MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.
The objection of want of jurisdiction over this appeal meets us on the threshold.
By the act of March 1, 1889, entitled "An act to establish a United States Court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," 25 Stat. 783, c. 333, a court was established with a single judge, whose jurisdiction extended over the Indian Territory, and it was provided that two terms of said court should be held...
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