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

salary of 1900 per year. The act also
allows $500 office and travelling expenses
One of the commissioners shall be a men,
Der of the State Forestry, Association. one
of the Retail Lumber Dealers Associa-
ton. one of the Purdue faculty. one of
the Woodworkers' Association, and the
fifth shall be a man who has special knowl-
edge of the theory and art of forest pre-
servation and timber culture. Signed
H. b. S21. Amends the tax law of 1891
by inserting a supplementary section pro-
viding for the taxation of pipe lines, fast
freight lines, lines of oil cars, refrigerator
cars and for the shipment of horses, cat
tie, hogs, sheep and other kinds of freight.
Emergency. Signed March 4.
II. b. 167. Provides for the establishment
maintenance and increase of public librar-
les in cities or incorporated towns, and for
the levying of a tax for such purposes.
Signed March 4.
NAVIGATION COMPANIES.
II. B. 523. Provides for the incorporation
of navigation companies, a method for
their taxation and a method of taxation for
shipping. Incorporation fee, 81 on each
81, 900 of capital stock, and in no event less
than $40. Stock may be increased or di-
minished by two-thirds vote of stockhold-
ers. Preferred stock may be issued TO the
amount of double the common stock on
vote of two-thirds of stockholders. The
only taxes to be paid by such company are
on personal property and 3 cents per net
ton of the registered tonnage of all vessels
owned by such companies. All ships and
other vessels engaged in and
owned or registered under the navigation
laws of the United States at any port In
the State of Indiana shall be taxed at the
rate of 3 cents per net ton of the registered
tonnage of the vessel. On or before the
1st day of July in each year all navigation
companies incorporated under the act and
owners of ships and other vessels regis
tered in Indiana are required to file with
the auditor of state a verified statement IN
writing containing the name. port of hail
and tonnage OF every barge, boat or other
water craft owned by them on the LIST day
of May preceding, and thereupon pay into
the state treasury a sum equal to 3 cents
per ton OF the registered tonnage of such
vessel. Penalty of $500 provided for viola
ton of this provision and LOCO for making
a false or fraudulent return of net tonnage.
Emergency. Signed March s.
H. b. COL. Provides that the State Board
of Tax Commissioners may meet in special
session and transact any and all business
not required to be done at a regular meet
ing, and legalizeS acts of the board done
at special meetings heretofore when there
was no statutory power given them to sit
Signed March z.
II. b. 372. Provides for the vacation
of streets. alleys, highways, lots and adj
ditions, and any part or parts of either
thereof, in any town, by the board of
trustees of such town, and establishes the
procedure thereof. Emergency. Signed
March Z.
H.. b. 422. Relates to soldiers reunions,
and declares certain acts misdemeanors-
H. b. 3S7. Provides that when a per-
son charged with a felony has fled to
any other State, Territory or country, and
the Governor has issued requisition for
such person, or has requested the Presi-
dent of tie United States to issue extradi-
ton papers, the County Commissioners
may pay to the agent designated in such
reqUisition or request to execute the same,
all necessary expenses of pursuing and re-
turning such person 80 charged, or so much
thereof as to them seems just, out of the
county treasury. Emergency. Signed
H. b.. 571. Directs the advisory board of
Jackson township. Spencer county, to pay
to Jacob s. Brandenburg the sum of $500.
with interest from Nov. 4. 1884. on account
of bricks furnished by him to build a
schoolhouse at said time. Signed March s
II. Il. 26S. Amends drainage law of 1885
by requiring petitioners for drains to give
bond for costs in the Circuit Court. Pro-
vides that the petitioners must name at
least one-half of the landowners whose
land will be affected by the proposed drain
in the petition. Limits fees to be allowed
attorneys for any drain to 2 per cent. on
the first $4,000 of assessed benefits and
one-half of l per cent. on said benefits
above $40. 900. Limits fees of construction
commissioner to 2 per cent. of the cost of
the drain and abrOgateS foreclosure of
ditch liens and requires unpaid assessments
to be placed on the tax duplicates. Emer-
gency. Signed March S.
H. b. 126. Provides that feeble-minded
females between sixteen and forty-ive
years of age shall be confined at the Fort
Wayne School for Predetermined in a de-
partment to be known as the custodal de-
partment for adult females. Such women
must be in good bodily health and free
from chronic or contagious diseases. APP
propriation of $40. 900 to carry out provisions
of the act. Also amends Section 4 of the
act for the establishment of said school,,
which limits age of inmates at time of re-
ception to not younger than sixteen years,
by providing that fe~eble-minded idiotic.
e~pileptic and paralytic children under the
age of sixteen may be admitted to the
school upon application OF father. If he
and the mother are living together, or. If
parents. are not living together. by the
one having custody of the child: on appli-
cation of legal guardian: on application of
superintendent of County Poor Asylum; or
of the person having management of any
other institution caring for children. Signed
March s.
LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES.
II. b. 534. Provides that every corpora
ton doing business under the law of March
T., 1898, authorizing Incorporation of loan
and trust and safe deposit companies. shall,
in rendering to the auditor of State the
actual account of its condition, always
state specifically the full amount of all
its outstanding obligations incurred by
reason of its guaranteeing or becoming
surety for the faithful performance by
any person of any duty whatsoever. Such
corporation shall also state the amount Of
premiums charged and received by it on
such obligations. Also provides that the
auditor of state. in estimating at any time
the condition of such corporation. shall
charge as liabilities, in addition to the full
amount of capital stock outstanding. all
outstanding Indebtedness of the corpora
ton and a premium reserve equal to so
per cent. OF the premiums charged by the
CORPORATION on all its obligations then in
force on account of its guaranteeing or
becoming surety for any person. Authoriz-
es and requires corporations which. being
organized under the act previously men
toned. may accept savings deposits. to
accept and hold such deposits under the
same regulations as 10 the repayment
thereof as are now prescribed by the
law OF this State for the repayment of
deposits in savings banks. Signed March \
H. Il. 139. Provides that no township
trustee shall abandon any district school
in his township until he shall have first
procured the written consent thereof.
signed by a majority of the legal voters
who are entitled 10 vote for township
trustee in such district. 1t shall be the
duty of every township trustee to re-es-
tablish any district school so abandoned
upon the written petition of two-thirds
OF the legal voters who are entitled TO
Emergency. Signed March S.
II. b. $50. Recites that on the 18th of
August, 1858. Stewart and Brother. of
Greene county, Ohio. duly entered a tract
of swamp land in Starke county, Indiana.
belonging TO the State OF Indiana. and
described as the southeast quarter OF the
southwest quarter of Section % In town.
therefos the sum Of $50 to SCION o. WHIT