Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — Bills on Third Reading in Senate. [ARTICLE]

Bills on Third Reading in Senate.

8. B. 185—Permitting transfer of pub-' lie property for use of schools. Gibson. Passed —35 to 0. S. B. 107 —Providing for the nppointmehtr of- a commissioner to determine the position of Indiana troops at siege of Vicksburg. Fortune. Passed—37 to 0. d. B. 170—Providing that insurance companies may have as assets bonds of incorporated companies and first mortgages on real estate. Dausman. Passed —37 to 0. S. B. 97 Giving right of appeal to Appellate or Supremo courts in civil cases where amount exceeds §SO. Parks. Passed —30 to 1. S. B. 178—Legalizing incorporation of Versailles. Singer. Passed—37 to 0. S. B. 113—Providing ways in which savings bank funds may be invested. Parsed—39 to 0. S. B. 102—Authorizing employment of an agent to procure .homes for the inmates of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ HomS Starr. Passed— SO to 0. —

S> B. 90—Authorizing manufacturing and mining companies to increase their capital stock at other than annual stockholders’ meeting. Matson. Passed —37 to 0. S- B. 188-—Providing for the publication of trustees’ reports in the lending pnp,er of each of the two largest parties ana in one other paper in the county Beat. Hendeo. Passed —30 to S. S-. B. 172 —Providing for the use of primers before first readers. Wolcott. On a reconsideration. Passed—37 to 2. S. B. 103—Providing for- a statue of George Rogers Clark iu Statuary Hall at- Washington. Barcus. Passed —29 to 7. S. B. 131—Providing for an annual Arbor Day. Parks. Passed —35 toT - S. B; 272 —Providing for the introduction of the study of agriculture by means of leaflets sent out by tlie Agricultural Department of Purdue University, and providing an appropriation of §I,OOO for this work. Goodwine. Finance.

Bills Introduced—House. H. It. 100—Providing bodies for medical colleges. Baird. Health. H. B. 95—Making it possible to extend the water works plant of East Chicago by an additional tax lery. Wilson. Cities and towns. 11. B. 102 —Legalizing the incorporation of Diamond. Owen. Cities and towns. H. B. 103—Providing for the filing of liens on crops for the protection of millers. Bader. Judiciary. 11. 11. 104—Concerning repair of free gravel roads. Boyd. County and township.

11. B. 105 —Providing for publication of 5,000 copies of the report of the fish and game commission. Decker.. Ways and means. * j H. B. 106—Giving Statip Superintendent of Instruction the power to enforce school teachers’ salary laws. Watson. Education. H. B. 107 —Regarding the improvement and maintenance of . free • gravel roads. Hal|. Roads. 11. B. 108—Authorizing county treasurers to sell laud for what they can get if it cannot he sold for the amount of the taxes. Wilson. Judiciary. j Bills Introduced-—Senate* S. B. 258 —Providing means for getting old school fund mortgages off the record, when the same have beeit paid but not released, Ifendee. Judiciary No. 2. . . ... S. B. 259—Authorizing school trustees of Culver to issue bonds for new school building. Parks. Fees and salaries. 8. B.' 260 —Permitting Ivewnnna to levy an additional special school tax to repair or to build school buildings. Gochenour. Education. 8. B. 202 —Providing for board of. five members, appointed by the Governor, to examine persons for. licenses to praetice osteopathy and to determine qualifications. The license is to cost s2s* Johnston. Public health.

S. B. 203 Providing for sale of landa belonging to the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and tor a new situation within five miles of Indianapolis. Good wine. Finance.