Emergency. Section 2. For the preservation of the public peace and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved January 15, 1915. CHAPTER 2. APPROPRIATION-EMPLOYES OF LEGISLATURE. AN ACT making an appropriation for the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of the House of Representatives of the Fifth Legislature, and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: Salaries of Legislative Employes. Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the State of Oklahoma, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the salaries of the officers and employees of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Fifth Legislature, the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces sary. Emergency. Section 2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist by reason whereof it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health and safety that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved January 15, 1915. CHAPTER 3. APPROPRIATION-SOUTHEASTERN STATE NORMAL. AN ACT making an appropriation to recover and repair the Southeastern State Normal building, located at Durant, Oklahoma, and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: Appropriation-Repairs. Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to recover, repair, and to equip with extra radiation the Southeastern State Normal building located at Durant, Oklahoma. Emergency. Section 2. For the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved January 28, 1915. CHAPTER 4. WARRANTS-RECORDS OF PAYMENT-CANCELLATION— STATE TREASURER. AN ACT amending section 8139 (chapter 75, article X), of the Revised Laws of Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That section 8139 (chapter 75, Article X) of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma 1910, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 8139. Redemption of Warrants. He shall receive in payment of public dues, the warrants drawn by the State Auditor in conformity with the law; or redeem the same, if there be money in the Treasury appropriated for that purpose, and on redeeming such warrant, or receiving the same in payment, he shall cause the person presenting such warrant to endorse the same and the Treasurer shall perforate the date and the word 'Canceled' with perforator, and shall enter in his book, in separate columns the number of such warrant, its date, amount and the name of the person to whom payable, the date of the payment and the amount of interest if any, paid thereon." Emergency. Section 2. For the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved January 28, 1915. CHAPTER 5. COTTON GINS-PLACING HARD ARTICLE IN UNTHRESHED CROPS. AN ACT making it a felony and prescribing the punishment therefor, for any person to place any hard or solid articles in any unthreshed or unground grain or seed, or any matches or inflamable substances in any unginned cotton with the intent to injure such grain, seed or cotton, or any machinery which may be used in threshing, grinding or ginning the same. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: Matches in Cotton-Stone in Grain-Felony. Section 1. Any person who shall designedly place any hard or solid substance or article in any stack, shock, sheaf or load of unthreshed grain, or in any bin, bag, sack or load of unthreshed grain, or seed, or shall designedly place any matches or other inflamable, combustible or explosive substance in any unginned cotton with the intent to injure or destroy any such grain, seed, or cotton, or any machinery which may be used for threshing or grinding such grain or seed or ginning such cotton, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of not less than one (1) nor more than five (5) years. Approved January 30, 1915. CHAPTER 6. COUNTY OFFICERS CONSOLIDATION. AN ACT amending sections 1, 5, 8, 9, and 11, of chapter 161, Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, entitled: "An act consolidating the offices of clerk of the district court, county court clerk, superior court clerk, providing for assistant or deputy clerks for said office, and fixing the salaries to be paid for same; consolidating the offices of register of deeds and the county clerk, providing for the deputies of said office," etc., fixing the salary of court clerk and county clerk in counties having a population or more than 60,000 and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That section 1 of chapter 161, Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 1. The office of clerk of the district court, clerk of the county court in all counties and clerk of the superior court in a county in which a superior court is located, are hereby consolidated, and the successor to the clerks of the different courts herein referred to shall be designated and known as the 'court clerk' and shall perform all duties now provided by law to be performed by the district clerk, clerk of the county court, and clerk of the superior court." Register of Deeds Consolidated With County Clerk. Section 2. That section 5 of chapter 161, Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 5. The office of the register of deeds is hereby consolidated with the office of county clerk in all counties in this State, and said office so consolidated shall be hereafter known as the office of the county clerk, and in addition to the duties now imposed by law upon the county clerk he shall perform the same duties that are now performed by the register of deeds." County Clerk Counties of 60,000-Deputies Provisions. Section 3. That section 8 of chapter 161, Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 8. In counties having a population of more than 60,000 as now or hereafter shown by the last Federal census, the county clerk shall, with the advice and consent of the county commissioners, be allowed not to exceed five deputies. The first two deputies shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month each, and all other deputies shall receive salaries to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month each. The salary of all deputies shall be paid monthly out of the county treasury as is provided, however, that in all counties wherein it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the board of county commissioners upon the application of the county clerk that an emergency has arisen and that additional deputy or deputies are needed, the county clerk may appoint not to exceed three in number by and with the consent and approval of the board of county commissioners. Provided, further, that the salary of said additional deputy or deputies shall not exceed the sum of fifty ($50.00) dollars per month each." |