Appeals from Justices When Tried.

Section 6. In all cases appealed to the county court of said county from the justice court, the same shall be tried in the same districts wherein the justice of the peace resides.

Venue of Probate Matters.

Section 7. All probate cases of appointing administrators, executors or guardians may be done by the court in either of the said court districts; Provided, that all controversies shall be determined or tried in the district where said guardians, adminisrators or executors reside; Provided, further, that in all cases where the guardian, administrator or executor is a non-resident, the hearing may be had in either district.

Jury Lists.

Section 8. The board of jury commissioners shall make two lists of names, of two hundred persons each, who shall possess the qualifications of jurors as prescribed by law, and one of said lists shall be marked "Waurika jury list", and the other shall be marked "Ringling jury list", and the lists shall be delivered to the county judge who shall place said lists as provided by law, in two separate boxes and shall mark one box "Waurika Jury List", and the other box "Ringling Jury List", and the jurors to serve at the session of court held at Waurika shall be drawn out of the box containing the Waurika jury list, and the jurors to serve at the session of court held at Ringling, shall be drawn out of the box containing the Ringling jury list, and the list marked "Waurika Jury List" shall consist of persons selected from district number one and the list marked "Ringling Jury List" shall consist of persons selected from district number two.

Traveling Expenses.

Section 9. The county judge shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the board of county commissioners, his actual traveling and hotel expenses in

attending court at Ringling to be paid as other bills against the county are paid, upon his filing an itemized, sworn statement with the county clerk.

Clerk at Ringling.

Section 10. With the approval of the board of county commissioners, the county judge shall appoint a deputy clerk for said court at the town of Ringling, whose compensation shall not exceed seventy-five ($75.00) dollars per month, to be paid in like manner as the salary of the clerk of the court, as provided by law.

Records.

Section 11. All records, books and files of the court heretofore located at Cornish, Jefferson county, Oklahoma, are hereby transferred to the court herein established at Ringling, Jefferson county, Oklahoma, as the records of said county court at Ringling.

Emergency.

Section 12. For the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist by reason whereof it is necessary that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 23, 1915.

CHAPTER 246.

WORKMENS COMPENSATION LAW-GENERAL PROVISIONS.

AN ACT providing for the compulsory compensation of injured employees in hazardous industries, placing the supervision of the act under a commission herein created. Fixing a schedule of awards, and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

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

Title.

Article 1. Section 1. Section 1. This act shall be known as the "Workmens Compensation Law."

Employments Included in Act.

Section 2. Compensation provided for in this act shall be payable for injuries sustained by employees engaged in the following hazardous employments, to-wit:

Factories, cotton gins, mills and workshops where machinery is used; printing, electrotyping, photograving and stereotyping plants where machinery is used; foundries, blast furnaces, mines, wells, gas works, water works, reduction works, elevators, dredges, smelters, powder works; laundries operated by power; quarries; engineering works, logging, lumbering, street and interurban railroads not engaged in interstate commerce, buildings being constructed, repaired or demolished, farm building and farm improvements excepted, telegraph, telephone, electric light or power plants or lines, steam heating or power plants, and railroads not engaged in interstate commerce. If there be or arise any hazardous occupation or work other than those hereinabove enumerated it shall come under this act.

Section 3. As used in this act:

"Hazardous Employment" Defined.

1. "Hazardous employment" shall mean manual or mechanical work or labor connected with or incident to one of the industries, plants, factories, lines, occupation or trades, mentioned in Section 2 of this act, but shall not include anyone engaged in Agricultural, Horticultural or Retail mercantile pursuits or dairy or stockraising, or in operating any steam railroad engaged in interstate commerce.

"Commission" Defined.

2. "Commission" means the State Industrial Commission, as constituted by this act.

"Employer" Defined.

3. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a person, partnership, association, corporation, and the legal representatives, of a deceased employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, partnership, association, or corporation, employing workmen in hazardous employments, and shall include the State, county, city or any municipality when engaged in any hazardous work within the meaning of this act in which workmen are employed for wages; provided, however, that so long as by state law, city charter or municipal ordinance, provision equal to or better than that given under the terms of this act is made for such employees injured in the course of employment, such employees shall not be entitled to the benefits of this act.

"Employee' Defined.

4. "Employee," means any person engaged in manual or mechanical work, in the employment of any person, firm or corporation carrying on a business covered by the terms of this act.

"Employment Defined."

5. "Employment" includes employment only in a trade, business or occupation carried on by the employer for pecuniary gain.

"Compensation" Defined.

6. "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to an employee as provided for in this act.

"Injury or Personal Injury" Defined.

7. "Injury or personal injury" means only accidental injuries arising out of and in the course of employment and such disease or infection as may naturally and unavoidably result therefrom.

"Wages" Defined.

8. "Wages" means the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring

in force at the time of the accident, including the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging or similar advantage received from the employer.

"Insurance Carrier" Defined.

9. "Insurance carrier" shall include stock corporations, reciprocal, or inter-insurance association, or mutual associations with which employers have insured, and employers permitted to pay compensation directly under the provisions of subdivision (d) of section 1 of article 3 of this act.

"Factory" Defined.

10. "Factory" means any undertaking in which the business of working at commodities is carried on with power driven machinery either in manufacture, repair, cleaning or assorting and shall include the premises, yard and plant of the concern, but shall not include any such plants or machinery used on farms.

"Workshop" Defined.

11. "Workshop" means any premises, yard, plant, room or place wherein power driven machinery is employed and manual or mechanical labor is exercised by way of trade for gain or otherwise or incidental to the process of making, altering, repairing, printing, or ornamenting, cleaning, finishing or adapting for sale or otherwise any article or part of article, machine, or thing over which premises, room or place, the employer of the person working therein has the right of access or control.

"Mine" Defined.

12. "Mine" means any mine where coal, ore, mineral gypsum, or rock is dug or mined under the ground.

"Quarry" Defined

13. "Quarry" means an opening or cut from which coal is mined, or clay, ore, mineral gypsum, gravel, sand or rock is cut or taken for manufacturing, building, or construction purposes.

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