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 sixteenth day of July, A. D., nineteen hundred and seven.

RESOLUTIONS

WM. H. MURRAY,

President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma.

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 of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma. JOHN MCCLAIN 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 sixteenth, Anno Domini, nineteen hundred and six.

I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance accepting the terms and conditions of the enabing 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.

WM. H. MURRAY,

President, The Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma.

ATTEST:

JOHN MCCLAIN 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 twenty-one 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 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 State; and if there be no incorporated town of two thousand population in any county in this State, such county shall be entitled to have one such agency, for the sals 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 State shall constitute prima facie evidence of his intention t 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 provide i 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, 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 shall prescribe any such liquor, except for treatment of disease which after his own personal diagnosis he shall deem to require such treatment, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished for each offense by fine of 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 thas States 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 STATE WIDE PROHIBITION and AGAINST STATE WIDE PROHIBIHITION: And Provided Further, That, if a majority of the votes cast for and against State wide prohibition are for State wide prohibition, then 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 purpose of such separate submission, on this the 22nd day of April, Anno Domini, 1907.

Section 4a. No person shall be registered as an elector of this State, or be allowed to vote in any election held herein, unless he be able to read and write any section of the constitution of the State of Oklahoma; but no person who was on January 1st, 1866, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any form of government, or who at that time resided in some foreign nation, and no lineal descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote because of his inability to read and write sections of such constitution.

Precinct election inspectors having in charge the registration of electors shall enforce the provisions of this section at the time of registration, provided registration be required. Should registration be dispensed with, the provisions of this section shall be enforced by the precinct election officers when the electors apply for ballots to vote.

ELECTION ORDINANCE

Which provided the ways and means of holding the election the 17th day of September, 1907, for the ratification of the constitution, and the election of the State, District, County and Township officers.

NOTE: All counties that were formed out of the Territory of Oklahoma retained township lines, names and organizations under statehood. Therefore, the election ordinance only provided that the counties formed in the Indian Territory be subdivided into municipal townships.

ELECTION ORDINANCE

Be it ordained by the convention assembled to form a constitution and State government for the proposed State of Oklahoma, that a certain election ordinance entitled:

An ordinance, providing for an election at which the proposed constitution for the proposed State of Oklahoma shall be submitted to the people thereof for ratification or rejection, and submitting separately to the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma the proposed prohibition article making substantially the terms of the enabling act uniformly applicable to the entire State for ratification or rejection, and for the election of certain State, district, county and township officers provided for by said proposed constitution, and for the election of members of the legislature of said proposed State of Oklahoma, and five representatives to congress.

Passed by the said

constitutional convention on the 22nd day of April, A. D. 1907, at 4:32 o'clock in the afternoon; be, and is hereby so amended to read in words and figures as follows, to-wit:

Section 1. That in compliance with an act of the congress of the United States of America, entitled, "An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of 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 16, 1906, hereinafter mentioned and referred to as the enabling act, and by virtue thereof, an election is hereby called and shall be held on the 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seven, in all of the voting precincts at said time, in the proposed State of Oklahoma, for the purpose of submitting to the people thereof the question of the ratification or rejection of the constitution framed and adopted by this convention for said proposed State of Oklahoma, and for the adoption or rejection of all questions therewith separately submitted, and at which election the qualified voters of said proposed State shall vote directly for or against the proposed constitution, and for or against any provisions separately submitted. Said election shall, in all respects, be held and conducted in the manner required by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma for elections therein, when not in conflict with the enabling act, and as supplemented by this ordinance, and the returns of said election shall be made to the secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma, who, with the chief justice thereof, and the senior judge of the United States court of appeals for the Indian Territory, shall canvass the same, and if a majority of the legal votes cast on that question shall be for the constitution, the governor of Oklahoma Territory, and the judge senior in service of the United States