The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-11

bank. corporation or association possessed
OF banking powers, acts as a notary public
in the business of any such bank. corpora
ton or association, shall be fined in any
sum not more than $1,000 nor less than $40.
to which may be added Imprisonment In
the county jail not more than six months
nor less than ten days. Emergency. signed
Marth 9.
S II. 2S2. LegaIizes incorporation of town
OF Howell. Vanderburg county, provided
that The act shall not affect pending liti-
cation. Emergency. Signed March 9.
S. b.. $50. Provides that it shall be the
duty of the board OF trustees Of the Indiana
School for Predetermined Youth to fix ana
determine the number and quaIncations OF
the officers, physicians, teachers, attehu5
ants, domestics. mechanics. laborers ana
other persons who shall be employed by the
superintendent of said school, as now pro-
vided by law; and it shall also be the duty
or said board 10, in their discretion. IN anu
determine the compensation OF the superlh-
tendent and all other officers and employees
of said school. Repeats conflicting laws anu
parts Of laws. Signed March 3.
S. b. 172. Fixes time of holding court III
Feb. %.
S. 3. 2g9. Regulates the sale and trans
fer Of grain in elevators and other places
OF storage. When persons dealing IN gram
desire 10 sell, transfer, assign, pledge OF
hypothecate the same or any part Thereon
by issuing elevator or warehouse receipts
or certificates they must hle with the
county recorder a written declaration set
ting forth their names and residences; tnat
they desire to own. keep or control a gram
elevator or Storehouse; dimensions anu
quality OF such elevator; names OF other
person or persons having an interest IN
the same, and such acknowledgment Shdb
be duly acknowledged and filed for record
the same as other Instruments for convey
ance of personal property. All warehouse
receipts issued hereunder must contain q
statement that the issuer has complied
with the provisions Of Section j, just
enumerated. and such certificates or ware
house receipts shall operate to transfer
title TO the grain cnaCifpd therein. Record
OF such transactions must be kept IN a
book, which may not be altered, under
penalty of fine not exceeding 81 200 or I'M
-prisonment not exceeding one year in coun-
~ Jail, and a personi who issues a receipt
without entering same in the book may De
fined not to exceed 800 for each such GER
tiicate. Penalty for issuing certificates
for grain not in warehouse is not to exceed
$1,000 fine and Imprisonment not exceeding
five years in the penitentiary. Any person
removing or helping to remove grain COW
cred by such certificates shall be deemed
guilty of grand larceny and punished in
like manner, and the certificate holder may
pursue and recover the property or its value
just as. in the case of any other stolen prop
erty. Emergency. Signed March 3.
). Il. 1876. Amends section No. 2 of an act
entitled AN act ceding Jurisdiction of this
State over certain lands owned and to be
owned and held by the United States. ap-
proved Jan. %, 1883, So as TO provide that
such lands shall be forever exempt from
all taxes so long as the same shall remain
the property of the United States. Signed
March 8.
RELIEF OF POOR.
s. B. 224. An act for the relief of the
poor, repeating all conflicting laws. Makes
township trustee. in discharging provisions
of the act, ar overseer of the poor. In all
suits in favor OF or against such trustee
pertaining to the poor of his township the
same shall be conducted in favor of or
against such township in it's corporate
name. Every county shall maintain a
county asylum in addition to any other
charitable institution permitted by law,
and shall relieve and support therein poor
persons lawfully settled in the county as
may have been placed there by the over
Seers OF the poor, and may contract will
other charitable institutions located in the
State for the relief and support of poor
maintained therein as a public charge OF
said county, and may levy taxes for such
purposes. Boards OF county commission
ers shall advance to township trustees
money necessary for relief and burial OF
poor in each township. Requires quarterly
statements to Board of State Charities of
relief furnished under the act. Provides
burial expenses not exceeding $50 for body
of honorably discharged soldier, sailor or
marine, or the wife or widow of any such
soldier, sailor or marine, who may have
died a resident of this State without leaV-
ing means sufficient to defray necessary
funeral expenses. Such burials shall not be
in the graveyard for paupers nor a record
OF them kept in the pauper record book.
Signed March 8.
6. B.. 131. Provides that i'm the trial of
any person in any city court of this State
for the violation of any law OF the State
OF ordinance OF such city. the court or jury
shall have power to assess a fine in any
sum not exceeding $500 or adjudge impris-
onment as a part of the sentence for any
time not exceeding six months in the coun-
ty jail, workhouse or any lawful designated
place of confinement. Fine and imprison-
ment may be imposed separately or togeth-
er. Emergency. Signed March 9.
5. b. 23S. Makes the flag of the United
States the flag of the State of Indiana.
Signed March 8.
s. b. S23. Provides that whenever, In any
county where there is or may hereafter be,
a home or asylum for dependent, neglected,
ill-treated, orphaned or abandoned children.
owned by said county and operated by any
association, board of managers or matron
legally employed by said Board of County
Commissioners to care for such children,
said association, board of managers or
matron shall cease caring for said children
and shall surrender all such children to
said Board of County commissioners or to
some other association, board of managers
or matron that may have been or may
hereafter be employed by said Board of
County Commissioners TO care for such
children. Said association, board of man.
ayers or matron so surrendering the chill
dren shall return to the treasury of that
county any unexpended portion of any
money that has been received from the said
treasury as a per diem as compensation for
taking, keeping, caring for and finding
hOlutS lOl suCu CuiluItI, WHICH money SO
returned shall become a part of the general
fund of said county. Any such money al
ready returned to any county treasurer
shall become, on the passage of this act, a
part of the general fund of said county.
Emergency. Signed March 9.
S. =. 2lO. Amends the act providing for
Incorporation of insurance companies on
the stock or mutual plan, in substance as
follows: Any life insurance company or
| ganiZed under the laws of another State.
with assets of not less than 500, 900, and
which has on deposit with insurance de-
partment of State in which il was organ
lied the net cash value of policies in force
on the 31st of December Immediately pre-
ceding it's application for license. provided
such deposit is not less than $25. 600, shall
be entitled TO do business in this State.
Such company must deposit with state au-
ditor a certified copy of a vote or resolution
of its board of directors co%nsenting that
service of process in any suit against the
company may be had upon the auditor OF
state of Indiana, just as If the cOmpan
were chartered. organized or incorporated
in Indiana: also, a statement under oath of
for the preceding year, evidence that such
company has accumulated the net value of
| its policies and deposited same with insur-
ance department of the State in which il
was organized, and that such accumulation
and deposit are permitted by the law of the
| State and is for the benefit of policy hold
ers only and invested i'm securities author
lied under the law of its incorporation.
| Penalty for violation of provisions of the
act is revocation of license by the state au-
ditor and publication of such action in a
newspaper of general circulation published
in indianapolis. after which no new bust
ness shall be done by agents of such COM
pam i'm the State. The act does not affect
companies possessed Of assets required by
the provisions of Section l of the foreign