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INDIANA. 



No contracts for prison labor can run longer than 

 Oct. 1, 1904. Contracts are to be let to the high- 

 est bidders. Not more than eight hours shall 

 constitute a day's work. It is the intention of 

 this act that all work done by the prisoners of 

 the Indiana State Prison under the State-account 

 system shall be hand work as far as practicable 

 and remunerative to the State. Each discharged 

 convict is to be provided with a ticket to any 

 place he chooses not farther away than the one 

 from which he was sentenced, besides $10 in 

 money, a suit worth not more than $6, and a $5 

 overcoat. 



The Reform School for Girls and Women's 

 Prison was separated into two institutions, the 

 one to be known as the Indiana Industrial School 

 for Girls, and the other as the Indiana Women's 

 Prison. 



The operation of the parole law was extended 

 to prisoners in the State and in the women's 

 prisons and those sentenced to the Reformatory 

 for stated terms. An appropriation of $10,000 

 was made for clothing for paroled Reformatory 

 prisoners. 



Acts were passed regulating the administration 

 of relief to the poor. Overseers are to satisfy 

 themselves that applicants for help, if able to 

 work, are doing all they can to find employment, 

 and to assist them in finding it. They are to 

 co-operate with voluntary charitable societies, 

 and see that relief is not unnecessarily duplicated. 

 County boards of charity are provided for. De- 

 pendent children may not be brought into the 

 State unless bond is given for their maintenance 

 during their minority. This is to encourage the 

 placing of Indiana children in Indiana Homes. 

 But residents may offer homes to children related 

 to them without giving bonds. A nonpartisan 

 committee to visit State institutions and report 

 the amount of funds necessary was provided for, 

 and an act was passed to regulate the manage- 

 ment of county almshouses. 



A general fish and game law was enacted. The 

 Commissioner of Fisheries is to have jurisdiction 

 over game. 



The office of State Entomologist was created, 

 and inspection of nurseries and nursery stock 

 coming into the State was provided for. 



If a judgment against a railroad company re- 

 main unpaid a year, the court may order any em- 

 ployee having money of the company on hand 

 or coming due to pay it into court until the judg- 

 ment and costs are satisfied. 



In suits for damages for personal injuries or 

 death the want of contributory negligence need 

 not be proved by plaintiff. Contributory negli- 

 gence is a matter of defense. 



In cases of change of venue in criminal trials 

 the judge of the court granting the venue has 

 sole power to appoint counsel on either side. 



When an amount tendered in payment and re- 

 fused is brought into court and found to be more 

 than is due, only the sum due shall be paid. 



A judge may not try a penal case if he is re- 

 lated to the defendant within the sixth degree 

 of consanguinity or if he has acted as counsel 

 on either side in the case. 



The salary of a justice in a city of 100,000 in- 

 habitants was fixed at $2,000, in place of fees, 

 and of justices in townships having cities of 35,000 

 to 60,000 at $1,000. 



Notice of appeal served on nonresident co- 

 parties must be published three weeks, and unless 

 they decline to join they shall be regarded as 

 joined. 



Other acts were: 



Creating a State Board of Pharmacy. 



A general pure food and drugs law. 



Providing fire-escape regulations, to be enforced 

 by the chief of the department of inspection of 

 the State. 



Providing for a field inspection of commercial 

 fertilizers, instead of allowing them to be sold 

 on the analysis of a sample from the factory. 



Making it a misdemeanor to injure or tamper 

 with electric apparatus or divert the current. 



Appropriating $100,000 to finish the State mon- 

 ument to soldiers and sailors. 



Directing the Adjutant General to prepare 

 records of volunteers of the State in the Spanish 

 war and distribute them. 



Appropriating $400 to pay expenses incident 

 to the presentation of Spanish-American War 

 relics to the State, including battle flag of the 

 battle ship Indiana and the machine gun cap- 

 tured in Santiago harbor, and providing means 

 for the care and preservation of the relics. 



Appropriating $40,000 to reimburse soldiers for 

 the amounts withheld to pay for their uniforms. 



Granting a pension of $100 a month to the 

 widow of Gov. O. P. Morton. 



Accepting jurisdiction to lands in Grant County 

 ceded by Congress for the purpose of a branch 

 home of the National Home for Disabled Volun- 

 teer Soldiers. 



Pensioning Indianapolis policemen. 



Granting peddlers' licenses free to ex-United 

 States soldiers. 



Requiring a transaction in patent rights to be 

 recorded with the county clerk. 



Requiring a fine of $20 from any person allow- 

 ing Canada thistles to grow 4 inches high or 

 higher on his land. 



Regulating the practice of medicine. 



Making it larceny to steal a dog listed for 

 taxation at its true cash value, unless it has 

 killed or worried sheep. 



Making it a felony to use explosives or poisons, 

 under penalty of a year's imprisonment. 



Defining a mob and the crime of lynching, and 

 making the penalty for participation death or 

 imprisonment for life. 



To amend an act defining fraudulent marriages. 



To cede to the Federal Government any lands 

 chosen by it for the establishment of military 

 posts. 



To provide for the survey and sale of swamp 

 lands. 



To amend the law so that damages recovered 

 by reason of the death of a person shall inure to 

 the exclusive benefit of a widower as well as to 

 a widow or children. 



Providing that street cars must be comfortably 

 heated, November to March, under penalty of 

 $25 to $100 a day for each car. 



A bill making an appropriation for a hospital 

 for the criminal insane at the Jeffersonville 

 Reformatory was defeated in the Senate by a 

 vote of 21 for to 24 against it; but by some mis- 

 take it was signed by the President of the Senate, 

 the Speaker of the House, and the Governor, and^ 

 according to court decisions in similar cases, be- 

 came a law. It appropriates $25,000 for a build- 

 ing and $13,000 for maintenance for two years. 

 The trustees have, however, announced that they 

 will not take advantage of the mistake to draw 

 the appropriation. 



A State Fee and Salary Commission was cre- 

 ated to serve two years and investigate the sub- 

 ject of official fees and salaries. 



A constitutional amendment will be voted upon 

 in November, 1900, fixing the number of justices 

 of the Supreme Court at not fewer than 5 nor 

 more than 11, instead of 3 to 5, as now; also one 



