on avenue, the Second Ward, the Third Ward, the Fourth Ward, and all of e Fifth Ward except that part lying south of Cleveland avenue and east of urteenth street. District 3 shall consist of all that part of Logan County not luded in districts 1 and 2.

SEC. 15. Oklahoma County shall have representatives to be elected as folvs: 1 from the county at large. The other 3 to be prorated as follows: Diset 1, Oklahoma City, and the townships of Oklahoma and Greely, with all wns and cities contained therein, 2 members. District 2, all that part of lahoma County not contained in district 1, one member.

SEC. 16. (a) The following pairs of counties shall compose additional legisive districts and each district shall elect 1 member to the house of repretatives: Johnston and Coal, Bryan and Atoka, Pontotoc and Seminole, Musgee and Haskell, Pittsburg and Hughes, Comanche and Stephens, Washita and ster, Pottawatomie and Lincoln, Sequoyah and Le Flore, Alfalfa and Grant, ig and Rogers, Garfield and Kingfisher, Payne and Pawnee, Creek and Tulsa. (b) The following trio of counties shall constitute one legislative district ch one member: Caddo, Canadian, and Cleveland.

QUALIFICATIONS AND RIGHTS OF MEMBERS.

SEC. 17. Members of the senate shall be at least 25 years of age, and mems of the house of representatives 21 years of age at the time of their election. ey shall be qualified electors in their respective counties or districts and shall ide in their respective counties or districts during their term of office.

SEC. 18. No person shall serve as a member of the legislature who is, at the e of such service, an officer of the United States or State government, or is eiving compensation as such; nor shall any person be eligible to election to legislature who has been adjudged guilty of a felony.

SEC. 19. A member of the legislature expelled for corruption shall not reafter be eligible to membership 'in either house. Punishment for contempt disorderly conduct, or for any other cause, shall not bar an indictment for same offense.

SEC. 20. The governor shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies as y occur in the legislature.

SEC. 21. Members of the legislature shall receive $6 per diem for their serv3 during the session of the legislature, and 10 cents per mile for every mile necessary travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the islature, on the most usual route, and shall receive no other compensation: wided, That members of the legislature, except during the first session thereof d under this constitution, shall receive only $2 per diem for their services after ty days of such session have elapsed.

SEC. 22. Senators and representatives shall, except for treason, felony, or ach of the peace, be privileged "from arrest during the session of the legisure, and in going to and returning from the same, and for any speech of ate in either house shall not be questioned in any other place,

SEC. 23. No member of the legislature shall, during the term of which he s elected, be appointed or elected to any office or commission in the State, which ll have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, ring his term of office, nor shall any member receive any appointment from governor, the governor and senate, or from the legislature, during the term · which he shall have been elected, nor shall any member, during the term for ich he shall have been elected, or within two years thereafter, be interested. rectly or indirectly, in any contract with the State, or any county or other subvision thereof, authorized by law passed during the term for which he shall ve been elected.

SEC. 24. A member of the legislature who has a personal or private intert in any measure or bill, proposed or pending before the legislature, shall disose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon

SESSIONS OF LEGISLATURE.

SEC. 25. The first session of the legislature, held by virtue of this constituon, shall not exceed one hundred and sixty days.

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SEC. 26. The members of the legislature shall meet at the seat of govern ment on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January at 12 o'clock, noon, in the year next succeeding their election, or upon such other day as may be pr vided by law.

SEC. 27. The legislature shall hold regular biennial sessions as herein pro vided, but this shall not prevent the calling of a special session of the legislature by the governor.

ORGANIZATION AND RULES.

SEC. 28. The senate shall, at the beginning of each regular session and such other times as may be necessary, elect one of its members president pr tempore, who shall preside over its deliberations in the absence or place of the lieutenant-governor; and the senate shall provide for all its standing committee and, by a majority vote, elect the members thereof.

SEC. 29. The house of representatives shall, at the beginning of each reg lar session and at such other times as may be necessary, elect one of its mem bers speaker.

SEC. 30. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qua cations of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner at under such penalty as each house may provide.

Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its member for disorderly behavior and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a memb Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings,, and from time to publish the same. The yeas and nays of the members of either house or question, at the desire of one-fifteenth of those present, shall be entered upout journal.

Neither house, during the session of the legislature, shall, without the sent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place th that in which the two houses shall be sitting.

SEC. 31. In all elections made by the legislature, except for officers a employees thereof, the members thereof shall vote yea or nay, and each v shall be entered upon the journal.

SEC. 32. No special or local law shall be considered by the legislat until notice of the intended, introduction of such bill or bills shall first, hay been published for four consecutive weeks in some weekly newspaper publis or of general circulation in the city or county affected by such law, stat in substance the contents thereof, and verified proof of such publication a with the secretary of state.

SEC. 33. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of repor sentatives. The senate may propose amendments to revenue bills. No reve bill shall be passed during the five last days of the session.

SEC. 34. Every bill shall be read on three different days in each hous and no bill shall become a law' unless, on its final passage, it be read at len and no law shall be passed unless upon a vote of a majority of all the member elected to each house in favor of such law; and the question, upon final passi shall be taken upon its last reading, and the yeas and nays shall be entere upon the journal.

SEC. 35. The presiding officer of each house shall, in the presence of th house over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by thể legislature, immediately after the same shall have been publicly read at length and the fact of reading and signing shall be entered upon the journal, b the reading at length may be dispensed with by a two-thirds vote of a quorum present, which vote, by yeas and nays, shall also be entered upon the journa

POWERS AND DUTIES.

SEC. 36. The authority of the legislature shall extend to all rightful s jects of legislation, and any specific grant of authority in this constitution upon any subject whatsoever, shall not work a restriction, limitation, or exclusion of such authority upon the same or any other subject or subjects whatsoever.

SEC. 37. The legislature shall have the power to establish a state printing at and to provide for the election or appointment of a state printer. SEC. 38. The legislature shall provide for the establishment of a state ogical and economic survey.

SEC. 39. The legislature shall create a board of health, board of dentistry, d of pharmacy, and pure food commission, and prescribe the duties of each. physicians, dentists, and pharmacists now legally registered and practicing Oklahoma and Indian Territory shall be eligible to registration in the State Oklahoma without examination or cost.

SEC. 40. The legislature shall provide for organizing, disciplining, arming, ataining, and equipping the militia of the State.

SEC. 41. The legislature may enact laws authorizing cities to pension itorious and disabled firemen.

SEC. 42. In any legislative investigation either house of the legislature, or committee thereof, duly authorized by the house creating the same, shall power to punish as for contempt, disobedience of process, or contumacious isorderly conduct, and this provision shall also apply to joint sessions of legislature, and also to joint committees thereof, when authorized by joint ution of both houses.

SEC. 43. The legislature shall, in the year 1909 and each ten years theremake provision by law for revising, digesting, and promulgating the ites of the State.

SEC. 44. The legislature shall define what is an unlawful combination, opoly, trust, act, or agreement, in restraint of trade, and enact laws to sh persons engaged in any unlawful combination, monopoly, trust, act, greement; in restraint of trade, or composing any such monopoly, trust; or ination.

SEC. 45.

The legislature shall pass such laws as are necessary for carrying effect the provisions of this constitution.

LIMITATIONS.

SEC. 46. The legislature shall not, except as otherwise provided in this itution, pass any local or special law authorizing the creation, extension. mpairing of liens; regulating the affairs of counties, cities, towns, wards. hool districts; changing the names of persons or places; authorizing the g out, opening, altering, or maintaining of roads, highways, streets, or s; relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry or bridge companies. ot for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form boundaries een this and any other State; vacating roads, town plats, streets, or alleys: ing to cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not owned by the State: ɔrizing the adoption or legitimation of children; locating or changing ty seats; incorporating cities, towns, or villages, or changing their charters; he opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the places of g; granting divorces; creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties fficers, in counties, cities, towns, election or school districts; changing aw of descent or succession; and regulating the practice or jurisdiction r changing the rules of evidence in judicial proceedings or inquiry before courts, justices of the peace, sheriffs, commissioners, arbitrators, or other nals, or providing or changing the methods for the collection of debts, he enforcement of judgments or prescribing the effect of judicial sales of estate; regulating the fees, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen, res of the peace, or constables; regulating the management of public schools, building or repairing of schoolhouses, and the raising of money for such oses; fixing the rate of interest; affecting the estate of minors, or persons r disability; remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, and refunding ys legally paid into the treasury; exempting property from taxation; ring any named person of age; extending the time for the assessment ollection of taxes, or otherwise relieving any assessor or collector of taxes due performance of his official duties, or his securities from liability; ig effect to informal or invalid wills or deeds; summoning or impaneling d or petit juries; for limitation of civil or criminal actions; for incorporating

railroads or other works of internal improvements; providing for change venue in civil and criminal cases.

SEC. 47. The legislature shall not retire any officer on pay or part pay make any grant to such retiring officer.

SEC. 48. The legislature shall have no power to appropriate any of th public money for the establishment and maintenance of a bureau of immigrati in this State.

SEC. 49. The legislature shall not increase the number or emolumen! its employees, or the employees of either house, except by general law, whi shall not take effect during the term at which such increase was made.

SEC. 50. The legislature shall pass no law exempting any property with this State from taxation, except as otherwise provided in this constitution. SEC. 51. The legislature shall pass no law granting to any associ corporation, or individual any exclusive rights, privileges, or immunities with this State..

SEC. 52. The legislature shall have no power to revive any right or ren which may have become barred by lapse of time, or by any statute of this Nati After suit has been commenced on any cause of action, the legislature have no power to take away such cause of action, or destroy any exh defense to such suit.

SEC. 53. The legislature shall have no power to release or extinguis to authorize the releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebted liabilities, or obligations of any corporation, or individual to this State, of county or other municipal corporation thereof.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

SEC. 54. The repeal of a statute shall not revive a statute preve repealed by such statute, nor shall such repeal affect any accrued rigi penalty incurred, or proceedings begun by virtue of such repealed statute.

SEC. 55. No money shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this s nor any of its funds, nor any of the funds under its management, exci pursuance of an appropriation by law, nor unless such payments be made wi two and one-half years after the passage of such appropriation act, and e such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropri shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated and the object to which it be applied, and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any law to fix such sum.

SEC. 56. The general appropriation bill, shall embrace nothing but ap priations for the expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial depart of the State, and for interest on the public debt. The salary of no ofive employee of the State, or any subdivision thereof, shall be increased in bill, nor shall any appropriation be made therein for any such offer employee, unless his employment and the amount of his salary shall have already provided for by law. All other appropriations shall be made by se bills, each embracing but one subject.

SEC. 57. Every act of the legislature shall embrace but one subject, va shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes; and law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or confer by reference to its title only; but so much thereof as is revived, anea extended, or conferred shall be reenacted and published at length: Provi That if any subject be embraced in any act contrary to the provisions of section, such act shall be void only as to so much of the law as may th expressed in the title thereof.

SEC. 58. No act shall take effect until ninety days after the adjouri is of the session at which it was passed, except enactments for carrying effect provisions relating to the initiative and referendum, or a general sp priation bill, unless, in case of emergency, to be expressed in the act. M legislature, by a vote of two-thirds of all members elected to each house * directs. An emergency measure shall include only such measures as are mediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, or sifch

shall not include the granting of franchises or license to a corporation individual, to extend longer than one year, nor provision for the purchase sale of real estate, nor the renting or encumbrance of real property for a zer term than one year. Emergency measures may be vetoed by the ernor, but such measures so vetoed may be passed by a three-fourths vote each house, to be duly entered on the journal.

SEC. 59. Laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughthe State, and where a general law can be made applicable, no special shall be enacted.

SEC. 60. The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment and ntenance of an efficient system of checks and balances between the officers he executive department, and all commissioners and superintendents, and ds of control of State institutions, and all other officers intrusted with the etion, receipt, custody, or disbursement of the revenue or moneys of the e whatsoever.

ARTICLE VI.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. The executive authority of the State shall be vested in a rnor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, state auditor, attorney-general, e treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, state examiner and inspector, f mine inspector, commissioner of labor, commissioner of charities and corons, commissioner of insurance, and other officers provided by law and constitution, each of whom shall keep his office and public records, books, papers at the seat of government, and shall perform such duties as may esignated in this constitution or prescribed by law.

SEC. 2. The supreme executive power shall be vested in a chief magistrate, shall be styled "The governor of the State of Oklahoma."

SEC. 3. No person shall be eligible to the office of governor, lieutenantrnor, secretary of state, state auditor, attorney-general, state treasurer, rintendent of public instruction, or state examiner and inspector, except a citizen of the United States, of the age of not less than 30 years, and shall have been three years next preceding his election a qualified elector is State: Provided, That residence in this State shall include the territory embraced in this State.

SEC. 4. The term of office of the governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary tate, state auditor, attorney-general, state treasurer, state examiner and etor, and superintendent of public instruction shall be four years from second Monday of January next after their election. The governor, secreof state, state auditor, and state treasurer shall not be eligible immediately cceed themselves. The term of the state officers chosen at the first election r this constitution shall begin on the day on which the State is admitted the Union, and expire on the second Monday of January in the year 1911. SEC. 5. The returns of every election for all elective State officers shall aled up and transmitted by the returning officers to the secretary of state, ted to the speaker of the house of representatives, who shall, immediately the organization of the house, and before proceeding to other business, and publish the same in the presence of a majority of each branch of the lature, who shall for that purpose assemble in the hall of the house of esentatives. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for ›r of the said offices shall be declared duly elected; but in case two or more I have an equal and the highest number of votes for either of said offices, legislature shall, forthwith, by joint ballot, choose one of the said persons aving an equal and the highest number of votes for said office.

GOVERNOR.

SEC. 6. The governor shall be commander in chief of the militia of the e. except when in service of the United States, and may call out the same xecute the laws, protect the public health, suppress insurrection, and repel sion.