The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-18
LEGISLATORS AT WORK.
Proceedings of ORlahoras Law
Making Body.
What ,hr Representatives "t tho r"opie
nre Doing Conden ed Report OF
the Work of the Fast
Week.
corxo,.-roRrY.rtnsr DAY.


tory by operation OF this law.
nousK -FuRTY-FiRsT DAY.
There were no bills introduced and
no other business, except the recon-
menda,ion ty the committee OF some
bills done previously, but the house
went Immediately into the discussion
of the fee aud salary bill.
The quarantine bill will be the next
bill brought mp in the house.
UsE-FoETY-sECoND DAY
The following bills were introduced:
To provide for testing and inspect
ing weights and measures
TO provide for the Immediate relief
Of taxpavers I'D extending penalties
on taxes OF loJ6.
To provide for the issuance Of bonds
in settlement of judgments against
municipalities.
To establish n territorial board OF
embnlmiug to provide for II better pro-
lection Of life and health; to prevent
the spread of contagious diseases.
CouNCu.-FoRTY-s SECOND DAY.
Two hi Is were introduced;
Council bill No. 17o, by Senator
Learned. and amends section ~ of
article 10, chapter 10, of the statutes
of 1898
Council bill No. 1s0, introduced by
Mr. Gould, relates TO the sale of lands
and town lots for taxes.
CoUrCnL-FoRrY-T DAY.
A special dispatch says: For few
moments it looked very Lluch as
though the council would break up in
n row this afternoon, and the trouble
was only avcrted by the frmness OF
President Pro TEN Garrison"
There was hot debate between
Senators johnson and DeBcis. The
discussion arose over the introduction
by johnson of a bill providing for the
issuance of certain bonds in payment
of judgments against counties and
municipal corporations.
FoRTY-FoURTH DAY.
The house spent its time on three
measures:
Mr.. May's bin to establish "a school
| of mining at Ncwlirk, was reconsid-
cred aud defeated by n vote of II To l3.
! The house reconsidered it's rescind-
| ing from it's amendment to the gold
| con tract bill, the amendment being to
allow railroad corpo, ations TO make
gold corporations.
Woodmansee's resolution that this
legislature take no action in changing
county seats and county lines was
adopted by the house.
FoRTY-FIFTH DAY.
The following house bill has now
| become a law:
An act providing for uniformity of mar
r!ages, defining the manner OF contracting
she same, prescribing penalties for viola
tons thereof and repeating chapter 40 of
the statues of Oklahoma o: 1885, entitled
Marriage Contract"
| Be It enacted by the legislative assembly
OF the Territory of Oklahoma:
Section /. Marriage Is a personal relation
| arising out of a civil contract to which the
consent of parties legally competent of con-
tracing and of entering into IT, Is neces-
sary, and the marriage relation shall only
he entered into, maintained or abrogatcd as
provided by law.
Sec 2. Marriage between parents and
children, ancestors and defendants of any
degree, of a step-father with a step-daugh-
uncles and n.cces. aunts and nephews, be
tween brothers and sisters of the half as
well as the whole blood. father-.n- law and
daughter-!n n-law, mother-iu-law and son-in
law and first cousins are declared to be m
cestuous, Illegal and void, and are express
ly prohibited.
Sec 3. Any unmarried male Of the ags
of q years or upward or any unmarried
female of the age of is or upward and not
otherwise disqualified, Is capable OF con-
tracting and consentng to marriage; bu'
no female under the age of IS and no mails
under the age of 81 shall enter into the mar
riagc relation except by the consent g.ver
In writing by parent or guardnan, and
every male under the age of IS and every
female under the age of 15 are expressly
prohibited from entering into the marriage
relation. Prodved that this section shall
not oe construed TO prevent the courts from
authorizing the marriage OF persons IN set
tlement of suits for seduction or bastardy
when such marriage would not be inccstu
Gus under this act.
Sec 4. No person shall enter into or con
: tract the marriage relation, nor shall any
7 person perform or solemn!ze the ceremony
/ of any marriage In this territory authoriz
ing the marriage and the solemnlzation ol
performance OF the ceremony thereof be
tween the persons named in such license.
Sec. l6. All marriages OF persons Of th'
I white race with persons of the nagro rac'
: are prohibited.
| Sec. II. Any person. male or female, Nv
, ing with another person OF the opposite SCI
, as husband and wife without being lawful
iy married as required by the provisions o
this act. and any person entering into tn
marriage relation contrary to the provision
? of this act, and any probate judge knowing
I ly Issuing any marriage License contrar,
: to the provisions OF this act, or any persoi
Knowingly performing or solemnizlng tn
marriage ceremony contrary to any OF tn
provisions OF this act shall be guilty OF |
misdemeanor and upon conviction be pun
ished by fine of not less than 500 nor NOR
, than $500. or by imprisonment in the count!
, jail not less than thirty days nor more thai
, one year, or by both such fine and i'm
. prisonment.
Sec. 49, All of chapter is OF the statute
; OF Oklahoma O. 1893 entitled "Marriag
Contracts" and all acts and parts of act
inconsistent herewith are herewith an
. hereby repealed.
Sec 10. This act shall be In force ant
effect from and after It's passage and ap
proval.
The governor signed two council
bills, No. 81 and 70. 2s. The frs
: amends the school law by changing
the time OF annual meeting Of schoo
district boar ds from the second Tues
= day in May to the second Tuesday il
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