Ceclass. 5-26-31 RESOLUTION 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, and that the same on this date after having been duly engrossed and the engrossed copy thereof being read, and roll call had thereon, the same was passed as engrossed, on this 22nd day of April, A. D., 1907. Attest: JOHN MCLAIN YOUNG. Secretary. WM. H. MURRAY President of Convention. 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 Sixteenth, Anno Domini, Nineteen Hundred and Six. 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 and six other original copies and made a part of the Constitution for the proposed State of Oklahoma, was read as engrossed and roll call had thereon and the same duly adopted 164621 3 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: JOHN MCLAIN YOUNG, Secretary PREAMBLE. WM. H. MURRAY President of Convention. Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessing of liberty; to secure just and rightful government; to promote our mutual welfare and happiness, we, the people of the State of Oklahoma, do ordain and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE I: FEDERAL RELATIONS. SECTION 1. The State of Oklahoma is an inseparable part of the Federal Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. SEC. 2. Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no inhabitant of the State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but the toleration of religious sentiment hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or indecency, or to justify practices inconsistent with the good morals, good order, peace, or safety of the State, or with the rights of others; and no religious test shall be required for the exercise of civil or political rights. Polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited. SEC. 3. The people inhabiting the State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title in or to any unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lving within said limits owned or held by any Indian, tribe, or nation; and that until the title to any such public land shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain. subject to the jurisdiction, disposal, and control of the United States. Land belonging to citizens of the United States residing without the limits of the State shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the land belonging to residents thereof. No taxes shall be imposed by the State on lands or property belonging to or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States or reserved for its use. SEC. 4. The debts and liabilities of the Territory of Oklahoma are hereby assumed, and shall be paid by the State. SEC. 5. Provisions shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of the State and free from sectarian control; and said schools shall always be conducted in English: Provided, That nothing herein shall preclude the teaching of other languages in said public schools: And provided further, That this shall not be construed to prevent the establishment and maintenance of separate schools for white and colored children. SEC. 6. The State shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. SEC. 7. The manufacture, sale, barter, giving away, or otherwise furnishing, except as hereinafter provided, of intoxicating liquors within those parts of the State, heretofore known as the Indian Territory and the Osage Indian Reservation, and within any other parts of the State which existed as Indian reservations on the first day of January, Nineteen Hundred and Six, is prohibited for a period of twenty-one years from the date of the admission of the 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 the above-described portions of the State, advertise for sale or solicit the purchase of any such liquors, or who shall ship or in any way convey such liquors from other parts of the State into the portions hereinbefore described, shall be punished, on conviction thereof, by fine not less than fifty dollars 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 two thousand population in the portions of the State hereinbefore described; and if there be no incorporated town of two thousand population in any county in said portions of the State, such county shall be entitled to have one such agency, for the sale of such liquors for 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 one thousand dollars, 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 parts of the State hereinabove defined 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 prescriptions pertaining thereto, shall 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 |