in the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as it was on June 16, 1906, or may be defined or extended by law; but exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, shall be exercised by the United States, which shall have exclusive control and jurisdiction over the same; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prevent the service within said Sulphur Springs Reservation or national parks, game preserves, and other reservations hereafter established by law, of civil and criminal processes lawfully issued by the authority of said State, and said State shall not be entitled to select indemnity school lands for the thirteenth, sixteenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth sections that may be embraced within the metes and bounds of the national park, game preserve, and other reservation or the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as defined on June 16, 1906, or may be thereafter defined.

Source credit: (June 16, 1906, ch. 3335, § 7, 34 Stat. 272; June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837; Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.)

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1906Enacted · Act of June 16, 1906, ch. 3335 · 34 Stat. 272
1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-235 · 90 Stat. 236

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