§ 153. — Existing laws unaffected by admission of Oklahoma; rights and jurisdiction of United States; indemnity school lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC153]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XVI--CESSION OF INDIAN LANDS AT SULPHUR, OKLAHOMA
Sec. 153. Existing laws unaffected by admission of Oklahoma;
rights and jurisdiction of United States; indemnity school lands
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.
(June 16, 1906, ch. 3335, Sec. 7, 34 Stat. 272; June 29, 1906, No. 42,
34 Stat. 837; Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.)
Codification
Section is from a proviso annexed to section 7 of act June 16, 1906.
Change of Name
Platt National Park designation repealed and areas formerly known as
Platt National Park made an integral part of Chickasaw National
Recreation Area by Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5. See section 460hh-4 of this
title.
Repeals
Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat.
837, cited as a credit to this section, under which the name of the
reservation at the village of Sulphur established by section 151 of this
title, known as Sulphur Springs Reservation, had been renamed Platt
National Park in honor of Orville Hitchcock Platt, former senator from
Connecticut ``and for many years a member of the Committee on Indian
Affairs, in recognition of his distinguished services to the Indians and
to the country.''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 460hh-5 of this title.
