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 SCHOOL LAWS 
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 1915 
 
 This Book Is the Property of School District No 
 
 of County, and Must Be Delivered 
 
 "by the Clerk to His Successor in Office. 
 
 WARDEN COMPANY, OKLAHOMA CITY 
 
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 Letter of Endorsement and Instructions 
 
 To School Superintendents, Officers and Teachers: 
 
 This volume contains, in correct form, the laws of the State of Oklahoma 
 relating to the public schools. Articles 1 to 17, inclusive, contain the school 
 code enacted by the Fourth Legislature, same being Articles 1 to 17 of Chap- 
 ter 219, Session Laws 1913, as amended by the Fifth Legislature. The other 
 articles herein are copied from the Eevised Laws of Oklahoma 1910, and Acts 
 of the Fifth Legislature. The sections are numbered consecutively. The num- 
 bers in parenthesis at the end of the section refer to the section numbers in 
 the Session Laws or the statutes. 
 
 It is our purpose to have a sufficient number of these laws printed to fur- 
 nish a copy to the clerk of each school district as well as a copy to each 
 teacher. The board members are cautioned to preserve their copy of the laws 
 and turn same over to their successors with all other records of the district. 
 
 We insist that each one familiarize himself with the provisions of the 
 school laws as contained herein and not rely upon former impressions of what 
 the law is. The Topical Index refers you to the particular sections relating 
 to the duties of the different officers. This index should be referred to fre- 
 quently and all the provisions of the law carefully observed. In cases where 
 the meaning of the law is not clear to you the matter should be referred to 
 your county superintendent, who will consult with the county attorney. If 
 your county superintendent and the county attorney cannot agree upon the 
 construction or meaning of the law, they should submit the question to this de- 
 partment, stating clearly the issue involved. Upon receipt of the request, made 
 by the county superintendent or the county attorney, we will submit the matter 
 to the attorney general for his opinion, which will be furnished immediately. 
 In no case should teachers or school officers write to this department on prop- 
 ositions of law without first consulting the county superintendent and the 
 county attorney. Letters asking for a construction of the school law must 
 be written to this department and not to the attorney general. See section 5 
 of this pamphlet. Eespectfully submitted, 
 
 R. H. WILSON, 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 Oklahoma City, May 15; '1914 'i - * . 
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TOPICAL INDEX 
 
 Duties of State Superintendent. 
 General duties Sections 1- 11 
 
 To hear appeal from joint districts Section 49 
 
 To report scholastic enumeration .Section 176 
 
 Member of agricultural commission Section 177 
 
 To direct agricultural instruction Section 179 
 
 To assign teachers to work in normal institutes Section 193 
 
 To approve contracts for^normal institutes Section 199 
 
 Duties of County Superintendent. 
 
 General duties Sections 12- 32 
 
 To form joint districts Section 48 
 
 To approve teachers contracts Section 66 
 
 To act with board in dismissing teacher <. Section 66 
 
 To change boundary of city districts Section 94 
 
 To call meeting to form consolidated district Section 139 
 
 To call meeting to form union graded district Section 158 
 
 To declare districts disorganized Sections 140- 156 
 
 To furnish supplies for taking scholastic enumeration Section 168 
 
 To report scholastic enumeration Section 175 
 
 To report to agricultural commission Section 180 
 
 To conduct examination for entrance to A. & M. College Section 187 
 
 To hold normal institutes Section 191 
 
 May hold teachers' training course Section 192 
 
 To determine time and place for teachers' training course Section 194 
 
 To report normal institute Section 197 
 
 To disburse normal institute fund Section 199 
 
 To require subjects taught Sections 92- 200 
 
 Not to receive compensation for normal institute work Section 201 
 
 May hold joint normals Section 202 
 
 To report to state superintendent Section 204 
 
 To furnish free textbooks, certain cases Section 213 
 
 To issue scholarships Section 214 
 
 To serve as member of examining board * Section 224 
 
 To give notice of examination dates Section 225 
 
 To renew certificates Section 230 
 
 Shall make requisition for questions Section 237 
 
 To endorse certificates ? Section 231 
 
 To issue temporary certificates Section 233 
 
 To collect fees for examination Section 240 
 
 May revoke certificates Section 241 
 
 To designate separate schools Section 244 
 
 To transfer pupils to separate schools Section 251 
 
 To report to county commissioners Section 252 
 
 To employ teachers for separate schools ~- Section 254 
 
 To transfer pupils and funds Sections 262- 264 
 
 To enforce certain provisions Section 281 
 
 To report estimate for books and supplies -.Section 320 
 
 To approve child employment certificate Section 421 
 
 Duties of School District Boards. 
 
 General duties i Sections 50- 92 
 
 To employ and dismiss teachers Section 66 
 
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To provide supplies Section 67 
 
 To take scholastic enumeration Section 168 
 
 To appoint scholastic enumerators Section 170 
 
 To report scholastic enumeration Section 175 
 
 To determine disability from compulsory attendance Section 211 
 
 To make complaint of non-attendance Section 212 
 
 To issue scholarships Section 214 
 
 To provide library fund and purchase books Section 272- 273 
 
 To own flag for schoolhouse Section 274 
 
 Shall not appoint relative Section 286 
 
 Shall not vote for relative of another board member Section 288 
 
 Shall enforce provisions prohibiting secret societies Section 292 
 
 May suspend pupils. Section 293 
 
 Not to purchase unauthorized books and supplies Section 313 
 
 To make estimate of books and supplies Section 320 
 
 Shall not prevent use of adopted books Section 322 
 
 Shall not issue warrants to certain persons ' Section 335 
 
 Shall make estimate for tax levy Section 339 
 
 Shall issue warrants in numerical order Section 341 
 
 Instructions for issuing warrants Section 348 
 
 Issuance of certain warrants prohibited Section 351 
 
 Certain contracts prohibited Section 353 
 
 To provide fire escapes Section 355 
 
 Duties of Teachers. 
 
 To teach certain subjects Sections 33, 90, 178, 278, 279 
 
 To report absentees Section 212 
 
 To enforce separate school law Section 245 
 
 To display flag Section 274 
 
 Not to teach sectarianism Section 275 
 
 To enforce certain provisions Sections 281- 282 
 
 To observe arbor day Section 284 
 
 Not to purchase unauthorized supplies Section 313 
 
 Shall use adopted books and supplies Section 322 
 
 To make certain reports to county superintendent Section 181 
 
ARTICLE I. 
 
 State Superintendent. 
 
 Section 1. Supervisory Powers: The educational interests of the state 
 shall be under the supervision and management of the state superintendent of 
 public instruction, subject to such limitations and restrictions as are, or may be, 
 prescribed by law; and he shall have and exercise the powers and perform the 
 duties pertaining to such office. (1.) 
 
 Section 2. Official Bond: Before entering upon the duties of his office, 
 the state superintendent of public instruction shall execute a bond to the 
 state, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor, in 
 the penal sum of five thousand dollars. (2.) 
 
 Section 3. Office and Repository: Such superintendent shall have an of- 
 fice at the seat of government, where he shall keep all books and papers per- 
 taining to the duties of his office, and all apparatus, maps and charts belonging 
 to the office of the state superintendent, and such as may hereafter be received 
 for such office by purchase, exchange, or otherwise, shall be kept and preserved 
 in such office and delivered by the superintendent to his successor. He shall 
 file and carefully pres.erve in his office the official reports made to him by the 
 county superintendents of public instruction for the several counties, trustees, 
 or other directors of academies, graded schools or colleges. (3.) 
 
 Section 4. Shall Give Notice of State Apportionment: Such state superin- 
 tendant shall notify the county superintendents of public instruction of the 
 semi-annual apportionment of the income of the state school fund and the 
 annual taxes collected by the state from which proper reports have been re- 
 ceived by said state superintendent. (4.) 
 
 Section 5. Shall Give Written Opinions: Such superintendent shall, at the 
 request of any county or city superintendent of public instruction, give his 
 opinion upon a written statement of facts on all questions and controversies 
 arising out of the interpretation and construction of the school laws in regard 
 to the rights, powers and duties of district and city boards, school officers and 
 county superintendents of public instruction, and shall keep a record of all 
 such opinions. Before giving any opinion which involves the construction of 
 the school law, the state superintendent shall submit the statement of facts to 
 the attorney general forthwith, for his opinion thereon. (5.) 
 
 Section 6. Compile and Publish School Laws: Such superintendent, not 
 more than once in two years, shall publish the school laws in force, with 
 such forms, regulations, instructions and decisions as he may judge expedient 
 thereto annexed, and shall cause the same to be forwarded to the persons en- 
 titled to receive them. He shall prescribe and cause to be prepared all forms 
 and blanks necessary in the details of the public school system, so as to secure 
 its uniform operation throughout the state, and shall cause the same to be for- 
 warded to the several county and city superintendents of public instruction, to 
 be by them distributed to the several persons or officers entitled to receive 
 the same. (6.) 
 
 Section 7. Biennial Eeport: The state superintendent shall, on the first 
 day of December preceding each regular session of the legislature, make out 
 and deliver to the governor a report containing: First, a statement of the num- 
 ber of public schools in the state, the number of pupils attending the same, 
 and their sex; a statement of the number of private schools in the state, so 
 far as can be ascertained, the number of pupils attending the same, and 
 their sex; a statement of the normal schools in the state, and the number of 
 
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students attending them; the number of academies and colleges in the state, 
 the ni'inbk]; "of students ar;d..lheir; sex attending them; and such other matters 
 of in-teicsl as "lie may 'dvetr:'. expedient, drawn from the reports of the county 
 superintendents of public instruction in the several counties of the state, and 
 from other reports received on the subject of education from the trustees or 
 other school boards within the state. Second, a statement of the condition of 
 the public school funds of the state, including moneys, school lands, or other 
 property held in trust by the state for the support of public schools and giv- 
 ing a full statement of the school lands accounts of each county. Third, a 
 statement of the receipts and expenditures of the department for the past 
 two years. Fourth, a statement of plans for the management and improvement 
 of public schools, and such other information relating to the educational in- 
 terests of the state as he may deem expedient. (7.) 
 
 Section 8. Moral and Illegal Offenses to Be Reported: Upon the written 
 complaint of any person stating that any instructor or person employed in 
 any state or county educational institution is guilty of any offense involving 
 moral turpitude or that said person has been guilty of obtaining money or 
 anything else of value from any person and has not rectified same to the 
 satisfaction of the injured person, the state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion shall take cognizance of same and take such steps as will be necessary 
 to protect the patrons of said school and the citizens where said institution 
 is located. (8.) 
 
 Section 9. Certificates: The state superintendent of public instruction may 
 issue teachers' certificates, valid for two years, to all students who graduate 
 from district agricultural schools or from fully accredited high schools, when 
 such schools have satisfied the said state superintendent that the course of study 
 completed by the students desiring such certificates is equivalent to a four years' 
 high school fully accredited with the State University, and that the said schools 
 have sufficient equipment for teaching agriculture, domestic science and man- 
 ual training, and that the students have completed such a course in phychology 
 and the science of teaching as the said state superintendent may prescribe. 
 Certificates so issued shall license the holder to teach in any of the common 
 schools in Oklahoma for a period of two years. (S. B. 364, chap. 114, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 10. Same: Any graduate of any college organized under the laws of 
 the State of Oklahoma, and operated in the State of Oklahoma, requiring a 
 four years' college course for graduation, and which has entrance requirements 
 equivalent to a four years' high school course, and maintaining a course 
 in education equivalent to the course of education in the University of Okla- 
 homa, said course to be approved by the state board of education, shall, upon 
 application to the state superintendent of public instruction, and making proof 
 of graduation from any such college and the completion of said course of study, 
 be granted a life high school certificate of the same rank as is granted to the 
 graduates of the State University for the same class of work. (Sec 1 H B 
 556, Ch. 66, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 11. Credits: When any such college as referred to in Sec. 1, of this 
 act, has established its course of study and the same has been approved by the 
 state board of education, any credit made in such college, which would entitle 
 the holder thereof to graduation in that subject, may be substituted within 
 three years from the time the credit is granted, in lieu of an examination on 
 that subject on any teachers' certificate. (Sec 2, H. B. 556, Ch. 66, L. 1915.) 
 
ARTICLE II. 
 
 County Superintendent, 
 
 Section 12. Qualifications, Term and Manner of Election: There is hereby 
 created the office of county superintendent of public instruction for each 
 county in Oklahoma, which office shall be filled as hereinafter provided by 
 election and appointment, and when elected shall be elected at the same time 
 as county officers, and in the same manner as other county officers, and his 
 term of office shall be for a period of two years, or until his successor is 
 elected and qualified. His term shall begin July 1st, after his election: Pro- 
 vided, that no person shall be eligible to such office of county superintendent 
 unless he shall be the holder of a county first grade certificate. (1.) 
 
 Section 13. Vacancy: When a vacancy occurs in the office of county 
 superintendent of public instruction by death, resignation or otherwise, notice 
 thereof shall be given by the county clerk to the board of county commission- 
 ers, who shall, as soon as practicable, appoint some suitable qualified person to 
 fill the vacancy; and the person receiving appointment shall, before entering 
 upon the discharge of the duties of his office, file his oath or affirmation and 
 bond in the county clerk's office, as herein provided, and shall hold his office 
 until his successor is elected and qualified. (2.) 
 
 Section 14. Bond: The county superintendent of public instruction shall, 
 before he enters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to the con- 
 stitutional oath of office and execute to the state of Oklahoma a bond in the 
 sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned to the faithful performance of his 
 duty; which bond, after having been approved by the board of county com- 
 missioners, together with his official oath, shall be filed in the office of the 
 county clerk. (3.) 
 
 Section 15. General Duties: It shall be the duty of the county superin- 
 tendent of public instruction to visit each school in his county at least once 
 in each term of six months, correcting any deficiency that may exist in the 
 government of the school, the classification of the pupils, or the method of in- 
 struction in the several branches taught, to make such suggestions in private to 
 the teachers as he shall deem proper and necessary to the welfare of the 
 school; to note the character and condition of the school house, furniture, ap- 
 paratus and grounds, and make a report in writing to the district school board, 
 making such suggestions as in his opinion shall improve the same; to examine 
 the accounts and record books of the district officers, and see that they are 
 kept as required by law; to encourage the formation of associations of teachers 
 and educators for mutual improvement, and, as far as possible, to attend the 
 meetings of such associations and participate in the exercises of the same; to 
 attend the normal or teachers' training course held in his county, using his in- 
 fluence to secure the attendance of teachers; to make daily personal inspection 
 of the work of the institute in session, and to keep a record of the same in his 
 office and do such work in connection with the exercises of the institute as he 
 may deem necessary; to hold a public meeting in each school district of his 
 county at least once every year for the purpose of discussing school questions 
 and elevating the standard of education; to keep his office open at the county 
 seat Saturday of each week, and in counties in which he or she has a clerk or 
 assistant, said office shall be kept open all days of the week. He shall keep 
 a complete record of his official acts; a record of the name, age and postoffice 
 address of each candidate for a teacher's certificate, with the number of weeks 
 said candidate has attended a normal school or institute, the number of weeks 
 he has taught, his standing in each study and the date of issue and expiration 
 of each certificate granted, and a record of all teacher's certificates issued in 
 the county or endorsed by him as provided by law. He shall keep a register of 
 the teachers employed in his county, giving name of teacher, number of 
 district in which he is employed, dates of opening and closing of term, salary 
 per month, grade of certificate and date of superintendent's visit. He shall 
 keep a record of the apportionment of the state and county school funds, and 
 such other statistical records as shall be required in making reports to the state 
 
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superintendent of public instruction. He shall keep in a well bound book an 
 exact copy of each annual report he makes to the state superintendent. (4.) 
 
 Section 16. Apportion School Funds: Within five days after receiving 
 the certificate of the state superintendent of public instruction informing him 
 of the amount of state school fund which has been apportioned to his county, 
 such county superintendent shall apportion the same, together with the unappor- 
 tioned county school fund in the county treasury, among the school districts 
 and parts of districts in such county in the ratio of the number of persons of 
 school age who are entitled to receive the same, residing in each district, or 
 part of district, as shown by the last annual report of the several clerks of 
 such district and parts of districts; provided, that no district in which a com- 
 mon school has not been taught for at least three months within the last two 
 preceding school years, shall be entitled to receive any portion of said funds, 
 and he shall draw his order on the county treasurer in favor of each of the 
 several school districts for the amount apportioned to such district. (Sec. 1, 
 H. B. 290, chap. 250, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 17. Report to County Clerks and Assessors: It shall be the duty 
 of the county superintendent of public instruction, on or before the first day of 
 January of each year, to furnish the clerk and assessor of the county a descrip- 
 tion of the boundary of each and every school district, and part of district, in 
 each county. (6.) 
 
 Section 18. Annual Report: He shall, on or before the first day of Sep- 
 tember of each year, make out and transmit in writing to the state superin- 
 tendent of public instruction a report bearing date of September 1st, contain- 
 ing a statement of the number of school districts, or parts of districts, in the 
 county, the number of children resident in each over the age of six and under 
 the age of twenty-one years, and their sex; a statement of the number of dis- 
 trict schools in the county, the length of time school has been taught in each, 
 the number of scholars attending the same, and their sex; the 
 number of teachers employed in the same and their sex; a statement of the 
 number of private or select schools in the county, so far as the same can be 
 ascertained, and the number of teachers employed in same, their sex, and the 
 branches taught; a statement of the number of graded schools in the county, the 
 length of time school has been taught in each, and the number of scholars at- 
 tending the same, with the number of teachers employed in the same, and their 
 sex; a statement of the condition of the normal school where such school has 
 been established, the number of students attending the same, their sex and the 
 number of teachers employed in the same and their sex; a statement of the 
 county normal institute or teachers' training course; a statement of the number 
 of colleges and academies in the county, and the number of students attending 
 the same, their sex, the number of teachers employed in each and their sex; 
 a statement of the amount of public money received in each district, or part 
 of district, and what portion of the same, if any, has been apportioned to the 
 support of graded schools; a statement of the amount of money raised in each 
 district by tax and paid for teachers' wages; the amount of money raised by 
 tax, or otherwise, for the purpose of purchasing school site, for building, hiring, 
 purchasing, repairing, furnishing or insuring the school house or for any 
 other purpose allowed by law in the district, or parts of districts; and 
 such other reports as the state superintendent may require from time to 
 time. (7.) 
 
 Section 19. Vacancy in District Board: Should a vacancy occur in the 
 board of directors of any school district, it shall be the duty of the county 
 superintendent to appoint some suitable qualified person, resident of the district, 
 to fill the same. The person so appointed shall continue in office for the un- 
 expired term. (8.) 
 
 Section 20. Audit Reports: He shall see that the annual reports of the 
 clerks and teachers of the several school districts, and parts of districts, in 
 his county are made correctly and in due time, and shall have power to admin- 
 ister oaths in all cases in which an oath in made necessary by any provision of 
 the school law, except in the qualifying of county superintendents and their 
 sureties. (9.) 
 
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Section 21. Purchase Supplies: The county superintendent of public in- 
 struction of the respective counties in this state may purchase each year, for 
 each organized school district in his county, not having sufficient records, one 
 set of school district records, consisting of district clerk's records and other books 
 and a teachers' daily register and records; each of said books shall contain 
 such printed forms and instructions as will enable the teacher and the school 
 district officers to perform with correctness and accuracy their several duties 
 as required by law: Provided, that no purchase shall be made except upon 
 written requisition of the school district clerk, and each set of records shall 
 not exceed in cost four dollars; and the said superintendent shall draw his 
 order or warrant on the county treasurer in favor of the person he purchased 
 said books of, for the amount of the purchase money, and it is hereby made 
 the duty of said treasurer to pay the warrant or order out of any money 
 in his hands belonging to the respective districts in his county: Provided, 
 further, that no funds in the hands of the county treasurer belonging to the 
 several school districts of his county, shall be diverted from the object from 
 which said fund was raised, and said superintendent shall deliver said books 
 to the clerk of the school board of said district and take his receipt therefor 
 as his voucher. (10.) 
 
 Section 22. Formation of Districts: It shall be the duty of the county 
 superintendent of public instruction to divide the county into a convenient 
 number of school districts and to change such districts when the interests of 
 the people may require it, by making them conform to existing topographical 
 or physical conditions; but only after twenty days' notice thereof, by written 
 notice posted in at least five public places in the district, or districts, so 
 affected; but no district shall be formed from other organized district contain- 
 ing less than nine square miles of area and an assessed valuation of less than 
 fifty thousand dollars, and fewer than eight persons between the ages of six 
 and twenty years; and no district having a bonded indebtedness shall be so 
 changed that such indebtedness shall exceed five per cent of the assessed valu- 
 ation of such district. No school district shall be reduced to an area of less 
 than nine square miles. No district shall be changed under the provisions of 
 this section, except upon a petition to the county superintendent of public in- 
 struction, signed by at least one-third of the qualified electors of the district 
 petitioning for the change: Provided, that one-fourth of the qualified electors 
 of any district affected by such change may join in an appeal to the board of 
 county commissioners from the action of such county superintendent, and their 
 decision shall be final: Provided, further, that notice of such appeal shall be 
 served on such county superintendent within ten days after the time of post- 
 ing the formation or alteration of such district. Such notice shall be in writ- 
 ing, and shall state fully the objections to the action of such county superin- 
 tendent, a copy of which shall be filed with the county clerk and also with 
 the clerks of all the districts affected by such alteration, and such appeal 
 shall be heard and decided by a majority of the board of county commissioners 
 at their next regular meeting, and if such appeal is not sustained by them, 
 such county superintendent shall proceed to appoint the time and place for 
 said first district meeting, which shall then proceed as required by law. Such 
 superintendent shall number school districts when they are formed, and he 
 shall keep in a book for that purpose a description of the boundaries of each 
 school district, and part of district, in his county, with a plat of same, date 
 of organization, date and full record of all changes of boundaries and a list 
 of district officers in his county, the date of election or appointment, and the 
 time the term of each is to expire. (11.) 
 
 Section 23. Not to Affect Separate Districts: The provisions of this 
 article shall not be constaued as limiting the operation of law providing for 
 the formation of separate districts for white and colored children, but the for- 
 mation of any district under such law shall be construed to be the formation 
 of a new district with like effect as though such new district was formed in 
 territory unorganized for school purposes. (12.) 
 
 Section 24. Notice of Formation: When a school district shall be formed 
 in any county, the county superintendent of public instruction of such county 
 shall, within fifteen days thereafter, prepare a notice of the formation of such 
 district, describing its boundaries and stating the number thereof. He shall 
 cause the notices thus prepared to be posted in at least five public places in 
 
the district, and in case there shall be no appeal, shall in ten days thereafter 
 in like manner, appoint a time and place for special district meeting for the 
 election of officers and the transaction of such business as is prescribed by 
 law for regular school district meetings. (13.) 
 
 Section 25. Employment of Clerk: The county superintendent of public 
 instruction in counties having a population of more than fifteen thousand, and 
 not more than twenty-five thousand, may, with the consent of the county com- 
 missioners, expend for clerk hire not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars 
 per annum, and in counties of more than twenty-five thousand and not more 
 than forty thousand the county superintendent may, with the consent of the 
 county commissioners, expend for clerk hire not to exceed four hundred dollars 
 per annum, and in counties having a population of more than forty thousand 
 the county superintendent may, with the consent of the county commissioners, 
 expend for clerk hire not to exceed six hundred dollars per annum: Provided, 
 that in counties having a population of more than fifteen thousand and not 
 more than twenty-five thousand and in which there is conducted not less than 
 twenty separate or minority schools, the county superintendent may, with the 
 consent of the county commissioners, expend for clerk hire not to exceed four 
 hundred dollars. (14, as amended by S. B. 164, Chap. 237, Session Laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 26. Employment of Clerk in Certain Counties: Each county super- 
 intendent of public instruction of this state in counties having a population 
 of more than twenty-five thousand, exclusive of cities of the first class, and 
 in which there is organized not less than one hundred and thirty-five school 
 districts, and in which there is conducted not less than thirty separate or 
 minority schools, may, with the consent of the county commissioners, expend 
 for clerk hire not to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum. (Sec 1, S. B. 
 211, chap. 17, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 27. Same: Each county superintendent of public instruction of 
 this state in counties having a population, as shown by the present or any fed- 
 eral census hereafter taken, of not less than 29,100 and not more than 29,300, 
 may, with the consent of the county commissioners, expend for clerk hire not 
 to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum. (Sec 1, H. B. 462, Chap. 
 194, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 28. Traveling Expenses: Each county superintendent of public 
 instruction of this state shall be allowed all actual and necessary traveling 
 expenses while away from home inspecting the schools of the county: Pro- 
 vided, no expenses shall accrue for the inspection of a school more than twice 
 annually. No such expense account shall be paid except on an itemized sworn 
 statement. (15.) 
 
 Section 29. Forfeiture cf Office: Every county superintendent of public 
 instruction who shall neglect or refuse to perform any act which it is his duty 
 to perform, or shall corruptly or oppressively perform such duties, shall forfeit 
 his office and be liable on his official bond for all damages occasioned thereby, 
 to be recovered in the name of the state for the benefit of the proper party, 
 district or county. (16.) 
 
 Section 30. Apportion Debts: It shall be the duty of such county super- 
 intendent in each county in the state to audit any outstanding indebtedness 
 that may have been contracted by any district prior to the time such district 
 was changed, and apportion the same to the districts now comprising the 
 territory of such districts, taking as a basis of apportionment the assessed 
 valuation of property included in the boundaries of said divided district and 
 he shall apportion to each of the districts which have acquired the territory 
 of said divided district such portion of said indebtedness as the assessed 
 valuation of the property of that portion of the territory thus acquired bears to 
 the entire assessed valuation of such divided district. (17.) 
 
 Section 31. Dispose of Property: The county superintendent of public in- 
 struction shall have power to dispose of any property which may belong to any 
 such divided districts by agreement with the district board retaining the prop- 
 erty of such divided district: Provided, that the funds arising from the 
 sale of such property shall be applied by such county superintendent to the 
 payment of the indebtedness of said divided district or districts. (18.) 
 
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Section 32. Compensation: The county superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion shall receive an annual salary to be paid monthly out of the county treas- 
 ury by order of the county commissioners as follows: In counties having a pop- 
 ulation of not over eighteen thousand, twelve hundred dollars; in counties hav- 
 ing a population over eighteen thousand and not over thirty thousand 
 fourteen hundred dollars; in counties having a population of over thirty thou- 
 sand and not over forty thousand, sixteen hundred dollars; in counties having 
 a population of over forty thousand, eighteen hundred dollars. (19.) 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Common School Districts. 
 
 Section 33. Subjects Taught: In each and every school district there 
 shall be taught agriculture, orthography, reading, penmanship, English grammar, 
 physiology and hygiene, geography, U. S. history and civics, arithmetic and 
 such other branches as may be determined by the state board of education: 
 Provided, that the instruction given in the several branches taught shall be in 
 the English language. (1.) 
 
 NOTE See section 153. 
 
 Section 34. School Month: A school month shall consist of four weeks of 
 five days each of six hours per day. (2.) 
 
 Section 35. District Organized: Every school district shall be deemed 
 duly organized when the officers constituting the district board shall have been 
 elected and qualified and shall have signified their acceptance to the county 
 superintendent of public instruction in writing, which written notice such 
 superintendent shall file in his office. (3.) 
 
 Section 36. District a Corporation: Every school district organized in 
 pursuance of this article shall be a body corporate, and shall possess the usual 
 powers of a corporation for public purposes by the name and style of "School 
 District (such a number as may be designated by the county superintend- 
 ent of public instruction) county (the name of the county in which 
 
 the district is situated) state of Oklahoma," and in that name may sue and 
 be sued, and be capable of contracting and being contracted with and holding 
 such real and personal estate as it may come into possession of by will or other- 
 wise, or as is authorized. (4.) 
 
 Section 37. Division of Property Among Divided Districts: When a new 
 district is formed, in whole or in part, from one or more districts possessing a 
 school house or entitled to other property, the county superintendent of public 
 instruction, at the time of forming such new district, shall equitably determine 
 the proportion of the present value of such school houses or other property 
 justly due to said new district. Such proportion, when ascertained, shall be 
 levied upon the property of the district retaining the school house, or other 
 property, and shall be collected in the same manner as if the same had been 
 authorized by a vote of the district for building a school house, and when col- 
 lected, shall be paid to the new district to be applied towards procuring a 
 school house for such district. (5.) v 
 
 Section 38. Annual Meeting: An annual school meeting of each school 
 district shall be held on the second Tuesday of July of each year, and at such 
 places or polling places as the board may designate, beginning at two o'clock 
 
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P. M. and closing at four o'clock P. M. of said date. Notice of the time and 
 place of the annual meeting shall be given by the clerk by posting written or 
 printed notices in five public places in the district ten days prior to said meet- 
 ing. Special meetings may be called by a majority of the district board or 
 by a majority of the legal voters of the district; but notice of said special 
 meeting stating the purpose for which it is called, together with the time and 
 place, shall be posted at least ten days before the meeting in five public places. 
 Following the annual school meeting and on the same date thereof, it shall be 
 the duty of the School District Board to meet and make out the report required 
 by law to be filed with the excise board showing the fiscal condition of the 
 school district at the close of the previous fiscal year and the statement of 
 the estimated needs thereof for the current or ensuing fiscal year. (Sec. 1, 
 S. B. 373, chap, 278, L. 1915.) 
 
 NOTE Excess levy to be voted on at annual meeting. (See Sees. 343 
 and 344. 
 
 Section 39. Qualified Voters: All persons, including females, residing in 
 the district and possessing the qualifications of electors, as defined by the con- 
 stitution and the laws of the state, shall be entitled to vote at any district 
 meeting. (7.) 
 
 NOTE Grandfather clause applicable to a school election even when the 
 colored school is the majority school. (5-9-14.) 
 
 Section 40. Challenged Voters: If any person offering to vote at a school 
 district meeting shall be challenged as unqualified by any legal voter, the chair- 
 man presiding shall declare to the persons challenged the qualifications of a 
 voter, and if such challenge be not withdrawn, the chairman, who is hereby 
 authorized, shall tender to the person offering to vote the following oath or 
 affirmation: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are an actual resi- 
 dent of this school district and that you are qualified by law to vote at this meet- 
 ing. " Any person taking such oath or affirmation shall be entitled to vote on 
 all questions voted upon at such meeting. (8.) 
 
 Section 41. Duties of Annual Meeting: The inhabitants qualified to vote 
 at a school meeting lawfully assembled, shall have power: First, to appoint a 
 chairman to preside over said meeting in the absence of the director. Second, 
 to adjourn from time to time. Third, to choose a director, clerk or member 
 who shall possess the qualifications prescribed by law. Fourth, to designate by 
 vote a site for the district school house: Provided, that the designation of a 
 site for a district school house shall not be over one-half mile from the center 
 of said district. Fifth, to authorize and direct the sale of any school site or 
 other property belonging to the district (when the same shall be no longer 
 needful to the district). Sixth, to give such directions and make such provi- 
 sions as may be deemed necessary in the prosecution or defense of any suit or 
 proceedings in which the district may be a party. (9.) 
 
 NOTE County superintendents are not authorized to decide a contest of 
 election between candidates. (5-9-14.) 
 
 Section 42. Two or More School Houses in Same District: The board of 
 education of any independent district or the board of directors of any school 
 district in this state may construct and maintain two or more school houses 
 in any school district in this state: Provided, a majority of the legal voters 
 of said district shall authorize the same at an election to be held in said dis- 
 trict as other elections are held for school purposes. (10.) 
 
 Section 43. Locations Legalized: The location or construction of any 
 school house already located or constructed by the board of education or board 
 of directors of any school district in this state are hereby legalized. (11.) 
 
 Section 44. Length of School Term: The qualified voters, at each annual 
 meeting, or any special meeting duly called, may determine the length of time 
 the school shall be taught in their district for the then ensuing year, which 
 shall not be less than three months, and when such school shall be taught, and 
 whether the school money to which the district may be entitled shall be applied 
 in support of the summer or winter term of school, or a certain portion of each; 
 
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but if such matter shall not be determined at their annual or any special 
 meeting, it shall be the duty of the district board to determine the same. (12.) 
 
 Section 45. Changing School Site: In school districts having school houses 
 the value of which is not less than five hundred dollars, the school house 
 site shall not be changed, except by a vote of at least three-fifths of the legal 
 voters of such district voting in favor of such change. (13.) 
 
 Section 46. May Purchase State Land: Upon application of any regularly 
 organized school district board to the commissioners of the land office, when 
 it is made to appear that it is necessary to locate a site for a public school 
 house on any of the public school land or state lands, the commissioners of 
 the land office are hereby authorized and directed to have, or cause to have, 
 such public building site surveyed, said site to embrace not more than four 
 acres of land, and said commissioners shall cause said site so located and 
 surveyed to be appraised as provided by law, and when said school district 
 board shall have filed with said commissioners of the land office a relinquish- 
 ment of the preference right and interest held therein by the lessee of said 
 site so located and surveyed, or when said school district board shall have 
 condemned the preference right and interest held therein by the lessee of said 
 site, express authority being herein granted to such school district board to 
 so condemn such lessee 's interest in any such land for the purposes herein men- 
 tioned under the condemnation procedure now applicable to railroads, and 
 shall have filed with said commissioners of the land office the final judgment 
 of the court, thereupon said commissioners of the land office shall, upon the 
 payment to the state the appraised value of said site and tract, so -located and 
 surveyed, make, execute, and deliver to said school district board a patent to 
 said tract, as provided by law. (14.) 
 
 Section 47. Relocation of School Site: Upon the petition of one-third of 
 the voters of any school district in Oklahoma, and in any district containing 
 a town or village, qualified to vote at a school district election, the district 
 board of said district shall call a meeting of the voters of said district at the school 
 house therein in the manner provided by law for calling special meetings for 
 the purpose of determining the relocation of the school house in said district. 
 If at such meeting the voters of the district, by vote of two-thirds of the resi- 
 dent voters of the district voting, determine to relocate the school house in said 
 district within the school district, the board of said district shall locate said 
 school house at some point in said district in or adjoining such town or village. 
 (15.) 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 Joint Districts. 
 
 Section 48. Formation of Joint Districts: When it shall become necessary 
 to form a school district lying partly in two or more counties, the county super- 
 intendents of public instruction in the counties in which the said tract of 
 country shall be located, when application shall be made in writing to any one 
 of them by five householder residents therein, shall, if by them deemed neces- 
 sary, meet and proceed to lay off and form the same into a school district, issue 
 notices of the first district meeting and shall file the proper papers in their respec- 
 tive offices; and such district so organized shall be designated: "Joint District 
 
 No , counties of ," and the boundaries of such district 
 
 shall not be altered except by the joint action of such superintendents of the 
 several counties represented in said district. (1.) 
 
 NOTE Joint districts must have area of at least nine square miles and 
 assessed valuation of at least fifty thousand dollars. (9-10-14.) 
 
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Section 49. Appeal: If, in the alteration of, or refusal to alter, the 
 boundaries of any joint school district, any person or persons shall feel ag- 
 grieved, such person or persons may appeal to the state superintendent of pub- 
 lie instruction, and notice of such appeal shall be served on the superintendents 
 of public instruction of the several counties represented in said district within 
 ten days after the rendition by them of the decision appealed from, which 
 notice shall be in writing and shall state fully the objections to the actions of 
 such superintendents, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the state superin- 
 tendent of public instruction. It shall be the duty of such county superintend- 
 ent in whose possession are the papers connected with the action appealed 
 from, to transmit the same to the state superintendent of public instruction im- 
 mediately upon being served with notice of appeal, as hereinbefore provided. 
 Thereupon, the state superintendent of public instruction shall fix the time for the 
 hearing of said appeal, and notify such several county superintendents inter- 
 ested, and they shall take action in accordance therewith. Each joint district, 
 except in matters relating to the alteration of the boundaries thereof, shall be 
 under the jurisdiction and control of the superintendent of public instruction 
 of that county represented in such district having the largest amount of terri- 
 tory embraced within the boundaries of such joint district. (2.) 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 Duties of District Officers and Teachers 
 
 Section 50. Officers and Term: The officers of each school district shall 
 be a director, clerk and member, who shall constitute the district board and 
 who shall be elected and hold their respective offices as follows: At the annual 
 election in 1914 there shall be elected in all school districts a director who 
 shall hold his office for three years; in 1915, a member who shall hold his office 
 for three years, and in 1916 a clerk who shall hold his office for three 
 years, and thereafter at each annual meeting- there shall be elected one 
 member of said board in the place of the outgoing member, who shall hold his 
 office for three years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. No 
 person shall be eligible to serve on the district board unless he can read and 
 write the English language, and shall be a legally qualified voter of said dis- 
 trict. (1.) 
 
 Section 51. Oath of Office: School district officers, before entering upon 
 their official duties, shall take the following oath to faithfully perform said 
 duties, and the chairman of any regular or special meeting is hereby authorized 
 and empowered to administer such oath: "I, , hereby declare un- 
 der oath that I will faithfully perform the duties of of school dis- 
 trict county of , to the best of my ability and that I will 
 
 faithfully discharge all the duties pertaining to said office and obey the consti- 
 tution and laws of the United States and of Oklahoma." (2.) 
 
 Section 52. Forfeiture of Office: Every person duly elected to the office 
 of director, clerk or member of any school board who shall refuse or neglect 
 without sufficient cause to qualify within twenty days after his election or 
 appointment, or who having entered upon the duties of his office shall neglect 
 or refuse to perform any duty required by the provisions of this article, shall 
 thereby forfeit his right to the office to which he was elected or appointed, and 
 the county superintendent of public instruction shall thereupon appoint a 
 suitable person in his stead. (3.) 
 
 Section 53. Duties of Director: The director of each district shall preside 
 at all district meetings and shall sign all orders drawn by the clerk, authorized 
 by a district meeting or by the district board, upon the custodian of the district 
 
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funds for moneys collected or received by him to be disbursed therein. He 
 shall appear for and in behalf of the district, in all suits brought by or against 
 the district, unless other directions shall be given by the voters of such district 
 at a district meeting. (4.) 
 
 Section 54. Duties of Clerk: The clerk of such district shall record the 
 proceedings of his district board or board of education in a book provided by 
 the district for that purpose, and enter thereon copies of all reports made by 
 him to the county superintendent; he shall keep and preserve all records, books 
 and papers belonging to his office and deliver the same to his successor in 
 office; and shall post all notices for annual or special meetings, one of which 
 shall be posted on the school house door. (5.) 
 
 Section 55. Deputy Clerk: The said clerk shall be the clerk of the district 
 board of all district meetings, when present; but if such clerk shall not be pres- 
 ent at any district meeting, the voters present may appoint a clerk of said 
 meeting, who shall certify the proceedings thereof, and the same shall be re- 
 corded by the clerk of the district. (6.) 
 
 Section 56. Issuance of Warrants: The clerk of the district shall draw 
 and countersign all warrants or orders on the custodian of the district funds 
 for moneys in the hands of such treasurer, which have been apportioned to, or 
 raised by, the district to be applied to the payment of teachers' wages, and 
 apply such money to the payment of wages of such teachers as shall have been 
 employed by the district board, and said clerk shall draw orders on the treasurer 
 for the moneys in the hands of such treasurer to be disbursed for any purpose 
 ordered by a district meeting or by the district board, agreeable to the provi- 
 sions of this section. (7.) 
 
 Section 57. Preliminary Meeting and Annual Reports: Each school dis- 
 trict board shall hold a meeting at least five days previous to the annual meet- 
 ing in each year, for the purpose of preparing the report of the clerk, which 
 shall be read and submitted to the legal voters of the district at the annual 
 meeting for their information and consideration; if any changes or alterations 
 therein be necessary, the same shall be made and shall then be transmitted to 
 the county superintendent of public instruction. Said report shall show: First, 
 the number of children, white and colored, designated separately, attending 
 the school during the year, and their sex. Second, the length of time school 
 has been taught in the district by a qualified teacher or teachers, the name 
 of the teacher or teachers, and wages paid. Third, the amount of money 
 raised by the district in such year and the purpose for which it was raised. 
 Fourth, an itemized statement of all orders or warrants drawn on the custodian 
 of the district funds for the past fiscal year, and the purpose for which drawn. 
 Fifth, such other facts and statistics in regard to the district school as the 
 state superintendent may require. (8.) 
 
 Section 58. Penalty for False Report: Every clerk of the district who 
 shall willfully sign a false report to the county superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion of his county, or fail or refuse to make a legal report, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, punished by a fine of not less 
 than ten dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars. (9.) 
 
 Section 59. Report to County Clerk and Assessor: It shall be the duty of 
 the several district clerks of this state to make out a certified list of all 
 persons residing within their respective districts liable to pay taxes and trans- 
 mit the same to the county clerk and assessor of their respective counties on 
 or before the first day of January of each year. (10.) 
 
 Section 60. Election Report: The district clerk shall immediately after 
 the annual meeting report to the county superintendent of public instruction 
 in writing the name and postoffice address of the district officer elected at 
 the annual meeting. (11.) 
 
 Section 61. Records Subject to Inspection: The books, records, papers and 
 other archives of the school district board shall be open at all times to the in- 
 spection and examination of the county superintendent of public instruction 
 and to all resident taxpayers within said district. (12.) 
 
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Section 62. Shall Surrender Records: Every school district officer, di- 
 rector, clerk or member who shall neglect or refuse td deliver to his successor 
 in office all records, books or papers belonging to his office shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than one 
 hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in 
 the county jail for six months. (13.) 
 
 Section 63. Purchase or Lease Building Site: The district board shall 
 purchase or lease a site for a school house as shall have been designated by 
 the voters of the district meeting, in the corporate name thereof, and shall 
 build, hire or purchase such school house as the voters of the district, in a dis- 
 trict meeting, shall have agreed upon, out of the funds provided for that pur- 
 pose, and make sale of any school house site or other property of the district, 
 and, if necessary, execute a conveyance of the same in the name of their office, 
 when lawfully directed by the voters of such district, at any regular or special 
 meeting, and shall carry into effect all lawful orders of the district. (14.) 
 
 Section 64. District Board Custodian of Property: The district board shall 
 have the care and keeping of the school house and other property belonging to 
 the district. They shall have power to make such rules and regulations as they 
 may deem proper and may appoint some suitable person to take charge of the 
 school apparatus, maps, charts, etc., belonging to the district. (15.) 
 
 NOTE School boards have authority to make and enforce rules and regula- 
 tions for protection of school property. (1-30-14.) 
 
 Section 65. May Admit Non-residents: The district board shall have 
 power to admit scholars from adjoining districts: Provided, that said pupils 
 shall pay a tuition fee, which fee shall be prescribed by the district board, sub- 
 ject, however, to provisions of article 16 of this act. (16.) 
 
 Section 66. Teachers' Contracts Provisions: The district board of each 
 district shall contract with and hire qualified teachers for, and in the name of 
 the district, which contract shall be in writing. The contract shall specify the 
 wages per week or month, as agreed upon by the parties, and one copy shall be 
 filed with the district clerk, one copy filed with such county superintendent, and 
 one -copy retained by the teacher, and the board, in conjunction with such super- 
 intendent, may dismiss such teacher or teachers for incompetency, cruelty, neg- 
 ligence, or immorality. Whenever any person shall make and enter into a valid 
 contract with such district board to teach school in such district, such contract 
 shall be binding upon such teacher until he has been legally discharged there- 
 from according to law, or released therefrom by such district board in regular 
 session; and until such person shall have been thus discharged or released, he 
 shall not have the authority to make or enter into any valid contract with any 
 other district board or board of education in the state of Oklahoma to perform 
 services as teacher or instructor for a period of time covered by an existing 
 valid contract which said person has made. No district board or board of 
 education shall have authority to pay any money or issue any warrant for the 
 payment of money to any person for services as teacher or instructor, except 
 for services performed under and by virtue of a valid written contract approved 
 by such county superintendent existing between such district board and such 
 teacher to be paid: Provided, it shall be unlawful for any school district board 
 to employ a person to teach who is related to a member of the board. School 
 district boards shall have authority to enter into contracts after March 1st 
 each year, and prior to the annual meeting, with persons to teach their school 
 for the ensuing year. No contract so entered into prior to the annual meeting 
 shall be binding unless the teacher is at the time of making the contract the 
 holder of a valid certificate in the county where the services are to be rendered 
 for the time the contract is made. The contract so entered into before the annual 
 meeting shall be binding upon the district only for an amount that comes within 
 the estimate when made and approved, and the district, nor any member of 
 the school district board shall be liable for any amount of difference between 
 the amount of the contract and the amount of the estimate as made and ap- 
 proved; and in the event of a school house being destroyed by accident, fire 
 or otherwise, and no other suitable building can be secured therefor, all con- 
 tracts for the payment of teachers who were under contract to teach in said 
 school house shall be void, and all contracts entered into between a teacher and 
 
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board of directors of any district shall contain the provisions of this section. 
 (17.) 
 
 NOTE In dismissing teacher the county superintendent and the school board 
 members sit as one board and each member has one vote. (4-12-15.) Teachers 
 may draw pay for time school is closed on account of contagious disease. (12- 
 14-14.) 
 
 Section 67. Shall Provide School Supplies: The district board shall pro- 
 vide the necessary supplies for the school during the time school is taught 
 therein, and shall keep an accurate account of all expenses thus incurred and 
 present the same for allowance at any regular meeting of the board, and no 
 warrant or order shall be drawn unless authorized at such regular meeting. 
 The board shall hold monthly meetings during the school term, which shall 
 be at the end of each school month. (18.) 
 
 Section. 68. School Property Exempt From Taxation and Forced Sale: 
 
 All property held by the school district of any school district in this state for 
 the use of the public schools, shall be exempt from taxation, and shall not be 
 taken in any manner for any debt due from the district. (19.) 
 
 Section 69. Suspension of Pupils: The teacher may suspend from the 
 privileges of a school any pupil guilty of immorality or persistent violations of 
 the regulations of the school, which suspension shall not extend beyond the 
 current quarter of the school: Provided, that the pupil suspended shall have 
 the right to appeal from the decision of said teacher to the board of directors, 
 which shall, upon a full investigation of the charges preferred against said 
 pupil, determine as to the guilt or innocence of the offense charged, and their 
 decision shall be final. (20.) 
 
 Section 70. Shall Furnish Registers and Report Cards: The district board 
 shall furnish each teacher with suitable daily register and report cards, which 
 forms shall be approved by the state superintendent, and shall visit together, 
 or by one or two of their number, all the schools of their district at least 
 twice each term, and at such school periods during the term as, in their opin- 
 ion, the exigencies of each school may require; at which visit they shall examine 
 the register of the teacher and see that it is properly kept, and inquire into 
 other matters touching the school house, facilities for ventilation, furniture, 
 apparatus, library, studies, discipline, modes of teaching and improvement of 
 the schools, and confer with the teacher with regard to the condition and man- 
 agement, and make such suggestions as would, in their view, promote the in- 
 terests and efficiency of the school and the progress and good of the pupils. 
 The date and result of such visits shall be entered by the clerk of the board 
 on their minutes. (21.) 
 
 Section 71. Penalty for Law Violation: Any member of the school dis- 
 trict board, or custodian of the district funds, who shall violate any of the 
 provisions of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon 
 conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor 
 more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
 than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and any teacher who 
 shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to immediate 
 dismissal, and it shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public in- 
 struction to prosecute and carry out the provisions of this section. (22.) 
 
 Section 72. Disposition of Fines: All fines collected for any violation of 
 this article shall be paid to the treasurer of the county where the suit is 
 brought for the support of the common schools. (23.) 
 
 Section 73. Payment of Judgments: Whenever any final judgment shall 
 be obtained against any school district, the district board shall provide, for a 
 tax on all taxable property in the district for the payment thereof; such taxes 
 shall be collected as other school district taxes, but no execution shall issue on 
 such judgment against the school district. (24.) 
 
 Section 74. Removal of School House: Whenever a school house or other 
 improvements have been made upon the claim of any settler, upon any of 
 the public or Indian lands or other property within this state to which said 
 settler had no title, it shall be ^lawful for the school directors of the proper 
 
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school district to remove said school house or other improvements from the 
 said claim or private property at any time within one year from the time that 
 the settler in any given case may acquire the title to his said claim: Provided, 
 that if the said settler in any given case shall convey to the said board of 
 directors one acre of land or more upon which said school house or other im- 
 provements are situated, the same shall not be removed. (25.) 
 
 Section 75. Public Meetings in School House: The district board shall 
 have the care and keeping of the school house and other property belonging to 
 the district. They are hereby authorized to open the school house for the use 
 of religious, political, literary, scientific, mechanical or agricultural societies 
 belonging to their districts for holding public meetings of such societies under 
 such regulations as the board may adopt. Any person, society or organization 
 using the school house as herein provided shall be responsible for all damages 
 resulting from such use, and it shall be the duty of the school board to assess 
 such person, society or organization the amount of the damages, if any result 
 from such usage, and if not paid within five days, they shall immediately file 
 complaint with the justice of the peace and upon conviction the offending party 
 or parties shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty 
 five dollars, said fine, when collected, to be turned into the county treasury and 
 credited to the school district fund of the district to which the said school 
 house belonged. If school is in session at the time the house is used for other 
 than school purposes, the building shall be swept and cleaned after its use and 
 before eight o 'clock the morning following, and if not so cleaned and swept, 
 further use of said building shall be prohibited. (26.) 
 
 Section 76. May Purchase Buildings: The school district board of any 
 school district, or board of education of any independent district in the state, 
 if the electors entitled to vote in school elections in such districts shall by a 
 majority vote so authorize, shall have power to contract for, acquire, or con- 
 struct, necessary school buildings and additions thereto, to be paid for by an 
 annual rental and to levy an annual tax of not more than three mills for the 
 payment of such rental: Provided, however, that the total levy upon an ad 
 valorem basis for all purposes within any district shall not exceed the amount 
 authorized by section 9, article 10 of the constitution. (27.) 
 
 Section 77. Meetings Called How: Any regular or special meeting of the 
 voters of any school district in the state of Oklahoma shall be called in the 
 following manner: Notice shall be given by posting five written or printed 
 notices in the district ten days prior to such meeting, or by publication in the 
 newspaper, if a newspaper is published in said district, in at least ten issues 
 of a daily newspaper, if a daily is published in said district, and if no daily 
 paper is published in said district, notice shall be given by publication in at 
 least two issues of a weekly newspaper, if published in said district; such pub- 
 lication shall not be less than ten days prior to said election. (28.) 
 
 Section 78. Approval of Purchase Contract: Any contract made under 
 the provisions of section 76 shall be approved by a majority of the voters of 
 the district present at a regular school election, or at a special election held for 
 that purpose, notice of which shall be given by posting five written or printed 
 notices in the district ten days prior to such meeting, or by publication in a 
 newspaper, if a newspaper is published in said district, in at least ten issues 
 of a daily newspaper if a daily is published in said district, and if no daily 
 newspaper is published in said district, notice shall be given by publication 
 in at least two issues of a weekly newspaper, if published in said district. 
 Such publication shall not be less than ten days prior to said election. (29.) 
 
 Section 79. Increased Levy for Building: When any contract is entered 
 into by the trustees of any school district in this state, as provided in this 
 article, where the total amount to be paid thereunder can not be paid within 
 ten years by the three mill levy upon an ad valorem basis, upon all the taxable 
 property within said district, an additional levy of an amount sufficient for 
 such purposes may be authorized by a majority vote of persons qualified to vote 
 at such district elections or meetings at a special election called for that pur- 
 pose by the trustees of such district: Provided, however, that the total amount 
 of such increased levy shall not exceed five mills on the dollar of the assessed 
 
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value of the taxable property in such school district. Notice of such special 
 election shall be given as the notices in the preceding section. (30.) 
 
 Section 80. Contracts With Board Members Prohibited: No district 
 board of any school district in this state shall make any contract with any of 
 its members or in which any of its members shall be directly or indirectly inter- 
 ested; and all contracts made in violation of this section shall be wholly 
 void. (31.) 
 
 Section 81. Penalty for Illegal Contracts: Every officer of any school 
 district who shall hereafter order or direct the payment of any money or trans- 
 fer of any property belonging to school district in settlement of any claim 
 known to such officers to be fraudulent or void, or in pursuance of any un- 
 authorized, unlawful or fraudulent contract or agreement made or attempted to be 
 made, for any school district, by any officer or officers thereof, and every 
 person having notice of the facts with whom such unauthorized, unlawful or 
 fraudulent contract shall have been made, or to whom or for whose benefit 
 such money shall hereafter be paid, or such transfer of property shall be made, 
 shall be jointly and severally liable in damages to all innocent persons in 
 any manner injured thereby, and shall be furthermore jointly and severally 
 liable to t'he school district affected for double the amount of all such sums 
 of money so paid, and double the value of property so transferred, as a penalty 
 to be recovered at the suit of the proper officers of such school district, or of 
 any resident taxpayer thereof, as hereinafter provided. (32.) 
 
 Section 82. Resident Taxpayer May Maintain Suit: That upon the re- 
 fusal, failure or neglect of the proper officers of any school district, after writ- 
 ten demand made upon them by ten resident taxpayers of such school district, 
 to institute or diligently prosecute the proper proceedings at law or in equity 
 for the recovery of any money or property belonging to such school district, 
 paid out or transferred by any officer thereof, in pursuance of any unauthor- 
 ized, unlawful, fraudulent or void contract, made or attempted to be made 
 by any of its officers for any such school district, or for the penalty provided 
 in the section preceding, any resident taxpayer of such school district affected 
 by such payment or transfer after serving the notice aforesaid, and after giv- 
 ing security for costs, may, in the name of the state of Oklahoma as plaintiff, 
 institute and maintain any proper action at law or in equity which the proper 
 officer of the school district might institute and maintain for the recovery 
 of such property, or for said penalty and any such school district shall, in 
 such event, be made defendant and one-half the amount of money and one-half 
 of the value of the property recovered in any action maintained at. the expense 
 of a resident taxpayer under this section shall be paid to such resident tax- 
 payer as a reward. (33.) 
 
 Section 83. County Treasurer Custodian of Funds: The county treasurer 
 of each county is hereby constituted the custodian of the school district funds 
 of the several districts of his county, except independent districts. (34.) 
 
 Section 84. Shall Keep Separate Accounts: The county treasurer shall 
 keep a correct account of all moneys received for the benefit of and belonging 
 to each of the several districts of his county, the source from which received 
 and the disbursements of the same, as is hereinafter provided, and the object 
 for which paid out. (35.) 
 
 Section 85. Method of Payment: All public funds of any district shall 
 be disbursed only in the payment of legal warrants or orders, bonds and in- 
 terest coupons. (36.) 
 
 Section 86. Warrants Issued Procedure: School district funds shall be 
 disbursed by the county treasurer only upon warrants issued by the school 
 district board and for paying interest coupons and bonds legally issued by the 
 school districts. No warrant shall be issued except on verified claims made 
 under oath, which claims shall be approved by the district board. No claim 
 shall be approved by the district board unless the same shall be made out in 
 separate items and the nature of each item stated. For the purpose of verify- 
 ing claims school district clerks are hereby given authority to administer oaths. 
 (37.) 
 
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Section 87. County Treasurer Shall Make Report to District Board: It 
 shall be the duty of the county treasurer, on or before the first Tuesday in 
 July of each year, to furnish to the several school district boards of his county, 
 a certified report in writing, showing the sources and amounts of all moneys 
 received and disbursed by him for each school district during the previous 
 fiscal year ending June 30th, together with the amount of all available assets 
 on hand at the close of such fiscal year, for each district. Said statement 
 shall be recorded at length by the clerk of the district in the minute record 
 of the board. Sec. 2, S. B. 373, chap. 278, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 88. May Purchase District Warrants: Whenever any school dis- 
 trict shall have outstanding warrants, for which there is no money in the 
 hands of the county treasurer, the said county treasurer shall have, and is 
 hereby given, authority, to buy and cancel such outstanding warrants of such 
 district with such funds on hand to the credit of other funds of the district 
 in any amount not to exceed fifty per cent of the total tax levy of said district 
 for that fiscal year. Provided, said warrants shall not be purchased for more 
 than par and accrued interest. (39.) 
 
 Section 89. District Treasurer's Final Report: Immediately after this 
 act becomes a law, the various school district treasurers shall make a report to 
 the county superintendent of public instruction similar in all respects to the 
 reports heretofore provided to be made at the annual meeting. Such county 
 superintendent shall audit the report and notify the district treasurer of the 
 amount of money that is due the school district. The treasurer, upon receipt 
 of such notice from such county superintendent, shall at once turn over to the 
 county treasurer the amount of money in his hands belonging to the district 
 as shown by the report made to the county superintendent as approved by him. 
 If the district treasurer fails or refuses to deliver the funds in his hands be- 
 longing to the district to the county treasurer within ten days after being no- 
 tified by the county superintendent, it shall be the duty of the county attorney 
 to proceed to take proper action against the bondsmen of the school district 
 treasurer for the recovery of the money. Should any school district treasurer 
 fail or refuse to make the report to such county superintendent within fifteen 
 days, as provided above, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con- 
 viction, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars, and not more than 
 fifty dollars. (40.) 
 
 Section 90. Shall Teach Effects of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics: The 
 nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effect on the human 
 system in connection with the various divisions, physiology and hygiene, shall 
 be included in the branches to be regularly taught in the common schools of 
 the state, and in all educational institutions supported wholly or in part by 
 money from the state: Provided, that this subject shall be taught as a part 
 of physiology and hygiene, and that no additional textbook be employed. (Sec. 
 1, H. B. 160, chap 10, L 1915) 
 
 Section 91. Boards Shall Provide for Above: Boards of education and 
 boards of such educational institutions shall make suitable provisions for this 
 instruction in the schools and institutions under their respective jurisdic- 
 tion, giving definite time and place therefor in the regular course of 
 study; adopt such methods as will adapt it to the capacity of pupils in the 
 various grades; and to corresponding classes, as found in ungraded schools. 
 The same test for promotion shall be required in this as in other branches 
 (Sec 2, H B. 160, chap. 10, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 92. Subjects Above Taught in Institutes: In all teachers' insti- 
 tutes, normal schools and teachers training classes established by the state, 
 adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best methods 
 of teaching such branches. (Sec 3, H. B. 160, chap. 10, L. 1915) 
 
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ARTICLE VI. 
 
 Independent Districts, 
 
 Section 93. Independent Districts Denned: Each city of the first class, 
 and each incorporated town maintaining a four years' high school fully ac- 
 credited with the state university, shall constitute an independent district and 
 be governed by the provisions of this article. (1.) 
 
 Section 94. Change of Boundaries: Territory outside the limit of any 
 city or town within an independent district may be added to or detached from 
 such city or town for school purposes, upon petition to the county superintend- 
 ent of public instruction by a majority of the qualified electors of the territory 
 desiring to be attached to or detached from such city or town and if he deem 
 it proper and to the best interests of the school of such city or town he shall 
 issue an order attaching such territory to, or detaching such territory from 
 such city or town for school purposes, and such territory shall, after being at- 
 tached fom the date of such order, be and compose a part of such city for 
 school purposes only, and the taxable property of such adjacent territory shall 
 be subject to taxation and shall bear its full proportion of all expenses in- 
 curred in the erection of school buildings and in maintaining the schools of 
 such city; such attached territory shall be entitled to elect one member of 
 the board of education, who shall be elected at the same time that other mem- 
 bers of the board are elected, by the qualified electors of such district, at an 
 election to be held at such places as the board of education may designate: 
 Provided, however, that when a school district has been regularly laid out, 
 formed and organized, includes therein an incorporated town which has become 
 a regularly and legally organized city of the first class, the territory lying 
 outside of the city limits which has been included in and was a part of the 
 said school district at the time said town became a city of the first class 
 and has been treated as a part of the city school district, shall continue to be 
 a part of said school district, and shall be governed by the provisions of this 
 article: Provided further, that in all cases where any town has heretofore 
 been organized as, and declared to be, a city of the first class, the territory 
 lying outside of the city limits and which has been included in and was a part 
 of said school district at the time said town became a city of the first class 
 and has been treated as a part of the city school district shall continue to be 
 a part of said school district and shall be governed by the provisions of this 
 article: Provided further, that in all cases where any town has heretofore been 
 organized as and declared to be a city of the first class, the territory lying 
 outside of the city limits and which was a part of the school district including 
 said town, at the time of the change from a town to a city of the first class, 
 and has since been treated as a part of the city school district under the 
 management and control of the board of education of said city school district, 
 including said adjoining territory, all elections held therein for the purpose 
 of authorizing the issuance of bonds or for any other legal purpose and all 
 levies of taxes made by said board of education against the tazable property 
 therein are hereby legalized and declared to be legal and binding: Provided, 
 that if any party or parties should object to the changing of the school district 
 boundaries they shall have the right of appeal as provided for appealing from 
 the decision of such county superintendent in changing the boundaries of other 
 school districts: And provided further, that the boundary of any district 
 shall not be changed in annexing territory to an independent district, or to 
 a city or town, constituting an independent district, so that the assessed 
 valuation of the original district shall be reduced more than five per cent of 
 the assessed valuation. (2.) 
 
 Section 95. A Body Corporate Powers: The public schools of each city 
 or town organized in pursuance of this article shall be a body corporate and 
 shall possess the usual powers of corporations for public purposes, by the name 
 
 and style of "The Board of Education of the city or town of , 
 
 of the state of Oklahoma," and in that name may sue or be sued, and be 
 capable of contracting or being contracted with, of holding and conveying 
 
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such personal and real estate as it may come into possession of, by will or 
 otherwise, or as is authorized to be purchased by the provisions of this article. 
 (3.) 
 
 Section 96. May Convey Property: Any city of the first ciass or town 
 is hereby authorized and required, upon the request of the board of education 
 of such city or town to convey to such board of education all property within 
 the limits of any such city heretofore purchased by any such city for school 
 purposes and now held and used for such purposes, the title to which is vested 
 in any such city or town. (4.) 
 
 Section 97. Conveyances How Made: All conveyances of the property 
 mentioned in the preceding section shall be signed by the mayor and attested 
 by the clerk of said city or town, and shall have the seal of the city affixed 
 thereto and be acknowledged by the mayor of such city or town in the same 
 manner as other conveyances of real estate. (5.) 
 
 Section 98. Election of School Officers: A separate ballot box for school 
 purposes shall be provided by the city clerk and ballots for school officers 
 deposited therein. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to prepare suitable 
 places for holding such elections. At the biennial city election in 1915 there 
 shall be elected a school treasurer by the city at large, who shall hold office 
 two years and a board of education consisting of one member from each ward 
 and one from outlying territory to be nominated from respective ward or out- 
 lying territory and elected from the district at large, two of whom shall hold 
 office for a term of two years and the others for a term of four years, and 
 until their successors are elected and qualified; thereafter at each biennial 
 election members shall, be elected to succeed the outgoing members to serve 
 for a term of four years; provided, that no member of the board of education 
 be a member of the council, nor shall any member of the council be a member 
 of the board of education; provided further, that the officers and members of 
 the boards of education in cities of the first class shall hold their offices 
 for the full term to which they were elected; and provided further, that boards 
 of education in independent districts, not cities of the first class, shall con- 
 sist of three members to be selected by the district at large, at the same time 
 and in the same manner as school district officers. Provided further, that 
 nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent a city of the first class 
 which has heretofore, or may hereafter, adopt a charter form of government 
 pursuant to section 3, of article 18, of the Constitution of this state from fix- 
 ing the number of the members of the board of education of such city and 
 outlying territory attached thereto for school purposes and regulating the time 
 and manner of electing the members of such board of education, and the pro- 
 visions of any charter already adopted and in force or of any ordinance adopted 
 pursuant to such charter prescribing the number of members, or the time and 
 manner of election of its board of education are hereby validated and legalized. 
 Provided, that any of such ordinance which may hereafter be adopted, shall 
 not become effective until it is submitted to a vote of the electors of such 
 city and approved by a majority vote thereof, and provided further, that in 
 cities of less than five thousand population, there shall be nominated a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Education, one from each ward and one from outlying ter- 
 ritory, to be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of the respective 
 ward and outlying territory. But if there be no outlying territory in such 
 district, a member shall be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of 
 the city at large (Sec. 3, S. B. 373, chap. 278, L. 1915.) 
 
 NOTE Persons need not register in order to vote in school election of cities 
 of the first class. (1-27-15.) When member of board of education moves from 
 the ward where he lived at time of election his position becomes vacant. (8-31- 
 14.) In independent districts, not a city of the first class, the member of the 
 board elected in 1915 is treasurer of the board. (2-20-15.) The bond of such 
 treasurer is approved by the county superintendent. (4-15-15.) 
 
 Section 99. Boards in Cities of More Than 50,000: Cities having a pop- 
 ulation in excess of fifty thousand shall elect two members for each ward: 
 Provided, the number of wards does not exceed five. At the biennial city elec- 
 tion in 1915 there shall be elected one member from each such ward, who shall 
 hold office for a term of two years, and one member from each such ward, who 
 shall hold office for a term of four years; thereafter, at each biennial election 
 
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there shall be elected, to succeed each outgoing member a member who shall 
 hold office for a period of four years. (6a.) 
 
 NOTE Women are qualified to serve on board of education. (1-14-15.) County 
 officers may not serve on boards of education. (2-19-15.) 
 
 Section 100. Vacancies Filled by Board: The board of education shall 
 have power to fill any vacancy which may occur in that body to serve the 
 unexpired term. (7.) 
 
 Section 101. Powers of the Board: The board of education shall have 
 power to elect their own officers, except the treasurer; to make their own rules 
 and regulations, subject to the provisions of this article; to organize and main- 
 tain a system of graded schools; to establish a high school whenever, in their 
 opinion, the educational interest of the city demands the same, and to exercise 
 the sole control over the schools and school property of the city. (8.) 
 
 NOTE Boards of education are without authority to charge pupils tuition 
 who are transferred to such district. (9-9-14.) Pupils who were enumerated and 
 who draw public funds for the district cannot be charged tuition, and for school 
 purposes a minor may have a different residence than that of his parents. (10- 
 13-14.) Teachers' contracts date from the time they are signed by the board. 
 (10-5-14.) 
 
 Section 102. Election of Officers Organization: The board of education 
 at its regular meeting in May in each year shall organize by the election of a 
 president and vice-president from among its own members, each of whom shall 
 serve for the term of one year, or until their successors are elected and quali- 
 fied. They shall also elect a clerk: Provided, the clerk may be one of the 
 board members, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the board and 
 who shall receive such compensation for his services as the board may allow. 
 (9.) 
 
 Section 103. Duties of President: It shall be the duty of the president 
 to preside at meetings of the board of education; to appoint all committees 
 whose appointment is not otherwise provided for, and to sign all warrants 
 ordered by the board of education to be drawn upon the treasurer for school 
 money. (10.) 
 
 Section 104. Dutie3 of Vice President: It shall be the duty of the vice- 
 president to perform all the duties of the president in case of his absence or 
 disability. (11.) 
 
 Section 105. Clerk's Duties Bond: It shall be the duty of the clerk to 
 be present at all meetings of the board; to keep an accurate journal of its 
 proceedings; to take charge of its books and documents; to countersign all war- 
 rants for school moneys drawn upon the treasurer by order of the board of 
 education, and perform such other duties as the board of education, or its 
 committees, may require; and, before entering upon the discharge of his duties 
 the clerk of the board of education shall give a bond in the sum of not less 
 than one thousand dollars, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved 
 by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his 
 office. (12.) 
 
 Section 106. Treasurer's Duties Bond Summary Suspension: The treas- 
 urer shall prepare and submit in writing a monthly report of the conditions of 
 the finances of the district, and shall, when required, produce at any meeting 
 of the board, or to any committee appointed for the purpose of examining 
 his account, all books and papers pertaining to his office. Upon failure to 
 make reports, as required by law, or to obey the orders of the board of educa- 
 tion, the board may, at any meeting of the board, summarily suspend said 
 treasurer from acting as treasurer until restored by order of the board, or of 
 a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, and while so suspended, no 
 act of his, as treasurer, shall be legal or binding upon the board. The board 
 may immediately appoint some suitable person to act as treasurer during the 
 suspension, upon the said appointee giving bond and taking oath of office as 
 is required by law, of the regular treasurer; and upon demand the treasurer 
 must immediately turn over to the acting treasurer all books and papers and 
 other property pertaining to his office. He shall pay moneys only upon war- 
 rants signed by the president, or, in his absence, by the vice-president, and 
 
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countersigned by the clerk, and shall execute a bond in such sum as the board 
 may require, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the board, conditioned 
 for the faithful discharge of his duties as treasurer of said board. (13.) 
 
 Section 107. Election of Superintendent and Teachers: The regular elec- 
 tion of superintendent and teachers shall be held after, the first Monday in 
 May of each year, and at said time the board may, by a majority vote, elect 
 a superintendent and teachers for a period of one year, and said board may, 
 at any of such meetings by a three-fourths vote, elect a superintendent for a 
 period not to exceed three years, and all superintendents who have performed 
 services as such superintendent in independent districts in this state, under con- 
 tract signed by a majority of the board of education of such independent 
 district, and such contract shall be valid. The board shall also appoint two 
 competent persons, who, with the superintendent as chairman thereof, shall be 
 styled "the examining committee of the board of education," whose duty it 
 shall be to examine the credentials of all persons who apply to them as teachers. 
 The examining board shall make a written report to the board of education, 
 who may issue a certificate to the person applying, or may require any or all 
 applicants to pass such an examination as will satisfy the board and the 
 superintendent as to their competency and fitness to hold such position. (Sec. 
 1, H. B. 537, Chap. 71, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 108. Property Subject to Taxation: The taxable property of the 
 whole city or incorporated town, including the territory attached for school 
 purposes, shall be subject to taxation. All taxes collected for the benefit 
 of the school shall be placed in the hands of the treasurer, subject to the order 
 of the board of education. (15.) 
 
 Section 109. Time of Regular Meetings: The regular meetings of the 
 board of education shall be upon the first Monday of each month, but special 
 meetings may be held from time to time as circumstances may demand. (16.) 
 
 Section 110. Annual Report to County Superintendent: The board of edu- 
 cation, on or before June 30th, each year, shall make an annual report to the 
 county superintendent of public instruction of the progress, prosperity and con- 
 dition, financial as well as educational, of all the school matters under their 
 charge, and said report shall be printed either in a newspaper or in pamphlet 
 form. (17.) 
 
 Section 111. To Make Purchases Conditions and Penalty: No expendi- 
 ture involving an amount greater than two hundred dollars shall be made ex- 
 cept in accordance with the provisions of a written contract, and no contract 
 involving an expenditure of more than five hundred dollars for the purpose 
 of erecting any public buildings or making any improvements shall be made 
 except upon sealed proposals and to the lowest responsible bidder. Should the 
 board of education violate this provision of this article, they shall be dis- 
 qualified from further service on said board. (18.) 
 
 Section 112. May Issue Bonds: Whenever it shall become necessary for 
 the board of education of any school district in which is included in whole 
 or in part a city of the first class, to raise sufficient funds for the purchase 
 of a school site or sites, or to erect or purchase and equip a suitable school 
 building or buildings, or both, it shall be lawful for such board of education 
 of such city to borrow money for which they are hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to issue bonds, bearing a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent, 
 per annum, payable semi-annually at such place as may be shown on the face 
 of such bonds; which bonds shall be payable in not more than twenty-five 
 years from their date; and the board of education is hereby authorized and 
 empowered to sell such bonds at not less than their par value: Provided, 
 that before any bonds shall be issued, the mayor of the city, composing in 
 whole or in part such school district, shall /ause an election to be held in 
 such district, as hereinafter provided. (19.) 
 
 Section 113. Mayor to Call Election: It shall be the duty of the mayor 
 of each city governed by this article, upon the request of the board of educa- 
 tion^ forthwith to call an election to be conducted in all respects as are 
 special elections for city officers in the same city, except that the returns 
 
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shall be made to the board of education for the purpose of taking the sense 
 of such district upon the question of issuing such bonds, naming in the 
 proclamation of such election the amount of bonds to be voted on and the 
 purpose for which they are to be issued; and he shall cause to be published 
 in a newspaper of general circulation published in the said district the time 
 and place of such election, such notice to be given at least ten days before 
 such election. (20.) 
 
 Section 114. Qualified Electors: On the question of issuance of said 
 bonds no person shall be qualified to vote unelss he be in all respects a quali- 
 fied elector in such district. In case a majority of the voters thereof voting 
 at such city election shall vote affirmative for the issuance of said bonds, 
 then the said board shall issue the same and not otherwise. (21.) 
 
 Section 115. Bond Provisions: The said bonds shall contain all neces- 
 sary provisions as to form; and such school district shall, before or at the 
 time of the issuance of the same, provide for the collection of an annual tax 
 sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also to 
 institute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within the 
 time for which the said bonds are to run: Provided, that no indebtedness 
 shall ever be incurred to an amount, including this indebtedness, exceeding in 
 the aggregate five per cent of the valuation, of the taxable property of such 
 district, to be ascertained from the last assessment for state and county pur- 
 poses, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness. (22.) 
 
 Section 116. Bonds Other Provisions: The bonds, the issuance of which 
 is provided in the preceding section, shall be signed by the president, attested 
 by the clerk and countersigned by the treasurer of the board of education, and 
 shall have endorsed thereon a certificate signed by the county clerk or other 
 officer authorized by law to sign such certificate and the county attorney of 
 the county wherein such district is located, stating that said bonds, or evidence 
 of debt, is issued pursuant to law and that said issue is within the debt limit: 
 Provided, that each of said bonds shall be for a sum of not less than one 
 hundred dollars. (23.) 
 
 Section 117. Oath of Office: Each member of the board of education and 
 officer provided for in this article shall take and subscribe to the following 
 oath: "I, , hereby declare under oath that I will faithfully per- 
 form the duties of of school district , county of , 
 
 to the best of my ability, and that I will faithfully discharge all the duties 
 pertaining to said office and obey the constitution and laws of the United 
 States and of Oklahoma." (24.) 
 
 Section 118. May Reimburse City for Buildings and Site: The board of 
 education of any city, or of any school district containing within its boundaries 
 an incorporated town which has heretofore become indebted by issuing bonds 
 for the purpose of building and furnishing school houses, or purchasing sites 
 therefor, may issue bonds and borrow money thereon and reimburse from the 
 proceeds thereof, said city or town. Said bonds shall be authorized in the 
 manner and under the procedure, and of the condition and terms as is now 
 authorized by law: Provided, that whenever any board of education or any 
 school district shall have reimbursed any city or town as aforesaid, the proper 
 officers thereof shall immediately convey by good and sufficient deed all the 
 title and interest of said city or town in and to said school property, the effect 
 of which shall be immediately to divest said city or town of any right in 
 or to said property and to vest the same absolutely in said board of education 
 or said school district. (25.) 
 
 Section 119. Limit of Indebtedness: Tt shall be lawful for the board of 
 education of any city or any school district to become indebted for any purpose 
 as now provided by law in a sum not in excess of five per centum of the as- 
 sessed valuation of the taxable property within the boundaries thereof, as 
 shown by the last preceding assessment taken for the purpose of taxation. 
 (26.) 
 
 Section 120. Qualified Voters: That all elections hereafter held in cities 
 of the first class in this state for the election of members of the board of 
 
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education, treasurer of the board of education, and all elective school officers, 
 the following persons shall be qualified and entitled to vote at such election 
 and for the class of officers above named, to-wit: All persons, nale or female, 
 over the age of twenty-one years who possess the other qualifications pre- 
 scribed by the organic act and general election laws of the state of Okla- 
 homa. (27.) 
 
 Section 121. Separate Ballot: At all such elections a separate ballot for 
 the class of officers designated in the preceding section shall be provided and 
 a separate ballot box provided for the reception of such ballots, but the votes 
 shall be received at the regular polling place or places and be under the super- 
 vision of the same election board as the ballots cast for other elective officers 
 at that election. (28.) 
 
 Section 122. Investment of Sinking Fund: All moneys raised for the 
 purpose of creating a sinking fund for the final redemption of all bonds issued 
 under this article shall be invested annually by the board of education in 
 bonds of the state of Oklahoma, or of the United States, or the board may buy 
 and cancel the bonds of the districts whenever such may be purchased at or 
 below par. (29.) 
 
 Section 123. Payment of Coupons: Whenever the interest coupons of the 
 bonds hereinbefore authorized shall become due, they shall be promptly paid 
 on presentation by the treasurer, out of any money in his hands collected for 
 that purpose, and he shall endorse upon the face of such coupon in red ink the 
 word "Paid" and the date of payment and sign the initials of his name. 
 
 Section 124. Property: The school fund and property of such city and 
 territory attached for school purposes is hereby pledged to the payment of the 
 interest and principal of the bonds mentioned in this article, as the same may 
 become due. (31.) 
 
 Section 125. Registration of Bonds and Warrants: It shall be the duty 
 of the clerk of the board of education to register in a book provided for that 
 purpose, the bonds issued under this article, and all warrants issued by the 
 board, which said register shall show the number, date and amount of said 
 bond, and to whom made payable. (32.) 
 
 ^ Section 126. To Prepare Estimate for Tax Levy When: Boards of edu- 
 cation of cities of the first class, shall, on or before the second Tuesday of May. 
 of each year, prepare a budget of the amount of money that will be required 
 to be raised by taxation for the support and maintenance of the schools of 
 school districts controlled by boards of education of cities of the first class 
 for the ensuing fiscal year. Provided, however, that cities of the first class 
 which elect at any election fewer than one-half of its membership, may on 
 or before the second Tuesday of May, each year, prepare such a budget and call 
 an election as prescribed in the following sections of this act. (Sec. 1, H. B. 
 414, chap. 192, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 127. Excess Levy and Election: If the assessed valuation of said 
 school districts controlled by boards of education in the cities of the first 
 class for the current fiscal year is not sufficient by a levy of five mills to 
 create the fund as determined in the budget as prepared by virtue of Section 
 1, of this act, the board of education shall determine the amount of excess 
 levy above the five mills that will be required to raise the amount as deter- 
 mined by the assessed valuation for the current fiscal year. Within ten days 
 after the amount of such excess levy has been determined, the board of educa- 
 tion shall issue a call for and hold an election in May for the purpose of voting 
 on said excess levy. Said election shall be called by the board of education 
 in the manner provided by law for calling special elections in cities of the first 
 class. (Sec. 2, H. B. 414, chap. 192, L. 1915) 
 
 Section 128. Record to Be Attached to Estimate Sheet: If a majority 
 of those voting on said excess levy shall vote in favor thereof at the election 
 held as provided by section 2 of this act, then it shall be the duty of the board 
 of education to attach to the estimate sheet, when making the estimate re- 
 quired by law, a transcript showing the record of the board of education in 
 
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calling the election, and the returns received from said election. It shall 
 then be the duty of the county excise board, if any excess levy be required 
 to raise the amount of the estimate as approved by the board of education to 
 make such excess levy in such an amount as will be required to produce the 
 amount of the approved estimate not to exceed, however, the amount of such 
 excess levy as has been voted as provided by section 127 of this article. (Sec. 
 3, H B. 414, chap. 192, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 129. Not to Employ Teachers Until After Amount of Levy Deter- 
 mined: For the purpose of preventing a deficiency in the revenues of boards 
 of education in cities of the first class, no contract shall be made with teachers 
 until after the election has been held as provided by section 2 of this act: 
 Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to cities of over 
 fifty thousand population, as now hereafter shown by the last federal census, 
 and shall in no way be construed as amending or repealing any of the provi- 
 sions of law applying to such cities. (Sec. 4, IT. B. 414, chap. 192, L 1915) 
 
 Section 130. Boards Shall Provide Playgrounds: Boards of education in 
 independent school districts and in cities of the first class, of ten thousand 
 population or over, are hereby authorized to establish and maintain for children 
 and adults public recreation places and playgrounds in the public school build- 
 ings, on the public school grounds, on other public property under the custody 
 and management of such boards; on suitable and desirable private property, 
 by and with the consent of the owners, and in public parks, public libraries, 
 or public property of whatsoever sort, by and with the consent of the author- 
 ities having the custody and management of such public property. (Sec. 1, 
 H B. 206, chap. 35, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 132. Shall Make Estimate: 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. (Sec. 2, H. B. 206, chap. 35,- L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 133. If Board Refuses, People May Initiate: 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 per cent 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 cast upon such proposition shall be in favor thereof, then 
 the board of education shall include in their estimate for the next fiscal year 
 funds for conducting such work and shall proceed to undertake and organize 
 the work as authorized in this act. (Sec. 3, H. B. 206, chap. 35, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 134. Procedure if Funds Are Inadequate: If any board of edu- 
 cation is unable, on its regular funds, to establish and maintain such activities 
 as authorized in section 130, 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 taxa- 
 tion, 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. (Sec 4, H. B. 206, chap 35, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 135. Tax Levy Perpetual: 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 
 
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submitted to the voters in the same manner as the proposition to authorize 
 the levy and collection of said tax. (Sec. 5, H. B. 206, chap 35, L 1915) 
 
 Section 136. May Extend Other Funds: The board of education in any 
 district governed by this act is also empowered to receive and expend for the 
 purpose of this act any sums of money appropriated and turned over to them 
 by the city council or commissioners 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 pur- 
 poses herein set forth. (Sec. 6, H. B. 206, chap. 35, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 137. May Accept Gifts, etc.: Said boards of education may ac- 
 cept 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. (Sec. 7, H. B. 206, chap. 35, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 138. Invalidity of Part Not to Affect the Whole: The invalidity 
 of any portion of this act (Sees. 130-138.) shall not affect the validity of any 
 other portion thereof which can be given effect without such invalid parts. 
 (Sec. 8, H. B. 206, chap. 35, L. 1915.) 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 Consolidated Districts. 
 
 Section 139. Formation of District and Election of Officers: A meeting 
 of the voters of any two or more adjacent school districts, or parts of districts 
 or territory, may be called for the purpose of voting on the proposition of 
 uniting with the other adjacent districts, for the purpose of establishing a 
 consolidated school, said call to be made by the county superintendent of 
 public instruction, upon petition signed by one-half of the legal voters residing 
 in each district of the territory proposed to be included in the consolidated dis- 
 trict. The meeting shall be held at some convenient point to be named by such 
 county superintendent. Notices of said special meeting shall be posted in at 
 least five public places in each of the districts, or parts of districts, proposed 
 to be consolidated, and also by publication, for at least two consecutive weeks 
 in a weekly paper, if same be published in the school district, and in addition 
 thereto, notices of said special meeting shall be mailed by such county super- 
 intendent to each voter residing in the districts proposed to be consolidated. 
 The meeting shall have authority to elect a chairman and secretary. If a 
 majority of the votes cast at said special meeting shall be in favor of such 
 consolidation, they shall then proceed to elect a director, clerk and member 
 of such consolidated district, and the clerk of said special meeting shall there- 
 upon make a written report of such action to the county superintendent of 
 public instruction of the county in which the said districts are located. No 
 consolidated district shall be formed containing an area of less than twenty- 
 five square miles and an assessed valuation of less than three hundred thou- 
 sand dollars: Provided, that all or a part of any district adjacent to a con- 
 solidated district shall be attached to and become a part of such consolidated 
 district upon petition to the county superintendent signed by a majority of the 
 
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legal voters of such territory desiring to be attached and by the board of di- 
 rectors of such consolidated district. (1.) 
 
 NOTE Persons signing petitions to form consolidated district may withdraw 
 name from petition before petition is passed upon by the county superintendent. 
 (5-5-14.) 
 
 Section 140. Districts Declared Disorganized: The county superintendent 
 of public instruction, shall upon receipt of the report, as provided in the 
 preceding section, declare said districts disorganized, and the consolidated 
 district organized, to form a consolidated district composed of the several 
 districts voting to unite: Provided, that in the formation of consolidated 
 districts comprising territory lying in more than one county, the county super- 
 intendents of public instruction of said counties shall act together in the same 
 manner as provided by law in the formation and control of joint districts, and 
 at said meeting of the voters of the newly organized school district, shall 
 select a building site as near the center of population of such consolidated 
 district as practicable. (2.) 
 
 Section 141. Officers and Terms: The officers of each consolidated dis- 
 trict shall be a director, a clerk and a member, who shall constitute a district 
 board and who shall be elected and hold their respective offices as follows: At 
 the meeting provided for in the second preceding section, there shall be elected 
 a director, clerk and member whose term of office shall expire at the same 
 time as the term of like officers of other school districts: Provided, that where 
 more than two districts unite, not more than one member of the board shall 
 be elected from the territory of any one of the disorganized districts. (3.) 
 
 Section 142. Powers and Duties of the Board: The powers and duties 
 of the district board 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 trans- 
 portation to and from school for all pupils residing two or more miles there- 
 from, 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 district 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 con- 
 solidated school districts, as provided by law, shall have the authority to 
 provide transportation for pupils, as provided by law. (Sec. 1, H. B. 29, chap. 
 36, L. 1915.) 
 
 NOTE Pupils transferred to a consolidated school district have the same 
 privileges of transportation as pupils residing in such district. (10-14-14.) 
 
 Section 143. Disposition of Indebtedness: If any school district uniting 
 to form a consolidated district shall have, at the time of its disorganization, 
 a legally bonded indebtedness, such indebtedness shall attach to and become a 
 charge against the territory comprised in such disorganized district at the 
 time of the disorganization, and it shall be the duty of the county excise 
 board of the county or counties in which such territory is located to cause 
 annually to be levied upon the property, real and personal, in such disorganized 
 territory, a tax sufficient to meet the interest and provide a sinking fund 
 for the payment of such indebtedness: Provided, that the assets and prop- 
 erty of any disorganized district having an indebtedness shall first be applied 
 in payment of its floating indebtedness, if any, and then its bonded indebted- 
 ness, and the residue, if any, shall belong to the consolidated district. (5.) 
 
 Section 144. Disposition of Property: The school property of the disor- 
 ganized district shall, upon the organization of the consolidated district, be- 
 come the property of said district, except as hereinbefore provided, and the 
 
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district board of said district is hereby authorized to dispose of said property 
 to the best interests of said district. (6.) 
 
 Section 145. Annual Meeting: The annual meeting of said consolidated 
 district shall be held on the same date as fixed by law for holding the annual 
 school meetings of each year at the school house belonging to the said district, 
 at two o'clock p. m., and close at six o'clock p. m. They shall have such pow- 
 ers and duties as are by law provided for annual school district meetings. (7.) 
 
 Section 146. School District Laws Applicable: In all matters relating to 
 consolidated school districts not provided for in the preceding sections, the 
 law relating to school districts shall be in force where said laws are appli- 
 cable. (8.) 
 
 Section 147. To Be a Body Corporate: A consolidated district, when 
 
 formed, shall be known as "Consolidated school district No , county 
 
 of , state of Oklahoma," and shall be a body corporate with 
 
 power to sue and be sued. (9.) 
 
 Section 148. State Aid Fund: All lands and funds that have heretofore 
 been, or may hereafter be, derived from the sale thereof, embraced in sec- 
 tion 33, according to the United States survey located in Greer county, as the 
 county existed prior to November 16, 1907 together with all lands selected in lieu 
 thereof, and the proceeds of all rentals, interest and sales accrued, or that may 
 accrue therefrom, shall be set aside and credited to a fund which is hereby 
 created, to be known as the "union graded or consolidated school district 
 fund," the same to be used only to assist in constructing or paying for school 
 buildings for consolidated school districts that have been, or may hereafter 
 be, constructed under existing laws pertaining to union graded or consolidated 
 school districts. (10.) 
 
 Section 149. Land to Be Sold: The commissioners of the land office are 
 authorized and directed to sell and convey all lands described and set aside 
 in section 10 of this article; same to be sold under the provisions, limitations, 
 exceptions, rules and regulations of lands sold under amended senate bill 
 No. 1, approved March 2, 1909, the same being article 2 of chapter 28 of the 
 session laws of Oklahoma, 1909, or as may hereafter be provided by law. (11.) 
 
 Section 150. Disbursement: Such funds as have now accrued by virtue 
 of rentals, and such as may hereafter accrue by virtue of rentals, and the pro- 
 ceeds of sale and interest thereon, prior to January 1, 1913, are hereby appro- 
 priated and placed at the disposal of the state board of education, subject to 
 the conditions and limitations contained in this article. (12.) 
 
 Section 151. To Make Rules and Regulations: The state board of educa- 
 tion, in apportioning said funds, shall make such rules and regulations as shall 
 ultimately result in a fair and equitable distribution of said fund to the dif- 
 ferent counties in the state in proportion as nearly as may be possible to 
 the scholastic population outside of cities of the first class. (13.) 
 
 Section 152. Requirements to Be Met: In any consolidated school dis- 
 trict that has been formed for a term of not less than six scholastic months, 
 and has employed at least three teachers, and has an actual attendance during 
 said term of not fewer than one hundred and thirty scholastic pupils residing 
 within the boundary of said district (the district having furnished free trans- 
 portation to such as are contemplated by the law provided for consolidated 
 school districts) and that has already constructed and furnished a suitable 
 building of not fewer than three rooms, upon making proof of compliance 
 with the foregoing provisions approved by the state superintendent of public 
 instruction, shall have drawn by the state auditor upon the state treasury 
 against said building fund in favor of the treasurer of said consolidated school 
 district, a warrant for a sum not to exceed one-half the cost of said building; 
 provided, that in no case shall any district leceive a sum exceeding twenty- 
 five hundred ($2,500.00) dollars from the appropriation herein made; provided, 
 that the state board of education may decrease this amount if in its judgment 
 the amount is greater than the fair proportion belonging to one district. 
 And, in any union graded district that has been formed for a term of not 
 less than six scholastic months and has employed at least two teachers and 
 
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has an actual attendance during the said term of not fewer than forty scholas- 
 tic pupils residing within the boundary of said district, and that has already 
 constructed and furnished a suitable building of not less than two rooms, 
 upon making proof of compliance with the foregoing provisions approved by 
 the state superintendent of public instruction, shall have drawn by the state 
 auditor upon the state treasury against said building fund in favor of the 
 treasurer of said union graded district, a warrant for a sum not to exceed one- 
 half the cost of said building; provided, that in no case shall any district 
 receive a sum exceeding twelve hundred fifty ($1,250.00) dollars, from the ap- 
 propriation herein made; provided, that the state board of education may de- 
 crease this amount if in its judgment the amount is greater than the fair 
 proportion belonging to one district; and provided further, that should such 
 district consolidate after a union graded school has been formed, the amount 
 received from the state fund shall be deducted from the proportionate amount 
 allowed a consolidated district under this act. (Sec. 2, H. B. 134, chap, 187, 
 L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 153. Other Requirements: AVhenever a consolidated school dis- 
 trict of not less than twenty-five (25) square miles in area shall have been 
 established and conducted for a period of not less than six months under the 
 terms of existing laws with reference to the consolidation of schools, and a 
 building containing not fewer than three rooms, suitably constructed, equipped 
 and furnished, shall have been built, and a graded school employing not less 
 than three teachers shall have been conducted for a term of not less than six 
 months, upon making proof of compliance with the foregoing provisions ap- 
 proved by the state superintendent of public instruction shall have drawn a 
 warrant in favor of the district treasurer as provided in section 1 of this act. 
 And, whenever a union graded school district of not less than twenty-five (25) 
 square miles in area shall have been established and conducted for a period 
 of not less than six months under the terms of existing laws with reference 
 to union graded schools, and a building containing not less than two rooms, 
 suitably constructed, equipped and furnished, shall have been built, and a 
 graded school employing not less than two teachers shall have been conducted 
 for a term of not less than six months, upon making proof of compliance with 
 the foregoing provisions approved by the state superintendent of public in- 
 struction shall have drawn a warrant in favor of the district treasurer as 
 provided in section 2 of this act. (Sec. 3, H. B. 134, chap. 187, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 154. State Aid Supplementary Act: All moneys hereafter re- 
 ceived from the sale or rentals of section 33 and lands granted in lieu thereof, 
 constituting and known as the "public building fund" in excess of the 
 amounts required for the payment of all outstanding bonds and interest 
 thereon, which have been issued and sold in accordance with chapter 89 of the 
 session laws of Oklahoma 1911, prior to the passage and approval of this act, 
 are hereby transferred and set aside and shall be credited to the "union graded 
 or consolidated school fund," the same to be used only to assist in constructing 
 or paying for school buildings for consolidated school districts that have been 
 or may be constructed under existing laws pertaining to consolidated school 
 districts, as provided in chapter 112, session laws of Oklahoma 1911 (Sees. 
 148-151 above): Provided, that all funds as provided for in this act shall be 
 equitably prorated to the several counties of this state based on the scholastic 
 population thereof outside cities of the first class. (Sec. 1, chap. 34, session 
 laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 155. County Superintendent May Call Election to Dissolve: The 
 county superintendent of public instruction may, upon petition of one-half of 
 the legal voters of any consolidated school district, call an election at some 
 convenient place in said consolidated school district for the purpose of voting 
 on the question of whether such consolidated school district shall be dis- 
 solved. Notice of said election shall be given by having written or printed 
 notices posted in at least five public places in such consolidated school district 
 at least ten days prior to said election. (Sec. 1, H. B. 581, chap. 202, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 156. District Dissolved When: If sixty (60) per cent of the 
 voters of such consolidated district at the election, held as provided by the 
 first section of this act, shall vote to dissolve the consolidated school district, 
 the clerk of said special election shall report such fact to the county superin- 
 
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tendent of public instruction. The said county superintendent shall then de- 
 clare such consolidated school district dissolved, and that the original school 
 districts which had united in forming said consolidated school district will 
 thereupon be revived and it shall be the duty of the said county superintend- 
 ent to appoint persons to fill all vacancies in the school boards for each of 
 the school districts, who shall serve for the respective terms as other like 
 officers in other school districts. (Sec. 2, H. B. 581, chap. 202, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 157. Payment of Indebtedness: If any consolidated school dis- 
 trict at the time of its dissolution shall have received state aid as provided 
 in sections 14 and 15 of chapter 219, article 7, session laws of 1913 (Sees. 
 152-153 above) or shall have a legally bonded, or warrant indebtedness, such in- 
 debtedness shall be distributed among the various school districts composing 
 consolidated districts in proportion to the assessed valuation of each of the 
 districts to the assessed valuation of the consolidated school district for 
 the past fiscal year, and such indebtedness shall attach to and become a 
 part of the different school districts and it shall be the duty of the 
 county excise board of the county or counties in which such districts are 
 located to cause to be levied annually upon the property, real and personal, 
 of the different districts a tax sufficient to pay interest on such indebtedness 
 or to reimburse the state in full for state aid received and to constitute a 
 sinking fund for the payment of the indebtedness when due. The assets 
 and property of the consolidated school districts when dissolved shall be first 
 applied in payment of the indebtedness of the consolidated school districts, 
 and if the consolidated school district has no indebtedness, then the assets 
 and property shall be sold and partitioned among the different school districts 
 on the same basis as provided herein for the distribution of the indebtedness. 
 Provided, that the county excise board of said county shall assess a tax 
 against any such district sufficient to reimburse the state within five years from 
 the date of dissolution for all moneys contributed by the state the unpaid moneys 
 to bear interest to the state at the rate of five per cent (5%) until paid. This 
 levy for principal and sinking fund shall be made against the entire consoli- 
 dated district collected by the county treasurer as a special fund and paid to 
 the state treasurer in five equal annual installments, including all interest 
 due each year. (Sec. 3, H. B. 581, chap. 202, L. 1915.) 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 Union Graded Schools. 
 
 Section 158. Method of Organizing: A meeting of the voters of two or 
 more adjacent school districts may be called for the purpose of voting on the 
 proposition of forming a union graded school by the county superintendent of 
 public instruction upon petition signed by one-half of the legal voters of the 
 proposed union graded district as shown by the returns of the county assessor. 
 Notices of said meeting shall be posted at least fifteen days prior to date 
 for said special meeting in at least five public places in each of the school 
 districts proposing to form the union graded district. The special meeting 
 shall be held at some convenient place in one of the districts proposing to form 
 the union graded district to be designated by the said county superintendent 
 Should a majority of the voters of each separate district at said special meet- 
 ing vote in favor of forming a union graded district they shall at that meet- 
 ing organize by electing a director, a clerk and a member, who shall constitute 
 the board of the union graded district. The clerk of said meeting shall report 
 to the said county superintendent the result of said special meeting and if the 
 proposed union graded district was authorized by said special meeting the 
 said county superintendent shall declare the proposed union graded district duly 
 
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formed. The union graded school as authorized by this article shall be for 
 the purpose of establishing a school in which instruction may be given to all 
 pupils above the sixth grade, to and including all grades of regular high school 
 work. (Sec. 1, H. B. 134, chap. 187, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 159. Duties and Powers of Boards: The board of directors pro- 
 vided in the preceding section shall, in all matters relating to the graded schools, 
 possess all the powers and discharge all the like duties of the district board of 
 directors, as prescribed by law. (2.) 
 
 Section 160. To Provide Tax for Support: Said union graded district 
 may provide for taxes for the purpose of purchasing a building or furnishing 
 proper buildings for the accommodation of the school, or for the purpose of 
 defraying necessary expenses and paying teachers, but shall be governed in 
 all respects by the law herein provided for levying and collecting district taxes 
 and that said union graded district may provide for the purchase of site and 
 erection of building as provided in article 10, chapter 74, revised laws 1910. 
 (Sec. 4, H. B. 134, chap. 187, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 161. Repeal: That section 3, article 8, chapter 219, of the ses- 
 sion laws of 1913 (Sec. 135, 1913 school law) is hereby repealed. (Sec 5, H. B. 
 134, chap 187, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 162. Report to County Superintendent: The clerk of the union 
 district shall report in writing to the county superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion the number of scholars attending the graded school from his district, 
 their sex and the branches studied, and the said county superintendent shall 
 apportion the amount of school money due the union district from each of 
 the districts forming the union district. (5.) 
 
 Section 163. Provisions Apply to Other Districts: Any single district 
 shall possess power to establish a graded or high school subject to the provi- 
 sions of this article, in like manner as two or more districts united. (6.) 
 
 Section 164. Time of Annual Meeting: The annual meeting of the union 
 or graded school district shall be held on the last Saturday before the first 
 Tuesday in June, beginning at two o'clock p. m., and closing at six o'clock 
 p. m. (7.) 
 
 Section 165. Location of Site: No part of the statutes of Oklahoma shall 
 be construed so as to prevent the location of the site for a school house in 
 union graded school districts by a majority of the electors of said union graded 
 school districts. (8.) 
 
 Section 166. Illegal Contracts: No expenditure involving an amount 
 greater than two hundred dollars shall be made except in accordance with the 
 provisions of a written contract, and no contract involving an expenditure of 
 more than five hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting any public building 
 or making any improvements, shall be made except upon sealed proposals and 
 to the lowest responsible bidder. (9.) 
 
 NOTE. Union graded school entitled to state aid. See Sec. 152. 
 
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ARTICLE IX. 
 
 School Census. 
 
 Section 167. Form Prescribed: For taking the enumeration of school 
 children upon which the state and county apportionments of public school 
 funds are made, the following form is prescribed: 
 
 Scholastic Census Keport 
 
 School District No County of 
 
 For the year 191 
 
 Name of parent of guardian '. , postoffice 
 
 Name of township or street , section or street No 
 
 Name of tribe (if Indian or freedman, give name of tribe.) 
 
 Name of Child 
 
 Color 
 
 Sex 
 
 Da 
 Month 
 
 teof ] 
 Day 
 
 Birth 
 Year 
 
 Age 
 
 If Deaf, Dumb or 
 Blind, Indicate 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I hereby declare under oath that the above is a true and correct state- 
 ment of the facts given; that I am a legal resident of the above school dis- 
 trict and the names and ages of all persons of school age are correct as written 
 above. 
 
 - Parent or Guardian 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of 19 
 
 Enumerator. (1.) 
 
 Section 168. Blanks to Be Furnished. The above described blanks, suf- 
 ficient for the needs of the county, shall be furnished to the county superin- 
 tendents by the state superintendent. The blanks shall be in convenient form 
 and accompanied with instructions for their use. The county superintendents 
 shall furnish the clerks of the respective school districts of his county the 
 blanks not later than the tenth day of January of each year and a letter of 
 instructions. In making the report of the enumeration, the district clerk 
 shall return to the county superintendent the original forms properly filled, 
 certified and sworn to. (2.) 
 
 Section 169. Persons Eligible to Be Counted: Persons to be enumerated 
 shall be those living within the school district on the date of January 15th, 
 time of taking enumeration, with bona fide residence, and who are over the 
 age of six and under twenty-one years of age: Provided, that persons who 
 will be six years of age on or before the first day of September following will 
 oe counted and persons who will be twenty-one years of age on or before the 
 first day of September following shall not be counted. (3.) 
 
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Section 170. One or More Enumerators Authorized: For the purpose of 
 taking the enumeration, the district board shall appoint one of its members, 
 or some other competent person, "enumerator", and in districts having an in- 
 corporated town or city of the first class, the school board or board of educa- 
 tion shall have authority to appoint one or more "enumerators" who shall 
 begin taking the scholastic enumeration immediately after January 15th of 
 each year. (4.) 
 
 Section 171. Shall Administer Oath: For the purpose of protecting the 
 enumeration, the "enumerator" shall have authority to administer the oath 
 prescribed on the form above described to parents or guardians. (5.) 
 
 Section 172. Penalty for Refusing Information: Any person having child- 
 ren of school age in his care or control, who shall refuse to furnish the infor- 
 mation desired to the "enumerator" or to sign the certificate as required, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined in a sum not less than ten 
 dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, for the benefit of the county school 
 fund. (6.) 
 
 Section 173. Payment for Services: For taking the scholastic census 
 herein required, the "enumerator" shall be paid the sum of five cents per 
 name in common school districts, and three cents per name in districts includ- 
 ing an incorporated 'town or city: Provided, that if the report of the enumera- 
 tion is not made to the county superintendent by the 5th day of February, no 
 pay for such services shall be made. Warrants for this purpose shall be issued 
 against the funds of the district as other warrants are issued. (7.) 
 
 Section 174. Penalty for False Reports: Any "enumerator" who shall 
 wilfully make a report, containing the names of children not entitled to be 
 counted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined 
 not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offense. (8.) 
 
 Section 175. Time for Making Reports: Immediately upon receipt of the 
 enumeration report from the "enumerator" of the school district, the county 
 superintendent shall check each name and date of birth and if any names 
 have been given who are not entitled to be counted, he shall strike such 
 names from the report and then approve the same and advise the district 
 clerk the number of names so stricken from the report. When reports have 
 been approved by the county superintendent, he shall transmit to the state 
 superintendent a report showing the number of scholastics residing in each 
 district school or part of district in his county, their sex and color. If 
 the county superintendent, for any reason, fails to file the report, as required 
 above, with the superintendent by the 15th day of March following the tak- 
 ing of the enumeration, the county shall not be permitted to share in the 
 state apportionment for the following fiscal year, but the said county super- 
 intendent shall be liable on his official bond for the amount of loss so caused 
 to the school districts. If a district board fails to make its report to the 
 county superintendent by the 15th day of February, following the taking 
 of the enumeration, the district shall not be permitted to share in the state 
 and county apportionments for the following fiscal year. (9.) 
 
 Section 176. Basis for State Apportionment: Immediately upon receipt 
 of the reports from the various county superintendents regarding the enumera- 
 tion of scholastics, it shall be the duty of the state superintendent to file with 
 the state treasurer and the secretary of the school land department, a report, 
 duly certified, showing the number of scholastics in each county and the re- 
 port so filed shall be the basis for making the apportionments of state school 
 funds for July and January in the fiscal year following. (10.) 
 
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ARTICLE X. 
 
 Agricultural Education. 
 
 Section 177. Commission Created: For the purpose of carrying out the 
 requirements of the state constitution relating to the teaching of the elements 
 of agriculture, horticulture and stock feeding, and domestic science in the 
 common schools of the state, there is hereby created a state commission of 
 agricultural and industrial education, consisting of the state superintendent 
 of public instruction, who shall be chairman thereof, the president of the 
 state board of agriculture, and "the president of the Agricultural & Mechanical 
 College, each of whom shall serve without additional pay. Said commission 
 shall conform to the rulings of the state board of education, shall co-operate 
 with all state normal schools, the Agricultural and Mechanical College and 
 the state board of agriculture, and said boards and institutions are hereby 
 required to co-operate with the state commission of agricultural and industrial 
 education as far as practical (practicable), and without interfering with the 
 more immediate- duties of said boards and institutions. Said commission shall 
 make a report in writing to the governor at least thirty days prior to the 
 regular sessions of the legislature, including the work done under its super- 
 vision and a complete account of all funds and disbursements made in pursu- 
 ance of this article, together with such recommendations as may by said 
 commission be deemed advisable. (1.) 
 
 Section 178. Subjects to Be Taught: The elementary principles of agri- 
 culture, horticulture, animal husbandry, stock feeding, forestry, building county 
 roads, and domestic science, including the elements of economics, shall be em- 
 braced in all the branches taught in all public schools of this state, receiving 
 any part of their support from this state, and these branches shall be as 
 thoroughly studied and taught by observation, practical exercises, and the 
 use of text and reference books, and in the same manner, as are other like re- 
 quired branches in said public schools. (2.) 
 
 Section 179. State Superintendent to Direct Instruction: The state 
 superintendent of public instruction shall investigate and determine the char- 
 acter, extent and cost of courses of instruction in the branches provided for 
 herein, including manual training adapted to the different schools, and shall 
 through bulletins and public addresses, give information to school boards and 
 communities as to the courses and character of instruction which have proved 
 most satisfactory and best adapted to various schools. He shall determine and 
 give information as to where the most thoroughly trained and best equipped 
 teacliers of subjects named herein may be found, and shall formulate and 
 recommend plans for the organization of training and normal schools for the 
 preparation of teachers of said subjects. He shall, in all proper ways, seek 
 to awaken an active interest among teachers in the subjects required herein 
 to be taught, and shall, in all proper ways, awaken public sentiment to the 
 importance of teaching said subjects in the common schools and all public 
 schools with efficiency and success, and shall make such investigations as may 
 be necessary for the proper performance of his duties as prescribed herein. 
 (3.) 
 
 Section 180. County Superintendent to Make Reports: All county super- 
 intendents of education shall file a written report with the president of the 
 state board of education annually, at such time as the president of said board 
 may require, concerning the cost, character and extent of such courses of in- 
 struction in the branches provided herein to be taught in their respective 
 counties, together with such reports on work done and suggestions in relation 
 thereto as the president of the state board of education may require. (4.) 
 
 Section 181. Requirements for Certificates: No person shall teach, and 
 no certificate be granted to an applicant to teach in the public schools receiving 
 aid from the state, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in the ele- 
 ments of agriculture and allied branches mentioned herein. It shall be the 
 duty of teachers in all schools receiving aid from the state to file quarterly, 
 or at such times as the county superintendent may require, a written report 
 
with the county superintendent of public instruction, of their respective coun- 
 ties, in full detail of any progress made, or work done in the different branches 
 required to be taught under the terms of this article, together with such 
 recommendations as they may deem advisable, and such other information as 
 the county superintendent may require. Any teacher whose duty it is to 
 instruct in branches herein to be taught, who fails or neglects to comply with 
 the provisions of this article shall be discharged. (5.) 
 
 Section 182. State Schools to Assist: The state normal schools, and like 
 schools to be hereinafter created, shall lend specific assistance in carrying out 
 the purposes of this article by preparing teachers for the work of instruction 
 in the elements of agriculture and allied branches named herein in the same 
 manner as teachers are prepared for other required subjects, and shall render 
 such co-operation and active support through their respective presidents, offi- 
 cers and teachers, as will best contribute to the successful introduction and 
 support of a thorough system of agricultural and industrial education for the 
 schools of the state. There shall be established in each of the state normal 
 schools, located or hereafter to be located, a department to be known as the 
 department of agriculture and industrial education, with a professor in charge 
 who shall give such instruction in the regular courses as may be deemed nec- 
 essary for the instruction of teachers in the public schools of the state. (6.) 
 
 Section 183. A. & M. College Head of System: The Agricultural and 
 Mechanical college shall be the technical head of the agricultural, industrial and 
 allied science system of education, and its president, professors and employees 
 shall lend such assistance in carrying out the objects, aims and purposes of 
 the state constitution requiring the teaching of ariculture and allied practical 
 subjects as shall not conflict with the immediate duties incumbent on them in 
 said institution. (7.) 
 
 Section 184. Duty of Supervisor: There is hereby created a chair of agri- 
 culture for schools, the occupant of which shall be a member of the faculty of 
 the Agriculture and Mechanical College, .whose duty shall be to direct and 
 advise in all matters relating to the teaching of agriculture and allied subjects 
 in the common schools, under the supervision of the president of the Agricul- 
 tural and Mechanical College, and he shall be paid from the funds of the Agri- 
 cultural and Mechanical College, and he shall visit the schools, the teachers' 
 institutes, the summer normal schools and the state normal schools, advise 
 with the teachers and officers concerned, and plan such means of co-operation 
 in the improvement of methods, appliances, the use of seeds, plants and trees 
 as may, from time to time, be necessary, and shall prepare, print and distrib- 
 ute such leaflets and other literature as may be helpful to teachers and pupils 
 concerned or engaged in teaching industrial, practical and scientific subjects 
 bearing on technical and practical agriculture and its allied branches. (8.) 
 
 Section 185. A. & M. College to Make Surveys: It shall be the duty of 
 the Agricultural and Mechanical College, under the board of agriculture (ex- 
 officio board of regents of said institution) to carry on all natural history sur- 
 veys, soil surveys, mineral and forestry surveys that are now provided for by 
 the laws of the state, or that may hereafter be provided for, and it shall be 
 the duty of the said Agricultural and Mechanical College to co-operate with 
 the national department of agriculture in carrying out the surveys herein 
 mentioned, and in the construction of county roads and in all ways and by all 
 means to supply the school and the people with agricultural, industrial and 
 technical facts demanded by the spirit of this article. (9.) 
 
 Section 186. Course of Study for Schools: The state commissioners of 
 agricultural and industrial education, with the assistance of such experts in 
 agricultural education as may be' secured from the state and national depart- 
 ment of agriculture, shall have the authority, and it shall be their duty to 
 prepare a detailed course of study in the elements of agriculture and allied 
 subjects, domestic science and economics, adapted to the needs of instruction 
 in the elementary and secondary schools of the state. The commission shall 
 prepare a syllabus of the course of study in each subject, in such detail and 
 with such elaboration of the body of knowledge to be considered as may be 
 necessary for the organization and administration of the proper courses of 
 instruction in said branches. In preparing the course of study herein re- 
 quired to be taught, any of said subjects may be combined on one text-book 
 
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so they will be adapted to the various schools in which they are taught, at the 
 same time, so far as possible, giving practical educational values to each sub- 
 ject. Upon the satisfactory completion of said course of study, as evidenced by 
 a diploma or certificate signed by the county superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion, pupils shall be admitted to the sub-freshman or higher class of the Agri- 
 cultural and Mechanical College without further examination. It shall be the 
 duty of the president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College each year to 
 send to each school in this state where such branches as required by this article 
 are taught, a catalog, and upon application, to furnish such schools such infor- 
 mation as may be desired relative to said college. Such catalogs and other 
 information shall be kept in each school for reference. (10.) 
 
 Section 187. County Superintendents to Conduct Examination: It shall 
 be the duty of the county superintendent of public instruction to give public 
 notice of the examination provided for in the preceding section at the time 
 of all regular teachers' examinations and to submit such questions to any can- 
 didate who may desire to enter the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The 
 examination shall be conducted in the same manner as are regular teachers' 
 examinations of the county. The work of each and every candidate, together 
 with the names and address, shall be forwarded to the state superintendent 
 within ten days from the date of the examination, and by him to the presi- 
 dent of the college, who shall examine and grade the answers and report to 
 the candidate as soon as possible after the receipt of the paper, the result of 
 the examination. An average grade of seventy per cent in each branch shall 
 admit the candidate to the Agricultural and Mechanical College without further 
 examination. (11.) 
 
 Section 188. Experimental Farms: There shall be an experimental farm, 
 operated by each of said agricultural schools, on which careful trials shall be 
 made of the best fruits, vegetables, flowers, field and forage crops, fertilizers, 
 and stock feeds for that section, as well as the system of dairying, drainage, 
 irrigation and farm management that may be considered of practical value 
 and adapted to the needs of tiie people of such supreme court judicial districts: 
 Provided, that each district agricultural school shall make at least one report 
 annually to the governor of the state covering all work done, its cost, the 
 results and the probable value of such experiments, which report shall be pub- 
 lished for free distribution to farmers, fruit and vegetable growers and stock- 
 men in the supreme court judicial district in which said school is located. (12.) 
 
 Section 189. Short Courses in Agricultural Schools: There shall be held 
 annually by each of said agricultural schools a farmers' short course extending 
 over at least one week and embracing practical elementary scientific instruc- 
 tion in those branches of agriculture that may be deemed most important in 
 the supreme court judicial district in which any such agricultural school is 
 located at the time such short course of instruction is to be provided, includ- 
 ing a course in domestic economy, canning, preserving and cooking. There shall 
 be no fees charged for attendance on these practical courses of instruction, 
 and no entrance examination may be required: Provided, that all citizens of 
 the white race over fifteen years of age shall be entitled to admission to such 
 courses. (13.) 
 
 Section 190. Higher Branches Prohibited: No course of instruction shall 
 be offered in such agricultural schools, other than industrial courses, but this 
 shall not exclude teaching the common school branches, the languages, manual 
 training, manufacture, the sciences and other necessary studies in the indus- 
 trial courses. (14.) 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 Normal Institutes and Training Courses. 
 
 Section 191. County Summer Normals: The county superintendents of 
 public instruction may hold annually in their respective counties for a term 
 of not less than two weeks nor more than four weeks, ending on the last Fri- 
 
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day of June, July or August, a normal institute for academic and professional 
 instruction of teachers and those desiring to teach: Provided, that two or 
 more counties may be united in holding one normal institute each year, as 
 hereinafter provided. (1.) 
 
 Section 192. Teachers' Training Course May Be Substituted: Where 
 such county superintendent deems it to be for the best interest of the schools 
 of the county, the county normal institute may be dispensed with and there 
 shall be substituted in lieu thereof a teachers' training course of not less than 
 two weeks and not more than four weeks in which special training shall be 
 given the teachers of such county by persons specially prepared for such in- 
 struction. Said course shall include the following subjects: School law and 
 government, hygiene and sanitation, methods of teaching, child psychology, 
 primary methods, including the best methods of presenting all elementary sub- 
 jects taught in the common schools, emphasizing the teaching of reading and 
 spelling. The expense of conducting the teachers' training course shall be 
 paid from the fund derived from the issuance of county certificates and shall 
 be supplemented by an appropriation by the county commissioners of not more 
 than two hundred dollars annually. No fee shall be charged the teachers who 
 attend the teachers' training course, nor shall any examination be given for 
 teachers' certificates at the close. The training course provided for above shall 
 be held just prior to the opening of the schools for the following school year 
 at some convenient point in the county, to be selected by such county superin- 
 tendent, and all persons who desire to teach in the county the ensuing year 
 shall be required to attend the entire session unless prevented by sickness or 
 other unavoidable disabilities. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent 
 to prepare rules and regulations governing the conducting of the training 
 course above provided for. (2.) 
 
 Section 193. May Assign State Teachers: Any teacher, instructor, or 
 professor employed in any of the state educational institutions who receives 
 an annual salary of eleven hundred dollars or more, may be assigned by the 
 state superintendent of public instruction to assist in a normal institute or 
 teachers' training course to perform such work as may be required of him by 
 the state superintendent. No additional salary shall be paid to such teacher, 
 instructor or professor for such additional work, but said teacher, instructor 
 or professor shall be reimbursed by the state for transportation charges only, 
 and the county where such additional services are rendered may pay the hotel 
 expenses of said party, not to exceed ten dollars per week. (3.) 
 
 Section 194. Time, Term, and Place to Be Fixed by County Superintend- 
 ent: The county superintendent shall determine the time, length of term and 
 place of holding the annual sessions, in conformity with the preceding sec- 
 tion, and shall select and employ a conductor and instructor for the same: 
 Provided, that all such contracts for a conductor and instructors shall be ap- 
 proved by the state superintendent of public instruction before such contracts 
 are valid. (4.) 
 
 Section 195. Fee Required: To defray the expenses of such institute 
 session the county superintendents of public instruction shall require the 
 payment of a uniform fee of not less than one dollar, nor more than three 
 dollars, by each person enrolled in said institute; they shall further require 
 the payment of a fee of two dollars by each applicant for a teacher's certifi- 
 cate; and, in addition to such sum, the county commissioners shall, upon recom- 
 mendation of the county superintendent of public instruction, allow a sufficient 
 sum, not to exceed two hundred dollars for each institute to be paid out of 
 any funds of the county not otherwise appropriated. (5.) 
 
 Section 196. Normal Institute Fund: The sum thus created shall be des- 
 ignated the normal institute fund, and the county treasurer shall be custodian 
 thereof. (6.) 
 
 Section 197. County Superintendent to Report to County Treasurer: The 
 county superintendent of public instruction shall, at the close of each regular 
 teachers' examination, and at the close of each teachers' normal institute, 
 transmit to the county treasurer all moneys received by said superintendent, as 
 provided in the second preceding section, together with the name of each 
 person contributing the amount in each case, and the county treasurer shall 
 place all moneys to the credit of the normal institute fund. (7.) 
 
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Section 198. Disbursement of Funds: All disbursement of the normal 
 institute fund shall be upon written order of the county superintendent of 
 public instruction and no order shall be drawn upon said fund, except as ac- 
 companied by a written and itemized statement of services rendered or ex- 
 penses incurred, and no order shall be drawn in favor of such county superin- 
 tendents themselves. (8.) 
 
 Section 199. Certain Payments Prohibited: No county superintendent of 
 public instruction shall pay moneys from the before mentioned fund to any 
 conductor or instructor, unless the said conductor or instructor shall have first 
 received an institute certificate from the state board 'of education: Provided, 
 that all certificates issued by the board of education shall be valid for the 
 remainder of the term for which issued, when the same shall have been exam- 
 ined and approved by the state superintendent of public instruction: Pro- 
 vided further, that no county superintendent shall employ or pay moneys 
 from the normal institute (fund) to any conductor or instructor who draws a 
 salary from the state or federal government. (9.) 
 
 Section 200: Subjects Required: County superintendents of public in- 
 struction shall require both the academic and professional branches to be taught 
 in each institute session, and all of them, as outlined in the normal institute 
 course of study for this state, or as ordered by the state superintendent of 
 public instruction, in the manner prescribed by him. (10.) 
 
 Section 201. County Superintendents to Meet Requirements No Compen- 
 sation: County superintendents of public instruction shall not serve as con- 
 ductors or instructors in institutes in which their counties are interested, un- 
 less they have first met the requirements set forth in the second preceding sec- 
 tion, and in no case shall they draw pay for services as conductor or instructor 
 in their own counties. (11.) 
 
 Section 202. Two or More Counties May Unite: By and with the consent 
 of the. state superintendent of public instruction, two or more counties may 
 unite in holding one normal institute each year, in one of the counties so 
 uniting; the county superintendents of public instruction of the counties so 
 uniting shall agree upon the time, place, and length of term of such normal 
 institute, as hereinbefore provided, but none of them shall be the conductor 
 or instructor of such institute session, except as provided in the preceding 
 section, and none of such superintendents of public instruction of any of the 
 counties so forming such joint normal institutes shall be eligible to draw a 
 salary or otherwise any moneys from such normal institute fund, and the 
 county treasurer of the county in which such joint normal institute is held 
 shall be the legal custodian of such fund for that session. The county superin- 
 tendent of public instruction of the county in which such joint normal institute 
 is held shall draw and sign all orders upon such funds for the joint session of 
 such normal institutes, and the county commissioners in each of said counties 
 sc uniting shall be subject to the provisions of the third section of this article, 
 except they shall not appropriate to the normal institute fund to exceed one 
 hundred dollars for each of said counties so united; and at the close of such 
 joint normal institute session, each county treasurer shall again be the cus- 
 todian of all such funds in his county. No contracts shall be entered into 
 by any two or more county superintendents for a period longer than two years, 
 but at the end of each two years such contracts may be renewed as hereinbe- 
 fore provided. (12.) 
 
 Section 203. Separate Normals: All teachers of the negro race shall 
 attend separate institutes from those for teachers of the white race, and in all 
 counties where the number of teachers of either race is less than twenty-five 
 desiring to attend such institute, they shall have the right and privilege to 
 attend any institute for their race or to unite with the teachers of their race 
 in any other county under the provisions of the preceding section, and they 
 shall be given equal facilities with the other race in such county or counties, 
 and their conductor or instructor shall be of their own race only: Provided, 
 that all moneys and fees paid by them shall be used to pay their own conductor 
 and instructors and they shall receive their prorata of all appropriations made 
 by the county commissioners for institute funds in their county or counties, 
 according to the actual attendance thereof. (13.) 
 
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Sertion 204. Annual Report to State Superintendent: The county super- 
 intendents of public instruction of the respective counties of Oklahoma shall 
 annually make a complete report to the state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion, on blanks provided for the same furnished by him; all data relative to 
 institutes; exact time of holding the session, length of term; place, town and 
 county; name of conductor and instructors, and any other information required 
 by the state superintendent of public instruction, which report must be filed 
 at the capitol not later than the first Friday of April of each year. (14.) 
 
 Section 205. Conductor's Report: All conductors of teacher's institutes 
 in the respective counties of this state shall, at the close of such sessions, and 
 before full compensation for such work is received, make out in duplicate form 
 a full and complete report of such sessions, embracing the following facts: 
 Date of opening and closing such session, enrollment fee, number of members 
 enrolled with their names, ages, sex, classification, grade, normal institute 
 grade, experience in months and any other facts, required by the state super- 
 intendent; also the names of the conductor and instructors, the date of issue 
 and expiration of institute certificates, salary and other compensation re- 
 ceived, copy of the daily program used, and a certified statement to the effect 
 that the normal institute course of study and the instructions of the state 
 superintendent were followed, both in word and in spirit, during such session 
 together with any recommendations or suggestions to the state superintendent 
 tending to the betterment of the course of study of the work for the succeeding 
 institute year of June, July or August. A copy of this report shall be filed 
 by such conductors immediately at the close institute session, with the respec- 
 tive county superintendent, to become a part of their office records and a 
 duplicate copy shall be transmitted by mail by such conductors to the state 
 superintendent of public instruction to become a part of his office record of 
 the same. (15.) 
 
 Section 206. Same Penalty for Not Making Report: Any conductor who 
 shall fail to comply with all the provisions of this article shall be subject to 
 the revocation of his normal institute certificate by the state superintendent of 
 public instruction of this state. (16.) 
 
 Section 207. Penalty for Violation: Any county superintendent of public 
 instruction who shall in any manner violate the provisions of this article, 
 upon conviction thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the second 
 offense, may be removed from office, as provided by law. (17.) 
 
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ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Kindergarten Education. 
 
 Section 208. May Establish Kindergarten: The directors of any school 
 district, board of education or other duly authorized, appointed, elected or 
 qualified public school officers of any town, city or school district having a 
 population of twenty-five hundred or more, may establish and maintain kinder- 
 gartens in connection with the public schools under their jurisdiction for all 
 children between the ages of four and six years. (1.) 
 
 Section 209. Definition of Term: The_term kindergarten shall be con- 
 strued to mean the application of the methods of Froebel or some approved 
 American development of said methods, and not merely sub-primary grades for 
 children under six years of age shall be established under the authority of this 
 article. (2.) 
 
 Section 210. Departments in State Normals: Within one year after the 
 provisions of this act shall become law, provisions shall be made or depart- 
 ments established for the training of kindergarten teachers in the normal 
 schools of the state. (3.) 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 Compulsory Attendance and Mother's Pension. 
 
 Section 211. Compulsory Period Duties of Parents: It shall be unlaw- 
 ful for any parent or guardian living in the state of Oklahoma to neglect or 
 refuse to cause or compel any person or persons who are or may be under their 
 control as children or wards to attend and comply with the rules of some pub- 
 lic, private or other school or schools unless other means of education are pro- 
 vided for at least 66 per cent of the number of days the school or schools 
 of the district are maintained, which shall apply to all children of the district 
 over the age of eight and under the age of sixteen, unless they are prevented 
 by mental or physical disability, the question of disability to be determined 
 by the school district board or board of education upon a certificate from a 
 duly licensed and practicing physician. (1.) 
 
 Section 212. Complaints by Board Members or Other Parties Teachers 
 Report: It shall be the duty of the school district board or any person living 
 in the district to make complaint with the justice of the peace of the town- 
 ship in which the school district is situated against any person failing or 
 refusing to comply with the provisions of the above section. It shall also 
 be the duty of the teacher of the school to ascertain if any person is absent 
 from the school without a proper excuse and if so to advise the county superin- 
 tendent of public instruction of that fact. Such county superintendent shall 
 then report such information to the county attorney of the county, who shall 
 file complaint in any justice court of the county where the offending party 
 resides, against such person or persons failing or refusing to compel the at- 
 tendance of the child or children under his control to attend school for the 
 time prescribed in the above section. (2.) 
 
 Section 213. Free Books May Be Furnished: If any parent, guardian or 
 custodian of any child or children is financially unable to furnish such child 
 or children with the necessary books with which to attend school, the county 
 superintendent of public instruction of the county where such parent or 
 guardian or custodian resides shall furnish upon recommendation of the dis- 
 trict board or the board of education of independent districts books for such 
 purpose to such child or children, which books shall be furnished and paid for 
 upon the certificate of such officer by the board of county commissioners of 
 the county in which such child or children resides. (3.) 
 
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Section 214. Belief for Widowed Mothers: If any widowed mother shall 
 make affidavit to the effect that the wages of her child or children, under six- 
 teen years of age are necessary to the support of such widowed mother, then 
 the county superintendent of public instruction shall, after careful investiga- 
 tion, upon the recommendation of the school district board, or board of educa- 
 tion, furnish such child or children a certificate called a "scholarship/' stat- 
 ing the amount of wages such child or children are receiving, or so much of 
 such wages as shall be deemed necessary so long as such child or children 
 shall attend the public school in accordance with the provisions of this article, 
 which aid shall be allowed and paid upon the certificate of the county superin- 
 tendent of public instruction to the child or children holding such scholarship, 
 by the county commissioners. (4.) 
 
 Section 215. Penalty for Violation: Any person violating the provisions 
 of any section of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic- 
 tion, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty- 
 five dollars. Each day a child is out of school contrary to the provisions of 
 this article shall constitute a separate offense. Said fine, when collected, shall 
 be credited to the school fund of the district in which the offending party 
 resides. (5.) 
 
 Section 216. County Commissioners Shall Provide Fund for Destitute 
 Mothers: It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners, in mak- 
 ing the estimated needs of such county for the fiscal year, to provide an amount 
 not to exceed eight thousand ($8,000.00) dollars; and it shall be the duty of the 
 county excise board in such county to make a levy for such sum as may be 
 needed, not to exceed the estimate made by the county commissioners for the 
 partial support of indigent women whose husbands are dead or insane, or 
 prisoners in any state institution, when such women are mothers of children 
 under the age of fourteen years, and such mother and children reside in such 
 county. (Sec. 1, S. B. 210, chap. 183, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 217. Amount of Allowance: The allowance to each of such women 
 shall not exceed ten dollars ($10.00) a month when she has but one child un- 
 der the age of fourteen years, and if she has more than one child under the 
 age of fourteen years, it shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) a 
 month for the first child and five dollars ($5.00) a month for each of the other 
 children under the age of fourteen years. (Sec. 2, S. B. 210, chap. 183, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 218. Conditions of Payment: Such allowance shall be made by 
 the county court and only upon the following conditions 1. The child or 
 children for whose benefit the allowance is made must be living with the 
 mother of such child or children. 2. The allowance shall be made only when 
 in the absence of such allowance the mother would be required to work reg- 
 ularly away from her home and children, and when by means of such allow- 
 ance she will be able to remain at home with her children. 3. The mother 
 must, in the judgment of the county court, be a proper person, morally, physic- 
 ally and mentally, for the bringing up of her children. 4. Such allowance 
 shall, in the judgment of the court, bd necessary to save the child or children 
 from neglect. 5. No person shall receive the benefit of this act who shall 
 not have been a resident of the county in which such application is made for 
 at least two years next before the making of such application for such allow- 
 ance. (Sec. 3, S. B. 210, chap. 183, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 219. Allowance Ceases When: Whenever any ctild shall reach 
 the age of fourteen years any allowance made to the mother of such child 
 for the benefit of such child shall ^pas?. The county court may. at its discre- 
 tion, at any time before such child reaches the age of fourteen years, dis- 
 continue or modify the allowance to any mother and for any child. (Sec. 4, 
 S. B. 210, chap. 183, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 220. If Fund Insufficient, County Judge to Select Cases: Should 
 the fund herein authorized be sufficient to permit an allowance to only a part 
 of the persons coming within the provisions of this law, the county court shall 
 select those cases in most urgent need of such allowance. (Sec. 5, S. B. 210, chap. 
 183, L. 1915.) 
 
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Section 221. Provisions not to Apply When: The provisions of this law 
 shall not apply to any woman whose husband is not dead or who is not con- 
 fined in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary or other prison in this state, or is in 
 a state institution for the insane in this state, and in the two latter cases it 
 shall not apply unless such prisoner is the lawful husband of the woman 
 seeking such allowance. (Sec. 6, S. B. 210, chap. 183, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 222. Penalty: Any person procuring or attempting to procure 
 any allowance for a person not entitled thereto shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than five hundred dollars 
 (500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than 
 one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Sec. 7, S. B. 210, chap. 183, 
 L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 223. Order to Be Made by County Judge: In each case where an 
 allowance is made to any woman under the provisions of this act, a judgment 
 entry to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the county court mak- 
 ing such allowance, and it shall be the right of any tax paying citizen at any 
 time to file a motion to set aside such judgment; and on such motion the 
 county court, or the court to whom such motion may be taken on a change 
 of venue, shall hear evidence, either with or without a jury, as either side 
 may demand, and may make a new order granting or refusing such allowance, 
 and from such order so made an appeal shall lie as in ordinary civil cases. 
 If the judgment making such allowance is not appealed from, or is affirmed 
 on appeal, the person filing such motion shall pay all the costs of such motion 
 and the proceedings subsequent thereto. Such motion may be renewed from 
 time to time, but not oftener than once in any calendar year. (Sec. 8, S. B. 
 210, chap. 183, L. 1915.) 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 County Certificates and Board of Examiners. 
 
 Section 224. Board of Examiners, Term and Compensation: In each 
 county there shall be a board of county examiners composed of the county 
 superintendent of public instruction, who shall be ex-officio chairman of said 
 board, and two competent persons, holders of first grade certificates or diplo- 
 mas from some state university, normal school or agricultural college, who 
 shall be appointed by such county superintendent and shall serve from the 
 time of their appointment until their successors have been appointed and each 
 member of the examining board shall receive for his services the sum of 
 three dollars per day, not to exceed five days in any one quarter of the year, 
 except at the close of the normal institute not to exceed ten days, said sums 
 to be paid from the contingent fund of the county: Provided, each member 
 of the board shall receive pay for only the number of days he or she is em- 
 ployed in holding examinations and grading papers. (1.) 
 
 Section 225. Examination Dates: The board, two of whom shall con- 
 stitute a quorum, shall, on the fourth Thursday and the Friday and Saturday 
 following in January, April and October and at the close of the normal insti- 
 tute for that county, only at such places as may be designated by such county 
 superintendent (who shall give ten days notice by publication in the official 
 paper of the county) shall publicly examine all persons proposing to teach in 
 the public schools of the county, as to their competency to teach the branches 
 prescribed by law; and such board of examiners shall issue certificates, as 
 hereinafter provided, to all such applicants as shall pass the required examina- 
 tion and satisfy the board as to their good moral character and their ability 
 to teach and govern schools successfully. (2.) 
 
 Section 226. Certificates Issued: Certificates issued by the county boards 
 shall be of three grades; first, second and third, and shall continue in force 
 respectively, four years, two years, and one year. (.3) 
 
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Section 227. First Grade Certificates: Certificates of the first grade shall 
 certify that the person to whom they are issued is profiicient in and fully 
 qualified to teach algebra, physics, American literature, arithmetic, composi- 
 tion, civics, elementary psychology, English grammar, geography, Oklahoma 
 history and government, orthography, physiology and hygiene, reading, theory 
 and practice of teaching, United States history, writing and the elements of 
 agriculture, domestic science, music and general history, and shall not be is- 
 sued to any person under twenty years of age, and not to those who have not 
 taught successfully twelve school months: Provided, that no person who re- 
 ceives a first grade certificate shall make a general average of less than 
 ninety per cent, and not below seventy-five per cent in any one subject. (4.) 
 
 Section 228. Second Grade Certificates: Certificates of the second grade 
 may be issued to persons not less than eighteen years of age, who shall fully 
 satisfy the board as to their ability to teach all the branches prescribed for 
 first grade certificates, except algebra, physics and general history, and who 
 have taught successfully six school months: Provided, that no person who 
 receives a second grade certificate shall make a general average of less than 
 eighty per cent or not below sixty-five per cent in any one subjct. (5.) 
 
 Section 229. Third Grade Certificates: Certificates of the third grade 
 shall certify that the person to whom they are issued is not under eighteen 
 years of age and is proficient in, and fully qualified to teach, all the branches 
 prescribed for a second grade certificate, except American literature and 
 psychology, and made a general average of not less than seventy-five per cent 
 and not below sixty per cent in any one subject; and no third grade certificate 
 shall be issued more than twice to the same person. (6.) 
 
 Section 230. Renewals: All county teachers' certificates may be renewed 
 for the term for which they were originally issued by the county superintend- 
 ent of public instruction, upon satisfactory evidence that the holder has at- 
 tended seventy-five per cent of the normal institutes or teachers' training 
 courses held in the county where he taught or has taken as many as ten 
 weeks special training in any of the state normal schools, and has attended 
 as many as fifty per cent of the county teachers' associations held in the 
 county during the time the certificate was in force and has been engaged 
 continuously in teaching. (7.) 
 
 NOTE If requirements for renewal of certificates have all been met, a cer- 
 tificate may be renewed prior to its expiration. (8-7-14.) County superintendent 
 must collect same fee for renewing certificate as for issuing original certificate. 
 (8-6-14.) 
 
 Section 231. Certificates Valid in Other Counties Revocation State 
 Certificate: No third grade certificate shall be in force except in the county 
 in which it is issued: Provided, that the county superintendent shall endorse 
 the unexpired first grade certificates issued in any other county, and all second 
 grade certificates shall be endorsed by the county superintendent of any county 
 adjoining the county in which said second grade certificate was issued, which 
 certificate shall thereby be valid in the county in which such endorsement is 
 made for the unexpired term of the certificate. A certificate issued under 
 this act may be revoked by the board of examiners on the ground of immor- 
 ality or for any other cause that would have justified the withholding thereof 
 whan the same was granted: Provided, that if persons who apply for first 
 grade certificates desire a state certificate of the same grade they may make 
 application to the county superintendent of public instruction at the time they 
 make preliminary application for the examination that their papers be for- 
 warded to the state superintendent of public instruction and shall pay such 
 county superintendent an additional fee of two dollars, then at the close of 
 the examination, after all papers have been graded and certificates issued, 
 such county superintendent shall forward to the state superintendent the exam- 
 ination papers of the applicants for state certificates and fees of two dollars. 
 The state superintendent, upon receipt of the manuscripts and fees of two 
 dollars, shall cause the papers to be examined and if it is found that the 
 grades are sufficient as provided by section 4 of this article, the said state 
 superintendent shall notify the applicant of the fact and if the applicant had 
 received a county certificate from the county board of examiners, he shall send 
 the county certificate to the state superintendent to be cancelled and receive 
 in return a state certificate of the first grade, and if no county certificate had 
 
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been issued to the applicant, the state superintendent shall send the applicant 
 a state certificate when notifying him of his grades, if the applicants are 
 entitled to receive the same. The fees required in this section for state certi- 
 ficates shall be used by the state superintendent to employ competent persons to 
 grade manuscripts forwarded to him by such county superintendents: Pro- 
 vided further, that all first grade certificates may be renewed for four years 
 by the state superintendent upon satisfactory evidence that the holder has 
 attended seventy-five per cent of the normal institutes held in the county 
 where he taught, or has taken as many as twenty weeks special training in 
 one of the state normal schools, and has attended as many as fifty per cent 
 of the county and state teachers' associations held in the county and state 
 during the time the certificate was in force and has been engaged continuously 
 in teaching. (8.) 
 
 Section 232. Carrying of Grades Prohibited: No person shall be per- 
 mitted to carry any grades from a certificate of a lower grade to a certificate 
 of a higher grade: Provided, that credits secured within three years from any 
 of the state normal schools, the state university and the Agricultural and Me- 
 chanical College on subjects that would entitle the holder to graduation on 
 that subject may be substituted in lieu of an examination on that subject and 
 said credits may be carried from a certificate of a lower grade to a certificate 
 of a higher grade. (9.) 
 
 NOTE Credits made in accredited high schools and accepted by a state 
 institution cannot be certified to the county superintendent and accepted on cer- 
 tificates. See also Sec. 11. 
 
 Section 233. Temporary Certificates: The county superintendent, upon 
 request made in writing by any district board, and after satisfying himself by 
 examination of the ability or proficiency of the applicant, may grant a tem- 
 porary certificate in case of necessity, valid only in the designated district, 
 and valid only until the next regular examination by the county board of 
 examiners: Provided, that no such temporary certificate shall be granted to 
 any applicant who has failed in examination at any such regular meeting of 
 the board, nor shall such certificates be granted twice to the same person: 
 Provided further, that the county superintendent shall not be compelled to 
 charge for the issuance of temporary certificates. (10.) 
 
 Section 234. No Certificate Without Examination Penalty: No certi- 
 ficate shall be issued by any board of county examiners except on examination 
 as herein provided and any county superintendent or member of the county 
 board of examiners who violates any of the provisions of this article, not 
 otherwise provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con- 
 viction, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars and not 
 more than five hundred dollars. (11.) 
 
 Section 235. Disposing of Questions Prohibited Penalty: Should any 
 person offer to sell, barter or give away what purports to be copies of questions 
 to be given at a future examination, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
 upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars 
 nor more than three hundred dollars, and shall be confined in the county jail 
 for not less than thirty days nor more than six months and be forever barred 
 from teaching in any of the public schools of this state. (12.) 
 
 Section 236. Same: Should any printer or party who has custody of the 
 examination questions prior to the date of the examination wilfully permit the 
 same to fall into the hands of parties unauthorized by law to receive them (he) 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished as 
 provided in section 12 of this article. (13.) 
 
 Section 237. Regulations for Handling Questions: Questions for the 
 examination shall be printed by the direction of the state superintendent and 
 shall be furnished to the county superintendents of public instruction only upon 
 written requisition for the same. The questions for each day shall be securely 
 sealed in separate envelopes and the three envelopes securely wrapped in a 
 package. The package containing the envelopes shall have written or printed 
 thereon a notice of the contents and the date of the examination. On the 
 morning of the first day of the examination, after the preliminary applications 
 have been made, the original package shall be opened by the party conducting 
 the examination in the presence of the persons applying for certificates, and 
 the envelopes taken therefrom. The envelope containing the questions for the 
 
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first day shall then be opened in the presence of persons applying for cer- 
 tificates, and on the mornings of the second and third days the other envelopes 
 shall be so opened. Persons violating the provisions of this section shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished as provided 
 in section 12 of this article. (14.) 
 
 Section 238. Giving Aid Prohibited: If any person offers to give or re- 
 ceive aid during the examination, it shall be the duty of such county superin- 
 tendent or the person conducting the examination, to compel such person or 
 persons to retire from the examination and he shall be barred from receiving 
 a certificate for one year. (15.) 
 
 Section 239. Academic or Professional Training Required After January, 
 1918: After January, 1918, no person shall receive a third grade certificate 
 unless he shall have had either academic training equivalent to one year in an 
 approved high school of this state, or have had at least ten weeks professional 
 training in one of the Oklahoma State Normal Schools, State University, or 
 Agricultural and Mechanical College, or an institution in this state, or other 
 state having equivalent teachers' professional course, and no person shall re- 
 ceive a second grade certificate unless he shall have had academic training 
 equivalent to two years in an approved high school of this state or have had 
 at least twenty weeks professional training in one of the Oklahoma State 
 Normal Schools, State University, or Agricultural and Mechanical College, or 
 institution in this state or other state having equivalent teachers' professional 
 course, and no person shall receive a first grade certificate unless he shall have 
 had either academic training equivalent to three years in an approved high 
 school of this state or have had at least thirty-six weeks professional training 
 in one of the Oklahoma State Normal Schools, or State University, or Agricul- 
 tural and Mechanical College, or an institution in this state or other state hav- 
 ing equivalent teachers' professional course. This section shall never affect 
 the right of renewal under section 230. (Sec. 1, S. B. 413, chap. 282, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 240. Fee for Certificates Disposition: The county superintend- 
 ent of public instruction shall collect from each party applying for a county 
 certificate a fee of two dollars, which shall be turned over to the county treas- 
 urer to be credited to the normal institute fund of the county, to be used 
 only in defraying the expense of conducting normal institutes or teachers' 
 training courses in that county. (17.) 
 
 Section 241. Revocation of Certificates: A certificate issued under the 
 provisions of this article may be revoked by the power issuing the same on the 
 ground of immorality, or for any cause that would have justified the with- 
 holding thereof when the same was granted. (18.) 
 
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ARTICLE XV. 
 
 Separate Schools. 
 
 Section 242. Races Shall Be Separate: The public schools of the state 
 of Oklahoma shall be organized and maintained upon a complete plan of sepa- 
 ration between the white and colored races, with impartial facilities for both 
 races. (1.) 
 
 Section 243. Meaning of Terms: The term "colored" as used in the 
 preceding section shall be construed to mean all persons of African descent 
 who possess any quantum of negro blood, and the term "white" shall include 
 all other persons. The term "public school," within the meaning of this 
 article, shall include all schools provided for, or maintained, in whole or in 
 part, at public expense. (2.) 
 
 Section 244. Separate School Designated: The county separate school 
 in each district is hereby declared to be that school in said school district of 
 the race having the fewest number of children in said school district: Provided, 
 that the county superintendent of public instruction of each county shall have 
 authority to designate what school or schools in each school district shall be 
 the separate school and which class of children, either white or colored, shall 
 have the privilege of attending such separate school or schools in said school 
 district. Members of the district school board shall be of the same race as 
 the children who are entitled to attend the school of the district, not the sepa- 
 rate school. (3.) 
 
 Section 245. Penalty for Violation: Any teacher in this state who shall 
 wilfully and knowingly allow any child of the colored race to attend the 
 school maintained for the white race, or allow any white child to attend the 
 school maintained for the colored race, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dol- 
 lars nor more than fifty dollars, and his certificate shall be cancelled and he 
 shall not have another issued to him for a term of one year. (4.) 
 
 Section 246. Provisions Apply to All Schools and Colleges: It shall be 
 unlawful for any person, corporation or association of persons, to maintain or 
 operate any college, school or institution of this state where persons of both 
 white and colored races are received as pupils for instruction, and any person 
 or corporation who shall operate or maintain any such college, school or insti- 
 tution in violation hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more 
 than five hundred dollars, and each day such school, college or institution shall 
 be open and maintained shall be deemed a separate offense. (5.) 
 
 Section 247. Punishment: Any instructor who shall teach in any school, 
 college or institution where members of the white race and colored race are 
 received and enrolled as pupils for instruction, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, and each day any 
 instructor shall continue to teach in any such college, school or institution 
 shall be considered a separate offense. (6.) 
 
 Section 248. Illegal to Attend School of Different Race: It shall be un- 
 lawful for any white person to attend any school, college or institution, where 
 colored persons are received as pupils for instruction, and any one so offending 
 shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars for each 
 offense, and each day such person so offends as herein provided shall be 
 deemed a distinct and separate offense: Provided, that nothing in this article 
 shall be so construed as to prevent any private school, college or institution of 
 learning from maintaining a separate or distinct branch thereof in a different 
 locality. (7.) 
 
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Section 249. Support for Separate School: In all counties where county 
 separate schools for white and colored children are maintained, the county 
 excise board shall annually levy a tax on all taxable property in their respec- 
 tive counties sufficient to maintain such separate school, as hereinafter pro- 
 vided, upon an estimate made by the county commissioners, said taxes shall 
 be estimated, published, levied and collected in the same manner as other 
 taxes for county purposes, and in school districts where such separate schools 
 are maintained, no white child shall attend a colored school or a colored child 
 attend a white school. (8.) 
 
 NOTE Repairs to all buildings for separate schools must be made by the 
 county. (8-10-14.) Supplies for separate schools are purchased and paid for 
 by the county. (2-2-14.) 
 
 Section 250. No Separate School When: In any school district in such 
 county having both white and colored children of school age where the num- 
 ber of such children, either white or colored, of school age, does not exceed ten, 
 and they can be transferred to schools of their own color in adjoining districts, 
 as hereinafter provided, no separate school shall be maintained. (9.) 
 
 Section 251. May Transfer Pupils: When either the white or colored chil- 
 dren of school age in any said school district having both white and colored 
 children of school age, do not exceed ten in number, the county superintendent 
 of public instruction in such county shall transfer the white or colored chil- 
 dren to the nearest school of their own color in some adjoining district, when 
 the same can be done with the consent of their parents, guardian or cus- 
 todian, or without such consent when any such children can be so transferred 
 without compelling them to travel more than two and one-half miles to attend 
 such school, and when any child is so transferred to another school under the 
 provisions of this section, such county superintendent shall apportion the per 
 capita of all school revenue, except local school district tax and county sepa- 
 rate school fund, to the school district to which it is transferred, and such 
 child shall have all the rights and privileges to which it is transferred that 
 are enjoyed by children resident in such district. (10.) 
 
 Section 252. County Superintendent to Report to County Commissioners: 
 The county superintendent of public instruction of each county shall ascer- 
 tain what districts of his county have separate schools for white and colored 
 children, the number of such children of each color in each district, and 
 further ascertain the districts, if any, maintaining separate schools that have 
 not erected school houses for both white and colored children, and report the 
 same to the board of county commissioners of his county, and in like manner 
 report such facts when any other district in his county may desire to establish 
 such separate school. (11.) 
 
 Section 253. County Commissioners to Erect Buildings: If, upon the re- 
 ceipt of such report, the board of county commissioners of such county find 
 from such report, or any other legal evidence that they may desire to consider, 
 that any of such districts so maintaining or that are entitled to maintain sepa- 
 rate schools for white and colored children, have not within such school dis- 
 trict a school building for that class of children which have been designated 
 by such county superintendent as the class of children which may attend the 
 adjoining districts, as provided herein, then said board of county commis- 
 sioners shall cause such county superintendent of such county to file with 
 them a statement in writing with the specifications of the kind of school 
 house needed by the class of children that are to attend such county separate 
 school, and when such board of county commissioners have settled the plans 
 and specifications of such building suitable in their judgment for such pur- 
 pose, they shall advertise for bids for the construction of swch building by a 
 notice posted in such district, and published at least four consecutive weeks in 
 a newspaper published in such county, if any be published therein, and if no 
 newspaper be published in such county, then by posting public notices in said 
 school district, and at five other public places in said county, and such con- 
 tract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder in the same manner as other 
 contracts are let, and the board of commissioners shall take proper bonds for 
 the performance thereof. Such buildings when completed and accepted by 
 such board of county commissioners, shall be paid for by them by warrants 
 drawn by them on the separate school fund of such county. (12.) 
 
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Section 254. County Superintendents to Employ Teachers: It shall here- 
 after be the duty of all county superintendents of public instruction to contract 
 with and employ all the teachers for the county separate schools now main- 
 tained, or hereafter to be established in their respective counties: Provided, 
 that the board of education in all independent districts shall contract with 
 and employ all the teachers for the schools of such districts which have been 
 designated by the county superintendent as the county separate school within 
 such districts. Teachers before being so employed shall possess all the quali- 
 fications which are now required by law, and the county superintendent of 
 public instruction shall have the power to prescribe rules and regulations 
 for the government of all county separate schools in his county, except those 
 within the independent districts. (13.) 
 
 Section 255. County Clerk to Issue Warrants: Warrants for the salary 
 of teachers employed in the separate schools and all orders or warrants for the 
 expenses of such schools shall be issued upon the treasurer by the county clerk 
 and countersigned by the county superintendent: Provided, however, that the 
 county clerk shall not draw on said separate school fund for any greater 
 amount for teachers employed for any district than is paid the like number 
 of teachers for the like time by the school district for teaching in the other 
 schools of said district. (14.) 
 
 Section 256. Site Convenient to Majority of Pupils: When a school house 
 is to be built by the county out of the county separate school fund for the 
 benefit of those children who are to attend the county separate school, it may 
 be built at any place within said district which in the judgment of the board 
 of county commissioners will be most convenient to the greatest number of 
 children for whom it is entitled and for such purpose such board of county 
 commissioners may receive title to a proper school site by gift, purchase, or 
 proceeding to condemn the same, in the same manner and with like effect as 
 where such actions are brought by school district. (15.) 
 
 Section 257. Unused Property May Be Sold: The board of county com- 
 missioners of any county is hereby authorized to sell and convey any real es- 
 tate deeded to or held by such county, for the purpose of maintaining a 
 county separate school where the same has not been used for county separate 
 school purposes for the preceding two years, and in the opinion of such com- 
 missioners will not be needed for such purposes, such sale to be in the manner 
 hereinafter provided. (16.) 
 
 Section 258. Same Preliminary Action: Before any such sale shall be 
 made, the board of county commissioners, in regular or special session, shall 
 adopt a resolution declaring that said real estate had not been used for sepa- 
 rate school purposes during the two years immediately preceding the date of 
 such resolution, and that the same is not needed for separate school purposes; 
 said resolution to be published with other proceedings of said board, and a 
 copy of said resolution shall be certified by the county clerk to the judge of 
 the district court of such county, and such judge shall make a finding as to 
 whether it is to the best interest of the county separate school fund that 
 such property be sold, and if he finds that such sale is to the best interest 
 of such fund, he shall appoint three disinterested freeholders of such county 
 to appraise said real estate, said appraisement to be returned by said appraisers 
 to the board of county commissioners. (17.) 
 
 Section 259. Same Public Notice Given: Upon the return of the ap- 
 praisement, as provided in tHe preceding section, the board of county commis- 
 sioners shall give notice of such sale by publishing in some newspaper of general 
 circulation in such county for a period of thirty days. (18.) 
 
 Section 260. Bids to Be in Writing: Bids for said real estate shall be in 
 writing, sealed and delivered to the county clerk of such county, and by him 
 presented (preserved) unopened until the next regular meeting of the board 
 of county commissioners. After the expiration of ten days from the period of 
 said publication, at which time the board of county commissioners shall open 
 such bids and award the said real estate to the highest bidder: Provided, 
 that such real estate shall not be sold for. less than eighty per cent of its 
 
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appraised value, and the board of county commissioners shall have the power 
 to reject any and all bids. (19.) 
 
 Section 261. Deed Authorized: When any real estate shall have been 
 sold, as above provided, a deed shall be made therefor, signed and acknowl- 
 edged by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and attested by 
 the county clerk, which deed shall recite the several steps and proceedings 
 taken to authorize such sale, and such recitals shall be prima facie evidence 
 of the truth of the manner (matter) recited. (20.) 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 Transfer of Pupils 
 
 Section 262. Transfer Permits Authorized: The county superintendent of 
 any county in this state may, as provided in this act, when in his. judgment the 
 best interests of the schools will not be adversely affected, and when requested 
 by the parents or guardian, and with the consent of the district board of the 
 district in which they seek to attend, permit children living in any school dis- 
 trict in this state to attend school in another school district. (1.) 
 
 Section 263. Procedure of Transfer: The county superintendent shall, 
 within five days after the filing of request by the parents or guardians of 
 school children as provided in section 1 of this act (article), notify in writing 
 the school boards of the two school districts affected, of said request of trans- 
 fer. The county superintendent shall also notify the boards of each district 
 affected that he will hear any reason that any member of either board may 
 offer why the transfer should not be made; the hearing to be had on a day 
 named in said notice, not more than ten days from the giving of said notice. 
 The above notice may be given by the county superintendent mailing to the 
 secretary of each board a written notice of the request of transfer and the 
 date of hearing. (2.) 
 
 Section 264. To Hear Protests and Transfer Funds: On the date of said 
 hearing any member of either board affected by the transfer may appear be- 
 fore the county superintendent at his office in the county and give any reason 
 why the transfer should not be made. After having heard any member of either 
 board who desires to be heard, if the county superintendent is of the opinion 
 that it is to the best interest of the school children, and that the best inter- 
 est of the schools will not be adversely affected, he shall make the transfer. 
 When the county superintend authorizes such transfer of children from one 
 district to another he may transfer the state, county and school district funds 
 to such children from the district in which they reside to the district in which 
 they attend school, provided such transfer of funds shall not create a deficit 
 in the funds of the school district from which the transfer is made. If 
 he is not so satisfied that it is to the best interest of the school children and 
 that the interest of the schools affected will not be injured, he shall refuse 
 the transfer: Provided, that any person interested in such transfer shall have 
 the right of appeal from the action of said superintendent to the board of 
 county commissioners. (Sec. 1, H. B. 166, chap. 16, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 265. No Transfer When: All hearings on applications for trans- 
 fers of school children mentioned in the first three sections of this act (article) 
 shall be had at least two months before the beginning of the schools in 
 either district affected. (4.) 
 
 Section 266. Transferred Pupils Status of: After having given notice 
 of the proposed change of districts, and after the transfer being made by the 
 
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county superintendent, the parents and children and the school boards of either 
 district affected shall be bound by the regulations, rules and compulsory school 
 law of the school district to which the children are transferred for the school 
 year. (5.) 
 
 Section 267. Cities Considered School Districts: For all purposes of this 
 act (article) schools of cities of the first class shall be considered school dis- 
 tricts. (6.) 
 
 Section 268. New-Comers May Select School: Eenters and others who 
 come into a school district from an adjoining school district after the school 
 term has begun may make a choice of the school which their children will 
 attend by giving notice to the county superintendent of their intention, as 
 soon as a resident (residence) has been established, and their children shall 
 be enumerated for that year by the school board for the district in which 
 their children shall attend school. (7.) 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 General Provisions. 
 
 Section 269. Certificates to Graduates of State Schools: Any graduate 
 of a state normal school or of any other state educational institution, who has 
 satisfactorily completed a course of study approved by the state board of edu- 
 cation as specifically designated for preparation in teaching, may be granted 
 a certificate covering such grade of schools and for such length of time as 
 the state board of education may by regulation determine. (1.) 
 
 Section 270. Justices of the Peace to Have Jurisdiction: Justices of the 
 peace shall have jurisdiction in all cases in which a school district is a party 
 interested when the amount claimed by the plaintiff does not exceed his 
 jurisdiction, as provided by statute, and the party shall have the right to 
 appeal as in other cases, and all fines and penalties not otherwise provided for 
 herein shall be collected by an action in any court of competent jurisdiction. (2) 
 
 Section 271. Vandalism Prohibited Penalty: Every person who shall 
 wilfully injure or destroy any building used as a school house or for other edu- 
 cational purposes, or any furniture, fixtures or apparatus thereto belonging, or 
 who shall deface, mar or disfigure any such school building, furniture, trees or 
 fixtures by writing, painting, cutting or pasting, shall be fined in any sum 
 not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, and such fines, when collected, 
 shall be turned into the county treasury for the support of the common schools 
 of the county. The fine herein provided shall be in addition to and not in lieu 
 of the punishment provided by the statute regulating crimes of such offenses. 
 (3.) 
 
 Section 272. Library Fund Shall Be Provided: At the time provided by 
 law for making and certifying the annual levy for taxes for school purposes 
 each year, except as hereinafter provided, the district board of each school 
 district, and the board of education of each city or town in the state of Ok- 
 lahoma shall designate, set apart, and appropriate out of the district fund a 
 sum of money as a library fund, to be used in the purchase of books and 
 periodicals for a public library for such district, city or town, as follows: In 
 districts employing one teacher, not less than five nor more than ten dollars 
 each year; in districts employing more than one and less than four teachers, not 
 less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars each year; in districts employ- 
 ing more than three teachers, not less than twenty-five nor' more than fifty 
 dollars each year; in cities, not less than fifty nor more than one hundred 
 
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dollars each year. The board of education of each city or town and the district 
 board of each school district, except as hereinafter provided, shall certify the 
 appropriation herein provided to the county clerk, and the county clerk shall 
 note the appropriation on the tax rolls and certify same to the county treasurer, 
 and he shall set apart the sum so designated to the credit of the district, city 
 or town appropriating the same, as a library fund: Provided, that districts in 
 which the maximum levy, together with all other school funds, do not yield a 
 revenue sufficient to support a four months' term of school during the school 
 year, shall not be subject to the provisions of this and the following section. 
 (Sec. 7937, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 273. Books to Be Purchased From List: The county board of 
 examiners of each county shall furnish the county superintendent a list of 
 books, together with the list price of each, and the price at which they may be 
 purchased, as nearly as possible, which list shall designate the order of pur- 
 chase and shall govern the order of purchasing, so far as the funds will per- 
 mit, and the county superintendent shall, within thirty days thereafter, mail 
 to the secretary of each district board in the county the list of books furnished 
 as herein provided, together with prices and other information and instruction 
 for carrying out the privisions of this and the preceding section. The county 
 board of examiners shall, at periods of not longer than two years thereafter, 
 furnish additional lists of suitable books and periodicals, to be a guide to fu- 
 ture purchases by district boards. All such purchases shall follow the order 
 given by the county board of examiners, so far as the funds will permit, 
 unless the lists include books already in the library of such school. No dis- 
 trict board or board of education shall contract or pay in warrants or other- 
 wise more than the lowest wholesale price of the books so purchased and any 
 and all warrants issued in excess of such sum shall be void as to the excess 
 (Sec. 7938, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section. 274. Flag to Be Displayed: Every board of education and school 
 district board within this state sliall be required to own and display within 
 the school house a United States flag. Such boards shall purchase such flag 
 with any moneys derived for school purposes not otherwise specifically appro- 
 priated; and any person charged with the duty imposed by this section who 
 shall fail to comply with the requirements of the same, or shall violate this 
 law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 
 shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars. (4.) 
 
 Section 275. Sectarian Teaching Prohibited: No sectarian or religious 
 doctrine shall be taught or inculcated in any of the public schools of this 
 state; but nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the reading 
 of the Holy Scripture. (5.) 
 
 Section 276. Inspection of State Institutions: The state board of educa- 
 tion shall have the authority and are hereby directed to visit and inspect or 
 cause to be visited and inspected at least twice a year, all of the educational 
 institutions of higher learning, both public and private, located within this 
 state. (5a.) 
 
 Section 277. Registration of Certificates and Diplomas Compulsory: No 
 person holding a state certificate shall be permitted to teach in any of the 
 public schools of the state unless he shall file his certificate or diploma with 
 the county superintendent of public instruction or the city superintendent if 
 employed in any independent district; upon presentation the state certificate or 
 diploma shall be registered in a book kept for that purpose by such county su- 
 perintendent or the city superintendent, but no fee for registration shall be 
 charged. (6.) 
 
 Section 278. To Teach Morals: In each and every public school, it shall 
 be the duty of each and every teacher to teach morality, in the broadest mean- 
 ing of the word, for the purpose of elevating and refining the character of 
 school children up to the highest plane of life; that they may know how to 
 conduct themselves as social beings in relation to each other, as respects 
 right and wrong, and rectitude of life, and thereby lessen wrong-doing and 
 crime. (7.) 
 
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Section 279. To Teach Human Kindness: In each and every public school, 
 in addition to the other branches of study now prescribed, not less than one- 
 half hour each week during the whole of each term of school, shall be devoted 
 to teaching the school children attending said school kindness to and humane 
 treatment and protection to dumb animals and birds, their lives, habits and 
 usefulness, and the important part they are intended to fulfill in the economy 
 of nature, and such studies on the subject as the board of public education 
 may adopt. (8.) 
 
 Section 280. Vivisection Prohibited: No experiments upon any living 
 creature shall be permitted in any public school within the state of Oklahoma 
 (9.) 
 
 Section 281. Duty of Superintendents and Principals: It shall be the duty 
 of the state superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of public 
 instruction of each county, superintendent of public schools of each city, and 
 the principal of each and every public school, to see that the provisions of the 
 three preceding sections are strictly complied with in the public schools under 
 his supervision. (10.) 
 
 Section 282. No Payment of Salary When: No teacher in the public 
 schools shall be entitled to receive any portion of the public school moneys 
 as compensation for services, unless such teacher shall have complied with 
 the provisions of the preceding sections. (11.) 
 
 Section 283. Arbor Day: The Friday following the second Monday in 
 March of each year shall be hereafter known throughout Oklahoma as Arbor 
 day. (12.) 
 
 Section 284. Same Manner of Observance: It shall be the duty of the 
 authorities of the public schools in this state, to assemble the pupils in their 
 charge on Arbor day in the school buildings, or elsewhere, as may be deemed 
 proper, to provide for the conduct, under the general supervision of the county 
 superintendent of public instruction, 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 planting, protection and pre- 
 servation of the trees and shrubs, and an acquaintance with the best methods 
 to be adopted to accomplish such results. (13.) 
 
 Section 285. Poultry Exhibit and Premium: The county commissioners of 
 the respective counties of this state may and they are hereby authorized and 
 empowered to appropriate and use any sum of money not to exceed one hun- 
 dred dollars per year for the purpose of co-operating with the county branches 
 for such respective counties of the Oklahoma State Poultry Federation in the 
 work of increasing the poultry production in such respective counties, such 
 money to be expended in each county under rules and regulations to be agreed 
 upon by the county commissioners thereof and the officers of the county~"branch 
 of the Oklahoma State Poultry Federation in such county. (Sec. 1, H. B. 510, 
 chap. 252, L. 1915.) 
 
 NOTE Eesolved by the Oklahoma State Board of Education, that the 
 county commissioners of each of the counties of the state are herey respect- 
 fully requested to make the appropriation of one hundred ($100.00) dollars, 
 authorized by house bill No. 510 of the last session of the Oklahoma legislature, 
 and to arrange for the same to be offered as premiums on different specimens 
 of poultry raised by school children in the respective counties and exhibited by 
 such children at the annual county shows to be held by the various county 
 branches of the Oklahoma State Poultry Federation in said counties, and the 
 various county school superintendents and school teachers of the state are re- 
 spectfully directed to bring this matter to the attention of the school children 
 of the state. 
 
 Adopted by the Oklahoma State Board of Education this 16th day of 
 April, 1915. 
 
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ARTICLE XVIII. 
 
 Nepotism. 
 (Harris-Day Code.) 
 
 Section 286. Employment of Relatives Unlawful: It shall be unlawful 
 for any executive or ministerial officer to appoint or vote for the appointment 
 of any person related to him by affinity or consanguinity within the third de- 
 gree to any position or duty of the municipality of which the executive officer 
 is a member, when the salary, wages, pay or compensation of such appointee 
 is to be paid out of the public funds of such office. (2235.) 
 
 Eevised by eliminating matter referring to officers other than 
 school districts. The attorney-general holds that father and mother 
 are first degree; grandfather and grandmother, brothers and sisters 
 are second degree; uncles and aunts third degree; and first cousins 
 and great uncles and great aunts fourth degree. 
 
 Section 287. Unlawful to Pay Salary: It shall be unlawful for any 
 executive or ministerial officer mentioned in the preceding section, to draw or 
 authorize the drawing of any warrant or authority for payment out of any 
 public fund, of the salary, wages, pay or compensation of any such ineligible 
 person, and it shall be unlawful for any executive officer to pay out of any 
 public funds in his custody or under his control the salary, wages, pay or 
 compensation of any such ineligible person. (2236.) 
 
 Eevised by eliminating matter referring to officers other than 
 school district officers. 
 
 Section 288. Unlawful Appointment: It shall be unlawful for any execu- 
 tive or ministerial officer to appoint and furnish employment for any person 
 whose services are to be rendered under his direction and control and paid 
 for out of the public funds, and who is related by either blood or marriage 
 within the third degree to any other ministerial officer when such appointment 
 is made in part consideration that such other officer shall appoint and furnish 
 employment to any one so related to the officer making such appointment. 
 (2237.) 
 
 Section 289. Penalty: Any officer who shall violate any provision of this 
 article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor involving official misconduct, 
 and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred or more than one 
 thousand dollars, and shall forfeit his office. (2239.) 
 
 Section 290. Officers Affected: Under the designation executive or min- 
 isterial officer as mentioned herein are included public school trustees and all 
 other officials of the state, district, county, city or other municipal sub- 
 divisions of the state. (2241.) 
 
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ARTICLE XIX. 
 
 School Fraternities. 
 (Chapter 92, Session Laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 291. School Fraternities and Societies Prohibited: It shall be 
 unlawful for any pupil registered in any elementary or high school of the 
 state supported wholly or in part by public funds, to join, to become a member 
 of, or to solicit any other person to become a member of any fraternal, sorority, 
 or other secret society formed wholly or in part from the membership of pupils 
 attending such school. 
 
 Section 292. Enforcement by Boards of Education Punishment: The 
 
 boards of education and school directors shall enforce the provisions of section 
 291 and shall have full power and authority to make all rules and regulations 
 for the enforcement of its provisions. Any member or members of such boards 
 of education or directors failing to take steps to enforce the provisions of 
 section 291 shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not 
 more than one hundred dollars for each failure. 
 
 Section 293. Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils: The boards of educa- 
 tion and school directors shall have full power to suspend and expel any and 
 all pupils who shall refuse to comply with the regulations of such boards, or 
 the provisions of section 291 of this article. 
 
 Section 294. Soliciting for Fraternity Membership Prohibited Punish- 
 ment: It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to cause, solicit, in- 
 duce, or encourage any pupil or pupils of the public elementary or high schools 
 of the state to join, or become members of any fraternity, sorority or other 
 secret society, or to solicit any person or persons to attend any meeting of 
 such societies or other meeting wherein membership to such societies is en- 
 couraged. Such person shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five 
 dollars and not more than five hundred dollars for each offense. Such offender 
 may be tried in any court of competent jurisdiction in the state. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 
 State Board of Education. 
 (Chapter 47, Session Laws 1910-1911.) 
 
 Section 295. State Board of Education Created: The state board of edu- 
 cation shall consist of seven members, including the state superintendent of 
 public instruction, who shall.be the president, and six members appointed by 
 the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for a period of 
 six years, except as hereinafter provided. The appointive members shall 
 possess the same qualifications and be subject to the same restrictions and limita- 
 tions as are now required of the textbook commission, and at least two of them 
 shall be practical school men who shall have had at least four years experience 
 in actual school work, two years of which shall have been in the state of Okla- 
 homa. TTpon the passage and approval of this act, two members shall be ap- 
 pointed for a term ending June 30, 1913, two members for a term ending June 
 30, 1915, and two members for a term ending June 30, 1917, subsequent appoint- 
 
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ments, except to fill vacancies, shall be for the full term of six years. The 
 appointive members of said board shall receive as compensation for their serv-- 
 ices the sum of six dollars ($6.00) per day, their necessary traveling expenses, 
 and actual hotel expenses not to exceed three dollars ($3.00) per day, while 
 in the performance of their duties, and they shall not be removed during their 
 term of office except for cause. There shall be appointed by the president to 
 be approved by said board a secretary, who shall receive a salary of two thou- 
 sand dollars per annum, and a stenographer, who shall receive a salary of 
 twelve hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and said positions are 
 hereby created. 
 
 Section 296. Powers and Duties: The state board of education, organized 
 in pursuance of this act, shall be the legal successor of the state board of 
 education as it now exists, the state textbook commission, the board of regents 
 of the State University, the board of regents of the university preparatory 
 schools at Tonkawa and Claremore, the board of education now in control of 
 the state normal schools, the board of regents of the Oklahoma Industrial 
 Institute and College for Girls at Chick'asha, the board of regents of the School 
 of Mines and Metallurgy at Wilburton, the board of control of the School for 
 the Deaf at Sulphur, the board of control for the School for the Blind, the 
 board of control of the Boys' Training School at Pauls Valley, the board of 
 control of the Orphans Home at Pryor Creek, the board of control of the In- 
 stitution for the Feeble-Minded at Enid, the board of regents of the Colored 
 Agricultural and Normal University at Langston, the board of regents of the In- 
 stitute for the Deaf, Blind and Orphans' Home for the colored at Taft, and 
 shall have all the powers, rights and privileges heretofore legally exercised 
 by said boards: Provided, nothing in this act shall invalidate any contracts 
 entered into by the textbook commission. Said board shall have the follow- 
 ing additional powers and duties: 
 
 a. The general supervision of the public schools of the state. 
 
 b. To formulate and adopt courses of study for the common schools 
 and county normal institutes; and arrange courses of study, and adopt text- 
 books for use in the higher educational institutions of the state. 
 
 c. To formulate rules and regulations governing the issuance of all certi- 
 ficates to teach in the public schools of this state. 
 
 d. To prepare questions for the examination of applicants for county 
 and city certificates to teach in the public schools of the state. 
 
 e. To examine applicants for state certificates, to teach in the public 
 schools of the state, and for conductors' and instructors' certificates to teach 
 in the county normal institutes. 
 
 f. To prepare examination questions for graduates from the eighth grade 
 of the public schools. 
 
 g. To classify the public high schools of the state and properly accredit 
 them to the various higher educational institutions of the state. 
 
 h. To formulate and adopt courses of study for state pupils' reading 
 circles and for state teachers reading circles; and to select books to be used in 
 said reading circles, and to prepare questions for the issuance of reading circle 
 certificates. 
 
 i. The state board of education shall make a biennial report to the gov- 
 ernor and legislature, setting forth the work of the board and the condi- 
 tions of the schools of the state. The board shall also prepare and submit to 
 the governor thirty days before the convening of each regular session of the 
 legislature a budget estimating the necessary appropriations for each of the 
 institutions under their management and control. 
 
 j. Upon application having been made in writing by the organization 
 representing the commercial and business colleges and institutions in the state, 
 it shall be the duty of said board to formulate rules and regulations which 
 shall govern the organization, operation, management and control of said 
 commercial and business colleges; the authority herein granted is in addition 
 to that above stated to extend to the formulation and adoption of courses of 
 studies, the length of time necessary to complete the same, and rules and 
 regulations governing the issuance of diplomas by said commercial colleges. 
 
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Section 297. May Assess and Collect Certain Fees: The state board of 
 education and the state board of agriculture shall have authority to fix and 
 collect a library and laboratory fee from all students at various state insti- 
 tutions under their respective jurisdictions, said library fee to cover wear and 
 tear of library books, and said laboratory fee to cover breakage in laboratory, 
 and said boards shall require all non-resident students attending said institu- 
 tions to pay a reasonable tuition, to be fixed by the respective boards, and 
 the net proceeds of all such fees and tuitions, after all proper refunds have 
 been made, shall be paid into the state treasury; provided, that the students 
 from states permitting students from Oklahoma to attend their state institu- 
 tions without tuition shall not be charged tuition in any state institution of the 
 state of Oklahoma. (Sec. 1, S. B. 356, chap 151, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 298. Certain District to Help Support State Schools When: It 
 shall be the duty of any independent or common school district in this state 
 where a state school is located, to aid in the support and maintenance of 
 said state school; provided, such independent or common school district does 
 not maintain a fully accredited high school course. When the pupils of any 
 such independent or common school district, shall attend as pupils in any such 
 state school, such independent or common school district shall pay into the 
 state treasury an amount equal to the per capita cost of educating pupils in 
 said state school; and the state board of education shall determine the per 
 capita cost of maintaining the said state school and file such schedule, showing per 
 capita cost, with the clerk of any such independent or common school dis- 
 trict. Such independent or common school district shall, before June 30th 
 of each year, pay into the state treasury an amount to be determined by 
 multiplying the number of pupils attending such state school from such dis- 
 trict, by the per capita cost of maintaining the state school for the preceding 
 fiscal year. (Sec. 1, H. B. 65, chap 84, L. 1915.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXI. 
 
 Business Colleges. 
 
 Section 299. Shall Give Bond: Any person, firm, association or corpo- 
 ration having established or proposing to establish a business college in the 
 state of Oklahoma, shall be required , to furnish a good and sufficient bond 
 with two or more sureties, to be approved by the county clerk, to the state 
 of Oklahoma, in the penal sum of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars, conditioned 
 that such business college shall faithfully perform any and all expressed or 
 implied contracts made in soliciting a bonus from cities or towns or in selling 
 scholarships and that such business college shall continue a reasonable length 
 of time, not less than six months, to enable those who have subscribed and 
 paid for scholarships, either in whole or in part, to finish the course or courses 
 to which the scholarship entitles the holder thereof, and that the course of 
 study taught in said college shall be in accordance with such contracts made 
 in soliciting the sale of scholarships. Such bond shall be filed in the office 
 of the county clerk of the county in which such business colleges are located 
 and shall remain on file subject to the inspection of the public and shall 
 be for the use and benefit of any person or persons for a violation of any of 
 the conditions of said bond. (Sec. 1, H. B. 403, chap. 281, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 300. Liability: Any person, firm, association or corporation con- 
 ducting or running a business college in the state shall be liable on said bond 
 given under section 1 of this act, to any person, defrauded by reason of not 
 having completed the course or courses of study for which said scholarship 
 was purchased, or any other breach of said bond, and any person defrauded 
 is hereby authorized to maintain a suit on said bond to recover any and all 
 
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sums due by reason of a breach of said bond. (Sec. 2, H. B. 403, chap. 281, L. 
 1915.) 
 
 Section 301. Penalty: Any person, firm, association or corporation run- 
 ning, maintaining, operating or conducting a business college without first 
 having complied with section 1 of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than one 
 hundred ($100.00) dollars, and not more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, 
 and by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days, and not 
 more than six months. (Sec. 3, H. B. 403, chap. 281, L. 1915) 
 
 ARTICLE XXII. 
 
 Books and Supplies. 
 
 (Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910.) 
 (For List of Adopted Books, See Appendix C.) 
 
 Section 302. Text-book Commission: There is hereby created a commis- 
 sion to be composed of seven members, to be known as the "text-book commis- 
 sion," consisting of the governor and six other persons of recognized ability, 
 residents of this state, a majority of whom shall be experienced educators, 
 who shall be appointed by the governor and approved by the senate, to serve 
 for a term of five years and until their successors are appointed and qualified 
 unless sooner removed. Any vacancy occurring upon the commission from 
 any cause, shall be filled by appointment by the governor as in the first in- 
 stance. _ A majority of said commission shall constitute a quorum for the 
 transaction of all business of the commission. Before transacting any business 
 relating to the duties of the commission, they shall each, in addition to the 
 oath prescribed by the constitution, take an oath before some person author- 
 ized to administer same, to faithfully discharge all the duties imposed upon 
 them as members of the text-book commission, and that they have no inter- 
 est, directly or indirectly, in any contract that may be made under this article, 
 and will receive no personal benefit therefrom, that they will examine all 
 books submitted carefully and faithfully, as herein directed and prescribed, 
 and said oath shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The secre- 
 tary of said commission shall keep a correct record of all proceedings, votes 
 and actions of the commission, which said records shall be deposited in the 
 office of the secretary of state, at the time when said commission is not in 
 session. All votes upon any proposition submitted to the commission shall be 
 yea and nay, and recorded in the journal of the day's proceedings. No per- 
 son shall be appointed to serve on said commission who has been in the em- 
 ploy, directly or indirectly, as traveling salesman, or otherwise, for any pub- 
 lisher of school text-books. (7707.) 
 
 NOTE The state board of education is now the text-book commission. See 
 section 296. 
 
 Section 303. Commission to Select School Books and Supplies: The text 
 book commission shall be called together by the governor; and said commis- 
 sion is hereby empowered to select and adopt a uniform system or series of 
 school text-books, registers, records, maps, charts, globes, and other school 
 apparatus, for use in all the common schools of Oklahoma, and the series so 
 selected shall include all the studies taught in the common schools of the 
 state up to and including the twelfth grade: Provided, that none of said 
 text-books shall contain anything of a partisan or sectarian character. Each 
 bidder presenting books for adoption shall state at what price the books are 
 
offered, as basic books, and as supplementary books: Provided, further, that 
 the commission may adopt supplementary readers, but such readers shall not 
 be used to the exclusion of basic readers. The duly constituted authorities 
 in charge of any private school, or other educational institution, desiring to 
 use any of the books selected by said commission in such school, shall have 
 the privilege of buying said books at the same price and on the same terms 
 at which they are furnished to the common schools. (7708.) 
 
 Section 304. Bids and Proposals How Filed: The commission shall ad- 
 vertise for at least thirty days, in such manner as it may deem best, for sealed 
 bids on proposals from the publishers of the text-books for furnishing books, 
 registers, records and apparatus to the common schools of this state, as herein- 
 before provided. The bids or proposals shall be for furnishing the books, 
 registers, records and apparatus for a period of five years. Each bid shall 
 state specifically and clearly the retail price at which each book, register, 
 record and apparatus will be furnished. Each bid or proposal shall be accom- 
 panied with specimen copies of each, and all books offered in said bid, which 
 specimen copies of books shall be sent, by express or mail to the governor, 
 and it shall be required that each bidder deposit with the treasurer of the 
 state of Oklahoma such sum of money as the commission shall require, not 
 less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars, 
 according to the value of the books, registers, records, and apparatus each 
 bidder may propose to supply. Such deposit shall be forfeited to the state 
 if such bidder so depositing shall fail to make and execute the contract and 
 bond provided herein within such time as the commission may require, which 
 time shall be specified in the notice advertised. Each bid shall be accom- 
 panied with a sworn statement, showing the ownership of such publishing 
 house, with the interest, names and addresses of said owners, and specially 
 stating whether or not the said publishers or the owners of any interest 
 or share of any such publishing house is the owner of any interest or share 
 of any other publishing house, and if so, giving the name and address thereof 
 and further stating that no member of the commission is in any manner 
 interested, directly or indirectly, in such firm or corporation submitting such 
 bid. If the fact shall be disclosed that any member of the commission is 
 so interested, it shall work a disqualification of such member of the com- 
 mission, and he shall not be permitted to serve on such commission; or if it 
 should further appear or be disclosed that a member of the commission is 
 interested in any book or series of books as the author or associate author, 
 or that any member of the commission is interested in any such book or 
 series of books in any manner, such fact shall likewise work a disqualification 
 of such member, and he shall not be permitted to serve on the commission. 
 Each member of the commission, after a called session of the commission 
 at which any books are adopted, shall make out and . file with the secre- 
 tary of state an affidavit that he is not, and has not been, directly or in- 
 directly, interested in or related to any publishing house, person, firm or cor- 
 poration submitting any book, register, record, manuscript, or school appara- 
 tus for adoption, or in any book, register, record, manuscript, or school ap- 
 paratus offered for adoption, and is not related to any person or agents 
 representing such house, person, or firm or corporation, and that he will not 
 accept any position as agent or representative of any person, firm or corpora- 
 tion to whom any contract may be awarded by said commission during 
 the term and duration of said contract, and that he is not related to any 
 person, or agents, representing such house, firm or corporation. Any contract 
 entered into under the provisions of this article with any publishers who may 
 hereafter become a party to any combination or trust for the purpose of rais- 
 ing the price of school text-books, registers, records or school apparatus used 
 in this state, shall at the option of the commission become null and void 
 (7709.) 
 
 Section 305. Same Return of Deposits: All bids shall be sealed and de- 
 posited with the chairman of the commission, to be by him delivered to the 
 commission in executive session for the purpose of considering the same. 
 When any person, firm or corporation has been awarded a contract and the 
 contract and bond required has been filed with the commission, it shall make 
 an order on the treasurer of the state, reciting such fact, and thereupon the 
 treasurer shall return the deposit of such bidder: but in any successful bidder 
 shall fail to make the contract and bond as heretofore provided, the treasurer 
 
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shall place the deposit of such bidder in the state treasury to the credit of 
 the available school fund, and the commission shall re-advertise for other 
 bids to supply such books or school apparatus, which said bidders may have 
 failed to supply. All unsuccessful bidders shall have their deposits returned 
 to them as soon as the commission has decided not to accept their bids. (7710.) 
 
 Section 306. Books to Be Printed in English Exchange: All books 
 adopted by the commission shall be printed in English, except such text-books 
 as may be adopted for the teaching of any foreign language. The commission 
 shall stipulate in the contract that where a change shall have been made from 
 the books now in use in this state, the contractor or contractors shall take in 
 exchange the respective books and receive the same in exchange for new books 
 at a price not less than fifty per cent of the contract price. Such exchange 
 period shall not continue longer than one year from the date of contract. 
 (7711.) 
 
 Section 307. Contract and Bond: The bidder to whom any contract may 
 have been awarded shall make and execute a good and sufficient bond pay- 
 able to the state of Oklahoma in the sum of not less than ten thousand dol- 
 lars, to be approved by the governor, such bond to be conditioned that the 
 contractor shall faithfully perform all conditions of the contract. The con- 
 tract and bond shall be prepared by the attorney general and shall be made 
 to conform with all the requirements of this article, and shall be payable in 
 the county where the seat of government of this state is located, and shall be 
 deposited in the office of the secretary of state. The bond shall not be ex- 
 hausted by a single recovery thereon, but may be sued upon from time to 
 time until the full amount thereof is recovered, and the commission may, 
 after twenty days' notice, require a new bond be given, and in the event 
 the contractor or contractors shall fail to furnish such new bond, the contract 
 of the contractor or contractors may, at the option of the commission, be for- 
 feited. (7712.) 
 
 Section 308. Meeting and Consideration of Proposals: It shall be the duty 
 of the commission to meet at the time and the place mentioned in the notice 
 and advertisement, and it shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be 
 necessary to the transaction of its business, not contrary to the provisions of 
 this article, and shall then and there open and examine the sealed proposals 
 received, and it shall be the duty of the commission to make a full and com- 
 plete investigation of all books, registers, records and school apparatus and bids 
 accompanying the same. Each person, company, or corporation submitting 
 bids or proposals shall be permitted to file a written statement as to the 
 merits of any book or books, register, record or school apparatus offered by 
 such bidder, or they may be permitted to appear in person, or by a duly 
 authorized agent, before said commission; and the party so appearing or repre- 
 senting the claims of any bidder shall deposit with the commission his proper 
 credentials or authority to represent such bidder. Every person who appears 
 before the commission in advocacy of the adoption or rejection of any book, 
 register, record, manuscript or any school apparatus shall file an affidavit showing 
 fully in what capacity he appears and whether he is representing, as agent 
 or otherwise, any bidder or whether he has received or has a contract to re- 
 ceive pay for his services in appearing before said commission: Provided, 
 that no state official of this state shall be allowed to appear as the agent 
 or representative of any text-book company, firm or corporation. (7713.) 
 
 Section 309. Quality of Books Contracts: The literary merits and his- 
 torical accuracy of all books shall be the main point to be considered in their 
 adoption, and the books shall be selected after a careful examination and con- 
 sideration of all books presented; and books selected shall be those which, 
 in the opinion of the commission, are most acceptable for use in the various 
 schools of the state, quality, mechanical construction, paper, print, price, 
 authorship, and any other relevant matter being given such weight in making 
 its decision as the commission may deem advisable: Provided, that books 
 by Oklahoma authors shall have preference, merit and price being equal. The 
 commission shall proceed without delay to adopt, for use in the common schools 
 of this state, text-books in the schools hereinbefore mentioned, and shall notify 
 publishers to whom contracts are awarded. Each contract shall be duly 
 signed by the publishing house or its authorized officers or agents, and if 
 
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it is found to be in accordance with the award and all of the provisions 
 of this article, and if the bond herein required is presented and duly ap- 
 proved, the commission shall approve said contract and order it to be signed 
 on behalf of the state by the governor. All contracts shall be made in dupli- 
 cate and one copy shall remain in the custody of the secretary of state and 
 be copied in full in the minutes of the meeting of the commissioners in a well 
 bound book, and the other copy shall be delivered to the publisher or his 
 agent. All the books, registers, and records furnished under such contract 
 shall be equal in all respects to the specimen or sample copies furnished with 
 the bids; and it shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public in- 
 struction to preserve in his office, as the standard of quality and excellence to 
 be maintained in such books, registers and records, during the continuance of 
 such contract, the specimen or sample copies of all books, registers, and 
 records which have been the basic of any contract, together with the original 
 bid and proposal. The contract and exchange price of each book shall be 
 plainly printed on the back of each book, together with the following notice: 
 "The price marked hereon is fixed by the state, and any deviation therefrom 
 should be reported to the state superintendent of public instruction." (7714.) 
 
 Section 310. Prices How Regulated: The commission shall not, in any 
 case, contract with any publisher of any book or books, registers and records, 
 or any person, firm or corporation submitting bids for furnishing charts, maps, 
 globes or other school apparatus to be used in the common schools in this 
 state, at a price in excess of the lowest price at which such publisher or bidders 
 furnishes and distributes the same book or books, registers, records or school 
 apparatus under contract with any other state, county or school district in 
 the United States, under like conditions of distribution. (7715.) 
 
 Section 311. Same Affidavit and Agreement of Publishers: The pub- 
 lishers or bidders shall file with each proposal a sworn statement of the lowest 
 price at which each book, chart, map, globe or other apparatus offered is sold 
 anywhere in the United States, under like conditions of distribution. Said 
 publishers or bidders must further agree to reduce the price of any book or 
 apparatus adopted by the commission, if reductions are made below such con- 
 tract price anywhere in the United States, so that at no time may any book 
 or apparatus be sold in Oklahoma at a higher price than is received for the 
 same book, register, record or apparatus elsewhere in the United States, where 
 like conditions of distribution prevail. (7716.) 
 
 Section 312. Attempt to Change Books a Misdemeanor When: Any 
 publisher, person, firm or corporation submitting bids, or any agent of such 
 publisher, person, firm or corporation, who shall connive at or seek to pro- 
 cure a change of the, series of text-books, registers, records or any school 
 apparatus by the commission before the expiration of the period in which a 
 uniform system of text -books is established in this state, shall be guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five 
 dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each offense. (7717.) 
 
 Section 313. School Authorities Not to Purchase Unauthorized Supplies: 
 It shall be unlawful for any teacher, trustee or school board of any common 
 school in this state to purchase or contract for any chart, map, globe or 
 other school apparatus, unless the same shall have been submitted to the 
 text-book commission of this state at a regular or special session and by them 
 approved and the maximum price thereof fixed by said commission. (7718.) 
 
 Section 314. Same Penalty for Sale or Purchase: Any person who shall 
 sell to any teacher, trustee or school board of any common school of this 
 state, any chart, map, globe or other school apparatus, which has not been 
 approved by the text-book commission of this state, and any person who shall 
 request or endeavor to persuade any such teacher, trustee or school board or 
 any member thereof to purchase any chart, map, globe or other school appara- 
 tus, the sale of which is hereby prohibited, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor and liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hun- 
 dred dollars. (7719.) 
 
 Section 315. State May Terminate Contracts When: It shall be a part 
 of the terms and conditions of every contract made in pursuance of this article 
 that the state of Oklahoma shall not be liable to any contractor thereunder for 
 
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any sum whatever, but all such contracts shall receive compensation solely and 
 exclusively from the proceeds of the sales of school books as provided herein; 
 and it is hereby provided that the state shall have the right to terminate said 
 contract whenever the law is repealed or amended, altered or qualified as to 
 make necessary or expedient that such contract should be revoked, or as to 
 such book or books, registers and records as may be published by or at the 
 cost of the state: Provided, that the commission shall have the power by a 
 majority vote, to discontinue the use of unsatisfactory books, registers and 
 records at the end of any school year during the continuance of this con- 
 tract, and to make another adoption; and all contracts shall contain a stipula- 
 tion to that effect. The state may, at its election, cancel any contract entered 
 into by virtue of the provisions of this article for fraud or collusion upon 
 the part of either party to the contract or any member of the commis- 
 sion, or any person, firm, corporation or their agents making said bond or 
 contract; and for the cancellation of any such contract, the attorney-general 
 is hereby authorized to bring suit in any court of competent jurisdiction in 
 the state, and in case of the cancellation of any contract as provided herein, 
 the damages are fixed at not less than the amount of said bond to be recovered 
 as liquidated damages in the same suit canceling such said contract. And on 
 account of the difficulty in determining the damage that might accrue by 
 reason of such fraud and cancellation of such contract, the full amount of 
 the bond given by any contractor shall be considered as liquidated damages to 
 be recovered out of said bond by the state at the suit of the attorney general, 
 and every contract shall contain a clause to this effect. (7720.) 
 
 Section 316. All Bids May Be Rejected: The text-book commission shall 
 have and reserve the right to reject any and all bids or proposals, if said 
 commission be of the opinion that any or all bids should, for any reason be re- 
 jected; and in case they fail, from among the bids or proposals submitted, 
 to select any books, registers, records or apparatus upon any of the branches 
 of study provided for herein, they may advertise for sealed bids or proposals 
 under the same terms and conditions as before, and proceed in their investi- 
 gation in all respects as they did in the first instance and as required by the 
 terms and provisions of this article. (7721.) 
 
 Section 317. Supplies to Be Placed on Sale Where: The party or parties 
 with whom the contract shall be made shall place their books, registers, rec- 
 ords and school apparatus on sale at as many places in each county of the 
 state as the commission may direct for the distribution of the books to the 
 patrons, and the contractor shall be permitted to make arrangements with mer- 
 chants or other persons for the handling and distribution of the books, All 
 books shall be sold to the consumer at the retail price fixed by the commission. 
 Upon the failure of any contractor, under the provisions of this article, to fur- 
 nish the books, registers, records or apparatus as provided in this contract, 
 the county superintendent of public instruction of such county shall imme- 
 diately report the fact to the attorney-general, and he shall bring suit on ac- 
 count of such failure, in the name of the state of Oklahoma, in any court of 
 competent jurisdiction in the state, and shall recover on the bond given by 
 such contractor for the full value of the books, registers, records and apparatus 
 not furnished as required, and in addition thereto the sum of one hundred 
 dollars, and the amounts so recovered shall be placed to the credit of the 
 available school fund of the state. (7722.) 
 
 Section 318. Making of. Contract to Be Published: As soon as the state 
 shall have entered into the contract for furnishing of the books and appara- 
 tus for use in the common schools of this state, under the provisions ot 
 this article, it shall be the duty of the governor to issue his proclamation of 
 such fact to the people of the state, and immediately thereafter the state 
 superintendent of public instruction shall address a circular letter to the 
 county superintendents, trustees and school boards of the various schools of 
 the state, which circular letter shall contain a list of the books, registers, 
 records and apparatus adopted, and with their respective prices, together with 
 such other information as he may deem advisable. (7723.) 
 
 Section 319. Penalty for Charging Illegal Prices: If any local agent, 
 dealer, clerk or other person handling or selling the books, registers, records, 
 maps, charts, globes or other apparatus adopted under this article, shall de- 
 
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inand or receive for a copy of any of the books, registers, records, or for any 
 chart, map, globe, or other apparatus adopted under this article, more than the 
 contract price, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall 
 for each offense, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more 
 than five hundred dollars. (7724.) 
 
 Section 320. Supplies Required to Be Reported: The trustees and school 
 boards of the various schools of the state using books, registers, records and 
 apparatus adopted by the commission shall hold annual meetings and make 
 an estimate of the number school text-books, registers, records and apparatus 
 reeded in said school for the term next commencing therein, and a report 
 thereof shall be made to the county superintendent of public instruction in 
 said county immediately, and not later than the first day of August next 
 thereafter; and the county superintendent shall, as soon as possible, and not 
 later than the tenth day of August of each year, and oftener, if the necessity 
 of a school requires it, make out his requisition from the report so received, 
 and from any other source, and send it to the state superintendent, when such 
 books are printed by the state or the school book publisher or publishers 
 having contracts under the provisions of this article, stating therein the 
 number of books, registers, records and apparatus of each kind needed for the 
 schools of his county. (7725.) 
 
 Section 321. Commission's Selection to Be Used Exclusively: The books 
 and apparatus adopted by the commission under the provisions of this article, 
 shall be introduced and used as text-books, registers, records and apparatus 
 to the exclusion of all others in the common schools of this state as herein- 
 before provided, but nothing herein shall be construed to prevent or prohibit 
 the patrons of the common schools in the state from procuring books, registers, 
 records and apparatus in the usual way in the event that the state does not 
 publish such books, registers, records, or manufacture such apparatus, in the 
 event that no contracts are made, or in the event that the contractor or con- 
 tractors fail or refuse to furnish the books, registers, records or apparatus pro- 
 vided for in this article, at the time that said books or apparatus are required 
 for use in the schools. (7726.) 
 
 Section 322. Same Failure a Misdemeanor: Any school trustee who shall 
 prevent or aid in preventing the use in any common school in this state of 
 the books, registers, records and apparatus, or any of them, as adopted under 
 the provisions of this article, or any teacher in this state who shall will- 
 fully fail or refuse to use the books, registers, records and apparatus adopted 
 under the provisions of this article, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction shall be fined any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars for each offense, and each day of such willful failure or re- 
 fusal of said teachers or willful prevention of the use of the books, registers, 
 records or apparatus by said school trustee, shall constitute a separate offense. 
 (7727.) 
 
 Section 323. Rules Perpetuation of Commission: The commission may, 
 from time to time, make any necessary regulations, not contrary to the provi- 
 sions of this article, to secure the prompt distribution of the books, registers, 
 records and apparatus herein provided for, and for the prompt and faithful 
 execution of all contracts; and it is now expressly provided that said com- 
 mission shall maintain its organization during the continuance of the con- 
 tracts entered into during the year nineteen hundred and eight and that 
 after the expiration of same, the commission shall be reorganized for a period 
 of five years as in the first instance, and enter into such other contracts in 
 pursuance of this article as it may deem for the best interests of the patrons 
 of the common schools of the state: Provided, that said commission shall be 
 discontinued at any time when the efficiency for the publication of such books, 
 registers and records provided for by the state, makes the continuance of said 
 commission unnecessary. (7728.) 
 
 Section 324. Commission May Publish Books When: If, when the pro- 
 posals to furnish text-books are submitted to the text-book Commission, it 
 shall appear that the publishers have combined upon prices and that the 
 proposals are unreasonable, said commission is hereby empowered, with the ap- 
 proval of the state board of education, to do any and all acts that may be 
 
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necessary for the purpose of procuring a meritorious uniform system of 
 text-books, registers and records for use in the common schools of Oklahoma. 
 It may, with the approval of the state board of education, offer prizes for 
 manuscripts of books or employ suitable persons to prepare or compile the 
 same, and contract with printing concerns for publication, purchase or hire 
 plates, maps and engravings of copyright matter; contract for or lease copy- 
 rights for the purpose of being used in compiling and printing such books, 
 and provide for the payment of royalties or for the leasing of plates for 
 printing of the whole or any part of said books: Provided, that the entire 
 cost of any book so furnished shall not exceed the price of any standard 
 book of like character which was proposed to be furnished by publishers. 
 (7729.) 
 
 Section 325. Compensation and Allowances: An itemized statement of all 
 necessary expenses of the commission, together with a sworn itemized state- 
 ment of the necessary expenses of the individual members of the commission 
 shall be filed with the secretary of state, and the members thereof shall be al- 
 lowed to receive as their only compensation for their services, the sum of six 
 dollars per day while on duty, and their actual traveling expenses going to and 
 returning from the place of meeting, to be paid by the state treasurer, un- 
 der the direction and approval of the governor: Provided, that no per diem 
 shall be allowed to any member of the commission who shall at the time of 
 service thereof, be receiving a stated salary from the state: Provided further, 
 that the members of said commission shall not draw pay for more than ten 
 days for any year. (7730.) 
 
 Section 326. Bribery: It shall be unlawful for any member of the text- 
 book commission to accept as a gift, at a reduced price, any books, registers, 
 records or school apparatus or anything of value from any person, firm or 
 corporation interested, directly or indirectly, in any bid filed with" said com- 
 mission or in the adoption of any book, register, record or apparatus by said 
 commission, and any person violating this section shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and 
 by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days. (7731.) 
 
 Section 327. Common Schools Defined: The words "common schools " 
 shall be construed to mean all the schools of this state receiving aid from the 
 state out of the common school fund. (7732.) 
 
 Section 328. Contractor to Designate State Agent: Any nonresident per- 
 son or firm or foreign corporation with whom a contract has been entered into 
 under the provisions of this article, shall designate the secretary of state of 
 Oklahoma as its or their agent on whom citation and other writs and process 
 may be served, in the event that any suit shall be brought against such per- 
 son, firm or corporation. (7733.) 
 
 Section 329. Combination a Misdemeanor: If any person whatsoever shall 
 create, enter into or become a member of any pool, trust, agreement, confed- 
 eration, combination or understanding, permanent or temporary, with any other 
 person whatsoever, to regulate or fix the price of or prevent or restrict com- 
 petition in the sale or offering for sale, or in any of the branches of the busi- 
 ness of selling and furnishing any school books, desks, seats, charts, school 
 furniture, fixtures, apparatus or supplies, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than 
 three hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars. (7734.) 
 
 Section 330. Statement to Be Filed. Every person, firm, association, part- 
 nership or corporation selling, or offering for sale, or soliciting trade and busi- 
 ness for any supplies, school books, furniture, fixtures or apparatus, shall, be- 
 fore soliciting such trade or business, selling or offering for sale, delivering 
 or offering to deliver any of the articles herein mentioned, cause to be filed 
 in the office of the superintendent of public instruction of the state of Okla- 
 homa, and in the office of the clerk of the district court of each county wherein 
 it proposes to do business, the affidavit of two of its principal officers and an 
 affidavit of its business manager or bookkeeper, fully stating its nature and 
 character as such firm, partnership, association or corporation, and affirmatively 
 showing therein by statements of facts that its existence and business relation 
 violates in no way any of the provisions of this article. (7735.) 
 
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Section 331. Same Required of Agents: Every person engaged in, the 
 sale of articles mentioned in this article and every agent or solicitor engaged 
 in such business, either upon his own account or any representative capacity, 
 shall file an affidavit in his own proper person with the same officers and 
 stating the same facts as required in the preceding section. (7736.) 
 
 Section 332. Contents of Affidavits Renewal: The affidavits required 
 by this article shall contain a full description of the person, firm, corporation, 
 partnership or association engaged in such business, including the names of 
 the officers, stockholders, business address, and city, county and state where 
 located, and what names, titles and aliases, if any, such person, corporation, 
 firm, association, partnership or individual has transacted business under within 
 the two years next preceding the filing of such affidavit; and said affidavits 
 shall be renewed form time to time on or before the first day of January of 
 each odd numbered year. (7737.) 
 
 Section 333. Penalty for Violation: Soliciting trade or business, selling, 
 offering for sale, or delivering any of the articles mentioned in this article, 
 directly or indirectly, to any person, firm, corporation, association, individual, 
 school board, school district, board of education, or other person or agency, 
 without first having complied with the requirements of this article, shall be 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, any person so offending shall 
 be adjudged to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more 
 than five hundred dollars. (7738.) 
 
 Section 334. Contract Unlawful Before Filing of Affidavit: It shall be 
 unlawful for any school clerk, director, treasurer, trustee, member of any board 
 or education or other officer of whatsoever nature or character, to make any 
 contract or agreement with any person, firm, individual, partnership, corpo- 
 ration or association until the affidavits required by this article have been 
 duly filed. (7739.) 
 
 Section 335. Issue of Warrant Unlawful When: It shall be unlawful 
 for any school clerk director, treasurer, trustee, member of any board of edu- 
 cation or other officer to make any contract with any person, firm, partner- 
 ship, corporation, or association of persons, or to issue any warrant, order or 
 evidence of indebtedness, directly or indirectly, to the benefit of such person, 
 firm, partnership, corporation or association transacting business in violation, 
 in whole or in any part, of any of the provisions of this article. (7740.) 
 
 Section 336. Penalty for Violation by Officer: Every school clerk, di- 
 rector, treasurer, trustee, member of any board of education, or other officer vio- 
 lating any of the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not 
 less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. (7741.) 
 
 Section 337. County Attorney to Prosecute: It shall be the duty of the 
 county attorney of the proper county to prosecute on behalf and in the name 
 of the state of Oklahoma all criminal cases arising under this article. (7742.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXIII. 
 
 School District Levies. 
 (Revised Laws of Oklahoma 1910.) 
 
 Matter Applying to Other Than School Districts Eliminated. 
 
 Section 338. Limit of School District Levies: Except as otherwise pro- 
 vided in this article, the total levy for current expenses of each school district 
 shall not exceed in any one year the following: 
 
 School district levy, for the support of common schools, not more than 
 five mills. (7376.)) 
 
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Section 339. Annual Estimate of School District Expenses: The directors 
 of each school district shall meet on the second Tuesday in July in each year, 
 and shall respectively make out an itemized statement of the fiscal condition 
 of their respective school districts and of the estimated needs thereof for 
 the current expenses of the ensuing fiscal year. Said estimate shall show: 
 first, any unexpended balance on hand of the levy for any previous year or 
 years for current expense purposes; second, the estimated income of the school 
 district from all sources other than from ad valorem taxation and such esti- 
 mated income for school district purposes shall include the apportionment of the 
 income from the common school fund, based on the distribution for the next 
 preceding fiscal year; third, an itemized estimate of the amount necessary 
 for the current expenses of each such school district for the ensuing fiscal 
 year; fourth, the amount necessary for a sinking fund, sufficient to pay at 
 maturity all bonded indebtedness of such school district; fifth, the amount 
 necessary to pay the interest coupons falling due on its outstanding bonded 
 indebtedness. Each estimate for school district purposes, as prepared in ac- 
 cordance with the provisions of this section, shall be published in some news- 
 paper published in each such school district in four consecutive issues, if in a 
 daily paper, and two consecutive issues if published in a weekly paper, and 
 if there be no such paper published in such school district, then a copy of 
 such estimate shall be posted in at least five public places therein, which post- 
 ing shall be within five days after said second Tuesday in July. Said publica- 
 tion shall be made in each instance by the board making the estimate. Said 
 estimate so made out and published as aforesaid, shall as soon as completed, be 
 certified to the excise board of the county hereinafter provided for, together 
 with an affidavit showing the publication or posting thereof as required by this 
 secton. (7378 as amended by Sec, 38, page 12.) 
 
 NOTE Money received from back taxes can be used only to pay back 
 warrants. Tf there be no back warrants, then the money must be applied on the 
 estimate for the next fiscal year. (10-3-14.) Warrants are valid if issued within 
 the amount of the approved estimate regardless of the amount of funds collected. 
 
 (1-30-14.) 
 
 Section 340. County Excise Board Created: There is hereby created in 
 each organized county in this state an excise board to be composed of the 
 following county officers, to-wit: county clerk, county treasurer, county judge, 
 county superintendent and county attorney, who shall perform the duties 
 as herein provided without additional compensation. The county judge shall 
 be chairman of the board and the county clerk secretary. (7379.) 
 
 Section 341. Duties of Board Tax Levies: The excise board shall meet 
 at the county seat on the last Saturday of July of each year for the purpose 
 of examining the estimates of expenses for each school district therein. Their 
 meeting shall -be public and they shall keep a record of their proceedings. 
 They shall have power to revise and correct any estimate certified to them 
 where the amount thereof is in excess of the just and reasonable needs of 
 the school district for which the same is made. When they shall have ap- 
 proved each estimate, if the same shall be within the limits for current ex- 
 penses, provided by the first section of this article, and shall have ascertained 
 the assessed valuation of property taxed ad valorem in the county and in 
 each school district subdivision thereof, and shall have ascertained the proba- 
 ble income of each school district subdivision thereof from all sources other 
 than ad valorem taxation, they shall thereupon make the levy therefor, adding 
 thereto the amount ascertained to be necessary for a sinking fund, which, 
 with the money already in such fund, shall be sufficient to pay, at maturity, 
 all bonded indebtedness of such school district, and for the interest coupons 
 falling due on the outstanding bonds of such school district; to the total 
 amount so ascertained to the necessary for current expenses, sinking fund 
 and interest coupons shall be added ten per cent for delinquent taxes. The 
 levies so made by them shall be certified to the county clerk, who shall ex- 
 tend the same upon the tax roll. (7380.) 
 
 Section 342. Election Necessary for Increased Levy: If any estimate cer- 
 tified to the excise board for the~current expenses of any school district shall 
 exceed the limits prescribed by the first section of this article, and the ex- 
 cise board shall be of the opinion that such excess is reasonably necessary for 
 the current expenses of the school district for which the same is prepared, 
 they shall enter such fact upon the record of their proceedings and shall 
 
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give notice by publication in one issue of some newspaper printed in the 
 county that a special election will be held in the school district, on the second 
 Tuesday after the first Monday in August next thereafter, for the purpose 
 of submitting to the qualified electors of such school district, the question 
 of making such increased levy. Such election shall be held under the gen- 
 eral election laws of the state and in each election held under the provisions 
 of this article, the amount of each proposed levy shall be printed upon the 
 ballot, with the words, "for the levy" and "against the levy", to the left 
 of which shall be printed a square in which the elector shall stamp to indicate 
 his choice: Provided, that in school districts not in cities the election shall 
 be conducted as provided by law for such elections in school districts. (7381.) 
 
 Section 343. May Vote Excess Levy: Provided, further, that the school 
 electors of any school district shall vote at the annual meeting (or election) 
 as to whether an excess levy shall be levied for the next ensuing year, and 
 the amount of such excess levy. If said excess levy shall receive a majority 
 vote of those voting at said annual meeting (or election) then it shall be 
 the duty of the school district board, when making the estimate for the next 
 ensuing fiscal year, to attach to said estimate a certificate of the vote had 
 at the annual meeting (or election) on the question of making such excess levy 
 for the next ensuing fiscal year, and if said excess levy carried, then the county 
 excise board, if an excess levy is required for the ensuing fiscal year to create 
 a fund equal to the amount of the approved estimate, shall levy said additional 
 levy not to exceed the amount voted by the people at the annual meeting (or 
 election) or so much of the amount of the estimate approved by the county 
 excise board. (Sec. 1, H. B. 501, chap. 199, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 344. Excess Levy Authorized When: At the election where it 
 is proposed to vote an additional levy above the five mills herein authorized for 
 school purposes, the election shall be held to be legal (if held) on the date 
 given in the official notice and the additional levy above the (five) mills shall 
 be authorized if a majority of those voting at the said election vote in favor 
 of said additional levy. (Sec. 2, H. B. 501, chap. 199, L. 1915.) 
 
 NOTE. Question of voting excess levy cannot be re-submitted after one 
 Blection has been held. (8-15-14.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXIV. 
 
 Warrants Issuance and Payment of 
 
 (Chapter 80, Session Laws 1910-11.) 
 
 Section 345. Public Funds Manner of Disbursement: All public funds 
 of any county or of any subdivision thereof shall be disbursed only in the 
 payment of legal warrants, bonds and interest coupons. (Sec 1, chap 80, Laws. 
 1911.) 
 
 Section 346. Warrants Duties of Officers: It is hereby made the duty 
 of every officer authorized to allow, issue, draw or attest any warrant or cer- 
 tificate of indebtedness against the public funds of any board of education 
 or school district to issue, draw and record all warrants, bonds and interest 
 coupons, in the numerical order issued on each fund, beginning with number 
 one and issuing the same consecutively during the fiscal year. At the be- 
 ginning of each fiscal year a new series shall be commenced, and said series 
 shall be designated by writing the fiscal year on the warrant or certificate of 
 indebtedness for which the levy to pay the same has been made. (Sec. 2, 
 chap. 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 NOTE Reference to officers other than school districts eliminated. 
 
 Section 347. "Estimate Made and Approved" Defined: The term "esti- 
 mate made and approved" as used herein, is defined to mean the itemized 
 statement of tte estimated needs of a municipality for its current expenses 
 for the ensuing fiscal year, as approved and fixed by the excise board or 
 by vote of the municipality, adding thereto the amount necessary to create 
 a sinking fund to meet maturing bonds, judgments and interest coupons, but 
 the amount or limit to which warrants and certificates of indebtedness may 
 be issued shall not include the ten per cent to be added to the estimate 
 for delinquent taxes. (Sec. 3, chap 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
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Section 348. Drawn Against Specific Fund Face of Warrant Delivery to 
 Treasurer: Each and every . warrant or certificate of indebtedness must be 
 drawn against a specific fund, and there shall be shown on such warrant, 
 or certificate of indebtedness, by the officer or person issuing, drawing or at- 
 testing the same, the amount of the estimate made and approved for such 
 purpose for the fiscal year or the specific amount authorized by a bond issue 
 for said purpose; the amount of warrants or certificates of indebtedness issued 
 or drawn against said fund and the net balance to the credit of said fund. As 
 soon as said warrant, certificate or indebtedness, or bond is issued, the same 
 shall be at once signed and attested and forthwith delivered by the officer 
 attesting the same, to the treasurer of the county or subdivision thereof, 
 issuing the same for registration. (Sec. 4, chap 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 NOTE. When warrants have been issued they must be sent immediately to 
 ^he county treasurer for registration. 
 
 Section 349. Treasurer's Duty Registration Effect Notice of "Funds 
 on Hand": It is hereby made the duty of the treasurer of the county or the 
 treasurer of any subdivision thereof, to whom a warrant, certificate of in- 
 debtedness or bond is directed for payment, to register the same in a book 
 to be kept for that purpose by entering therein the number, the date, the 
 name of the payee, the fund from which it is drawn and the amount, and by 
 writing on the warrant or evidence of indebtedness, the date of registration, 
 his name and official title. All warrants, certificates of indebtedness or bonds, 
 shall be registered in the same numerical order in which they have been 
 issued, and when so registered shall be returned to the officer attesting the 
 same. No warrant, certificate of indebtedness or bond shall be a valid charge 
 until registered by the treasurer of the municipality issuing the same. War- 
 rants and all evidences of indebtedness shall bear interest at the legal rate 
 from and after its registration by the treasurer, unless there is cash on hand 
 to pay the same when presented for registration and then the treasurer shall 
 make the same "payable" after registering the same and no interest shall be 
 computed or allowed thereon when paid.- When the treasurer has money 
 on hand to pay warrants duly registered, he shall publish notice thereof in 
 one issue of a newspaper, or by posting five notices in public places, and in- 
 terest shall cease on said warrants after thirty days from the date of said 
 publication or posting of said notices. (Sec. 5, chap. 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 NOTE It is made the duty of the treasurer to return the registered war- 
 rant to the clerk of the school district. 
 
 Section 350. Amount to Be Issued: Warrants and certificates of indebt- 
 edness may be issued to the amount of the estimate made and approved by the 
 excise board for the current fiscal year or to the amount authorized for such 
 purpose by a bond issue. (Sec. 6, chap 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 Section 351. Limit of Authority to Issue Liability of Officers: It shall 
 be unlawful for any officer to issue, approve, sign, attest, or register any war- 
 rant or certificate of indebtedness in any form in excess of the estimate of 
 expenses made and approved for the current fiscal year or authorized for such 
 a purpose by a bond issue, and any such warrant or certificate of indebted- 
 ness issued, approved, attested or registered in excess of the estimate made 
 and approved or authorized by a bond issue, shall not be a charge against 
 the municipality upon which it is issued, but may be collected by civil action 
 from any officer issuing, drawing, approving, signing, attesting, registering 
 or paying the same, or from either or all of them, or from their bondsmen. 
 (Sec. 7, chap. 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 Section 352. Registration or Payment of Excess Warrants Misdemeanor: 
 Any treasurer who shall register or pay a warrant, or certificate of indebted- 
 ness, issued in excess of the estimate made and approved by the excise board 
 for the current fiscal year, or in excess of a bond issue for such purpose, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Sec. 8, chap 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 Section 353. Allowing Bills in Excess Liability of Officers: It shall be 
 unlawful for the board of education or the school district board, or any mem- 
 ber or members of the above-named boards, to make any contract for, incur, 
 acknowledge, approve, allow or authorize any indebtedness against their re- 
 spective municipality or authorize it to be done by others, in excess of the 
 estimate made and approved by the excise board for such purposes for such 
 
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current fiscal year, or in excess of the specific amount authorized for such pur- 
 pose by a bond issue. Any such indebtedness, contracts incurred, acknowledged, 
 approved, allowed or authorized in excess of the estimate made and approved 
 for such purposes for such current fiscal year or in excess of the specific amount 
 authorized for such purpose by a bond issue, shall not be a charge against the 
 municipality whose officer or officers contracted, incurred, acknowledged, ap- 
 proved, allowed or authorized or attested the evidence of said indebtedness, but 
 may be collected by civil action from any official contracting, incurring, ac- 
 knowledging, approving or authorizing or attesting such indebtedness, or from 
 his bondsmen. (Sec. 9, chap. 80, Laws 1911.) 
 
 NOTE Reference to officers other than school boards eliminated. 
 
 Section 354. Violations Punishment: Any officer contracting, incurring, 
 acknowledging, authorizing, allowing or approving any indebtedness, or any 
 officer issuing, drawing, or attesting any warrant or certificate of indebtedness 
 in excess of the estimate made and approved by the excise board for such 
 purpose for such current fiscal year or in excess of the specific amount author- 
 ized for such purpose by a bond issue, or who violates any other provision of 
 this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall 
 be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, 
 and shall forfeit and be removed from his office. (Sec. 10, chap. 80, Laws 
 1911.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXV. 
 Fire Escapes. 
 
 Section 355. What Buildings to Have Metallic Fire Escapes: Every build- 
 ing used in whole or in part, as a school house, three or more stories in height, 
 shall be provided with one or more metallic ladders or stair fire escapes, at- 
 tached to the outer walls thereof, and extended from, or suitably near the 
 ground, to the uppermost story thereof, with platforms of such form and 
 dimensions and in such proximity to one or more windows of each story above 
 the first as to render access to such ladders or stairs from each story easy 
 and safe; the number, location, material and construction of such escapes to 
 be subject to the approval of the fire marshal, chief of the fire department, 
 city or town marshal, or such other authority as may have the control of 
 fire regulations in any city or town where such buildings are located: Pro- 
 vided, however, that all buildings more than two stories in height, used for 
 dormitories, schools or seminaries, shall have at least one fire escape for every 
 thirty persons for which sleeping or living accommodations are provided above 
 the second story of said buildings. (6850.) 
 
 NOTE. Matter referring to buildings other than school houses eliminated. 
 
 Section 356. Notices to Be Posted: It shall be the duty of every super- 
 intendent or other person or persons having the charge and control of such 
 public buildings as are mentioned and described in the first section hereof 
 to post notices in every room and hall, and in a public and conspicuous place 
 in such buildings, calling attention to the fact that this article has been com- 
 plied with, and designated the places on each and every floor of such building 
 where such metallic ladders or stair fire escapes are located and may be 
 found. The metallic ladders, or stair fire escapes provided for in this article, 
 shall be furnished, constructed and maintained at the expense of the owner 
 or owners of the buildings. (6852.) 
 
 Section 357. Penalty: Any violation of any of the provisions of this 
 article shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any person convicted thereof 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than five 
 hundred dollars. (6853.) 
 
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ARTICLE XXVI. 
 School for the Blind, 
 
 Section 358. Creation and Location of School: There is hereby created 
 and established a school for the blind at or near the city of Muskogee, Okla- 
 homa, to be known as the " Oklahoma School for the Blind. " (Sec. 1, S. B. 
 62, chap. 37, Laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 359. Purpose of School: The purpose of such school shall be to 
 provide academic, musical and industrial education suitable for persons de- 
 prived of sight. (Sec. 2, S. B. 62, chap. 37, Laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 360. Government and Control: The said Oklahoma School for 
 the Blind shall be under the direction and control of the state board of educa- 
 tion. (Sec. 3, S. B. 62, chap. 37, Laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 361. Who Are Entitled to Admission: All persons residing in the 
 state of Oklah6ma, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, whose 
 vision is so defective as to prevent them attending the public schools, and 
 who are of such physical, mental and moral character as to enable them to 
 pursue any one or all of the courses of study taught in this school, are 
 eligible: Provided, persons may be continued in said school after passing the 
 age of twenty-one, or persons under six and over twenty-one may be ad- 
 mitted as pupils in. said school at the discretion of the superintendent and 
 faculty. (Sec. 4, S. B. 62, chap. 37, Laws 1913.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXVII. 
 
 School for the Deaf. 
 
 Section 362. Creation and Location: A school for the education of the 
 deaf is hereby created in the state of Oklahoma, to be known as the "Okla- 
 homa School for the Deaf." The school is hereby located permanently in 
 the city of Sulphur, Oklahoma. (6986-6987.) 
 
 Section 363. Who Entitled to Admission: All deaf residents of this state, 
 and those deaf and dumb to such an extent that they cannot acquire an edu- 
 cation in the common schools of the state, of suitable age and capacity, and 
 of good moral character, shall be entitled to an education in the school for 
 the deaf, without charge. (6988.) 
 
 Section 364. Compulsory Attendance: Every parent, company, guardian 
 corporation, association, person or persons, within the state of Oklahoma, hav- 
 ing control or charge of any deaf child or person, between the ages of seven 
 and twenty-one, shall be required to send such child or person to some suitable 
 school, where deaf children are taught and educated, for a period of at least 
 six months in each year: Provided, that this shall not apply to any such, 
 child or person where skilled private instruction is given for the same length 
 of time each year. (Sec. 3, chap. 167, Laws 1913.) 
 
 Section 365. Purpose of the School: The purpose of said school will be 
 the physical and moral and intellectual culture and training of the deaf, 
 to the end that pupils may be returned to society capable of becoming self- 
 sustaining and useful citizens. (6989.) 
 
 NOTE Management and central of the school vested in the state board 
 of education. See section 296. 
 
 Section 366. Duties of Superintendent: The chief executive officer of the 
 Oklahoma School for the Deaf shall be a superintendent. He shall be an 
 experienced educator of the deaf. He shall give bond in the sum of five 
 thousand dollars, running to the state as- the custodian of the state's prop- 
 
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erty under his care, and for the faithful and efficient discharge of his duty. 
 He shall prescribe the requisite course of study for each of the departments, 
 embracing scientific, domestic, industrial and manual training, and shall re- 
 quire each student to pursue that course of study which will best fit him for 
 future self-support; he shall also prescribe all rules and regulations relating to 
 the officers, teachers, pupils and employees, subject to the approval of the 
 board. (6991.) 
 
 Section 367. Report of Superintendent: The superintendent shall make a 
 biennial report to the state board of education of the educational work and 
 condition of the school, with such recommendations as shall seem to him nec- 
 essary to secure the greatest service. (6995.) 
 
 Section 368. Maintenance of Pupils: On admission of a pupil to this 
 school, the parents or guardian shall furnish sufficient clothing for such pupils, 
 shall pay his or her transportation to and from the school, and the necessary 
 expenses in case of death, also all incidental expenses such as dental work, and 
 shall support the pupil during the summer vacation. If the parent or guard- 
 ians for any reason are unable to provide for such pupil, then the superin- 
 tendent, upon proof from the county judge of the county where the pupil 
 resides, shall supply such pupil with necessary clothing and means of trans- 
 portation, also incur such incidental expenses as are needed to maintain the 
 pupil in a normal physical condition. The superintendent shall in such case 
 send a certified account of such expenses to the board of county commissioners 
 of the county from which the pupil so supplied has come to the school, and 
 such county commissioners shall ma"ke provision to have such account paid 
 from the poor and insane fund of the county: Provided, that persons not 
 residents of the state may avail themselves of the benefits of the school 
 by complying with the conditions of admission for citizens of the state, and 
 paying the superintendent thereof a sum to be fixed by the state board of 
 education in advance. (6996.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXVIII. 
 
 Oklahoma State Home. 
 
 Section 369. Home Established Who Admitted: There is hereby estab- 
 lished near the town of Pryor Creek, in this state, to be maintained by the 
 state, an institution which shall be known as the "Oklahoma State Home," 
 and it shall be a home for white children of sound mind and body under 
 sixteen years of age who are dependent on the public for support: Provided, 
 that the board of control of said home shall have authority to admit, in their 
 discretion, any child dependent or neglected, regardless of its physical condi- 
 tion. (6997.) 
 
 Section 370. Board of Control: The general supervision and government 
 of said home shall be vested in a board of control, to consist of three members, 
 who shall be appointed by the governor; the members of which board shall 
 hold their offices respectively for two, three and four years from and after 
 the date of their appointment, and until their successors shall be appointed 
 and qualified; said respective terms of office to be designated in their respec- 
 tive appointments; and thereafter there shall be one member of said board 
 appointed by the governor every year for a term of four years, or until his 
 successor shall be appointed and qualified. Whenever a vacancy shall occur 
 in said board by death, resignation, removal from the state, or otherwise, 
 the governor shall fill the same by appointment for the remainder of the 
 unexpired term, and the appointee shall hold only for the unexpired term of 
 the person whose place he is appointed to fill. The members of said board of 
 control shall constitute a body corporate, under the name and seal of the 
 "Board of Control of Oklahoma State Home," with the right of suing and 
 being sued, and of making and using a common seal and of altering it at 
 pleasure. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 
 
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tion of any business lawful to be done by the said board. Said board of 
 control shall have the power of taking and holding by purchase, gift, donation, 
 devise or bequest, real or personal estate applied to the use of the home. Said 
 board before it enters upon the duties of its office shall each take and sub- 
 scribe the constitutional oath of office and file the same in the office of the 
 secretary of state. (6998.) 
 
 NOTE The state board of education is made the board of control. See 
 section 296. 
 
 Section 371. Officers of Board Superintendent and Employees: Said 
 board shall elect from its own number at its regular meeting in March, each 
 year, a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, who shall hold their 
 offices until fheir successors shall be elected and qualified. Such officers shall 
 hold their places during the pleasure of said board. It shall be the duty 
 of the secretary of said board to render quarterly to the state auditor, ac- 
 counts current of all cash transactions, and all moneys received, with the 
 proper vertified vouchers. All claims and vouchers for the purchase of sup- 
 plies, or other indebtedness of the home, shall be approved by the board and 
 signed by the president of the board of control. Said board shall establish 
 a system of government for said home, including all necessary regulations 
 for the management and good order thereof, including the support, mental, 
 moral and physical training of the children; for placing them in family homes, 
 and for their supervision in such homes while they remain the wards of said 
 board. The said board shall appoint as superintendent a competent person 
 having a practical knowledge of the best methods of providing for dependent 
 and neglected children, who shall hold his office during its pleasure; and he 
 shall appoint a matron or cottage managers, and such other officers and em- 
 ployees as the board shall prescribe, who shall severally hold their offices 
 during the pleasure of said superintendent and said board shall prescribe 
 their duties and fix their salaries. The board of control shall meet regularly 
 at the home, on the first Wednesday in each month, and at such other time 
 and places as it shall deem advisable, to transact all necessary business. 
 (6999.) 
 
 Section 372. What Children Admitted Guardianship: The said home 
 shall be a temporary home for dependent and neglected children, where they 
 shall be retained only until they can be placed in family homes: Provided, 
 that in the discretion of the board, the child may be retained in the home as 
 long as its best interests may require. There shall be received into said home 
 all children who have been declared to be dependent on the public for support, as 
 provided by law, and they shall be retained therein until they are eighteen 
 years of age, or they may be declared self-supporting and be released by 
 order of said board after sixteen years of age, unless they shall before 
 that age be sent out as herein provided. The said board shall be appointed 
 guardian, in the manner provided by law, of the person and estate of all 
 children admitted to said home, which guardianship shall continue during the 
 minority of such children, unless sooner discharged by the proper court. (7000.) 
 
 Section 373. Children to Be Placed in Private Homes on Contract: The 
 said board is authorized, and it shall be its duty, to use special diligence in 
 placing the children admitted to said home in suitable family homes, which 
 shall be approved as herein provided, on written contracts, to remain until they 
 reach their majority, or in the discretion of said board. Such contracts shall 
 provide for the education of the children in the public schools where they 
 reside at least six months in each year; for teaching them some useful occu- 
 pation; for kind and proper treatment as members of the families where 
 placed, and for the payment during each year of the contract, to said board, 
 for the use and benefit of said children, such sum of money as shall be 
 named in the contract: Provided, however, that in the discretion of said board, 
 in case of children not on indenture and over sixteen years of age, such con- 
 tract may provide only for wages to be paid to the child or to said board for 
 the benefit of the child, and for kind and proper treatment. Every contract 
 shall contain a clause reserving the right to said board to cancel or modify 
 the same whenever it may deem that the interests of the child require, and 
 also contain a clause authorizing the person taking the child to cancel the same 
 at any time, within sixty days from the date of contract, on returning the 
 
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child to the home free of expense to said home. All moneys earned by said 
 child or received from an indenture shall be turned over to said child when 
 for any reason the guardianship of the board shall cease. (7001.) 
 
 Section 374. Children to Be Released or Returned When: Whenever any 
 ward of said board who is not indentured has become self-supporting, the 
 said board may, at its discretion, so declare the fact by resolution, and there- 
 upon its guardianship shall cease and the child shall thereafter be entitled to 
 its own earnings. Whenever one or both of the parents of any ward of 
 said board, who is not indentured, have become able to support the child and 
 educate it, the child may, by resolution adopted by said board, be restored 
 to its parents, in which case the suitableness of the home shall be certified 
 in the manner herein provided for placing children on indenture, and there- 
 upon the guardianship of said board shall cease. The said board is authorized 
 to return to the counties from which they were sent the following classes of 
 children: 
 
 First: Those who, by reason of vicious habits or incorrigibility, cannot 
 be placed or retained in family homes. 
 
 Second: Those who, in the opinion of said board, based on the certificate 
 of the physicians of said home, are of unsound mind or body, or who have 
 some serious physical disability which prevents their being placed in family 
 homes or learning trades. Whenever any child shall be ordered by said board 
 to be returned to its county as herein provided, the guardianship of said board 
 shall cease, and the child shall thereupon again become a charge of the county 
 from which it was sent; and the superintendent of said home, in returning 
 any child to its county, shall report in writing to the county commissioners 
 of the proper county the action of said board, and the reasons therefor. 
 (7002.) 
 
 Section 375. State Agent Duties Offenses: The said board is author- 
 ized to employ some competent person as the state agent of the Oklahoma State 
 Home, and who shall act in that capacity during the pleasure of the board. 
 His duties as such agent shall be prescribed by said board, and shall include 
 visiting at such times as said board shall direct the children in families on 
 indenture and reporting to said board the condition of such children, and 
 any failure to comply with the terms of the indenture contracts. It shall also 
 be the duty of said agent to find suitable homes for the children of said 
 home and to enter into contracts in writing, when so authorized by said 
 board on behalf of said board, with the persons taking such children. The 
 bills for salary and necessary traveling expenses of said agent shall be first 
 sworn to by said agent and examined and allowed by said board. The state 
 agent shall act under the instructions of the superintendent; and the county 
 attorney of each county, when called upon to do so, shall act as the legal 
 adviser of the superintendent or state agent in any manner within his county, 
 in which the rights of person or property of any inmate or applicant may 
 be involved. The state agent shall have the power and authority to arrest 
 and return to the home, any ward or said school who has left the home without 
 being regularly discharged, as herein provided. His jurisdiction shall be co- 
 extensive with the state, and any person interfering with said officer in 
 the discharge of his duty shall be subject to arrest, and shall be subject to the 
 penalties prescribed by' law for interfering with a peace officer in the dis- 
 charge of his duty. Any person who shall carry away or entice any inmate 
 from the institution, or shall assist in the escape, or shall knowingly conceal 
 any inmate of said home who has escaped therefrom, shall be guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in sum of not exceeding 
 two hundred dollars, and shall be confined in the county jail for not less than 
 sixty days and not more than one year. (7003.) 
 
 Section 376. Commitment by Juvenile Court: No child shall be received 
 into the Oklahoma State Home except by commitment by the juvenile court 
 in the county in which such child reside.8, together with a full transcript of 
 the proceedings in such case: Provided, that no child found guilty of said 
 court of any crime, or found to be incorrigible, shall be received in said home. 
 (7004.) 
 
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Section 377. Admissions When Home Is Crowded Transportation Ex- 
 penses: Whenever there are more children in the several counties admissable 
 than can be received in said home, it shall be the duty of the superintendent of 
 said home to divide such admissions prorata among the counties, according to 
 the number of dependent children in each at the time of such admission, giv- 
 ing preference to counties of the same or larger population that have had 
 fewer children admitted into said home. Whenever the county judge of any 
 county shall be informed by the superintendent of said home that any de- 
 pendent children from that county can be admitted into said home, it shall 
 be the duty of the county judge to notify the county commissioners, who 
 shall forward them to said home, as provided in this article, as soon as prac- 
 ticable; and it shall be unjawful for the county commissioners of any county 
 to retain and support in their county any child admissable by law to said 
 home after such notification. The expense of transporting of children to 
 said home pursuant to law, and the expenses of returning any of said chil- 
 dren to their counties, after their admission by said board, as improper in- 
 mates of said home, shall be paid by the county sending such children. (7005.) 
 
 Section 378. Authority Over Children Put in Private Homes: It shall 
 be the duty of said board to obtain information as often as practicable, from 
 all the children placed in families from the home, and to secure, as far as 
 possible, the education and good treatment of such children and the full per- 
 formance of indenture contracts. It shall be the duty of said board to procure 
 written reports concerning such children at least once in each three months, 
 from the person to whom the child is indentured, and from the state agent, 
 or some one under his direction. If it shall appear to said board by such 
 reports or from any other source, that the child is neglected or ill treated, or 
 is not being educated by the person with whom it is placed, or that the per- 
 son having such child is unfit to have the care thereof, the said board, or the 
 superintendent of said home, who may be authorized so to do by the said 
 board, shall cancel the contract and cause the child to be removed to some 
 other home, or returned to the Oklahoma State Home, and notice thereof 
 shall be given to the county judge of the county from which it came. (7006.) 
 
 Section 379. Indenture and Adoption: Any person desiring to take a 
 child from said home by indenture or adoption may apply for that purpose in 
 writing, in such form as said board shall prescribe, to the superintendent. The 
 superintendent or the state agent shall investigate the same and report 
 in writing to the board of control in such form as it may prescribe. (7007.) 
 
 Section 380. Same Report of Treatment: No child from said home shall 
 be placed in a home on trial or by indenture or adoption, unless the same shall 
 be approved by the board of control. But no child shall be indentured, adopted 
 or placed in a home, any member of which is addicted to the use of liquor or 
 engaged in a liquor traffic or any immoral pursuits. In case it shall be found 
 at any time after the adoption or indenture of any child, that such per- 
 son has become engaged in the liquor traffic or any immoral pursuit, it 
 shall be the duty of the superintendent immediately to remove such child 
 from such home as soon as it comes to his knowledge. It shall be the duty 
 of the state agent to visit the children of said home in families on in- 
 denture, at such time as he may be requested so to do by the superintendent 
 of said home, and inquire into the management, condition and treatment of 
 such children; and he shall, as soon as practicable, report to the superintendent 
 of said home the facts ascertained, showing whether the indenture contracts 
 are being faithfully executed; and wherever it shall come to the knowledge 
 of the officer so authorized to make such visit, that any child of this home 
 in any family, on trial or indenture, is being ill-treated, he shall immediately 
 investigate the case and report the facts as aforesaid. (7008.) 
 
 Section 381. Records to Be Kept: It shall be the duty of said board to 
 preserve in said home all legal papers, reports and other valuable papers relat- 
 ing to each child, and to provide and keep suitable record books in which shall 
 be entered, during the time of guardianship of said board, a brief history of 
 each child, showing its name, age, county, residence, when received, inden- 
 tured or adopted; the names, occupation, habits and character of the par- 
 ents so far as they can be ascertained; and the name, residence and occupa- 
 
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tion of the person who has taken the child by indenture or adoption. (7009.) 
 
 Section 382. Limitation of Expenditures Compensation of Board: The 
 
 board of control is hereby prohibited from creating any debt against the 
 Oklahoma State Home, or from incurring any expense beyond its ability to 
 pay from the appropriations made therefor, except as herein provided. Each 
 member of the board of control shall receive as compensation for his services 
 three dollars per day and his actual expenses incurred while in the service of 
 the state. (7010.) 
 
 Section 383. Annual Reports of Board: The board of control shall report 
 annually to the governor and to the commissioner of charities and corrections 
 on the thirtieth day of June, or oftener if required. (7011.) 
 
 Section 384. Colored Orphan Home Location and Purpose: The insti- 
 tute for the deaf, blind and orphans of the colored race is hereby located 
 and established at or within a convenient distance of the town of Taft, in 
 Muskogee county, in the state of Oklahoma, the exclusive purpose of which 
 shall be to care for, teach and train the unfortunate of the said colored race 
 in the rudiments of English, as in the graded schools, and the practical and 
 primary industries, such as may fit such unfortunates for useful citizenship 
 and make them self-helpful and self-reliant. (7014.) 
 
 Section 385. Foregoing Provisions Applicable: All of the foregoing pro- 
 visions of this article shall be and they are hereby made applicable to the 
 government and control of said colored orphan home established by the pre- 
 ceding section, and all officers and employees for the carrying out of said 
 colored orphan home are hereby created according to the foregoing provisions 
 of this article. (7013.) 
 
 Section 386. Record Shall Be Kept by County Judge: When committing 
 orphan, dependent or neglected children to the Oklahoma State Home at 
 Pryor, Oklahoma, the county courts of the several counties of this state shall 
 keep a complete record of all commitments, giving names and addresses if 
 possible, of all the near relatives of the children, cause of the death of the 
 relatives, stating disease if known, and before said children shall be as- 
 signed to the state home, the county court shall have them examined by a 
 competent physician, to determine if they are of sound mind and body. Said 
 court shall forward with the children a complete copy of the proceedings of 
 the commitment to the superintendent of the Oklahoma State Home for his 
 records. (Sec. 1, S. B. 199, chap. 145, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 387. Penalty for Enticing Child Away: Any parent or parents 
 who shall visit a home in which one or more of their children have been placed 
 by the superintendent of the Oklahoma State Home, for the purpose of enticing 
 away or causing said children or children to become dissatisfied, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than 
 two hundred and fifty dollars. (Sec. 2, S. B. 199, chap. 145, L. 1915) 
 
 ARTICLE XXIX. 
 
 State Training School. 
 
 Section 388. Location: There is hereby established a state training 
 school, to be located in Garvin county between the cities of Pauls Valley and 
 Wynnewood, on a tract of land of not less than four hundred acres, to be 
 deeded in fee simple by the citizens of the two cities to the board of control 
 and their successors in office, without cost to the state. (Sec. 7087, Eevised 
 Laws 1910.) 
 
 Note School is governed by state board of education. See Sec. 296. 
 
 Section 389. Commitments to School: It shall be the duty of said board 
 of control to receive to the extent of the means placed at its disposal and con- 
 
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ditions afforded by the buildings belonging to said school, all persons com- 
 mitted to its care and guardianship under the provisions of this act, and all 
 boys committed thereto shall be committed until they arrive at the age of 
 twenty-one (21) years unless sooner reformed. (7093, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 390. Care of Inmates: Each and every boy who shall be legally 
 committed to said school as provided herein this act shall be clothed, fed, dis- 
 ciplined, instructed, employed and governed, under the direction of the board 
 of control of said school until he either be reformed or discharged, according 
 to the rules to be adopted by the said board of control. (7094, Eevised Laws 
 1910.) 
 
 Section 391. Same Regulations: The board of control shall make such 
 regulations in regard to the food, clothing and bedding of the inmates of said 
 school as health and circumstances of each may require, and all rations, cloth- 
 ing and bedding shall be plain and of good quality and in such quantity for 
 the sustenance of the health and well being of the inmates. It shall be the 
 duty of said board of control to prepare and adopt from time to time rules 
 and regulations for said institution for the government of the inmates of 
 the same. (7095, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 392. Duties of Board: Said board shall at its regular meeting 
 examine all of the different departments of the institution and inquire into all 
 matters concerning them the government, discipline, punishment and employ- 
 ment of the inmates, and doings and accounts of the superintendent, the pur- 
 chases and sales, and whether the inmates are well clothed and fed and have 
 such educational advantages as shall have been provided for, also inquire 
 into any allegations against the superintendent or other officers and for that 
 purpose issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the produc- 
 tion of papers and writings before them, subject to the same penalties for 
 disobedience as in case of trials before courts of record, and may examine 
 any witness, under oath, brought before them, the oath to be administered 
 by the president of the board or by other members in his absence. (7096, Ee- 
 vised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 393. System of Marks and Credits: The board of control shall, 
 under a system of marks or otherwise, fix upon a uniform plan, under which 
 it shall determine what number of marks, or credits, shall be earned by each 
 boy sentenced under the provisions of this article as the condition of in- 
 creased privileges or of release from its control, which system shall be sub- 
 ject to revision from time to time. Each boy sentenced to said school shall 
 be credited for gopd personal demeanor, diligence in labor and study and 
 for results accomplished and be charged for dereliction, negligence and of- 
 fenses. (7097, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 394. Marks and Credits to Be Made Known to Inmates: The 
 board of control shall establish rules and regulations by which the standing 
 of each boy's gain of marks and credits shall be made known to him as often 
 as once each month and oftener if he shall at any time request it. (7098 Ee- 
 vised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 395. Board May Release When: When it appears to the said 
 board that there is a strong or reasonable probability that any boy will leave 
 and remain at liberty without violating the law and that his release is not 
 incompatible with the welfare of society and detrimental to his own good, 
 then it shall issue to said boy an absolute release from confinement, but no 
 other petition or other form of application for the release of any boy 
 shall be entertained by the board of control: Provided, that nothing 
 herein contained shall be construed to impair Ifke power of the governor 
 to grant a pardon in any case upon the recommendation from the state board 
 of pardons. (Sec. 7099, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 396. Boys May Be Placed With Family: It shall be lawful 
 for said board of control to place in the care of any resident of this state, 
 who is the head of a family and of good moral character, any of said boys 
 in said school on such conditions and with such stipulations as the board may 
 establish. (7100, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
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Section 397. Daily Journal to Be Kept by Superintendent: The superin- 
 tendent shall keep a daily journal of the proceedings of the institution, in 
 which he shall enter every infraction of the rules by any officer, teacher, 
 or employee thereof which shall come to his knowledge, and shall make a 
 memorandum of every complaint made by any inmate of cruel or unjust 
 treatment from his overseer or other officer of the institution, or the want 
 of any good and sufficient clothing and also any infraction of the rules 
 by any inmate, naming him and specifying the offenses and also what punish- 
 ment and the extent thereof, so awarded, which journal shall be laid before 
 the board of control at every stated meeting and at every special meeting 
 when demanded. (Sec. 7103, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 398. Superintendent to Keep Accounts: The superintendent of 
 said school shall keep or cause to be kept an accurate account of all moneys 
 received from the sale of articles manufactured in said institution and of 
 the moneys expended for machinery and material, care and support of said 
 institution and other things with any other business or trade that may be 
 deemed advisable by the said board of control to be carried on at said school; 
 he shall have charge of said business and temporary custody of the moneys 
 so received and at the end of every month shall render to the state treasurer 
 an itemized account of the moneys so received and shall pay the same over 
 to the state treasurer to be placed in the credit of said school fund, taking 
 a triplicate receipt for the same, one copy of which shall go to the secretary 
 of the board of control, one to be transmitted to the auditor of the state, and 
 the other to be retained by himself. The money so paid to the treasurer 
 shall be placed to the credit of the contingent fund of said school and be 
 used in the same manner as the regular appropriation. (7104, Eevised Laws 
 1910.) 
 
 Section 399. Binding Out Inmates: It shall be lawful for the board of 
 control, whenever in its discretion it may deem any one of the boys detained 
 in said institution to have become so far reformed as to justify his discharge, 
 to liberate such boy or to bind him by articles of indenture for that purpose 
 to be entered into with any suitable person who will engage to instruct or 
 educate such boy in a proper manner according to the terms of such indenture: 
 Provided, said boy shall be placed in school at least three months in each year. 
 (7105, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 400. Boys May Be Bound to School by Indenture: Any parent 
 may indenture his or her boy, or any guardian may indenture a male ward, to 
 the state training school for such length of time as may be agreed upon by 
 such parent or guardian, and* the board of control of said school, on condition 
 that such parent or guardian shall pay the expenses of such boy or ward so 
 indentured as aforesaid, while at said school. (7106, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 401. Conveyance of School Fees: It shall be the duty of the 
 sheriff or any constable of the respective counties, or in. case of their absence, 
 of any suitable person appointed by the court for such purpose, to convey 
 any boy committed under the provisions of this article to the school aforesaid, 
 and all magistrates and officers performing services hereunder, shall be paid 
 the same fee as are allowed for similar services in criminal cases; such fees 
 to be paid by the county from which such boy was committed. (7107, Eevised 
 Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 402. Same On Complaint of Parent: Whenever the parent or 
 guardian or next friend of a boy shall make complaint before any police 
 magistrate or justice of the peace, that by reason of incorrigible or vicious 
 conduct such boy has rendered his control beyond the power of parent, guard- 
 ian or next friend, and made it manifest that a regard for the morals and wel- 
 fare of such boy requires Aat he should be placed under the guardianship of 
 the state training school, if such complaint be established by due proof, the 
 said magistrate or justice of the peace shall commit such boy to the said 
 school for such term as he shall deem proper, within the limits prescribed 
 in the foregoing sections: Provided, that an appeal may be had as in other 
 cases. (7108, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 403. Return of Delinquents: If any boy shall absent himself 
 without leave from the person to whose care and service he has been properly 
 
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committed such boy may be forthwith returned to the said institution without 
 further process, and shall forfeit all credits gained by him on account of all 
 previous good conduct. (7109, Kevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 404. Officers and Employees of School: Every person who shall 
 aid or abet any boy in escaping from said school or who shall knowingly har- 
 bor such boy or aid in abducting him from the person to whose care and 
 service he has been properly committed, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, 
 and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary 
 for not less than one year, or more than three years. (7111, Eevised Laws 
 1910.) 
 
 Section 405. Length of Commitment Age Discretion of Court: Boys 
 not over sixteen nor under ten years of age may be committed to said school 
 by any judge of the police court, county judge or district judge, or the judge 
 of any court of record having jurisdiction in criminal cases, or any conviction 
 of any offense against the laws of the state, and any such boy convicted of 
 any crime or offense, the punishment of which is in whole or in part con- 
 finement in the jail or penitentiary, may, at the discretion of the court giv- 
 ing sentence, in lieu of being sent to the jail or penitentiary, be committed 
 to the State Training School. (7112, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 406. To Be Taken to School How: Any such youth upon being sen- 
 tenced to said school shall, within five days after such sentence, unless the 
 court giving such sentence shall otherwise order, be conveyed to said Training 
 School by the sheriff of the county in which a conviction was had or by some 
 other suitable person 'designated by the court giving a sentence and deliver 
 into the custody of the superintendent of said school, together with a state- 
 ment of the offense for which such boy was convicted, also his name, age, 
 and nativity, and a copy of tHe sentence of the court. (7113, Eevised Laws 
 1910.) 
 
 Section 407. Same Expenses of How Paid: The expense incurred in 
 the transportation of a boy to said school shall be paid by. the county from 
 which he is committed, and the officer or person delivering him, upon the 
 presentation of his sworn statement and an account of such expense and the 
 cost in any case, shall be paid in like manner upon the certificate of the proper 
 officer of the court in which he was convicted. (7114, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 408. Inmates to Receive Instruction: The inmates of said school 
 shall receive such education and shall be instructed in such branches of indus- 
 try, agriculture, mechanics or otherwise as the board from time to time shall 
 determine. For the purpose of reforming such inmates and benefitting by their 
 usefulness in the administration of the institution, the board may introduce 
 and carry on any branch of industry that they think conducive to this 
 end. (7115, Eevised Laws 1910.) 
 
 Section 409. Training School for Negro Boys: There is hereby estab- 
 lished a State Training School for delinquent negro boys, to be located on 
 the lands belonging to the state in Pittsburg county, near McAlester, on which 
 the State Penitentiary is located. (Sec. 1, H. B. 447, chap. 252, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 410. Government: Said training school shall be under the super- 
 vision and control of state board of public affairs, and said board may em- 
 plov all the instructors, teachers, guards, or employees that may be required 
 for" said institution. (Sec. 2, H. B. 447, chap. 252, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 411. Same: Said training school shall be governed in all re- 
 spects by the provisions of article 7, chapter 68, Eevised Laws of Oklahoma, 
 ]910 (Sees. 388-407 above) so far as applicable and not repugnant hereto. 
 (Sec. 3, H. B. 447, chap. 252, L 1915.) 
 
 Section 412 Not Penitentiary Convicts: The inmates of such training 
 school shall not be confined in the penitentiary or required to work or asso- 
 ciate with the convicts confined in the state penitentiary, but shall be kept 
 and maintained separate from such convicts. (Sec. 4, H. B. 447, chap. 252, 
 L. 1915.) 
 
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Section 413. Transportation: As soon as the said board has made suit- 
 able provisions for the custody of the boy eligible for admission thereto, such 
 board shall arrange for the transportation, receiving and support of such boys, 
 and give notice to the public thereof. (Sec. 5, H. B. 447, chap. 252, L. 1915.) 
 
 ARTICLE XXX. 
 Child Labor Law. 
 
 (Being Art. 3, Chap. 42, Revised Laws of Oklahoma 1910.) 
 Section 414. Restrictions on Employment of Children Under Fourteen: 
 No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed or permitted to 
 work in any factory, factory-workshop, theater, bowling alley, pool hall, or 
 steam laundry, and no child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed or 
 permitted to work in any occupation injurious to health or morals or especially 
 hazardous to life or limb. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor 
 upon investigation by himself or the agents of his department, or upon the 
 complaint of the commissioner of charities and corrections, or the board of 
 health, to determine what occupations are injurious to health or morals or 
 especially hazardous to life or limb, and to notify employers in such occupa- 
 tions of his decision, which decision shall be final until such occupation or 
 occupations shall be defined by law, as safe for health, morals, life and limb. 
 (3728.) 
 
 Section 415. Restriction on Employment of Children Under Sixteen: No 
 child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work 
 at any of the following occupations: Oiling or assisting in oiling, operating, 
 wiping or cleaning any dangerous machinery, or adjusting any belt to any 
 such machinery, while in motion; operating, or assisting in operating, circular 
 or band saws, steam boilers, steam machinery, or other steam generating ap- 
 paratus, rolling-mill machinery, punches or shears, washing, grinding or mix- 
 ing mills, passenger or freight elevators; preparing any composition in which 
 dangerous or poisonous acids are used; manufacture of paints, colors or white 
 lead; where there are acids, dyes, lyes, gases, glass dust or other dust or lint 
 in such quantities as to be injurious to health; dipping, dyeing or packing 
 matches, manufacturing, packing or storing powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine 
 compounds, fuses or other explosives; manufacture of goods for immoral pur- 
 poses; nor shall females under the age of sixteen years, be employed in any 
 capacity where such employment compels them to remain standing constantly. 
 (3729.) 
 
 Section 416. Girls Not to Sell Papers Where: No girl under the age of 
 sixteen years shall, in any city, sell, or expose or offer for sale, newspapers, 
 magazines or periodicals in any street or out-of-doors public place. (3730.) 
 
 Section 417. Educational Qualifications Required: No child under the 
 age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work in any of the 
 occupations specified in section 414 unless such child is able to read and 
 write simple sentences in the English language, or shall have attended some 
 school during the preceding year for the time that attendance is compulsory 
 under the laws. (3731.) 
 
 Section 418. Hours of Employment Seats Required: No child under 
 the age or sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work in any gainful 
 occupation, except agriculture or domestic service, more than eight hours in 
 any one day, allowing one hour each day for noonday meal and rest, or more 
 than forty-eight hours in any one week. During the time that a child is at 
 work at such occupation, the employer must provide suitable seats and per- 
 mit their use so far as the nature of the work allows. (3732.) 
 
 Section 419. Night Work Prohibited: No boy under the age of sixteen 
 years and no girl under the age of eighteen shall be employed or permitted 
 to work in any of the occupations mentioned in section 414 between the hours 
 of six o'clock p. m. and seven o'clock a. m. (3733.) 
 
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Section 420. Duties of Employers: Before any child under the age of 
 sixteen years shall be employed in any occupation specified in section 414, it 
 shall be the duty of the parent or guardian of such child to procure and fur- 
 nish the employer of such child an age and schooling certificate as herein- 
 after provided in this article. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or 
 corporation owning or operating any of the establishments specified in section 
 414, or employers in such occupations, to keep on file for the inspection of 
 factory inspectors, truant officers, or other persons charged with the admin- 
 istration of this article, such age and school certificate for every child under 
 sixteen years of age employed in such occupation, and to keep on file and to 
 post conspicuously in every room where such children are employed, a register; 
 with a complete list of children under sixteen years of age so employed, to- 
 gether with the age of each child as set forth in the age and schooling cer- 
 tificate opposite the name of such child, and also to keep on file and to post 
 conspicuously in such place or establishment, in such form as the factory 
 inspector may prescribe, the time of opening and closing of such factory or 
 other establishment, the number of hours of labor required or permitted in 
 such establishment, the hours of commencing and stopping work, and the 
 time allowed for meals, and, if there be two or more shifts in such establish- 
 ment, the number of hours in each shift during which the employes are re- 
 quired or permitted to work. On termination of the employment of a child 
 so registered, and whose certificate is so filed, such certificate shall be forth- 
 with surrendered by the employer to the child or its parent, guardian or cus- 
 todian. (3734.) 
 
 Section 421. Evidence of Age of Child: The inspector of factories, 
 truant officer, or other person charged with the administration of this article, 
 may make demand on an employer in whose factory or establishment a child 
 apparently under the age of sixteen years is employed or permitted or suf- 
 fered to work, and whose employment certificate is not then filed as required 
 by section 420, that such employer shall either furnish him, within ten days, 
 evidence satisfactory to him that such child is in fact over sixteen years of 
 age, or shall cease to employ or permit or suffer such child to work in such 
 factory or establishment. Such officer may require from such employer the 
 same evidence of age of such child as is required on the issuance of an employ- 
 ment certificate; and the employer furnishing such evidence shall not be 
 required to furnish any further evidence of the age of the child. In case 
 such employer shall fail to produce and deliver to such officer, within ten 
 days after such demand, such evidence of age herein required by him, and 
 shall thereafter continue to employ such child to work in such foctory or 
 establishment, proof of the giving of such notice and of such failure to pro- 
 duce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution 
 brought for violation of this provision of this article, that such child is 
 under sixteen years of age and is unlawfully employed: Provided, that the 
 factory inspector or deputy inspectors shall have the power to demand a cer- 
 tificate of physical fitness from some licensed physician in good standing in 
 this state in case of children who may appear to him physically unable to 
 perform the labor at which they may be engaged, and shall have power to 
 prohibit the employment of any minor that cannot obtain such a certificate. 
 (3735.) 
 
 Section 422. Certificate to Be Approved by Whom: The age and school 
 ing certificate shall be approved only by the county superintendent of public 
 instruction or other school official designated by him, who shall, for the pur- 
 pose of this article, be empowered to administer an oath. (3736.) 
 
 Section 423. Evidence Required: The age and schooling certificate shall 
 not be approved unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by the last school 
 census, or certificate of birth, or the register of the city or county, or an 
 affidavit of the date of such birth, by a legally registered physician re- 
 siding therein, stating the time of such birth of such child, or the school record 
 of such child, in the public or other school, setting forth the age of such 
 child: Provided, that in cases where such evidence cannot be obtained, and 
 the child appears to be in good health, and of normal size, of not less than 
 sixty inches in height and weighing not less than eighty pounds, the parents 
 or guardian of such child may make affidavit stating the age, place and 
 time of birth of such child, or, if the child shall have no parents or guardian, 
 
such affidavit may be made by the child. The affidavits required by this 
 section must be taken before the officer issuing the employment certificate, 
 who is hereby authorized and required to administer such oath, and who 
 shall not demand or receive a fee therefor. The employment certificate shall 
 not be issued until such child has further personally appeared before the 
 officer issuing the same and he is satisfied that such child is physically able 
 to perform the work which it intends to do. In doubtful cases such physical 
 fitness shall be determined by a medical officer of the board or department of 
 health. Every employment certificate shall be signed, in the presence of the 
 officer issuing the same, by the child in whose name it is issued. (3737.) 
 
 Section 424. Attendance Certificate: The age and schooling certificate 
 shall not be approved until the parent or guardian of such child shall present 
 a school attendance certificate as hereinafter prescribed. A duplicate of such 
 age and schooling certificate shall be filled out and sent by the school officer, 
 before whom the same is made, to the commissioner of labor. The blank forms 
 for school attendance certificate and for the age and schooling certificate shall 
 be supplied to the county superintendents of public instruction by the state 
 superintendent of public instruction as hereinafter indicated: 
 
 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE. 
 
 (Name of School) 
 
 (City and County) 
 
 (Date) 
 
 This certifies that (Name of Child) can read and 
 
 write simple sentences in the English language and that according to the 
 
 records of this school and in my belief is now 
 
 (number of years and months) old, and has attended school during the full 
 school term of the preceding year. 
 
 (Name of Parent or Guardian) 
 
 (Residence) 
 
 __ (Signature of Teacher) 
 
 AGE AND SCHOOLING CERTIFICATE. 
 This certifies that I am (father, mother or guardian) of 
 
 > 
 
 (name of child) and that he (or she) was born at 
 
 (town or city) (county (state or country) 
 
 on the (day, month and year of birth), and is now 
 
 (number of years and months old.) 
 
 (Signature of parent or guardian) 
 
 (Date) 
 
 (City or town or county) 
 
 Personally appeared before me the above mentioned 
 
 (name of person signing) and made oath that the foregoing certificate is 
 true to the best of his (or her) knowledge and belief. 
 
 I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of (name of child) 
 
 height (feet and inches), weight (pounds), complex- 
 ion (fair or dark), hair (color), eyes (color), 
 
 having no sufficient reason to doubt that he (or she) is of the age therein 
 certified. 
 
OWNER OF CERTIFICATE. 
 
 This certificate belongs to (name of child) and is to be 
 
 surrendered to him (or her) whenever he (or she) leaves the service of the 
 employer holding the same, but if not claimed by said child within thirty 
 days after leaving said service, shall be sent to the commissioner of labor. 
 
 (Signature of officer, with name of city, town or county and date.) 
 
 (3738.) 
 
 Section 425. Children Not to Be Employed Underground: No child un- 
 der the age of sixteen and no girl or woman shall be employed or permitted 
 to work underground in any mine or quarry. (3739.) 
 
 Section 426. Penalties for Violating This Article: Any person violating 
 any of the provisions of .this article shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment for not less 
 than ten nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment. It 
 shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor to see that the provisions 
 of this article are enforced with the exception of section 425, which shall be 
 enforced by the mine inspector or under his direction. (3742.) 
 
 AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. 
 State Question Number 57. 
 
 The following amendment to the constitution was submitted by the last 
 legislature and ratified by the people at the election held August 5, 1913, the 
 section -to be known as section 12a of art. 10: 
 
 "All taxes collected for the maintenance of the common schools of this 
 state, and which are levied upon the property of any railroad company, pipe 
 line company, telegraph company, or upon the property of any public service 
 corporation which operates in more than one county in this state, shall be 
 paid into the common school fund and distributed as are other common school 
 funds of the state." 
 
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ARTICLE XXXI. 
 
 Sinking Funds. 
 
 Section 427. Treasurer Shall Deposit Sinking Funds at Interest: The 
 
 county treasurer, treasurers of cities, towns, boards of education and town- 
 ship boards, shall each day hereafter make a deposit of all uninvested sink- 
 ing fund moneys in their hands in banks designated by the board of county 
 commissioners as county depositories, and furnishing the security now re- 
 quired by law, at not less than four per cent interest per annum on daily bal- 
 ances. (Sec. 1, S. B. 130, chap. 94, L. 1915.) 
 
 Section 428. Interest on Sinking Funds to Be Apportioned: The county 
 treasurer shall, on the 30th day of June and December of each year, appor- 
 tion and place to the credit' of the sinking fund account of the various school 
 districts of the county, all interest collected from the deposits of the unin- 
 vested school district sinking fund money, as provided in section. 427 above, 
 and all interest loaned and collected upon such school district sinking fund 
 money from every source whatsoever; provided, the amount so accredited to 
 the sinking fund account of each district shall bear the same ratio to the 
 whole amount so collected as the amount to the credit of the sinking fund 
 account of such district bears to the whole amount credited to the sinking 
 fund account of all the school districts of the county; and, provided further, 
 that the county treasurers, treasurers of cities, towns, boards, shall place 
 all interest by them collected and arising from the sinking funds to the 
 credit of the sinking fund account of such municipality. (Sec. 2, S. B. 130, 
 chap. 94, L. 1915.) 
 
 APPENDIX 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 Notice The rules and regulations herein contained shall super- 
 sede all former rules and regulations governing the issuing of state 
 certificates in the State of Oklahoma. 
 
 Rules and Regulations for Oklahoma State Certificates. 
 Kinds of State Certificates. 
 
 The following classes of state certificates shall be issued by the state board 
 of education and shall be valid to teach in the following specified grades: 
 
 Primary Certificates, authorizing the holder to teach in the primary grades 
 (first to fourth inclusive), of any public school in the state. 
 
 Grammar Grade Certificate, authorizing the holder thereof to teach in all 
 rural schools, the primary grades, and grammar grades (fifth to eighth inclu- 
 sive) of any city in the state. 
 
 General High School Certificate, authorizing the holder thereof to teach 
 in the primary, grammar grades and high schools, of the state. 
 
 Certificate to Teach or Supervise in Special Subjects may be granted to an 
 applicant presenting proof of graduation from the department of special 
 work for which certificate is required, provided such school and department 
 'shall be approved by the state board of education; provided further, that 
 such applicant shall pass the examination in special and professional sub- 
 jects. (See requirements for state certificates by examination, 1, " d ".) 
 
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Normal School Certificate: Anyone not less than eighteen years of age 
 who has finished the first four years 7 work of the state normal schools of 
 Oklahoma, and has had regular courses in psychology, school management 
 and observation, may be granted a certificate by the state board of educa- 
 tion good for two years, of equal standing with a first grade county certificate, 
 after such certificate has been registered with the county superintendent 
 of the county in which the holder desires to teach. Such certificate shall 
 not be subject to renewal and the grades shall not be transferred to any other 
 state certificate. 
 
 State University Certificate: A person who has finished the first two 
 years' work of the State University of Oklahoma and has had regular courses 
 in psychology and education may be granted a certificate by the state board 
 of education, valid for two years, of equal standing with a first grade county 
 certificate, after such certificate has been registered with the county superin- 
 tendent of the county in which the holder desires to teach. Such certificate 
 shall not be subject to renewal. 
 
 University Preparatory School Certificate: A regular graduate of one 
 of the university preparatory schools may be granted a certificate valid for 
 two years on the same basis as those who have completed four years of work 
 in the state normal schools; provided such graduate has completed the follow- 
 ing professional studies: Elementary psychology, theory and practice of teach- 
 ing, history of education and one year o'f observational work. 
 
 NOTE The above named certificates shall be valid in all rural schools 
 and in all towns except independent districts when they have been registered 
 with the county superintendent of the county in which the rural school or 
 town is situated, and they should be valid in independent districts subject to 
 the additional requirements of the examining boards of said districts when 
 registered with the clerk of the board of education of such independent dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 Rural School Certificate: Upon completion of the rural teachers' certifi- 
 cate course, including four full years' work above the eighth grade, at least 
 one year's work being done in residence, in any one of the state normal 
 schools, a rural school certificate good for three years will be issued. This cer- 
 tificate is good anywhere in the state for a period of three years, at the 
 expiration of which period it may be renewed for the original period, provided 
 the holder has during its life attended a state normal school at least one full 
 -term. Upon the same conditions the certificate may be renewed at each ex- 
 piration until a life certificate has been secured by graduating from the 
 normal school. 
 
 Institute Conductors' and Instructors' Certificates, authorizing the holder 
 thereof to conduct or instruct in county institutes. 
 
 General Requirements. 
 
 1. No person who has not attained the age of twenty-one years shall be 
 granted a regular state certificate except a normal school graduate or a stu- 
 dent in an Oklahoma institution who has completed the woifc required for a 
 normal school, university, university preparatory school or rural school cer- 
 tificate. An applicant for a state certificate must be a resident of the state 
 or must be elected to a position in Oklahoma before a certificate will be 
 granted. 
 
 2. Application for a state certificate for a 'graduate, either regular or 
 special, must be accompanied by a recommendation from the president of the 
 institution from which the applicant graduated and from the head of the 
 department in which the applicant specialized. The applicant must present a 
 record of the work done in the institutiton from which he graduated upon a 
 blank furnished by the state board of education and signed by the registrar of 
 such school. 
 
 3. An applicant for a state certificate by complete examination or upon 
 a certificate from another state, shall file proof of at least two years of suc- 
 
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cessful experience in the same character or grade of work for which the cer- 
 tificate is sought, and must file a statement from the county superintendent 
 or the city superintendent of the county or city in which he has taught to 
 the effect that his work has been satisfactory during the tenure of his certifi- 
 cate. 
 
 4. All applications for state certificates, or for renewal of certificates, 
 must be filed with the secretary of the state board of education at least 
 thirty days prior to the date of the examination. 
 
 5. All inquiries concerning state certificates and applications for certifi- 
 cates should be addressed to the secretary of the state board of education, 
 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 
 
 6. Eegular examinations for state certificates except institute conductor's 
 and instructor's certificates, will be given the last Thursday, Friday and Satur- 
 day in May at the following named places: The University of Oklahoma at 
 Norman; Central State Normal School, Edmond; Northeastern State Normal 
 School at Tahlequah; Southeastern State Normal School at Durant; East Cen- 
 tral State Normal School at Ada; Northwestern State Normal School at Alva; 
 Southwestern State Normal School at Weatherford; Agricultural and Me- 
 chanical College at Stillwater; University Preparatory School at Tonkawa; 
 Eastern University Preparatory School at Claremore; Panhandle Agricultural 
 Institute at Goodwell, and the Colored Agricultural and Normal University 
 at Langston. Teachers desiring to take the state examination must give 
 written notice to the president of the institution in which they expect to 
 take the examination at least fifteen days before the date set for examina- 
 ion. Examinations for institute conductor's and instructor's certificates will 
 be held in the office of each county superintendent in the state on the last 
 Saturday of January each year. No special examination will be given after 
 this date. 
 
 7. All state certificates issued by the state board of education and all 
 normal school diplomas must be registered with the county superintendent 
 of the county where the holder teaches, or with the clerk of the board of edu- 
 cation, if the holder teaches in an independent district. The document is 
 not valid as a certificate until it is registered according to the above provisions. 
 
 8. A state certificate shall expire when the holder thereof has been out 
 of school work for a period of two years, and has been a non-resident of the 
 state for a period of one year, unless his absence from the state is caused by 
 attending school in some other state. A lapsed certificate may be renewed upon 
 satisfactory evidence being presented to the state board of education that 
 the holder thereof is worthy of such renewal. 
 
 9. Any certificate issued by the state board of education may be revoked 
 on the grounds of immorality, gross neglect of duty, annulling written con- 
 tracts with boards of education and district boards without the consent of a 
 majority of the board, which is a party to the contract, or for any cause 
 that would have justified the withholding thereof when the same was granted. 
 
 Requirements for State Certificates by Examination. 
 Public Schools. 
 
 1. To be entitled to a two-year renewable certificate, the candidate must 
 pass a satisfactory examination in the following branches: 
 
 (a) For a Primary Certificate: Agriculture, arithmetic, domestic science, 
 drawing, geography, history of education, history and civics of Oklahoma, hy- 
 giene and school sanitation, language, music, nature study, orthography, pen- 
 manship, physical training, primary methods, primary reading, psychology, 
 school laws of Oklahoma, school management. 
 
 (b) For a Grammar Grade Certificate: Agriculture, elementary algebra, 
 arithmetic, bookkeeping, civil government, composition, domestic economy, 
 drawing, English literature, American literature, English grammar, geography, 
 general history, history of education, United States history, history and civics 
 of Oklahoma, music, methods and management, penmanship, physiology, physi- 
 ography, psychology, physics, reading, school laws of Oklahoma, spelling. 
 
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(c) For a High School Certificate: All subjects required for the gram- 
 mar grade certificates and the following in addition thereto: High school 
 algebra, botany, chemistry, plane geometry, solid geometry, English history, 
 Latin or German, philosophy of education, political economy, biology. 
 
 (d) For Special High School Certificate: Agriculture, domestic economy, 
 Oklahoma history and civics, pedagogy, psychology, history of education, school 
 laws of Oklahoma. The applicant for this certificate must present proof of 
 graduation from the department of special work for which the certificate is 
 required, with standing in the special subjects certified by the registrar of 
 the school. 
 
 2. Applicants for the two-year renewable certificates must have taught 
 two years and must produce satisfactory testimonials from reputable persons 
 in regard to moral character and professional standing. 
 
 3. An average standing of ninety per centum with not less than seventy- 
 five per centum in any subject will be required for all state certificates. 
 Grades of the required standing (ninety per centum) may be carried for two 
 years. 
 
 4. At the expiration of this certificate the holder will be granted a five- 
 year certificate upon furnishing satisfactory evidence of having taught suc- 
 cessfully at least forty weeks during the tenure of the certificates. 
 
 Normal Institutes. 
 
 (a) For Instructor's Certificate: Examination for instructor's certifi- 
 cate will be given in rhetoric and composition, American literature, English 
 literature, history of education, psychology, methods and management, the 
 last Saturday in January at the office of the county superintendent in the 
 several counties. An applicant for an instructor's certificate must be twenty- 
 three years of age, the holder of at least a first grade county certificate, 
 and must have had at least three years of successful experience as a teacher. 
 
 (b) For Conductor's Certificate: For a conductor's certificate the ap- 
 plicant must be examined in the required branches for an instructor's certifi- 
 cate and in philosophy of education and Oklahoma school law. Applicants 
 for conductor's certificates must have instructed in at least one institute pre- 
 ceding the date of application, shall have attained the age of twenty-five, and 
 shall have taught five years successfully. 
 
 Applicants for institute certificates by examination must make a general 
 average of ninety per centum, with no grade below seventy-five per centum. 
 
 Requirements for State Certificates. Upon Credentials. 
 
 (a) Graduates of the arts and science course of any accredited institu- 
 tion of learning of Oklahoma or of other states, who have completed a course 
 of study which shall have included the subjects required for the teacher's 
 diploma of the University of Oklahoma, as approved by the state board of 
 education, will be granted a general high school certificate valid for five 
 years. At the expiration of that certificate the holder will be granted a 
 renewal for a like period upon furnishing satisfactory evidence of having 
 taught successfully at least three years out of five. 
 
 (b) Graduates of the normal courses of colleges of this state or of 
 other states accredited by the state board of education and graduates of ac- 
 credited normal schools of other states who have had at least forty weeks of 
 successful experience in teaching may secure a five-year state certificate of the 
 kind justified by their credits by passing a state examination in all subjects 
 required for an Oklahoma state certificate in which they do not furnish credit 
 from the institution from which they graduated. The applicants' entrance 
 grades accepted by an accredited institution will be accepted towards an 
 Oklahoma certificate. Provided, that the state board of education may waive 
 the required teaching experience if applicant is a graduate of at least a two-year 
 normal college course in an accredited state normal and has completed thirty- 
 
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six weeks of practice teaching and observation and furnishes recommendations 
 of superior ability as a teacher from the supervising critic teacher and the 
 head of the training department and the president of the institution. 
 
 (c) Graduates of any four-year college course of study in the state uni- 
 versity or the state agricultural college, or of any approved four-year col- 
 legiate course in accredited institutions of learning, who have had at least 
 forty weeks of experience in teaching may be granted a state certificate upon 
 passing the state examination in history of education, philosophy of education, 
 methods and management, psychology, Oklahoma school laws, agriculture, do- 
 mestic science, Oklahoma history and civics. 
 
 (d) Persons holding state certificates from other states where the re- 
 quirements for certificates represent the same standard as to quantity and 
 quality of scholarship, who have had at least forty weeks of successful ex- 
 perience in teaching, may be granted state certificates of the kind justified 
 by their grades; provided, such applicants shall pass an examination in all 
 branches required for the Oklahoma state certificate which are not required 
 in the state in which the certificate was issued, or shall present from an ap- 
 proved college or state normal school satisfactory proof to the state board 
 of education of proficiency in such branches. 
 
 (e) Certificates to teach or supervise in special subjects may be granted 
 to applicants presenting proof of graduation from the department of special 
 work for which the certificate is required, provided such school and depart- 
 ment shall be approved by the state board of education; provided further, that 
 such applicant shall pass the examination in the special and professional sub- 
 jects enumerated in the requirements for state certificates by examination 
 (1, d). 
 
 (f) Institute certificates may be issued upon recommendation to persons 
 whose professional fitness for institute work entitles them to recognition by 
 the state board of education, and who shall be the holders of state certificates, 
 or of normal school diplomas, or shall, because of eminent professional ex- 
 perience and ability in educational work, be entitled to the granting of such 
 certificates. 
 
 An applicant for a state certificate upon credentials, as provided in the 
 foregoing requirements, will, upon the acceptance of such credentials, be 
 granted a temporary state certificate valid for one year, during the tenure 
 of which certificate additional requirements may be completed. At the ex- 
 piration of the temporary certificate the applicant shall present to the state 
 board of education a statement from the county superintendent, or from the 
 city superintendent of the city employing a city superintendent, or from the 
 has been satisfactory during the tenure of the certificate. 
 
 General Information, 
 
 Graduates of accredited normal schools, colleges and universities, apply- 
 ing for state teacher's certificates, shall be required to submit to the state 
 board of education, on blank forms furnished by it, a detailed record show- 
 ing the amount and kind of preparatory, collegiate and professional work com- 
 pleted, and that the requirements of the state board of education have been 
 complied with. 
 
 The state board of education does not interpret the foregoing rules in 
 regard to the acceptance of credentials from an accredited institution to bind 
 the board to the acceptance of all credentials. Each case will be considered 
 on its merits. 
 
 Credits will not be accepted from schools or colleges in other states if 
 the state in which the school is located does not a-ccept such credits on a 
 state certificate. 
 
 Grades from county certificates, city certificates, or expired state certifi- 
 cates will not be accepted in lieu of those required for a state certificate. 
 Grades from the Oklahoma state schools or accredited schools in other states 
 will not be accepted unless the applicant is a graduate, except for certificates 
 as may be issued under the foregoing rules to students of the Oklahoma nor- 
 mals and the University of Oklahoma, who have met the requirements of 
 the state board of education for such certificates. 
 
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No fee is required for state certificates. Applicants by examination are 
 expected to pay the expense of forwarding tlieir papers to the state depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Application blanks for state certificates are furnished by the state board 
 of education, and must be filled out accurately before they will be accepted. 
 Carelessness in this respect will be sufficient cause for rejecting the applica- 
 tion. 
 
 Failure on the part of a teacher to keep up his professional work will be 
 considered cause for cancelling his certificate. 
 
 The state board of education strongly recommends that the additional re- 
 quirements of those teachers receiving state certificates upon credentials be 
 made by doing credit work at one of the state schools of Oklahoma. 
 
 Accredited Institutions. 
 
 1. Any institution of learning in Oklahoma or other states desiring to 
 be accredited by the state board of education shall submit a full outline of its 
 course of study, together with a definite statement of the standard required 
 for admission, of the amount of time given to every subject, of the scope of 
 work and the text used in each, of the maximum number of hours a student is 
 permitted to carry, of the amount of laboratory work required, and of the 
 proficiency demanded in final examination. If, in the judgment of the board, 
 the course meets the requirements, the institution shall be placed on the ac- 
 credited list. The application must be complete and must be accompanied by 
 a late catalog of the school with the fullest possible information as to the 
 school's professional library and other equipment which bears especially upon 
 the subject of teaching. 
 
 2. An accredited college or university whose graduates are entitled to 
 state certificates under the foregoing regulations must be an institution of 
 higher learning recognized as a standard college of liberal arts, requiring the 
 completion of a four-year secondary course above the eighth grade for en- 
 trance and maintaining a four-year course thereafter for graduation, with a 
 faculty properly qualified, and possessing adequate equipment and means of 
 support and maintaining at least seven separate departments or chairs. In 
 case the pedagogical work of the institution is to be accepted without exami- 
 nation, the college must maintain at least eight chairs, one of which must 
 be devoted exclusively to. education or at most to psychology and education 
 and shall maintain a pedagogical library having standard works and period- 
 icals on psychology and education. The minimum amount of pedagogical work 
 in any fully accredited college which will be accepted by the state board of 
 education shall be equivalent to the requirements for the teacher's diploma 
 of the University of Oklahoma. 
 
 3. An accredited normal school or teachers' college shall meet the fol- 
 lowing requirements: 
 
 (a) There must be five or more teachers who shall be graduates of stand- 
 ard normal schools, standard colleges or universities doing graduate work, de- 
 voting their time exclusively to the work of the normal courses. 
 
 (b) For entrance, four years work above the eighth grade in an ap- 
 proved four-year high school or its undoubted equivalent. 
 
 (c) For graduation therefrom, a minimum requirement of two years 
 additional work, including a thorough review of the common branches and 
 training in the practice school. 
 
 (d) The maintenance of a well equipped training school for observation 
 and practice, such school to cover work in the eight elementary grades, ade- 
 quate laboratory facilities for teaching the various sciences offered, a library 
 of at least 2,500 volumes, rich in standard books on educational subjects, edu- 
 cational reports and journals. 
 
 4. An accredited normal department of a college that does not meet the 
 requirements of a standard college must fulfill the following conditions: 
 
 (a) The work of such normal department must be in charge of a com- 
 petent director, who shall organize and manage the work of the department. 
 The teachers in the normal department must meet the same general requir- 
 ments as teachers in normal schools. 
 
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(b) The requirements of normal schools, such as admission of students, 
 standard of work, laboratory and library equipment, training school, etc., ap- 
 ply without change to normal departments. 
 
 (c) A sufficient annual income for maintaining the department in a man- 
 ner satisfactory to the state board of education must be provided. 
 
 5 Institutions specializing in such branches of study as music, manual 
 training, domestic science and art whose entrance requirements, courses, fac- 
 ulty and equipment meet the approval of the state board of education may be 
 placed on the accredited list and the graduates of such special courses be 
 entitled to credit toward's special certificates. 
 
 6. The Oklahoma state board of education has accredited all state uni- 
 versities, normal schools and normal training departments meeting the re- 
 quirements of sections 2, 3, 4 and 5, and the schools of college rank of the 
 North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Information 
 regarding the standing of any institution may be secured by addressing the 
 secretary of the state board of education, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 TEXTBOOKS. 
 
 Adopted for Use in the Common Schools of Oklahoma for a Five 
 Year Period, Beginning August 1, 1914. 
 
 TO TEACHEES AND SCHOOL OFFICEES: 
 
 The following is a list of the text-books, charts, maps, globes and appar- 
 atus adopted, or approved, by the state board of education for basal and sup- 
 plementary use in the common schools of the state of Oklahoma, for a period 
 of five years beginning August 1, 1914. 
 
 The retail price, with the exchange price which continues in effect for 
 one year from the date when the contract becomes effective, is indicated, to- 
 gether with the names and addresses of the companies publishing the books, 
 charts, globes, maps and apparatus adopted or approved. 
 
 Publishers are held responsible for the distribution of their respective 
 books throughout the state. Any failure on their part to make 4 proper distribu- 
 tion or exchange should be reported at once to this office. 
 
 Information concerning the use of these books is contained in the course 
 of study for the common schools, which may be obtained from The Warden 
 Company, of Oklahoma City, Okla. Eespectively, 
 
 E. H. WILSON, 
 State Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 COMMON SCHOOL LIST. 
 1. AGRICULTURAL. 
 
 Basic, Price 
 
 (Ginn & Co., Dallas, Texas.) Eetail Exch. 
 
 Burkett, Stevens & Hill's Agriculture for Beginners $ .60 $ .30 
 
 Supplementary. 
 
 (Ferguson Publ, Co., Sherman, Texas.) 
 Ferguson & Lewis' Principles of Agriculture .60 
 
 2. ARITHMETIC. 
 
 Basic. 
 (Lyons & Carnahan, Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Piimary Number Book .28 .14 
 
 (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Hamilton's Elementary Arithmetic .32 
 
 Hamilton's Practical Arithmetic .40 
 
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Supplementary. Price 
 
 (Minnie E. Puntenney, Oklahoma City, Okla.) Eetail Exch. 
 
 Puntenney 's Two Years Work in Numbers $ .26 
 
 (Lyons & Carnahan, Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Modern Elementary Arithmetic 25. $ .13 
 
 Modern Advanced Arithmetic .40 .20 
 
 3. CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 
 
 Basic. 
 
 (Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Eeinch 's Civil Government with Oklahoma History and Civics 
 
 by Roberts .80 .40 
 
 Supplementary. 
 
 (Warden Company, Oklahoma City, Okla.) 
 History of Oklahoma and Government by Thoburn & Holcomb 
 
 & Barrett .60 .30 
 
 4. DRAWING. 
 Basic. 
 
 (Atkinson, Mentzer & Co., Chicago.) 
 
 Applied Arts Drawing Books, One to Four, inclusive .15 
 
 Applied Arts Drawing Books, Five to Eight, inclusive .20 
 
 (For rural and city schools.) 
 
 5. DICTIONARIES. 
 Webster's (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Primary Dictionary .44 
 
 Shorter School Dictionary .54 
 
 Common School Dictionary .65 
 
 Elementary School Dictionary .81 
 
 High School Dictionary .88 
 
 Academic Dictionary 1.35 
 
 Webster's (Jasper Sipes Co., Oklahoma City.) 
 
 New International Dictionary (with index) 10.80 
 
 Collegiate Dictionary (sheep binding) 3.40 
 
 Collegiate Dictionary (cloth binding) 2.55 
 
 6. GEOGRAPHY. 
 (Ginn & Co., Dallas, Texas.) 
 
 Frye's First Course in Geography .40 .20 
 
 Frye's Higher Geography .88 .44 
 
 7. GRAMMAR. 
 (Warden Company, Oklahoma City.) 
 
 Winterburn's Graded Lessons in Language, Book One .40 .20 
 
 (Row, Peterson & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Essential Studies in English, Book Two, by Robbins & Row, 
 
 with Practical English, Part One, by Scott .55 .27 
 
 8. HISTORY. 
 
 Basic. 
 (Southern Publ. Co., Dallas, Texas.) 
 
 Beginner's History of Our Country .40 .20 
 
 (Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Evan's Essential Facts of American History .70 .35 
 
 Supplementary. 
 (Warden Company, Oklahoma City.) 
 
 Elementary History of the United States .40 .20 
 
 9. MUSIC. 
 
 (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Eleanor Smith's Music Course: 
 
 Primer .23 .11 
 
 Book One .23 .11 
 
 Book Two .27 .13 
 
 Book Three .36 .18 
 
 Book Four .45 .22 
 
 Manual .45 
 
 Aiken''s Music Course (for rural schools) 1 book .45 .22 
 
10. PHYSIOLOGY. Price 
 
 (World Book Co., Yonkers, N. Y.) Eetail Exch. 
 
 Eitchie-Cal dwell Primer of Hygiene $ .30 $ .15 
 
 Eitchie-Caldwell Primer of Sanitation and Physiology .60 .30 
 
 11. READERS. 
 
 Basic. 
 (D. C. Heath & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Heath's First Header .18 .09 
 
 Heath's Second Reader .27 .13 
 
 (Chas. E. Merrill Co., New York.) 
 
 Graded Literature Third Eeader .32 .16 
 
 Graded Literature Fourth Eeader, enlarged edition .40 .20 
 
 Graded Literature Fifth Eeader, enlarged edition .40 .20 
 
 (Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. 111.) 
 
 Curry's Literary Eeader (for 7th and 8th grades) .60 
 
 Supplementary. 
 (B. F. Johnson Publ. Co., Eichmond, Va.) 
 
 Haliburton's Playmates, a Primer .18 
 
 Carnefix Primer (adopted as chart) .08 
 
 (Minnie E. Puntenney, Oklahoma City.) 
 
 Puntenney's Forget-Me-Not Primer .25 
 
 (Eand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Holton Primer .19 
 
 (D. C. Heath & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Heath Primer .18 .09 
 
 (Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.) 
 Child Classics: 
 
 Primer .15 
 
 First Eeader .25 
 
 Second Eeader .30 
 
 Third Eeader .35 
 
 Fourth Eeader .40 
 
 Fifth Eeader .50 
 
 (Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Elson's Grammar School Eeaders: 
 
 Book Two .44 
 
 Book Three .52 
 
 Book Four .52 
 
 (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Carpenter's Geographical and Industrial Eeaders (for use of 
 teachers and libraries) : 
 
 North America .54 
 
 South America .54 
 
 Asia .54 
 
 Australia .54 
 
 Africa - .54 
 
 Europe .63 
 
 How the World Is Fed .54 
 
 How the World Is Clothed .54 
 
 How the World Is Housed .54 
 
 12. PENMANSHIP 
 (Adopted May 12, 1915.) 
 
 Creamer's System of Penmanship, Books 1 to 8 inclusive .04 
 
 Writing Pads Nos. I, II and III .05 
 
 (Webb Publishing Co., Oklahoma City.) 
 13. SPELLER. 
 
 Common Sense Spelling Book .20 .10 
 
 (J. E. Dyche Pub. Co., Oklahoma City.) 
 14. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. 
 (Adopted May 12, 1915.) 
 For Common Schools. 
 
 Food and Clothing, by Leno Osborne .60 .30 
 
 (Eow, Peterson & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
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Price 
 For High Schools and Normal Schools. Eetail Exch. 
 
 Kinne & Cooley's Shelter and Clothing $1.00 $ .50 
 
 Kinne & Cooley's Foods and Household Management 1.00 .50 
 
 (The MacMillan Co., New York) 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL LIST 
 AGRICULTURE. 
 
 (MacMillan & Co., Dallas, Texas.) 
 Warren's Elements of Agriculture for High Schools .90 .45 
 
 ARITHMETIC. 
 
 (B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va.) 
 Colaw & Elwood's Advanced Arithmetic .44 
 
 ALGEBRA. 
 
 (D. Appleton & Co., New York.) 
 Young & Jackson's High School Algebra .95 .47 
 
 ENGLISH. 
 
 Basic. 
 (Henry Holt & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Hitchcock's Composition and Rhetoric .94 .47 
 
 Pancoast & Shelly 's First Book in English Literature 1.17 .58 
 
 (Chas. E. Merrill Co., New York.) 
 
 Abernethy's American Literature 1.00 
 
 Supplementary. 
 
 (Row, Peterson & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Scott's Practical English .60 v .30 
 
 GEOMETRY. 
 
 (Ginn & Co., Dallas, Texas.) 
 Wentworth's & Smith's Plane and Solid Geometry 1.23 .61 
 
 GEOGRAPHY. 
 
 (D. Appleton & Co., New York.) 
 Gilbert & Brigham's Physical Geography .88 
 
 HISTORY. 
 (Ginn & Co., Dallas, Texas.) 
 
 Myer's Ancient History, revised 1.41 .70 
 
 Myer's Mediaeval and Modern History, revised 1.41 .70 
 
 (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Hart's Essentials in American History, approved for high 
 
 schools 1.35 .67 
 
 LATIN. 
 
 (D. Appleton & Co., New York) 
 Caesar's First Campaign .83 .41 
 
 (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 
 Pearson's Latin Prose Composition, based on Caesar .45 .22 
 
 (Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Walker's Caesar, Four-Book edition .87 .43 
 
 (Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 D'Ooge's Cicero .83 .41 
 
 PHYSICS. 
 
 (American Book Co., Chicago, 111.) 
 Hoadley's Essentials of Physics 1.13 .56 
 
 SPELLING 
 
 (B. F. Johnson Publ. Co., Richmond, Va.) 
 Payne's High School Speller .22 .11 
 
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CHARTS, GLOBES, MAPS, ETC. 
 
 (Jasper Sipes Co., Oklahoma City.) 
 
 Charts: Retail Price 
 
 Oklahoma Primary Beading Chart $5.00 
 
 Anatomy and Physiology Chart 7.00 
 
 North American Bird and Nature Chart 17.50 
 
 Hart's Historical Chart 3.00 
 
 Skinner's Chart on Practical Agriculture (approved) 37.50 
 
 Globes. 
 
 (Jasper Sipes Co., Oklahoma City.) 
 
 No. 1 6-inch .25 
 
 No. 10 6-inch .50 
 
 No. 903 8-inch 1.50 
 
 No. 906 12-inch 3.50 
 
 No. 104 8-inch 2.25 
 
 No. 101 12-inch 4.00 
 
 No. 98 18-inch 13.00 
 
 No. 103% 8-inch 3.00 
 
 No. lOOi/o 12-inch 5.00 
 
 No. 87% 18-inch 15.00 
 
 No. 100 12-inch ___. 5.75 
 
 No. 102% 8-inch ^ 3.95 
 
 No. 99% 12-inch __ 6.20 
 
 No. 96% 18-inch .' 16.85 
 
 No. 102 8-inch . 4.45 
 
 No. 99 12-inch 7.00 
 
 No. 96 18-inch 17.90 
 
 No. 12 Sash Wt. 12-inch 5.75 
 
 No. 12% Ball Wt. 12-inch 6.50 
 
 No. 18% Ball Wt. 18-inch 18.00 
 
 No. 18 Sash Wt. 18-inch 16.00 
 
 No. 97 18-inch 16.00 
 
 MAPS. 
 Universal Series. 
 
 Any map mounted on cloth, common rollers 1.00 
 
 Any map mounted in steel or diamond case 2.00 
 
 Any four maps in lock case, per set 7.50 
 
 Any eight maps in lock case, per set 12.00 
 
 Any four maps in Universal case, per set 8.50 
 
 Any eight maps in Universal case, per set 13.50 
 
 Any eight maps in Roller Front case, per set 15.00 
 
 New School Series. 
 
 Any map mounted on cloth, common rollers 2.00 
 
 Any map mounted in steel or diamond case 4.60 
 
 Any seven maps on spring rollers in lock case 28.00 
 
 Any seven maps on spring rollers in roller front case 33.00 
 
 Any four maps on spring rollers in lock case 18.40 
 
 Columbia Series. 
 
 Any map mounted on cloth, common rollers 3.00 
 
 Any map in steel or diamond case 5.50 
 
 Any seven maps on spring rollers in Columbia case 38.50 
 
 Any seven maps on springs rollers in roller front case 43.75 
 
 Any four maps on spring rollers in Columbia case 22.00 
 
 Physical Series or Birdseye View Series. 
 
 Any map mounted on cloth, common rollers 3.60 
 
 Any map in steel or diamond case 6.00 
 
 Any seven maps on spring rollers in lock case 42.00 
 
 Any seven maps on spring rollers, in roller front case 47.00 
 
 Any four maps on spring rollers in lock case 24.00 
 
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Globe or Outline Series. Ketail Price 
 
 Any map mounted on cloth, common rollers .. $ 1.50 
 
 Any map in steel or diamond case 3.00 
 
 Any eight maps in Globe case on spring rollers 20.00 
 
 Any four maps in Globe case on spring rollers 12.00 
 
 Any eight maps in roller front case on spring rollers 25.00 
 
 Goode's Political Wall or Physical Wall Map Series. 
 
 Any map mounted on cloth, common rollers 5.00 
 
 Any map mounted in steel or diamond case 8.00 
 
 Foster's Historical. 
 
 Same mounted on tripod stand 15.00 
 
 Dr. Kiepert's Classical and other imported maps, 20 percent discount 
 
 from catalog. 
 Map of Oklahoma, common rollers 1.50 
 
 CHARTS ON PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 
 
 (Approved.) 
 
 Single chart, common rollers 1.10 
 
 Single chart in Shield case 1.98 
 
 Single chart in St'eel case 2.20 
 
 Full set 12 charts, tripod stand 11.88 
 
 Full set 12 charts, Johnston case 18.70 
 
 Full set 12 charts, Eotary case 23.50 
 
 Full set 12 charts, roller front case 21.10 
 
 Full set 13 charts, tripod stand 13.20 
 
 BLACKBOARD OUTLINE MAPS. 
 
 (Approved.) 
 
 Single mountings only, Unrivalled series U. S., world and continents, each 2.85 
 Imperial series, U. S., world and continents, each 3.50 
 
 REGISTERS. 
 (Oklahoma School Herald Pub. Co., Oklahoma City.) 
 
 For fifty pupils .55 
 
 For seventy pupils .65 
 
 BIRDS OF OKLAHOMA. 
 
 (Geo. W. Stevens, Alva, Okla.) 
 
 Illustrated edition for teachers and libraries 1.75 
 
 Of the above books, those published by the American Book Company, Ginn 
 & Company, Chas. E. Merrill & Company, and the Band, McNally Company, 
 together with all globes, charts, maps and apparatus, will be purchased from 
 Jasper Sipes Company, Oklahoma City. All other books mentioned above will 
 be distributed by the Oklahoma Book Company, Oklahoma City. 
 
 When making orders or writing for information concerning text-books and 
 depositories, take the matter up directly with Jasper Sipes Company or the 
 Oklahoma Book Company, as the publishing companies make their contracts 
 directly with the distributing houses and this department has nothing what- 
 ever to do with the distributing of the books except to assist in enforcing the 
 law in case books are not furnished and distributed according to contract. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 E. H. WILSON, 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Article 1 State Superintendent 5 
 
 Article 2 County Superintendent 7 
 
 Article 3 Common School Districts 11 
 
 Article 4 Joint Districts 13 
 
 Article 5 Duties of District Officers and Teachers 14 
 
 Article 6 Independent Districts 21 
 
 Article 7 Consolidated Districts 28 
 
 Article 8 Union Graded Districts 32 
 
 Article 9 School Census 34 
 
 Article 10 Agricultural Education 36 
 
 Article 11 Normal Institutes and Training Courses 38 
 
 Article 12 Kindergarten Education 42 
 
 Article 13 Compulsory Attendance and Mother's Pension 42 
 
 Article 14 County Certificates and Board of Examiners 44 
 
 Article 15 Separate Schools 48 
 
 Article 16 Transfer of Pupils 51 
 
 Article 17 General Provisions 52 
 
 Article 18 Nepotism J 55 
 
 Article 19 School Fraternities 56 
 
 Article 20 State Board of Education -. 56 
 
 Article 21 Business Colleges 58 
 
 Article 22 Books and Supplies 59 
 
 Article 23 School District Tax Levies 66 
 
 Article 24 Warrants Issuance and Payment of 68 
 
 Article 25 Fire Escapes 70 
 
 Article 26 School for the Blind 71 
 
 Article 27 School for the Deaf 71 
 
 Article 28 Oklahoma State Home (Orphanage) 72 
 
 Article 29 State Training School 76 
 
 Article 30 Child Labor Law 80 
 
 Article 31 Sinking Funds 84 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 Rules and Regulations for State Certificates 84 
 
 List of Adopted Books _ 90 
 
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