county demands it, upon giving five days notice of the time and object of calling the Commissioners together by posting up notices in three public places in the county or by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in the county; Provided, That no claims against the county except for election expenses and jury fees shall be considered at a called session; Provided further, That in case of a vacancy in the office of county clerk, the chairman of the board shall have power to call a special session for the purpose of filling such vacancy. SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER XIII. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. Attempt to ARTICLE. 1. Attempt to Kill. 2. Forging Names to Petitions. 3. Kidnapping. 4. Prohibiting Sale of Cigarettes. SECTION. ARTICLE. 5. Rape. 6. Regulating Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. 7. To Protect Innkeepers. ARTICLE 1.-ATTEMPT TO KILL. 1. Attempt to Kill; Penalty. AN ACT to Amend Section 2, Article 20, Chapter 25, Statutes of Oklahoma of 1893, Relating to Crimes and Punishments. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. That Section 2, Article 20, Chapter 25, Statutes of 1893, be amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 2. Every person who intentionally and wrongfully shoots, shoots at, or attempts to shoot at another, with any kind of fire-arm, air-gun or other means whatever, with intent to kill any person, or who commits any assault and battery upon another by means of any deadly weapon, or by such other means or force as is likely to produce death or in resisting the execution of any legal process, is punishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not exceeding ten years. SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. SECTION. ARTICE 2.-Forging NAMES TO PEtitions. 1. Forging Penalties. Name to Petition; AN ACT Defining the Crime of Forging Names to Petitions and Providing the Punishment Therefor. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Name to person, Penalties. SECTION 1. That any person who shall knowingly Forging sign, subscribe or forge the name of other any without the consent of such other person, to any petition, application remonstrance, or other instrument of writing, authorized by law to be filed in or with any court, board or officer, with intent to deceive or mislead such court, board or officer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court trying such cause. SECTION 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. Kidnapping Venue. AN ACT to Define and Punish Kidnapping for Ransom. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory SECTION 1. Every person who without lawful SECTION 2. Every offense prohibited in the last section may be tried in the county in which the crime may have been committed or in any county through which the person so seized, confined, inveigled or kidnapped shall have been taken, carried or into which such person may be brought. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. F C ARTICLE 4.-PROHIBITING SALE OF CIGARETTES. SECTION. 1. Prohibiting Sale or Giving Away Cigarettes, etc.; Misdemeanor; Penalty. SECTION. 2. Grand Jury May Present In- AN ACT to Prohibit the Sale or Offering for Sale or Bringing Into the Territory of Oklahoma for the Purpose of Sale or Giving Away of Any Cigarettes, Cigarette Paper or Substitute Therefor. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Cigarettes, etc.; Misde Penalty. SECTION 1. That it shall be a misdemeanor for any Prohibitining person, firm or corporation to sell, offer to sell, or to Away bring into the Territory for the purpose of selling, meanor: giving away or otherwise disposing of, any cigarettes, cigarette paper or substitute for the same; and each violation of any of the provisions of this Act shal! be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than Five Hundred Dollars. May Present SECTION 2. The grand jury shall have power Grand Jury to present indictments against persons violating the Indictments.. provisions of this Act. 1st 1901. SECTION 3. Be it further enacted that this Act In force May shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May, 1901. SECTION 4. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. |