AN ACT requiring cotton ginners and dealers to keep a register showing the description of all cotton, and from whom received, and the time of receiving same.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma:

ginners and keep register.

SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be the duty of all Cotton ginners and purchasers of cotton doing business in dealers to Oklahoma Territory, to cause to be kept within their gins or place of business, a book, in which book shall be registered by the ginner, or caused to be registered, a statement showing from whom each and every load of cotton was received, a description and the amount of the same, from whom bought or received, and the quarter section of land the same was grown upon, and by whom raised, which entry shall be made at the time of receiving such cotton.

subject to

SECTION 2. That the register herein provided for Register shall be subject to the inspection of the public, for inspection. general information.

failure to

SECTION 3. Any ginner or the owner of a gin, be Penalty for they individual or a corporation, failing to comply keep register. with the requiremenfs of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined for each and every offense, not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.

SECTION 4. This act shall be in force and take effect thirty days after its passage and approval. Approved March 12, 1897.

Authority to purchase park.

Election on proposition

park, and officers.

AN ACT empowering Rock Island township, in Grant county, Territory of
Oklahoma, to levy a tax for the purchase and maintenance of a public
park, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of
Oklahoma;

SECTION 1. That Rock Island township, of Grant county, Territory of Oklahoma, be, and is, hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift, grant, or otherwise, for the purpose of maintaining a public park, twenty acres of land situate within one and a half miles from the center of said township.

SECTION 2. Within ten days after the passage and to purchase approval of this act, the township board of said township shall call a special election in said township, which shall be conducted as other elections for township officers; they shall publish once a week, for two successive weeks, in a newspaper published, or having general circulation in said township, and by twenty printed notices, to be posted in twenty public places, in different school districts in said township, at least ten days before said election, a notice giving the time and place said election will be held, the officers to be voted for, and the proposition to be voted on: The said board shall act as election officers, and shall serve without compensation. The officers voted for and the propositions voted upon, shall be printed upon separate ballots. If two-thirds of the persons voting at such election vote in favor of levying a tax for a public park and buildings, then the township board shall levy a tax as hereinafter provided; and the officers receiving a majority of the

votes cast at said election, shall receive a certificate of election.

of.

SECTION 3. Within three days after the election pro- Tax levy for improvement vided for in section 2, and at the time for making the and support annual tax levy for the years 1898 and 1899, the township board of said township shall meet and levy a tax not to exceed two mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of said township, on all the property, real and personal, situate therein, to be applied to the purchase of said tract of land, and for the purchase and erection of a suitable building or buildings thereon: Provided, That the amount so expended for said tract of land and buildings for which said tax is levied, shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars; said taxes shall be collected as other townhip taxes, be certified to the county clerk, and by him be placed on the tax roll and collected as other taxes.

missioners,

and duties of.

SECTION 4. There is hereby created a board of park Park comcommissioners for said township, who shall be elected term, oath as provided in section 2 of this act, who shall serve until the first Monday in January, 1899. At the general election for township officers in the year 1898, and each two years thereafter, there shall be elected successors to said park board, the members of which shall, before entering upon the duties of said office, subscribe to the following oath: I,

do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Organic Act of the Territory of Oklahoma, and will faithfully perform the duties of a member of the board of park commissioners to the best of my ability, so help me God. Said officers shall execute a bond to said township, in the sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be approved by the township trustees, and filed in the office of the county clerk; said park board shall have control of the grounds and buildings and may provide all reasonable rules and regulations for the government of the same; may use said grounds and buildings one week in the autumn and one week in the winter for the purpose of holding a fair, or fruit, poultry or other shows, and may charge an admission fee at such times, may issue and charge license fees for booth and other privileges: Provided, That no license shall be

Park open to public use

issued for the sale or giving away of any intoxicating liquors on the grounds.

SECTION 5.

Said grounds shall be open to the pub

and societies. lic from the hour of seven o'clock a. m. to the hour of ten o'clock p. m. at all times other than when the same is used for fair or show purposes, and all political, religious or other societies may use the same for meetings when the same is open to the public.

License fees paid to township

treasurer.

Sale of liquors in park prohibited.

Park policeman appointed, and his powers.

Park exempt from taxa

tion.

SECTION 6. All fees received from licenses, or from any fair or show, shall be paid over to the township treasurer for the use and benefit of the township, and no money shall be paid out by said treasurer except upon vouchers audited by the park board and countersigned by the township trustee.

SECTION 7. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold or given away within one-fourth of a mile of said grounds. Any person violating this provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and the county commissioners shall revoke any license issued to sell liquors, if the person or persons violating the provisions of this act are licensed dealers in liquors.

SECTION 8. The park commissioners may appoint a policeman to maintain peace and good order on said grounds, who is hereby vested with the powers and authority of a constable.

SECTION 9. The said tract of land and grounds shall be the property of said township and be exempt from taxation, and shall be protected in all respects as other public property.

SECTION 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 12, 1897.

AN ACT in relation to the practice of pharmacy and the sale of medicines and poisons, licensing persons to carry on such practice, and exempting them from jury service, providing for the appointment and prescribing the powers and duties of a Territorial Board of Pharmacy, and for other purposes.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma:

and assistant

only, to dis

SECTION 1. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for Registered any person other than a registered pharmacist, or pharmacists assistant pharmacist as hereinafter defined, to retail, pense drugs. compound or dispense drugs, medicines or pharmaceutical preparations in the Territory of Oklahoma, or to institute, conduct or manage a pharmacy, store or shop for the retailing, compounding or dispensing of drugs, medicines or pharmaceutical preparations in said Territory of Oklahoma, unless such person shall be a registered pharmacist, as this act provides, or shall place in charge of said pharmacy, store or shop, a registered pharmacist, except as hereinafter provided.

pharmacist,

SECTION 2. Registered pharmacists shall comprise Registered all persons regularly registered as such in the Terri- who is. tory of Oklahoma for the year ending July 1, 1897, and all other persons registered as licentiates in pharmacy for the aforesaid period, who have been authorized to conduct or manage a pharmacy in the Territory of Oklahoma, and all persons over twentyone years of age, having four years' practical experi