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It is hereby further provided that the court clerk of all counties of the above population shall have the right to appoint one deputy, whose salary shall not exceed seventy-five ($75.00) dollars per month, and whose appointment must be confirmed by the board of county commissioners, and upon application and a showing made that an emergency has arisen, he may appoint a second deputy, whose salary shall not exceed sixty ($60.00) dollars per month.

Emergency.

Section 2. 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 February 17, 1915.

CHAPTER 29.

APPROPRIATION-SCHOOL OF MINES.

AN ACT making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the School of Mines and Metallurgy at Wilburton, for the biennial period ending June 30, 1917.

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

Appropriation-Support and Maintenance.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the support and maintenance of the School of

Mines and Metallurgy, located at Wilburton, for the biennial period ending June 30, 1917.

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AN ACT requiring all railroad companies operating in the State of Oklahoma, to Furnish adequate hospital facilities for employees, conferring jurisdiction upon the Corporation Commission to enforce the provisions of the Act.

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

Corporation Commission to Regulate.

Section 1. All railroad companies operating a line or lines, of railroad in the State of Oklahoma, or any association or corporation which have heretofore collected, are now collecting, or which may hereafter collect fees or sums of money from the employees of such railroad, association or corporation, or for the purpose of providing or maintaining hospital service for such employees when sick or injured, shall upon the order of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, provide adequate hospital facilities within the State of Oklahoma for its employees who may be injured or become sick.

Regulations-Removal of Injured From State.

Section 2. Jurisdiction and authority is hereby conferred on the Corporation Commission to make investigation, require reports, as to the adequacy of such hospital facilities and condition of funds and by order, require all railroad companies, associations or corporations operating in the State of Oklahoma to establish such facilities as in the discretion of the Commission may be necessary for the prompt and proper relief and medical attention of such sick

and injured employees; Provided, no employe shall be taken out of the State of Oklahoma for treatment, without the written consent of such employe, or in case such employe shall be incapable to give or refuse such consent then the company surgeon, if present, or if not present, the coemployees of the sick or injured party, shall be authorized to give such consent, and further, that all corporations, companies, associations or firms operating railroads within the State and who shall maintain hospitals without the State, shall be permitted to take all sick and injured employees to the hospital either within or without the State where the first medical or surgical service and attention can be scured.

Investigations-Protection of Complainant.

Section 3. The Corporation Commission shall make investigations authorized in section 2 of this act, upon its own motion or complaint of an employe of the railroad company, but shall in no case, disclose the name of the employe making the complaint unless authorized to do so by such employe.

Approved February 15, 1915.

CHAPTER 31.

TAXATION-DELINQUENCY-INTEREST.

AN ACT amending section 1, chapter 120, Session Laws of Oklahoma 1910-1911, fixing the time taxes assessed on ad valorem basis become delinquent, prescribing penalty and providing that no demand for taxes shall be necessary.

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

Taxes Due-Notice-Interest.

Section 1. That section 1, chapter 120, of the Session Laws of 1910-1911, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1. One-half of all taxes levied upon advalorem basis, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall become due on the firs day of November, and unless said one-half of the taxes so levied shall be paid on or before the first day of January, the entire tax levied for such fiscal year shall become delinquent on said date. If the first half of the taxes, levied upon an ad valorem basis for any such fiscal year, shall have been paid on or before the first day of January, the second half shall become delinquent on the fifteenth day of June thereafter. All delinquent taxes shall, as a penalty, bear interest at the rate of eighteen per centum per annum. Provided that the county treasurer shall stamp the date of receipt on each letter containing funds in payment of taxes, and no penalty shall attach after the receipt of the amount due, at said date, by reason of the inability of the county treasurer to enter the same of record on the date received." No demand of taxes shall be necessary but it shall be the duty of every person subject to taxation under the law to attend the treasurer's office and pay his taxes; and if any person neglects so to attend and pay his taxes until after they have become delinquent, the treasurer is directed and required to collect the same in the manner provided by law.

Approved February 16, 1915.

CHAPTER 32.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS-INCORPORATION OF TOWN OF EAST DUKE.

AN ACT legalizing the incorporation of the town of East Duke, in Jackson county, Oklahoma, and legalizing the proceedings and all acts done by the board of trustees of said town, and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the People of the Staie of Oklahoma:

Incorporation Legalized.

Section 1. The incorporation of the town of East

Duke, Jackson county, Oklahoma, is hereby legalized and made valid as if all acts required by the statutes of the State of Oklahoma in relation to incorporation of towns and villages had been fully and completely complied with.

Acts Validated.

Section 2. All acts heretofore done and all ordinances heretofore passed by the board of trustees of said town of East Duke, which they could have legally done under the statutes of the State of Oklahoma, nad such town been legally incorporated, are hereby legalized and made in all respects valid and binding.

Emergency.

Section 3. 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 February 15, 1915.

CHAPTER 33.

APPROPRIATION-DEFICIENCY-STATE AUDITOR.

AN ACT making an appropriation for the maintenance of the office of State Auditor for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, and declaring an emergency.

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

Deficiency Appropriation-State Auditor-Collected Income-Inheritance and Production Taxes.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred sixty-eight dollars ($2,268.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of maintaining the office of State Auditor for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, said sum herein appropriated to be used for the following pur

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