The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-05-03


Act to Amend Section sixteen, Seven
teen and Twenty Of an Act Entitled
An Act to Enable the People Of Ok.
lahoma and Indian Territory to form
Constitution and state government
and TO be admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the original
New Mexico and Arizona to form
constitution ard state government and
be admitted into the Union on an
equal footing with the original
states" are hereby accepted and the
jurisdiction of the cases enumerated
therein is hereby assumed by the
courts Of the state.
Sec 20. ANY person who shall be
a qualified elector Of any county of a
judicial district at the time Of the
election held to ratify this constitu-
tion and who shall in all other re-
spects be eligible under the proyis-
ions of this constitution to be elected
Judge OF the district court Of srch dis
trict, shall be eligible to be elected
Judge Of the district court Of such dis
trlct, at the first election held for the
election of STATE officers.
Sec 80. Any person who shall
have been a resident II the territory
within the limits Of the state for
period OF one year next preceding the
date on which the election for the rat.
ification OF the constitution is held
and who shall otherwise be eligible
under the provisions of this constitu-
ton to be elected to any state Office
shall be eligible TO be elected to any
such state office at the first election
to be held for the election of state Of
ficers.
Sec. 81. The assessment OF prop
erty in the Usage Indian Reservation
for the year 1907 by the authorities of
Pawnee county shall be the assess
ment Of Usage county for the year
1907 and the proper authorities OF
Pawnee county shall levy tax on
the property OF the Usage Indian Res
ervation for the year 1907 as now
provided by law, and that immediate
| ~ upon the admission Of the state In.
to the Union, the county treasurer OF
Pawnee county shall turn over to the
county treasurer of Usage county the
tax books and records OF taxes in the
Usage Indian Reservation so made for
the year 1907, and the treasurer of
Usage county shall proceed and have
the authority to receive all such taxes
In the Usage Indian Reservation for
the year 1907, and such taxes shall
be collected and enforced In the man
ner provided by law. And there shall
he collected in addition to the tax so
levied by the authorities of Pawnee
county, a county school tax of ten
mills on the dollar of the assessed
valuation, and the same shall be and
become the property of the said
Usage county: Provided, that out of
the funds so collected the county
treasurer OF Usage county shall pay
To the county treasurer of Pawnee
county the costs and expenses OF max
ing such assessment and the levying
OF such taxes.
Sec. 32. The legislature shall pro
vide by general, special or local law
for the equitable division of the prop
erty, assets and liabilities of any
school district existing in the Terri
tory of Oklahoma between such school
district and any new school district
created in whole or In part out OF
the territory of any such school dis
trict as may be affected by change
in the cunty boundaries under this
constitution.
Sec. 80. All attorneys at law II
censed to practice in any court o
record OF the Territory of Oklahoma
or in any OF the United States courts
for the Indian Territory, OF any cour
OF record or any OF the flVe clVllze'
> tribes, shall be eligible to practice ii
p any court OF the state without exami
nation.
= Sec. "a. Until otherwise provide'
by law. any newspaper, published a
the time of the admission OF the stat
into the Union, in any new count.
= created in whole Or in part out OF th'
= territory OF any county OF Oklahomi
/ Territory. or in any county. create
, in whole or In part. out ef the terri
! tory within the limits of the india'
= Territory or Usage Indian Reserva
t ton, shall. under the laws extende'
. In force in the state, be considered, II
a law TO have been published continu
r ously for fifty-two weeks In said cour
4 ty, and shall be a newspaper entitle