Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1905 — MUST OBEY THE LAW [ARTICLE]

MUST OBEY THE LAW

Gov. Hanly Notifies Twonty-Four Counties to Brace Up ae to Poor Funds. JUDGE WITH RIGHTEOUS VIEWS Declares a Mob Should Be Ar rented Rather Than the Victim— Indiana News Notes. Indianapolis, July 13. Governor Hanly, acting as president of the Iward of state charities, has written to the tiuthorlties in twenty-four counties, of the state, calling their attention to the fact that the township trustees and the county councils are violating the taw in their manner of handling the outdoor poor relief funds, in that the county commissioners are allowing the trustees to handle the poor fund directly, as they do the other county funds, without the legal appropriation which should be made by the commissioners. What Says the Law in the Case. The law provides that at the beginning of the year the commissioners are to appropriate a certain.fund for poor relief this fund to remain under their control, and to be drawn on by their order. This appropriation really amounts to a loan of county funds, for Ln September following the appropriation a tax is levied by the commissioners to reimburse the county for the funds so appropriated or borrowed from the county funds. The levy is made, the poor relief tax collected, and the county is reimbursed at the December settlement. And the law provides that this tax is not to provide for the poor for the next year, but to reimburse the county for the money advanced by appropriation during the preceding year.