The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-05-06

aay such property from execution and
SALE
See s. No pu6ie service corporation
or thc isgsees. purchasers Or managers
thereof shall consolidate the stock. prop
erty Or franchise Of such corporation
with. Or lease or purchase the works or
franchises of. or IN any way control, any
Other public service corporation. owning
or having under It's control a parallel
or competing line: or shall any officer OF
any other corporation owning or con-
trolling a parallel or competing line.
Sec. 9. Neither shall any railroad com
pany transportation company or trans
mission company, organized under the
laws in this state, consolidate by private
or judicial sale. or otherwise. with any
railroad company. transportation com
pany. or transmission company organized
under the laws OF any other state, OF Of
the United States.
Sec. 1e No law shall be passed BY the
legislature granting the right to con-
struet and operate street railroad with
in any city. town or village, not upon
any public highway without first ac-
quirng the consent Of the local authors
ties having control OF the street OF high
way proposed to be occupied by such
street railroad
Sec. H. No railroad transportation,
transmission or other public service cor
poration in existence at the time Of the
adoption Of this constitution. shall have
the benefit OF any future legislation. ex-
cept on condition Of complete acceptance
Of all the provisions OF this constitu-
ton, applicable to railroads. transporta-
tion companies. transmission companies
and other public service corporations;
provided. that nothing herein shall be
construed as validating any charter
which may be invalid, or waving any
OF the conditions contained in any char
ter.
Sec. 12 No railroad company shall
transport, within this state, any article
or commodity manufactured. mined, or
produced by It. or under its authority,
or which It may own, in whole or in part.
or in which it may have any interest,
direct or indirect, except such articles
or commodities as may be necessary ana
Intended for its use in the conduct OF
Its business as a common carrier.
Sec 10. No railroad corporation or
transportation company. or transmission
company shall directly or indirectly is
sue or give any free frank or free ticket,
free pass Or other free transportation.
for any use within this state except to
its employees and their families Its Off
GERS. agents, surgeons. physicians and at
torneys at law, to mfalsters Of religion.
travelling secretaries for railroad Young
Mems Christian associations. inmates Of
hospitals and charitable and eleemosy-
nary institutions and persons exclusive
ly engaged in charitable and eleemosy-
nary work: to INDECENT, destitute AMI
homeless persons, and to such persons
when transported by charitable societies
or hospitals and the necessary agentI
employed in such transportation: to in
mates Of the national homes. or state
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers.
and Of soldiers and sailors homes, in
GLIDING those about to enter and those
returning home after discharge. and
boards Of managers OF such homes. to
members Of volunteer fire departments
and their equipage. while travelling as
such, to necessary caretakers OF live
stock, poultry. and fruit; 10 employees
OF sleeping cars. Of express cars.
and to llnemen OF telegraph and tele-
phone companies; to railway mail serv-
Ice employees, postoffIce inspectors, Gus
toms inspectors. and immigration in
speetors; to newsboys Oh trains, bag
gage agents, witnesses attending any
legal investigation in which the rail- Dad
company or transportation company is
interested, persons injured in wrecks,
and physicians and nurses attending
such persons; provided, that this provis-
ion shall not be construed to prohibit
the Interchange Of passes for the officers,
agents and employees Of common car
riers and their families; nor to prohibit
any common carriers from carrying pas
sengers free with the object Of provid-
Ing relief In cases Of general epidemic,
pestilence, or other calamltous visitation:
nor to prevent them from transporting
free Of charge to their places Of employ
nient, persons entering the service and
the interchange of passes to that end;
and any railroad. transportation. or
transmission company or any person,
other than the persons excepted in this
provision, who grants OF uses any such
free frank. free ticket free pass, for
free transportation within this state. shall
be deemed guilty of crime. and the
legislature shall provide proper penalties
for the violation OF any provision Of this
section by the railroad or transportation
or transmission company, or by any in
dividuaii provided, that nothing herein
shall prevent the Legislature from extend
ins these provisions so as to exclude
such free transportations Of franks from
other persons.
Sec. Il. No railroad hereafter con-
structed in this state shall pass within
a distance OF four miles Of any county
seat without passing through the same
and establishing and maintaining depot
therein. unless prevented by natural OBJ
stacles such as streams hills or noun
tains; provided, such town, or its citl-
zens. shall grant the right-of- way
through its limits and sufficient ground
for ordinary depot purposes.
Corporation Commission.
Sec. Is. A corporation commission Is
hereby created, to be composed Of three
persons. who shall be elected by the poo.
pie al general election for state off