strict or county for which such person is a notary public, and in which such rson resides at the time the State is admitted into the Union; but before y such notary public, except notaries public for those counties in the Terriy of Oklahoma, the boundaries of which have not been changed by the stitution, shall exercise the powers, privileges, and rights of a notary blic of such county, he shall have filed in the office of the county clerk of e county in which he resides his commission as notary public and an affivit stating that he is a resident of such county, whereupon he shall become notary public for such county.

SEC. 6. The appointments of female persons as notaries public, heretoe made by the Governor of Oklahoma, and by the United States courts for è Indian Territory, and by the judges of said courts, are hereby confirmed d made valid, and all official acts of such notaries public heretofore permed are hereby validated, in so far as the acts of such notaries public y be affected by any ineligibility of such persons to appointment as notaries lic. Female persons possessing the other qualifications prescribed by law all be eligible to the office of notary public and of county superintendent of blic instruction,

SEC. 7. All property, real and personal, credits, claims, and choses in ion. belonging to the Territory of Oklahoma at the time the State is adted into the Union, shall be vested in and become the property of the te of Oklahoma.

SEC. 8. All judgments and records of deeds, mortgages, liens, and other truments, filed or recorded, affecting the title to real and personal propv in the Indian Territory and Osage Indian Reservation, are hereby made effectual to impart notice and for all other purposes under the laws of the ritory of Oklahoma extended in force in the State, as they were under laws heretofore in force in the Indian Territory and Osage Indian Reserion. SEC. 9. All judgments and records of deeds, mortgages, liens, and other truments, filed or recorded, affecting title to real and personal property in counties that have been created out of the territory of any county or nties of the Territory of Oklahoma, or out of the territory of any county counties of the Territory of Oklahoma and of any recording district or ricts of the Indian Territory, are hereby made as effectual to impart ice and for all other purposes under the laws of the Territory of Oklaoa. extended in force in the State, as the same would have been if no nges had been made by the provisions of this constitution in the bounds of the counties as they existed in the Territory of Oklahoma, or of the ndaries of the recording districts as they existed in the Indian Territory. SEC. 10. Until otherwise provided by law, incorporated cities and towns, etofore incorporated under the laws in force in the Territory of Oklahoma in the Indian Territory, shall continue their corporate existence under the s extended in force in the State, and all officers of such municipal corpoions at the time of the admission of the State into the Union shall perm the duties of their respective offices under the laws extended in force the State, until their successors are elected and qualified in the manner t is or may be provided by law: Provided, That all valid ordinances now force in such incorporated cities and towns shall continue in force until red, amended, or repealed.

SEC. 11. All taxes assessed or due to incorporated cities and towns in Indian Territory, and all taxes levied by such incorporated cities and ms for the year 1907 shall, until otherwise provided by law, be levied I collected in the same manner as now provided by law in force in the Han Territory, and under the laws and ordinances now in force in such nicipal corporations.

SEC. 12. In all incorporated cities and towns in the Indian Territory, all improvements or public buildings in process of being made or conucted under the laws in force in the Indian Territory, or for which prodings having been commenced under such laws at the time of the admisa of the State into the Union, shall be completed under said laws, and said

laws are hereby extended in force as to such improvements or public buildings until such local improvements or public buildings are completed and paid for, as by such laws provided.

SEC. 13. The act of Congress entitled "An act for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories," approved March 3, 1891, and the act of Congress entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories,'" approved July 1, 1902, are hereb extended to and over the State of Oklahoma until otherwise provided by law: Provided, That the words, "governor of the State" are hereby substituted for the words, "governor of such organized territory," and for the words » "secretary of interior." wherever the same appear in said acts, and the words "chief mine inspector," for the words, "mine inspector," wherever the same appear in said acts. The chief mine inspector shall also perform the duties required by laws of the Territory of Oklahoma of the territorial oil inspecte until otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 14. Until otherwise provided by law. all dental surgeons licensed practice in the Territory of Oklahoma and all dental surgeons who were re dents of the Indian Territory on the 16th day of June, 1906, and also all gra uates of some reputable school or college of dental surgery, shall be eligiblem and be licensed to practice in the State without examination.

SEC. 15. Until otherwise provided by law, the officers of the State sh receive annually as compensation for their services, the following sums:

The governor, $4,500; lieutenant-governor, $1,000; secretary of st $2,500; attorney-general, $4,000; state treasurer, $3,000; state auditor, $2500 state examiner and inspector, $3,000; chief mine inspector, $3,000; labor over missioner, $2,000; commissioner of charities and corrections, $1,500; corpo tion commissioners, $4,000 each; superintendent of public instruction, $2,50 the insurance commissioner, $2,500.

SEC. 16. The salary, of the justices of the supreme court of the States be $4,000 per annum each, and that of the judges of the district court, G per annum each, until changed by the legislature.

SEC. 17. The members of the board of agriculture, bank commission clerk of the supreme court, and all other State officers, except as herein p vided, or such as may be created, and all clerks and assistants, shall rece such compensation for their services as may be provided by law.

SEC. 18. Until otherwise provided by law, the terms, duties, powers, qu ifications, and salary and compensation of all county and township office not otherwise provided in this constitution, shall be as now provided by be laws of the Territory of Oklahoma for like named officers, and the durin and compensation of the probate judge under such laws shall devolve upon belong to the judge of the county court: Provided, That the term of off of those elected at the time of the adoption of this constitution, or fin appointed under the provisions of the laws extended in force in the State shall expire on the second Monday of January in the year 1911: And vided further, That county attorneys and judges of the county court of the several counties of the State, having a population of more than 20,000 shaf be paid a salary of $2,000 per annum; and of counties having a population more than 30,000, a salary of $2,500 per annum; and of counties having population of more than 40,000 a salary of $3,000 per annum; such salarie to be paid in the same manner as is provided by law in force in the Territory.. of Oklahoma for the payment of salaries to county attorneys.

SEC. 19. Until, otherwise provided by law, the boards of regents of the University of Oklahoma, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, of the Normal schools now established, of the University Preparatory School, and of the Colored Agricultural and Normal and University, shall continue to hold their offices and exercise the functions thereof until their successors are electal or appointed and qualified.

SEC. 20. The legislature shall provide by general, special, or local law for the equitable division of the property, assets, and liabilities of any couRİY existing in the Territory of Oklahoma between such county and any nes

ounty or counties created in whole or in part out of the territory of such Junty.

SEC. 21. All property, real and personal, and credits, claims, and choses It action, belonging to the county of Day at the time of the admission of the tate into the Union, shall be vested in and become the property of the county 'Ellis: Provided, The legislature shall provide, by general, special, or local w. for the equitable division of the assets of Day County, thus transferred Ellis County, and of the liabilities of Day County, between the counties of oger Mills and Ellis.

SEC. 22. The clerk of the supreme court shall procure a seal and cause ich inscription to be placed thereon as may be prescribed by the supreme urt. Each clerk of the district court shall procure a seal, and, under the rection of the judge of the district court, cause to be inscribed thereon the yle of his office and the name of his county. Each county clerk, county easurer, register of deeds, county surveyor, and county superintendent of blic instruction, shall procure a seal, and, under the direction of the county dge, cause to be inscribed thereon the style of his office and the name of s county. Said seal shall be sufficient and used for all lawful purposes until herwise provided by law: Provided, That, until any of such officers shall ve procured a seal, the signature of any such officer shall be sufficient for I purposes without a seal.

SEC. 23. When this constitution shall go into effect, the books, records, pers, and proceedings of the probate court in each county, and all causes d matters of administration and guardianship, and other matters pending erein, shall be transferred to the county court of such county, except Day unty, which shall be transferred to the county court of Ellis County, and e county courts of the respective counties shall proceed to final decree or dgment, order, or other termination in the said several matters and causes the said probate court might have done if this constitution had not been opted. The district court of any county, the successor of the United States urt for the Indian Territory, in each of the counties formed in whole or in rt in the Indian Territory, shall transfer to the county court of such county matters, proceedings, records, books, papers, and documents appertaining all causes or proceedings relating to estates: Provided, That the legislature y provide for the transfer of any of said matters and causes to another unty than herein prescribed.

SEC. 24. Until otherwise provided by law, the seal of the probate courts the counties of the Territory of Oklahoma shall be the seal of the county urts, and in that part of the State heretofore comprising the Indian Terriry and Osage Indian Reservation, and in the new counties created in the rritory of Oklahoma, until the county court shall have procured a proper al, the signature of the county judge shall be sufficient for all purposes thout a seal.

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SEC. 25. Any county, city, incorporated town, township, board of educa-"' on, school district, or other municipality, either in the Territory of Oklaor the Indian Territory, that shall owe, at the time of the admission the State into the Union, any indebtedness, evidenced by warrants, scrip. other evidence of indebtedness, is authorized, through the proper officers ereof, to make provision for the payment of, and to pay, such indebtedness, ther by tax levy or by issuing bonds in lieu thereof, in accordance with and der the provision of the laws extended in force in the State: Provided. That e limitation upon the amount of indebtedness that may be created by any unty, city, incorporated town, township, board of education, school district. other municipality, and upon the amount of taxes that may be levied by y county, city, incorporated town, township, board of education, school disict, or other municipality, under the provisions of this constitution, or of w, shall not apply to the indebtedness, the levying of taxes, and the issuing bonds provided for herein.

SEC. 26. All cases, civil and criminal, pending, upon the admission of e State into the Union, in the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma,

on appeal or writ of error from the district or probate courts of any comy or subdivision within the limits of the State, and the papers, records, preceedings, and seal of said court shall be transferred to the supreme cour of the State, except as is otherwise provided in the enabling act of Congress. And all cases, civil and criminal, pending, on the admission of the State inte the Union, in the United States court of appeals for the Indian Territory, and the papers, records, and proceedings of said court, shall be transferred to the supreme court of the State, except as is otherwise provided by the enabling act of Congress and the amendments thereto.

SEC. 27. All cases, civil and criminal, pending, at the time of the admis sion of the State into the Union, in the district courts of the Territory Oklahoma, in any county within the district, and the records, papers, and proceedings of said district court, and the seal and other property appertaining thereto, shall be transferred into the district court of the State for strin county, except as is provided in the enabling act of Congress, and all cas civil and criminal, pending, at the time of the admission of the State in the Union, in the United States court for the Indian Territory, within th limits of any county created in whole or in part within the limits of whom was heretofore the Indian Territory, and all records, papers, and proceedings ma of said United States courts for the Indian Territory, and the seal and othe property appertaining thereto, shall be transferred to the district court the State for such county, except as is provided in the enabling act of Ca gress and the amendments thereto: Provided, That the legislature may vide for the transfer of any such cases from one county to another county. SEC. 28. The terms and provisions of an act of Congress, entitled “A act to amend sections 16, 17 and 20, of an act entitled 'An act to enable the people of Oklahoma and Indian Territory to form a constitution and Sta government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with th original States, and to enable the people of New Mexico and Arizona to for a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on equal footing with the original States,'" are hereby accepted, and the jus diction of the cases enumerated therein is hereby assumed by the courts the State.

SEC. 29. Any person who shall be a qualified elector of any county of judicial district at the time of the election held to ratify this constitutio and who shall, in all other respects, be eligible under the provisions of the constitution, to be elected judge of the district court of such district, shap be eligible to the elected judge of the district court of such district at the first election held for the election of State officers.

SEC. 30. Any person who shall have been a resident of the territory with the limits of the State for a period of one year next preceding the date which the election for the ratification of the constitution is held, and whe shall otherwise be eligible, under the provisions of this constitution, to be elected to any State office, shall be eligible to be elected to any such State office at the first election held for the election of State officers.

SEC. 31. The assessment of property in the Osage Indian Reservation f the year 1907, by the authorities of Pawnee County, shall be the assessment of Osage County for the year 1907, and the proper authorities of Pawie County shall levy a tax on the property of the Osage Indian Reservation for the year 1907, as now provided by law, and immediately upon the admissio of the State into the Union, the county treasurer of Pawnee County shall turn over to the county treasurer of Osage County the tax books and records of taxes in the Osage Indian Reservation, so made for the year 1907, and the treasurer of Osage County shall proceed and have the authority to receive all such taxes in the Osage Indian Reservation for the year 1907, and such taxes shall be collected and enforced in the manner provided by law. And there shall also be collected. in addition to the tax so levied by the authorities of Pawnee County, a county school tax of 10 mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation, and the same shall be and become the property of said Osage County: Provided, That, out of the funds so collected, the county trea urer of Osage County shall pay to the county treasurer of Pawnee County

cost and expenses of making such assessment and the levying of such

SEC. 32. The legislature shall provide by general, special, or local law the equitable division of the property, assets, and liabilities of any school rict existing in the Territory of Oklahoma between such school district any new school district created in whole or in part of the territory of such school district, as may be affected by a change in the county bound3 under this constitution.

SEC. 33. All attorneys at law licensed to practice in any court of record he Territory of Oklahoma, or in any of the United States courts for the an Territory, or any court of record of any of the Five Civilized Tribes, be eligible to practice in any court of the State without examination. SEC. 34. Until otherwise provided by law, any newspaper, published at time of the admission of the State into the Union, in any new county, ed in whole or in part out of the territory of any county of Oklahoma itory, or in any county, created in whole or in part, out of territory in the limits of the Indian Territory or Osage Indian Reservation, shall, r the laws extended in force in the State, be considered, in law, to have published continuously for fifty-two weeks in said county and shall be wspaper entitled to publish all legal notices, advertisements, or publins of any kind required or provided by any law of the State. SEC. 35. All debts and indebtedness, authorized to be incurred by the itutional convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, and all exes of holding the election for the ratification or rejection of this constin and for the election of officers of a full state government, which shall in unpaid after the appropriation made by the Congress of the United s has been exhausted, are hereby assumed by the State; and it is hereby the duty of the legislature, at its first session, to provide for the payof same: Provided, That the debts and indebtedness, the payment of is hereby assumed by the State, shall not include any debt or expense salary or compensation of the delegates of the constitutional convention. SEC. 36. The ordinance adopted by the constitutional convention, entitled, ordinance, providing for an election, at which the proposed constitution he proposed State of Oklahoma shall be submitted to the people thereof atification or rejection, and submitting separately to the people of the sed State of Oklahoma the proposed prohibition article, making subfally the terms of the enabling actˇ uniformly applicable to the entire , for ratification or rejection, and for the election of certain State, discounty, and township officers provided for by said proposed constituand for the election of members of the legislature of said proposed of Oklahoma and for five Representatives to Congress," is hereby ratiind shall be valid for all the purposes thereof.

SEC. 37. Nothing in this constitution contained shall legalize or make any illegal or invalid indebtedness of any county, city, incorporated town, ship. board of education, school district, or other municipality, either in Territory of Oklahoma or the Indian Territory, or impair any defense ist the payment of the same. SEC. 38. Should the first session of the legislature, provided by this conion, fail to provide for the division of the property, assets, and liabilities y county existing in the Territory of Oklahoma between such county and county or counties created in whole or in part out of such county, original liction is hereby conferred upon the supreme court to make equitable ion of such property, assets, and liabilities, and for the purpose of hearnd receiving evidence and reporting findings of law and fact may appoint cial master in chancery in any such case.

SEC. 39. The qualifications prescribed by the laws of Oklahoma shall not to superintendents of public instruction, elected at the time of the ration of this constitution, in the Indian Territory and Osage Indian ReserSEC. 40.

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The terms of all officers of the State government elected at the