the Osage Indian reservation and within any other part of the said state which existed as Indian reservation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six, is prohibited for a period of twenty-one years from the date of the admission of the state into the Union, and thereafter until the people of said state shall otherwise provide by amendment of said constitution and proper state legislation. Any person, individual or corporation 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 the above-described portions of said state advertise for sale or solicit the purchase of any such liquors or who shall ship or in any way convey such liquors from other parts of said state into the portions hereinbefore described, 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 incroporated town of not less than two thousand population in the portions of the state hereinbefore described; and if there be no incorporated town of two thousand population in any county in said portions of said state, such county shall be entitled to have one such agency for the sale 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 parts of said state hereinabove defined shall constitute prima facie evidence of his intention to 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 provided 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 prescriptions pertaining thereto, shall be open to inspection by any officer or citizen of said 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 require such treatment, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for each offense by fine of not less than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for 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 said state into the Union these provisions shall be immediately enforceable in the courts of said State.

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Third. That the people inhabiting said proposed state do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title in or to any unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian, tribe, or nation; and that until the title to any such public land shall have been

extinguished by the United States the same shall be and remain subject to the jurisdiction, disposal and control of the United States. That land belonging to citizens of the United States residing without the limits of said state shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the land belonging to residents thereof; that no taxes shall be imposed by the state on lands or property belonging to or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States or reserved for its use.

Fourth. That the debts and liabilities of said Territory of Oklahoma shall be assumed and paid by said state.

Fifth. That provisions shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of said state and free from sectarian control; and said schools shall always be conducted in English; Provided, That nothing herein shall preclude, the teaching of other languages in said public schools; and provided further, That this shall not be construed to prevent the establishment and maintenance of separate schools for white and colored children.

Sixth. That said state shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sec. 4. Submission of constitution to people. That in case a constitution and state government shall be formed in compliance with the provisions of this act the convention forming the same shall provide by ordinance for submitting said constitution to the people of said proposed state for its ratification or rejection at an election to be held at a time fixed in said ordinance, at which election the qualified voters for said proposed state shall vote directly for or against the proposed constitution, and for or against any provisions separately submitted. 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 Court of Appeals for the Indian Territory shall certify the result to the President of the United States, together with the statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon separate articles or proposition and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordinances. And if the constitution and government of said proposed State are republican in form, and if the provisions of this act have been complied with in the formation thereof, it shall be the duty of the President of the United States, within twenty days from the receipt of the certificate of the result of said election and the statement of votes cast thereon and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions, and ordinances, to issue his proclamation announcing the result of said election; and thereupon the proposed State of Oklahoma shall be deemed admitted by congress into the Union, under and by virtue of this act, on equal footing with the original States. The original of said constitution, articles, propositions, and ordinances, and the election returns, and a copy of the statement of the votes cast at said election, shall be forwarded and turned over by the secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma to the State authorities of said State.

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Sec. 5. Appropriation for election and convention expenses. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the defraying of the expenses of the elections provided for in this act, and said convention, and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and at the same rates as are now provided by law for the payment of the territorial

legislature of the Territory of Oklahoma, and the disbursement of the money appropriated by this section shall be made by the secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma.

Sec. 6. Representatives in Congress. That until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by law, the said State of Oklahoma shall be entitled to five representatives in the house of representativs of the United States, to be elected from the following described districts, the boundaries of which shall remain the same until the next general census. That district numbered one shall comprise the counties of Grant, Kay, Garfield, Noble, Pawnee, Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Lincoln and the territory comprising the Osage and Kansas Indian reservations.

That district numbered two shall somprise the counties of Oklahoma, Canadian, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey, Day, Woods, Woodward and Beaver.

That district numbered three shall (with the exception of that part of recording district numbered twelve, which is in the Cherokee and Creek nations) comprise all the territory now constituting the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole nations, and the Indian reservations lying northeast of the Cherokee Nation, within said State.

That district numbered four shall comprise all that territory now constituting the Choctaw nation, that part of recording district numbered twelve, which is in the Cherokee and Creek nations, that part of recording district numbered twenty-five which is in the Chickasaw nation, and the territory comprising recording districts numbered sixteen, twentyone, twenty-two, and twenty-six in the Indian Territory.

That district numbered five shall comprise the counties of Greer, Roger Mills, Kiowa, Washita, Comanche, Cleveland and Pottawatomie and the territory comprising recording districts numbered seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty in the Chickasaw nation, Indian Territory,

And the said representatives, together with the governor and other officers provided for in said constitution, shall be elected on the same day of the election for the ratification or rejection of the constitution; and until said officers are elected and qualified under the provisions of such constitution and the stid State is admitted into the Union, the Territorial officers of Oklahoma Territory shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices in said Territory.

Sec. 7. Grant of lands for schools-appropriation for school in lieu of Indian Territory lands-Sulphur Springs reservation. That upon the admission of the State into the Union sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six, in every township in Oklahoma Territory and all indemnity lands heretofore selected in lieu 'thereof, are hereby granted to the State for the use and benefit of the common schools, Provided. That sections sixteen and thirty-six embraced in permanent reservations for national purposes shall not at any time be subject to the grant nor the indemnity provisions of this act, nor shall any land embraced in Indian, military or other reservations of any character, nor shall land owned by Indian tribes or individual members of any tribe be subjected to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this act until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be restored to and become a part of the public domain: Provided, That there is sufficient untaken public land within said State to cover this Grant; and Provided. That in case any of the lands herein granted to the State of Oklahoma have heretofore been confirmed to the Territory of Oklahoma for the purposes specified in this Act, the amount so confirmed shall be deducted from the quantity specified in this act.

There is hereby appropriated, out of money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five million dollars for the use and benefit of the common schools of said State in lieu of sections sixteen