both refuse to prosecute such suit, any taxpayer of the township may cause such prosecution to be instituted as provided for in this Act.

SECTION 2. The treasurer of such township shall pay out on the order of the township board, attested by the seal of said township, under the signatures of the township trustee and township clerk, all public moneys which shall come into his hands for the use of the township.

SECTION 3. The county treasurer shall pay to such township treasurer from time to time all moneys in the county treasury belonging to such township, upon the order of the clerk of said township; Provided That such order shall be accompanied by a certificate from the county clerk that said township treasurer has executed and filed his bond as required by law.

SECTION 4. Said township treasurer shall pay on presentation any warrant or order properly drawn on any fund in his custody by virtue of his office, and when paid he shall write across the face of said warrant or order in red ink the word "Paid", the date when paid and the amount of principal and interest paid, and shall sign the same officially; Provided, That he shall not pay any warrant or order unless there is sufficient money in his hands belonging to the particular fund upon which said warrant or order is drawn to pay the same.

SECTION 5. In case there is not sufficient money in the hands of any such treasurer belonging to the particular fund drawn upon to pay any warrant or order when presented for payment, it shall be the duty of such treasurer to make a certificate of that fact upon the back of any such warrant or order, and to date, sign and number the same in regular order; and he shall set down and enter in a book to be kept for that purpose, the registry number, amount, date, and upon what fund drawn, to whom payable,

and the date when presented for payment, as provided in Section 4 of this Act; and all such warrants or orders shall be paid in their order of presentation for payment and of their registration as shown by said book; and such books shall be known in each such office as the "Warrant Register." And all warrants after registration shall draw interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of such registration until fully paid; and such registration books shall be open to the inspection of any person interested at all reasonable times.

of Registra

tion, List of,

Published.

SECTION 6. Whenever any money shall come into Paid in Order his hands by virtue of his office, it shall be the duty of such township treasurer to set apart a sufficient sum from the several funds to which said money belongs to pay all warrants or orders that may have been registered against said several funds in compliance with the provisions of this Act, or so much of such money as shall be necessary for such purpose; and if such money in any fund is not sufficient to pay all the warrants registered against said fund, he shall set apart said money for the payment of the warrants registered against the fund to which said money may belong until said money is exhausted; and he shall keep the money so set apart until it is called for by the person to whom it is payable; and it shall be the duty of such treasurer to publish in some newspaper published in his county, between the first and fifteenth days of February and August in each year a list of warrants or orders unpaid, and for the payment of which he has sufficient funds in his hands; and if there be no newspaper published in his county such list shall be posted on the court house door of his county at the times aforesaid; and from and after 30 days after such posting or publishing interest shall cease upon the warrants which he has posted or published as being payable.

Township Treasurers, Annual Report, County Commissioners to Examine and Approve Report.

Records to be
Open for

Inspection.

SECTION 7. The treasurer shall keep a book in which he shall keep and enter an account of all moneys received and disbursed by him, specifying particularly the sources from which said money has been received and the object for which the same has been paid out, and the person or persons to whom the same has been paid. He shall present to the township board at its annual meeting a report in writing containing a statement of all moneys received by him from the county treasurer during the year; also all moneys collected or received by him from assessments in his township, and of all disbursements made by him, with the items of such disbursements, and shall exhibit the vouchers therefor, and the same shall be examined and approved by said board, if the same shall be found correct. Said report shall be in writing and shall be by the town. ship clerk recorded at length; and at the regular January meeting of the Board of County Commissioners said township treasurer shall present a copy of said report to said board, together with the vouchers for disbursements by him made, and the said County Commissioners shall examine said report and vouchers and if found correct shall approve the same; and at the close of his term of office the said treas urer shall settle with the township board and shall turn over to his successor all books, vouchers, orders, warrants, and papers coming into his hands as the treasurer of such township, together with all moneys remaining in his hands as such treasurer.

SECTION 8. The books, records, papers, vouchers, and other archives of the township treasurer's office shall be open at all times to the inspection and examination of the County Commissioners, the township trustee and township clerk, and to all persons holding obligations against said township.

Treasurer, Re

Over,
Penalty.

SECTION 9. If any township treasurer shall refuse Township to pay over to his successor any money in his hands fusal to Pay belonging to the township, it shall be the duty of his successor in office to prosecute without delay the official bond of said treasurer for the recovery of such money. And in case such successor shall fail or neglect to proceed, any resident taxpayer of the township may prosecute such suit in the name of the township. Any township treasurer who shall wilfully fail, refuse or neglect to pay over any money in his hands belonging to his township shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and, upon conviction therefor, shall be punished in the manner prescribed for the felonious stealing.of property of the value of that embezzled.

SECTION 10. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 11. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after April 1, 1901.

Approved this 4th day of March, 1901.

SECTION

CHAPTER XXX.

TRANSFER OF TERRITORIAL FUNDS.

SECTION.

1. Territorial Treasurer, to Trans- 2. Future Funds, How Apporfer Certain Funds.

tioned.

AN ACT Providing for the Transfer of Certain Funds in the Territorial
Treasury.

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

SECTION 1. That the Territorial Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the general fund of the Territory all funds now held by him in the Bank Commisisoners' fee fund, insurance license and fee fund, conscience money fund, interest on daily balance fund.

SECTION 2. All moneys coming into the hands of the Territorial Treasurer in the future properly belonging to any of the above mentioned funds, shall be by him put directly into the general fund of the Territory and used in redeeming general fund war rants.

SECTION 3. All laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed in so far as they so conflict.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved this 6th day of March, 1901.