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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.

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Township

Treasurers,

Annual Re

Commissioners to Examine and

Approve Report.

TOWNSHIP AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

[CH. 29.

SECTION 7. The treasurer shall keep a book in

port, County 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 township 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 treasurer 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.

Records to be
Open for

Inspection.

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, Refusal to Pay

Penalty.

SECTION 9. If any township treasurer shall refuse Township to pay over to his successor any money in his hands vert 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.

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TRANSFER OF TERRITORIAL FUNDS.

[CH. 30.

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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.

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1. Colored Agricultural and Nor- 2. University of Oklahoma.
mal University.

3. Agricultural and Mechanical
College.

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AND ACT to Authorize the Construction of Additional Buildings for the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory

of Oklahoma:

Regents May
Contract for

Buildings,

SECTION 1. The Board of Regents of the colored Board of agricultural and normal university at Langston is Additional hereby authorized to contract under the terms of Limit. this Act for the construction of an assembly hall and three additional class rooms, the same to be an addition to the assembly building already constructed, and a sum not exceeding thirty-five per centum of the amount realized from the tax levy hereinafter provided for, shall be expended for such purposes; a sum not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the amount realized from such levy shall be expended in constructing a dormitory for boys; and a sum not exceeding five per centum of the amount realized from such levy shall be expended in the construction of a residence for the president of said university at some suitable place on the grounds belonging to said university, and the remaining thirty-five per centum of the sum realized from said levy shall be expended in paying off deficiencies unpaid on June 30, 1901, and in payment of salaries for instructors, incidental expenses and the purchase of neces

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