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[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 6, 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.
