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"Wayne, and appropriating $50,000 for land 

 and buildings. Another act enlarges the Sol- 

 diers' Orphans' Home near Knightstown, Rush 

 County, into the Soldiers and Sailors' Or- 

 phans' Home, and appropriates $65,000 for the 

 completion of buildings already begun, $25,000 

 for a building to be used for a literary school, 

 and $20,000 for a shop and tools to equip an 

 industrial school on the premises. The sum of 

 $200,000 was voted for the erection of a State 

 Soldiers and Sailors' Monument in Clyde 

 Park, Indianapolis. No regular appropriation 

 bills were passed, and no provision made for 

 the support of the government for the succeed- 

 ing two years. The following are some of the 

 principal acts not above referred to : 



Requiring all persons or companies of any kind, en- 

 gaged in mining or manufacturing in the State, to pay 

 their employe's semi-monthly, if so requested, in law- 

 ful money of the United States ; prohibiting the sale 

 of merchandise by such employers to their employe's 

 at any higher price than to any other purchasers, and 

 fixing penalties for the violation of this law. 



To authorize cities and towns to issue bonds for the 

 purpose of funding their indebtedness, or reducing the 

 rate of interest, or compromising with any creditor, or 

 taking up or canceling bonds, notes, or other obliga- 

 tions, and making it the duty of the Common Coun- 

 cil of such cities, and of the Board of Trustees of such 

 towns to levy taxes to pay the interest on such bonds, 

 and for creating sinking-funds to liquidate the prin- 

 cipal. 



To authorize the Governor to bring a suit in the 

 Supreme Court of the United States to determine the 

 boundary between Indiana and Kentucky, with rela- 

 tion to the ownership of Green River Island, and ap- 

 propriating $5,000 for such litigation. 



Empowering cities and towns to regulate the supply, 

 distribution, and consumption of natural gas within 

 their limits. 



To provide for the taxation of building, loan, and 

 savings associations. 



To authorize the Ilendricks Monument Association 

 to erect and maintain a monument to the memory of 

 the late Thomas A. Hendricks, and the Odd Fellows' 

 Association to erect and maintain a monument to the 

 memory of the late Schuyler Colfax, on State grounds 

 in Indianapolis. 



To provide for the organization and perpetuity of 

 voluntary associations for charitable, social, military, 

 or business purposes. 



Imposing a penalty for hunting on inclosed lands 

 without consent of the owner. 



Providing for the permanent inclosure and preser- 

 vation of Tippecanoe battle-ground. 



Revising the law relating to the practice of dentistry. 



Finances. The annual report of the Treasurer 

 for the fiscal year ending October 31 shows a 

 balance on hand at the beginning of the year 

 of $409,971.73; receipts from all sources, $4,- 

 738,198.89 ; total disbursements, $4,774,226.41 ; 

 leaving a balance, on October 31, of $373,944.- 

 31. Of the receipts, $2,373,043.78 were cred- 

 ited to the general revenue fund ; $2,127,946.17 

 to the school fund for the payment of tuition ; 

 and $168,159.51 to the new State House fund. 

 There was also realized $2,103 from the sale 

 of tax-lands, $160 from swamp-lands, $2,335 

 from escheated lands, and $5,105 from for- 

 feited college lands. Of the total disburse- 

 ments, $2,351,509.53 was from the general 

 revenue fund, $2,029,410 from the school fund 

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for tuition, and $294, 647.06 from the new State 

 House fund, while the only other large amount 

 was $85,400.20 from the permanent endow- 

 ment fund of the Indiana University. The 

 disbursements from the general fund were as 

 follows: Benevolent institutions, $678,277.67; 

 reformatory, $89,991.73; penal, $196,886.02; 

 State library, $3,648.92 ; Supreme Court, $32,- 

 130; State judiciary, $171,754.50 ; interest on 

 State debt, $439,394.58; educational institu- 

 tions, $58.360 ; State boards, departments, etc., 

 $19,466.67; public printing and stationery, 

 $12,646.47; House of Representatives, $70,- 

 985.13; State Senate, $46,028.61; miscellane- 

 ous expenditures, $491,635.51. 



The failure of the Legislature to pass the 

 regular appropriations produced embarrass- 

 ment in conducting the financial operations of 

 the State. As the Auditor is forbidden to 

 draw his warrant on the treasury in the ab- 

 sence of an appropriation, the executive and 

 judicial officers not only failed to receive their 

 salaries, but were forced to the alternative of 

 discharging their clerks and employes, or pay- 

 ing them from their own pockets. To meet 

 pressing difficulties. Treasurer Lemcke agreed 

 to pay bills presented to him out of his own 

 funds, if the officers to be accommodated would 

 guarantee him repayment in case the next 

 Legislature failed to make the necessary appro- 

 priation. It was deemed useless to call an 

 extra session of the Legislature, which would 

 only result in a reopening of the Smith-Robert- 

 son controversy, and a consequent dead-lock. 

 Fortunately, the State charitable institutions 

 were not affected by these difficulties, a stat- 

 ute already providing that in such a contin- 

 gency the Governor, Secretary, and Treasurer 

 might appropriate each month for their sup- 

 port a sum equal to one twelfth of the last 

 annual appropriation. 



The State debt amounted in October to 

 $6,430,608. Of this amount $340,000 was 

 added during the year, being borrowed at 3 

 per cent, to meet accruing interest. 



Prisons. The annual report of the Northern 

 Prison shows that the number of convicts at 

 the beginning of the year was 697, and at the 

 close 644. The number discharged was 314, 

 against 290 received, while 16 were paroled by 

 the Governor, and 13 died. The warden paid 

 to the State Treasurer during the year $110,- 

 245.56, and received from the State $102.245.56. 

 His receipts and earnings amounted to $105,- 

 635.42. In the Southern Prison, at Jefferson- 

 ville, there were 538 convicts at the close of the 

 year. The disbursements under the new warden 

 were $50,218.40, and the receipts $49,628.25. 

 A change of management in the prison took 

 place early in the year, in consequence of an in- 

 vestigation by a committee of the Legislature. 

 The treatment of convicts, the sanitary arrange- 

 ments, and the whole system of management was 

 found to be reprehensible, and Warden How- 

 ard was discovered to be a defaulter to a large 

 amount. He was deposed, and a new board 



