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true, and was written or published with good motives or for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.
Sec. 23 .- Private Property Not to Be Taken for Pri- vate Use .- No private property shall be taken or dam- aged for private use, with or without compensation, unless by consent of the owner, except for private ways of neces- sity, or for drains and ditches across lands of others for agricultural, mining, or sanitary purposes, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.
Sec. 24 .- Private Property ; Condemnation ; Damages; Right of Way .- Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation. Such compensation irrespective of any benefit from any im- provements proposed, shall be ascertained by a board of commissioners of not less than three free-holders, in stich manner as may be prescribed by law. The com- missioners shall not be appointed by any judge or court without reasonable notice having been served upon all parties in interest. The commissioners shall be selected from the regular jury list of names pre- pared and made as the legislature shall provide. Any party aggrieved shall have the right of appeal, with- out bond, and trial by jury in a court of record. Un- til the compensation shall be paid to the owner, or into court for the owner, the property shall not be dis- turbed, or the proprietary rights of the owner divested. When possession is taken of property condemned for any public use, the owner shall be entitled to the immediate receipt of the compensation awarded, without prejudice to the right of either party to prosecute further proceed- ings for the judicial determination of the sufficiency or insufficiency of such compensation. The fee of land taken « by common carriers for right of way, without the con- sent of the owner, shall remain in such owner subjeet only to the use for which it is taken. In all cases of condemna-
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tion of private property for public or private use, the de- termination of the character of the use shall be a judicial question.
Sec. 25 .- Contempts; Jury Trial. - The legislature shall pass laws defining contempts and regulating the proceedings and punishment in matters of contempt : Pro- vided, that any person, accused of violating or disobey- ing, when not in the presence or hearing of the court, or judge sitting as such, any order or injunction, or re- straints, made or rendered by any court or judge of the state shall, before penalty or punishment is imposed, be entitled to a trial by jury as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. In no case shall a penalty or punishment be imposed for contempt, until an opportunity to be heard is given.
Sec. 26 .- Right to Bear Arms; Weapons .- The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited ; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the legisla- ture from regulating the carrying of weapons.
Sec. 27 .- Evidence; Compelled to Give; Immunity .-- Any person having knowledge or possession of faets that tend to establish the guilt of any other person or cor- poration charged with an offense against the laws of the state, shall not be excused from giving testimony or pro- dueing evidence, when legally called upon to do so, on the ground that it may tend to incriminate him under the laws of the state; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence.
See. 28 .- Records of Corporations Open to Inspec- tion .- The records, books, and files of all corporations
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shall be, at all times, liable and subject to the full vis- itorial and inquisitorial powers of the state, notwithstand- ing the immunities and privileges in this bill of rights secured to the persons, inhabitants, and citizens thereof.
Sec. 29 .- No Person Transported Out of State; Due Process of Law .- No person shall be transported out of the state for any offense committed within the state, nor shall any person be transported out of the state for any purpose, without his consent, except by due process of law; but nothing in this provision shall prevent the opera- tion of extradition laws, or the transporting of persons sentenced for crime, to other states for the purpose of incarceration.
Sec. 30 .- Search Warrants and Seizures .- The right » of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches or seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, deserib- ing as particularly as may be the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.
Sec. 31 .- State May Engage in Business .- The right of the state to engage in any occupation or business for public purposes shall not be denied or prohibited, except that the state shall not engage in agriculture for any other than educational and scientific purposes and for the support of its penal, charitable, and educational institu- tions.
Sec. 32 .- Perpetuities and Monopolies Frohibited. - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed, nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this state.
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Sec. 33 .- Enumeration of Rights No Denial of Others. The enumeration in this constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny, impair, or disparage others retained by the people.
APPENDIX C.
UNITED STATES POST-OFFICE POSTAL INFORMATION
DOMESTIC MAIL MATTER
RATES OF POSTAGE
First-class. Letters and other matter, wholly or part- ly in writing, and matter sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, 2 cents for each. ounce or fraction thereof.
Post cards and postal cards, 1 cent each.
"Drop-letters," 1 cent for each ounce or fraction thereof when mailed at post-offices where letter carrier service is not established and at offices where patrons cannot be served by rural or star route carriers.
A "drop-letter" is one addressed for delivery at the office where mailed. Letters deposited in boxes along a · rural route or star route are subject to postage at the rate of 2 cents an ounce or fraction thereof. There is no drop rate on mail other than letters.
15-0. HI
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MODEL FORMS OF ADDRESS
After ___ days return to JOHN C. SMITHI 146 State St. Wilkesville, N. Y.
Stamp
MR. FRANK B. JONES,
2416 Front Street, OSWEGO, OHIO.
After __ Days return to JOHN C. SMITH Rural Route No. 1 Wilkesville, N. Y.
Stamp
MR. FRANK B. JONES,
Rural Route No. 3, OSWEGO, OHIO.
(Form recommended by Postal Department. )
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GOVERNMENT IN OKLAHOMA.
SPECIAL DELIVERY SERVICE
Special delivery service is the prompt delivery of mail by messenger during prescribed hours to persons who re- side within the carrier limits of city delivery offices, to patrons of rural service who reside more than one mile from post-offices but within one-half mile of rural routes, and to residents within one mile of any post-office. Spe- cial delivery mail is not expedited in transit between post- offices.
How Obtained. This service is obtained by placing on any letter or article of mail a special delivery stamp or ten cents worth of ordinary stamps in addition to the lawful postage. When ordinary stamps are used, the words "Special Delivery" must be placed on the envel- ope or wrapper directly under but never on the stamps; otherwise the letter or article will not be accorded special delivery service.
Forwarding. Special delivery mail may be forwarded under the same rules as ordinary mail, and is then en- fitled to special delivery service unless an attempt was made to effeet delivery at the office of original address.
Does Not Insure Unusual Safety. When it is desired to send money or other valuables by special delivery the matter should also be registered. A special delivery stamp does not insure unusual safety.
THE REGISTRY SYSTEM
Fee. The registry fee is 10 cents for each separate letter or parcel, in addition to the postage, either foreign or domestic, both postage and fee to be fully prepaid.
Registry Stamp. A registry stamp, specially designed "for the purpose, which is not valid in payment of postage. should be used to prepay the registry fee, but ordinary postage stamps may also be used for this purpose.
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Return Receipts. When an acknowledgment of de- livery is desired, the envelope or wrapper of the registered article should be indorsed on the address side by the sender, "Receipt Desired," or words of similar import.
MONEY-ORDER SYSTEM
Advantages of the System. The postal money-order system offers to the public a safe, cheap and convenient method of making remittances by mail. Money can be sent without danger of loss at low rates to all parts of the United States and its possessions, as well as foreign countries, by means of money-orders. It is recommended that postal money-orders be used, whenever available. instead of cash for remittances by mail, and that, when money-orders are not available, the money be sent by regis- tered mail. The department requires the transaction of money-order business at all post-offices where practicable. Postmasters are not required to transact money-order business on Sunday.
International Money-Orders. At all of the larger post-offices, and at many of the smaller ones, international money-orders may be obtained, payable in ahnost any part of the world.
Fees for money-orders, payable in the United States (which includes Hawaii and Porto Rico) and its posses- sions, comprising the Canal Zone (Isthmus of Panama), Guam, the Philippines, and Tutuila, Samoa; also for orders payable in Bermuda. British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Newfoundland, at the United States Postal Agency at Shanghai (China), in the Ba- hama Islands and in certain other islands in the West Indies, are as follows:
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For orders from $ 0.01 to $ 2.50 3 cents
from $ 2.51 to. $ 5.00 5 cents
from $ 5.01 to $ 10.00 8 cents from $10.01 to $ 20.00 10 cents
from $20.01 to $ 30.00 12 cents 1 1
from $30.01 to $ 40.00 15 cents 1 1 1
from $10.01 to $ 50.00 18 cents 1 1
from $50.01 to $ 60.00 20 cents 1 1 1
from $60.01 to $ 75.00 25 cents 1 1 1
from $75.01 to $100.00 30 cents
Lost Orders. When a domestic money-order has been lost, the owner may, upon application through either the office at which the original was issued or the office on which it was drawn, obtain, without charge, a duplicate to be issued in its stead within one year from the last day of the month of issue.
POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM
Deposits. Any person of the age of ten years or over may become a depositor. The account of a married woman is free from any control or interference of her husband. No person can have more than one account at the same time. .
An account can not be opened for less than $1, nor can fractions of $1 be deposited or withdrawn except as interest; but amounts less than $1 may be saved for deposit by the purchase of 10-cent postal-savings cards and adhesive 10-cent postal-savings stamps. No person is permitted to deposit more than $100 in any one calendar month nor to have a total balance to his credit at one time of more than $500, exclusive of interest.
Privacy of Accounts. No person connected with the post-office department or the postal service is permitted
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to disclose the name of any depositor, or give any informa- tion concerning an account except to the depositor him- self, unless directed to do so by the postmaster-general.
Certificates. Depositors receive postal-savings certi- ficates covering the amount of each deposit made. These certificates are valid until paid, without limitation as to time. Postmasters are not permitted to receive savings certificates for safe-keeping.
Interest. Interest will be allowed on all certificates at the rate of two per cent. for each full year that the money remains on deposit, beginning with the first day of the month following the one in which it is deposited. Interest continues to accrue on deposit as long as the certificates remain outstanding.
Withdrawals. A depositor may at any time withdraw the whole or any part of his deposit, with any interest payable, by surrendering at his depository office savings certificates covering the desired amount.
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PARCEL POST TABLE OF POSTAGE RATES ON FOURTH-CLASS MAIL
Parcels weighing 4 ounces or less are mailable at the rate of 1 cent for each ounce or fraction of an ounce, regardless of dis- tance. Parcels weighing more than 4 ounces are mailable at the following pound rates, a fraction of a pound being considered a full pound.
Weight.
First Zone
Local rate.
Zone rate.
Second
Zone rate.
Third
Fourth
Zone rate.
Zone rate.
Zone rate.
Zone rate.
Eighth
Zone rate.
1 pound_
$0.05
$0.05
$0.05
$0.06
$0.07
$0.08
$0.09
$0.11
$0.12
2
pounds
.06
.06
.06
.08
.11
.14
.17
.21
.24
3
pounds_
.06
.07
.07
.10
.15
.20
.25
.31
.36
4
pounds
.07
.08
.08
.12
.19
.26
.33
.41
.48
5
pounds
.07
.09
.09
.14
.23
.32
.41
.51
.60
6
pounds_
.08
.10
.10
.16
.27
.38
.49
.61
.72
7
pounds __
.08
.11
.11
.18
.31
.44
.57
.71
.84
pounds
.09
.12
.12
.20
.35
.50
.65
.81
.96
9
pounds __
.09
.13
.13
.22
.39
.56
.73
.91
1.08
10
pounds __
.10
.14
.14
.21
.43
.62
.81
1.01
1.20
11
pounds_
.10
.15
.15
.26
.47
.68
.89
1.11
1.32
12
pounds_
.11
.16
.16
.28
.51
.74
.97
1.21
1.44
13
pounds_
.11
.17
.17
.30
.55
.80
1.05
1.31
1.56
14
pounds __
.12
.18
.18
.32
.59
.86
1.13
1.41
1.68
15
pound 3.
.12
.19
.19
.34
.63
.92
1.21
1.51
1.80
63
16
pounds_
.13
.20
.20
.36
.67
.98
1.29
1.61
1.92
17
pounds_
.13
.21
.21
.3$
.71
1.04
1.37
1.71
2,04
18
pounds
.14
.22
.22
.40
.75
1.10
1.45
1.81
2.16
19
pounds __
.11
.23
.23
.42
.79
1.16
1.53
1.91
2.28
20
pounds __
.15
.24
.24
.44
.83
1.22
1.61
2.01
2.40
21
pounds_
.15
.25
.25
22
pounds
.1€
.26
.26
23
pounds
.16
.27
.27
24
pounds
.17
.28
.28
25
pounds
.17
.29
.29
.33
30
pounds
.20
.34
.34
.38
1
1
1
1
35 pounds __
.99
.39
.39
.10
1
1
1
1 1
1
37
pounds
.23
.41
.41
1
1
1 1
1
38
pounds
.24
.42
.42
39
pounds.
40
pounds_
.25
.44
.14
1 1
1
1
1
41
pounds
.25
15
.15
1 ! 1
1
1
1
42
pounds
.26
.46
.16
1
43
pounds
.26
.17
.17
1
1
1
1
T
1 1
+1
pounds
.48
.4S
1
1
1
1
F
1
!
.
15
pounds
.19
.49
.50
1
1
1
1
1
E
1
1
1
47
pound-
.51
.51
48 pounds
.52
.52
49 pounds.
.29
.53
.50
:51 1
.54
1
1
I
1
.
.20 :
.35
.35
32
pounds_
.21
.36
.36
1 1
1
33 pounds.
.21
.37
.37
1
34 pounds __
.22
.38
.43
.43
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
28
pounds
.19
.32
,32
29
pounds
.19
.33
31
pounds
.1S
.30
.30
26
pounds
pounds
.18
.31
.31
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 1
$
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
46 pounds.
.28
.50
36
pounds.
.23
.40
Zone rate.
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
First
50 pounds.
1
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APPENDIX.
PARCEL POST "C. O. D." FEATURE
The sender of a mailable parcel on which the postage is fully prepaid may have the price of the article and the charges thereon collected from the addressee on payment of a fee of ten cents in postage stamps affixed, provided the amount to be collected does not exceed $100. Such a parcel will be insured against loss, without additional charge, in an amount equivalent to its actual value, but not to exceed $50.
The sender of a collect on delivery (C. O. D.) parcel will be given a receipt showing the office and date of mailing, the number of the parcel, and the amount due him.
The sender of a C. O. D. parcel shall fill in as many of the items on the C. O. D. tag as possible, including the item showing the amount due him, and shall place his ' name and address on the back. He shall also place his name and address on the back of the coupon retained at the mailing office.
A C. O. D. parcel will be accepted for mailing only at a money-order office and when addressed to a money- order office. Money-order offices are designated in the parcel post guide by an asterisk or a dagger.
The addressee will not be permitted to examine the contents of a C. O. D. parcel until it has been receipted for and all charges paid. A parcel may be refused when it is tendered for delivery, but after delivery has been effected it can not be returned on account of dissatisfac- tion with the contents or the amount collected.
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GENERAL INDEX
Note to Teacher :- The figures refer to pages in the text; the Roman numerals refer to articles in the Oklahoma Constitution, and these are followed by figures indicating the sections of the articles named. All reference to the Constitution or to the statutes of the State are enclosed in parenthesis.
Page
Adjutant. General
49
Agriculture, State Board of (Art. IX, Sec. 5)
47
Amendments to the State Constitution
51
Animal Industry
47
Annual School Meetings
19
Appendix A
79
Appendix B
102
Appendix C
110
Appointments. President's Power
65
Governor's Power
1S
Of Officers in Cities
29
Apportionment of School Funds
20
Army
Articles of Confederation 1 1 1
61
Assessments
35
Assessor, County
35
Attendance, Compulsory
23
Attorney-General, State
45
Attorney, County
34
Auditor, State
45
Bill of Rights. State
102
Boards, County:
Commissioners
35
Election
5S
Excise 36
Boards, State:
Affairs, Public
19
Agriculture
15
1 1 1 Education 47
Boards, Proeinet Election
Boards, Township, Trustees 26
Bureaus, National
67
Cabinet of President
66
Chief Mine Inspector, State
Cirenit Courts of Appeals 5.4
Cities:
· Attorney 29
Charter
.
1
1
1
1
1
1
Banking
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
72
1
1
1
1 1
1
1 1 i
120
GENERAL INDEX
Page
Clerk
20
Commission Form of Government
31
Marshal 30
Police
30
Street Commissioner 1 29
Treasurer 29
Civil Service 66 I
Clerk, County
34
Clerk, District Court
35
Commerce
73
Commission Form of Government
31
Commission, State Corporation (Art. IX)
46
Commissioner:
Charities and Corrections
46
Health
48
Highways 48
45
Labor
45
Street
30
Commissioners:
County
35
Land Office
17
Congress:
Committees in
70
Houses
69
. Powers
Prohibitions
1
69
Congressional Townships
24
Constable
30
Constitution:
National
79
State
39
Constitutional Convention, National
62
State
Continental Congress
61
Corporations
42
Counties (Art. XVII)
33
Conrts:
County
27
Municipal
77
State
Criminal Court of Appeals
Debts, Public, Limit of.
55
Declaration of Independence fil
District Court 51
Education, Boards of:
. ).)
City
District
State
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
J
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Justice
1
--
National
1
Sessions
1
1
a
Insurance
121
GENERAL INDEX
Page
Education, State System (Art. XIII)
47
United States Commissioner 67
- Eleemosynary Institutions 36
Election :
Ballot 5S
Boards
58
Registration
57
School
19
State
58-
Examiner and Inspector, State
45
Excise Board, County
36
Executive Department : National
65
State
43
Family Group
2
Fellow Servant Law
41
Fire Marshall 35
Game Warden
48
Government:
Family
12
Federal
4S
Local
19 50
Nature of
10
Need of
16
School
19
State
39
Township
24
Governor, Powers and Duties
43
Habeas Corpus. Writ of (Art. II, See. 10)
41
Health, State Commissioner, State
Highway Commissioner, State 45
House of Representatives: National 69
State
51
Impeachment :
National
53
Initiative and Referendum 30
Insurance Commissioner, State 15
Judges of Supreme Court: National
77
State
52
Judicial Department : National
77
State
Justice of the Peace 30
Juvenile Courts
3.4
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
I
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
I
1
1
1
1
I
I
1
I
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
$
National
1
1
1
1
State
122
GENERAL INDEX
Page
Labor, Commissioner of, State
45
Land Office, State Commissioners of 17
Land Survey
24
Legislative Department: National 69
State
50
Library, School
20
Lieutenant-Governor
Local Government 19
Marshal, City
30
Mayor
29
Mine Inspectors, State
46
Money
73
Municipal Township
26
National Territory.
71
Navy 72
102
Parcels Post
116
Pardons, Power of:
43
Mayor
29
President
65
Personal Rights
12
Politieal Rights
12
Postal Rates
110
President
65
Presidential Snecession Law
45
Primary Fleetions, Mandatory
57
Public Instruction, Superintendent of:
County
35
State
46
Public Health Commissioner, State
46
Public Schools:
Annual Meeting 10
·).)
Compulsory Attendance
Consolidation 21
3.5
Distriet Officers
19
State Superintendent
Referendum 50
Registration Letters 112
Registration Votes
57
Register of Deeds, County.
3-4
Religious Toleration
0
Representatives, House of :
"National 69
State
51
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
City Districts
County Superintendent
46
1
Oklahoma Bill of Right
Governor
4964
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