2.11.020 Arrangement of Docket

A judge or the Clerk of Court shall keep an alphabetical cross-index file to his docket in which must be entered alphabetically the names of the parties to each judgment or decision, with reference to the page of entry. The names of the plaintiffs and the defendants must be entered in the alphabetical order of the first letter of the family name. He shall number the cases progressively upon his docket and shall correspondingly number the papers in each case, and he shall keep the entire papers of each action together, and in packages of a convenient size, and in the order in which the cases are numbered on his docket.

It is the duty of every judge, upon expiration of his term of office, to deposit with his successor his docket, as well as those of his predecessors, together with all files and papers, there to be kept as public records and property. If no successor is appointed he shall turn the records over to the Clerk of the Tribal Court on the reservation to be kept for the successor when he is appointed. A receipt shall be given by the Clerk receiving the docket and records.