district in the State of Oklahoma, which has issued valid interest bearing bonds that are now outstanding and unpaid, may take up and pay off any such bonds whenever ine same can be brought about by lawful means, by the issue and sale or the issue and exchange therefor of the bonds of such irrigation district; but bonds so to be issued shall not exceed the amount lawfully owing and unpaid upon the bond or bonds so sought to be taken up and paid. Bonds so issued shall not bear interest greater in rate or amount per annum than the bonds so sought to be taken up and paid.

Procedure in Refunding Bonds.

Section 66. Whenever it is desired to issue bonds under this act, the board of directors shall, by resolution entered in the minutes of their proceedings, direct public notice to be given, stating the amount of the indebtedness sought to be taken up and paid, the date it was voted, the rate of interest it bears, and that the same is sought to be taken up and paid off by the issuance and sale, or the issuance and exchange of bonds bearing interest at an equal or less rate and amount per annum, and stating the date on which, and the places where, any taxpayers of such irrigation district may file objections to such proposed action. Such notice shall be signed by the president and secretary of said irrigation district, and shall be published for two weeks in some newspaper in general circulation in the district, or by posting the notice in three of the most public places in the district for at least fifteen days prior to such date. If after such publication and on the day for filing objections, no objections to such action by the board of directors is filed, then the board of directors may issue and sell, or exchange, as the case may be the bonds authorized by this act, not exceeding the amount stated in such notice, nor exceeding the amount of actual bonded indebtedness of the district then outstanding and unpaid, nor bearing interest greater in rate or amount, and thereby take up and pay off the bonds described in the notice.

Hearing of Objection to Issue.

Section 67. If on the day appointed in such notice, any written objections be filed, the objection or objections shall be heard and decided by the board of directors; and from their decision an appeal may be taken to the district court in the manner of appeals from the county board.

Recitals of Refunding Bonds.

Section 68. The bonds so issued shall have recited therein the object of issue, the title of the act under which the issue was made, stating the issue to be made in pursuance thereof, and shall also state the number, date, amount of the bonds for which it is substituted; and such new bonds shall not be delivered until the surrender of the bond or bonds so designated, and they shall be paid and levy made and tax collected for their payment in accordanc with laws now governing the bonds heretofore issued.

Liability for Failure to Deliver Water.

Section 69. Every irrigation district within the State of Oklahoma shall be liable in damages for negligence in delivering or failure to deliver water to the users from its canal to the same extent as private persons and corporations; Provided, however, such districts shall not be liable as herein provided, unless the party suffering such damage by reason of such negligence or failure shall, within thirty days after such negligent acts are committed, or such districts shall fail to deliver water, serve a notice in writing on the chairman of the board of directors of such district setting forth particularly the acts committed or the omissions of duties to be performed on the part district, which it is claimed constitute such negligence or omission and that he expects to hold such district liable for whatever damages may result; Provided, further, such action shall be brought within one year from the time the cause has accrued.

Approved March 29, 1915.

CHAPTER 227.

HOTELS RESTAURANTS-INSPECTION.

AN ACT amending chapter 67, article 6, of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma annotated 1910, being an act to provide for the inspection, regulation and management of and defining rooming houses, hotels, restaurants and apartment houses, and prescribing penalties therefor.

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

Hotel Defined-License.

Section 1. That chapter 67, article 6, of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma annotated, 1910, be amended to read as follows:

"That every building or other structure, kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where food is served and sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests, in which eight or more rooms are used for the accommodation for such transient guests and having one or more dining rooms or cafes, where meals or lunches are served to such transient guests, such sleeping accommodations and dining rooms being conducted in the same building and under the same management, together with any buildings in connection therewith, shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed a hotel, such only shall have the right to the use of the name "hotel" in connection with their business, and upon the proper application the State Board of Health shall issue to such above described business a license to conduct a hotel.

Rooming House Defined-License.

Section 2.

"That every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are furnished for pay for transient or permanent guests in which eight or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, but which does not maintain dining rooms or cafes in the same building, and under the same management together with any buildings in connection therewith, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed a rooming

house and shall not have the right to the use of the name "hotel" in connection with such business. Upon proper application, the State Board of Health shall issue to such described business a license to conduct a rooming house; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the use of any name the proprietor of such rooming house may desire to apply to his business, which name does not include the word "hotel".

Apartment House Defined-License.

Section 3. That every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where accommodations for sleeping rooms, either single or in suites for light housekeeping, or both, but where no dining room or cafe is maintained in the same building or under the same management, and where two or more families or tenants aggregating 15 persons or more occupying said building, together with any buildings in connection therewith, shall for the purposes of this act, be deemed to be an apartment house and shall not have the right to use the word "hotel" or "rooming house" in such business. Upon proper applications, the State Board of Health shall issue to the above described business a license to conduct an apartment house; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the use of any name the proprietor of a licensed apartment house may desire to apply to his business, which name does not include the words "hotel" or "rooming house".

Restaurant Defined-License.

Section 4. That every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where meals or lunches are served without sleeping accommodations together with all outbuildings in connection therewith, shall for the purpose of this act be defined, a restaurant, and, upon proper application to the State Board of Health, shall issue to such above described business a license to conduct a restaurant; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the use

of any name a proprietor of a licensed restaurant may desire to apply to his business, which name does not include the word "hotel", "rooming house" or "apartment house".

Term "Proprietor."

Section 5. Whenever used in this act or any act amendatory hereof, the word "proprietor" of any hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant, it shall mean and include any owner, proprietor, lessee, manager, receiver, agent or other person in charge of such hotel, rooming house, apartment house, or restaurant, within the meaning of this act.

License Required.

Section 6. That on or before July 1st, 1915, and on or before July 1st, of each year thereafter, every person, firm or corporation now engaged in the business of conducting a hotel, or restaurant, or both, or a rooming house or apartment house, and every person, firm or corporation who shall hereafter engage in conducting such business, shall procure a license for each hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant so conducted or proposed to be conducted; provided, that one license shall be sufficient for each combined hotel and restaurant, where both are conducted in the same building, and under the same managements. Each license shall expire on the 30th day of June next following its issuance.

No hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant shall be maintained or conducted in this state after July 1, 1915, without a license therefor. No license shall be transferable except application be made therefor in writing to the State Board of Health.

Application Blanks.

Section 7. The State Board of Health shall, upon request therefor, furnish to any person, firm or corporation desiring to conduct a hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant, the necessary application blanks for a license which the applicant shall fill in, stating the full name