CHAPTER 264.

LEGISLATURE-OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

AN ACT creating the offices of the employees of the Oklahoma Legislature and fixing the salaries of such employees.

Be It Enacted By The People Of The State Of Oklahoma:

Offices Created-Salaries.

Section 1 Positions created-Salaries-The offices, positions, (clerical and stenographic) and assistants hereinafter named are hereby created who, shall serve in the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Oklahoma, at the salaries hereinafter named.

SENATE.

The secretary of the State Election Board shall be secretary of the Senate and shall draw the salary and be allowed the assistants as is now providing by law. The Senate shall also elect the following at the salaries named:

One chief engrossing and enrollng clerk at...

-$6.00 per day

5.00 per day

5.00 per day

4.00 per day

5.00 per day

Eight stenographers (who shall be committee clerks) at $5.00 per day each. Such employees shall be paid out of the State Treasury on warrants of the Auditor, issued on vouchers certified by the president and secretary of the Senate. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The following positions are hereby created for the House of Representatives at the salaries hereinafter named:

One chief clerk at...

$6.00 per day

One reading clerk at...

5.00 per day

One assistant reading clerk who shall also be messenger, at 5.00 per day One secretary to the speaker at

5.00 per day

One sergeant-at-arms at

6.00 per day

Two assistant sergeants-at-arms, who shall also be doorkeep

ers, at each

4.00 per day

One chaplain at

4.00 per day

One chief enrolling and engrossing clerk at....

Two assistant enrolling and engrossing clerks at each_-----

One chief committee clerk at

6.00 per day 5.00 per day

6.00 per day

Fourteen committee clerks, who shall be stenographers, each. 5.00 per day

Such employees shall be paid out of the State Treasury on warrants of the Auditor issued on vouchers certified by the Speaker of the House and House Auditor.

Number May Be Reduced.

Section 2. The Senate or the House either may fail or refuse to elect the full number of the employees permitted under the provisions of this act or either house may at any time, reduce the number of such employees whenever in the judgment of that body it appears that the full number of employees are not necessary.

Repeal

Section 3. Section 8109, 8110, 8111, 8112, 8113, 8114, and 8115 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, are hereby repealed.

Approved March 31, 1915.

CHAPTER 265.

APPROPRIATION-LITIGATION-TWO CENT FARE

AN ACT making an appropriation for the expense of litigation or defense relative to the two cent passenger railroad fare in the State of Oklahoma, and declaring an emergency.

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

Appropriation.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury of the State of Oklahoma, from moneys not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and no other, to be used for any and all purposes in defending the validity of the two cent passenger railroad fare rate and the cases now pending in the United States court for the Western District of Oklahoma involving same, or in any other court to which the same may be carried, and for the preparation of said cases for trial on the part of the state in defense of the validity of said provision or the orders of the Corporation Commissoin relative thereto, or to prosecute any appeal necessary therefrom. The State Auditor shall issue warrants upon the State Treasurer for such part or parts thereof on vouchers as may be issued therefor by the Attorney General of the state, and the chairman of the Corporation Commission, when approved by the Governor, provided; that all claims and accounts against said fund shall be itemized and sworn to by the claimants as true and correct.

Emergency.

Section 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shal ltake effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 30, 1915.

CHAPTER 266.

APPROPRIATION-ADVERTISING FISH AND GAME DEPART

MENT.

AN ACT making a deficiency appropriation for the payment of a certain printing claim against the state contracted by the office of State Fish and Game Warden with the Kansas City Journal Company for printing advertisements of sale of hunting licenses, and declaring an emergency.

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

Appropriation—Advertising Hunting Licenses.

Section 1. The following sum of money is hereby appropriated out of the fish and game fund in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred fifty ($150.00) dollars, to pay a deficiency clain of the Kansas City Journal Company of Kansas City, Missouri, for printing advertisements in daily and weekly issues of that newspaper for the sale of non-resident hunting licenses by the State Fish and Game Warden.

Emergency.

Section 2. For the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof it is necessary that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 30, 1915.

CHAPTER 267.

WASHINGTON COUNTY-DEPUTY COUNTY OFFICERS.

AN ACT regulating the number of deputies in the offices of county clerk, court clerk, and the county treasurer of Washington county, and fixing the salaries of such deputies; and declaring an emergency.

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

Deputy County Clerks-Salaries.

Section 1. That the county clerk of Washington county shall, with the advice and consent of the board of county commissioners, be allowed not to exceed three deputies. The first deputy shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month, and each other deputy commissioners, not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75.00) shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of county per month. The salary of all deputies shall be paid monthly out of the county treasury as is provided by law for the payment of county officers.

Deputy Court Clerks.

Section 2. That the court clerk of Washington county shall, with the advice and consent of the board of county commissioners, be allowed not to exceed three deputies. The first deputy shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month and each other deputy shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month; provided, that one of said deputies shall be a competent stenographer, whose appointment shall first be approved by the county judge, and shall possess the same qualifications in the art of stenography as is now required by law in such offices in the district court. The salary of all deputies shall be paid monthly out of the county treasury as is provided by law for the payment of county officers.