hibit; Provided, That no warrant shall be drawn except upon vouchers duly sworn to; and no warrant shall be drawn for any amount in excess of the appropriation herein made. The said commissioners shall each receive as compensation for their services the sum of three dollars each per diem, when necessarily employed, together with actual expenses not to exceed two dollars per diem, and they shall fix the compensation to be paid to such help as is necessary in caring for the building and exhibit. SECTION 32. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 33. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 8th, 1901. Arbor Day. Public Schools, Exercises. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. The Friday following the second Monday in March of each year shall be hereafter known throughout Oklahoma as Arbor Day. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the authorities of the public schools in this Territory, to assemble the pupils in their charge on that day in the school buildings, or elsewhere, as may be deemed proper, to provide for and conduct, under the general supervision of the County Superintendent or City Superintendent or other chief officers having the general oversight of the public schools in each county or city, such exercises as shall tend to encourage the plant. ing, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs, and an acquaintance with the best methods to be adopted to accomplish such results. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 5, 1901. AN ACT Relating to Sureties in Civil and Criminal Actions. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Attorneys from Becom Cost Bond. SECTION 1. Licensed attorneys of this Territory Prohibited are prohibited from signing any bonds as surety in ing Surety on any civil or criminal action, in which they may be employed as counselors, pending or about to be commenced in any of the courts of this Territory or before any justice of the peace All such bonds shall be absolutely void and no penalty can be recovered of the attorney signing the same. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 5, 1901. Legalizing CHAPTER VII. LEGALIZING BOND ELECTION IN KINGFISHER COUNTY. SECTION. 1. Legalizing Bond Election in Kingfisher County. AN ACT Legalizing Bond Election in Kingfisher County. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. That the election held in Kingfisher County, on the 22nd day of January, 1901, for the purpose of voting Thirty Thousand ($30,000) Dollars for the construction and building of a court house in the city of Kingfisher, in said county, be and the same is hereby legalized and that the Board of County Commissioners of the said Kingfisher County are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of the said county, for the purpose of constructing and building a court house, in a sum not exceeding Thirty Thousand ($30,000) Dollars in accordance with said election. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval. Approved March 8th, 1901. AN ACT Authorizing Cities to Issue Scrip. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Notice. SECTION 1. That any city of the first class in this Election, Territory which owns or has in operation a system of water-works, is hereby empowered by ordinance at any time within sixty days after a majority of the legal voters of said city voting at said election shall, have voted in favor thereof at any special election held for that purpose or any special or general election at which the proposition shall have been submitted to provide for and to issue scrip to an amount not to exceed Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars for the purpose of drilling and sinking prospect wells for the purpose of obtaining and endeavoring to obtain artesian or other waters to supply such city with water, and the money which is obtained upon the issuance of said scrip shall be by such city used only for such purposes. Such a special election shall be held as nearly as possible in conformity to the general election laws of this Territory; and at any such general or special election the votes upon the proposition shall be counted and canvassed, the returns thereof made and the results declared as provided by the general election laws of this Territory; Provided, That notice of the submission of such proposition to the legal voters of such city shall be given S. L.-5 |