Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — Bills on Third Reading in Senate. [ARTICLE]

Bills on Third Reading in Senate.

8. B. 185—Permitting transfer of public property for use of schools. Gibson. Passed—3s to 0. 8. B. 107 —Providing for the appointment of a commissioner to determine the position of Indiana troops at siege of Vicksburg. Fortune. Passed —37 to 0. 8. B. 170—Providing that insurance companies may have as assets bonds of incorporated companies and first mortgages on reaj estate. Dausmai. Passed —B7 to 0. - 8. B. 97 —Giving right of appeal to Appellate or Supreme courts in civil <;ases where amount exceeds SSO. Parks. Passed—3o to 1. 8. B. 178 —Legalizing incorporation of Versailles. Singer. Passed—37 to 0. S. B. 113—Providing ways in which savings bank funds may be invested. Passed—Bo to 0.

B. 162 —Authorizing employment of an'agent to procure homes for the inmates of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. Starr. Passed—--36 to 0. S. B. 96—Authorizing manufacturing and mining companies to Increase their capital stock at other than annual stockholders’ meeting. Matson. Passed—37 to 0. 8. B. 188—Providing for the publication of trustees’ reports in the leading paper of each of the two largest parties and in one other paper in the county scat. Hendee. Passed—3o to 8. 8. B. 134—Providing for an annual Arbor Day. Parks. Passed—3s to 1. 8. B. 172—Providing for the use of primers before first readers. Wolcott. On a reconsideration. Passed—37 to 2. 8. B. 168—Providing for a statue of George Rogers Clark in Statuary Hall at Washington. Barcus. Passed—29 to 7. 8. B. 272 —Providing for the introduction of the study of agriculture by means of leaflets Befit out by the Agricultural Department of Purdue University, and providing an appropriation of SI,OOO for this work. Goodwine. Finance. Rills Introduced—House. 11. B. 95—Making it possible to extend the water works plant of East Chicago by an additional tax levy. Wilson. Cities and towns. H. B. 102—Legalizing the Incorporation of Diamond. • Owen. Cities and towns. 11. B. 103 —Providing for the filing of Hens on ci°P* for the protection of millers. Bader. Judiciary. H. B. 104—Concerning repair of free gravel roads. Boyd. County uud township. H. B. 105 —Providing for publication of 5,000 copies of tho report of the fish and game commission. Decker. Wuys and means. H. 0. 106 —Giving State Superintendent of Instruction the power to enforce school teachers' salary laws. Watson. Education. H. B. 107—Regarding the improvement and maintenance of free gravel roads. Hall. Roads. H. B. 100—Providing bodies for medical colleges. Baird. Health. H. B. 108—Authorising county treasurers to sell land for whet they can get If it cannot he sold for the amount of the taxes. Wilson, Judiciary. Rills Introduced—Senate. 8. B. 260 —Permitting Kewanna to levy an additional special school (tax to repair or to build school buildings. <R>chenour. Education. 8. B. 261 —Providing for publication of legal notices In weekly papers in towns of lees titan 25,006. Powell. Public 1 printing-