The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
Up-fO- Date Constitution
 As Adobted By Oklahoma

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 which shall be the board of regents of all state agricultural and mechanical colleges.
 Commissioner of the land office, who
 shall have charge of all school lands
 "Perpetuities and monopolies are con- trary to the genius of free government and shall never be allowed" declares the bill of rights, and upon this is based the
 constitutional provisions which leave far in the rear any existing corporation re- strictions.
 As used in the article, the term "3cor-
 poration' or company includes all as
 seciations and joint stock companies hav-
 ing any power or privilege not possessed l by individuals and excludes all municipal corporations and public institutions owned or controlled by the state. Every rail road. oil pipe line, car, express, telephone or telegraph corporation or association
 shall have the right to construct and
 operate it's lne in the state and connect
 at the state line with other like lines,
 anu every such company shall have the ], right with its road or line to intersect, connect with or cross any railroad or such line. Every railroad. car or eX- press company shall receive and trans port without delay or discrimination each others cars; all telegraph and telephone 1 lines shall receive and transmit each others messages without delay or dis elimination.
 NJ public service corporation or the lessees, purchasers or managers thereof
 shall consolidate the stock, property or
 franchises of such corporation with or
 lease or purchase the works or franchise
 of or in any way control any other pub
 lie service corporation owning or hay
 ing under it's control a parallel or com
 peting line. No officer of a corporation shall be an officer of parallel or com
 peting line No franchise shall be grant
 ed to street car line without the con
 sent Of the local authorities.
 No railroad company shall transport within the 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, ex- i cept such articles necessary for the con
 duct of its own business. No railroad
 or transportation company or transmits sion company shall directly or indirectly issue or give any free frank or free pass
 with exceptions similar to the anti-pass
 provisions of the federal law. Three corporation commissions shall be elected for a term of six years, who must not be connected directly or indirectly with any corporation either as stock holder or bondholder, or be otherwise interested, and who shall have power and authority and be charged with the duty | of supervising. regulating and controlling all transportation and transmission com panies in all matters relating to their public duties and their charges there | for
 l All property which may be taxed ad valorem shall be assessed at full and fair
 cash value; ths total taxes on an ad va lorem basis for all purposes shall not ex- ceed in any one year 311a mills on the 1 dollar. Of this the state is to receive not more than 31s mills and the county
 not more than mills.
 Compulsory education is provided for with uniform textbooks and the teaching l of the clements of agriculture, horticul- l ture, stock-feeding and domestic science 1 in the common schools To the legisla- l ture is deputed the power of making the banking laws and laws for insurance and roads and bridges.
 All municipalities must be created un- der the general law, but any city of more than 2000 inhabitants may provide a char ter for itself.
 l No allen shall acquire title to or own l land in the state, and no corporation shall I own or deal in real estate except it be 1 within the limits of a corporate city or | town Eight hours shall constitute a l days work in all cases of state work contracting of convict labor is prohibited :: | child labor in factory or mine is pro- hibited; the amount recoverable for death 1 in personal injury cases shall not be sub ] ject to any statutory limitation; the term white race" when used in the constitu- l tion, shall apply to all persons not of | African descent.
 The prohibition clause, which was adopted by separate vote at the constitu- | tional election, is more stringent than | the Maine law. The manufacture, sale, | barter or giving away or otherwise furn- l ishing of intoxicating liquor is prohibited | in the state for twenty-one years, and 1 thereafter until the state shall otherwise | provide by constitutional amendment. Any l person or corporation who shall manu- | fracture, sell barter or give away, or who l shall advertise for sale or solicit the pur- | chase of such liquors, or who shall ship | or shall convey them from one place to i another shall be fined not less than $50 and sentenced to jail for thirty days for | each offense. An agency Is established in l each county CT the sale of alcohol for l medicinal purposes and of denatured alco- l hol fo- mechanical and educati tional pur- 1 poses, but for medicinal purposes a repu- l table physician shall issue prescription
 after a personal diagnosis of the case, and such prescription shall be a matter 1 of record at the agency and always open l to the inspection of the public or of the 1 officers of the law and no prescription | snail be filled more than once.