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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
4
A survey of acts and proposals from the 68th Indiana General Assembly covers the creation of a public service commission, local government reforms, highway improvements, taxation, veterans affairs, education funding, and public health rules. The session advances emergency measures, municipal powers, and regulatory updates affecting counties, cities, schools, and state agencies.
A dense list of legislative items including weights and measures standardization, Arbor Day observance in schools, honors for Charles W. Fairbanks, appointment rules for county commissioners, creation of a state high school inspector, fish and game law changes, treasurer bond payoffs, street improvement prepayments, early board of review sessions, school board discontinuation in small towns, Hammond track elevation, posthumous conveyance rules, tax levy increases, corrupt practices act amendments, and registration law changes with emergency clauses.
A compilation of measures includes Branaman on county clerk fees and emergency passage, Stotsenburg on using prison labor for state highways, Adam on Indianapolis mayor and city attorney salaries, Syday on sheriff in the pocket back to 1909 fees, Carleton on constitutional amendment for direct Senate elections, Isenbarger on county fairs levying taxes, Mitchell on burglary penalties and parole, Fleming on sheriff in and out feeding fees, Curtis on restricting wild onions, Van Auken on a one cent rail fare for National Guard, and Daugherty on school transfer rules.
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