Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-25
NEW STATUTES
GIVE CHARITIES
BOARD BIG JOB
Many of 1921 Acts Apply Di-
rectly or Indirectly to
State Body.
COMPILATION IS MADE

Amos W. Butler, secretary Of the board
Of State charities, and members OF the
board are making preparations for carry
ing out the provisions of laws passed at
the last session Of the Legislature which
apply directly or indirectly to the board.
Mr. Butler has made the following com
pilation of these laws:
A law providing for removal of the
Indiana Reformatory from Jeffersonvllle
to Putnamville and appropriating
100000
A law permitting the State Prison and
the RefOrmatOry to aid prisoners or their
/. dependents from funds received from
prison labor.
A law requiring the Boys School to
maintain the same course Of study as
the corresponding grades in the public
schools and placing the school work
under the supervision of the State su-
perintendent of public instruction
Three laws affecting the State Soldiers
Home, to provide for the admission of
World War and Spanish-American War
veterans as members and for their ap-
poinrment as trustees and officers.
Three laws affecting the Indiana Sol
diers and Sailors Orphans Home to pro-
vide for appointment as trustees OF vet
Grams Of any war Of the United States,
their wives or widows, and OF nurses or
sion of the orphans or dependent chill
dren of any of the above, and for con-
troll Of the children to remain with the
persons placing them in the Institution
and extending visiting privileges.
A law recurring that women receiving q
sentence of more than thirty days for
merly ninety days. shall serve it in the.
correctional department of the Woman's
Prison.
a law appropriating 100000 for cree
ton Of an Industrial building for the
use of the beard of Industrial aid for
the blind.
A law establishing the James Whit
comb Riley Hospital for Children and
apprOpriating $125,0Oo.
A law providing for appointment OF a
State juvenile probation officer and an
advisory commission and apprOpriating
5000 annually.
A school attendance and child labor law
combined, the board Of State charities
being relieved of any part in the admin
istration of former.
A more accurate definition Of board
ing home for children"
The law Of 1898 fixing a penalty for
entieing a child away from an orphans
home or foster home amended to include
children placed by Juvenile court, board
Of children's guardians or board Of State
charities.
An amendment to the law Of 1919 con-
corning city court matrons or probation
officers, making the salary the same as
is paid patrol and desk sergeantS. APP
plicable to Evansville, Fit. Wayne, Gary,
= indianapolis, South Bend and Terre
daute.
A law defining auto baniitry and fx-
ing the penalty for any determinate
period not less than ten years nor more
than twenty five"
A law increasing the penalty for rob-
berry from two TO fourteen years and
81 900 fine to ten to twenty-one years
and fine not exceeding 5000; prescrib-
ing the same penalty for assault and bat
terry to commit robbery.
law imposing a penalty Of twelve to
twenty-five years Imprisonment for bur-
glary when armed with q dangerous or
deadly weapon.
law extending the crime Of rape to
include boys under 16 and increasing the
sentence, now two to twenty-One years to
hve TO twenty-one years.
A law authorizing cities Of the first
class 100000 inhabitants) and the fifth
class (less than 10000 to aid incorpOr-
ated public health nursing associations.
lIhere are one tirSt-class and sixty seven
hfth-elass cities in Indiana.)
Seven laws affecting local hospitals,
providing for additional PUBLIC aid to
private institutions: increasing the rate
or interest on county hospital bonds to
8 per cent NOW . per cent?; placing on
the petitioners half the expense of a spe-
eial election II the proposal fails TO re-
ceive majority of the votes; providing
for registration OF trained attendants"
and authorizing a county under certain
conditions to pay a life annuity TO the
donor OF funds for establishment OF a
county tuberculosis hospital
" A law providing that yenereal disease
Pshall not act as a bar to admission to
any State institution and providing for
necessary treatment
A law permitting county clerks to
spend $50 formerly 500 for clothing for
each patient committed to hospitals <or
insane.
A law prohibiting State officers Estate
institutions excepted) from employing
certain relatives.
A law requiring persons Of age to sup
port their dependent parents
A law exempting charitable employ
ment agencies from the fees and re-
ports required under the employment
agency act Of 1909.
An appropriation Of $4,000 for pur-
chase OF grounds for q training school
for negro women, conditioned on the
raising Of not less than $4,000 by
friends Of the movement.