Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1899 — Page 2

LAW OF INDIANA

£ HOUSE BILLS. | House Bill No. 408 —Noel: Providing f for the suppression of mob violence, I® defining the crime of lynching, pro- ' viding a penalty therefor and declaring an emergency. ( Section 1 Be it enacted by the general ' assembly of the state of Indiana, That any collection of individuals assembled for any unlawful purpose intending to injure any person by violence and without authority of law shall, for the purpose of this act, be regarded as a “mob,’’ and any act of violence exercised by such m »b upon the body of any person shall constitute the crime of “lynching,” and any person who participates in, or aids or abets such lynching, upon conviction thereof, shall suffer death or be imprisoned in the state prison during life, in the discretion of the [Proceeding sections define the punishment of violators, prescribe how sheriffs shall protect his prisoners and vacata sheriff’s office for failure to defend prisoner In his custody. ] j House Bill No. I—Roots: Appropriating $105,000 to defray expenses of the Sixty-first general assembly, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 7—Artman: Concerning the jurisdiction of courts in suits against domestic corporations. House Bill No. 21—Brown: An act to amend sections 1, 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the sale of patent rights, etc. House Bill No. 29 —Caraway: To procure the purity of general, special find primary elections and conventions. House Bill No. 49 —Murphy of Marion: To amend sections 11 and 12 of an act entitled an act to amend sections 38, 40, 45, 56, 60, 61, 78, 17, 82, 89, 90, 91, 97, 100, 110 and 114 of an act entitled an act concerning the incorporation and government of cities having more than 100,000 population, etc. House Bill No. 58 —Scott of Montgomery: To authorize certain county and district agricultural societies to sell and convey their real estate and dispose of the proceeds of such sales. House Bill No. 60—Clements: For the comfort of employes and passengers on street railways. House Bill No 64—Canada: In relation to conveyances of land by wives of persons of unsound mind, habitual drunkards and minors, under certain circumstances, and declaring an emer- ’ gency. House Bill No. 74—Patterson: To prevent the location or construction of a railroad on real estate held, used or occupied as a cemetery, etc. House Bill No. 76 —King: An act authorizing the board of commissioners of a county to condemn and appropriate real estate for public purposes. House Bill No. 80—Roots: An act to authorize the board of trustees of the Indiana State Soldiers’ home to sell and convey certain tracts of land, etc. House Bill No. 90 —Cuttv: An act to prevent shooting or blasting in the mines of the state in working hours. House Bill No. 107 —Noel: Fixing the compensation of bailiffs of criminal or superior courts. House Bill No. 108 —Furness: Providing for the discharge of prisoners from the Indiana reformatory and the Indiana state prison, etc. House Bill No. 114 —King: Authorizing the board of commissioners to provide a public office for the sheriff and surveyor of the county. House Bill No. 115—Roose: Requiring county commissioners to have on file specifications for contracts to be let by county. House Bill No. 119r-Artman: An act to provide for the opening, vacating and change of highways, etc. House Bill No. 134—Kirkpatrick: An act to amend section 2 of an act to exempt benefits, claims and interests of wives, children and dependents of members of Masonic, Odd Fellow and other charitable societies, etc. House Bill No. 139—McCarty: To provide for written contracts between teachers and school corporations. House Bill No. 140—Noel: To establish a state board of health, defining its powers and duties, etc. House Bill No. 142—Baker of Martin: For the protection of fish in private ponds, etc. House Bill No. 144—Canada: To amend Sec. 629 of an act concerning proceedings in civil cases, approved April 7, 1881, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 146 —Aikin: Authorizing county treasurers to pay over to township trustees any unexpended balance of any fund collected by special tax for the purpose of purchasing gravel roads, etc. House Bill No. 154 —Compton: An act to amend section 31 of an act entitled an act for the relief of the poor, etc. House Bill No. 160—Brown: Authorizing deputy county surveyors to perform the services required by law of county surveyors, and defining who may be*uch deputy, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 162—Artman: Providing a method of collecting certain judgments against railroad companies, etc. House Bill No. 169—Hays: Vesting a right in the voters of any incorpor.ated town in the state of Indiana, etc. House Bill No. 175—Kirkpatrick: To provide for the appointment of bailiffs in any criminal, circuit or superior court in the state, etc. House Bill No. 178—Scott of Montgomery: To legalize the incorporation of the town of New Richmond, Indiana, etc. House Bill No. 188—Bonham: An act in reference to the appointment of receivers, etc. House Bill No. 189—Shivley: Concerning the importation and government of cities having more than 85,000 or less than 49,000 population. House Bill No 201.—Oatley: To amend secion 5 of an act to regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers, creating the office of state chemist, etc. House BiU Na 203—Willoughby: An act concerning the appointment of shorthand court reporters, eta House Bill No. 204—Shideler: An act to regulate the administration of the relief of poor persons, eta House Bill No. 206—Williams: To provide boards of county chanties and House Bill No. 809—Marsh; Concerning the construction of tree gravel, or other macadamized roads on the boundary House Bill No. Bit—Morrison: Concerning labor and providing means forproteettog the liberty, safety and health of \ laborers., I.;, .•

House Bill No. 215 —Noel: An act to establish a department of public parks in cities having more than 100,000 population, creating a board of park commissioners, etc. House BiU No. 216 —Noel: An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Castleton, Marion county, state of Indiana. House Bill No. 223 —Marshall: An act concerning the common schools of the House Bill No. 228 —Cutty: For the protection of the public from fire, etc. House Bill No. 231—Cutty: To prevent the sale of impure miners’ oil, etc. House Bill No. 232—Hedgecock: To amend section 229 of on act providing for the settlement and distribution of decedents’ estates. House Bill No. 233—Shideler; To appropriate the sum of S4OO to pay the expense of the service incident to the presentation of relies of the SpanishAmerican war to the state, etc. House Bill No. 236—Rifenburg: An act to establish a superior court for the counties of Lake, Porter and Laporte. [Passed over governor’s veto. ] House Bill No. 210—Fuller: Concerning telephone companies, and supplemental to an act for the incorporation of manutacturing and mining companies, and companies for mechanical, chemical and building purposes, etc. House Bill No. 248—Graham: To amend section lof an act authorizing the burial of the body of any honorably discharged ex-Union soldier, sailor or marine who shall hereafter die a resident of this state. House Bill No. 250—Brown: Legalizing the incorporation of the town of St. Joe, Dekalb county, Indiana. House Bill No. 255—Dilley: To legalize the acts of the several boards of trustees of the town of Markle, Huntington county, Indiana. House Bill No. 262 —Myler: To amend sections 2,5, 6, 7 and id of an act regulating the practice of medicine, providing tor the issuing of licenses, etc. House Bill No. 268—Schaal: To provide for the survey and sale of certain swamp lands. House Bill No. 272—Bonham: To legalize the action and records of the city of Montpelier, Blackford county, Indiana. House Bill No. 274—Titus: To legalize the title of real estate in Boone county, Indiana. House Bill No. 276—Marsh: Authorizing cities within this state to purchase water works, heretofore constructed for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants with water. [Passed over governor’s veto.] House Bill No. 279 Rifenburg: Concerning manner of procedure in trial of certain felonies, etc. House Bill No. 295—Strong: To amend section 73 of an act concerning the incorporation and government of cities having more than 100,000 inhabitants. House Bill No. 298—Baker: Providing for the examination of records and papers in county offices, collecting and reporting sums due the state and counties, etc. House Bill No. 303—Hayes: Providing that mayors of incorporated cities having less than 35,000 inhabitants, according to the census of 1890, have the power to veto ordinances and resolutions passed by the common councils. House Bill No. 304 —King: To provide room space and other facilities for the proper and safe filing of the records and papers in tne omop of tne clerx of the supreme and appellate court. House Bill No. 309 —Bonham: Providing that the use by the public of the right-of-way and depot grounds of any railroad in the state shall not ripen into a right to so use it, etc. House Bill No. 311—Huff: Providing that county auditors shall provide bulletinboards and post notice as to the amount of unloaned school funds in county treasury. House Bill No. 315 —Caraway: Concerning the binding and labeling the state official documents and journals. House Bill No. 316—Caraway: To provide for the better collection and distribution of state publications, and defining certain duties of the board of commissioners of public printing. House Bill-No. 324—Glossbrenner: To regulate the practice of dentistry, providing for the issuing of licenses to practice, etc. House Bill No. 327 —Canada: Concerning counties furnishing blanks for persons having claims against a county and fees of auditor for swearing claimants to such claims. House Bill No. 332—Aikin: Concerning highways and supervisors thereof. House Bill No. 334 —Aikin: To amend section 1 of an act to provide for repairs of free turnpike roads in the various counties of Indiana, and constituting the board of commissioners of any county a board of directors of such roads. House Bill No 337 —Clark: To amend section 1 of an act to authorize owners of tracts of land separated by right-of-way of a railroad company to construct wagon and driveways over such right-of-way, etc. House Bill No. 349—Neal: To amend sections 1 and 5 of an act to enable owners to drain lands. House BiU No. 351—Caraway: Concerning the common schools of this state, providing for the examination of applicants to teach therein, etc. House BiU No. 358—-Noel: An act amendatory and supplemental to an act entitled an act authorizing the organization and incorporation of loan, trust and safe deposit companies, and defining their powers, rights and duties, and other matters connected therewith. House Bill No. 362 —Blankenship: To amend sections 4, 49, 50, 53 and 59 of an act concerning taxation. House BiU No. 365—James: To amend section 1 of an act to amend an act entitled an act concerning the construction of free gravel, stone or other macadamized roads. House BiU No. 370 —Roots: To authorize and empower towns of this state to provide by ordinance to keep their streets and alleys clean. House Bill No. 384—Roots: To provide for the sale of lands occupied by certain benevolent institutions, purchase of other lands, erection of buildings, eta House BiU No. 888—Neal: To amend ... section 8 of an act concerning proceedings in civil cases. House BiU No. 894—Barlow: To amend sections 1, 2 and 3of an act authorizing the burial of the body of any honorably discharged ex-Union soldier, sailor or marine who shsll hereafter die a resident of this state. House Bill No. 895—WUliams: To amend an act establishing the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ home. House BiU No. 396 —Sommers: Concerning appropriations or taxes levied for certain institutions. House BUI No. 402—Noel: An act to amend section 96 of an act for the incorporation of insurance companies, defining their powers, eta

House 3UI Na 404—Glossbrenner: An act to amend sections 2, 5 and 9 of an act to authorize the organization and incorporation of loan, trust and safe deposit companies. House BiU No. 408—Oslprn: To amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend section 5 of an act to provide for the incorporation of street railroad companies. House Bill No. 409—Wise: An act to regulate the rental allowed for the use of telephones, prohibiting discriminations between patrons, providing penalties, etc. House Bill No. 412—Owen: An act to provide for the time of holding court in the 47th judicial circuit. House Bill No. 413—Owen: An act to legalize the incorporation of Judson. Parke county, Ind. House BiU No. 414—James: Regulating descents and the apportionment of estates, etc. House Bil No. 417—Reece: Providing for the bringing of suits by persons interested in estates, defining a method of procedure and declaring an emergency; House Bill No. 423 —King: Authorizing and providing for the establishment of a hospital for the criminal insane, etc. House Bill No. 424—King: An act to amend section 3 of an act to establish the Indiana Reformatory, etc. House BiU No. 430—Murphy of White: An act concerning assessments and liens on real estate for improvements upon or in streets, sidewalks and alleys in incorporated towns or cities of less than 12,000 inhabitants. House BiU No. 437—James: An act authorizing boards of county commissioners to offer and pay rewards in certain cases, etc. House Bill No. 439—Blankenship: An act changing the name of the Indiana Reform School for Girlsand Woman’s Prison. House Bill No. 448—Roose: Pertaining to the regulation and incorporation of fraternal beneficiary associations, societies or orders, etc. House BiU No. 450—Shideler: To legalize certain settlements heretofore made by boards of county commissioners, and declaring an emergency. [Became a law without the governor’s signature. ] House Bill No. 457—Schaal: An act authorizing riparian owners to build, maintain and occupy piers, wharves and harbors upon navigable waters of this state and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 467 —Roots: Making an appropriation of 81,500 to provide additional accomodations at the state’s prison for insane criminals, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 472 —Canada: An act to amend section 1 of an act approved March 8, 1895, entitled an act to provide funds for the benefit of the Indiana University, Purdue University and the Indiana State Normal school, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 476 —Louttit: Prescribing the number, certain duties and compen- ‘ sat ion of justices of the peace ip cities containing a population of 35,000 and less than 49.000. etc. House Bill No. 480 —Roots: Concerning the manner of procedure in trial of certain felonies, etc., appointing a commission on parole, etc. House BiU No. 483 —Artman: An act to amend section 4 of an act defining fraudulent marriages, providing for the bringing of actions therefor, etc. House Bill No. 493—Scott of Montgomery: To legalize the election of the board of trustees and other officers of the town of Waynetown, Montgomery county, Indiana. House BiU No. 496—Artman: Concerning the construction of courthouses in counties having a population of more than 25,000, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 509 —Roots: To promote an equalization of fees and salaries allowed by law to state, county, township ana other public officers in this state, for the securing of all information necessary therefor, for the appointment of a commission to perform such work, etc. House Bill No. 511—Lief: To prohibit contracts or combinations of persons, firms or associations intended to prevent free competition in business, to provide for civil damages, penalties and punishments for violations, etc. House Bill No. 514—Baker of Whitley: To provide for the compilation and publication of a legislative and state manual, and providing compensation for compilation of ana expense for distribution of the same. House Bill No. 515—Willoughby: Concerning the management of benevolent, penal and reformatory institutions. House *6lll No. 530—Hedgecock: Prescribing the manner of accounting for specific appropriations of public moneys, and declaring au emergency. House Bill No. 536 —Canada: An act supplemental to an act providing for the impeachment and removal from office of public officers. House Bill No. 541—Larr: To permit the construction of free gravel and macadamized roads and the stile of bonds in certain cases. House Bill No. 550 —Barlow: To provide for the printing, binding and distribution of the records of the Indiana volunteers in the Spanish-American war, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 563—Roose: To legalize the incorporation of the town of Wakarusa, in the county of Elkhart, state of Indiana, the election and qualification of officers, etc. House Bill No. 564—Beardsley: To amend an act regarding incorporation of cities so as to increase the poll tax from 50 cents to 81, etc. House Bill No. 569—Somers: Requiring county auditors to publish a statement of allowances made by judges of circuit, superior and criminal courts, and by boards of county commissioners, etc. House Bill No. 570 —Osborn: For incorporation of Union Chapel Ceffietery association. House Bill No. 580—Brown: Prescribing certain duties of county assessots, OtiCa House Bill No. 591 —Baker of Whitley: To authorize aid by counties, townships and cities locating and establishing high schools, academies, colleges, universities, etc. House Bill No. 592—Madden: To legalize the incorporation, elections and official acts of its officers, ordinances, resolutions, bylaws, etc., of the town of Tennyson, Warrick county, Ind., and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 596 —Oatley: Establishing a minimum wage rate on public work of state, county, cities and towns, and declaring an emergency. House Bill No. 599—Cravens of Monroe: Imposing certain duties upon the chief of the bureau of statistics, and prescribing the duties of -»rtaln county and municipal officers. House BiU Na 603—Canada: An act to amend section 250 of an act entitled an act concerning taxation. House BUI Na 613—Canada: An act to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for written briefs and oral arguments in supreme courts, approved March 7, 1855, etc.

House Bill No. 616—Whitcomb of Vigo: An act concerning incorporation and government of cities having more than 23,000'and less than 35,000 population according to the last preceding United States census, and matters connected therewith, and declaring an emergency, j House Bill No. 626—Roberts: Regnlating the transfer of children from one school corporation to another and. fixing the price of tuition. House Bill No. 634 Rifenburg: Tc provide for the construction of an electric light plant and water supply foi the state capitol, etc. House BiU No. 638 —Shideler: An act making appropriations and fixing salaries and office hours fob state govern- , ment and its institutions, etc. House Bill No. 643 —Shirley: An act to amend sections 77 and 78 of an act entitled an act concerning the incorporation and government of cities having more than 35,000 and less than 49,000 population. House Bill No. 660 —Ootner: An act to legalize levy of taxes in the town of Kewanna. House Bill No. 662 —James: An act pro viding badges for house and senate doorkeepers. House Bill No. 634: An act to appropriate 110,000 to pay extra expenses of the general assembly. SENATE BILLS. Senate Bill No. 3—Culbert: An act concerning convicts of state prison, theii employment, etc., when contract shall expire, etc., manner of public accounf -system, payment of officers,employes, etc. Senate Bill No. 4 —Early: An act to legalize the acts of notaries public when commissions have expired or who have been incapable of office, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. s—Gochenour: Authorizing counties to acquire title and possession of lauds mortgaged to secure loans from the school funds when such loans have become delinquent, etc., and for the payment of interest and principal, and to legalize payments made to counties for such purposes. Senate Bill No. 6 Hawkins: An act tc amend section i.O of an act entitled an act to provide for the more uniform mode of doing township business, prescribing the duties of certain officers in connection therewith, and to repeal all laws conflictihg therewith, approved Feb. 18, 1859, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 7—Hawkins: An act to amend section 116 of an act entitled an act providing for the election and qualification of justices of the peace, and defining their jurisdiction, powers and duties in civil cases, approved June_>, 1852. Senate Bill No. B—Hawkins: An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act providing for the election and qualification of justices of the peace, and defining their jurisdiction, powers and duties in civil cases, approved June 26, 1852, approved Feb. 26, 1867, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 11—Lambert: Authorizing the appointment of a commissioner of fisheries and game, defining his duties, making appropriation tc defray expense thereof, and repealing an act entitled an act in relation to fisheries commissioner and appropriation therein, approved March 26, 1881. Senate Bill No. 12—Nusbaum: For the inspection of nursery stock, etc., and to prevent disease to same, and for the appointment of an entomologist, defining his duties, etc. Senate Bill No. 13 —Purcell: To protect companies engaged in the manufacture of electricity, to prevent persons from unlawfully diverting the use of same, and fixing penalties for such unlawful use. Senate Bill No. 14—Hawkins: An act to amend section 24 of an act entitled an act fixing the fees and salaries and compensation of officers and persons named therein, prohibiting the violation of the provisions thereof, and repealing certain laws in relation thereto, approved March 12, 1875, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 18 —Binkley: An act requiring every notary public to append to each certificate of acknowledgement or other official document the date of expiration of his commission, and fixing penalty for failure, etc. Senate Bill No. 19 —Brooks: An act regulating the allowances and payment of claims against incorporated towns and cities, and providing penalties. Senate Bill No. 26—Hugg: An act concerning pensions for disabled or retired policemen and the dependents in cities having a population of 100,006 or more, providing for a fund out of which such pensions are to be paid and Dinner of disbursing said fund, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 27 —Hugg: Concerning the pleadings and proof in actions for damages for injuries or death caused by the alleged negligence of any person, corporations or corporation, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 28—Hugg: Amending section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for free licenses to ex-union soldiers and sailors of the United States, residing in the state of Indiana, to vend, hawk or peddle goods, Wares and merchandise within any county of the state; providing penalties and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 31—New; Concerning township business, fixing an advisory board, etc. [Township Reform Bill.] Senate Bill No. 32—New: Concerning allowances for attorneys’ fees for prosecuting and defending criminals, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill Na 33—Newby: For the incorporation of life insurance companies on either the stock or mutual plan, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 35—Osborn: To accept jurisdiction of certain lands and territory ceded by congress of the United States of America to the state of Indiana, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 86—Osbprn: To amend section 41 of an act concerning elections, providing penalties, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith, approved March 6,1889. Senate Bill No. 44—Hogate: Fixing the terms of office of judges of the appellate court, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 46—Inman: An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening, vacation and change of highways, approved June 17, 1852, repealing all laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill Na 49—Shea: To protect certain birds of the pheasant kind in the state of Indiana, and declaring an emergency.

Senate Bill No. 54—Guthrie: Forbidding the manufacture, sale or offering for sale of any adulterated foods or drugs, and defining the duties of the state board of health in relation thereto; declaring penalties, etc. Senate Bill No. 57—Johnson of Madison: To amend section 7 of an act entitled an act concerning powers and duties pt cities, incorporated towns, and their common councils and boards of trustees; providing the mode and manner of making street and alley improvements and building sewers and providing for manner of enforcing payment and costs and permitting cities and towns to issue street and sewer improvement bonds, and repealing all conflicting laws and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 58—Miller: Creating a state library commission, defining duties and powers, etc. Senate Bill No. 62—Stroup: To amend Sec. 177 of an act concerning proceedings In civil cases, approved April 7, 1881, the same being Sec. 1147 of the R. S. 1881. Senate Bill No. 73 —Goodwine: Concerning common schools of the state, defining duties of certain officers connected therewith, etc. Senate Bill No. 79—Hogate: An act concerning tender of money. Senate Bill Na 80 —Hogate: An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act authorizing depositions to be taken to probate wills, approved March 11, 1895, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 82 —Johnson of Madison: An act to amend section 3of an act concerning the sinking, safety, maintenance, use and operation of natural gas and oil wells, prescribing penalties and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 87—Johnson of Madison: An act regulating the use, maintenance and operation of natural gas pipelines and machinery, apparatus and equipments used in the transportation aud distribution of natural gas; providing penalties for its violation, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 89—Patten: An act concerning the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers, etc., and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 103 —Gilbert: In relation to the recording of the assignment of mortgages, etc. Senate Bill No. 106—Goodwine: To provide means to enable the state board of education to advertise for bids for text books for common schools in the state. Senate Bill No. 110—Hogate: An act to amend section 8 of an act entitled an act concerning building and loan associations, providing penalties, fixing time when the same shall take effect, repealing all laws in conflict therewith, approved March 8,1897, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 114—Kell: To enable farmers to organize insurance companies to provide against loss by windstorms, cyclones and hail, etc. Senate Bill No. 115—Lambert: To authorize universities or colleges incorporated under any special charter granted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, etc., and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 119—New: Concerning county business. [County Reform BillJ Senate Bill No. 120—New: An act to regulate the management of county asylums for the poor, defining the method of appointing superintendents and other officers, prescribing certain duties of county commissioners, the method of purchasing supplies and selling products, the discipline and employment of inmates, and other matters. Senate Bill No. 124 —Nusbanm: Governing the duties of the county auditor and county commissioners when called in special session, designating what business may be transacted at special sessions of said board, repealing all laws in conflict herewith and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 126 —Shea: Concerning libraries established by private donations to the amount of sl,(XX)or more for the use and benefit of all the inhabitants of any township in the state, abolishing the office of township librarian, etc. Senate Bill No. 127—Shea: An act in relation to orders issued by cities upon their treasurers, and providing for the presentation, redemption and order of payment of the same. Senate Bill No. 129 —Stilwell: For the prevention of dog stealing, etc. Senate Bill Na 130—Wood: An act authorizing and directing the board of commissioners of Tippecanoe county, Ind., to sell certain lands in said county and convert the proceeds thereof into the common school fund of said county, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 133 —Inman by request: To limit the issue of bonds or other evidence of indebtedness for the construction of free gravel or macadamized roads, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 134—Ball: Providing for the weekly payment of wages, etc. Senate Bill No. 137—Gilbert: To provide for the greater purity of elections, etc. Senate Bill No. 138—Gilbert: To regulate the taking of fish in the waters of this state, to protect the waters of this state from polution. Senate Bill No. 151—Keyes: To prevent the adulteration of candy and sale of adulterated candy, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. Senate Bill No. 163—Brooks: An act for the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of public libraries in county seats of counties having a population exceeding 19,700 and less than 20,000, repealing all laws in conflict and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. I^B— Campbell: An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend Sec. 213 and repeal Sec. 212 of an act entitled an act concerning public offeuses and their punishment, approved April 14,1881. same being Sec. 2122 and 2123 of R. S. of 1881, approved April 2, 1885, being Sec. 2234 of Burns’R. S. of 1894. Senate Bill No. 174—Lambert: Defining the Bth, 9th and 16th judicial circuits, and regulating manner of holding court in said circuits, etc. Senate Bill No. 181 —Winfield: Reappropriating the sum of $2,253.29 to complete ; work of Chickamauga park commission, I' etc. Senate Bill No. 182—Drummond: Fix- • ing the time for holding circuit court in the Forty-first judicial circuit of the state of Indiana, consisting of Marshall and Fulton counties, declaring an emergency, and repealingall laws in conflict therewith. Senate Bill No. 136—Gilbert: In relation to notaries public, and legalizing certain acts thereof. t Senate BUI No. 196—Carr: An act relating.to husband and wife in certain cases, providing how title to real estate shall ! be held by them in certain cases, and defining their respective rights therein. Senate BUI No. 206-Gilbert: An act to 1 amend Sec. 190 of an act entitled au act concerning public officers.

Senate BUI No. 811—Brooks: To provide for the better collection and distribution of state publications, etc. Senate Bill Na 218—Binkley: To change the name of the town of Washington, Wayne county, to Greensfork, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 228 —Johrson of Madison: To amend an act entitled an act providing for the creation of a labor commission, etc., approved March 4, 1807. Senate Bill No. 230—Joss: An act concerning the collection of assessments for improvement of streets, alleys, etc., declaring ’misdemeanors, etc., and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 233—New: Relating tc purchases of goods, requiring a license, etc. Senate Bill No. 255—W00d: Permitting incorporated towns, not exceeding 1,000 inhabitants, to discontinue school boards, etc. Senate Bill No. 256—Newby: To amend Sec. 12, concerning elections, providing ' penalties, etc. Senate Bill No. 360—Gill: Amending an act concerning the education of children. Senate Bill No. 251 —Stroup: To amend Sec. 4800 of an act concerning elections, and providing penalties, etc. Senate Bill No. 262—Johnson of Jay: To give city and town councils the right to construct sewers on the right-of-way of railroads. Senate Bill No. 265—Stilwell: To amend Sec. 84 of an act concerning public offenses and their punishment, etc. Senate Bill No. 2o9 —Gochenour: To enable owners of lands to drain and reclaim these, etc. Senate Bill No. 270 —Brooks; To fix the compensation of boards of county commissioners. Senate Bill No. 273—Binkley: To amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend Sec. 112 of an act entitled an act concerning taxation, etc. Senate Bill No. 274 —Burns: Fixing the salaries of judges of circuit and superior courts in certain cases, etc. Senate Bill No. 283—Leich: To appropriate money to complete state soldiers’ and sailors’ monument. Senate Bill No. 284—Newby: Legalizing the acts of the Central Grove Cemetery Association. Senate Bill No. 290 —Hugg: Concerning the powers of the custodian es public buildings and property, etc., and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No 293 —Gilbert: To reimburse the officers and soldiers of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Sixtieth regiments, Indiana volunteer infantry, and Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth batteries. [Became a law without governor’s signature.] Senate Bill No. 300 —Newby: Defining 18th judicial circuit and creating the 53d judicial circuit. Senate Bill No. 301—Ball: Legalizing the incorporation of Norman City, etc. Senate Bill No. 308 —Johnson of Madison; Legalizing the incorporation of the oity of Elwood. Senate Bill No. 809 —Wood: For the establishment of courts in cities of 6,000 inhabitants, etc. Senate Bill No. 314—Hugg: Prohibiting fire insurance companies, organized under the laws of this .state, from loaning their funds, etc., to any director, officer, agent or employe thereof. Senate Bill No. 328—Newby: Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Kennard. Senate Bill No. 330—Agnew: To legalize free gravel road bonds in certain cases. Senate Bill No. 339 —Legeman: Providing for reimbursement of townships when school property has been or shall be Annexed to any city or incorpoaated town. Senate Bill No. 354 —Inman: An act fixing the time for holding court in the 49th judicial circuit of tae state of Indiana, etc., and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 358 —Wood: To amend sections 1 and 3 of an act concerning alienation of real estate. Senate Bill No. 379—Early: To regulate foreign insurance companies doing business in the state. Senate Bill No. 881 —Hugg: To amend Sec. 9 of an act concerning cities having more than 100,000 population. Senate Bill No. 382—Hugg: Concerning incorporation and government of cities having more than 100,000 population. Senate Bill No. 387 —Early: Providing for submission to the people for adoption or rejection certain constitutional amendments. Senate Bill No. 898—Newby: To amend Sec. 2 of an act entitled an act to establish public libraries in connection with, the common schools, etc. Senate Bill No. 405—Agnew: Relating tocity attorneys and city civil engineers and their term of office, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 417 —Gwin: An act tolegalize the incorporation of the town of Georgetown, Floyd couney, Ind., eta, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 420 —Hogate; An act to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of the manufactures, arts and products of the state of Indiana at the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, and declaring an emergency. Senate Bill No. 427—Legeman: An act to repeal an act to prohibit city councils or other city authorities in cities of 50,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants, etc., and declaring an emergency. Senate BUI No. 435—Stilwell: To amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute for Mutual Instruction, etc. > . 1 Senate Bill No. 438—New: Concerning common schools in cities having a population of 100,000, eto. Senate Bill No. 455—Ryan: To amend Sec. 5 of an act to provide for Incorporation of street railways. Senate Bill No. 463 —Early: Supplemental to an act concerning proceedings in criminal cases, approved April 19,1881. Senate Bill No. 469—O'Connor: Fixing time of holdingcourt in the 80th judicial circuit. Senate Bill No. 471—Horner: To permit the construction of free gravel and macadamized roads and the sale of bonds therefor, etc., in counties having a pop-\ ulation between 30,500 and 80,600, eta Senate BUI No. 65—Winfield: Declaring certain contracts between employer and employe null and void, and deolarln an amergency for the taking effect of the same. Senate Bill No. 227—Hugg: Requiring county recorders not to record any conveyance of real estate as security, etc., and prescribing penalties. House Bill No. 406—Whitcomb of Marion: To amend Sea 92 of an act concerning taxation. House Bill No. 648—Knotts: To authorize the governor to apply funds derived from sale of swamp lands located in counties bordering on the Kankakee river, to the improvement of said river. •' Joint Resolutions. Senate Joint Resolution No. 3}^—Wood: Authorizing the governor, attorney general and auditor of state to Investigate certain tracts of land In Indianapolis I and report to the next general assembly I Senate Joint Resolution No. 4—Early: Tol amend Sea 2 of Article 7 of the constitu-l tion of the state of Indiana. Senate Joint Resolution No. s—Early: Tol amend Sea 21 of Article 7 of the oonstt-1