[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR90.48]

[Page 288-289]
 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 90--ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE OSAGE TRIBE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 90.48  Notice of contest.

    It shall be the duty of the supervisor, to serve upon the contestee, 
or contestees, directly affected by such challenge or contest, a true 
copy of said written application, the original of

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which is required to be filed with the supervisor. Said service shall be 
made in person, where possible, within twenty-four hours after the 
filing of said original challenge or contest, and where personal service 
is impossible within such time, on account of the absence of contestee, 
or contestees, from Osage County, or for any other reason, it is hereby 
made the duty of the supervisor to serve a true copy upon the 
Superintendent of the Osage Indian Agency: Provided, That for the 
purpose of such constructive service, the Superintendent is hereby made 
and constituted the service agent of each and every candidate in all 
tribal elections, and by filing petition as a candidate, such candidate 
shall thereby be presumed conclusively to have accepted the terms and 
provisions hereof and specifically the constructive service as 
aforesaid.