Tax levy to reimburse sinking funds. Section 3. For the purpose of providing a fund to reimburse said "Sinking Funds" such board of county commissioners are authorized and empowered to levy a special tax at the time other county taxes are levied, "Not exceeding one mill in any one year, and to continue such levies from year to year for such period, not exceeding twenty-five years, as may be necessary to provide further to reimburse such sinking fund." Provided: That such levies for such purpose together with the levies for all other purposes, shall not exceed the amount now authorized by law; and provided further: That the money raised by such levy or levies, shall constitute a separate and distinct fund from all others in the hands of the county treasurer until the obligations assumed by the board of county commissioners, under the authority of this act, shall have been discharged, and any unexpended balance which may remain in the county treasury after all claims due. said "Sinking Funds" shall have been paid, may be transferred to other funds of the county, by order of the board of county commissioners. Emergency. Section 4. An emergency is hereby declared by reason whereof it is immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 15, 1910. CHAPTER 11. CONTRACTS OF SURETYSHIP FOR EMPLOYEES OF COMMON CARRIERS. Senate Bill No. 28. AN ACT regulating contracts of surety between common carriers and their employees, and sureties upon such contracts and fixing penalties for violations of said acts; and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. No common carrier authorized to do business in this state, when requiring of an employee that he give it a bond or undertaking of any nature whatever, shall require such employee to have such bond or undertaking executed as surety by any particular person, company, corporation, association, or firm, or by any one or more of any number of such persons, companies, corporations, associations or firms named by such common carrier; and no such common carrier shall reject any such bond or undertaking for any reason other than the financial insufficiency of such bond or undertaking. Resident sureties required. Section 2. No common carrier authorized to do business in this state, when requiring of any employee that he give it a bond or undertaking of any nature whatsoever, shall require as surety thereon any person not a resident of this state; nor shall any such common carrier accept as such surety any company, corporation or association, unless the same is a corporation duly organized under the laws of Oklahoma, or who shall have designated an agent residing within this state upon whom service of legal process against it may be had, as provided by law for foreign corporations doing business in this state, and shall also have in this state a general office where it shall require that every such bond or undertaking shall be approved, if approved, and cancelled if cancelled, and where a complete record thereof shall be kept. Surety bonds-definite term-cancellation. Section 3. Every bond or undertaking of any nature whatsoever given by an employee of any common carrier authorized to do business in this state, shall be made to cover a definite term; and no such bond or undertaking shall be cancelled without the consent of all parties thereto, except for a breach of one or more of the conditions thereof. Any such employee who shall have given any such bond or undertaking, shall, upon breach of any of the conditions thereof by the other party or parties thereto, have the power to cancel the same by giving the surety or sureties thereon and the common carrier for the benefit of whom the same shall have been made at least ten days' notice in writing, setting out in full the reasons for cancelling the same, said notice to be signed by such employee and sworn to by him in this state before any officer authorized to administer oaths. Any such notice to a company, corporation or association may be served by leaving the same with any person upon whom service of legal process upon such company, corporation or association may be had. Any surety on any such bond or undertaking, shall upon the breach of any of the conditions thereof by the common carrier employee for whom the same shall have been made, have power to cancel the same by giving such employee at least ten days' notice in writing, setting out in full the reasons for cancelling the same, the said notice to be signed by an agent or manager of such surety, then a resident of this state and then authorized to approve or disapprove similar bonds or undertakings for such surety, and to be sworn to by the person signing the same in this state before an officer authorized to administer oaths. Provided, that nothing herein shall affect any right of action accruing to any person upon the breach of a contract. Violations-punishment. Section 4. Any officer, agent, or representative of any company, corporation, association or firm, or any other person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than one (1) year. Any bond, contract or undertaking made in violation of the provisions of this act shall be void. Emergency. Section 5. An emergency is hereby declared, by reason whereof it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace and safety, that this act take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 17, 1910. CHAPTER 12. WORK AND LABOR-EMPLOYMENT AGENCY AT ENID. Senate Bill No. 17 as Amended. AN ACT authorizing the Commissioner of Labor to establish a branch employment agency in this state, in connection with the Oklahoma Free Employment Bureau, and making available for its maintenance and support any balance remaining unexpended from the appropriation heretofore made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That the Commissioner of Labor is hereby authorized to establish a branch free employment agency at Enid, Oklahoma. Attendant-appointment - salary. Section 2. The Commissioner of Labor is hereby empowered to appoint an attendant for said agency, whose salary shall not exceed nine hundred dollars ($900.00) per annum, and all necessary expenses incurred in the conducting of said agency. Appropriation. Section. 3. There is hereby appropriated, and the Commissioner of Labor is hereby empowered to apply any unused funds heretofore appropriated and remaining unexpended for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, amounting to $1,979.15 for the use of his office in defraying the necessary expenses of the said agency up to and including the 30th day of June, 1911. Approved February 17, 1910. S. L. 10-2 CHAPTER 13. CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEALS-RENDITION OF OPINIONS. Senate Bill No. 27. (A Bill entitled) AN ACT to regulate the practice in the Court of Criminal Appeals and to amend section 23, of chapter 14 of article 2 of the Session Laws of the State of Oklahoma, 1909; and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. That section 23 of chapter 14, article 2, of the Session Laws of the State of Oklahoma, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 23. The court of Criminal Appeals shall render a written opinion in all felony cases within six months after said case shall have been submitted for decision. There shall be no less than four extra copies of each opinion made and filed with the clerk, to be disposed of by the clerk to any one applying therefor at one dollar and fifty cents each, and said fees shall be accounted for and disposed of as are all fees collected by the clerk. Provided, the court may, when in its judgment public interest may be subserved in like manner render a written opinion in misdemeanor cases pending in its court. Emergency. Section 2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace and safety that this act take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 18, 1910. |