and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than five (5) years nor more than twenty (20) years.

Letters-Mailing Anonymous Letters-Felony.

Section 4. Any person who shall send, deliver, mail or otherwise transmit to any person, or persons, in this State any letter, document or other written or printed matter, anonymous or otherwise, designed to threaten or intimidate such person or persons, or designed to put him or them in fear of life, bodily harm or the destruction of his or their property, shall be deemed guilty of committing a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty ($50.00) Dollars nor more than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail or penitentiary for a period of not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one (1) year.

County Attorney-Sheriff-Duties.

Section 5. It is hereby made the duty of the County Attorney and Sheriff and peace officers of each County of this State to diligently prosecute any violations of this Act; and failure or neglect to diligently prosecute any violations of this Act shall be a cause for removal from office, and shall disqualify such officer from holding any office of profit or trust within the State of Oklahoma, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to file information and complaint against any peace officer, County Attorney or Sheriff who shall fail or neglect to diligently prosecute all violations of this Act.

Organizations-Oaths.

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Section 6. No society, association or corporation which, as a part of its Constitution, by-laws, ritual or regulations, requires its members to take an oath or obligation in conflict with or repugnant to the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, or the Constitution of the United States, or requires its members to hold their allegiance to some other government, power, person influence, shall be organized or permitted to exist or function within the State of Oklahoma, and no person who belongs to any such society, association or corporation, and who owes allegiance to any government, king, potentate, power or person other than the Government of the United States, shall be inducted into or hold a public office within the State of Oklahoma. Any society. association, corporation or individual, violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be subject to a fine of not less than One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars nor more than Five Thousand ($5.000.00) Dollars.

Approved January 28, 1924.

CHAPTER 3.

HOUSE BILL NO. 6.

Eleemosynary Institutions-May Engage in Business.

AN ACT empowering Charitable, Educational or Benevolent Corporations to engage in auxiliary business enterprises and to borrow money in order that additional funds may be obtained with which to carry out their charitable, educational or benevolent purposes; repealing Sections 5593, 5594, 5595, 5596 and 5597, Compiled Oklahoma Statutes, 1921, and repealing all Acts in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

Corporations-May Engage in Business.

Section 1. Any corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma for charitable, educational or benevolent purposes may maintain and carry on any and all kinds of business enterprises that an individual or corporation may lawfully carry on under the laws of the State of Oklahoma as auxiliary enterprises and may do so either directly or through any other corporation or corporations, a majority of whose stock it lawfully owns, in order that additional funds may be obtained with which to carry out only the charitable, educational or benevolent purposes of such corporation.

Same-May Borrow Money-Limitations.

Section 2. Any such charitable, educational or benevolent corporation may borrow money and incur debts either for its principal purposes, or for the furtherance of any or all its business enterprises or both, at a rate of interest, and bonus, not exceeding sixpercent (6%) per annum on such indebtedness. In case money is borrowed to aid any corporation, a majority of whose stock is lawfully owned by such charitable, educational or benevolent corporation, it may loan or advance the same to such controlled corporation on such terms as may seem advisable to its trustees. Any such charitable, educational or benevolent corporation so borrowing money to aid any other corporation as aforesaid, may evidence its indebtedness by notes or bonds and secure their payment by mortgaging and pledging all or any part of its property, real, personal and mixed, except the real estate, buildings and personal property consisting of household goods, farm implements and domestic animals used for the ordinary conduct and operation of the institution of such corporations, which last named property shall never be liable, or in any manner taken for indebtedness, charge or lien of any nature whatsoever contracted by such corporation, to aid another corporation as aforesaid, provided that if any charitable, educational or benevolent corporation shall maintain or carry on any auxiliary business under the terms of Section 1 of this Act, either directly or through any other corporation or corporations, such fact shall be held to be an agreement on its part and on the part of such other corporation or corporations that all property owned by, devoted to, or used in such auxiliary business hereunder, shall be subject to taxation for all purposes in the same manner as taxable property generally and that such property shall not be exempt from taxation by reason of the fact that the revenues or profits or a portion thereof, are used or intended to be used as additional funds for carrying out the charitable, educational or benevolent purposes of such corporation or for re-investment by or in behalf of such charitable, educational or benevolent corporation; and it is hereby declared that no such property shall be exempt from taxation; and provided, further, that the real estate, buildings, and personal property, consisting of household goods, farming implements and domestic animals necessary for the ordinary conduct and operation of such charitable, educational or benevolent corporations, shall be exempt from taxation.

Repealing Section.

Section 3. Sections 5593, 5594, 5595, 5596 and 5597, Compiled Oklahoma Statutes, 1921, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Emergency.

Section 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved December 6, 1923.

CHAPTER 4.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1.

Oklahoma Flood Waters.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION of the Senate and House of Representatives of Oklahoma in Legislative Assembly, petitioning the Representatives of Congress from this State to introduce a bill providing for a preliminary survey by the Unted States Government to determine the feasibility and cost of impounding the flood waters of Oklahoma for the purpose of preventing floods and using such waters for irrigation purposes.

WHEREAS, It has been the policy of our National Government to expend large sums of money in irrigation projects to reclaim certain arid districts or parts of our Western states, and,

WHEREAS, Certain parts of Oklahoma are semi-arid and other parts are subject to droughts at certain seasons of the year and constituted as it is with a rich soil, which, if properly irrigated would produce bountiful crops, with the aid of an almost tropical sun, and,

WHEREAS, Under the operation of the Reclamation Act, of 1902, Oklahoma's contribution to the National Reclamation Fund ultimately amounted to a sum in excess of five millions of dollars, and, WHEREAS, Oklahoma, in common with other Plains states, not only received no benefit in return but was finally deprived of even the right to lay claim to any benefits therefrom as the result of a Congressional Enactment in 1910, and,

WHEREAS, Nearly every year and several times in some years its rich valleys are flooded, destroying millions of dollars worth of property, adjacent to its streams, resulting in the loss of many lives and indescribable suffering among its people, and,

WHEREAS, If these flood waters could and should be impounded, saved and used for irrigation purposes, it would prevent these destructive and terrible floods and insure bounteous crops and bring to thousands of farmers in this State, the prosperity, which their labor so justly earns, and,

WHEREAS, Such an undertaking, if broad enough to bring general relief throughout the State, would be of such magnitude that it could not readily be financed or managed, without the active co-operation of our National Government,

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring therein, that the Representatives and Senators in Congress from this State be and hereby are urgently requested to introduce and secure the passage of a bill repealing the clause by which Oklahoma and other Plains states were deprived of their respective interests in and benefits from the Reclamation Fund, to the end that such rights and benefits be restored, and,

Be It Further Resolved, that the necessary negotiations for a cooperative topography survey of the drainage basins of certain streams should be undertaken without delay to the end that needed conservation and reclamation plans may be worked out at the earliest practicable moment by demonstrating the practical feasibility of impounding flood waters, and using same for irrigation purposes, and,

Be It Further Resolved, that a certified copy of this resolution be furnished to each of the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State.

Adopted by the Senate October 24, 1923.

Adopted by the House of Representatives November 13, 1923.

CHAPTER 5.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3.

Hospitalization of Oklahoma's Disabled War Veterans

A RESOLUTION memorializing the Government of the United States and in particular the Honorable Director of the United States Veteran's Bureau, on the subject of the hospitalization of Oklahoma's disabled war veterans.

WHEREAS, The State of Oklahoma has given its unfaltering adherence to the principle that as far as possible the disabled war veterans of this State should be hospitalized therein in order that they may be within easy access of their homes, families and friends; and

WHEREAS, said adherence has been shown not only in words but by the appropriation and expenditure by the State of Oklahoma of more than One Million Dollars of its own funds, which said appropriation and expenditures have been made in order to provide, in Oklahoma, hospital facilities for the care of said disabled war veterans; and

WHEREAS, the Government of the United States, acting by and through the United States Veteran's Bureau, has repeatedly pledged the State of Oklahoma that said facilities would be utilized by it as far as possible in the care and treatment of said disabled veterans; and

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WHEREAS, among the hospitals erected, equipped and maintained by the State of Oklahoma, in pursuance of its policy aforesaid, is the Sulphur Sanatorium located in the vicinity of Platt National Park near Sulphur, Oklahoma; and

WHEREAS, said Sulphur Sanatorium in fulfillment of the aforesaid pledge of the Federal Government to the State of Oklahoma, has been utilized by the United States Veteran's Bureau in the hospitalization of tubercular ex-service men who are patients of said Bureau; and

WHEREAS, certain rumors are afloat to the effect that the United States Government, acting through said Bureau, is on the point of abandoning said Sanatorium as a hospital for tubercular exservice men who are Government patients; and

WHEREAS, said rumors are not founded on any dissatisfaction of said patients with the same, said hospital having been highly praised in a Federal Government official report as a most ideal institution, equipped with all modern methods, and said patients being highly desirous of remaining there and greatly apprehensive of removal:

Now. Therefore, Be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of Oklahoma, the House of Representatives concurring therein:

That we express to the Federal Government and in particular to the Honorable Director of the United States Veteran's Bureau, the deep appreciation of the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma at the honorable fulfillment by the Federal Government of its pledge to hospitalize disabled Oklahoma ex-service men in their own State so far as facilities are there available, and that the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma depreciates (sic) the prevalence of the rumors above referred to and expresses its confidence that the Veteran's Bureau does not contemplate the abandonment of the Sulphur Tubercular Sanatorium as a hospital for the care of Oklahoma tubercular Ex-Service men who are government patients since such an abandonment would be in violation of the pledge above referred to, on the strength of which the State of Oklahoma has expended several hundreds of thousands of dollars in the construction, equipment and maintenance of said Sanatorium and would bring about wide spread discontent and sorrow among the people of Oklahoma; and

Be It Further Resolved that the Senators and Representatives of the State of Oklahoma in congress are hereby requested by the Legislature of their State to unite in presenting a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States and to the Honorable Director of the United States Veteran's Bureau and to see that copy thereof is spread upon the records of each House of Congress.

Adopted by the Senate December 6, 1923.

Adopted by the House of Representatives December 7, 1923.