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before any officer authorized by law to administer oaths, and executing such bond as may be required by law.

SEC. 42. All officers elected at the time of the adoption of the constitution shall execute such official bond as may then be required by law or thereafter required by act of the legislature; and such bonds shall inure to the benefit of the State or other beneficiary, for whose protection or security the same shall be required.

SEC. 43. When this constitution shall have been ratified by the people of the State of Oklahoma and the State admitted into the Federal Union, under the same, as engrossed on parchment and signed by the officers and members of this constitutional convention, it shall be filed in he office of the secretary of state and sacredly preserved by him, as the fundamental law of the State of Oklahoma.

Done in open convention at the city of Guthrie, in the Territory of Oklahoma, on this, the 16th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1907, and the Independence of the United States of America one hundred and thirty-first.

Attest:

JOHN MCLAIN YOUNG,

[SEAL.]

Secretary.

CHAS. H. FILSON,

Secretary of Oklahoma.

Wм. H. MURRAY,

President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma and Delegate from District No. 104.

PETE HANRATY,

Vice-President.

ALBERT H. ELLIS,

Second Vice-President and Delegate 14, District.

PHILIP B. HOPKINS.

District No. 75.

C. N. HASKELL,

District No. 76.

C. S. Leeper, 96; T. O. James, district No. 1; C. H. Pittman; J. H. N. Cobb; C. W. Board, 73; W. S. Dearing, district 44; David S. Rose, district 15; Geo. A. Henshaw, district 107; W. F. Hendricks, district 10; James H. Chambers, district 105; William J. Caudill, district 50; Cham Jones, district 101; John M. Carr, district No. 54; L. B. Littleton, district No. 32; J. B. Tosh, district 52; J. K. Hill, district 63; J. J. Savage, district 48; J. S. Buchanan, district 34; J. C. Graham, district 106; J. A. Alderson, district 12; Thad D. Rice, district 38; A. G. Cochran, district 98; William N. Littlejohn, district 78; James R. Copeland, district 62; C. V. Rogers, district 64; B. E. Bryant, district 47; Samuel W. Hayes, district 85; James I. Wood, district 89; David Hogg, district 43; Flowers Nelson, district 68; Boone Williams, district 97; W. L. Helton, district 24; Edward R. Williams, district 3; J. F. King, district No. 16; J. W. Swarts, district 60; W. E. Banks, district 51; R. J. Allen, district 93; Charles M. McClain, district No.

86; Fred C. Tracy, district No. 2; G. M. Berry, district No. 18; William C. Liedtke, district 83; J. A. Baker, district 81; T. C. Wyatt, district 33; Charles L. Moore, district No. 13; A. L. Hausam, district 70; J. J. Quarles, district No. 56; Ben. F. Harrison, district 88; E. G. Newell, district 19; Hamner G. Turner, district No. 80; Delphas G. Harned, district 9; J. Howard Langley, district 65; G. W. Wood, district No. 8; J. S. Latimer, district 99; Jno. B. Harrison, 45; Joel M. Sandlin, district 22; L. J. Akers, district 102; John L. Mitch, district 29; W. A. Ledbetter, district 103; Christopher C. Mathis, district 100; Edwin T. Sorrells, district 92; Carlton Weaver, district 87; Henry S. Johnston, district 17; J. E. Sater, district No. 20; Milas Lasater, district 94; S. W. Ramsey, district 30; R. L. Williams, district No. 108; Henry L. Cloud, district 23; E. F. Messenger, district No. 82; John J. Carney, district 36; Gabe E. Parker, district 109; W. C. Hughes, district 28; H. O. Tener, district 42; C. H. Bower, district 41; J. K. Norton, district 35; Matthew J. Kane, district 37; Joseph J. Curl, 57; O. H. P. Brewer, 77; A. S. Wyly, district 72; William H. Edley, district 53; George Norton Bilby, district 6; T. J. Leahy, district 56.

TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA, Logan County:

I, Wm. H. Murray, president of the constitutional convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is the original parchment enrollment of the constitution and the several articles thereof adopted by the constitutional convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, to be submitted to the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma for ratification, and that all the interlineations therein contained and all the erasures and words stricken out were made and done before the same was signed by the president, the vice-presidents, and the members of said convention. Witness my hand this the 16th day of July, A. D. 1907.

WM. H. MURRAY, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma.

Resolutions adopting the Constitution of the United States.

Whereas, the enabling act provides that a declaration be made by the delegates to this convention adopting the Constitution of the United States: Therefore, be it resolved by the organized convention, that the delegates elected to the constitutional convention for the proposed State of Oklahoma, assembled in Guthrie, the seat of government of said Oklahoma Territory, do declare on behalf of the people of said proposed state, that they adopt the Constitution of the United States.

I hereby certify that the above and foregoing resolution was duly passed by the convention upon its organization, on the 21st day of November, A. D. 1906.

I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true, correct, and literal copy of the constitution for the proposed State of Oklahoma, as the same is engrossed on parchment, and signed by the officers and members of the constitutional convention and as certified to by Chas. H. Filson as secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma, under the seal of said Territory.

Given under our official signatures this 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. WM. H. MURRAY, President, the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma.

Attest:

JOHN MCLAIN YOUNG,

Secretary.

Accepting enabling act.

Be it ordained by the constitutional convention for the proposed State of Oklahoma, that said constitutional convention do, by this ordinance, irrevocable, accept the terms and conditions of an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act to enable the people of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of New Mexico and of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," approved June the 16th, anno Domini 1906.

I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance accepting the terms and conditions of the enabling act as the same has heretofore been passed and engrossed, was engrossed with the engrossed copy of the constitution on parchment, was read as engrossed and roll call had thereon and the same duly adopted by a majority of the votes of all the delegates elected to and constituting this convention, at 11.41 o'clock, a. m., this 22nd day of April, anno Domini 1907.

Attest:

WM. H. MURRAY,

President The Constitutional Convention
of the proposed State of Oklahoma.

JOHN MCLAIN YOUNG,

Secretary.

Prohibition.

ARTICLE SUBMITTING THE SAME SEPARATELY TO A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.

The manufacture, sale, barter, giving away, or otherwise furnishing, except as hereinafter provided, of intoxicating liquors within this State, or any part thereof, is prohibited for a period of twentyone years from the date of the admission of this State into the Union, and thereafter until the people of the State shall otherwise provide by amendment of this constitution and proper State legislation. Any

person, individual or corporate, who shall manufacture, sell, barter, give away, or otherwise furnish any intoxicating liquor of any kind, including beer, ale, and wine, contrary to the provisions of this section, or who shall, within this State, advertise for sale or solicit the purchase of any such liquors, or who shall ship or in any way convey such liquors from one place within this State to another place therein, except the conveyance of a lawful purchase as herein authorized, shall be punished, on conviction thereof, by fine not less than $50 and by imprisonment not less than thirty days for each offense: Provided, That the legislature may provide by law for one agency under the supervision of the State in each incorporated town of not less than 2,000 population in the State; and if there be no corporated town of 2,000 population in any county in this State, such county shall be entitled to have one such agency, for the sale of such liquor fors medicinal purposes; and for the sale, for industrial purposes, of alcohol which shall have been denaturized by some process approved by the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue; and for the sale of alcohol for scientific purposes to such scientific institutions, universities, and colleges as are authorized to procure the same free of tax under the laws of the United States; and for the sale of such liquors to any apothecary who shall have executed an approved bond, in a sum not less than $1,000, conditioned that none of such liquors shall be used or disposed of for any purpose other than in the compounding of prescriptions or other medicines, the sale of which would not subject him to the payment of the special tax required of liquor dealers by the United States, and the payment of such special tax by any person within the State shall constitute prima facie evidence of his intention to violate the provisions of this section. No sale shall be made except upon the sworn statement of the applicant in writing setting forth the purpose for which the liquor is to be used, and no sale shall be made for medicinal purposes except sales to apothecaries as hereinabove provided unless such statement shall be accompanied by a bona fide prescription signed by a regular practicing physician, which prescription shall not be filled more than once. Each sale shall be duly registered, and the register thereof, together with the affidavits and prescription pertaining thereof, shalĺ be open to inspection by any officer or citizen of the State at all times during business hours. Any person who shall knowingly make a false affidavit for the purpose aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of perjury. Any physician who shall prescribe any such liquor, except for treatment of disease which after his own personal diagnosis, he shall for each offense by fine of not less than $200 or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and any person connected with any such agency who shall be convicted of making any sale or other disposition of liquor contrary to these provisions shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year and one day. Upon the admission of this State into the Union these provisions shall be immediately enforceable in the courts of the State: Provided, That there shall be submitted separately, at the same election at which this constitution is submitted for ratification or rejection, and on the same ballot, the foregoing article -, entitled "Prohibition," on which ballot shall be printed for Statewide prohibition and against State-wide prohibition: And provided

further, That if a majority of the votes cast for and against Statewide prohibition are for State-wide prohibition, the said article shall be and form a part of this constitution and be in full force and effect as such, as provided therein; but if a majority of said votes shall be against State-wide prohibition, then the provisions of said article shall not form a part of this constitution and shall be null and void.

I hereby certify that the above and foregoing provision and ordinance submitting the same separately to a vote of the people of the State as heretofore adopted on the 11th day of March, A. D. 1907, as above engrossed, was adopted as engrossed upon roll call for the pupose of such separate submission, on this the 22nd day of April, anno Domini 1907.

Attest:

WM. H. MURRAY,

President The Constitutional Convention
of the proposed State of Oklahoma.

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