in duplicate by the members of such board or a majority of them. and re turned, one copy of said charter to the chief executive officer of such city. and the other to the register of deeds of the county in which said city sal be situated. Such proposed charter shall then be published in one or more newspapers published and of general circulation within said city. for at leas twenty-one days, if in a daily paper, or in three consecutive issues, if in weekly paper, and the first publication shall be made within twenty die after the completion of the charter; and within thirty days, and not earle than twenty days after such publication, it shall be submitted to the qualine electors of said city at a general or special election, and if a majority such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify the same, it shall thereafte be submitted to the governor for his approval, and the governor shall approa the same if it shall not be in conflict with the constitution and laws of th State. Upon such approval it shall become the organic law of such city a supersede any existing charter and all amendments thereof and all ordinan inconsistent with it. A copy of such charter, certified by the chief executio officer, and authenticated by the seal of such city, setting forth the sulm sion of such charter to the electors and its ratification by them shall, after approval of such charter by the governor, be made in duplicate and deposi one in the office of the secretary of state, and the other, after being records in the office of said register of deeds, shall be deposited in the archives the city; and thereafter all courts shall take judicial notice of said char The charter so ratified may be amended by proposals therefor, submitted the legislative authority of the city to the qualified electors thereof for petition as hereinafter provided) at a general or special election, and rate by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, and approved by governor as herein provided for the approval of the charter.

SEC. 3. (b) An election of such board of freeholders may be calleda: any time by the legislative authority of any such city, and such election s be called by the chief executive officer of any such city within ten days a there shall have been filed with him a petition demanding the same, sig by a number of qualified electors residing within such city, equal to 5 centum of the total number of votes cast at the next preceding general me ipal election; and such election shall be held not later than thirty days as the call therefor. At such election a vote shall be taken upon the ques of whether or not further proceedings toward adopting a charter shall be in pursuance to the call, and unless a majority of the qualified electors vo thereon shall vote to proceed further, no further proceeding shall be had. all proceedings up to that time shall be of no effect.

INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.

SEC. 4. (a) The powers of the initiative and referendum, reservel this constitution to the people of the State and the respective counties districts therein, are hereby reserved to the people of every municipal eff ration now existing or which shall hereafter be created within this State, reference to all legislative authority which it may exercise, and amendmen to charters for its own government in accordance with the provisions of constitution.

SEC. 4. (b) Every petition for either the initiative or referendum in government of a municipal corporation shall be signed by a number of q ified electors residing within the territorial limits of such municipal corpora tion, equal to 25 per centum of the total number of votes cast at the s preceding election, and every such petition shall be filed with the chief execung officer of such municipal corporation.

SEC. 4. (c) When such petition demands the enactment of an ordinand or other legal act other than the grant, extension, or renewal of a franchi the chief executive officer shall present the same to the legislative body such corporation at its next meeting, and unless the said petition sha granted more than thirty days before the next election at which any officers are to be elected, the chief executive officer shall submit the s ordinance or act so petitioned for to the qualified electors at said elesting

d if a majority of said electors voting thereon shall vote for the same, it all thereupon become in full force and effect.

SEC. 4. (d) When such petition demands a referendum vote upon any dinance or any other legal act other than the grant, extension, or renewal a franchise, the chief executive officer shall submit said ordinance or act the qualified electors of said corporation at the next succeeding general micipal election, and if, at said election, majority of the electors voting areon shall not vote for the same, it shall thereupon stand repealed.

SEC. 4. (e) When such petition demands an amendment to a charter, chief executive officer shall submit such amendment to the qualified electors said municipal corporation at the next election of any officers of said poration, and if, at said election, a majority of said electors voting thereon ill vote for such amendment, the same shall thereupon become an amendnt to and a part of said charter, when approved by the governor and filed the same manner and form as an original charter is required by the proions of this article to be approved and filed.

FRANCHISES.

SEC. 5. (a) No municipal corporation shall ever grant, extend, or renew franchise, without the approval of a majority of the qualified electors reing within its corporate limits, who shall vote thereon at a general or cial election; and the legislative body of any such corporation may submit such matter for approval or disapproval to such electors at any general nicipal election, or call a special election for such purpose at any time on thirty days' notice; and no franchise shall be granted, extended, or ewed for a longer term than twenty-five years.

SEC. 5. (b) Whenever a petition signed by a number of qualified electors any municipal corporation equal to 25 per centum of the total number of es cast at the next preceding general municipal election, demanding that a nchise be granted, extended, or renewed, shall be filed with the chief execve officer of said corporation, the chief executive officer shall, within ten 's thereafter, call a special election, at which he shall submit the question whether or not such franchise shall be granted, extended, or renewed, and at said election, a majority of the said electors voting thereon shall vote the grant, extension, or renewal of such franchise, the same shall be nted by the proper authorities at the next succeeding regular meeting of legislative body of the city.

SEC. 6. Every municipal corporation within this State shall have the ht to engage in any business or enterprise which may be engaged in by a son, firm, or corporation by virtue of a franchise from said corporation. SEC. 7. No grant, extension, or renewal of any franchise or other use the streets, alleys, or other public grounds or ways of any municipality. Il divest the State, or any of its subordinate subdivisions, of their control I regulation of such use and enjoyment.

Nor shall the power to regulate the charges for public services be surdered; and no exclusive franchise shall ever be granted.

ARTICLE XIX.

INSURANCE.

SECTION 1. No foreign insurance company shall be granted a license or mitted to do business in this State until it shall have complied with the is of the State, including the deposit of such collateral or indemnity for · protection of its patrons within this State as may be prescribed by law, 1 shall agree to pay all such taxes and fees as may at any time be imposed law or act of the legislature, on foreign insurance companies, and a refusal pay such taxes or fees shall work a forfeiture of such license.

SEC. 2. Until otherwise provided by law, all foreign insurance companies, luding surety and bond companies, doing business in the State, except fra; mal insurance companies, shall pay to the insurance commissioner for the e of the State, an entrance fee as follows:

Each foreign life insurance company, per annum, $200; each foreign fire insurance company, per annum, $100; each foreign accident and health insurance company, jointly, per annum, $100; each surety and bond company, per annum, $150; each plate glass insurance company (not accident), per annum $25; each foreign live stock insurance company, per annum, $25.

Until otherwise provided by law, domestic companies excepted, each insurance company, including surety and bond companies, doing business in this State, shall pay an annual tax of 2 per centum on all premiums collected in the State, after all cancellations are deducted, and a tax of $3 on each local agent.

SEC. 3. The revenue and tax provisions of this constitution shall not include, but the State shall provide for, the following classes of insurance organizations not conducted for profit, and insuring only their ower members

First, farm companies insuring farm property and products thereon; s ond, trades insurance companies insuring the property and interest of one line of business; third, fraternal life, health, and accident insurance in fra ternal and civic orders, and in all of which the interests of the members each respectively shall be uniform and mutual.

SEC. 4. All fees collected by the insurance commission shall be paid the State treasurer monthly.

ARTICLE XX.

MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCE.

SECTION 1. Nothing herein shall prevent the manufacture or sale denatured alcohol under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 2. Until changed by the legislature, the flash test provided for und the laws of Oklahoma Territory for all kerosene oil for illuminating purp» shall be 115° Fahrenheit; and the specific gravity test for all such oil. be 40° Baumé,

ARTICLE XXI.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.t

SECTION 1. Educational, reformatory, and 'penal institutions and the for the benefit of the insane, blind, deaf, and mute, and such other instit tions as the public good may require, shall be established and supported the State in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

ARTICLE XXII.

ALIEN AND CORPORATE OWNERSHIP OF LANDS.

SECTION 1. No alien or person who is not a citizen of the United St shall acquire title to or own land in this state, and the legislature shall ent laws whereby all persons not citizens of the United States, and their heirs who may hereafter acquire real estate in this state by devise, descent. otherwise, shall dispose of the same within five years upon condition escheat or forfeiture to the State: Provided, This shall not apply to Indians born within the United States, nor to aliens or persons not citizens of the United States who may become bona fide residents of this State: And pro vided further. That this section shall not apply to lands now owned by aliens in this State.

SEC. 2. No corporation shall be created or licensed in this State for purpose of buying, acquiring, trading, or dealing in real estate other thir real estate located in incorporated cities and towns and as additions there". nor shall any corporation doing business in this State buy, acquire, trade, or deal in real estate for any purpose except such as may be located in sad towns and cities and as additions to such towns and cities, and further excej? such as shall be necessary and proper for carrying on the business for which it was chartered or licensed, nor shall any corporation be created or license! to do business in this State for the purpose of acting as agent in buying and selling land: Provided, however, That corporations shall not be precluded from taking mortgages on real estate to secure loans or debts or from sequir

g title thereto upon foreclosure of such mortgages or in the collection of bts, conditioned that such corporation or corporations shall not hold such al estate for a longer period that seven years after acquiring such title: d provided further, That this section shall not apply to trust companies king only the naked title to real estate in this State as a trustee, to be ld solely as security for indebtedness pursuant to such trust: And proled further. That no public-service corporation shall hold any land, or the le thereof, in any way whatever in this State, except as the same shall be cessary for the transaction and operation of its business as such publicvice corporation.

ARTICLE XXIII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

LABOR.

SECTION 1. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work in all cases of ployment by and on behalf of the State or any county or municipality.

CONVICT LABOR.

SEC. 2. The contracting of convict labor is hereby prohibited.

CHILD LABOR.

SEC. 3. The employment of children, under the age of 15 years, in any upation, injurious to health or morals or especially hazardous to life or b. is hereby prohibited.

SEC. 4. Boys under the age of 16 years, and women and girls, shall not employed, underground, in the operation of mines; and, except in cases emergency, eight hours shall constitute a day's work underground in all es of the State.

SEC. 5. The legislature shall pass laws to protect the health and safety mployees in factories, in mines, and on railroads.

SEC. 6.

CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE.

The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk 1, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact, and shall, at all times, be to the jury.

PERSONAL INJURIES.'

SEC. 7. The right of action to recover damages for injuries resulting in h shall never be abrogated, and the amount recoverable shall not be subto any statutory limitation.

WAIVER OF RIGHTS.

SEC. S. Any provision of a contract, express or implied, made by any son, by which any of the benefits of this constitution is sought to be ved, shall be null and void.

SEC. 9. Any provision of any contract or agreement, express or implied, ulating for notice or demand other than such as may be provided by law, i condition precedent to establish any claim, demand, or liability, shall be and void.

CHANGE IN SALARY, OR EMOLUMENTS.

SEC. 10. Except wherein otherwise provided in this constitution, in no shall the salary or emoluments of any public official be changed after his tion or appointment, or during his term of office, unless by operation of enacted prior to such election or appointment; nor shall the term of any lie official be extended beyond the period for which he was elected or ɔinted: Providled, That all officers within this State shall continue to pera the duties of their offices until their successors shall be duly qualified.

DEFINITION OF RACES.

SEC. 11. Wherever in this constitution and laws of this State, the word words, "colored" or "colored race," "negro" or "negro race," are used, the

same shall be construed to mean or apply to all persons of African desce The term "white race" shall include all other persons.

ARTICLE XXIV.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

SECTION 1. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may proposed in either branch of the legislature, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each of the two houses, sad proposed amendment or amendments shall, with the yeas and nays there be entered in their journals and referred by the secretary of state to the people for their approval or rejection, at the next regular general electe except when the legislature, by two-thirds vote of each house, shall order special election for that purpose. If a majority of all the electors voting such election shall vote in favor of any amendment thereto, it shall there become a part of this constitution.

If two or more amendments are proposed they shall be submitted in manner that electors may vote for or against them separately.

SEC. 2. No convention shall be called by the legislature to propose al ations, revisions, or amendments to this constitution, or to propose a m constitution, unless the law providing for such convention shall first be proved by the people on a referendum vote at a regular or special ele and any amendments, alterations, revisions, or new constitution, prope by such convention, shall be submitted to the electors of the State at a s eral or special election and be approved by a majority of the electors reti thereon, before the same shall become effective: Provided, That the questi of such proposed convention shall be submitted to the people at least in every twenty years.

SEC. 3. This article shall not impair the right of the people to am this constitution by a vote upon an initiative petition therefor.

SCHEDULE.

In order that no inconvenience may arise by reason of a change f the forms of government now existing in the Indian Territory and in Territory of Oklahoma, it is hereby declared as follows:

SECTION 1. No existing rights, actions, suits, proceedings, contracts. claims shall be affected by the change in the forms of government, but shall continue as if no change in the forms of government had taken pa And all processes which may have been issued previous to the admission the State into the Union under the authority of the Territory of Oklabd or under the authority of the laws in force in the Indian Territory shal as valid as if issued in the name of the State.

SEC. 2. All laws in force in the Territory of Oklahoma at the time the admission of the State into the Union, which are not repugnant to th constitution, and which are not locally inapplicable, shall be extended to a remain in force in the State of Oklahoma until they expire by their limitation or are altered or repealed by law.

SEC. 3. All debts, fines, penalties, and forfeitures which have accrued may hereafter accrue to the Territory of Oklahoma shall inure to the State of Oklahoma, and may be sued for and recovered by the State.

SEC. 4. This constitution shall take effect and be in full force in me diately upon the admission of the State into the Union.

SEC. 5. Until otherwise provided by law, notaries public appointed m the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, or under the authority of the las heretofore in force in the Indian Territory, may continue to exercise #d perform the duties of the office of notary public until the expiration of their commissions: Provided, That any notary public appointed in the Indian Te ritory for any district, or in the Territory of Oklahoma for any county, shad after this constitution takes effect, exercise the powers, privileges, and right-of a notary public only of the county formed in whole or in part out of the