lars and by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than one nor more than five years.

Time of Taking Effect.

Section 10. This Act shall take effect and be in force on

and after July 1st, 1915.

Approved March 22, 1915.

CHAPTER 239.

COUNTY CLerks-OfficE HOURS.

(HOUSE BILL No. 318.)

AN ACT amending section 1582 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, relating to county clerks, and declaring an emergency.

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

Office Hours Fixed.

Section 1. Section 1582 of the Revised Laws of the state of Oklahoma is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 1582. The county clerk shall keep his office open from 8:00 o'clock a. m. to 5:00 p. m., of each secular day. 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 March 22, 1915.

CHAPTER 240.

STATE EXAMINER AND INSPECTOR-STENOGRAPHER.

(HOUSE BILL No. 506.)

AN ACT creating the position of stenographer in the State Examiner and Inspector's department, and fixing compensation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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

Position of Stenographer Created.

Section 1. The position of stenographer for the State Examiner and Inspector's department is hereby created and established and the salary and compensation therefor shall be $1.000.00 per annum.

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 March 22, 1915.

CHAPTER 241.

APPROPRIATION-STATE CAPITOL BUILDING.

(SENATE BILL No. 442.)

AN ACT making an appropriation for the construction of the State Capitol, and declaring an emergency.

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

Public Building Funds Transferred-Provisions for Repayment.

Section 1. The Commissioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand ($750,000.00) dollars now in their custody and known as public building funds, to the State Treasury; provided, that if the whole of said sum of seven hundred fifty thousand ($750,000) dollars is not now available for transfer such sums as are available in the hands of said commissioners shall be transferred to said State Treasury, as provided herein; and provided further, that such additional funds known as public building funds, as may become available from time to time, shall be transferred to said State Treasury until the whole of said amount of seven hundred fifty thousand ($750,000) dollars shall have been transferred as provided herein. And all said funds transferred as herein authorized and directed, shall be by said State Treasurer deposited in the state capitol building fund; provided, that this transfer of funds from the custody of said commissioners of the land office to the State Treasury, as herein provided, shall be construed to be a loan from said Commissioners of the Land Office, and in the event sufficient funds do not accrue to said public building funds from the sale of public building lands heretofore pledged to secure the payment of public building bonds heretofore issued, to mature all of said public building bonds now outstanding and interest thereon as same may become due and payable, then the state of Oklahoma hereby

pledges its credit to the extent of four hundred thousand ($400,000) dollars and agrees to provide by appropriation or otherwise sufficient funds to meet such public building bonds and the coupons thereto attached, to the amount as herein provided, with interest at the rate provided in said bonds, under the provisions of this Act. The said sum herein authorized and directed to be transferred to the State Treasury and covered into the said state capitol building fund, being in the total sum of seven hundred fifty thousand ($750,000.00) dollars or so much thereof as may be available, and as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from said state capitol building fund for the purpose of constructing the state capitol and for purchasing or condemning additional land contiguous to the state capitol building site. The capitol commission shall also have power to purchase anything deemed necessary in the construction of the capitol. Provided, the State Capitol Commission is hereby authorized to exchange any of the lands donated to the state capitol purposes for the lands adjacent or continguous to the state capitol building site; provided, that no part of the appropriation made herein shall be paid out except upon claims approved by the Governor, and his acts in approving such claims shall be subject to review only by the Legislature; and provided further, that when the capitol building lands as mentioned in Senate Joint Resolution No. 7, approved March 17, 1913, are sold, the proceeds of the sale of said public lands shall be returned to the funds known as the game protection funds and the public building funds in proportion to the amount borrowed from said funds for the completion of the state capitol building.

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.

Approved March 23, 1915.

CHAPTER 242.

APPROPRIATION-STATE PENITENTIARY-COMPLETION AND

EQUIPMENT.

(HOUSE BILL No. 429.)

AN ACT making an appropriation for the completion and equipment of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma.

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

Appropriation-Completion and Equipment.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury of Oklahoma, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to use for the purpose of completing and equipping the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma.

Approved March 23, 1915.

CHAPTER 243.

APPROPRIATION-STATE PENITENTIARY-INSTALLING BUSINESS

ENTERPRISES.

(HOUSE BILL No. 467.)

AN ACT making an appropriation for the purpose of installing and equipping business enterprises, occupations, factories, shops, manufactories, farming and other business to be used at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:
Appropriation-Installing Business Enterprises.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of installing and equipping such business enterprises, occupations, factories, shops, manufactories, farming, or any other business to be used by the State Board of Public Affairs, with the approval of the Governor, as in their judgment may be necessary to employ the inmates of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, as follows:

For purposes above enumerated for 1916_
For purposes above enumerated for 1917-

-$50,000.00
50,000.00

Provided, the said State Board of Public Affairs shall submit to the next legislature an itemized statement of all claims allowed against the appropriation herein made.

Approved March 23, 1915.

CHAPTER 244.

COURT TOWNS-CORNISH LAW REPEALED.

(HOUSE BILL No. 646.)

AN ACT repealing sections 1911, 1912. 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917. 1918, and 1919, of chapter 21, article 2, of Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910.

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

Repeal.

Section 1. That Sections 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919, of chapter 21, article 2, of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved March 23, 1915.

CHAPTER 245.

COURT TOWNS-COURT AT RINGLING, JEFFERSON COUNTY.

(HOUSE BILL No. 647.)

AN ACT dividing the county of Jefferson into two county court districts, establishing a county court at Ringling, prescribing the powers of said court, the territorial jurisdiction, providing for a clerk of said court, the expenses of county judge in holding said court, and declaring an emergency.

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

Court Districts, Jefferson County.

Section 1. That Jefferson county shall be divided into two county court districts, to be known hereafter as district number one and district number two.

Districts Defined.

Section 2.

District number one shall contain all the west part of the county down to line designated by the county commissioners of said county, and the county seat shall be the court town in said district.

District No. 2-Court Room.

Section 3. District number two shall contain all that part of the county not contained in number one, and Ringling shall be the court town in district number two; provided, that all necessary offices and court rooms shall be furnished free of cost to the county.