The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-01
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Capital location bill to be voted on
June II. boiled down for the benefit
Of busy people with such additions
and interlineations as seem pertinent
to the author).
A bin by the ''peepul." entitled IAN
act to Immediately dispose of the
state capital and 100000 in tax
moneys and to authorize the obllgat-
ing OF SIS state for the payment OF
any additfosSi sum desired"
Be II enacted by the oklahoma City
lot owners, and their confederates and
allies, in special election assembled,
June II, 1910:
Section l. The governor of this
state is hereby authorized to appoint
three agents or commissioner who
are hereby declared to be a real es-
tate corporation. permitted to do bus
iness in the name of the state of Ok
lahoma; said commissioners shall re-
ceiye from the state salary of four
thousand dollars each per annum, and
shall have authority to employ law,
ye 5, clerks, architects. engineers and
anybody else desired. and to pay them
with state money any salary they see
it,
Section 2. The sum of six hundred
thousand dollars is hereby appropri-
ated and shall be Immediately avail.
able, out of the genvral funds OF this
state, To start the above authorized
real estate company in business; con
ditoned only that they must not pur.
chase over two thousand acres OF
land, and that within five miles OF
Oklahoma City.
Section 8. The said company Is
hereby authorized TO make such loca,
tlon of the state capital as will best
enhance the value of any real estate
pu chased by them, or owned by their
friends. confederateS or allies.
Section 4. Said company is author
lied TO investigate plans and pay
architect fees without limit; also to
contract for the erection Of a grand
and beautiful structure as the caps
ltai of this state, with no limit as to
price; and no other limitation except
that It shall be built ofOklahoma ma
terial; provided, noweyer, that the
contract provided ! for III this section
shall not be binding upon the state
until all of our state institutions shall
have received mice appropriations
and the members of the legislature
otherwise 'psci6ed" as may be nee.
essary to secure their approval of the
contract.
Section g. Should It develop upon
final consummatlon of this deal
that same Is likely to be so burden
some or otherwise Objectionable to
the people OF this state as to cause,
apprehension that the referendum
might be invoked against the act OF
the Legislature approving the contract
for capitol building, nothing herein
contained, or elsewhere found in the
law. shall be permitted to interfere
With the right of the legislature TO
locate a few more state Institutions
and make such appropriations there.
for as will secure the emergency
clause" for. the whole cheese"
Section 6. Should any future leg.
islature discover any money in the
special fund" for which the com
pany above chartered have found no
use, and which their conscience has
not permitted them to retain, same
shah be used to 1ninBu'se the state
for the six hundred thousand dollars
by this act
Section T.. A department Is hereby
created In the state treasury to be
known as the conscience fund de-
partment." and any persons desiring
TO unburden his soul by the pocket
book route. before answering the call
OF the boatman to cross the Dark
River TO the Great Beyond may do so
by remittance to this department. All
receipts therein TO be added TO the
special fund.-
Section s. All laws or parts OF
laws tand public sentiment as welD
that interferes with the privilege OF
the state capital commission doing
what 1t pleases are hereby repealed