Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — Senate Hills on Third Reading. [ARTICLE]

Senate Hills on Third Reading.

Fixing time for holding court in Perry. Spencer and Warrick counties. Gibson. Passed—.>» to 0. Giving prison matrons in counties of 50.0 IX) or more, proper accommodations for herself and female prisoners, and that she shall be the jailer in charge of female prisoners. Burns. Passed—l 3 to 0. Requiring automobile drivers to slacken the speed of their machines to four miles an hour when signaled to do so by the occupant of an approaching or passing vehicle, and requiring them to be registered. Johnston. Passed —38 .’’>. Providing for the printing of 2,G00 additional copies of the last report of the fish commissioner and game warden of Indiana. Newhouse. Passed—4o to 0. Providing for semi-annual inspection of boilers on gasoline and naphtha launches. Parks. Passed —35 to 0. Authorizing an administrator to allow n part of a claim against estate of a decedent. Dausman. Passed —37 to 0. Legalizing all records in recorders’ offices lacking notarial affidavits, but made in good faith. Singer. Passed —3S to 0. Reimbursing to the amount of $2lB Austin Pierson a former township trustee of Hendricks County. Barlow. Passed—3B to 0. Legalizing incorporation of Linden. Montgomery County. Gibson. Passed —3B to 1. To permit the building of a coliseum in Indianapolis. Thompson. Passed — 40 to 0. Extending the period for contracts for prison labor. Matson. Passed—4o to 1. Providing that the county commissioners shall hear eases where the drainage association decides that the proposed improvement would not be of public utility. Barens. Passed—3s to 1. Exempting fraternal beneficiary associations from taxation and from attach inent under trustee, garnishee or other process. Burns. Passed—34 to 2. Fixing the terms of county officers so that they all begin the same time—the Ist day of January succeeding their election. The bill was amended so as to make it impossible for' an officer to resign and then be reappointed, and hold the office four yelfrs. Passed bv a vote of 48 to 0. Bringing city of Fort Wayne under operation of Barrett law in matter of street improvements. Fleming. Passed —42 to 0. Empowering Slate B:ard of Audit to issue bonds and to bid on the T. H. A 1. Railroad in ease it is ordered sold by tile court. Matson. Passed—42 to 0. Providing that the cleaning of dredge ditches be done under contract with township trustees. Parks. Passed—3B to 1. Bills Introduced —Senate. S. B. 150—Establishing a negotiable instrument law uniform with the laws of other States. Walcot. Judiciary No. 2. S. B. 157—Compelling justices of the peace to use a seal in making acknowledgment of deeds, mortgages, etc., good anywhere in the State. Gochenour. Judiciary No. 1. S. B. 140—Legalizing all records in recorders’ offices lacking notarial affidavits and legalizing all other acts of notaries done in good faith. Singer. Judiciary No. 2. S. B. 141—Providing that a widow shall take under her husband's will, unless she elects to take one-third, subject to its proportion of debts. Wood. Judiciary No. 1. 8. B. 130—Concerning gravel and macadamized roads. Gard. Roads. S. B. 143—Providing a penalty of from $lO to to $25 fin%, if a dam owner does not put in a fish ladder, and providing the same penalty of the same amount if it is not repaired within thirty days. Barlow. Rights and privileges. 8. B. 144—Reimbursing William H. Oren, ex-treasurer of St. Joseph County, for $1,328.12 lost by failure of the batik of J. 11. Steyice A Son. Burns, by request. Claims and expenditures. S. B. 131—Concerning claims against the estates of insane persons. Harrison. Judiciary No. 1. 8. B. 134—Providing for nn annual Arbor day. to be designated by the Governor. Parks. Agriculture. 8. B. 133—Concerning the employment of convict labor. Matson. Prisons. S. B. 135 Making more specific the city charter of Fort Wayne in the matter of street assessments. Ulrey. Cities mid towns. 8. B. 132—I’j-oviding that county treasurers shall collect taxes at their offices .in the court house, at the county stat, mid not elsewhere, mid providing a fine of from SSO to SSOO for violations. Hendee. Judiciary No. 1. Reorganizing Jeffersonville Reformatory. Passed—3o to 10. Increasing salaries of Supreme and Appellate judges and Supreme Court slerfc. Wood—Passed—27 to 2L