PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

SEC. 4. The legislature shall enact laws creating an election board (1) more than a majority of whose members shall be selected from the same politicl party), and shall provide the time and manner of holding and conducting a. elections; and, at any time the Federal Constitution may permit the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, the legislature shall provide for their election as for the election of governor and other elective officers.

[SEC. 4a. No person shall be registered as an elector of this State, or le allowed to vote in any election held herein, unless he be able to read and wr any section of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma; but no person wit was, on January 1st, 1866, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote unde any form of Government, or who at that time resided in some foreign nation and no lineal descendant of such person shall be denied the right to register vote because of his inability to so read and write sections of such Constitution

Precinct election inspectors having in charge the registration of electors shall enforce the provisions of this section at the time of registration, provide registration be required. Should registration be dispensed with the provisi of this section shall be enforced by the precinct election officers when electon apply for ballots to vote.]2

SEC. 5. The legislature shall enact laws providing for a mandatory primer system, which shall provide for the nomination of all candidates in all election for State, district, county, and municipal officers, for all political parties, in'n ing United States Senators: Provided, however, This provision shall not excl the right of the people to place on the ballot by petition any nonpartisan candid SEC. 6. In all elections by the people the vote shall be by ballot and legislature shall provide the kind of ticket or ballot to be used and make all other regulations as may be necessary to detect and punish fraud, and pres the purity of the ballot; and may, when necessary, provide by law for the reas tration of electors throughout the State or in any incorporated city or town. thereof, and, when it is so provided, no person shall vote at any election mule he shall have registered according to law.

SEC. 7. The election shall be free and equal. No power, civil or militar shall ever interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage. electors shall, in all cases, except for treason, felony, and breach of the peas be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections and while to and from the same.

ARTICLE IV.

DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.

SECTION 1. The powers of the government of the State of Oklahoma sh be divided into three separate departments-the legislative, executive, and jul cial; and except as provided in this constitution, the legislative, executive. an judicial departments of government shall be separate and distinct, and neith shall exercise the powers properly belonging to either of the others.

ARTICLE V.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.

SECTION 1. The legislative authority of the State shall be rested in a legis lature, consisting of a senate and a house of representatives; but the peop reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the constitu

2 Section 4a is a new section; it was proposed by the initiative, ratified on Aug 2, 1910, and declared adopted on Oct. 6, 1910. In the case of Atwater v. Hassett, Okl. 292, decided on Oct. 26, 1910, this section was upheld as not in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution or the provision guaranteeing republican form of government to each state. On June 21, 1915, in Guinn and E v. United States, the supreme court of the United States held this section void as in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment, and, as the provisions of the section are inser arable, the whole amendment was held invalid. 238 U. S. 347.

n and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the legislature, 1 also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any of the legislature.

SEC. 2. The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and 8 per tum of the legal voters shall have the right to propose any legislative measure, 15 per centum of the legal voters shall have the right to propose amendnts to the constitution by petition, and every such petition shall include the 1 text of the measure so proposed. The second power is the referendum, and may be ordered (except as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation the public peace, health, or safety), either by petition signed by 5 per centum the legal voters or by the legislature as other bills are enacted. The ratio i per centum of legal voters hereinbefore stated shall be based upon the total nber of votes cast at the last general election for the State office receiving highest number of votes at such election.

SEC. 3. Referendum petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not e than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legisire which passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto er of the governor shall not extend to measures voted on by the people. All tions on measures referred to the people of the State shall be had at the next tion held throughout the State, except when the legislature or the governor [] order a special election for the express purpose of making such reference. · measure referred to the people by the initiative shall take effect and be in e when it shall have been approved by a majority of the votes cast in such tion. Any measure referred to the people by the referendum shall take effect be in force when it shall have been approved by a majority of the votes cast reon and not otherwise.

The style of all bills shall be: "Be it enacted by the people of the State of ahoma."

Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be filed h the secretary of state and addressed to the governor of the State, who shall mit the same to the people. The legislature shall make suitable provisions carrying into effect the provisions of this article.

SEC. 4. The referendum may be demanded by the people against one or more as, sections, or parts of any act of the legislature in the same manner in ch such power may be exercised against a complete act. The filing of a ›rendum petition against one or more items, sections, or parts of an act shall delay the remainder of such act from becoming operative.

SEC. 5. The powers of the initiative and referendum reserved to the people this constitution for the State at large are hereby further reserved to the il voters of every county and district therein. as to all local legislation, action, in the administration of county and district government in and for ir respective counties and districts.

The manner of exercising said powers shall be prescribed by general laws. ept that boards of county commissioners may provide for the time of exercisthe initiative and referendum powers as to local legislation in their respec› counties and districts.

The requisite number of petitioners for the invocation of the initiative and erendum in counties and districts shall bear twice or double the ratio to the ole number of legal voters in such county or district as herein provided refore in the State at large.

SEC. 5a. Each County in the State of Oklahoma may by a majority of the al voters of such county voting upon the proposition, abolish township organiion or government. The Board of County Commissioners of such county on a petition signed by sixteen per centum of the total number of votes cast the last general election for the county office receiving the highest number of es, praying that the question of abolishing township organization or governnt be submitted to a vote of the county, shall within thirty days after the ular meeting of such board next convening after the filing of such petition. a special election for such purpose, or the board may in their discretion omit such question at the next general election held after the filing of such

petition. If such question shall be carried, township organization or gover ment shall cease in such county, and all the duties theretofore performed by th township officers shall be cast upon and be performed by such county officer having like duties to perform in relation to the county at large as such townshi officers performed in relation to the township at large. At any general electing after the abolition of township organization or government the question returning to township government may be submitted as provided for the mission of the question of abolishing such government, and if a majority of votes cast upon such question be in favor of township government the same sh thereupon be established, and the Board of County Commissioners shall appd the full quota of township officers, who shall hold their offices and perform #3 duties thereof until their successors shall have been elected at the next gener election and until they shall have been qualified. Except as otherwise spe cally provided by this section, the law relating to carrying into effect the in tive and referendum provisions of the Constitution shall govern.3

SEC. 6. Any measure rejected by the people, through the powers of initiative and referendum, can not be again proposed by the initiative with three years thereafter by less than 25 per centum of the legal voters.

SEC. 7. The reservation of the powers of the initiative and referendum this article shall not deprive the legislature of the right to repeal any law. pose or pass any measure, which may be consistent with the constitution of State and the Constitution of the United States.

SEC. 8. Laws shall be provided to prevent corruption in making, procure and submitting initiative and referendum petitions.

THE LEGISLATURE-SENATE.

SEC. 9. The senate, except as hereinafter provided, shall consist of not me than 44 members, whose term of office shall be four years: Provided. That senator elected at the first election from each even numbered district hold office until the fifteenth day succeeding the regular State election in 1 and one elected from each odd numbered district at said first election shali) office until the fifteenth day succeeding the day of the regular State election 1910: And provided further, That in districts electing two senators, the elected at the first election shall cast lots in such manner as the legisla may prescribe to determine which shall hold the long and which the short ter

SEC. 9. (a) At the time each senatorial appointment is made after the g 1910 the State shall be divided into 44 districts, to be called senatorial distrit each of which shall elect one senator; and the senate shall always be cone of 44 senators, except that in event any county shall be entitled to three more senators at the time of any appointment such additional senator or se tors shall be given such county in addition to the 44 senators and the whe number to that extent. Said districts shall be numbered from 1 to 44, includ and each of said districts shall contain as near as may be an equal number inhabitants, such population to be ascertained by the next preceding Feder census, or in such manner as the legislature may direct, and shall be in compact form as practicable and shall remain unaltered until the next des nial period, and shall at all times consist of contiguous territory.

SEC. 9. (b) No county shall ever be divided in the formation of a sea torial district except to make two or more senatorial districts wholly in s county. No town and no ward in a city when constituting only one vot precinct, shall be divided in the formation of a senatorial district, nor st any senatorial district contain a greater excess in population over an adjoin district in the same county than the population of a town, or ward in a city constituting only one voting precinct therein, adjoining such district. Towns wards in cities constituting only one voting precinct, which may, from tæl. location, be included in either of two senatorial districts, shall be so placed as t make such districts most nearly equal in number of inhabitants.

3 Section 5A is a new section; it was proposed by the legislature of 1913 and reti fied on Aug. 5, 1913.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SEC. 10. The house of representatives, until otherwise provided by law, all consist of not more than 109 members, who shall hold office for two years: ovided, That the representatives elected at the first election shall hold office til the fifteenth day succeeding the day of the regular State election in 1908; d provided, That the day on which State elections shall be held shall be fixed the legislature.

(a) The first legislature shall meet at the seat of government upon proclation of the governor on the day named in said proclamation, which shall not more than thirty days nor less than fifteen days after the admission of the te into the Union.

(b) The apportionment of this State for members of the legislature shall made at the first session of the legislature after each decennial Federal census. (c) The whole population of the State as ascertained by the Federal census, in such manner as the legislature may direct, shall be divided by the number and the quotient shall be the ratio of representation in the house of repretatives for the next ten years succeeding such appointment.

(d) Every county having a population equal to one-half of said ratio shall entitled to 1 representative; every county containing said ratio and threerths over shall be entitled to 2 representatives, and so on, requiring after the t 2 an entire ratio for each additional representative: Provided, That no nty shall ever take part in the election of more than 7 representatives (e) When any county shall have a fraction above the ratio so large that ng multiplied by 5 the result will be equal to 1 or more ratios, additional resentatives shall be apportioned for such ratio among the several sessions he decennial period. If there are 2 ratios, representatives shall be allotted he fourth and third sessions, respectively; if 3, the third, second, and first sess, respectively; if 4, to the fourth, third, second, and first sessions, ectively. A

(f) Any county forming with another county or counties a representative rict during one decennial period if it has acquired sufficient population, at a d decennial period. shall be entitled to an additional representative, if there I be left in the district from which it shall have been separated a populasufficient for a representative. No such change shall be made except at the ilar decennial period for the apportionment of representatives.

(g) If in fixing any decennial ratio, a county previously a separate reprecative district shall have less than the number required by the ratio for a resentative, such county shall be attached to a county adjoining it and become art of such representative district.

(h) No county shall ever be divided in the formation of representative dists except to make two or more representative districts in such county. No n, or ward in a city, where it constitutes only one voting precinct, shall be ded in the formation of representative districts, nor shall any representadistrict contain a greater excess in population over an adjoining district he same county than the population of a town or ward in a city, constituting y one voting precinct adjoining such district. Counties, towns, or wards in es, constituting only one voting precinct, which, from location, may be inled in either of two districts, shall be so placed as to make said districts t nearly equal in number of inhabitants.

(i) Ascertaining the ratio of representation according to the Federal census, such other enumeration as the legislature may provide, and attaching any nty, previously having a separate representative but found to have less than number required by the ratio, to an adjoining county; and determining number of representatives each county or district shall be entitled to, and for at sessions of the legislature within the next decennial period; and apporing the senators, shall be done by the legislature and be presented to the ernor for his approval in the same manner as other bills which may be sed by the legislature.

(j) An apportionment by the legislature shall be subject to review by the reme court at the suit of any citizen, under such rules and regulations as the

legislature may prescribe. And such court shall give all cases involving appe tionment precedence over all other cases and proceedings; and if said court be not in session, it shall convene promptly for the disposal of the same.

LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT.

SEC. 11. Until the apportionment is made by the legislature after the e Federal decennial census, the State, except as otherwise provided, shall divided into 33 senatorial districts, each of whom shall be composed of counties as named, shall be numbered and elect senators as follows, namely:

First, Beaver, Cimarron, Harper, and Texas, 1 senator; Second, Beckha Dewey, Ellis, and Roger Mills, 2 senators; Third, Woods and Woodward. 1 ator; Fourth, Greer, 1 senator; Fifth, Jackson and Tillman, 1 senator; S Custer, Kiowa, and Washita, 2 senators; Seventh, Alfalfa and Major, 1 senat Eighth, Garfield, 1 senator; Niuth, Osage. Grant and Kay, 2 senators; Te Noble and Pawnee, 1 senator; Eleventh, Creek and Payne, 1 senator; Twefi Logan, 1 senator; Thirteenth, Lincoln and Pottawatomie, 2 senators; Fourte Canadian and Oklahoma, 2 senators; Fifteenth, Caddo and Grady, 2 senate Sixteenth, Blaine and Kingfisher, 1 senator; Seventeenth, Comanche, Jeffers and Stephens, 2 senators; Eighteenth, Carter, Love, and Murray, 2 senate Nineteenth, Cleveland, Garvin, and McClain, 2 senators; Twentieth. At Bryan and Coal, 2 senators; Twenty-first. Latimer and Le Flore, 1 seuLIVE Twenty-second, Hughes and Okfuskee, 1 senator; twenty-third. Pontotor Seminole, 1 senator; Twenty-fourth, Choctaw, MeCurtain, and Pushmataim. senator; Twenty-fifth, Pittsburg, 1 senator; Twenty-sixth, Marshall and Ju ton, 1 senator; Twenty-seventh, Haskell, McIntosh, and Muskogee, 2 semu Twenty-eighth, Adair and Sequoyah, 1 senator; Twenty-ninth, Mayes and ( 1 senator; Thirtieth, Ottawa, Delaware, and Cherokee, 1 senator; ThirtyTulsa and Washington, 1 senator; Thirty-second, Okmulgee and Wagoner, 1 ator; Thirty-third, Nowata and Rogers, 1 senator.

SEC. 12. The following counties shall each elect 1. member to the hou representatives: Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Cana Cherokee, Choctaw, Cimarron, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche. Craig, Creek. Cus Delaware, Dewey, Ellis, Grant. Harper, Haskell. Hughes, Jackson, Jeffers Johnston, Kingfisher, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, Major, Marshall, Mayes, Mura McClain, McCurtain, McIntosh, Noble, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, O Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne, Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Rogers, Roger Mills, Sena Sequoyah, Stephens, Texas, Tillman, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington, Was Woods, and Woodward.

SEC. 13. The following counties shall elect 2 members of the house of resentatives: Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Garvin, Grady, Kay, Kiowa, Muskogee. Pittsburg.

· (a) Garfield, 1 to be elected from each of the following districts: Dist 1, the city of Enid, Enid township, and the townships of North Enid, Ba and Garland. District 2, all that part of Garfield county not contained District 1.

(b) Greer, 1 to be elected from each of the following districts: District all that part of Greer County lying east of the line between ranges 23 and District 2, all that part of Greer County not contained in District 1.

(c) Lincoln, 1 to be elected, from each of the following districts: --Dist 1, the townships of Pawnee, Ponca, North Fox, South Fox, North Keokuk. Sal Keokuk, North Creek, South Creek, North Seminole, South Seminole. N Choctaw, and South Choctaw, with all towns and cities contained therein. [N trict 2, all that part of Lincoln county not contained in district 1.

SEC. 14. The following counties shall elect 3 members each: Pottawatcial and Logan.

Pottawatomie shall elect 3 members at large. Logan, with 3 members in rated as follows: District 1 shall be composed of the townships of Marshm Bismarck, Orlando, Oak View, Rose Hill, Mulbull, Crescent, Woodland. Lawre Cedar, Iron Mound, Spring Creek, Antelope, and North Cimarron, and all to and villages therein. District 2 shall consist of all that part of the city Guthrie described as follows: That part of the First Ward lying north of Hr