Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — INDIANA’S NEW LAWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA’S NEW LAWS.

Complete List of the Laws Paused by the The following Is A complete Ittt of the new laws passed by the Indiana Legislature, and approved by the Governor or allowed to become laws by limitation without his signature: HOUSE BILLS. Appropriation of $105,000 for legislative expenses. To continue cases when attorneys are members of the Legislature. _2___ Authorizing the Board of Agriculture to hold 2iO acres of land. Forfeiting subsidies to railroads where contracts are not complied with. Enabling Indianapolis to raise 875,000f0r the G. A. R. encampment by taxation. To prevent discharge of employes for unionism. Enabling assignees to sell on order of court in less than thirty days. To punish people bringing stolen property into the State. To raise to fourteen years age under which children cannot be employed in mines and metal factories. To raise age pf consent to fourteen years. To cover into county treasuries excesses of sinking funds. — t- I — ~— ■ To prevent township trustees from employing teachers after their terms have expirea. To extend jurisdiction of Appellate court. City charter amendments. For the tiling of open drains. To pay stenographers in criminal courts. To protect union labels. Repealing the act empowering county commissioners to donate money for educational purposes, Amending criminal code. Amending civil code. To pay claim of 8311.65 to J. M. Stoddard et al. To refund surplus gravel roads funds. Authorizing Eastern hospital to convey lands. Authorizing Purdue to give land for a street. Making first railroad liable for freight all the way through. Providing for six-year and life licenses for teachers. L To pay claim of Warren-Scharf Company. To give change of venue from Mayor to justice of the peace. To repeal clause requiring publication of ballots. Authorizing acceptance of land for cemeteries. Fixing interest on school funds at 6 per cent. Amending criminal code. To regulate coal weighing at mines and furnishing timber. Two acts. Abolishing spring elections and consolidating them with November elections of Presidential years. Permitting commissioners of Marion, Allen, Vigo, Vanderburg and St. Joseph counties to raise salaries of judges to $4,000 per year. Amending fee and salary act as to Shelby county. For the relief of J. F. Chinworth. Slight amendment of road laws. To relieve the judge of Daviess county from an extra term.

To cover back for reapportionment surplus school funds held by trustees. Permitting cities to issue bonds for parks. Permitting railroads to Issue preferred stock. Fixing term of court in Forty-second circuit. To rfiise salaries of deputy assessors of Center township Coemployes’ liability act. To enable towns to own electric light plants. For the incorporation of trust companies. Amending road laws. Permitting street-railroad companies to increase their capital. To prevent collection ten cents penalty on cash fares. Fort Wayiio charter. Fixing State tax levy at 32 cents, cutting school fund 2% cents. General appropriation bill. To incorporate Y. M. C. A. branches. Concerning decedents’ estates. To cover into city treasuries excesses of sinking funds. To compel railroads to light their street crossings. To equalize terms of Appellate judges. Raising assessor and trustee of Center township to (2,500 each. To restore;records of Daviess county. To prevent blockade of road crossings by freight trains. ~ “ SENATE Rn.T.H- . To restore the court records of Delaware county. Two acts fixing the time of holding Circuit and Superior Courts In Tippecanoe county. To annex lands to a city in an adjoining county. Concerning local taxation. Requiring railroads to record deeds. Indexing judgment dockets. Authorizing cities and towns to issue bonds to fund indebtedness and create sinking funds. To force the recording of court orders affecting real estate. ’ Concerning the incorporation of cities. Compelling counties to pay for bridges on county lines. Limiting the power of township trustees In hiring teachers. Forcing the recording of mortgages executed In foreign countries. Giving the Governor the appointive power. Prohibiting the sale of tobacco to chiV dren. Giving to State Board of Agriculture power to purchase landsand exempt the same from taxation. For the release of mortgages. For the institution of live-stock insurance companies. Gov. Jonathan Jennings monument. To relieve Captain Curry, of Greenfield. Regulating sewer improvements. Autliorizingcities to sell bonds. Requiring three applicants for a one mile gravel road. Authorizing the Incorporation of loan, trust and safe deposit companies. Raising the Supreme Court reporter’s salary. Regulating children’s homes. Concerning long drains. For the reappraisement of real property in new towns. Providing for police and fire departments in cities of 29,000 inhabitants. Changing the name of Governor's Circle to Monument Place. Concerning soldiers' and sailors' monument. Extending jurisdiction of the Appellate Court. Two acts for sewer and water pipe connections. and for the appointment of deputy marshals by town trustees. Twenty-five thousand dollars for the Kankakee lodge. Concerning the construction of ditches. To force the vacation of lots for street purposes. Providing for the custody of school property. Authorizing towns to pay for street lights. Concerning open drains. The Monon preferred stock steal. For street improvements on the installment plan. 1 Voluntary omnibus association bill,with the omnibus section stricken out For the repairs of turnpikes. Forcing bi-weekly payments of salary to miners. For the organization of savings banks. To shut out foreign and to throw safeguards alxmt domestic building and loan aasoclalioxHL

■ I II I. I! I I To force employers to provide seats ; women and children in factories.ete, L_ Toralsethe Marion county assessor* salary to $2,500 a year. Authorizing prison wardens to buyeattle and hogs to eat the prison refuse. Concerning county auditors. Making changes in the board of World’s Fair comm iss ionprs u Giving dealers the right to handle school books. Amending fee and salary Jaw as to Lake ounty. t— - —————~ new judicial circuit out of the Twenty-eighth and Forty-third. Authorizing the Governor to exchange certain lands with Thomas Donnelly. Reforming corporal punishment in prisons. Defining the Fourth judicial circuit. For record indexing in the Clerk’s office of the Supreme Court. land purchases by State inFpr the incorporation of building and 1 oan associations ————— Fixing terms of court in Floyd county. For the appointment of road supervfs ors by townsnip trustees. Making attorney’s fees a part of the costs in partition suits. LEGALIZING ACTS. Acts were passed legalizing the corporations of Fort Branch, the Lafayette A Monon Railway Company, Markle, Hazleton, Tell City, the purchaseof land for the Eastern Indiana Hospital for Insane, Greentown, Hobart, Eugene, the Indiana Life Insurance Company, Carlisle, Gas City, Ashley, Cayuga, West Shoals, Indiana Insurance Company, Linton, Hardensburg. Palmyra, sale made by the commissioners of Fulton county, the trustees of Centerville, Chisney, Lagrange, the" actions of notaries public whose commissions have expired, Sellersburg, Petersburg, New Amsterdam, Winslow, Dana, the board of trustees of the town of Coch • ran, the acts of the trustees of Howe College, Hudson. Mutual Life and Endowment Association of Indiann, Dale, Whiteland, Crothersville, sale of lots by Fulton county Commissioners, Clarksville, certain rai Iroad contracts.