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Impeachment Defined.

Section 5. An impeachment is the prosecution, by the House of Representatives, before the Senate, of the Governor or other elective State officer, under the Constitution, for wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, drunkenness, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude committed while in office.

Articles of Impeachment.

Section 6. The articles of impeachment are the written accusation of the officer, drawn up and approved by the House of Representatives.

Designation of Offense and of Culprit.

Section 7. The articles of impeachment shall state with reasonable certainty, the offense in office for which the officer is impeached, and if there be more than one, they shall be stated separately and distinctly.

Prosecution of Impeachment-Board of Managers.

Section 8. When the articles of impeachment have been approved by the House of Representatives, and an impeachment ordered, a board of inanagers shall be appointed by the House of Representatives, of its own members, to prosecute it, whose chairman, within five days, shall lay the same before the Senate.

Court of Impeachment-Organization.

Section 9. When articles of impeachment shall be presented to the Senate, the Senate shall within ten days thereafter organize as a court of impeachment, and may for the purpose of conducting the business of such court, appoint a clerk, who may be the secretary of the Senate. The clerk shall issue all process and keep a record of the proceedings of such court. The said court shall also appoint a marshal and an assistant marshal who shall be its executive officers. It may employ such stenographic, clerical and other help as may be required.

Hearing and Summons.

Section 10. The Senate, when sitting as a court of impeachment, shall appoint a day for hearing the impeachment, and the accused shall be required by a summons by the clerk to appear on that day. The summons shall be served by delivering a copy of the same and of the articles of impeachment to the accused, in person if to be found, or by leaving the copies at his residence with some member of his family over sixteen years of age.

Witnesses-Evidence-Process.

Section 11. The clerk of such court, at the request of the chairman of the Board of Managers, or of the accused, shall issue subpoena for witnesses, and for the production of books or papers, and in case of disobedience of any such process, the court may order its clerk to issue process for the arrest of such witness or for the seizure of books or papers. All process shall be served or executed by the marshal or his assistant, or by any sheriff or deputy in the several counties of the State.

Orders and Judgments-Power to Enforce.

Section 12. The Senate sitting as a court.of impeachment shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, to enforce obedience to its orders, mandates, writs, precepts and judgments to preserve order, and to punish in a summary way contempts of and disobedience to its authority, orders, mandates, writs, process, precepts and judgments, and to make all orders, rules and regulations which it may deem essential or necessary for the orderly transaction of its business.

Fees for Witnesses and Executions of Processes.

Section 13. Witnesses shall have the same compensation for travel and attendance, and the same exemptions in going, remaining and returning, as witnesses in the district court; and officers executing the process and orders of the Senate when sitting as a court of impeachment shall

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Oath.

Section 14. Before the Senate shall proceed to consider the articles of impeachment, it shall organize itself into a court of impeachment, as provided herein, and every Senator present shall take the following oath or affirmation:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and impartially try the impeachment against A. B., and do justice according to the law and the evidence."

Voting on Judgment-Absence During Trial.

Section 15. The Senate when sitting as a court of impeachment shall determine what amount of absence of a Senator during the trial shall exclude the Senator from voting in the final decision.

Costs-How Paid-Cost of Accused if Acquitted.

Section 16. If the accused is acquitted, he shall be entitled to his costs, to be taxed by the clerk and paid by the House of Representatives out of any funds available for paying the per diem and expenses of the members of the Legislature, and if convicted, he shall pay the costs, unless the Senate as a court of impeachment otherwise directs. Recess-Trial After Adjournment.

Section 17. The Senate when organized and sitting as a court of impeachment, shall have power to recess from time to time, and hold sessions after the adjournment of the Legislature.

Trial After Adjournmnet-Per Diem of Senators-How Paid.

Section 18. In case the court of impeachment shall sit and hold its sessions after the Legislature has adjourned, the Senators composing such court and the managers representing the House of Representatives shall be paid the same per diem and mileage as is prescribed for members of the Legislature when convened in regular session. The clerk, marshal, stenographers, and other employees

shall receive the same compensation as is prescribed for like officers and employees in the Senate. The members, officers and employees of the court shall be paid upon certificates signed by the presiding Justice of the Court, attested by its clerk.

Managers of Trial-Powers of After-Adjournment Trial.

Section 19. If the Senate shall sit as a court of impeachment after the adjournment of the House of Representatives, the managers appointed by the House to present and prosecute any impeachment proceedings shall have full power and authority after such adjournment to carry on and conduct such prosecution, and may appoint such stenographic or clerical assistants as may be required. Expenses-How Paid.

Section 20. All expenses of any impeachment proceedings, after the Legislature shall have adjourned, shall be paid out of any legislative appropriation made for the payment of the per diem and expenses of any such Legislature, and shall be approved by the presiding Justice of the court and attested by its clerk; provided, that before any such claim shall be allowed against any said appropriation, the person making the claim must first make and submit an affidavit that such services have been actually rendered, or such expenses incurred, under the provisions of this act. Procedure-Vote-Records.

Section 21. The Senate, when sitting as a court of impeachment, shall have power to prescribe and adopt such rules of procedure as it may deem expedient for the orderly trial of the impeachment cases. When an accused person has been placed upon trial and the case is ready to be submitted to the Senators, sitting as members of a court of impeachment, for their decision, the roll of the members shall be called in open session upon each separate charge or count, contained in the articles of impeachment. Each Senator, when his name is called shall, if in his judgment the particular charge submitted has been proven, vote "yea"

otherwise he shall vote "nay" which yea and nay vote shall be recorded in the journal of the court. If two-thirds of the Senators present shall vote yea upon any charge or count contained in the article of impeachment, the accused shall be adjudged guilty, and the judgment of the court shall be that he be removed from office. The proceedings of the court of impeachment shall be recorded by the clerk in a record kept for such purpose, when any case is finally concluded the record shall be signed by the presiding Justice or presiding officer, attested by the clerk and by him filed in the office of the Secretary of State as a permanent record.

Emergency.

Section 22. 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 March 12, 1915.

CHAPTER 132.

APPROPRIATION-STATE UNIVERSITY-SCIENCE BUILDING.

AN ACT making an appropriation for the construction and equipment of a science building at the University of Oklahoma.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Appropriation-Science Building.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of

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