Public Affairs; the superintendent of the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane; the superintendent of the East Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane; and the superintendent of the Oklahoma Sanitarium. The State Lunacy Commission shall have general supervision of the policy to be pursued by each of the said State Hospitals for the insane, and shall formulate and adopt a permanent plan and system for the proper care and treatment of the insane. Approved March 30, 1915. CHAPTER 276. GUARDIANS-COURT CLERK TO RECEIVE MONEYS OF MINORS. AN ACT to make the court clerk a depository for inherited moneys of minors certain cases for want of a guardian Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. Whenever a final account and order of distribution based thereon shall direct the payment of moneys to a minor, and no person shall within ninety days thereafter become the legal and qualified guardian for such minor, so that the executor or administrator may become entitled to his discharge, the court may make an order directing the executor or administrator to deposit such money in the hands of the court clerk, taking his receipt therefor, with the same effect às though taken from a legally qualified guardian of such minor, and the clerk shall hold such moneys in trust for such minor until a guardian shall be appointed and call for the same, or until such minor shall become of age and demand the same, provided, that all such monies in the hands of the court clerk at the ex piration of his term of office, must be turned over to his successor in office." Search for Minor. Section 2. If no demand shall be made for such moneys within one year after the time it shall appear from the records of such estate that such minor should be of age, the court clerk shall make a diligent endeavor to ascertain his whereabouts, and if found, notify him of his right of such money. Death of Minor-Disposition of Moneys. Section 3. Should a minor die having money thus deposited in the hands of the court clerk, the same shall be delivered to his personal representative. Approved March 30, 1915. CHAPTER 277. APPROPRIATION-STATE HOME AT PRYOR-STORE ROOM, ETC. AN ACT making an appropriation of two thousand dollars for the construction of a power plant store room and bake oven at the Oklahoma State Home a Pryor, Oklahoma. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Appropriation-Power Plant, Oven, Etc. Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money that may be in the Treasury of the State of Oklahoma, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) or so much thereof as may be neccssary, for the construction of a power plant, store room and bake-oven at the Oklahoma State Home at Pryor, Oklahoma. Approved March 30, 1915. CHAPTER 278. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS-ANNUAL MEETING. AN ACT amending section 6, of article 3, and section 38 of article 5, and section 6, of article 6, chapter 219, Session Laws, 1913, relating to and fixing the date for the holding of the annual school meeting; and providing for the reporting of collections and disbursements by county treasurers to school district boards and providing that cities having a charter form of government may fix a number of members of the board of education, and may regulate the time and manner of electing the members of such board of education; and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Time-Notice-Report-Special Elections. Section 1. That section 6, article 3, chapter 219, Session Laws of 1913, be amended to read as follows: "Section 6. An annual school meeting of each school district shall be held on the second Tuesday in July of each year, and at such places or polling places as the board may designate, beginning at two o'clock P. M. and closing at four o'clock P. M. of said date. Notice of the time and place of the annual meeting shall be given by the clerk by posting written or printed notices in five public places in the district ten days prior to said meeting. Special meetings may be called by a majority of the district board or by a majority of the legal voters of the district; but notice of said special meeting stating the purpose for which it is called, together with the time and place, shall be posted at least ten days before the meeting in five public places. Following the annual school meeting and on the same date thereof, it shall be the duty of the school district board to meet and make out the report required by law to be filed with the excise board showing the fiscal condition of the school district at the close of the previous fiscal year and the statement of the estimated needs thereof for the current or ensuing fiscal year." County Treasurer to Furnish Financial Statement. Section 2. That section 38, article 5, chapter 219, Session Laws of 1913 be amended to read as follows: "Section 38. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer on or before the first Tuesday in July of each year, to furnish to the several school district boards of his county, a certified report in writing showing the sources and amounts of all moneys received and disbursed by him for each school district during the previous fiscal year ending June 30th, together with the amount of all available assets on hand at the close of such fiscal year, for each district. Said statement shall be recorded at length by the clerk of the district in the minute record of the board." Officers-Term-Qualifications-Place of Election. Section 3. That section 6, article 6, chapter 219, Session Laws of 1913, be amended to read as follows: "Section 6. A separate ballot box for school purposes shall be provided by the city clerk and ballots for school officers deposited therein. It shall be the duty of the city. clerk to prepare suitable places for holding such elections. At the biennial city election in 1915 there shall be elected a school treasurer by the city at large who shall hold office two years and a board of education consisting of one member from each ward and one from outlying territory to be nominated from respective ward or outlying territory and elected by the qualified voters of the district at large. If there be no outlying territory in such district a member shall be nominated and elected from the district at large, two of whom shall hold office for a term of two years and the others for a term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; thereafter at each biennial election members shall be elected to succeed the outgoing members to serve for a term of four years; provided that no member of the board of education shall be a member of the council nor shall any member of the council be a member of the board of education; provided further, that the officers and members of the boards of educa tion in cities of the first class shall hold their offices for the full term to which they were elected; and provided further, that boards of education in independent districts, not cities of the first class shall consist of three members to be selected by the district at large, at the same time and in the same manner as school district officers. Provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent a city of the first class which has heretofore, or may hereafter, adopt a charter form of government pursuant to section 3, of article 18, of the Constitution of this state from fixing the number of the members of the board of education of such city and outlying territory attached thereto for school purposes and regulating the time and manner of electing the members of such board of education, and the provisions of any charter already adopted and in force or of any ordinance adopted pursuant to such charter prescribing the number of members, or the time and manner of election of its board of education are hereby validated and legalized. Provided, that any such ordinance which may hereafter be adopted, shall not become effective until it is submitted to a vote of the electors of such city and approved by a majority vote thereof, and provided further, that in cities of less than five thousand population, there shall be nominated a member of the board of education, one from each ward and one from outlying territory, to be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of the respective ward and outlying territory. But if there be no outlying territory in such district, a member shall be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of the city at large." Emergency. Section 4. For the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof it is necessary that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 31, 1915. |