The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-03-22

new laws enacted by the sixty fifth
general assembly of Indiana We're the
following.
Law allowing the probating Of Wills
Of persons who have absented them
selves from their usual places OF rest
dence for period OF five years and
have gone 10 parts unknown.
Forbidding the manufacture and
sale OF adulterated or misbranded food
or drugs. enacted 10 conform with ma
uonal 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 re
sponsible for the acts OF their agents.
Legalizing marriage heretofore en-
tered into between first cousins and
declaring marriages of this kind here
after entered into void
Authorizing De Paw college to re-
organize its board Of trustees SO that
retired professors may benefit from
Carnegie fund
Making invalid contracts between
railroad employees and railway relief
associations where such contracts pro-
hibit employees from claiming dam
ages on account of personal injuries.
Giving state board OF forestry the
right 10 grant electric railway the
right of way through lands OF forestry
reservation.
Requiring private corporations hav-
ing capital stock to file annual reports
with the secretary Of state
Providing for the conveyance. mort
gage or lease of real estate owned
by an infant married woman.
Providing that no person shall bene-
fit by an inheritance derived through
the murder of another.
Requiring owners Of notes to pay
taxes on same Notwithstanding they
are in possession of bankers as col
lateral security.
Reorganizing the 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 thar person convicted a
third time for felony may be deemed
to be an habitual criminal
Permitting the state board Of agri-
culture 10 construct live stock pavIl-
lion 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 10 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 ! TO Nov.
Requiring railroads to carry flag
for full crew"
Permitting trust companies TO en-
large their boards OF directors.
Providing for change of venue in
all cases whore judgments have been
reversed in the supreme or appellate
courts
Making railroads liable for damages
where industrial concerns are incon-
yenienced by removal of tracks
Preventing girls under IL years old
from visiting wine rooms and fixing
a heavy punishment for men who &C
company 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 l6 years.
Abolishing the closed season for
hook and line fishing and providing
for the protection Of private fish
ponds
Limiting the charges for carrying
passengers on steam railways to two
cents a mile and providing for a 2iz-
cent dfferential.
Providing maximum fine OF 800 or
jail sentence for any tenant who.
without the consent Of his landlord.
disposes OF or appropriates to his own
use any part Of growing crop.
Fixing salaries of judges Of circuit
and superior courts in Marion county
al $1,000 a year, $4,000 TO be paid by
the state and s. 900 by the county.
Making it unlawful for any person
10 engage in the work OF barbering on
Sunday except when such persons en-
gage in such callings in relation 10 a
deceased person. Fine from $40 to
s25. optional Jail sentence of not more
than 30 days.
Making necessary qualifications for
trained nurses common school educa-
ton instead Of high school education.
Empowering county commissioners
TO require owners of vehicles 10
equip such vehicles with rub locks
Regulating police pension fund Of
Indianapolis, providing that policemen
who retire on account OF disability
shall receive from $40 to $50 a month: