said Commission shall promulgate its findings by its orders duly made and recorded, and publish the same in some newspaper of general circulation in the State.

Section 3. That the term "WASTE" as used herein, in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include economic waste, underground waste, surface waste, and waste incident to the production of crude oil or petroleum in excess of transportation or marketing facilities or reasonable market demands. The Corporation Commission shall have authority to make rules and regulations for the prevention of such wastes, and for the protection of all fresh water strata, and oil and gas bearing strata, encountered in any well drilled for oil.

Section 4. That whenever the full production from any common source of supply of crude oil or petroleum in this State can only be obtained under conditions constituting waste, as herein defined, then any person, firm, or corporation, having the right to drill into and produce oil from any such common source of supply, may take therefrom only such proportion of all crude oil and petroleum that may be produced therefrom, without waste, as the production of the well or wells of any such person, firm, or corporation, bears to the total production of such common source of supply. The Corporation Commission is authorized to so regulate the taking of crude oil or petroleum from any or all such common sources of supply, within the State of Oklahoma, as to prevent the inequitable or unfair taking, from a common source of supply, of such crude oil or petroleum, by any person, firm, or corporation, and to prevent unreasonable discrimination in favor of any one such common source of supply as against another.

Section 5. That for the purpose of determining such production, a guage of each well shall be taken under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the

Corporation Commission, and said commission is authorized and directed to make and promulgate, by proper order, such other rules and regulations, and to employ or appoint such agents with the consent of the Governor, as may be necessary to enforce this Act.

Section 6. That any person. firm, or corporation, or the Attorney General on behalf of the State, may institute proceedings before the Corporation Commission, or apply for a hearing before said commission upon any question relating to the enforcement of this Act, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said commission to hear and determine the same. Said commission shall set a time and place when and where such hearing shall be had and give reasonable notice thereof to all persons or classes interested therein, by publication in some newspaper or newspapers, having general circulation in the State, and in addition thereto, shall cause reasonable notice in writing to be served personally on any person, firm, or corporation complained against. In the exercise and enforcement of such jurisdiction, said commission is authorized to determine any question or fact arising hereunder, and to summon witnesses, make ancillary orders, and use such mesne and fine process including inspection and punishment as for contempt, analogous to proceedings under its control over public service corporations, as now provided by law.

Section 7. That appellate jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court in this State to review the action of said commission in making any order, or orders, under this Act. Such appeal may be taken by any person, firm, or corporation, shown by the record to be interested therein, in the same manner and time as appeals are allowed by law from other orders of the Corporation Commission. Said orders so appealed from shall not be superseded by the mere fact of such appeal being taken, but shall be and remain in

full force and effect until legally suspended or set aside by the Supreme Court.

Section 8. That in addition to any penalty that may be imposed by the Corporation Commission for contempt, any person, firm, or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof, directly or indirectly violating the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both fine and imprisonment.

Section 9. That in addition to any penalty imposed under the preceding section, any person, firm or corporation, violating the provisions of this Act, shall be subject to have his or its producing property placed in the hands of a receiver by a court of competent jurisdiction, at the suit of the State through the Attorney General or any county attorney, but such receivership shall only extend to the operating of producing wells and the marketing of the production thereof, under the provisions of this Act.

Section 10. That the invalidity of any section, subdivision, clause, or sentence of this Act shall not in any manner affect the validity of the remaining portion thereof.

Section 11. For the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. R. L. Williams,

Governor.

SENATE BILL NO. 204.

AN ACT Authorizing the Governor to Appoint, with the Approval of the Supreme Court, Nine Supreme

Court Commissioners to Assist the Supreme Court; To Designate not more than nine District Judges to act as Supreme Court Commissioners; Fixing the Term of Office and Compensation; Prescribing the Duties of and Providing Office Rooms and Clerical Assistance for such Commissioners; Providing for a Docket Fee in all Cases filed in the Supreme Court; and Declaring an Emergency.

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: Section 1. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the consent and approval of the Supreme Court, entered on record upon its journals, nine persons possessing the qualificatioons of Judges of the Supreme Court, as Supreme Court Commissioners, to assist the Supreme Court in disposing of the causes accumulated and being filed in said Court, "one of said Commissioners to be selected from each Supreme Court Judicial District and four to be selected from the State at large." Said Commissioners shall be divided into groups of three each, and shall be designated as Divisions One, Two and Three. The Court shall designate the division to which each Commissioner shall be assigned, and may change such assignments whenever the public interest may be better served thereby. Each Commissioner shall hold his office until the last day of January, 1917, and shall be paid as compensation the sum of $3,000.00 Dollars per annum, payable monthly. Each Commissioner shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties take and subscribe the oath required of the Judges of the Supreme Court and file the same in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court; vacancies occurring in the office of Supreme Court Commissioners shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

Section 2. The Governor is further authorized, at any time when in his judgment the public interest

will warrant it, the Supreme Court concurring therein, to designate not more than nine District Judges to act as Supreme Court Commissioners for a period of not less than four months at a time. Such District Judge, when so assigned, shall be by the Supreme Court assigned to duty as such Commissioners. and said District Judges acting as Supreme Court Commissioners, shall be divided into groups of three each by the Supreme Court, and each group shall constitute a separate division. No cause shall be referred to any division which originated in or was tried in the district of either of said Judges, constituting any such division. Such Judges when so assigned, shall possess and exercise the same powers and duties and be governed by the same rules and regulations as other commissioners authorized by this Act, and shall be paid in addition to their salaries as District Judges, the sum of two dollars per day while acting as Commissioners, which shall be in lieu of expenses now authorized by law while serving outside of their district.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of such Supreme Court Commissioners, under the orders and direction of, and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by, the Supreme Court, to assist the Supreme Court in disposing of the causes now pending or hereafter filed in said Court. The Supreme Court shall from time to time assign to each division of the Commissioners, a sufficient number of causes to keep them employed. The Commissioners may hear arguments, examine briefs and records, pass upon motions, and shall, in the causes assigned to them, prepare and submit to the Supreme Court opinions in writing stating their findings and conclusions, and shall make recommendations to the Court. The Supreme Court shall examine each cause and opinion reported on by the Commissioners, and may adopt, reject, or modify the same, or any cause may be remanded to the same or