---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 153"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "153"
heading: "Existing laws unaffected by admission of Oklahoma; rights and jurisdiction of United States; indemnity school lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/153"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Cession of Indian Lands at Sulphur, Oklahoma"
---

# §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](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) * * *”, 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](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) hereafter set aside by Congress as a national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2), 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](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2), 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](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), game [preserves](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2), and other reservations hereafter established by law, of civil and criminal processes lawfully issued by the authority of said [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), and said [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) 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](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2), 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.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from a proviso annexed to section 7 of act June 16, 1906.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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, § 5. See section 460hh–4 of this title.

### Repeals

Pub. L. 94–235, § 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.”