Where Lo Purchase Site. lect a site for the establishment of said Southwestern Normal. Such site to be selected within one mile of the corporate limits of an incorporated town, and to contain not less than forty acres of land; Provided, That said committee shall be paid, for such services, the same per diem and mileage as the Board of Education for the Territory is paid and in like manner. SECTION 4. Within thirty days after the selection Town, Near of a site for said normal school, the town within one cated; to mile of which said site is or may be selected shall procure to be executed to the Territory of Oklahoma good and sufficient deeds of conveyance to the land embraced in such site, in fee simple, free and clear of all incumbrances whatsoever, without cost to the Territory of Oklahoma to be used exclusively for the said normal school purposes, which deed or deeds shall be filed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Territory. May Issue Bonds; Pro ceeds, How Expended. SECTION 5. The school district in which such site School District may be selected is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, due and payable in twenty years from the date thereof bearing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, for which interest coupons shall be attached to said bonds, payable annually; and when so executed, the board of directors of said school district shall deliver said bonds to the Territorial Treasurer, and he shall sell the same at not less than the face value thereof; Provided, However, That the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be expended under the direction of the Board of Education, hereinafter provided for, in fencing, planting trees on, and in beautifying said school grounds. The bonds herein authorized shall be issued in the manner provided for the issuing of bonds in Article 2, Chapter 7, of the Session Laws of Oklahoma Territory, 1895. Board of Education, to Let Contract. SECTION 6. The Board of Education of the Territory of Oklahoma provided for in Section 3, Article 1, Chapter 53, of Oklahoma Statutes of 1893, is hereby constituted and appointed as a board with the authority and power to receive bids, to let contracts for, and to supervise the construction of buildings authorized by this Act, and the management and control of said Southwestern Normal School shall be under the direction of said Board of Education, under the provisions of an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, entitled, "An Act to Locate and Establish the Normal School for the Territory of Oklahoma," which took effect December 25, 1890. May Contract SECTION 7. The said Board of Education is hereby for Material, Furniture, etc. authorized to contract, under the terms of this Act, for material, construction of all necessary buildings and for the purchase of furniture, machinery and apparatus to equip said building for the purpose of said normal school; Provided, That such board shall not have the power to contract for buildings or for any other purposes to an amount exceeding in the aggregate Fifty-two Thousand ($52,000.00) Dollars. Shall Adopt tions; Adver Bond of Bidder. SECTION 8. The said Board of Education, within ninety days after the selection of such site for the tise for Bids; said location of said normal school buildings, and upon approval and acceptance by the Board of Education hereinafter provided for, of the deeds of conveyance and donations herein provided for, shall adopt plans and specifications for such buildings, and upon the adoption of such plans and specifications for such buildings, shall advertise for bids for the construction of the same, and shall then let the contract for the construction of such buildings; Provided, That no contract so made shall be of any force or effect until the person or persons entering into the same shall have given an obligation payable to the Territory of Okla homa in, at least, double the amount to be paid thereunder with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the said board, for the faithful performance of his or their contract by said contractor or contractors, and full payment for all labor and materials furnished in said buildings. dent of Con SECTION 9. The said board is hereby authorized to Superintenemploy a superintendent of construction of such struction, buildings, at a salary of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month, who shall have personal charge and supervision of the contractors of the work under the direction of the said board, and whose duty it shall be to see that said contractor performs his work in full compliance with the plans and specifications adopted by the said board, and shall have power to discharge any such superintendent and employ a successor thereto. The said superintendent shall be paid by warrants drawn on the fund herein provided. SECTION 10. No payment shall be made or war How Made. rants drawn in favor of any contractor for or on account of any work done under any contract let under or by virtue of this Act, except upon the certificate of the superintendent of construction, and upon vouchers filed with and approved by the said board for all payment made under and in pursuance of this Act. Payments, How Ex SECTION 11. For the purpose of paying for the Tax Levy, buildings provided for herein, there is hereby levied pended. upon all the taxable property of the Territory of Oklahoma, a tax of four-tenths of a mill on the dollar, each year for two years, the same to be levied upon all taxable property of the said Territory for the years 1901 and 1902. The fund derived from such taxes shall be known as the "Southwestern Normal Building Fund," and shall be available and used by the said board only for the purpose of construc tion of said buildings and purchasing the necessary furniture, and for the payment of the current expenses and teachers' salaries of said normal school for the year 1902. All payments under the terms of this Act shall be by warrants drawn upon the said "Southwestern Normal Building Fund." The buildings for said normal school shall be completed and ready for occupancy by the first day of September, 1902. SECTION 12. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. May Accept Grades of Colleges, Other Than Territorial Institutions. ARTICLE 11.-TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION. SECTION. 1. May Accept Grades of Col leges, Other Than Territorial AN ACT Conferring Certain Powers on the Territorial Board of Education. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. That upon the application of any col· lege, university, or educational educational institution of like standing, incorporated under the general laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, the Territorial Board of Education shall have power to examine the courses of study prescribed and the character of the work done and if in the judgment of said board, it shall prove to have as efficient a course of study as those of the Territorial normal schools, the said Board of Education shall have power to accept grades given on academic subjects completed in course and passed in regular examinations to persons who are graduates of or who may hereafter be graduated from such institutions, in lieu of the examinations on the same subject required for Territorial certificate which said board is empowered to give by Section One (1), Article Ten (10), Chapter Seventy-three (73), Statutes of Oklahoma, 1893. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. AN ACT to Fix and Prescribe Certain Duties of the Township Treasurer and for Other Purposes. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Treasurer's SECTION 1. The township treasurer shall execute Township to the township a bond in double the amount as near as it can be ascertained, to come into his hands as treasurer during each year, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners of the county of which his township is a part, conditioned that he will faithfully discharge and perform all the duties of his office; and such bond shall be taken in the name of his township. Said bond shall be filed with the county clerk, and in case of the breach of any condition thereof, the township trustee or the township clerk shall cause a suit to be commenced thereon in the name of the township, and the money collected in such suit shall be applied to the use of such township as the same should have been applied by the treasurer; and in case such trustee and clerk shall |