Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1917 — Gov. Goodrich Signs Many Bills. [ARTICLE]

Gov. Goodrich Signs Many Bills.

Indianapolis, March &—Governor Goodrich has signed the following bills which were passed, in the <*oeing days at the legislature: No. 42. Creating a state highway commission and providing means tar a system of better roads. No. 2. To game absent voters the right to vote by mail <on election day. No. 235. To require reciprocal insurance companies to deposit reserves with the auditor of state and to submit to state supervision. . —- No, 547. To authorize courts to empower guardians of estates, except minors, to mortgage real estate to secure debts. No. 328. Legalizing maintenance and repair work done on roads by direction of county commissioners and authorising the commissioners to fix a tax levy. No. 231. To provide for more time for filing remonstrances in drainage cases ana fixing procedure. Requesting the federal naval board to locate the proposed government armor plate plant and shell factory at Evansville and its nitrate plant at Mussel Shoals, Tennessee river. Urging the federal government to establish an aeronautical training station at Fort Benjamin Harrison. No. 421. To increase the fees charged by the auditor of state for examination of building void foam assoch taons. Nc. 159. Amending the swamp land and lratnage act to provide that the number of commissioners w to maintain such drainage be not less than three nor more than nine, to he selected by the ’.and owners. Nc. 98. Making is unlawftri for any operator of an automobile or motorcycle to pass street cam or iffterurbaas when such can have, been stopped to allow passengers to Alight. -No. 8. To reduce the state general fund tax levy from 7 to 4 cents and to repeal the state debt sinking fund levy of 1% cents. No. 230. To prevent justices of the peat • from practicing law in any of the courts <xf the county in which they fadd office. _ j jL The following bills were allowed te become laws without the governor’s signature: No. 204. To repeal the law which make, s stockholders in telephone companies liable for double the face value of thrir stock in case of failure of the company. No. 432. Providing for the erection of street lamps alon** land owned by county but 'inside df corporate limits of any city and for maintenance of same. ... No. 89. Requiring automobile headlights to be dimmed at 3% feet above the roadway, at a distance of fifty feet ahead of such vehicle.