common school district in this state where a state school is located, to aid in the support and maintenance of said state school, provided such independent or common school district does not maintain a fully accredited high school course. When the pupils of any such independent or common school district, shall attend as pupils in any such state school, such independent or common school district shall pay into the State Treasury an amount equal to the per capita cost of educating pupils in said state school; and the State Board of Education shall determine the per capita cost of maintaining the said state school and file such schedule, showing the said per capita cost, with the clerk of any such independent or common school district. Such independent or common school district shall, before June 30th of each year, pay into the State Treasury an amount to be deter. mined by multiplying the number of pupils attending such state school from such district, by the per capita cost of maintaining the state school for the preceding fiscal year. Approved March 5, 1915. CHAPTER 85. APPROPRIATION-HASKELL SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. AN ACT making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Haskell State School of Agriculture, located at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Appropriation. Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-eight thousand and five hundred ($28,500.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the support and maintenance of the Haskell State School of Agriculture, at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1916, and June 30, 1917, said sum herein appropriated being apportioned as follows, to-wit: For support and maintenance, including improvements and repairs, 1916, $14,250. For support and maintenance, including improvements and repairs, 1917, $14,250. AN ACT making an appropriation for salaries and maintenance of the several State institutions and departments for the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Appropriation. Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to cover deficiencies and for the payment of salaries and maintenance of the several state institutions and departments mentioned herein, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the State Auditor may issue warrants upon the State Treasurer for such proportion thereof as may be found to be due upon the auditing of the respective claims in favor of the persons to whom such claims are allowed, as provided by law. NORTHWESTERN STATE NORMAL, AT ALVA. 1915. For support and maintenance.. for support and maintenance, summer school. CENTRAL STATE NORMAL, AT EDMOND. For support and maintenance For support and maintenance, summer school.. 3,000.00 8,000.00 For support and maintenance and repair of buildings, roof and heating plant and toilet system. 7,000.00 For support and maintenance, summer school.. 2,000.00 SOUTHEASTERN STATE NORMAL AT DURANT. For support and maintenance, summer school.. 2,000.00 CAMERON STATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AT LAWTON. For repairing walls on main building... 500.00 OKLAHOMA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, AT SUPPLY. For support and maintenance.. 13,000.00 INSTITUTION FOR FEEBLE MINDED AT ENID. For support and maintenance... 9,000.00 OKLAHOMA STATE REFORMATORY AT GRANITE. For support and maintenance for balance of fiscal year ending June 30, 1915 48,481.00 For betterments and improvements 12,000.00 To Waddell Investment Company, for assignment of mortgages held against reformatory lands. STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AT SULPHUR, 1915. For support and maintenance for the balance of fiscal year ending June 30, 1915 9,000.00 PANHANDLE STATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AT GOODWELL. For support and maintenance, summer school for teachers._____ 1,000.00 STATE ELECTION BOARD. Per diem and expenses of members of board................ 360.00 WAYWARD AND INCORRIGIBLE GIRLS, 1915. For support and maintenance as per contract.. Books and information Bulletins Total Emergency. 180.00 1,100.00 $ 3,115.00 Section 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reasons whereof this Act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 6, 1915. CHAPTER 87. COURTS SUPREME COURT COMMISSION. AN ACT authorizing the Governor to appoint, with the approval of the Supreme Court, nine Supreme Court Commissioners to assist the Supreme Court; to designate not more than nine district judges to act as Supreme Court Commissioners; fixing the term of office and compensation; prescribing the duties of and providing office rooms and clerical assistance for such Commisioners; providing for a docket fee in all cases filed in the Supreme Court; and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Supreme Court Commission-Appointment and Salary. Section 1. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the consent and approval of the Supreme Court, entered of record upon its journals, nine persons possessing the qualifications of judges of the Supreme Court, as Supreme Court Commissioners, to assist the Supreme Court in disposing of the causes accumulated and being filed in said court, "one of said commissioners to be selected from each Supreme Court Judicial District and four to be selected from the state at large." Said commissioners shall be divided into groups of three each, and shall be designated as Divisions one, two and three. The court shall designate the division to which each commissioner shall be assigned, and may change such assignments whenever the public interest may be better served thereby. Each commissioner shall hold his office until the last day of January, 1917, and shall be paid as compensation the sum of $3,000.00 dollars per annum, payable monthly. Each commissioner shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties take and subscribe the oath required of the judges of the Supreme Court and file the same in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court; vacancies occurring in the office of Supreme Court commissioners shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. District Judges to Act-Additional Per Diem. Section 2. The Governor is further authorized, at any time when in his judgment the public interest will warrant it, the Supreme Court concurring therein, to designate not more than nine district judges to act as Supreme Court Commissioners for a period of not less than four months at a time. Such district judges, when so assigned, shall be by the Supreme Court assigned to duty as such commissioners, and said district judges acting as Supreme Court Commissioners, shall be divided into groups of three each by the Supreme Court, and each group shall constitute a separate division. No cause shall be referred to any division which originated in or was tried in the district of either of said judges, constituting any such division. Such judges when so assigned, shall possess and exercise the same powers and duties and be governed by the same rules and regulations as other commissioners authorized by this Act, and shall be paid in addition to their salaries as district judges, the sum of two dollars per day while acting as commissioners, which shall be in lieu of expenses now authorized by law while serving outside of their district. Powers and Duties. Section 3. It shall be the duty of such Supreme Court Commissioners, under the orders and direction of, and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed |