CHAPTER 114. SCHOOL AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS-AGRICULTURAL AND HIGH SCHOOLS-TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. AN ACT providing for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue teachers' certificates to graduates of agricultural schools and high schools under certain conditions. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may issue teachers' certificates, valid for two years, to all students who graduate from the district agricultural schools or from fully accredited high schools when such schools have satisfied the said State Superintendent that the course of study completed by the students desiring such certificates is equivalent to a four years' high school fully accredited with the State University and that the said schools have sufficient equipment for teaching agriculture, domestic science and manual training and that the students have completed such a course in psychology and the science of teaching as the said State Superintendent may prescribe. Certificates so issued shall license the holder to teach in any of the common schools in Oklahoma for a period of two years. Approved March 11, 1915. CHAPTER 115. APPROPRIATION-BAR COMMISSION FUND EXPENSES OF COMMISSION. AN ACT making an appropriation from the bar commission fund for the payment of the compensation and expenses of members of the Bar Commission for the period beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Appropriation-Expenses Bar Commission. Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the state bar commission fund, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the per diem, expense and maintenance of the Bar Commission for the fiscal years ending July 1, 1916, and July 1, 1917, itemized as follows, to-wit: Per diem and expenses of members and maintenance of Commission for the year 1916 Per diem and expenses of members and maintenance of Commission for the Warrants-How Issued. -$2,000.00 -$2,000.00 Section 2. Payment from the funds appropriated by this act shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Auditor, made by him upon vouchers approved by the chief justice of the supreme court. Approved March 11, 1915. CHAPTER 116. BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATIONS-ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPER TY. AN ACT to authorize Benevolent corporations to take lands by gift or devise for benevolent purposes and to carry out the object and purposes of their organization and maintenance. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That any benevolent corporation, including chartered fraternal, grand and subordinate lodges and societies, are hereby empowered to receive, either by way of gift, purchase, grant, devise or by will, real or personal property, and to hold the same, and dispose of the same in the carrying out of the purposes of the corporation, society or lodge. Charters as Benevolent Corporation-By Laws. Section 2. Before being competent to so receive such property, such society shall obtain a charter as a benevolent corporation in the manner provided by law from the Secretary of State, and elect trustees, who may be the same trustees already elected under their fraternal rules, and whose by-laws may, so far as they do not contravene the statute laws of the state, be substituted for the by-laws required to be adopted upon obtaining a charter. Approved March 11, 1915. CHAPTER 117. APPEALS FROM COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-HOW MADE. AN ACT amending section 1640 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, relating to appeals from action of board of county commissioners, and declaring an emer gency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Rights of Appeal-Necessary Acts. Section 1. That section 1640 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, be amended to read as follows: "Section 1640. From all decisions of the Board of Commissioners, upon matters properly before them, there shall be allowed an appeal to the district court by any persons aggrieved, including the county by its county attorney, upon filing a bond with sufficient penalty, and one or more sureties to be approved by the county clerk, conditioned that the appellant will prosecute his or her appeal without delay, and pay all cost that he or she may be adjudged to pay in the said district court; said bond shall be executed to the county, and may be sued in the name of the county upon breach of any condition therein: Provided, that the county attorney, upon the written demand of at least fifteen (15) free holders of the county, shall take an appeal from any action of the board of county commissioners when said action relates to the interests or affairs of the county at large or any portion thereof, in the name of the county, when he deems it to the interest of the county so to do; and in such case no bond shall be required or given and upon serving the notice provided for in the next section the county clerk shall proceed the same as if a bond had been filed." 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 March 11, 1915. CHAPTER 118. APPROPRIATION-UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL. AN ACT making an appropriation for the payment of salaries of teachers and employees of the University Preparatory School located at Tonkawa, Oklahoma, for the year beginning July 1, 1914, and ending June 30, 1915, and of certain debts of said University Preparatory School; and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in new college fund. belonging to the University Preparatory School at Tonkawa, Oklahoma, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of salaries of teachers and employees of the University Preparatory School of the State of Oklahoma, located at Tonkawa, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1914, and ending June 30, 1915, and for the payment of any and all debts owing by said University Preparatory School, the sum of $11,000. How Paid Out. Section 2. The money hereby appropriated is in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for said University Preparatory School for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, and shall be paid out upon claims approved by the State Board of Education, the State Board of Public Affairs and the president of said University Preparatory School. Emergency. Section 3. It being immediately necessary 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 full force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12, 1915. |