Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1913 — LEGAL PRINTING LAW NOW IN EFFECT [ARTICLE]

LEGAL PRINTING LAW NOW IN EFFECT

Legals of Certain Kinds Must Be Printed in Papers of Leading Parties of County. Newspaper publishers of the state are greatly interested in the provisions of a law passed by~the legislature under the title of Senate Bill No. 134, introduced by Senator Stotsenburg, with a view of disposing of the complications occasioned by the statutory that auditors, treasurers and township trustees shall publish notices in two newspapers representing the two political parties casting the highest number of votes. In several counties of the state there ar<f ho papers representing two political parties and it has been necessary In such cases to'publish in Independent newspapers. The new law passed at this session legal; izes such publiction in independent papers in counties where there are not two political newspapers. In other counties where newspapers have turned Progressive in order to secure the printing, and where Progressive papers have been started largely for the purpose of securing a share of the county printing, conditions have arisen whieh made the old law unsuitable. Following is the full text of the law, which carries with it an emergency clause and thereby became effective Monday, March 3, when it was signed by Governor Ralston: "Section I.—Be it enacted by the General Assembly and the State of Indiana, that in all cases where the auditors, treasurers and township trustees of the several counties of the state are required by law to publish notices and reports affecting county and township affairs in a. public newspaper, said auditors, treasurers and trustees are hereby required to publish said notices as by the several statutes required in two newspapers representing two political parties casting votes in such counties respectively at the last preceding general election, one of which notices or reports shall be published in a newspaper representing the party casting the highest number of votes at said election, if there be such newspapers published in such counties, and in case there are not published in such counties newspapers representing two political parties casting votes at the last preceding general election then and in that case one of such notices or reports shall be published in the leading Independent newspaper. “See. 2.—A1l laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. “Sec. 3.—Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.”