The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

Among the more important of the
new laws enacted by the Sixty-fifth
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 COP
struct waiting station at Terre Haute.
Making it legal for the farmers of the
State to dock lambs and dehorn cattle.
Making insurance companies respolsi-
BILE 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 reor-
ganize its board of trustees SO that re-
tired professors may benefit from Car
negie fund.-
Making invalid contracts between rail-
road employees and railway relief associ-
tons where such contracts prohibit en-
ployes 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 reserva-
ton
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 in
FAINT married woman.
Providing that no person shall benefit
murder of another.
Requiring owners of notes TO pay taxes
on same notwithstanding they are in pos
session of bankers as collateral security.
Reorganizing State board of tax COM
missioners by adding one new member
and relieving the Governor of duty on the
board
Preventing the sale of diseased and de-
fectiye horses and mules.
Providing that persons convicted a
third time for felony may be deemed
to be an habitual criminal.
Permitting the State board of agricul-
ture 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 amend
ments to the constitution of the United
States.
Creating the Office of bailiff for the Ma
rion County Commissioners Court.
Making an open season for squirrel
shooting from July to Nov. I.
Requiring railroads to carry fagmen
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 revers-
ed in the Supreme or Appellate Courts
Making railroads liable for damages
where industrial concerns are inconven-
fenced by removal of tracks.
Preventing girls under IL years old
from visiting wine rooms mad fixing a
heavy punishment for men who accom-
pany girls to these resorts.
Increasing the penalty for the crime
of incest.
Providing life Imprisonment for crime
Of kidnapping for ransom.
Raising the age of consent from IA to
Is years.
Abolishing the closed season for hook
and line fishing and providing for the
protection of private fish ponds.
Limiting the charges for carrying pas
sengers on steam railways to cents a
mile and providing for 2s-cent diff
ferential.
Providing maximum fine of 500 or Jail
sentence for any tenant who. without the
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,-
900 a year, $1,000 TO be paid by the State
and $1,000 by the county.
Making it unlawful for any person to
engage in the work of barbering on Sun
day except when such persons engage in
such callings in relation to deceased per-
son. Fine from $40 to SIS. optional Jail
sentence of not more than thirty days.
Making necessary qualifications for
trained nurses common school education
instead Of high school education.