relocation. be, and they are hereby empowered, to call a special determine meeting in said district, for the purpose of relocating the school house site. shall relocate SECTION 2. Said special meeting shall be called Majority vote and conducted in all respects as other special meet- site. ings of school districts, and if a majority of the electors qualified to vote at said meeting vote to relocate said school house site, then said district board is hereby empowered to relocate said school house site (then said district board is hereby empowered to relocate said site) at the point designated by the majority of the voters present at said meeting. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 9, 1897. SECTION. CHAPTER XXXV. INTERMENT OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. SECTION. 1. Provision for burial of soldiers 2. County to pay expenses of bur- AN ACT to provide for the burial of honorably discharged ex-union soldiers, Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Provision for soldiers and SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners in each of the counties of this territory, to burial of designate the township trustee, or for good reasons, sailors. some person other than the township trustee in each township, whose duty it shall be to cause to be decently interred the body of any honorably discharged ex-union soldier, sailor or marine, or of any County to pay expenses of burial. ex-confederate soldier, sailor or marine, who served in the union or confederate army during the late war, and who may hereafter die without leaving sufficient means to defray funeral expenses. Such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground, or that portion of any burial ground used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead: Provided, The expense of such burial shall not exceed the sum of thirty-five dollars: And provided further, That in case surviving relatives of the deceased shall desire to conduct the funeral and are unable to pay the charges thereof, they shall be permitted so to do, and the expenses shall be paid as herein provided. SECTION 2. The expenses of such burial shall be paid by the county in which such soldier, sailor or marine resided at the time of his death, and the board of county commissioners of such county is authorized and directed to audit the account and pay the said expenses in a similar manner as other accounts against such county are audited and paid. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12, 1897. Officers entitled to copy of re ports; reports to be sold; Librarian to keep account of reports. AN ACT in relation to the publication of the reports and decisions of the Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of SECTION 1. That section 5932, of chapter 75, of the statutes of Oklahoma, of 1893, be amended to read as follows: Section 5932. The Territorial Librarian be edited and shall distribute said reports as follows: One copy each how same to to the territorial officers for use in their respective compiled. offices; one copy each to the judges of the supreme court and other courts of record in the territory for use in their respective chambers; one copy to the United States District Attorney for use in his office; one copy to the clerk of the district court in each district in the territory for use in the court room in his district; one copy to the county attorney in each county of the territory for use in his office; one copy to the clerk of the supreme court for use in the supreme court room; and ten copies to be kept by the Territorial Librarian in the territorial library for general use in the same: Provided, That in no case shall said reports become the property of the person or persons to whom issued as provided by this act, but shall be kept in their proper places, and remain the property of the Territory of Oklahoma, and all such books, before being issued under the provisions of this act, shall be by the Territorial Librarian, stamped or branded as provided for in an act regulating the territorial library. The remainder of said reports shall be sold by the Librarian at a price not to exceed four dollars per copy, which shall be paid into the territorial treasury and become a part of the library fund, and shall be expended as is provided for in an act in relation to the territorial library. The Librarian may also exchange such reports for other law books of equal value, and shall send one to every state and territory for use in their respective libraries, and shall send two copies to the librarian of Congress for the purpose of completing the copyright. For the purpose of compiling, indexing and reporting said supreme court decisions for publication as provided by law, the Chief Justice is authorized and empowered to appoint a competent assistant to report, compile, edit, and index said supreme court decisions, at a compensation not to exceed three hundred dollars per volume. That the clerk of the supreme court shall furnish exemplified copies of all decisions for publication to the Chief Justice or said assistant for the purpose herein stated, and shall be allowed five cents per folio for making said copies. Librarian to keep account of reports. Governor's message and territorial officers' published. SECTION 2. The librarian shall keep strict and accurate account of all reports received by him, and shall once in each thirty days pay into the territorial treasury all moneys received by him from the sale of such reports as is provided for by this act, and render a statement of all books on hand and sold during the preceding thirty days, or exchanged for other books. SECTION 3. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the governor to cause to be printed five hundred copreports to be ies of the reports of the various territorial officers, in pamphlet form, within ten days prior to the meeting of the legislature, and that five hundred copies of the governor's message to the legislature shall be printed on the day that the same is transmitted to the legislature, and a sufficient sum of money to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SECTION 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12, 1897. ARTICLE. CHAPTER XXXVII. TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. ARTICLE. 1. Salary of territorial treasurer 2. Salary of territorial librarian. ARTICLE 1.-SALARY OF TERRITORIAL TREASURER SECTION. 1. Attorney general's salary. SECTION. 4. Appropriation to pay same. AN ACT fixing salaries of the Territorial Treasurer and Attorney General, Attorney general's SECTION 1- The territorial attorney general shall receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred salary. dollars, payable quarterly. treasurer's SECTION 2. The territorial treasurer shall receive Territorial an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dol- salary. lars, payable quarterly. SECTION 3. All officers herein named shall be bona officers must fide residents and legal voters of the Territory. be residents. tion to pay SECTION 4. To carry into effect the provisions of Appropriathis act there is hereby appropriated out of any same. money in the territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the appropriation already made, the sum of one thousand dollars for the salary of the territorial treasurer for the years 1897 and 1898, and fourteen hundred dollars for the salary of the territorial attorney general for the years 1897 and 1898. SECTION 5. Section 5969, and section 5970, of arti- Repeal. cle 5, chapter 76, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12, 1897. |