People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — INDIANA'S NEW LAWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA'S NEW LAWS

Hunters’ Paradise on Iroquoiw. i Marell IH. JU i toe of the People x Pilot: Deal’ Sir —Within the past few. months several copies of jour valuable paper have come under my notice, and though I. am unacquainted with you 1 take the liberty to present a plan to you tl.at will be of great benefit to your readers, especially those who are farmers. In short, I think there should be an agricultural department connected with tjie Pilot, and an able ana veil paid writer to take charge of the same. This I feel perfectly com petent to du, tnough 1 brow nothing about farming, in f..ui have no tadefo»: the prac tical part of it, but rattier enjoy s< eing someone else going bravely about that kind of empiuy meat. I can teil a plow from a wheelbarrow, and have read and re-read Horace Greelj’s work on “What I Know about Farming,’’ which shows that I have i.i>(*l some interest; but it is an erroneous idea to think that one must have any knowledge of farmfuj. to enable one to write or speak <m i iiab suujeut. lu fact it is gun erally conceded that the ie.-s om knows about a thing the beiiei one can write or speak about ii, wuich fact no doubt created i desire on the part oi’ <• ir siat< le oslatuie lo make an approgi ar'<>n of Mil to each county in in sl<i. e for me benefit of larnjei H , i cab ul ■ lion wnii'h 1 hav> unde I find that the appropria lim amounted i<> the great sun oi *:■*.;< j'SO - a very generous Sum indeed, considering. But th i’J-'’.i. Wns a good one, as it fill ni.-Jies employment and als< gives the farmers some diversion Tro last legislature appropriate! $U>. DO for military purposes, bu farmers have no particular inter e-t in that little matter; yet tin q . G ion might arise as to wheth er that appropriation will b< drawn on to cover loss sustainec bv the “late unpleasantness’’lha’ o rurred at the close of the a,l legislature. Pardon this digres s n If my proposal to edit an a i ultural department to you,* pa >er meets with your approval an i the compensation fir th s true sha 1 be tolerably liberal, i will (so fur as I am concerned “fill a long felt want.” Respectfully, yours G. A. So LINE, Agriculturist.

C»mj i'ation Acts of the Fiftyninth General Assembly. SIXTY BAYS CF LEGISLATION iiiiipfl ftorn Page 1.) ton ;Erect T.uHanapollo'. Approved M. .1 J. S nate enrolled act No. 238 provides 10, Gie change of venue from justices of i .e peace m certain cases. Approved March 9 Senate enrolled act No. 359 specifies ho., sewers may be ordered in cities of le-s than 35.000 population. Approved March 9. Senate enrolled act No. 15 authorizes the rei ending of damages into the treasury of Bartholomew county. Approved March 9. S mate enrolled act No. 195 pays R. T. Overman $1,419 for extrawork on aeontract in building soldiers’ home. Approved March 9. Senate enrolled act No. 65 authorizes couiiij commissioners to purchase toll roads. Anproved March 9 . .muse en.oiled act No. 293 authorizes the transfer of insane persons from the state prisons to the asylums. Emergi ncy. Approved March 9. I’ong. eur tiled act No 46 is an impoi. mt law ;.iu tiding <dl previous laws relative to the incorporation of cities. A jproved March 9. House enrolled act No. 325 repeals the law providing for the emoilment of vet-e.m-s of toe late war. Emergency. Appro.«.l March 9. hi nate enroll'd act No. 193 relates to tne appointm-mi of shortnand reporters in courts of record in counties contain’g a population of 70,000 and more. It

fixes the price of copying and the judges appoint. Emergency. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 181 authorizes the taking of depositions to probate wills. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 38 legalizes sheriffs’ sales of real estate without an appraisement of the rents and profits. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 591 makes it incumbent on sheriffs to see that convicts in the prisons are taken back to the counties from which they were sent. Approved March 9. House enrolled act No. 89 prescribes the manner of taking appeals to supreme and appellate courts when the r.ppeal is taken by part of the co-parties in the suit. House enrolled act No. 618 declares that ail persons, companies, corporations and associations desiring to incorporate under the laws of Indiana must tile with the secretary of state duplicate copies of the articles of incorporation. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 651 legalizes the incorporation of the town of Brooks, Newton county. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 630 is the same as a previous act authorizing county commissioners to borrow money equal to one-fourth of 1 per cent to complete courthouses contracted for prior to Feb. 1, 1895. House enrolled act No. 106 appropriates S6OO for the publication of the reports of the Aitliana Academy of Science and furnishes it a room in the statehouse. Emergency. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 276 provides that the box containing the list of names for jurors shall be in possession of the clerk and that the only key shall be in possession of the commissioner of the opposite party from the clerk. Senate enrolled act No. 297 makes it unlawful to take fish in any lake in Indiana between Apr ti l and June 15 und r penalty of not less than $lO nor more than SIOO. Emergency. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 465 changes file name of Jacksonville, Fountain county, to Wallace. Emi rgency. Approved March 11. Senate concurrent r • ion No. 21 provides for a comm?" jc two from erch congressional <t. and four at large to consider th? >er of a centennial industrial exposing. >. to serve without pay. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 548 amends the law in regard to appeals from circuit to tiie supreme or appellate courts. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 373 provides that stolen property captured by the police shall be turned over to police com-mi.-Aioners and if not claimed within six months shall be sold and the proceeds turned into the city treasury, but the owner, within a year after such sale, shall be able to recover the money, if he furnishes evidence of ownership of the stolen goods. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 583 provides fora Chickamauga commission of veterans who served in that campaign, to erve without other compensation than expenses, to locate and contract for monuments marking the positions of Inhau.t regaujuw on that field. It apmade without the approval of the .overnor. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 637 increases the salary of the criminal judge of Marion county to $3,200. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 432 lays the stale tax for the next two years as folows; Nine cents per SIOO for the general fund, 5 cents for the benevolent tund, 11 cents for a school tuition fund and 3 cents for a sinking fund. Emer- ' gency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 536 authorizes the bureau of statistics to collect and publish from time to time agricultural and other timely statistics. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 335 is an important measure relating to gravel roads and their maintenance. Its purpose seem s to be to hold officials to closer responsibi’ity. Emergency. Approved March 11. House enrolled act No. 266 legalizes all ordinances of the council of Indianapolis in making additions and in improvements in such additions. Emergency. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 480 is known as the “benevolent institutions bill,’’ which gives half of the trustees to each party and establishes the merit sj’stem. Emergency. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 327 rests the management of the state' library in the board of education. It contains stringent provisions regarding the care of the books, etc. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 831 subjects any railroad company or other corporation, or their agents, to exemplary damages if any discharged employe shall be blacklisted. Emergency. Approved I March 11

Senate eurc’led act No. 337 provides that v, nen a charge is made that a person is of unsound mind and incapable of attending to his business, the matter shall be determined in court, and contain i other regulations about guardians. -Ap] roved -March 11, S nate enrol ed act No. 350 prohibits the sale or giving away of any book, pap?- or picture giving the chief feature; of the commission of crime, the acts and pictures of criminals or of men or women in lewd and unbecoming positions or improper dress. Penalty is a fine not less than $lO nor more than $2(). A pproved March 11.

.Senate enrolled bill No. 474 creates bo irds of control for the prisons to be appointed by state officers. Vetoed, but passed over veto. ; Senate enrolled act No. 393 gives Rusj sell Harrison’s electric company authority to supply power and light. Approved March 9. j Senate enrolled act No. 421 enables persons, meaning Mrs. May, to bring suit against the state. Approved March 11. Senate enrolled act No. 399 empowers lodges to transfer stock held by them in corporations. Emergency. Approved March 11. I Senate enrolled act .No. 352 legalizes Ihe records of certain superior and dir- < uit courts. Emergency. Approved March 11. i Senate enrolled act No. 4 makes the salary of the coroner of Marion county P 3.000 a year. Emergency. Approved March 11. , Senate enrolled act No. 413 fixes the time of holding the circuit courts in Harrison and Crawford counties. Emergency. Approved March 9. Senate enrolled act No. 156 exempts per ms who are too feeble am 1 ' o poor

to pay highway taxes therefrom. Emergency. Approved March 11. Enrolled act No. 165 u the famous Nicholson bill, printed in full. Approved March 11, but no emergency. Senate enrolled act No. 213 amends charter of Terre Haute. Approved March 11. Late Monday night these acts were returned with the approval of the governor: Senate act No. 29, relative to railroad companies; No. 57, relating to money or property donated for benevolent purposes; No. 99, establishing meridian line; No. 118, concerning proceedings in civil cases; No. 148, concerning the construction of water works; No. 149, providing free peddling license for exUnion soldiers; No. 177, concerning proceedings in civil cases; No. 226 concerning persons receiving aid from public funds; No. 266, relating to the incorpor-> ation of cities; No. 338, concerning proceedings in criminal cases; No. 372, legalizing proceedings of the town of Warren; No. 444, providing for appropriation of grounds for cemeteries. House bill No. 239. known as the fee and salary bill. Approved March 11, but accompanied with protest against alleged inequalities. House enrolled act No. 588. General appropriations bill. About 25 unimportant measures were still in the hands of the governor Tuesday night. Vetoed and Subsequently Passed. House enrolled act No. 587 is the socalled regency act for the soldiers’ monument. Vetoed. Passed over veto. House enrolled act No. 157 is a legislative apportionment law. Vetoed. Passed over veto. House enrolled act No. 156 repeals the apportionment act of 1893 on the ground that the courts have practically declared it unconstitutional. Vetoed. Passed over veto. House enrolled act No. 474 provides for the appointment of boards of control for the state prisons, the board to be appointed by the governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorneygeneral. Emergency. Vetoed March 7. Passed over veto. Senate enrolled bill No. 158 is designed to curb assessors. Vetoed but passed over veto. House enrolled act No. 622 provides for congressional apportionment. Vetoed but passed over veto. Senate enrolled act No. 119 provides for the change of county seat in Jackson county. Vetoed ami passed over veto. House enrolled act No. 330 postpones the election of cotnty school superintendents until after the township trustees elected last fall come into office. Vetoed but passed over veto. House enrolled bill No. 128 provides for a superior court in Lake, Porter and Laporte counties. Vetoed but passed over veto. Act to oust the statehouse custodian. This is the measure that precipitated the final row of the session.

Congressional Districts. First Posey, Gibson, Vanderburg, Pike, Warrick, Spencer. Second —Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Munroe, Owen, Green, Sullivan. Third Dubois, Perry, Crawrford, Orange, Washington, Harrison, Floyd, Clarke. Scott. Fourth —Brown, Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings, Jefferson. Switzerland, Ohio, Dearborn, Ripley, Decatur. Fisth —Vigo, Vermillion, Parke, Clay, Putnam, Hendricks, Morgan. Sixth—Hancock, Shelby, Rush, Henry, Wayne, Fayette, Union, Franklin. Seventh—Marion, Johnson. Eighth Madison, Delaware, Randolph, Jay. Blackford, Wells, Adams. Ninth—Fountain, Montgomery, Tipton, Boone, Hamilton, Clinton, Carroll. Tenth —Lake, Porter, Laporte, Newton, Jasper, White, Benton, Warren, Tippecanoe. Eleventh Cass, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Grant, Howard. Twelfth—Allen, Whitley, Noble, Dekalb, Steuben, Lagrange. Thirteenth—Kosciusko, Elkhart, St. Joseph, Marshall, Fulton, Pulaski, Starke.