SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. Length of ARTICLE 4.-SESSIONS AND DUTIES OF COUNTY SECTION. COMMISSIONErs. 1. Length of Sessions of Com missioners and Their Duties. AN ACT Amendatory of Section 1, Article 2, Chapter 12, of the Session Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory SECTION 1. That Section One (1) of Article Two (2) Commission of Chapter Twelve (12) of the Session Laws of 1897, Their Duties. be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows. ers and SECTION 1. In addition to the special sessions for equalizing assessments, levying taxes, and all other special sessions now provided by statute, the County Commissioners shall meet and hold sessions for the transaction of business in the county clerk's office at the county seat of their respective counties, or at the usual place of holding its sessions, on the first Monday in January, April, July and October in each year, and may remain in session as long as the public business may require and may adjourn from time to time, during the quarter as they may think necessary and may at such adjourned meetings consider any and all such business as they may deem proper; and the passing upon or allowing or rejecting bills against the county shall be taken up and passed upon by the Commissioners in the order in which claims have been filed. The county clerk shall have power to call special sessions to transact any business the same as at regular sessions when the interest of the county demands it, upon giving five days notice of the time and object of calling the Commissioners together by posting up notices in three public places in the county or by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in the county; Provided, That no claims against the county except for election expenses and jury fees shall be considered at a called session; Provided further, That in case of a vacancy in the office of county clerk, the chairman of the board shall have power to call a special session for the purpose of filling such vacancy. SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER XIII. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. Attempt to AN ACT to Amend Section 2, Article 20, Chapter 25, Statutes of Oklahoma of 1893, Relating to Crimes and Punishments. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. That Section 2, Article 20, Chapter 25, Statutes of 1893, be amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 2. Every person who intentionally and wrongfully shoots, shoots at, or attempts to shoot at another, with any kind of fire-arm, air-gun or other means whatever, with intent to kill any person, or who commits any assault and battery upon another by means of any deadly weapon, or by such other means or force as is likely to produce death or in resisting the execution of any legal process, is punishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not exceeding ten years. SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. SECTION. ARTICE 2.-FORGING NAMES TO PETITIONS. 1. Forging Name to Penalties. Petition; AN ACT Defining the Crime of Forging Names to Petitions and Providing the Punishment Therefor. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Name to Penalties. SECTION 1. That any person who shall knowingly Forging sign, subscribe or forge the name of any other person, Petition; without the consent of such other person, to any petition, application remonstrance, or other instrument of writing, authorized by law to be filed in or with any court, board or officer, with intent to deceive or mislead such court, board or officer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court trying such cause. SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. Kidnapping for Reward, Felony; Penalty. Venue. AN ACT to Define and Punish Kidnapping for Ransom. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. Every person who without lawful authority forcibly seizes and confines another, or inveigles or kidnaps another, for the purpose of extorting any money, property, or thing of value or advantage from the person so seized, confined, inveigled or kidnapped, or from any other person, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not less than ten years. SECTION 2. Every offense prohibited in the last section may be tried in the county in which the crime may have been committed or in any county through which the person so seized, confined, inveigled or kidnapped shall have been taken, carried or into which such person may be brought. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. |