Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Page 4

LAWS OF INDIANA

The acts of the Sixty-fourth General As---; •embly of Indiana embrace anmeros' points ] •f legislation of vital interest to the people ' •f the state. Onegreat work was the! action taken in regard to the measures pro- : aented by the codification commission. I Five of the six measures wore adopted and are now enacted into law. These codify the present statutes relating to municipalities; to public offenses, to highways, to drainage and to eminent domain. The code bill relating to corporations did not pass. Next to the codified measures passed the Most Important measures enacted into law by the legislature were the ones providing for the creation ’of a state railroad commission: redistrictinc the state for legislative purposes: establishing tffi n•!>l!t i>>i> l hospital for the insane; prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes; amending the Nicholson law so ns to make remonstrances against the Tssn’aireo’df TFjnor TTwtis« a pply for two years e'tlier n grain st the individual applicant or the. trntlit* In general; and establishing an Indiana village of epiheps tics. SENATE BILLS. LEGISLATIVE RJi AI'I’ORTIONMENT. Sen: f Rill No,. Kirkman. A bill ; for an act to, fix the uunib> : of senators and . representatives to the general asscnildy ot the state of Indiana, and to apportion the , same among the save::.’ couni.es of the State. " Siei' n 1. Re it <-rnrt-d by the general ssseml’lv of tlo\ ■“ -■ of ir'l. 1 hat~" the genera! assembly shall , m-:st < f fifty senators and one hundred representatives. Sec. 2. The senators shall !■■■ apportioned femong the •several counties of tin* state as follows, to-wit: Posey and. Gibson, one; Vanderfiiirgh. ono; Vanderburgh, Warrick and Spencer, one; Daviess and Pike, one; Martin, Lawrence and Orange, one; Ititbois. I'er-r-y-and (’-raw--ford, one; Harrison and Floyd, one; Clark. Jennings and Seott, one; Brown. Jackson and Washington, one; Jefferson. Ripley and Switzerland. one; Franklin. Dearborn and Ohio, one; Bartholomew and Decatur, one: Greene, Monroe nnd Owen, one; Sullivan and Knox, ene; Johnson and Shelby, one; Putnam. Morgan and Marion, one; \ igo, «ne; Vigo and Flay, one; Wayne and Union ene: Marion, fonr; Fayette. Hancock and Kush, one; Jnyand Randolph, one; Delaware, one; Madison, one; Madison and Henry, one; Tipton and Hamilton, one; Hendricks and Boone, one: Montgomery and Parke, one; Warren, Fountain and Vermillion, one; Grant, one; Grant. Blackford and Wells, one; Miami and Howard, one; Carroll and Clinton, one; Benton and Tippecanoe, one: Allen, one: Allen and Adams, one: Huntington and Whitley, one; Wabash and Fulton, one: Marshall and Kosciusko, one; Cass nnd Pula <i. one; White. Newton. Jasper and Star.. one: Steuben and Dekalb, one: Lagrang* nd Noble, one; Elkhart, one; St. Joseph, one: St. Joseph and Laporte, one; Lake and Porter, one. Sec. 3. The representatives shall bo apportioned among the several counties of the state as follows, to wit: Posey, one; Vanderburgh. two; Gibson, one; Knox, one; Vanderburgh. Gibson nnd Knox, one: Warrick, one: Spencer, one; Fike nnd Dubois, one; Crawford nnd Perry, one; Martin and Orange, one; Harrision, one; Floyd, one; Clark, one: Clark and Washington, one; Jennings and Scott, one; Jefferson, one: tihlo and Switzerland, one: Ripley., one; tlearborn. one: Daviess, one: Lawrence, •no; Jackson, one; Sullivan, one: Greene, ene; Monroe nnd Brown, one; Bartholomew, one; Decatur, one: Franklin and Union, one: Vigo, two; Vigo and Vermillion, one; Clav, one: Clav and Owen, one; Parke, one; Putnam, one; Morgan, one: Hendricks one; Johnson, one: Marion, eight; Hamilton, one; Hamilton nnd Tipton. one: Shelby, one; Hancock, one: Rush, one: Henry, one; Wayne, one; Wayne nnd Fayette, one; Fountain, one: Denton and Warren, one: Montgomery, one; Tippecanoe, one; Tippecanoe nnd Montgomery. one; Boone, one: Clinton, 'one; Madison, three; Delaware. two: Randolph, one; Jasper ami White, one; Cns= on": Cass and .Fulton, one: Howard, one; Miami, one: Carroll, Howard nnd Miami, one; Grant. , two; Grant nnd Blackford, ones Jay. one; Wabash. one: Huntingfon. on-: Huntington. Whitlev nnd Kosciusko, one: Wells, one: Adams! one;'Allen, three: Lake. one: Lake and Newton, one: Lnnorte, one; Laporte and Porter, one: St. Joseph, two; St.' Joseph Starke and Pulaski, one: Marshall, one; Elkhart, two; Kosciusko, one: Noble, one; Dekalb, one: Lagrange and Steuben, one. RAILROAD COMMISSION. Senate Bill No. 22. Newhouse. Providing for the creation of a railroad commission. the appointment and eomnensation of the members thereof, prescribing the powers nnd duties of such commission and its members, prescribing certain duties and obligations of railroad companies, express companies and other common carriers. defining certain misdemeanors and prescribing penalties, providing tor the collection of penalties by civil g.ction from railroad companies and other common carriers by the state in cases therein provided for, appropriating money to carry out its provisions, providing for a review of the decisions of the commission and conferring jurisdiction on certain courts to hear and determine such proceedings, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith. By the provisions of this bill the governor must, within sixty days after the acts are published, apoint three commissioners, whose term of office shall begin on the Monday next following appointment, one of whom shall hold, office for a term of four years, one for three years and one for two years. Thereafter, at the expiration of the terms of those commissioners, their successors shall be appointed for four year terms, but no more than two commissioners shall bo members of the same political party. The commissioners Shall each receive a salary of $4,000 a year, and shall appoint a secretary, nt a salary of not more than $2,500 a year: a clerk, at a salary of not more than $1,500, and such other assistants as may be necessary to perform the work of the commission. Each commissioner must give bond in $lO,000. The commission, its secretary and clerk, may not accept free transportation from any railroad company, but will be paid all necessary traveling expenses. Upon this commission is conferred the general power to “supervise ail railroad freight nnd passenger traffics, and to adopt nil necessary regulations to govern car service and the transfer nnd switching of cars from one railroad to another » » • to require nnd supervise the location of sidings and connections between railroads: to supervise tile crossing of the tracks and sidetracks of railroads by other railroads » • » nnd to prescribe the manner in which such crossings shall be made » • » whether at grade or over or under grade » • » to supervise and regulate private car line service and private tracks, where • • • operated in connection with any railroad In this state. • * •" When a ruling of the commission Is disputed, the commission shall give a hearing, In which it shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses and demand the production of documentary evidence. From the ruling of the commission a dissatisfied party may appeal directly to the appelate court of Indiana, and in the appeal the commission will be made defendant. The nppeal from the commission's ruling must be made by transcript, as in any civil case appealed from a court of original jurisdiction, and the decision of the appellate court will be final. ' A ruling of the commission as to rates, conditions of traffic, etc., is to be In force immediately, except when 1 an appeal Is taken, when ft is held up pending the decision of the nppeal. If the ruling effects rates, and sets a lower rate than is charged by n road, that road must give to each shipper,, pending the decision of the appeal, a certificate showing the rebate due him rate is sustained by the nppellrWßßpilrt. and on this certificate must pay ’tmek to the shipper the difference between the two rates. If the appellate court affirms the ruling of the commission. To guarantee the payment of all sums called for by these certificates, the railroads must file with the appellate court a sufficient bond. At any hearing which It may give on a disputed question, tlie commission shall have power to compel appearanefe of witnesses, who shall be paid $2 n dny and three rents a mile traveled. The commission shall have power to examine the books of n rnflrond concerned with such dispute, and to compel answers to questions on the part of a railroad's employes or agents. Any employe or agent refusing to give such answer or evading a truthful

reply, shall be s'; 1 A One of SSOO, nmi shall be proseeu.- •< by the commission under that charge. - A railroad violating- an order of the commission -shall be subject to a fine of not less than SIOO. nor more than SSOO. For unjust discrimination in rates, or for -the giving of special reiratesr a railroad shall be subi-et to a fine of not less than SSOO nor more than $5.000.-to be recovered in a -civil- netl<>n Instituted In n court ol .Competent jurisdiction by the commission. The employe of a railroad giving such re bate or discriminating in rate and the person profiting bv sufh action shall each be subject to a tine of not less than sl<X' nor more than SI,OOO. For the violation of anv part of the act not specifically covered bv a railroad company, a fine of not more than sl,ooO is the penalty. Inter urraaii—gleetr ie—roads are—exemp-. ted front j the provisions of the act, except that tlie commission lias the power over them as to crossings, interlocking devices, etc., now held by tlie auditor of state. THE MOORE TEMPERANCE BILL. ■ Senate Bill No! S.’>. Moore, T. T. A bill' for an net to amend Section 9 of an act entitled “An act to better regulate and restrict the sale of intoxicating, spirituous, vinous and mult liquors, providing, penalties for tlie violation„of tlie same, proyid; lug for the i-nfori-iumm: thereof, ami pro vidlng for remoustrtiHces against tlie granting of license for the sale of Jlte same, and conferring ju-rlsdieti<m- upon tlie police court and justices of the pea.ee in cases of the violation of the provisions ot tins act ami other laws . f the state-on tlie spbjeet of selling iiitoxic.-iting' liquors,'' approved March 11 l;io ~ - Tills new temppranee law provides that if three days before anyj-egn-lar seston of th'? .!» Gird "of c<>iuiuissionei> <»f jhiv f 'MH+4-v. :i ’Atwe in AVritill'J. si.-ie-ii l.v a 'majority . f the legal voters <.f .-it.- town- no. or ward in any city situ-ni.-q in said e -irnty. shall be filed With th' ;i.r 01-(.lie .i -'iuil v against the granting, a -Foease to any ap;>!'c:nit for tlie sale , f -a r;iimvs vinous, mail or oilier iutoxi- . •ir_ liquors, under file law of tlie state if 1; : .H.a with tlie privilege of allowing i!, ■ same to be drunk on tlie premises ‘where »<-Id within tlie limits of said township. or eitv 'ward, it shall lie unlawful tlieroafu-r for such board of eommissioners to grant license to any applicant therefor duiarig -tie'--pei'b al of- -two date of tiling of such remonstrance: if any such license should lie granted by said board during said period, the same shall lie null and void, ami tire holder thereof shall be liable for any sales of liquors made bv him tlie same as if such sale were made without license, and, such violator of the law shall be subject to arrest and punishment as if no license had been issued. The number to constitute a majority of the voters herein referred to shall be determined by tlie aggregate vote cast in said township or city ward for candidates for the highest office at the last election preeed.ng the filing of such femonstrauce. ANTI-CIGARETTE LAW. Senate Bill No. 51. Parks. This is prac i tically the same bill that was before the senate two years ago, but on account of the lateness of the term it could not lie reachod. Ju reporting tills bill the committee said: “Reliable, scientific invest! gation of the evil consequences of cigarette smoking has demonstrated that there has been the greatest Injury inflicted, especially upon the youth of the nation. The nations who are addicted to this evil habit are degenerate to the last degree. They seem to have been dwarfed mentally .and physically, the records of the Insane asylums proving that the mental condition of many of the inmates was brought on by the nse of cigarettes. The several states should take alarm at the frightful increase of tlie pernicious cigarette smoking habit and cause laws to be enacted and ‘executed that will spare the American nation, particularly the youth of our coun try, from the inevitable decadence that surely follows addiction to this monstrous vice."

—Text of the Bill.— A bill for ah net to regulate the mnnnfacture. sale and giving away of cigarettes, cigarette paper and other substitutes for tlie same, and repealing laws in conflict. Section 1. Re it enacted by tlie general assembly of tlie state of Indiana, That it shall be unlawful for any person, by himself, clerk, employe or agent, directly or indirectly, upon .any pretense or byHlffy device, to manufacture, sell, exchange, barter, dispose of or give away, or keep for sale, any cigarettes, cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers, or any paper made or prepared for the purpose of being filled with tobacco for smoking: or keep or own, or lie in any way concerned, on gaged or employed in owning or keeping any such cigarettes, cigarette paper or wrappers, nnd any person in violation of the same shall be guilty of a misdemenor, and upon conviction shall, for tlie first offense pay a fine of not less than twentyfive dollar? DQr more than fifty dollars and cost of prosecution, and stand committed to miy county jail until such costs are paid; and for the second and each subsequent offense he shall pny, upon conviction thereof, a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and costs of proseciF tion, or lie imprisoned in tlie county jail not to exceed six months: Provided. That the provisions hereof shall not apply to the sales of jobbers doing an interstate business with customers outside the state. HIGHWAYS. Senate Bill No. 77. Beardsley. Concerning highways. This law provides that upon petition to county commissioners of twelve freeholders of the county, commissioii'TS shall appoint three disinterested freeholders to view highway for the purpose of locating. vacating or changing the same. If the viewers deem change to be one of pui>Ilc utility they shall lav nnd mark the same on best ground. Persons having grievance, any time before final action of the boflrii may remonstrate under oath, and the board will appoint another commission of three freeholders to make another review. A majority of the reviewers shall assess and report damages for reinonstrators, and order costs and damages paiu from county treasury. If tlie damages appear unreasonable the board may set aside assessment ami order another review. If the majority of the reviewers are opposed to tlie petition for highway tlie petition Is dismissed. Highways shall not be opened, worked or used until all damages assessed are paid to persons. Viewers and reviewers sliall receive $2 a day for their services: surveyors for locating highways, $2.50 a day. (in petition of twenty-four freeholders, commissioners are autliortzed to declare water courses navigable for’their respective counties. Persons obstructing navigable water courses are liable to the same penalties as for obstruction of highways. All steam or electric railroad companies shall have right to construct its road across stream, water course, road or highway which tlie route of road shall Intersect: provided it shall not interfere with the free use of the same and afforils security to life nnd property. County commissioners shall have power to conlpel railroad companies to maintain crossings, etc. Interurban or street railroads desiring to extend linos beyond town or city limits on highway must secure consent of commissioners. Telegraph or tele- i phone companies must secure consent of j county commissioners to erect poles along ! highways. Consent shall not deprive prop- j erty owners to right to damages. County ■commissioners sliall have power to lay out. construct and Improve gravel roads. No benefits shall be assessed to lands that do not He within two miles of contemplated improvements. Remonstrants against road improvements are allowed to appeal to circuit court. In December. 1905. am! every two years 'thereafter qualified voters in every road district shall elect n road supervisor. He shall receive $1.50 n dny. The trustee may let out the work to tlie lowest bidder. The work must bo done within a period of forty days. EMINENT DOMAIN. Senate Bill No. 78. Strlcler. Concerning proceedings in the exercise of the power of eminent domain. This Is tlie first of the codification commission’s bills to pass through all the stages of legislation. Tlie ! bill simply codifies the present method of court procedure, and in special cases whore there has been in the past no formal I method of procedure n method is provided. Under the new law n fee simple title may be obtained by railroads for property other than that used for right-of-way nnd title would not revert to the person from whom it was bought in case tlie use for which it wns condemned ceased, as in case of abandonment of a station. i In case of disagreement as to amount of , damages, persons seeking to condemn must file complaint in circuit or superior court, setting out what us? plaintiff Intends to make of property sought, with specific description of land sought .to be taken. Circuit or superior clerk shrtll issue notice and serve notice on defendant. Judge of court shall appoint three disinterested freeholders to assess damages which owner or owners may sustain or be entitled to by reason of such appropriation. Defendants are given right to appeal to supreme court from decision of assessors. Halntlff may take

possession of land,, subject to appeal of defendant, upon paying, to clerk of court the amount of damages assessed. Exceptions to condemnation findings may lie filed with-ln-jen days-after the filing of appraisers’ report. Cost of proceedings shall be paid by plaintiff. Failure on part of plaintiff to pay damages appraised within forty | days after report of appraisers is filed, all rights to property shall be forfeited.— NEW REFORMATORY LAW. Senate Bill No. 13. Goodwine. Regulating the labor of the Inmates of the Indiana reformatory on state account and providing for the schooling and the training of the Inmates. It is enacted that the contract system of labor for the inmates of tlie Indiana reformatory shall be abolished after July, 1900. It shall be the duty of the board of managers to provide for teaching the Inmates tn tire common branches of an English education; also In sugli trades and I handicrafts as will enable them, upon their ] release, to more surely earn tlielr own sup- j fiort and make self-reliant and self-support ng cltiz.-ns. For this purpose said mana- | gers—shall CsJaTOlsh nnd maintain common I schools, trades schools and military drill In , said reformatory. The board of managers i shall have full power to establish trades ' schools fi>r .tlie . training- of the inmates in i the mnehanteal arts, and to provide for the 1 man.iifacturo of.g-HMs on state 1 account, so the production of such articles as nre used I in tlie institutions of the state and in cer, ! tain-political divisions of the state, and in ■ the production of such articles as may lie ■ found prhijtlonl’le: Provided, that said reformatory sli::ll not prodtiep any school i books and de~ks used by pupils for ii<e,‘or; which shall b-■ used in tlie common schools of tlie state, or print any other bonks or • blanks except for me of the snid n-forrmt-tory. Tlie .state, institutions nmi political iliw-lsions of tlie state using supplies such ns nre produced In snld reformatory shall, bo'req-tired to p'lreimso tlie s;in;e at a price. -fl’xorFb.v"a : -bmrni-consisting of tire governor of tlie state, tlie .auditor of state nnd president of board of managers of said reformatory. Tlie board of managers from time to time shall issue a catalogue to the various state Institutions nnd Political divisions of tlie state, and when such state institutions or political divisions of the state of Indiana - are in need of such articles as described in said catalogue the board of control or boards of managers nnd the heads of such institutions, boards of county commissioners. township trustees, superintendents of poor atriums anil county sheriffs shall make requisition on the board of managers of said reformatory for such articles as are needed nnd shnil not purchase any such articles elsewhere/ CITIES AND TOWNS. Senate Bill No. 75.. I‘arks. This is a codification of ail laws on the statute books ; relating to municipal corporations, with certain amendments. Chief among Its pro- i visions is one creating a general election day for all the cities and towns of the state. The first election day is designated ns tlie first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1905. Present officeholders shall serve the full terms for which they were elected, and the new set of officers elected this fall shall serve until the first Monday of January, 1910. Where terms for which present city officers were elected do noLenil until after next. January, the officers chosen next November must wait until these terms expire. There will be a uniform ending of all terms with the close of 1909, nnd everybody will start even in 1910. The law alms at placing all cities and towns on a common footing, as far as common rules can be applied, and especially at separating legislative, executive and judicial functions and concentrating executive power in one responsible head. It aims to Improve municipal government and replace a confused system with a uniform and orderly one.

GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Senate Bill No. 64. Goodwine. Amending an act concerning the’ separation of the Indiana industrial school for girls from the woman's prison, appointing commissioners and making appropriations therefor. This new law, which is in the form of an amendment to the bill passed at the last session, provides for an appropriation of $235,000 and this, coupled with the $15,000 that has been spent on tlie grounds already bought for the use of the institution, will bring tlie total appropriation up to $250.000. Of the present appropriation $75,000 is to lie available Juno 1. 1905, and the remaining $160,000 Nov. 1. 1905. The bill passed two years ago provided for the separation and appropriated $150,000. Land was bouglts northwest of Indianapolis, lint investigation proved that the appropriation was not largo enough to enable tlie trustees of the institution to build an institution on the cdttage plan large enough to accommodate the 200 girls. Hence it was decided, to lay the matter over. The remaining $135,000 of the first appropriation lapsed. The bill adopted by the late legislature, carrying a larger appropriation, was passed practically without opposition. PURITY OF ELECTIONS. Senate Bill No. 94. Hugg. Providing for purity in elections, with punishments prescribed for the vote buyer nnd vote seller. This hill provldes that the buyer or seller of a vote shall lie fined in any sum not to exceed SSO and shall be disfranchised for a term not to exceed ton years. The lull's principal provision is that when a witness is called to testify as to the purchase or sale of a vote, he may be compelled to testify. but that what ho says will not incriminate him if he be a party to the transaction. AUTOMOBILES. Senate Bill No. 8. Crumpacker. Regulating the speed and operation of automobiles. Speed regulation Is made for the entire state, cities, towns and country. Eight miles an hour is made the maximum rate In “closelv-built-up” portions of municipalities. Fifteen miles an hour is the limit in other parts of cities and twenty miles nn hour outside cities and towns. Tlie operator of a motor vehicle sliall stop hlk machine on signal of the driver of a horse. Registration of all machines with the secretary of state is required. Tlie -maximum penalty for tlie violation of any provision of the law is SSO fine. Senate Bill No. 147. Newhouse. Providing for the location and erection of an additional hospital for the Insane, to be known ns the Southeastern Indiana hospital for the insane, to be erected in a city to bo cliosen by a commission appointed for that purpose, nnd providing for the management and maintenance thereof. Senate Bill No. 203. Hugg. Amends the law defining appeals taken to the supreme court from interlocutory orders of circuit courts, providing thjt. when such appeal involves the custody of a child, the court from which the appeal is taken shall make an order concerning the control and care of the child during the pendency of the case. Senate Bill No. 114. Hugg. A bill for an act for the ..relief of the Indiana state board of agriculture, authorizing it to borrow money to pay off Its existing indebtedness, and for other purposes. This is a measure authorizing the state board of agrlcultpre to issue bonds for SBO,OOO to be used in pacing debt on state fair grounds. Senate Bill No. 71. Stephenson. Amending the first section of “An act to enable counties to receive donations of buildings and grounds for high school purposes, nnd to provide for the maintenance of the same." in force March 11. 1899. This new law compels the acceptance by boards of county commissioners of lands or buildings denoted for school purposes. Senate Bill No. 85. Milburn. A bill for an act to amend Sec. 2 of nn act entitled “A bill to amend an net making ft unlaw,, ful to give, barter or sell tobacco to certain children." Emergency. This new law makes the infliction of a jail sentence, upon conviction for selling tobacco to minors. optional with the court. Senate Bill No. 47. Wood, W. R. A bill for an act concerning the payment of taxes upon omitted property and providing manner in which costs of collection sliall be paid. This bill provides that the state shall pay its proportionate share of expenses In collecting taxes upon omitted property. Senate Bill No. 7. Crumpnker. Empowering common councils of cities to? cohvey cemetaries and providing for the management and control thereof, providing that such transfer mny bo made to private corporations on petition of majority of lot owners. Senate Bill No. 81. Gnnlard. Regulating private banks nnd placing these institutions under state supervision; providing that they shall be capitalized with a capital stock of not less than $50,000 nnd be subjected to examination by the auditor of state. Senate Rill No. 6. Cavins. Providing nn nppeal without bond or stay of proceedings In convictions for felony In municipal courts. Senate Bill No. 121. Strlcler. A bill for nn net to legnlizo the Incorporation of the town of Upland, Grant county, the election nnd qualification of its board of trustees and other officers. Senate Bill No. 137. Murray. A bill for nn act providing for the deposit of cash or certified checks in lieu of n bond In civil, criminal or probate proceedings. Senate Bill No. 87. Murray. Concerning

replevin suits before justices of the penes end mayors. This law provides that Skition in replevin for recovering of perjsonal property may be maintained before a justice of the peace oY mayor without filing a replevin bond. Senate Bill No. 115. Hugg. Exempting from taxation the mortgages, notes and bonds hereafter Issued by the state board of agriculture. Senate Bill No. 154. Ganlard. Prescribing details in the loaning of school funds. This bill allows county commissioners to pay the eipenses of making school fund loans. Senate Bill. No. 209. Strlcler. To change the time for holding courts Ih the TwentyEight judicial circuit, composed of the counties of Weils and Blackford. Senate Bill No. 5. Cavins. Authorizing the admission of war nurses as members of the Indiana State Soldiers’ Home. Senate Bill No. 65. Klrkmgn. Providing for the erection of a monument in memory of Oliver P. Morton “war governor" of Indiana, tn - tire State - Ebuse” grounds, and appropriating the sum of fay such purpose. Senate 311 No. 93. Roemier. Authorizing the i#aards of control of state prisons to use laa4s owt»ed bv the state for cult! vation h# prison inmates, and regulating the hour® of the same. Senate Mill No. 102. Durr.e. Changing the tlmu the Evansville city election from Ap|O to November of the same year. Senate will No. 91. Talcott. To exempt from taxation cemetery corporations with permanent care fund for maintenance. Senate Bill No. 95. Cavins. Providing that companies owning levees shall have the right to condemn adjoining lands il necessary. , Siinate Bill No. 118. Roche. Increasing tlie salary of thn stnte board of embalmers fmta to s;;i>n a year, nnd providing that the foes shall be turned to the use of tlie board, inrtead of being diverted Into the school fund. Senate Rill No. 132. Kimbrough. Pro- 1 vidlng tlmt on release paroled prisoners shall receive $5 in cash in addition to their i railroad fuie home. Senate Bill No. 136. Moore of Putnam. I Providing for one osteopathic member on , the state board of medical registration nnd examination. Senate Bill No. 139. Strlcler. Allowing i towns between 3,000 nnd 3.400 to levy spe- | cific tax of not more than 80 cents per SIOC i to pay for muinteuanee of fire hydrants or ! electric lights. Senate Bill No. 150. Roemier. Provldiag ' that a note maturing, on Sunday or a holb } day Is to be' paid tlie first business day > after that holiday and abolishing days of - grace. Senate BiU No. 173. Crumpacker. Fix- I ing the time for holding the court in the 32nd judicial circuit. Senate BIU No. 185. Hugg. Authorizing judges of the alrouit courts to transfer cases to tire superior courts In the same county. Senate BUI No. 963. Lone. Allowing widows and wives of disabled or destitute soldiers of the Bpanlsh-Amerkian war or the Philippine insurrection, to be admitted to the Indiana state soldiers’ home. Senate BIJI No. 193. Durre. Providing for the construction of a certain sewer in Evansville. Senate RIH No. 352. Newhouse. Providing for the printing of 4.000 additional copies of the report of the fish and game commissioner. Senate BUI Net 50. Hendee. Allowing Insurance companies Incorporated in Indiana to invest in bonds of provinces and countries where business is done. Senate Bill No. 131. Hugg. To regulate the canvassing of votes In city, county and township elections. Senate BIU No. 146. Mulbuxn. Changing the time for holding the May term of court to June in Pike and Dubois counties. Senate Rill No. 225. Hugg. To permit the reduction of capital stock of trust companies. Senatp B'll No. 289. Conts. Relating to tlie disposal oy guardians of property left a widow who Is Insane. Senate Bill No. 131. Koehne. Amending the Indianapolis school board inw so as to allow tlie secretary to be chosen every four years. Semite BUI No. 1-10. Wood of Tlpnecanoe. To provide that tlie public library commission lie assigned a permanent room in the statehouse and storage room in the basement, nnd providing for annual reports. Senate Rill No. 181. Newhouse. To give township trustees tlie authority'to gain possession of and care for small private cemeteries. Senate Rill No. 210. Ganlard. Authorizing the state to make a good deed to land now in the possession of Samuel S. East of Lagrange county. Senate Rill No. 261. Kirkman. Allowing 1 the county commissioners to divide and plat ' the property of the Wayne county orphans’ home and sell It in lots. I fSenate Bill No. 357, Newhouse. Provid- - Ing for the transference of the surplus in the sinking fund to tlie general fund. i Senate RIH No. 361. Wlckwlre. Protecting fresh water lakes from drainage by construction of ditches. Senate RIH No. 194. Hugg. Concerning the acquisition, ownership and transmission of real estate by aliens. Senate Bill No. 249. Beardsley. An act I concerning the Indiana national guard. I amending the state law to make It conformable to tlie federal law. i Senate Bill No. 337. Strlcler. Defining tlie kind of securities that foreign insttrI ance companies doing business in Indiana i must presont to the auditor of state. Senate Bill No. 166. Pelzer. Providing for the election of school trustees In cities and incorporated towns nnd prescribing their duties and terms of office. Senate Bill No. 129. Goodwine. Providing for the relocation of the Institute for the education of tlie deaf. Senate Bill No. 45. Ulrey. Relating to the improvement of boulevards at Fort Wayne. Senate Rill No. 70. Smith. Providing for the regulation and licensing of junk dealers. Joint Resolution No. 5. Murray. Providing for the appointment of n committee of five persons to investigate the need of a state hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis. Senate Rill No. 226. Moss. Fixing the per diem of the commission appointed by tlie governor to codify the mining laws of tlie state of Midiana. Senate Rill No. 270. Stephenson. Fixing the time of holding court in the 41st judicial circuit. Senate Rill No. 271. Talcott. Defining delinquency In children and providing for the punishment of any person responsible for the delinquency of any child. Senate Bill No. 301. Powell. Permitting cities and towns to sell and dispose of municipal water works, electric light works, gas works, street car atjd other llnes» . Senate (.Bill No. 316. Stephenson.- Pro. vidlng for the unpaid salary of Harry E. Bernetha. judge of the 41st judicial circuit. Senate Bill No. 332. Hugg. Providing for the incorporation of street railroad companies. Senate Bill No. 859. W. R. Wood. Authorizing circuit courts to change the names of persons and Incorporations. Senate Bill No. 167. Purviance. ApproI nriating $150,000 for the location and estab- ; Ilshment of a state hospital for the treat- ' inent of icplleptles. Senate BfO No. 144. Hugg. Amending | the juvenile court bill, providing that no I destitute girl shall be sent to the industrial school for girls merely because «he is desj titute and providing for the approval of the state board of charities in certain contingencies. Senate Bill No. 138. Roemier. ConcernIrig the conveyance of real estate nnd transfer of peraonal property by the Indianapolis school board. Senate Bill No. 26. Singer. Concerning highways located on abandoned railroad rights of wav and providing for the repair of same as free gravel roads. Senate Bill No. 104. Kittinger. For imI paneling juries from adjoining counties In I criminal cases where prejudice or bias may I Bill No. 285. Talcott. Allowing county commissioners to permit the use of abandoned fair grounds by cities for park purposes, the expenses to be borne by the I Bill No. 170. Stephenson. Empowering the attorney general to hire special counsel to prosecute the claims of the ktate against the federal government tn reference to money due the state from thv sale of swatnp lands, and providing that the special counsel be paid 25 per cent of the money so collected. Senate Bill No. 283. Ulrey. Providing for the elevation of the grade crossings In the city of Ft. Wayne. Senate Bill No. 355. Kirkman. Empowering city councils to allow Chautauqua assemblies to use public parks. Senate Bill No. 97. Beardsley. To prohibit the shooting of pigeons. ’ Senate Rill No. 191. Smith. Appropriating $25,000 to Pudue university to pny for certain experiments In agriculture and hort--1C Senate Rill Nrt.l6. Matthews. Relating t« the construction of fre« gravel roads.

HOUSE BILLS.

GENERAL APPROPRIATION. House BIIL No. 431. Sayre. Making general appropriations to cover the cost ■ of state government and its institutions and directing the application of such appropriation. This bill carries approximately, $6,756,645.14. This will be expended during the two fiscal years, beginning Oct. I! 1905, in regular maintenance funds to the state’s educational, benevolent and correctional Institutions; in the payment of special appropriations authorized by the legislature; in specific allowances given state institutions, offices and departments and in the payment of salaries to state employes and the running expenses of the state offices and departments. BOYD MARRIAGE BILL. House Bill No. 118. Boyd. Regulating the issuing of licenses to marry. This bill provides that no license to marry shall be Issued except upon written and verified jpplleatlon, which shall set out full particulars ns to the name, age, residence, etc., of both the contracting parties. No person who is an imbecile, epileptic, of unsound mind or under guardianship as a person of unsound -mindy improvident or indigent person, nor any person afflicted with a tiiinsniissablo disease shall be allowed to marry. Should the clerk refuse to issue a license for any of the given reasons in the bill,, tlie person making the application may resort to the circuit court to prove his or her right to a license. If persons go to another state for marriage with intent to evade tlie Indiana law. and return for residence to this state, the marriage shall be void. A fine of not to exceed SSOO is to be file penalty for falsely swearing to an affidavit when application is made for a marriage license. A person who. .knowingly solemnizes n marriage of persons who have not t-jompliwl witli tire stattnt" slptll lw subject to a lino of not to ox'-eeil sson. whil" a clerk of a court who sliall isstio a lu i-n - ' contrary to tlie provisions of the liw slu-.ii be fined not less titan $25 nor mo-e than SIOO. House Bill No. 145. Fletcher. Prov’ding for the elevation of tracks at the grade crossings in Indianapolis. Tills b'll provides that the railroads shall pay seven'yflve per cent of tlie cost of stn-lt Intii-"vo-ments. The city. 4n case .there are no street car tracks m the crossing -whore tlie improvement Is to be 'made, will bear seven teen per cent of the cost of the improvement. and the cnut#y will bear eight per cent. 'Where there are car tracks the traction company will bear five per cent of the cost and the county six per cent. House Bill No. 3. Kean. Amending nn net levying an annual state tax for the purpose of raising revenue for the general fund. This is the new law authorizing a levy of three-fifths of a cent on each SIOO, the proceeds to go to those poorer townships in the state which with a local tax of 40 cents on the SIOO, cannot maintain a school of 120 days, House Bill No. 340. Houk. To regulate primary elections In Vigo county, providing that the primaries of all parties shall be held on the same day and that the names of all candidates shall be on the same ballot, further providing that the voter can vote for only the candidate of one party. House Bill No. 178. Springer. Providing for the assessment for taxation of the stock of banks organized under the laws of the United States. By the provisions of this inw the stock of National banks is taxed In the towns in which the bank is located. House Bill No. 135. Darby. Amending the act of March 9, 1903, fixing the fees and salaries, duties and compensation of the officers named therein; giving justices of the peace In towns of over 50,000 authority to appoint substitutes. House Bill No. 67. Gulrl. Relating to the liability of common carriers, prescrlb'ing the practice and proceedure and fixing the burden of proof in certain cases. This law particularly refers to the proceedure in damage suits against railway companies. House Bill No. 2,33. Stansbury. Taking Fountain county out of the Twenty-first judicial district and creating a new district for this county, known as the Sixty-first judicial district, leaving the Twenty-first composed <>f Warren and Benton counties. House Bill 125. Ruick. Exempting from taxation real estate and personal property belonging to Greek letter societies connected with colleges and other institutions of learning. House Rill No. 156. Sayre. Amending sections 2 and 4 of an act authorizing tlie establishment and maintenance of,hospitals by boards of county commissioners in their respective counties. House Bill No. 199. Branch. Adding one week to the term of court in the Fifteenth judicial circuit. House Bill No. 221. Cravens. Renewing the act of 1899. protecting pheasants from huntsmen for a further period of six years. House Rill No. 210. Batman. Concerning the settlement of decedent's estates. This law bars claims against decedent’s estates when no letters of administration nre issued within twelve months after notice is given. House Bill No. 32. Keyes. Authorizing the establishment and maintenance of a state Laboratory of Hygiene. House Rill No. 111. Morton. Providing for the extension and re-extension of time within which to file a bill of exceptions. House Bill No. 2(55. Legler. Authorizing railroad companies heretofore organized under the general railroad laws, nnd which hnve availed themselves of the benefit of the act of March 9, 1903. to operate as Interurban electric or street railways, to haul freight by steam. House Rill No. 15. Rosson. Requiring the registration of trained nurses. House Rill No. 78. Meeker. Regulating and simplifying the proceedure in cases appealed to tlie supreme and appellate courts. House Bill No. 246. Dausman. An act concerning forestry. Relating to the encouragement of forest reserves, by exempting forests froth taxation under certain conditions. „ House Bill Nn. 153. Curry. Revising the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons empleyed therein. House Rill No. 302. Shively. Authorizing hydraulic companies to condemn lands to their own use upon paying the assessed value thereof. House Rill No. 50. Batman. Concerning the equalization of assessments of real and personal property by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. House Bill No. 85. Beals. Regulating the conveyance of real estate by husband or wife, when either is insane. House Bill No. 350. Honan. Concerning reports to the governor from state institutions. officers, boards, bureaus, societies, etc., prescribing the formal manner of such reports, and that they, must be Uniform. House Bill No. 25. Sweeney. Changing the time of holding court in the Third judicial circuit, consisting of the counties of Perry, Crawford and Harrison. House Bill No. 30. Legler. Requiring county recorders to enter all cancellations, satisfactions and assignments in the entry book. House Bill No. 193. Elliott of St. Joseph. Fixing nnd regulating the compensation of county assessors. House Rill No. 232. Legler. Concerning taxation and providing for the foreclosure of liens for delinquent taxes under specified conditions. House Bill No. 254. Fletcher. Concerning the office of county surveyor In Marlon county. House Bill No. 298. Denbo. Concerning proceedings and appeals In criminal cases. House Bill No. 71. Kline. Appropriating $115,000 for the expenses of the 64th session of the general assembly. House Bill No. 35. Shively. Prohibiting the sale of fruit or shade trees and the de- ■ livery thereafter with the Intent to deceive i and providing penalties. House BUI No. 426. McHenry. ConccrnI Ing nnd regulating the admission for the transaction of business of foreign casualty, i surety and health companies. ! House Bill No. 267. Keyes. To establish n board of veterinary medical registration and examination. House Bill No. 62. Long. Concerning dikes nnd ditches. This is the codification commission bill, codifying all the statutes relating to this subject. House Bill No. 179. McGonngle. Regulating the construction and alteration of theaters and public halls for protection from fire. House BUI No. 134. Darby. Providing for n special tax of from five.to ten mills on the sl<>o In the city of Evansville, for sei curing reading matter for the public 11- ’ brnrv. , House Bill No. 21. Bntmnn. I'rovlJfng that school books shall not be revised often, er than once In every ten years, except In cases of geographies, histories and copyl><Honse BUI No. 95. McDowell. Leaving appointment of special judges io the parties Involved In the case. House Bill No. 124. Kline. Authorizing rabbit hunting with ferrets. House Rill No. 310. Howe. Prohibit Ing boys sixteen years old or under nnd girls

•eventeen yean old or under from attentfing dances at public halls. House Bill No. 334. Batman. To con. struct free gravel roads on the petition of fifty freeholders without an election. House Bill No. 363. Reasoner. Allowing the state librarian 200 Instead of 150 copies of the state publications. House BUI No. 879. Agar. To permit agricultural societies, operating under a state charter to issue bonds for improvement. House BUI No. 388. Condo. Providing methods for bolding sanitary inquests where convicted persons may be Insane. House Bill No. 429. Sayre. Transferring the three-cent sinking fund to the general fund for the years 1905, 1906 an l 1907, and restoring It as a sinking fund in 1908 and 1909. House BUI No. 105. Colvert. Authorising counties to appropriate money to aid agricultural societies in maintaining county fairs. House Bill No. 432. Bartholomiw. Authorizing the governor to issue patents for certain Michigan roiid lands. Joint House Resolution No. 2: Wilson of Jasper. Giving the General Assembly the power to prescribe what qualifications shall be necessary for admission to practice law In all courts of justice. House Bill No. 2. Gulrl. Allowing foreign mutual fire Insurance companies to do business In Indiana, provided they have cash assets to the amount of $50,900 nnd premium notes to the amount of SIOO,OOO. House Bill No. 331. Bosson. Authorizing the erection of the Masonic temple to be used by the local lodges of Masons iu Indianapolis. House Bill No. 19.8. Robinson. A bill for an net regulating township business and to provide for the funding of township indebtedness, authorizing township trustees to issue bonds for the payment ot such indebtedness. \ ■■ House Bill No. 110. TTnnna. Giving town boards nnd city councils the right to condemn lands for cemeteries. House Bill No. 217. McGonngle. To empower county councils, by resolution, to return unexpended balances of appropriations to the general fund of the county. House Bill No. 323. Beals. To provide for a seal for the justices of the peace and for better authentication of certain records. House Bill No. 353. Branch. To provide punishment for the wearing of G. A. R. or othwr military badges unlawfully. House Bill No. 317. Stansbury. A bill to legalize all ordinances, amendments, resolutions and contracts entered into in good faith by the boards of trustees of incorporated towns. House Bill No. 52. Branch. To make the reporter of the supreme court a member of the state printing board. House Bill No. 318. Carmichael. To enable denominational schools to require that four-fifths of the stock in the corporation shall be held by the members of the denomination. House Bill No. 409. Shively. Prohibiting jurors In mayors’ and justice of the peace courts from serving oftener than once In six months. House Bill No. 396. Pierson. Relating to the construction of gravel or macadam roads on county lines. House Bill No. 105. Long. Amending the common school law with a view to securing a uniform course of study throughout the state. House Bill No. 307. Dnusman. Concerning county superintendents, their qualifications, their compensation and assistants. House Bill No. 62. Long. Concerning drainage. LEGALIZING ACTS. Senate Bill No. 17. Matthews. Legalizing the proceeding, the election, the contract and the bond issuance with reference to a certain gravel road in Southeast township, Orange county. House No. 170. Beckman. Legalizing the record of conveyances and other Instruments acknowledged before justices of the peace and defectively certified. House Bill No. 89. Batman. Legalizing the title to real estate in Brown county, where the deed records were de-, stroyed bv fire prior to 1870. House Bill No. 72. Beckmnn. Legalizing certain sales of real estate made by county auditors of lands bought In on account of the school fund. Senate Bill No. 14; liendco. To legalize the incorporation of the town of Lapel, Madison county, and make valid all its acts. Emergency. House Bill No. 218. McGonagle. Legalizing tlie Incorporation of tlie town of Riverside City, Delaware county. House Bill No. 317. Stansbury. To legalize acts of township advisory boards taken without notice on account. Senate -Pill No. 277. Bell. Legalizing the annexation of territory to the city of East Chicago, Lake county. Senate Bill No. 157. Farber. Legalizing the Incorporation of certain mining and manufacturing companies. House Bill No. 33. Gough. Legalizing the charter of the New Harmony Workingmens’ Institute. House Bill No. 248. TTnnnn. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Plainfield, Hendricks county. House Bill No. 278. Baker. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Fulton, in Fulton county. House Bill No. I<l9. Rock. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Shirley, Hancock county. House Bill No. 191. Wade. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Griffin, Posey county. House Bill No. 79. Denbo. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Greenville, Floyd county. House Bill N0.‘326. Martin. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Bryant, Jay county. House Bill No. 132. Bntmnn. Legnllzlng the Incorporation oi Nashville, in Brown county. Senate Bill No. 318. Benz. Legnllzlng the Incorporation of Milltown, Crawford county. ■“ Senate Rill No. 183. McCain. Legnllzlng the acta of the Mbrroco Cemetery association. House Bill No. 342. Baker. To legalize the Incorporation of Galveston, Cass county. House Rill No. 425. Force. Legnllzlng a gravel rend election In Orange county. House Bill No. 279. Agnr. Legalizing certain acts of notaries public.

VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR. House Rill No. ISO. Howe. Limiting the conditions under which sales may be mnde of parts or the whole of stopk of merchandise in bulk. House Rill No. 141). Reasoner. Protecting the water level of fresh water lakes by prohibiting ditches or drains to be 1 , constructed within forty rods of the margin of the lake. : llouse Rill No. 220. Reasoner. Providing that the remainders of subsidies voted by townships should bo divided among the eltles of the township, and the cities outside the township. House Rill No. 302. Wilson, of Jasper. To authorize cities and toryns not operating under special charters to levy an assessment to extend their water-works system. . „ Senate Rill No. 130. Hugg. Indian, apolls track elevation bill mnde unnecessary by the Fletcher House bill, exactly the same nnd already signed. , House Bill No. 174. Andrews. To extend privileges of public libraries of eltles .and, towns to townships and counties. House Bill No. 374. Batman. Providing for a vote of electors of Monroe county on the question of building a new courthouse. Senate Bill No. 278. Bell. Concerning public Improvements tn cities having a population less than 35.999. . House Bill No. 306. Dausman. Defining wife desertion nnd providing penalties therefor. House Bill No. 02. Gage. To compel the county council of Spencer county to appropriate $250 to make up the deficit In the expenses of the last term of court. Senate Bill No. 38. Moore of Putnam. Concerning procedure In appeals to the supreme and appellate courts. House Bill No. 208. Bartholomew. A bill authorizing the governor to Issue patents for certain Michigan road lands In the BUI No. 174. Gnnlnrd. A bill frovfdlng for the relief of William Waters, treasurer of Lagrange county. Senate Bill No. 160. (laniard. A bill frovldlng for the relief of Henry J. Hosetter, former trustee of Clear Spring township, Lagrange county. Senate Bill No. 48. Lyons. To give preference to United States soldiers, sailors nnd marines in appointment to subordinate positions in nil public Institutions where salaries do not exceed S9O per month. Senate Bill No. 80. Barcus. To make the erection of a fence over six feet high for the purpose of annoying the next nd" joining occupant or owner a private nuisance. Emergency. , Senate Bill No. 275. Milburn. Supplementing the gravel road law. Senate Bill No. 224. Davis. Concerning gravel ronds. , House BUI No. 65. Vizard. Concerning macadamized road* on township lines.