The State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized and empowered to approve and allow claims against any appropriation heretofore or hereafter to be made for the support and maintenance of the said Cameron State School of Agriculture, to pay such assessments as may be made by the United States Government, through its regularly constituted agents; provided, that all such claims for assessments for any one year shall not exceed the sum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). 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. 1915. Passed by the Senate March 18, 1915. Passed by the House of Representatives March 22, Approved March 30, 1915. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 39. A RESOLUTION relative to the transfer of funds heretofore appropriated for the purpose of eradicating smallpox as provided by Chapter 20 of the Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, and declaring an emergency. Be It Resolved By the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Oklahoma: Whereas, By the provisions of section 20, chapter 20, of the Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, there was appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of checking, eradicating and suppressing a small-pox epidemic; and, Whereas, a fifty per cent payment has been made upon all approved claims submitted as result of said epidemic except about $460.00 which was not paid for reason of the fact that receipts were not taken at the time the services were performed, and, Whereas, there still remains of the state appropriation about $1,200.00 available to be used for such purposes; and Whereas, there is at this time an epidemic of small-pox in this state, Therefore be it Resolved, by the Senate and the House of Representatives, that the State Auditor is hereby empowered to make a fifty per cent payment upon the balance of the claims which arose out of the epidemic of 1913, upon proof of the same on oath by the duly qualified authorities, and, Be it Further Resolved, That the unexpended balance after the said fifty per cent. payment be and the same is hereby reappropriated for the purpose of checking, eradicating and suppressing any small-pox epidemic of confluent or hemorrhagic small-pox, providing that said sum herein appropriated shall be paid out only on vouchers regularly approved by the board of county commissioners of any county wherein such sum or any part thereof is expended and by the State Commissioner of Health as provided by law. Section 8. 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. Passed by the Senate March 6, 1915. Passed by the House of Representatives March 12, 1915. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 40. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: A RESOLUTION autohrizing the board of trustees of the Confederate Home located at Ardmore, Oklahoma, to sell certain real estate held by said trustees for said Home. Whereas, by authority granted the board of trustees of the Confederate Home located at Ardmore, Oklahoma, said trustees purchased and now have title to the following described property: The northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section eighteen (18), township four (4) south, range two (2) east, and that, WHEREAS, said property is not being used at this time, and is not needed for use by the said Confederate Home, and WHEREAS, said property can be sold at a considerable advance in price, and for a profit over and above what the same was purchased for, and that it is not of benefit, and to that there is no necessity of said property being held further for the use of said home, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the board of trustees of the Confederate Home, located at Ardmore, Oklahoma, be, and they are hereby authorized to sell and transfer the above described property for such price as they may be able to obtain, and that the proceeds thereof be turned into the general fund of the State Treasury of Oklahoma, and that upon said sale being made, said trustees are authorized to execute the conveyance for same in accordance with the law. Passed by the Senate March 9, 1915. Passed by the House of Representatives March 19, 1915 House Joint Resolutions HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 1. A RESOLUTION providing for a proposed amendment to the Constitution authorizing compulsory compensation by the employer to employees in case of death, permanent or partial injury. Be It Enacted By the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That the following amendment to section 7 article 23 of the constitution of this state is hereby proposed; said amendment with the yeas and nays thereon to be entered in the journals of the respective bodies of the Legislature and referred by the Secretary of State to the people for their approval or rejection so that said section will read as follows: The right of action to recover damages for injuries resulting in death shall never be abrogated and the amount recoverable shall not be subject to any statutory limitations; provided, that the Legislature may provide for compulsory or elective compensation by the employer to the employee in case of death, permanent or partial disability; such compensation in case of death, to be made for the benefit of those dependent upon the intestate and provided further that the Legislature is authorized to create the machinery or agency for the administration of such compensatory fund and the board or agency may administer the same without being required to have any fact determined by the intervention of a jury. Passed by the House February 12, 1915. Passed by the Senate March 20, 1915. Approved March 30, 1915. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 17. A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution of this state. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: That the following amendment to section 21, article 10, of the constituion of this state is hereby proposed; said amendment with the yeas and nays thereon to be entered in the journals of the respective bodies of the Legislature and referred by the Secretary of State to the people for their approval or rejection, so that said section will read as follows, to-wit: "There is hereby created a State Tax Commission, to consist of three members, whose duty shall be to assess and equalize the valuation of real and personal property between the several counties in the state and to assess all railroad and public service corporation property, and to exercise such administrative, legislative and judicial powers relating to taxation as may be prescribed by law, subject to be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the state in such manner as the Legislature may provide, and exercise such other powers as may be provided by law." 1915. Passed the House of Representatives February 19, Passed the Senate March 22, 1915. Approved March 30, 1915. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 22. Be It Resolved By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Oklahoma: WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of Oklahoma by Joint Senate Resolution No. 3, approved February 23, 1910, Session Laws of 1910, page 264, accepted on the |