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Garfield, and Major; number 21, the counties of Osage, Payne, Pawnee, and Tulsa.

SEC. 25. The terms of the district court shall be held at the county seat of the respective counties.

ARTICLE VIII.

Impeachment and removal from office.

SECTION 1. The governor and other elective State officers, including the justices of the supreme court, shall be liable and subject to impeachment for wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, habitual drunkenness, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude committed while in office.

SEC. 2. All elective officers, not liable to impeachment, shall be subject to removal from office in such manner and for such causes as may be provided by law.

SEC. 3. When sitting as a court of impeachment, the senate shall be presided over by the chief justice, or if he is absent or disqualified, then one of the associate justices of the supreme court, to be selected by it, except in cases where all the members of said court are absent or disqualified, or in cases of impeachment of any justice of the supreme court, then the senate shall elect one of its own members as a presiding officer for such purpose. The house of representatives shall present all impeachments.

SEC. 4. When the senate is sitting as a court of impeachment, the senators shall be on oath, or affirmation, impartially to try the party impeached, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators present.

SEC. 5. Judgment of impeachment shall not extend beyond removal from office, but this shall not prevent punishment of any such officer on charges growing out of the same matter by the courts of the State. SEC. 6. The legislature shall pass such laws as are necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE IX.

Corporations.

DEFINITION.

SECTION 1. As used in this article, the term "corporation" or company" shall include all associations and joint stock companies having any power or privileges, not possessed by individuals, and exclude all municipal corporations and public institutions owned or controlled by the State; the term "charter" shall mean the charter of incorporation, by or under which any corporation is formed. The term "license" shall mean the authority under which all foreign corporations are permitted to transact business in this State.

RAILROAD AND PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS.

SEC. 2. Every railroad, oil pipe, car, express, telephone or telegraph corporation or association organized or authorized to do a

transportation or transmission business under the laws of this State for such purpose, shall, each respectively, have the right to construct and operate its line between any points in this State, and as such to connect at the State line with like lines; and every such company shall have the right with its road or line, to intersect, connect with, or cross any railroad or such line.

SEC. 3. Every railroad, car, or express company, shall each respectively receive and transport without delay or discrimination each other's cars, loaded or empty, tonnage, and passengers, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law or any commission created by this constitution or by act of the legislature, for that purpose.

SEC. 4. All oil pipe companies shall be subject to the reasonable control and regulation of the corporation commission, and shall receive and transport each other's tonnage or oils, or commodities, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by law, or such commission.

SEC. 5. All telephone and telegraph lines, operated for hire, shall each respectively, receive and transmit each other's messages without delay or discrimination, and make physical connections with each other's lines, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by law, or by any commission created by this constitution, or any act of the legislature for that purpose.

SEC. 6. Railroads heretofore constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed in this State, are hereby declared public highways. Every railroad or other public service corporation organized or doing business in this State, under the laws or authority thereof, shall have and maintain a public office or place in this State, for the transaction of its business, where transfers of stock shall be made, and where shall be kept, for inspection by the stockholders of such corporation, books, in which shall be recorded the amount of capital stock subscribed, the names of the owners of stock, the amounts owned by them, respectively; the amount of stock paid, and by whom; the transfer of said stock, with the date of transfer; the amount of its assets and liabilities, and the names and places of residence of its officers, and such other matters required by law or by order of the corporation commission. The directors of every railroad company, or other public service corporation, shall hold at least one meeting annually in this State, public notice of which shall be given thirty days previously, and the president or superintendent of every railroad company and other public-service corporation organized or doing business in this State under the laws of this State or the authority thereof, shall report annually under oath, and make such other reports as may be required by law or order of the corporation commission, to said commission their acts and doings, which report shall include such matters relating to railroads and other public service corporations as may be prescribed by law. The legislature shall pass all necessary laws enforcing, by suitable penalties, all the provisions in this section.

SEC. 7. The rolling stock and all other movable property belonging to any railroad, transportation, transmission, or other public corporation in this State, shall be considered personal property, and its real and personal property, or any part thereof, shall be liable to

execution and sale in the same manner as the property of individuals; and the legislature shall pass no laws exempting any such property from execution and sale.

SEC. 8. No public-service corporation, or the lessees, purchasers, or managers thereof, shall consolidate the stock, property, or franchises, of such corporation with, or lease or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control, any other public-service corporations owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line; except by enactment of the legislature upon the recommendation of the incorporated commission: Provided, however, That the legislature shall never enact any law permitting any public-service corporation, the lessees, purchasers, or managers thereof, when such public-service corporation is organized under the laws of any other State, or of the United States, to consolidate the stock, property, or franchises, of such corporation with, or lease, or purchase, the works of, franchises of, or in any way control, any other public-service corporation, organized under the laws of any other State, or of the United States, owning or having under its control in this State a parallel or competing line; nor shall any officer of such corporation act as an officer of any other corporation owning or controlling a parallel or competing line.

SEC. 9. Neither shall any railroad company, transportation company, or transmission company organized under the laws in this State, consolidate by private or judicial sale, or otherwise, with any railroad company, transportation company, or transmission company organized under the laws of any other State, or of the United States. SEC. 10. No law shall be passed by the legislature granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town, or village, or upon any public highway, without first acquiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad.

SEC. 11. No railroad, transportation, transmission, or other publicservice corporation in existence at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall have the benefit of any future legislation, except on condition of complete acceptance of all the provisions of this constitution, applicable to railroads, transportation companies, transmission companies, and other public service corporations: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as validating any charter which may be invalid, or having any of the conditions contained in any charter.

SEC. 12. No railroad company shall transport, within this State, any article or commodity manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own, in whole or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect, except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for the use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier.

SEC. 13. No railroad or transportation company or transmission company shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give any free frank or free ticket, free pass or other free transportation, for any use, within this State, except to its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries for railroad Young Men's Christian Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and elee

mosynary work; to indigent, destitute and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents, employed in such transportations; to inInates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of soldiers' and sailors' homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge, and boards of managers of such homes; to members of volunteer fire departments and their equipage while traveling as such; to necessary caretakers of live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees of sleeping cars, of express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to railway mail service employees, post-office inspectors, customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors: to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the railroad company or transportation company is interested, persons injured in wrecks, and physicians and nurses attending such persons: Provided, That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers and their families; nor to prohibit any common carriers from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation; nor to prevent them from transporting, free of charge, to their places of employment persons entering their service, and the interchange of passes to that end; and any railroad, transportation, or transmission company or any person, other than the persons excepted in this provision, who grants or uses any such free frank, free ticket, free pass, or free transportation within this State, shall be deemed guilty of a crime, and the legislature shall provide proper penalties for the violation of any provision of this section by the railroad or transportation or transmission company, or by any individual: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the legislature from extending these provisions so as to exclude such free transportations or franks from other persons.

SEC. 14. No railroad hereafter constructed in this State shall pass within a distance of 4 miles of any county seat without passing through the same and establishing and maintaining a depot therein, unless prevented by natural obstacles such as streams, hills, or mountains: Provided, Such town, or its citizens, shall grant the right of way through its limits and sufficient ground for ordinary depot purposes.

CORPORATION COMMISSION.

SEC. 15. A corporation commission is hereby created, to be composed of three persons, who shall be elected by the people at a general election for State officers, and their terms of office shall be six years: Provided, Corporation commissioners first elected under this constitution shall hold office as follows: I shall serve until the second Monday in January, 1909; 1 until the second Monday in January, 1911; and 1 until the second Monday in January, 1913; their terms to be decided by lot immediately after they shall have qualified. In case of a vacancy in said office, the governor of the State shall fill such vacancy by appointment until the next general election, when a successor shall be elected to fill out any unexpired term.

SEC. 16. The qualifications of such commissioners shall be as follows: To be resident citizens of this State for over two years next preceding the election, and qualified voters under the constitution and laws, and not less than 30 years of age; nor shall such commissioners, or either of them, be, directly or indirectly, interested in any railroad, street railway, traction line, canal, steamboat, pipe line, car line, sleeping-car line, car association, express line, telephone or telegraph line, operated for hire, in this State, or out of it, or any stock, bond, mortgage, security, or earnings of any such railroad, street railway, traction line, canal, steamboat, pipe line, car line, sleeping-car line, car association, express line, telephone or telegraph line, compress or elevator companies; and if such commissioner shall voluntarily become so interested, his office shall become vacant; and if any corporation commissioner shall become so interested otherwise than voluntarily, he shall, within a reasonable time, divest himself of such interest; and failing to do this, his office shall become vacant. Nor shall any such commissioner hold any other office under the Government of the United States, or of this State or any other State government, and shall not, while such commissioner, engage in any occupation or business inconsistent with his duties as such commissioner.

SEC. 17. Before entering upon the duties of his office each of said commissioners shall take and subscribe to the oath of office as prescribed in this constitution and shall, in addition thereto, swear that he is not, directly or indirectly, interested in any railroad, street railway, traction line, canal, steamboat, pipe line, car line, sleeping-car line, car association, express line, telephone or telegraph line, nor in the bonds, stocks, mortgages, securities, contract, or earnings of any railroad, street railway, traction line, canal, steamboat, pipe line, car line, sleeping-car line, car association, express line, telephone or telegraph line; and that he will, to the best of his ability, faithfully and justly execute and enforce the provisions of this constitution, and all the laws of this State concerning railroads, street railways, traction lines, canals, steamboats, pipe lines, car lines, sleeping-car lines, car associations, express lines, telephone and telegraph lines, compress and elevator companies, and all other corporations over which said commission has jurisdiction, which oath shall be filed with the secretary of state.

SEC. 18. The commission shall have the power and authority and be charged with the duty of supervising, regulating, and controlling all transportation and transmission companies doing business in this State, in all matters relating to the performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting abuses and preventing unjust discrimination and extortion by such companies; and to that end the commission shall, from time to time, prescribe and enforce against such companies, in the manner hereinafter authorized, such rates, charges, classifications of traffic, and rules and regulations, and shall require them to establish and maintain all such public service, facilities, and conveniences as may be reasonable and just, which said rates, charges, classifications, rules, regulations, and requirements, the commission may, from time to time, alter or amend. All rates, charges, classifications, rules and regulations adopted, or acted upon, by any such company, inconsistent with those prescribed by the commission, within the scope of