CHAPTER 30.

RAILROADS HOSPITALS FOR EMPLOYEES.

(HOUSE BILL No. 136.)

AN ACT requiring all railroad companies operating in the State of Oklahoma, to furnish adequate hospital facilities for employees, conferring jurisdiction upon the Corporation Commission to enforce the provisions of the Act.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Corporation Commission to Regulate.

Section 1. All railroad companies operating a line or lines of railroad, in the State of Oklahoma, or any association or corporation which have heretofore collected, are now collecting, or which may hereafter collect fees or sums of money from the employees of such railroad, association or corporation, or for the purpose of providing or maintaining hospital service for such employees when sick or injured, shall upon the order of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, provide adequate hospital facilities within the State of Oklahoma for its employees who may be injured or become sick.

Regulations-Removal of Injured from State.

Section 2. Jurisdiction and authority is hereby conferred on the Corporation Commission to make investigation, require reports, as to the adequacy of such hospital facilities and condition of funds and by order, require all railroad companies, associations or corporations operating in the State of Oklahoma to establish such facilities as in the discretion of the Commission may be necessary for the prompt and proper relief and medical attention of such sick and injured employees; Provided, no employee shall be taken out of the State of Oklahoma for treatment, without the written consent of such employe, or in case such employe shall be incapable to give or refuse such consent then the company surgeon, if present, or if not present, the coemployees of the sick or injured party, shall be authorized to give such consent, and further, that all corporations, companies, associations or firms operating railroads within the State and who shall maintain hospitals without the State, shall be permitted to take all sick and injured employees to the hospital either within or without the State where the first medical or surgical service and attention can be secured.

Investigations-Protection of Complainant.

Section 3. The Corporation Commission shall make investiations authorized in section 2 of this act, upon its own motion or complaint or an employe of the railroad company, but shall in no case, disclose the name of the employe making the complaint unless authorized to do so by such employe. Approved February 15, 1915.

CHAPTER 31.

TAXATION-DELINQUENCY-INTEREST.

(HOUSE BILL No. 77.)

AN ACT amending section 1. chapter 120, Session Laws of Oklahoma 19101911, fixing the time taxes assessed on ad valorem basis become delinquent, prescribing penalty and providing that no demand for taxes shall be necessary.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Taxes Due-Notice-Interest.

Section 1. That section 1, chapter 120, of the Session Laws of 1910-1911, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1. One-half of all taxes levied upon advalorem basis, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall become due on the first day of November, and unless said one-half of the taxes so levied shall be paid on or before the first day of January, the entire tax levied for such fiscal year shall become delinquent on said date. If the first half of the taxes levied upon an ad valorem basis for any such fiscal year shall have been paid on or before the first day of January, the second half shall become delinquent on the fifteenth day of June thereafter. All delinquent taxes shall, as a penalty, bear interest at the rate of eighteen per centum per annum. Provided that the county treasurer shall stamp the date of receipt on each letter containing fnuds in payment of taxes, and no penalty shall attach after the receipt of the amount due, at said date, by reason of the inability of the county treasurer to enter the same of record on the date received." No demand of taxes shall be necessary but it shall be the duty of every person subject to taxation under the law to attend the

treasurer's office and pay his taxes; and if any person neglects so to attend and pay his taxes until after they have become delinquent, the treasurer is directed and required to collect the same in the manner provided by law.

Approved February 16, 1915.

CHAPTER 32.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS-INCORPORATION OF TOWN OF EAST

DUKE.

(HOUSE BILL No. 319.)

AN ACT legalizing the incorporation of the town of East Duke, in Jackson county, Oklahoma, and legalizing the proceedings and all acts done by the board of trustees of said town, and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Incorporation Legalized.

Section 1. The incorporation of the town of East Duke, Jackson county, Oklahoma, is hereby legalized and made valid as if all acts required by the statutes of the State of Oklahoma in relation to incorporation of towns and villages had been fully and completely complied with.

Acts Validated.

Section 2. All acts heretofore done and all ordinances heretofore passed by the board of trustees of said town of East Duke, which they could have legally done under the statutes of the State of Oklahoma, had such town been legally incorporated, are hereby legalized and made in all respects valid and binding.

Emergency.

Section 3. 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 force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved February 15, 1915.

CHAPTER 33.

APPROPRIATION-DEFICIENCY-STATE AUDITOR.

(SENATE BILL No. 261.)

A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT making an appropriation for the maintenance of the office of State Auditor for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Deficiency Appropriation-State Auditor-Collected Income-Inheritance and Production Taxes.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred sixty-eight dollars ($2,268.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of maintaining the office of State Auditor for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, said sum herein appropriated to be used for the following purposes, to-wit: Postage; supplies; extra help in furthering the collecting of gross income tax, gross production tax, and inheritance; and extra work in making reports to the Legislature.

Emergency.

Section 2. 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 force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved February 16, 1915.

CHAPTER 34.

STATE LOANS-PUBLIC FUNDS-HOME OWNERSHIP.

(SENATE BILL No. 109.)

A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT to encourage and promote home ownership in Oklahoma; providing for the investment of certain designated funds; authorizing the sale of bonds against the securities taken and the reinvestment of the proceeds.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Land Office to Loan Public Funds.

Section 1. The commissioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized and instructed to invest all monies now on hand or that may hereafter be received from the sale of lands commonly known as "State Educational Institution Lands" (same being section 13 or lands taken in lieu thereof), and the "New College Lands," in first mortgage on improved farm land in this State under such rules and regulations as may be provided by said Commissioners of the Land Office not in conflict with the following:

(a) Not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) shall be loaned to any one individual (or family):

(b) All loans shall be secured by first mortgage on farm lands upon which the borrower resides, and holds as his homestead, and the cash value of which, disregarding all improvements, is at least double the amount of the loan.

(c) Notes shall be drawn to run for twenty-three and one-half years, payment of four per cent of the full face value of each note to be made semi-annually; at each payment, interest at the rate of six per cent per annum upon the unpaid balance of such note to be deducted from the amount paid and the remainder to be credited upon the principal of the loan.

(d) Loans from said fund shal! be made only for the following purposes:

First. To assist the borrowers to pay for a home.

Second. To pay off an existing mortgage upon the home. Third. To make permanent improvement upon the home farm; provided, that if such investments as hereinbefore pro-, vided are not reasonably available then such funds may be invested in other securities authorized by the Constitution. Securing Additional Funds-Sale of Notes-Bonds.

Section 2. For the purpose of supplying additional funds for the loans herein authorized to be made, the commissioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized to sell, for not less than par and accrued interest all or any portion of the notes and mortgages or obligations taken for the sale price, or unpaid portion thereof, of any of the land above referred to, such sale to be absolute and without recourse; provided further, that the said commissioners are hereby authorized to issue and sell at not less than par value, bonds drawing not to exceed five per cent per annum interest, payable semi-annually, and to pledge for the payment of same, principal and interest, all notes and mortgages taken for loans from said fund; provided, that the amount of the bonds so issued, sold and outstanding, shall not at any time exceed ninety per cent of the face value of the unpaid portion of the principal of such note.

Bonds-Description.

Section 3. The bonds herein authorized to be issued shall be designated as "Oklahoma Home Ownership Bonds," shall be in denominations of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), one hundred dollars ($100.00), five hundred dollars ($500.00), and one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and shall not be subject to ad valorem