Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1903 — Senate Bills on Third Reading. [ARTICLE]

Senate Bills on Third Reading.

fixing time for holding court in Perry, Spencer and Warrick counties, tiibson. Passed—37 to 0. Giving prison matrons in counties of 50,000 or more, proper accommodations for herself and female prisoners, and .that she shall be the jailer in charge of female prisoners. Burns. Passed —45 to 0. Requiring automobile drivers to slacken the speed of jlieir machines to four miles an hour when signaled to do so by. the occupant of an approaching or passing vehicle, and requiring them to be registered. Johnston. Passed—3B to 3. Providing for the printing of 2,600 additional copies of the last report of the fish commissioner and game warden of Indiana. Newhouse. Passed—4o to' - ©. Providing for semi-annual inspection of boilers on gasoline and naphtha launches. Parks. Passed —35 to 0. Authorizing an administrator to allow a part of a claim against estate of a decedent. Dousman. Passed—37 to 0. Legalizing all records in recorders’ offices lacking notarial affidavits, but made in good faith. Singer. Passed —38 to 0. Reimbursing to the amount of $2lB Austin Piersoh a former township trustee of Hendricks County. Barlow. Passed—3B to 0. Legalizing incorporation of Linden, Montgomery County. Gibson. Passed •—3B to 1. To permit the building of a coliseum in Indianapolis. Thompson. Passed—--40 to 0. Extending the period for contracts for prison labor. Matson. Passed —40 to 1. Providing that the county commissioners shall hear cases where the drainage association decides that the proposed improvement would not be of public utility. Barens. Passed—3s to 1. Exempting fraternal beneficiary associations from taxation and from attachment under trustee, garnishee or other process. Burns. Passed —-34 to 2. Fixing the terms of county officers so that they all begin the same time—the Ist day of January succeeding their election. The biH was amended so as to make It impossible for an officer to resign and then be reappointed, and hold the office four years. Passed by a vote of 48 to 0. Bringing city of Fort Wayne under operation of Barrett law in matter of street improvements. Fleming. Passed 42 to 0. Empowering State Board of Audit to issue bonds and to.bid on the T. H. & I. Railroad in case it is ordered sold by the court. Matson. Passed—42 to 0. Providing that the cleaning of dredge ditches be done under contract with township trustees. Parks. Passed—3B to 1. Bills Introduced—Fenate. B. B. 153—Establishing a negotiable Instrument law uniform with the laws of bthw States- Walcot. Judiciary No- 2.