CHAPTER 190.

CIGARETTES-SALES REGULATED.

AN ACT prohibiting the furnishing by gift, sale or otherwise of cigarettes or cigarette papers to minors, requiring minors to divulge where and from whom cigarettes or cigarette papers have been obtained providing penalties for violation of this act and repealing section 2532, article 43, of chapter 23 of the Laws of Oklahoma of 1910, Harris-Day Code, and declaring an

emergency.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Furnishing Minors.

Section 1. That any person who shall furnish to any minor by gift, sale or otherwise, any cigarettes or cigarette papers, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars or be confined in the county jail not more than thirty days or both said fine and imprisonment.

Disclosing Information.

Section 2. Any minor being in possession of cigarettes or of cigarette papers and being by any police officer, constable, juvenile court officer, truant officer, or teacher in any school, asked where and from whom such cigarettes or cigarette papers were obtained, who shall refuse to furnish such information, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before the county court, or any justice of the peace, such minor being of the age of sixteen years or upwards shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five ($5.00) dollars or to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the proper county not exceeding five days, or both; if such minor shall be under the age of sixteen years, he or she shall be certified by such magistrate or justice to the juvenile court of the county for such action as said court shall deem proper.

Repeal.

Section 3. That section 2532, article 43 of chapter

23 of the Laws of Oklahoma of 1910, Harris-Day Code, is hereby repealed.

Emergency.

Section 4. 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 April 2, 1915.

CHAPTER 191.

CHAMPERTY AND MAINTENANCE

YEAR.

POSSESSION FOR ONE

AN ACT amending section 2260 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, and declaring an emergency.

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

Sale of Real Estate-Possession for One Year.

"Section 1. That section 2260 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 2260. Any person who buys, or in any manner procures, or makes any promise or covenant to convey any pretended right or title to any lands or tenements, unless the grantor thereof, or the person making such promise or covenant has been in possession, or he and those by whom he claims, have been in possession of the same, or of the reversion and remainder thereof, or have taken

the rents and profits thereof for the space of one year before such grant, conveyance, sale, promise, or covenant made, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than five years; and any person who sells, or in any manner makes any promise or covenant to convey any pretended right or title to any lands or tenements unless the grantor thereof, or the person making such promise or covenant nas been in possession, or he and those by whom he claims have been in possession of the same, or of the reversion and remainder thereof or have taken the rents and profits thereof for the space of one year before such grant, conveyance, sale, promise or covenant made, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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 31, 1915.

CHAPTER 192.

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS--BUDGETS AND ANNUAL

LEVY.

AN

ACT authorizing Boards of Education of cities of the first class to prepare budgets prior to second Tuesday in May each year and providing for excess levies to be voted at any election on the second Tuesday of May, each year and 'providing for excess levies, and prohibiting the employment of Teachers until the excess levy, if any be needed, be voted. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Budget for Ensuing Year.

Section 1. Boards of education of cities of the first class shall, on or before the second Tuesday of May, of each year, prepare a budget of the amount of money that will be required to be raised by taxation for the support and maintenance of the schools of school districts controlled by boards of education of cities of the first class for the ensuing fiscal year. Provided, however, that cities of the first class which elect at any election, fewer than one-half of its membership, may on or before the second Tuesday of May, each year, prepare such budget and call an election as prescribed in the following sections of this act:

Vote on Excess Levy-Provisions.

Section 2. If the assessed valuation of said school districts controlled by boards of education in the cities of the first class for the current fiscal year is not sufficient by a levy of five mills to create the fund as determined in the budget as prepared by virtue of section 1 of this act, the board of education shall determine the amount of excess levy above the five mills that will be required to raise the amount as determined by the assessed valuation for the current fiscal year. Within ten days after the amount of such excess levy has been determined, the board of education shall issue a call for and hold an election in May for the purpose of voting on said excess levy. Said election shall be called by the board of education in the

manner provided by law for calling special school elections in cities of the first class.

Levy-How Made.

Section 3. If a majority of those voting on said excess levy shall vote in favor thereof at the election held as provided by section 2 of this act, then it shall be the duty of the board of education to attach to the estimate sheet, when making the estimate required by law, a transcript showing the record of the board of education in calling the election, and the returns received from sard election. It shall then be the duty of the County Excise Board, if any excess levy be required, to raise the amount of the estimate as approved by the Board of Education to make such excess levy in such an amount as will be required to produce the amount of the approved estimate not to exceed, however, the amount of such excess levy as had been voted as provided by Section 2 of this Act.

Contract With Teachers-When Made.

Section 4. For the purpose of preventing a deficiency in the revenues of Boards of Education in cities of the first class no contract shall be made with teachers until after the election has been held as provided by Section 2 of this Act, Provided, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to cities of over fifty thousand population, as now hereafter shown by the last Federal census, and shall in no way be construed as amending or repealing any of the provisions of law applying to such cities.

Repeal.

Section 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Emergency.

Section 6. 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 April 2, 1915.