Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — INDIANA’S NEW LAWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA’S NEW LAWS

■ a rr Among the more important of the General Assembly of Indiana were the following: Law allowing the probating of wills of persons who have absented themselves from their usual places of residence for a period of five years and have gone to parts unknown. Forbidding the manufacture and sale of adulterated or misbranded food or drugs, enacted to conform with national pure food law. Requiring interurban railroads to construct waiting station at Terre Haute. Making it legal for the farmers of the State to dock lambs and dehorn cattle. Making insurance companies responsible for the acts of their agents. Legalizing marriage heretofore entered into between first cousins and declaring marriages of this kind hereafter entered into void. Authorizing De Pauw college to reorganize its board of trustees so that retired professors may benefit from Carnegie fund. Making invalid contracts between railroad employes and railway relief associtions where such contracts prohibit, employes from claiming damages on account of personal injuries. Giving State Board of Forestry the right to grant electric railway the right of way through lands of forestry reservation. Requiring private, corporations having capital stock to file annual reports with the Secretary of State. Providing for the conveyance, mortgage or lease of real estate owned by an infant married woman. . c , ■ Providing that no person shall benefit by an inheritance derived through the murder of another. Requiring owners of notes to pay taxes on same notwithstanding they ai;£ in possession of bankers as collateral security. Reorganizing State board of tax commissioners by adding one new member and relieving the Governor of duty on the board. Preventing the sale of diseased and defective horses and mules. Providing that persons convicted a third time for a felony- may be deemed to be an habitual criminal. Permitting the State board of agriculture to construct live stock pavilion at the State fair grounds. Regulating the fees and charges in the office of the clerk of the Supreme and Appellate Courts. Providing for petition to Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the constitution of the United States. Creating the office of bailiff for the Marion County Commissioners’ Court. Making an open season for squirrel shooting from July 1 to Nov. 1. Requiring railroads to carry flagmen on freight trains and providing for "full crew.” , Permitting trust companies, to enlarge their boards of directors. Providing for change of venue in all cases where judgments have been reversed in the Supreme or Appellate Courts. Making railroads liable for damages where industrial concerns are inconvenienced by removal of tracks. Preventing girls under 17 years old from visiting wine rooms nad fixing a heavy punishment for men who accompany girls to these resorts. Increasing the penalty for the crime of incest. Providing life imprisonment for crime of kidnaping for ransom. Raising the age of consent from 14 to 16 years. Abolishing the closed season for hook land line fishing and providing for the iprotectibn of private fish ponds. Limiting the charges for carrying passengers on steam railways to 2 cents a [mile and providing for a 2U-cent difjferential. Providing maximum fine of SIOO or jail [sentence for any tenant who, without the I consent of his landlord, disposes of or appropriates to his own use any part of a growing crop. Fixing salaries of judges of Circuit and Superior Courts in Marion county at $5,000 a year, $3,000 to be paid by the State and $2,000 by the county. Making it unlawful for any person to engage in the work of barbering on Sunday except when such persons engage in such callings in relation to a deceased per 7 son. Fine from $lO to $25, optional jail sentence of not more than thirty days. Making necessary qualifications for trained nurses common school education instead of high school education.

Empowering county commissioners to require owners of vehicles to equip such vehicles with rub locks. Regulating police pension fund of Indianapolis, providing that policemen who retire on account of disability shall receive 'from $lO to SSO a month; policemen who retire after being in the service twenty years, S3O a month ; policemen who retire after service of twenty-five years or more, SSO a month-; policeman’s widow, S3O a month; policeman’s dependent children, $6 a month. Permitting the building of a gravel road to a township line, even though It does not join ivith another gravel road. Enabling chairmen of farmers’ institute to draw from roUnty treasury sum not to exceed SIOO to aid in paying expenses of such institute. Making child desertion a felony. Increasing penalty for bank officer or employe who receives deposit knowing that bank is insolvent, making _ penalty a State’s prison sentence of from two to fourteen years. Providing that whoever deserts his wife except for adultery or whoever deserts his or his wife’s children leaving them a charge upon the county or township shall be deemed guilty of a felony. Prohibiting placing of acid, corroding or irritating substance upon the person of ’another. Providing that locomotives shall be equipped with power driving wheel brakes and that 75 per cent of cars in every train shall be equipped with power or train brakes and regulate the building of bridges or viaducts over railroads. Making it duty of county auditor to jmblish in newspaper amount of school fund on hand subject to loan. Prohibiting the distribution of samples of medicine from house to house. Prohibiting the throwing of glass, glassware and broken glassware on public highways except in repair of roads under direction of township officials. Providing that judges of Superior Court in Marion county shall be nomi-nated-and- elected hyi rooms. Creating correctional department at Woman’s prison for imprisonment of women from the different counties of the Stale. Repealing law permitting only savings banks to advertise for deposits. Defining bribery to mean the act of any officer or employe of a common carrier who shall receive money or any article of value for any service on behalf of such carrier and in behalf of any firm or corporation. Declaring the sale of grain and other farm products on which there is a chattel mortgage or a landlord’s lien a felony unless purchaser is given notice of lien before transaction. Regulating manner in which directors of bonding and surety companies may declare" dividends. Establishing a probate court in Marion county. Providing that appeals may be taken from the juvenile court to the Appellate court. Requiring operators of coal mines to erect and maintain washhouses. Providing that title to sewer not paid for shall rest with the contractor, and that the city shall grant the contractor a franchise to operate such sewer. Applying to cities from 16,000 to 20,000. Fixing amount to be paid out of State treasury for each Circuit and Superior judge at $3,500 a year. Compelling doctors and other persons to furnish records of deaths, births and contagious diseases to the State board of health.

Providing that persons who sue for damages on account of defective streets or bridges shall give notice of suit within thirty days after accident Making the penalty for the crime of burglary from ten to twenty years. Providing that in cases where land lying in two townships is erroneously assessed in two townships the taxes shall be redistributed among the townships. Authorizing electric light and power companies to purchase and own water power within nnd without the State and to merge with hydraulic companies incorporated under the laws of the State. Providing for the examination of private banks, authorizing the auditor of State to make as many examinations in one year as he deems expedient, the bank to pay for one examination —placing bank examiners on a salary instead of having them paid by banks. "Blind tiger” law making it unlawful to sell liquor in any quantity without a license except that wholesale liquor dealers may sell to retail liquor dealers.