Indiana General Assembly Passes Wide Range of Reforms
The Sixty-Sixty General Assembly enacted extensive laws including pure food, two-cent fare, ditch law revisions, private bank inspection, anti trust measures, public funds depositories, and a major temperance revision. It created commissions for Indiana centennial, expanded railroad powers, and raised labor and child protection standards while vetoes limited some proposals. The session approved budgets and memorials, and set penalties for license violations and child abuse, with notable actions on education, public buildings, and statuary allocations.
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Senate Bills Blind Tiger Law No 90 Gannard
The blind tiger bill imposes penalties for unlicensed liquor sales and authorizes seizure and destruction of stock and fixtures of unlicensed dealers. It prohibits pharmacists from supplying intoxicating liquor except on written physician prescriptions that include full purchaser details and are properly filed for two years.
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Gannard
Long List of Indiana Senate Bills and Proposals
A sweeping catalog of proposed laws including private banking regulation, grave site upkeep for Nancy Hanks Lincoln, statues in the capitol, farm mortgage notices, anti trust provisions, court seat allocations, county and city governance reforms, highway improvements, school funding and bonds, and various local and state projects. The compilation names dozens of bill numbers, authors, and aims spanning taxation, labor, transportation, education, health, and municipal affairs.
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Cirroll County
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Green
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Hanna
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Honan
State Board of Education
Marion County
Schreeder
Indiana
Andersonvile
Hostetter
Fruechtenicht
Cox
Baltzel
Downey
Morgan
Stephens
Indiana Pure Food Law Enacted to Guard Public Health
The new Pure Food and Drug law establishes standards for foods and drugs sold in Indiana. It bans adulterated or misbranded items, defines purity standards with reference to the U S Pharmacopoeia, and details inspections, enforcement, and penalties. It creates a state food and drug commissioner and empowers the State Board of Health to issue rules.
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Food and Drug
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United States
Uniform boards for state benevolent and penal institutions
Public Institutions Act No 329 reorganizes boards of trustees for Indiana penal and benevolent institutions into four member bodies with equal party representation. Governors appoint an extra member for smaller boards, terms run four years, and bonds are required. Superintendents are appointed by each board, and hiring, salaries, and contracts are subject to new rules. Campaign assessments by employees are prohibited with penalties for violations.
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Indiana Girls’ School
Indiana Women's Prison
Indiana School For
Knightstown Orphans’ Home
Ucts
Industrial School For Girls
Indiana Women’s Prison
Public Depositories Law Sets Uniform State Funds System
Woodfill introduces a comprehensive public depositories bill to handle state county city town and school funds. It sets acceptable securities for depositories fixes interest at 2 percent on daily balances and 214 percent on time deposits, caps deposits at 500000 per bank and ties deposits to capital and surplus. The act takes effect December 1 1907 with state county town and school offices depositing daily and monthly settlements required by state boards. The governor auditor and treasurer form the state board of finance while county and local boards manage county and municipal sums.
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Cowell
County Treasurers' Bill Sets Salary Scale by County
The bill fixes county treasurers salaries based on local business volume and conditions. It provides compensation to offset income loss from the public depositories law.
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Besi
Treasurer Salaries Range From 1200 to 25000 Annually
The passage notes salaries for county treasurers with Marion county at 25000 dollars per year and Brown county at 1200 dollars, reflecting how interest on entrusted funds is handled by treasurers.
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Brown County
Indiana Lawmakers Revise Tax Board and Pass Wide Bill List
A compilation of Indiana General Assembly measures details reorganizing the state tax board to add a commissioner, fix salaries at 2000 dollars, and have the secretary of state serve as chair, with longer sessions. The list includes hundreds of numbered bills across topics from education and roads to crime and public welfare, noting specific proposals, authors, and intended fiscal effects.
Indiana Senate Joint Resolution No 8 centennial commission
Kistler proposes a state centennial commission to plan a 1916 exposition marking Indiana’s 100th statehood anniversary. One member from each county chosen by the governor, plus Congressmen, state legislators, the lieutenant governor, and Vice President Fairbanks. Meets at the statehouse April 1 to organize. Backed by state historical societies.
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Joint Resolutions House No 4 for convention on U S Senate election
A fragmentary entry describes House Joint Resolution No 4 seeking congressional call for a convention to propose amendments to the U S Constitution regarding the election of United States senators. It cites Representative Weaver and references constitutional change.
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