Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — Page 2

LAWS OF INDIANA

The acts of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Indiana embrace numeroua points of legislation of vital Interest to the people of the state. One great work was the oetion taken In regard to the measures prevented by the codification commission. Five of the six measures were adopted and ore now enacted Into law. These codify the present statutes relating to municipalities, to public ofTenaes, to highways, to drainage •nd to eminent domain. The code bill relating to corporations did not pass. Next to the codified measures passed the most Important measures enacted Into low by the legislature were the ones providing for the creation of a state railroad commisslon: redistricting the state for leglslatlve purposes; establishing an additional hospital for the Insane; prohibiting the •moklug of cigarettes; amending the Nicholson law so ns to make remonstrances against the Issuance of liquor licenses apply for two years either against the Individual applleant or the traffic In gencrnl; and establishing an Indiana village of epileptics. SENATE BILLS. LEGISLATIVE RE APPORTIONMENT. Senate Mill No. 339. Klrkman. A hill for ail act to tlx the number of senators and representatives to tin* general assembly of tlie state of Indiana, and to apportion the smile among the several counties of the atate. Section 1. He It enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana: That the general assembly shall consist of fifty aenstors and one hundred representatives. See. 2. The senators shall be apportioned among tlie several counties of the state as follows, to-wit: Posey and Gibson, one; Vanderburgh, one; Vanderburgh, Warrick and Spencer, one; Daviess and Pike, one: Martin. Lawrence and Orange, one; Dubois. Perry and Crawford, one; Harrison and Elovd, one: Clark. Jennings and Scott, one; Ilrown. Jackson and Washington, one; Jefferson, Klpley and Switzerland, one; Franklin. Dearborn mid Ohio, one: Bartholomew and Decatur, one; Greene, Monroe and Owen, one; Sullivan and Knox, one; Johnson and Shelby, one; Putnam. Morgan and Marlon, one; Vigo, one; Vigo and Clay, one: Wayne and Union one; Marlon, four: Fayette. Hancock and Rush, one: Jav and Randolph, one; Delaware. one: Madison, one: Madison and Henry, one: Tipton nud Hamilton, one; Hendricks and Boone, one: Montgomery aud. Parke, one; Warren, Fountain und Vermillion, one; Grant, one: Grant. Blackford and Wells, one: Miami and Howard, one; Carroll and Clinton, one: Benton and Tippecanoe, one; Allen, one: Allen and Adams, one; Huntington and Whitley, one: Wabash and Fulton, one: Marshall and Kosciusko, one: Cass and Pulaski, one: White. Newton, Jasper and Starke, one: Steuben and Dekalb, one: Lagrange and Noble, one; Elkhart, one; St. Joseph, one: St. Joseph and Laporte, one; Lake and Porter, one. Sec. 3. The representatives shall he apportioned nmong the several counties of the Mtntc ns follows, to-wit; Posey, one; Vanderburgh, two: Gibson, one: Knox, one: Vanderburgh. Gibson and Knox, one: Warrick, one: Spencer, one: Pike and Dubois, one; Crawford and Perry, one; Martin and Orange, one; Harrlslon, one; Floyd, one: Clark, one; Clark and Washington, one; Jennings and Scott, one; Jefferson, one; Ohio and Switzerland, one: Ripley, one; Deurhorn. one; Daviess, one; Lawrence, one; Jackson, one: Sullivan, one: Greene, one; Monroe and Brown, one: Bartholomew, one: Decatur, one: Franklin and T’nlon, one: Vigo, two; Vigo and Vermillion, one; Clay, one: Clay and Owen, one: Parke, one; Putnam, one: Morgan, one; Hendricks one; Johnson, one; Marlon, eight; Hamilton, one: Hamilton and Tipton, one: Shelby, one; Hancock, one: Bush, one: Henry, one; Wayne, one; Wavne and Fayette, one; Fountain, one; Benton and Warren, one; Montgomery, one; Tippecanoe, one; Tippecanoe and Montgomery, one: Boone, one: Clinton, one: Madison, three; Delaware, two; Randolph, one; Jasper and White, one; Cass one: Cass and Fulton, one: Howard, one; Miami, one: Carroll, Howard and Miami, one; Grant, two; Grant and Blackford, one; Jay. one*: Wabash. one; Huntington, one; Huntington, Whitley and Kosciusko, one: Wells, one: Adams, one; Allen, three: Lake, one; Lake and Newton, one: Laporte. one; Laporte and Porter, one: St. Joseph, two; St. Joaepli, Starke and Pulaski, one; Marshall, one; Elkhart, two; Kosciusko, one: Noble, one; Dekalb, one; Lagrange and Steuben, •ne. RAILUOAD COMMISSION. Senate Bill No. 22. Newhouse. Providing for the creation of a railroad commission, the appointment and compensation of the members thereof, prescribing the lowers and duties of such commission and its members, prescribing certain duties and obligations of railroad companies, express companies and other common carriers. defining certain misdemeanors and prescribing penalties, providing for the collection of penalties by civil action from railroad companies and other common carriers by the state In eases therein provided for. appropriating money to carry cut Its provisions, providing for a review of the decisions of the .commission and conferring jurisdiction on—certain courts to hear and determine such proceedings, aud repealing all laws and parts of laws In conflict therewith. By the provisions of this bill the governor must. Within sixty days after the nets are published. apolnf three commissioners, whose term of office shall begin on the Monday next following appointment, one of whom shall hold office for a term of four years, one for three years and one for two yours. Thereafter, at the expiration of the terms of these commissioners, their successors shall be appointed for four year terms, but no more than two commissioners shall he members of the same political party. The commissioners shall each receive a salary of s4.non a venr. and shall appoint a secretary, nt a salary of not more than $2,500 a year: a clerk, at a salary of not more than $1,500. ami such other assistants as may lie necessary to perform the work of the commission. Each commissioner must give bond In $lO,000. The commission. Its secretary and clerk, may not accept free transportation from any railroad company, but will lie paid all necessary traveling expenses. I pon this commission is conferred the general power to ••supervise all railroad freight and passenger traffics, and to adopt all necessary regulations to govern car service and the transfer and switching of ears from one railroad to another * * * to require and supervise the location of Hidings and connect lons between railroads; to suriervlse the crossing of the tracks and sidetracks of railroads bv other railroads • * • and to prescribe the manner liy which such crossings shall be m 'd* * • • whether at grade or ov- or under grade • • • to supervise and regulate private car line se’-yb-e and private tracks, where • • • operated Iti connection with any railroad In this s'ate. • • When r ruling of tin* commission Is disputed, the commission shall give a hearing. in which it shall have power to ad minister oaths to witnesses and demand the production of documentary evidonc". Front the ruling of the commission a dissatisfied party may appeal directly to the appelate court of Ind'ana. and In the appeal the commission will Ik* made defendant. TVc appeal from the eonnnls Sion’s ruling must l«* made bv transcript, as In any civil ease appealed from a court of original Jurisdiction, and tin* decision of the appellate court will be final. A ruling of the commission as to rates, conditions of traffic, etc.. Is to lie In force* immediately, except when an appeal Is taken, when It is held up pending the decision of the appeal. If the ruling effects rates, and sets a lower rate than Is charged by a road, that road must give to each shipper, (lending the decision of the appeal, a certificate showing the rebate due him If the lower rate Is unstained by the appellate eourt. and on this certificate must pay hark to the shipper tlie difference between the two rates. If the appellate eourt affirms the ruling of the commission. To guarantee the payment of all snms called for by these certificates, the railroads must file with the appellate Court a sufficient bond. At any hearing which It may give on a disputed question, the commission shall hare power to compel appearance of wit■eases, who shall be paid $2 a dav and three cent* a talle traveled. The commission ahgll have power to examine the books of a railroad concerned with such dispute, and to compel answers to questions on the part of a railroad's employes or agents. Any employe or agent refusing te give each answer or evading a truthful

reply, shall be subject to a line of 1900, and shall be prosecuted by the commission under that charge. _ A railroad violating an order of the commission shall be subject to a flue of not less than (100, nor more than SSOO. For unjust discrimination in rates, or for the giving of special rebates, a railroad shall be subject to a fine of not less than SOOO nor more than sfi.ooo, to be recovered In a civil uctlon Instituted In a court, of competent Jurisdiction by the commission. The employe of a railroad giving such rebute or discriminating In rate and the person profiting by such uctlon shall euch be subject to a fine of not less than SIOO nor more than SI,OOO. For the violation of any part of the act not specifically covered by a railroad company, u fine of not more than SI,OOO Is the penalty. Intovur.-uii electric roads are exempted from the provisions of the act, except that the commission lias the power over them as to crossings, Interlocking devices, etc., now held by the auditor of state. THE MOORE TEMPERANCE BILL. Senate Bill No. 86. Moore, T. T. A bill for an net to amend Section it of an act I entitled 'An act to better regulate und restrict the sub* of Intoxicating, spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, providing pena | ties for the violation of tlie same, provld I lug for the enforcement thereof, and providing for remonstrances against the grunt- | lug *if license for the sale of the same, and conferring Jurisdiction upon the police I court ami Justices of the peace In eases of . the violation of the provisions of this act | and other laws of the stute on the subject of selling Intoxicating liquors,” approved; March 11. list,-..” This new temperance law provides that if three days before any regu-; lur session of the board of commissioners of any county, u remonstrance In writing, i signed by a majority of the legal voters of any township, or ward In any city situ- j ated iu said county, shall be filed with the auditor of the county against the granting of a license to uu.v applicant for the sale of spirituous, vinous, mult or other Intoxicating liquors, under the law of the state of Indiana with the privilege of allowing the sunn* to In* drunk on the premises where sold within the limits of said township, or city ward, It shall be unlawful thereafter for such board of commissioners to grant license to any applicant therefor during the period of two years from the; date* of tiling of such remonstrance: if any ; such license should la* granted by said board during said period, tin* same shall be null aud void, and the holder thereof shall lie liable for any sales of liquors ■ made by him tin* same as If such sale were made without license, anti such violator j of the law shall lie subject to erred ami I punishment as if no license had been is sued. The number to constitute a majority of the voters herein referred to shall be determined by the aggregate vote east ■ In said township or city ward for candl- . dates for the highest office at the last elec- I tlon preceding the tiling of such remon- j atruuce. ANTI CIGARETTE LAW. Semite Bill No. 51. I’arks. This is prne- | tlcally the same bill that was before tbe j senate two years ago. but on account of the lateness of the term It could not be reached. In reporting this bill the com-! mlttee said: “Reliable, scientific Invest! | gallon of the evil consequences of eiga- ; rette smoking has demonstrated that there has been tbe greatest Injury Inflicted, es- ; peclnll.v upon the youth of the nation. The nations who are addicted to this evil habit: are degenerate to the last degree. They seem to have been dwarfed mentally and i physically, tbe records of the insnne nsy- 1 hints proving that the mental condition of many of the Inmates was brought on by the use of cigarettes. The several states , shonid take alarm at the frightful increase of the pernicious cigarette smoking | habit and cause laws to lie enacted and 1 exeeuteil that will spare the American nation, particularly the youth of our coun- I try, from the Inevitable decadence that surely follows addiction to this monstrous vice.” I —Text of the Bill.— A hill for an act to regulate the manufacture. sale and giving away of cigarettes, cigarette paper and other substitutes for the same, and repealing laws In conflict. Section 1. Be It enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, That It 1 shall lie unlawful for any person, by him self, clerk, servant, employe or agent, directly or Indirectly, upon any pretense or by any device, to manufacture, sell, , exchange, barter, dispose of or give away, or keep for sale, any cigarettes, cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers, or any paper i made or prepared for the purpose of being filled with tobacco for smoking: or keep or own, or be in any way concerned, en gaged or employed in owning or keeping any such cigarettes, cigarette paper or wrappers, and any person In violation of the same shull be guilty of a mlsilemenor. and upon conviction shall, for the first offense pay a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars nor more than fifty dollars and cost of prosecution, and stand committed to any county jail until such costs are (laid: and for tin* second ami each subsequent offense he shall pay. upon conviction thereof, a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. or In* Imprisoned In tin* county Jail not to exceed six months: Provided. That tin* provisions hereof shall not apply to the sales of Jobbers doing an interstate business with customers outside the state. HIGHWAYS. Senate Bill No. 77. Beardsley. Concerning highways. This law provides that upon petition to county commissioners of twelve freeholders of the county, commissioners shall appoint three disinterested freeholders to view highway for the purpose of locating, vacating or changing the same. Ts j the viewers deem change to lie one of publie utility they shall lav and mark the same ! on best ground. Persons having grievance any time before final action of the board may remonstrate under oath, and the board ! will appoint another commission of three freeholders to make another review. A inn- ! Jorit.v of the reviewers shall assess and report damages for remonstrators, and order costs and damages pa,,, from county treasury. If the damages appear unreasonable the board may set aside assessment anil | order ntiotlter review. If the majority of j the reviewers are opposed to the petition j for highway the petition is dismissed. I Highways shall not he opened, worked or used until all damages assessed are paid To persons. Viewers and reviewers shall receive 32 a day for their services: surveyors for locating highways, $2.50 a day. On petition of twenty-four freeholders, commissioners are authorized to declare water courses navigable for their respective counties. Persons obstructing navigable water courses are liable to the same penalties as for obstruction of highways. All steam or electric railroad companies shall have right to construct Its road across stream, water course, road or highway which the route . of road shall Intersect; provided It shall . not Interfere with the free use of the same : and affords security to life and property. ! County commissioners shall have power to compel railroad companies to maintain crossings, etc. Interilrbnn or street railroads desiring to extend lines beyond town or city limits on highway must secure coit- | sent of commissioners. Telegraph or tele | phone companies must secure consent of ; county commissioners to erect poles along ! highways. Consent shall not deprive prop- ; ertv owners to right to damages. County commissioners shall have power to lay out. construct and Improve gravel roads. No benefits shall lie assessed to lands that do not lie within two miles of contemplated Improvements. Remonstrants against road improvements are allowed to appeal to circuit court. Tn ’Veember. 1005. and every two years thereafter qualified voters In every road district shall elect a road supervisor. He shall receive $1.50 a dav. The trustee may let out the work to the lowest bidder. The work must bp done within a period of forty days. EMINENT DOMAIN. Senate Rill No. 78. St rider. Concerning proceedings In the exercise of the power of eminent domain, This is the first of the codification commission's bills to pass through all the stages of legislation. The bill simply codifies the present method of court procedure, und In special oases whore there lias been In the past no formal method of proeedttre a method Is provided. Under the new law m fee simple title may be obtained by railroads for propertv other than that used for right-of-way and title would not revert to the person from whom It was bought In ease the use for which It was condemned ceased, as in case of abandonment of a station. In ease of disagreement as to amount of damages, persons seeklug to condemn must file complaint in circuit or superior court setting out what use plaintiff intends to make of property sought, with specific description of land sought to be taKen. Oircnlt or superior clerk shall issue notice and serve notice on defendant. Judge of court shall appoint three disinterested freeholders to assess damages which owner or owners may sustain or he entitled to by reason of such appropriation. Defendants are given right to appeal to supreme court from decision of assessors. Plaintiff may take

possession of lam), subject to appeal of defendant, upon paying to clerk of court the | amount of damages assessed. Exception* to condemnation findings may be filed within ten days after the filing of appraisers* 1 report, ✓t’ost of proceedings shall be paid by pßHntlff. Failure on part of plaintiff to pay damages appraised within forty days after report of appraisers is filed, all rights to property shall be forfeited. NEW REFORMATORY LAW. ■enate BUI No. 13. Ooodwlne. Regulating the labor of the Inmates of the Indiana reformatory on state account and providing for tbe schooling and the training of the inmates. It is enacted that the contract system of labor for the Intnatca of the Indiana reformatory shall be abolished Hfter July, 1006. It shall be tbe duty of the board of managers to provide for teaching the Inmates In the common branches of an English education; also In such trades and handicrafts as will enable them, upon their release, to more surely earn their own support and make self-reliant and self-support-lug citizens. For tills purpose said managers shall establish and maintain common schools, trades schools and military drill ip said reformatory. The tioard of managers shall have full power to establish trades schools for the training of the Inmates in the mechanical arts, and to provide for the manufacture of goods on state account, for the production of such articles as are used In the Institutions of the state and In certain political divisions of the state, and In the production of such articles as may be found practicable: Provided, that said reformatory shall not produce any school bonks and desks used by pupils for use. or which shall be used Iu the common schools of the state, or print any other hooks or blanks except for use of the said reformatory. Tbe state Institutions and political divisions of the state using supplies such as are produced In said reformatory shall Ik* required to purchase the same at a price fixed by a boat'd consisting of the governor of the state, the auditor of state and president of board of managers of said reformatory. The board of managers from time to time shall Issue a catalogue to tbe various state Institutions and oolltlcnl divisions of the state, arid when Such state Institutions or political divisions of the state of Indiana are tn need of such articles as described In snld catalogue the board of eamtrol or boards of managers and the heads of such Institutions, boards of county commission ers, township trustees, superintendents of poor asylums and county sheriffs shall make requisition on tin* board of managers of snld reformatory for such articles as are needed and shall not purchase any such articles elsewhere. CITIES AND TOWNS. Senate Bill No. 75. Parks. This Is a codification of nil laws on the statute books relating to municipal corporations, with certain amendments. Chief among Its provisions is one creating a general election day for all the cities and towns of tlip„ state. The first election day Is designated as the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. 1905. Present officeholders shall serve the full terms for which they *7ere elected, and the new set of officers elected tills fall shall serve until the first Monday of January, 1010. Where terms for which present city officers were elected do not end until after next January, the officers chosen next November must wait until these terms expire. There will lie a uniform ending of all terms with the close of 1009, and everybody will start even In 1010. The law alms nt placing all cities and towns on a common footing, as far as common rules can lie applied, and especially nt separating legislative, executive and judicial functions and concentrating executive power in one responsible head. It alms to Improve municipal government and replace a confused system with n nniforni and orderly one. GIRLS' INDFSTRIAL St'HOOL. Senate Bill No. (14. Goodwtne. Amending an net concerning the separation of the Indiana Industrial school for girls from the woman’s prison, appointing commissioners and making appropriations therefor. This new law, which is in the form of an amendment to the bill passed at the last session, provides for an appropriation of $235,009 and this, coupled with the $15,000 that has been spent on the grounds already bought for the use of the Institution, will bring the total appropriation up to $250,000. Of the present appropriation $75,000 Is to be available June 1. 1905, and tbe remaining $160,000 Nov. 1. 1905. The 1)111 passed two years ago provided for the separation and appropriated $150,000. Land was bought northwest of Indianapolis. Imt Investigation proved that tbe appropriation was not large enough to enable the trustees of the Institution to build an Institution on the cottage plan large enough to accommodate the 200 girls. Hence It was decided to lay the matter over. The remaining $135,000 of the first appropriation lapsed. The bill adopted by the late legislature, carrying a larger appropriation, was passed practically without opposition. PURITY OF ELECTIONS. Senate Bill No. 04. Hugg. Providing for purity In elections, with punishments proscribed for the vote buyer and vote seller. This bill provides that the buyer or seller of a vote shall be fined In any sum not to exceed SSO and shall he disfranchised for a term not to exceed ten years. The bill's principal provision Is that when a witness is called to testify as to the purchase or sale of a vote, he may he compelled to testifv. but that what he says will not Incriminate hint If lie he a party to the transaction. AT’TOMOBILES. Senate Rill No. 8. Crumpncker. Regulating the speed and operation of automobiles. Speed regulation Is made for the entire state, cities. towns and country. Eight utiles an hour Is made the maximum rate In "elnselv built-up” portions of municipalities. Fifteen miles an hour is the limit In other parts of cities and twenty miles an hour outside cities and towns. The operator of n motor vehicle shall stop his machine on signal of the driver of n horse. Registration of all machines with the secretary of state is required, The maximum penalty for the violation of any provision of the law is SSO fine. Senate BUI No. 147. Newhouse. Providing for the location and erection of an additional hospital for the insane, to lie known as the Southeastern Indiana hospital for the insnne, to he erected in a city to be chosen by a commission appointed for that purpose, and providing for the management and maintenance thereof. Senate Bill No, 203. Hugg. Amends the law defining appeals taken to the supreme court from Interlocutory orders of circuit courts, providing that, when such appeal Involves the custody of a child, the court from which the appeal Is taken shall make an order concerning the control and care of the child during the pendency of the case. Senate Bill No. 114. Hugg. A hill for an act for the relief of the Indiana state board of agriculture, authorizing It to borrotv money to pay off Its existing Indebtedness. and for other purposes. This Is a measure authorizing the state board of agriculture to Issue bonds for SBO,OOO to be used in puffing debt on state fair grounds. Senate Bill No. 71. Stephenson. Amending the first section of "An act to enable counties to receive donations of buildings and grounds fur 111 eh school purposes, and to provide for the maintenance of the same.” in force March 11. 1899. This new law compels the acceptance by hoards of county commissioners of lands or buildings denoted for school purposes. Senate Bill No. 85. Mtlburn. A bill for an net to amend See. 2 of an net entitled “A bill to amend an net making It unlawful to give, barter or sell tobacco to certain children." Emergency. This new law makes the Infliction of a jail sentence, upon conviction for selling tobacco to minors. optional with tbe court. Senate Bill N>. 47. Wood, IV. R. A bill for an act-ccncernlng the payment of taxes upon omitted property and providing manner In which costs of collection shall be paid. This bill provides that the state shall pay Its proportionate share of expenses In collecting taxes upon omitted property. Senate Bill No. 7. Crumpaker. Empowering common councils of cities to convey cemetarles and providing for the management and control thereof, providing that such transfer may he made to private corporations on petition of majority of lot owners. Senate Bill No. 81. Ganlard. Regulating private banks and placing these institutions under state supervision: providing that they shall lie capitalized with a capital stock of not less than $50,000 and be subjected to examination by the auditor of state. Senate Bill No. 6. Gavins. Providing an appeal without bond or stay of proceedings In convictions for felony In municipal courts. Senate Bill No. 121. Strleler. A bill for an act to legalize the Incorporation of the town of Poland. Grant county, the election and quallflcpHon of its board of trustees and other officers. Senate Bill No. 137. Murray. A bill for an act providing for tbe deposit of cash or certified checks In lien of a bond in civil, criminal or probate proceedings. Senate Bill No. 87. Murray. Concerning

replevin suits before Justice# of the peace and mayor#. Tble law provides that Action in replevin for recovering of peraonel property may be maintained before • Justice of the peace or mayor without Sling a replevin bond. Senate Bill No. 115. Hugg. Exempting from taxation the mortgages, notea and bonds hereafter Issued by tbe state board Of agriculture. Senate Bill No. 124. Ganlard. Prescribing details In the loaning of school funds. Tnls bill allows county commissioners to pay the expenses of making school fund loans. Senate Bill. No. 209. Strleler. To change the time for holding courts In the TwentyEight Judicial circuit, composed of the counties of Wells and Blackford. SenHte Bill No. 5. Cavlns. Authorizing tbe admission of war nurses as members fit tne Indiana State Soldiers’ Home. Senate Bill No. 65. Klrkman. Providing for the erection of a monument In memory of Oliver P. Morton "war governor" of Indiana, In the state house grounds, und appropriating the sum of $35,000 for such purpose. Senate 81l No. 93. Roemler. Authorizing the hoards of control of stute prisons to use lands owned by the state for cultivation by prison Inmates, aud regulating the hours of the same. Senute Bill No. 192. Durre. Changing the time of the Evansville city election from April to November of the same year. Senate Bill No. 91. Talcott. To exempt front taxation cemetery corporations with permanent care fund for maintenance. Senate BUI No. 95. Cavlns. Providing that companies owning levees shall have the right to condemn adjoining lauds If necessary. Senate Bill No. 118. Roehe. Increasing the salary of the state bourd of embalmers from SIOO to S3OO a year, and providing that the fees shall Ik* turned to the use of the board. Instead of being diverted into the school fund. Senate Bill No. 132. Kimbrough. Providing tliHt on release paroled prisoners shall receive $5 in cash In addition to their railroad fare borne. Senate Bill No. 130. Moore of Putnam. Providing for one osteopathic member on the state board of medical registration and examination. Senate Rill No. 139. Strleler. Allowing towns between 3.000 and 3.400 to lew specific tax of not more than 80 cents per SIOO to pay for maintenance of fire hydrants or electric lights. Senate Bill No. 150. Roemler. Providing that a note maturing on Sunday or a holiday is to be paid the first business day after that holiday and abolishing days of grace. Senate Rill No. 173. Crttmpacker. Fixing the time for holding the court in the 32nd judicial circuit. Senate Bill No. 185. Hugg. Authorizing judges of the circuit courts to transfer cases to the superior courts in 4he same county. Senate Bill No. 203. Lane. Allowing widows and wives of disabled or destitute soldiers of the Spanish-Americnn war or the Philippine Insurrection, to lie admitted to the Indiana state soldiers' home. Senate Rill No. ,193. Durre. Providing for the construction of a certain sewer in Evansville. Senate Bill No. 352. Newhouse. Providing for the printing of 4.000 additional copies of the report of the fish and game commissioner. Senate Bill No. 50. Hendee. Allowing insurance companies Incorporated in Indiana to Invest in bonds of provinces and countries where business Is done. Sennte Bill No. 131. Hugg. To regulate the canvassing of votes In city, county nud township elections. Senate Rill No. 146. Mnlbtirn. Changing the time for holding the May term of court to June In Pike and Dubois counties. Senate mil No. 225. Hugg. To permit the reduction of canitn! stock of trust companies. Senate Bill No. 289. Coats. Relating to the disposal uy guardians of property left a widow who Is Insane. • Senate 818 No, 134. Koehne. Amending the Indianapolis school board law so ns to allow the secretary to lie chosen every four years. Senate BUI No. 140. Wood of Tippecanoe. To provide that the public library commission be assigned a permanent room In the stntehouse and storage room In the basement, and providing for annual reports. Senate Bill No. 181. Newhouse. To give township trustees the authority to gain possession of anil care for small private cemeteries. Senate Bill No. 210. Ganlard. Authorizing tlie state to make a good deed to land now In the possession of Samuel S. East of Lagrange county. Senate Bill No. 261. Klrkman. Allowing the county commissioners to divide and plat the property of the Wayne county orphans’ home and sell It In lots. Senate Bill No. 357. Newhouse. Providing for the transference of the surplus in the sinking fund to the general fund. Senate Bill No. 361. Wiekwlre. Protecting fresh water lakes from drainage by construction of ditches. Senate Bll! No. 194. Hugg. Concerning the acquisition, ownership and transmission of real estate by aliens. Senate Bill No. 249. Beardsley. An act concerning the Indiana national guard, amending the state law to make It conformable to the federal law. Sennte Bill No. 337. Strleler. Defining the kind of securities that foreign insurance companies doing business in Indiana must present to the auditor of staff*. Senate Bill No. 166. Pelzer. Providing for the election of school trustees In cities and Incorporated towns and prescribing their duties and terms of office. Senate Bill No. 129. Gondwlue. Providing for the relocation of the Institute for the education wf tin* deaf. Senate Bill No. 45. T'lrey. Relating to the improvement of boulevards at Fort Wayne. Senate Bill No. 70. Smith. Providing for the regulation and licensing of junk dealers. j ■ Joint Resolution No. 5. Murray. Provld ing for the appointment of a committee of five persons to Investigate the need of a state hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis. Senate Bill No. 226. Moss. Fixing the per iliem of the commission appointed by the governor to codify the mining laws of the state of Indiana. Senate Bill No. 270. Stephenson. Fixing the time of holding court In the 41st judicial circuit. Sennte Bill No. 271. Talcott. Defining delinquency In children anil providing for the punishment of any person responsible for the delinquency of any child. Senate Bill No, 301. Powell. Permitting cities and towns to sell and dispose of municipal water works, electric light works, gas works, street car nud other lines. Senate Rill No. 316. Stephenson. Providing for the unpaid salary of Harry E. Bernetha. judge of the 41st Judicial circuit. Senate Bill No. 332. Hugg. Providing for the incorporation of street railroad companies. Senate BUI No. 359. W. R. Wood. Authorizing circuit courts to change the names of persons and Incorporations. Senate Bill No. 167. I’urvianee. ApproFiriating $150,000 for the location and estabishment of a state hospital for the treatment of epileptics. Senate Bill No. 144. Hugg. Amending the juvenile court bill, providing that no destitute girl shall be sent to the Industrial school for girls merely lieeause she Is destitute and providing for the approval of the state board of charities in certain contingencies. Senate Bill No. 138. Roemler. Concerning the conveyance of real estate and transfer of personal property by the Indianapolis school board. Senate Bill No. 26. Singer. Concerning highways located on abandoned railrond rights of way and providing for the repair of same as free gravel roads. Sennte Bill No. 104. Klttinger. For Impaneling Juries from adjnlnlug counties In criminal cases where prejudice or bias may exist. Senate Bill No. 285. Talcott. Allowing county commissioners to permit the use of abandoned fair grounds tor cities for park purposes, the expenses tef be borne by the cities. Senate Bill No. 170. Stephenson. Elmpowering the attorney general to hire special counsel to prosecute the claims of the state against the federal government In reference to monev due the state from the sale of swamp lands, and providing that the special counsel be paid 25 per cent of the money so collected. Senate BUI No. 283. Ulrey. Providing for the elevation of the grade crossings in the city of Ft. Wayne. Senate Bill No. 355. Klrkman. Empowering city councils to allow Chautauqua assemblies to use public parks. Senate Bill No. 97. Beardsley. To prohibit the shooting of pigeons. Senate Bill No. 191. Smith. Appropriating $25,000 to Pudue university to pay for certain experiments tn agriculture and horticulture. Senate Bill No. 16. Matthews. Relating te the construction of free gravel roads.

HOUSE BILLS. > GENERAL APPROPRIATION. He«ae Bill .No. 481. Sayre. Maktu general appropriations to cover the eoet of state government und its institutions and directing the application of such appropriation. Thl# bill carrlea approximately, $6,756,645.14. This will be expended during 'the two fiscal years, beginning Oct. 1, 1905. In regular maintenance funds to the state’s educational, benevolent and correctional Institution*: In the payment of special appropriations authorised by the legislature; in specific allowances given state Institutions, offices and departments aud In the payment of salaries to state employes and the running expenses of the state offices und departments. BOYD MARRIAGE BILL. House Bill No. 118. Boyd. Regulating the Issuing of licenses to marry. This bill firovldes that no license to marry shall be sßued except upon written nnd verified application, which shall set out full particulars as to the name, age. residence, etc., of both the contracting,parties. No person who is an Imbecile, epileptic, of unsound mind or under guardianship ns a person of unsound mind, nor an Improvident or Indigent person, nor any person afflicted with n transmlssable disease shall be allowed to marry. Should the clerk refuse to Issue a license for any of the given reasons In the bill, the person making the application may resort to the circuit .court to prove ill* or her right to a license." If persons go to another state for marriage with Intent to evade the Indiana law, and return for residence to this state, the marriage shall be void. A fine of not to exceed SSOO Is to be the penalty for falsely swearing to an affidavit when application Is made for a marriage license. A person who knowingly solemnizes a marriage of persons who have not complied with the stattute shall be subject to a fine of not to exceed SSOO, while a clerk of a court who shall issue a license contrary to the provisions of the law shall be fined not less than $23 nor more than SIOO. House BUI No. 145. Fletcher. Providing for the elevation of trucks at the grade crossings In Indianapolis. This bill provides that the railroads shall pay seventyfive per cent of the cost of such Improvements. The city. In case there are no street car trncks nt the crossing where the improvement Is to he made, will bear seventeen per cent of the cost of the Improvement and the county will bear eight per cent. Where there are car tracks the traction company will bear five per cent of the cost and the county six per cent, House Bill No. 3. Kean. Amending an act levying an annual state tax for the purpose of raising revenue for the general fund. This Ir the new law authorizing a levy of three-fifths of a cent on each SIOO. the proceeds to go to those poorer townships in the state which with a local tax of 40 cents on the SIOO, cannot maintain n school of 120 days. House Bill No. 340. Houk. To regulate primary elections In Vigo county, providing thut the primaries of nil parties shall be held on the same day and that the names of all candidates shall lie on the same ballot. further providing that the voter can vote for onlv the candidate of one party. House Bill No. 178. Springer. Providing for the assessment for taxation of the stock of banks organized under the laws of the United States. Bv the provisions of this law the stock of National banks is taxed In the towns In which the bank is located. House Bill No. 135. Darby. Amending the act of March 9. 1903, fixing the fees and salaries, duties aud compensation of the officers named therein: giving Justices of the pence in towns of over 50,000 authority* to appoint substitutes. House Bill No. 67. Gulrl. Relating to the liability of common carriers, prescribing the practice and proceedure and fixing the burden of proof In certain cases. This law particularly refers to the proeeedure in damage suits against railway companies. House Bill No. 233. Stansbury. Taking Fountain county out of the Twenty-first judicial district and creating a new district for this county, known as the Sixty-first judicial district, leaving the Twenty-first composed of Warren and Benton counties. House Bill 125. Ruick. Exempting from taxation real estate and personal property belonging to Greek letter societies connected with colleges and other Institutions of learning. House Bill No. 156. Sayre. Amending sections 2 and 4 of an net authorizing the establishment nnd maintenance of hospitals by liourds of county commissioners lu their respective counties. House Bill No. 199. Branch. Adding one week to the term of eourt In the Fifteenth Judicial circuit. House Bill No. 221. Cravens. Renewing the act of 1899, protecting pheasants from huntsmen for a further period of six years. House Bill No. 210. Batman. Concerning the settlement of decedent’s estates. This law bars claims against decedent’s estates when no letters of administration are Issued within twelve months after notice is given. House Bill No. 32. Keyes. Authorizing the establishment and maintenance of a state Laboratory of Hygiene. House Bill No. 111. Morton. Providing for the extension and re-extension of time within which to file a bill of exceptions. House Bill No. 265. Legler. Authorizing railroad companies heretofore organized under the general railroad laws, nnd which have availed themselves of the benefit of the act of March 9. 1903, to operate as interurban electric or street railways, to haul freight by steam. House Bill No. 15. Bosson. Requiring the registration of trained nurses. House Bill No. 78. Meeker. Regulating and simplifying the proeeedure tn cases appealed to the supreme and appellate courts. House Rill No. 246. Dausmnn. An net concerning forestry. Relating to the encouragement of forest reserves, by exempting forests from taxation under certain conditions. House Bill No. 153. Curry. Revising the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons employed therein. House Bill No. 302. Shively. Authorizing hydraulic companies to condemn lands to their own use upon paying the assessed value thereof. House Bill No. 50. Batman. Concerning the equalization of assessments of real and personal p-roper.y by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. House Bill No. 85. Beals. Regulating the conveyance of rent estate by husband or wife, when either is Insnne. House Bill No. 350. Honan. Concerning reports to the governor from state Institutions, officers, boards, bureaus, societies, etc., prescribing the formal manner of such reports, nnd tlmt they must be uniform. House Bill No. 25. Sweeney. Changing the time of holding court In the Third Judicial circuit, consisting of the counties of Perry, Crawford nnd Harrison. House Bill No. 30. Legler. Requiring county recorders to enter all cancellations, satisfactions and assignments in the entry book. House Bill No. 193. Elliott of St. Joseph. Fixing nnd regulating the compensation of county assessors. H< mse Bill No. 232. Legler. Concerning taxation and providing for the foreclosure of liens for delinquent taxes under specified conditions. * House Bill No. 254. Fletcher. Concerning the office of county surveyor In Marlon county. House Bill No. 298. Denbo. Concerning proceedings and appeals In criminal cases. House Bill No. 71. Kiine. Appropriating $115,000 for the expenses of the 64th session of the general assembly. House Bill No. 35. Shively. Prohibiting the sale of fruit or shade trees and the delivery thereafter with the Intent to deceive and providing penalties. Honse Rill No. 426. McHenry. Concerning nnd regulating the admission for the transaction of business of foreign casualty, surety and health companies. House Bill No. 267. Keyes. To establish a board of veterinary medical reg'stratlon and examination. House Bill No. 62. Long. Cotuernljg dikes and ditches. This Is the codification commission bill, codifying all the statutes relating to this snhlect. Honse Bill No. 179. McGonagle. Regulating the construction and alteration of theaters and public balls for protection from fire. House Bill No. 134. Darby. Providing for a special tax of from five to ten mils on the SIOO In tbe city of Evansville, for securing reading matter for the public library. _ House Bill No. 21. Batman. Providing that school books shsll not be revised oftener thun once In every ten year*, except In cases of geographies, histories and copybooks. House Bill No. 95. MoDoWll. Leaving appointment of special judges io tbe parties Involved In the case. House Bill No. 124. Kline. Authorizing rabbit hunting with ferret*. House Bill No. 310. Howe. Inhibiting boy* sixteen year* old or under and girie

seventeen years old or under frjm attend* Ing dances at public halls. House Bill No. 334. Batman. To construct free gravel roads on the petition of fifty freeholders without an election. House Bill No. 363. Reasoner. Allowing tbe state librarian 200 Instead of 150 copies of the state publications. House Bill No. 379. Agar. To permit agricultural societies, operating under a state charter to Issue bonds for Improvement. House Bill No. 388. Condo. Providing methods for bolding sanitary Inquests where convicted persons may he Insane. Honse Bill No. 429. Sayre. Transferring the three-cent sinking fund to the general fund for the years 1905, 1906 and 1907, and restoring It as a sinking fund In 1908 and 1909 House Bill No. 105. Colvert. Authorizing counties to appropriate money to aid agricultural societies lu maintaining county fairs. House Bill No. 432. Bartholomew. Authorizing the governor to Issue parents for certain Michigan road lands. Joint House Resolution No. 2. Wilson of Jasper. Giving the General Assembly the power to prescribe what qualifications shall be necessary for admission to practice law In all courts of justice. House Bill No. 2. Gulrl. Allowing foreign mutual fire Insurance companies to do business In Indiana, provided they have cash assets to the amount of $50,900 and premium notes to the amount of SIOO,OOO. House Bill No. 331. Bosson. Authorizing the erection of the Masonic temple to be used by the local lodges of Masons In Indianapolis. House Bill No. 198. Robinson. A bill for an act regulating township business and to provide for the funding of township Indebtedness, authorizing township trustees to Issue bonds for the payment of such Indebtedness. House Bill No. 110. Hanna. Giving town boards and city councils the right to condemn lands for cemeteries. House Bill No. 217. McGonagle. To empower county councils, by resolution, to return unexpended balances of appropriations to the general fund of the county. House BUI No. 323. Beals. To provide for a seal for the justices of the peace and for better authentication of certain records. House Bill No. 358. Branch. To provide punishment for the wearing of G. A. It. or other military badges unlawfully. House Biii No. 317. Stansbury. A bill to legalize all ordinances, amendments, resolutions and contracts entered Into in good faith by the boards of trustees of Incorporated towns. House Bill No. 52. Branch. To make the reporter of the supreme court a member of the state printing board. House Bill No. 318. Carmichael. To enable denominational schools to require that four-fifths of the stock In the corporation shall lie held by the members of the denomination. House Bill No. 409. Shively. Prohibiting jurors In mayors’ and Justice of the peace courts from serving oftener than once in six months. House Bill No. 396. Pierson. Relating to the construction of gravel or macadam roads on county lines. House Bill No. 105. Long. Amending the common school law with a view to securing a uniform course of study throughout the state. House Bill No. 307. Dausmnn. Concerning county superintendents, their qualifications, their compensation aud assistants. House Bill No. 62. Long. Concerning drainage. LEGALIZING ACTS. Sennte BUI No. 17. Matthews. Legalizing the proceeding, the election, the contract nnd the bond Issuance with reference to a certain gravel road lu Southeast township, Orange county. House l>..i No. 170. Beckman. Legalizing the record of conveyances and other Instruments acknowledged before Justices of the peace and defectively certified. House Bill No. 89. Batman. Legalizing the title to real estate In prown county, where the deed records were destroyed by fire prior to 1870. House Bill No. 72. Ileekman. Legalizing certain sales of real estate made by county auditors of lands bought in on account of the school fund. Senate Bill No. 14. Hendee. To legalize the incorporation of the town of Lapel. Madison county, nud make valid all Its acts. Emergency. House Bill No. 218. McGonagle. Legalizing the Incorporation of the towu of Riverside City. Delaware county. House Bill No. 317. Stansbury. To legalize acts of township advisory boards taken without notice on account. Senate Bill No. 277. Bell. Legalizing the annexation of territory to the city' of East Chicago. Lake county. Senate Bill No. 157. Earlier. Legalizing the Incorporation of certain mining and manufacturing companies. House Bill No. 33. Gough. Legalizing the charter of the New Harmony Workingmens’ Institute. House Bill No. 248. Hnnnß. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Plainfield. Hendricks county. House BUI No. 278. Baker. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Fulton, In Fulton county. House Bill No. 109. Rook. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Shirley, Hancock county. House Bill No. 191. Wade. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Griffin, Posey county. House Bill No. 79. Denbo. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Greenville, Floyd county. House Bill No. 326. Martin. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Bryant. Jav county. House Bill No. 132. Batman. Legalizing the Incorporation oi Nashville, lu Brown county. Senate 8111 No. 31.8. Benz. Legalizing the Incorporation of MHltown, Crawford county. Senate Bill No. 183. McCain. Legalizing the acts of the Morroco Cemetery association. House BUI No. 342. Raker. To legalize the incorporation of Galveston. Cass county. House Bill No. 425. Force. Legalizing a gravel road election In Orange county. House BUI No. 279. Agar. Legalizing certain acts of notaries public. VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR. House Bill No. 186. Howe. Limiting the conditions under which sales may be made of parts or the whole of stock of merchandise In bulk. House BUI No. 149. Reasoner. Protecting the water level of fresh water lakes by. prohibiting ditches or drains to be constructed within forty rods of the margin of the lake. House BUI No. 226. Reasoner. Providing that the remainders of subsidies voted bv townships should be divided among the cities of the township, and the cities outside the township. House BUI No. 302. Wilson, of Jasper. To authorize cities and towns not operating under special charters to levy an assessment to extend their water-works system. „ Senute BUI No. 130. Hugg. Indianapolis track elevation bill made unnecessary by the Fletcher House bill, exactly the same nnd already signed. Honse Bill No. 174. Andrews. To extend privileges of public libraries of cities and towns to townships and counties. House Bill No. 374. Batman. Providing for a vote of electors of Monroe county on the question of building a new courthouse. Senate Bill No. 278. Bell. Concerning public Improvements In cities having a population less than 85.999. House Bill No. 306. Dansman. Defining wife desertion and providing penalties therefor. House Bill No. 92. Gage. To compel the county council of Spencer county to appropriate’ $250 to make up the deficit In the expenses of the last term of court. Senate BUI No. 38. Moore of Putnam. Concerning procedure In appeals to the supreme and appellate courts. House Bill No. 208. Bartholomew. A bill authorizing the governor to Issue patents for certain Michigan road lands In the gtgtf. Senate BUI No. 174. Ganlard. A bill providing for the relief of William Watters, treasurer of Lagrange county. Senate BUI No. 100. Ganlard. A bill providing for the relief of Henry J. Hoatetter. former trustee of Clear Spring township. Lagrange county. Senate BUI No. 48. Lyons. To give pref* erence to United States soldiers, sailors and marines In appointment to subordinate positions In all public Institutions where salaries do not exceed S9O per month. Senate Bill No. 80. Barcas. To make the erection of a fence over six feet high for the purpose of annoying the next adjoining occupant or owner a private nuisance. Emergency. Senate BUI No. 275. Mtlburn. Supplementing the gi-nrel road law. Senate BUI No. 224. Davis. Concerning gravel roads. House BUI No. 65. Vizard. Concerning macadamised roads on township line*.