The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-20
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| Capital LOCATION biz TO be voted on
june ii. boiled down for tht behent
q bas:y g~oplc with such addItlona !
aud lnterlincations as seem peIllHen'
to the author).
A bill by the 'peepul" entitled "an
act to Immediately dispose Of me
state capital and 100000 IN tax
moneys and to authorize the obllg@.
ing OF this state for the payment OF
any additional sum desired.
BE il enacted by the Oklahoma Cily
lot owners. and their contederates ana
allies, in special election assembled
June II, 1910.
Section l. The governor of this
state is hereby authorized TO appoint
three agents or commissioners VINO
/ are hereby declared to be a real es'
tate corporation. permitted to do bus
| mess in the name Of the state OF Ok-
| lahoms; said commissioners shall re-
| ceivc from the state a salary of iour
thousand dollars each per annum, ana
shall have authority to employ Jaw
Iye.s, clerks architects, engineers ana
4 anybody else desired and TO pay them
with state money any salary they see
4 ut.
Section 2. The sum of six hundred
thousand dollars is hereby approprl'
atcd and shall be Immediately avail
ablc, out Of the general lunds 81 thls
state, to start the above authorized
real estate company in business; CON
ditloned only that they must NOT pul,
\ chase over two thousand acres OF
4 land and that within five miles ol
j Oklahoma City
\ Section 8 The said company i
i hereby authorized 70 make such loca
i ton of the state capital as VIII Des'
j enhance the value OF any real estate
i ph chased by thom, or owned by thelI
Il friends. conlcderates or allies
i Section l. Said company IS author
II lied To Investigate plans and paN
architect fees without limit; also tt
contract for the erection OF a graud
\ ana beautiful structure" as the cap
ltal OF this state, with no limit as tt
! price, and no other limitation eXcepI
that il shall be built OF Oklahoma ma
4 lcrial; provide, however, that thl
.contract provided for in this section
4 shall not be binding upon the stnt'
, until all of our state institutions shal
have received nice appropriations
and tho members Of the Legislature
otherwise "paclhed' as may be nee
essary TO secure their approval Of th'
contract
| Section S. Should Il develop upol
final contamination Of this deal
that same is likely To he 80 burden
some or otherwise Objectionable t
the people of this state as to cause
Z apprehension that the referendum
4. might be invoked against the act 0
/. the legislature approving the contrac
for capitol building, nothing heret
contained. o. elsewhere found In til
law. shall be- permitted 10 interier
! with the right OF the legislature {
, l0cate q few more state institution
and make such appropriations there
for as viii secure the "emergene
clause" loI the whole cheese.
Section 6 Should any future les
islaturo discover any money In tn
special fund for which the con
pany above chartered have found II
use. and which their conscience ha
not permitted them To retain sam
shall be used to reimburse the stat
for the SIX hundred thousand dollar
appropriated by this act.
Section I A department IS hereh
created IN the state treasury to h
known as the conscience fund d.
partmeut," and any persons deslrlu
to unbilrden his soul by the pockc
book route, before answering the ca
Of the b0atman TO cross the Dan
. River to the Great Beyond may do
= by remittance TO this department A
receipts therein TO be added to Il
special fund"
Section g. All laws or parts
!. laws (and public sentiment as wei
that inteffores with the privilege
/ the state capital commission doll
= what "a pf0aqau arp hqpnhv rappulGd