Provisions When Fund is Insufficient.

Section 5. Should the fund herein authorized be sufficient to permit an allowance to only a part of the persons coming within the provisions of this law, the county court shall select those cases in most urgent need of such allow

ance.

Class of Widows Entitled.

Section 6. The provisions of this law shall not apply to any woman whose husband is not dead or who is not confined in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary or other prison in this state, or is in a state institution for the insane in this state, and in the two latter cases it shall not apply unless such prisoner is the lawful husband of the woman seeking such allowance.

Unlawful Procurement-Penalty for Attempt.

Section 7 Any person procuring or attempting to procure any allowance for a person not entitled thereto shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Judgments for Allowance-Citizens May Petition Rehearing.

Section 8. In each case where an allowance is made to any woman under the provisions of this act, a judgment entry to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the county court making such allowance, and it shall be the right of any taxpaying citizen at any time to file a motion to set aside such judgment; and on such motion the county court, or the court to whom such motion may be taken on a change of venue, shall hear evidence, either with or without a jury, as either side may demand, and may make a new order granting or refusing such allowance, and from such order so made an appear shall lie as in ordinary civil cases. If the judgment making such al

lowance is not appealed from, or is affirmed on appeal, the person filing such motion shall pay all the costs of such motion and the proceedings subsequent thereto. Such motion may be renewed from time to time, but not oftener than once in any calendar year.

Repeal of Conflicting Acts.

Section 9. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are, in so far as they conflict, hereby repealed.

Emergency.

Section 10. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved April 1, 1915.

AN

CHAPTER 184.

TAXATION TAX DEEDS-REGULATIONS.

ACT amending running section 7415 of the Revised aws 1910, relating to taxation.

of Oklahoma,

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Tax Deeds-Procedure to Secure.

Section 1. That running section 7415 of the Revised

Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, be and the same is hereby amend

ed

to read as follows:

"Section 7415. If no person shall redeem such lands

within two years, at any time after the expiration thereof, and on production of the certificate of purchase, the treasurer of the county in which the sale of such land took place shall execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a deed for land remaining unredeemed, which shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate in fee simple in such lands, subject however, to all claims which the state may have thereon for taxes or other liens or incumbrances; provided, however, that before any holder of a certificate of purchase issued at any tax sale of real estate shall be entitled to a deed as provided in this section, he shall cause a written notice signed by himself to be served upon the owner of the land if he is within the state, and also upon the person in possession of the said land (if the same be occupied), which notice shall recite the sale of the said lands, specifying the date of such sale and notifying such person that unless redemption is made from such sale within sixty days after the date of the service of such notice, a tax deed will be demanded and will issue as provided by law.

If it shall be made to appear by the return of the service of such notice that the owner of such land cannot be found in the county in which such land is situated, and if it shall be made to further appear by the affidavit of the holder of the tax certificate or his agent, filed in the office of the county clerk, that the owner or owners of the real estate are non-residents of the state, or that the residence or place of business of such owner or owners is not known to the holder of such tax certificate, and cannot be ascertained by any means within the control of such holder of the tax certificate, and that the holder of such tax certificate cannot by the exercise of reasonable diligence make service upon such owner within the state, then in such cases, service shall be made by publication for three successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published at the county seat of the county in which such real estate is situated, and said sixty days shall begin to run from the date of the first publication of such notice.

Until the expiration of the said sixty days, redemption may be made by any person authorized by law to redeem. All service and return shall be made in the same manner as that of summons in courts of record. The notice, with the tax sale certificate, after being duly served or published, or both, shall be returned and filed in the office of the county clerk, who shall make notation of its date and the date of service on the delinquent sale record, and the fee for such service and publication shall be the same as for like service of summons, and shall be added to the amount necessary to redeem such sales. The notice herein provided for may be served at any time after a date not exceeding sixty days prior to the expiration of two years subsequent to the day of sale."

Approved April 2, 1915.

CHAPTER 185.

FISH AND GAME-FEES-DISPOSITION.

AN ACT relating to fish and game and providing for encouraging the breeding of fur bearing animals, fish and game.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Fees for Hunting Licenses-Disposition.

Section 1. Section 5 of chapter 218 of the Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 5. Twenty-five per centum of all fees re

ceived for hunting licenses issued by county clerks shall, at the end of each month be forwarded to the State Game and Fish Warden, who shall receipt for the same and turn such fees over to the State Treasurer to be placed to the credit of the game protection fund of the state; and seventy-five per centum of said fees to be by the county clerk of the county wherein such hunting licenses are sold, turned over to the county treasurer and placed to the credit of the road and bridge fund of said county."

Hunting Season-Quail, etc.

Section 2.

Section 3272 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 3272. It shall be unlawful to hunt, capture or kill any quail or any Mexican or blue quail, except from November 30th, to January 15th, or any wild turkey, except one wild turkey gobbler from March 15th to April 15th, and one wild turkey from November 15th to January 1st; or an Mongolian, Chinese, English, Ringneck, or other pheasant, prairie chicken, mourning dove, long-billed curlew, wood duck, whooping crane, sandhill crane, pelican, gull, or heron at any time. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than sixty days."

Bag Limit.

Section 3. Section 3275 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 3275. It shall be unlawful to exceed the following bag limit: Wild turkey as provided in section two hereof, goose or brant, ten in one day; quail, plover, duck or snipe, ten in one day, one hundred in a season."

Propagation Permits.

Section 4. The State Game and Fish Warden is authorized to issue permits to propagate fur bearing animals,