Levy to be Included In Annual Estimate.

Section 2. Said boards of education are hereby authorized to include in their annual estimate such sums as they may deem proper for the support of these recreation places and playgrounds within the constitutional and statutory limitations and restrictions as to taxation within such school districts, and the county excise boards are hereby authorized to make such levy for said purposes.

Neglect of Board-Petition by Voters.

Section 3. If any board of education shall neglect or refuse to proceed as authorized in this Act, question of their action as herein authorized shall, upon petition to that effect, signed by not less than fifteen percent of the number of voters voting at the last preceding school election in such district, be submitted to the electors of the school district at the next school election of any sort held therein, and if the majority of votes case upon such proposition shall be in favor thereof, then the board of education shall include in their estimate for the next fiscal year sufficient funds for conducting such work and shall proceed to undertake and organize the work as authorized in this act.

Special Tax May Be Voted.

Section 4. If any board of education is unable, on its regular funds, to establish and maintain such activities as authorized in Section 1 above, they may submit and, upon petition to that effect signed by not less than fifteen per cent of the number of voters voting at last preceding school election, shall submit to the electors of such school districts at the next school election of any sort held therein, the question of levying a tax not to exceed one-half mill upon each dollar of the assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in said district, subject to taxation, to be used for the purposes mentioned in this act. If a majority of the votes cast upon such a proposition at such election be in favor thereof, the tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected for school purposes. And said tax shall

not be used or appropriated directly or indirectly for any other purpose than those provided in this act.

Special Tax Levy to Remain Until Discontinued By Vote.

Section 5. After the question of the levy and collection of such special tax has been submitted and approved as provided in this act, the authority shall remain, and such tax shall be levied and collected annually until such time as the voters of the school district shall, by majority vote, order the discontinuance of the levy and collection of such tax. The question of the discontinuance of the levy and collection of such tax shall be submitted to the voters in the same manner as the proposition to authorize the levy and collection of said tax.

City May Aid.

Section 6. The board of education in any district governed by this act is also empowered to receive and expend for the purposes of this act any sums of money appropriated and turned over to them by the city council or commissionners of any city containing, or contained in such school district for such purposes; and the city council or commissioners of such city having a population of ten thousand or over shall have authority to appropriate and turn over to the board of education of the school district containing, or contained in, such city any reasonable sums of money which the said council or commissioners may desire to appropriate out of the general funds of such city, and turn over to the said board of education for the purposes herein set forth.

Gifts and Donations-Terms.

Section 7. Said boards of education may accept gifts, donations and bequests of property, and money to be used for the purposes contemplated by this act, upon such terms and conditions, not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this state, as may be agreed upon by the said board of the one part and the donors of the other part. The title of

the property so given, donated or bequeathed, shall be vested in said boards of education.

Construction-Validity of Act in General.

Section 8. The invalidity of any portion of this act shall not affect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect without such invalid parts.

Repeal.

Section 9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Emergency.

Section 10. For the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved February 22, 1915.

CHAPTER 36.

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS-CONVEYING PUPILS-CONSOLIDATED DISTRICTS.

AN ACT prescribing the power and duties of district school boards and providing the manner of conveying pupils to and from school in consolidated districts, and empowering independent and common school districts, under certain conditions, to provide transportation for pupils.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Conveying Pupils To and From School-Age and Distance.

Section 1. Section 4 of article 7, chapter 219 of the Session Laws of 1913 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4. The powers and duties of the district boards herein provided and of the several officers shall be the same as those provided by law for school districts and their several officers and in addition it shall be the duty of said district board to provide transportation to and from school for all pupils residing two or more miles therefrom, in suitable vehicles of ample size, with comfortable seats, arranged to

conform to the size of the pupils to be carried, with adjustable covers for the comfort and protection of the pupils, drawn by stout, gentle teams, driven by competent persons of good moral character, who shall have control of the pupils during their transportation. Provided, that any consolidated school district may, by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at any annual meeting, provide free transportation for all pupils under ten years of age, in said districts whether living more than two miles or not, and such free transportation shall then be furnished to all pupils under ten years of age residing in the district until a change shall be ordered at an annual meeting of such district by a majority vote of all the legal voters present and voting at such meeting. Provided, further, that all independent school districts having the area, population and assessed valuation equal to that required of consolidated school districts, as provided by law, shall have the authority to provide transportation for pupils, as provided by law.

Repeal.

Section 2. Section 7876 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma of 1910, and all laws in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

Approved February 23, 1915.

CHAPTER 37.

BONDS-ELECTION LEGALIZED-EUFAULA.

AN ACT providing that the special election held on the 17th day of November, 1914, in the city of Eufaula, county of McIntosh, State of Oklahoma, be legalized; that the bond issue of the said city of Eufaula, authorized by the qualified tax paying voters, of said city at said special election, in the sum of four thousand dollars running twenty-five years from the date thereof, drawing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, for the purpose of obtaining funds for the repair and completion of the sanitary sewer system of said city, be legalized and validated; that the mayor and city council of said city be empowered to issue the bonds of said city as authorized at said

special election for the purpose of obtaining funds for the repair and completion of the sanitary sewer system for said city, and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Bond Election Declared Legal.

Section 1. That the special election held on the 17th day of November, 1914, in the City of Eufaula, County of McIntosh, State of Oklahoma, in pursuance to a resolution duly adopted by the mayor and council of said City of Eufaula on the 2nd day of November, 1914, for the purpose of submitting to the taxpaying voters of said city the question of authorizing the mayor and council of said city to issue the bonds of said city in the sum of four thousand dollars for the purpose of providing funds for the repair and completion of the sanitary sewer system of said city, said sanitary sewer system to be owned and operated exclusively by said city, be, and the same is hereby, legalized and validated, and all defects and irregularities if any, as may have occurred with reference to the same, are hereby cured; that the said bond issue of the said City of Eufaula, authorized by the qualified taxpaying voters of said city at said special election in the sum of four thousand dollars, said bonds to be designated as "Sewer Bonds of 1914," and to be eight in number and numbered from one (1) to eight (8) both inclusive, and of the denomination of five hundred dollars each, running twenty-five years from the date thereof, drawing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, interest payable semi-annually, for the purpose of obtaining funds for the repair and completion of the sanitary sewer system of said city, be, and the same is hereby legalized.

Officers Authorized to Issue and Sell Bonds.

Section 2. That the mayor and city council of said City of Eufaula, are hereby empowered to issue and sell the bonds of said City of Eufaula as authorized by the qualified taxpaying voters of said city at the special election held therein on the 17th day of November, 1914, in the sum of four thousand dollars, running twenty-five years from the date thereof,