Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-16
TULSA TO GREET
NEW LAWS TODAY
Many Operative Oklahoma
Measures Have Important
Bearing Here.
LOCAL LEGISLATORS HELPED
Condor Bill Boon to Good
Roads, Says Highway Ex-
pert; Gist of Others.

Tulsa both as a law abiding COM
munity and thru the fact that her
local members of the recent state leg
islature played prominent parts in en-
actment, is vitality interested In many
OF half a hundred new state laws
which today become effective by the
expiration Of the ninety days since the
solons adjourned. These laws be-
came operative at 1901 o'clock this
morning by reason of the governor
having approved them, altho not sign
ing them up until the time the ses-
sion of the legislature was concluded.
Aid City and County.
Especially interested is Tulsa. city
and county, in several of the bills
which include measure increasing
the salary OF the county farm demon
strator for this and other counties in
oklahoma The bulk sales law al
fecting wholesale dealers and of con-
siderable import to the members OF
the Tulsa Retail Merchants associa-
ton also Is one of the most important
of local concern. A measure making
compulsory the registration of all
birth and deaths in the state affects
the local municipal and county health
departments and registrars of vital
statistics.
IratSeS (OnOOu bllI.
But above all in this age of good
roads agitation and better highway
building one measure operative today
whose benefits to Tulsa county and
the entire state can not be overestl-
mated, is the Condor bill relating to
township supervisors according to E.
Bee Guthrey, highway commissioner
for the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce.
The measure was enacted thru the ef-
forts of Glenn Condor, one of Tulsa
county's two representatives in the
lower house at the recent session.
Commenting on the merits of the
Condor measure. Commissioner Guth-
rey yesterday said:
Under the road law of 1915 county
commissioner were authorized to ap-
point road supervisors In each town
ship whenever in their judgment such
appointments were deemed best for
the care and construction of high
ways, however. in constituting this law
the legal departments of the various
counties of the state took the position
that the word township as here used
meant municipal township, regardless
cf the number of square miles there
in contained.
"In many instances and particu-
larly In Tulsa county this limited the
appointing power VI liit CoulAN bpbih
to such an extent that they were
forced to have but one supervisor
over a territory that was Is miles IN
length and six miles wide, which in
creased the cost and materially de-
creased the efficiency of the work.
Under the Condor amendment
which was passed during the CLOSING
days of the last session, the wore
township is defined by legislative act
to mean a congressional township o,
six miles square and the commission
ers are now empowered to appoint
road supervisor for each six mlle
square thruout the county Whenever
conditions are such that they deem
such appointments beneficial TO road
| construction or maintenance.
THE farmers and other good roads
enthusiasts cannot fail to appreciate
the valus of Representative Condon'
bill in the great battle for bette'
| roads"
4 Stock Exchange.
OF all the legislation enacted by the
last legislature perhaps none Is more