LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Passed at the Seventieth Regular Session of Begun on the Fourth Day of January, A. D. 1917 1917 BY AUTHORITY ED. JACKSON, Secretary of State FORT WAYNE PRINTING COMPANY CONTRACTORS FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING LAWS OF INDIANA. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to defray the expenses of the seventieth (70th) general assembly of the State of Indiana, providing how the expenses and employees thereof shall be incurred and paid, how the officers, employees and assistants thereof shall be selected, repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency. [H. 56. Approved January 16, 1917.] Appropriation-Expenses General Assembly. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of the seventieth (70th) general assembly of the State of Indiana, provided that if any part of the amount thus appropriated shall remain after the expenses of said general assembly have been paid, the amount so remaining shall be covered into the state treasury and shall revert at once into the general fund. Members-Per Diem and Mileage. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to audit the accounts and issue his warrant upon the treasurer of state for the per diem and mileage of senators and representatives as allowed by law and also such additional allowances for any necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty as may be provided by resolution of either house of said general assembly upon the certificate in the case of senators, of the president of the senate, and in the case of representatives, upon the certificate of the speaker of the house of repretatives setting forth the time of service and the amount of mileage and allowance to which such senators and representatives may be entitled. And also for any necessary expense of either of said houses as may be ordered. by it or its properly authorized officer or committee. Senate Officers and Employees-Per Diem. SEC. 3. The senate shall elect a secretary, assistant secretary and principal doorkeeper whose pay shall be six ($6.00) dollars per day. The appointment of any employees and the payment of the same and the purchase of any supplies and the payment for the same, heretofore appointed or purchased for the senate of the seventieth general assembly, in conformity with senate rule 55, are hereby legalized. House Officers and Employees-Per Diem. SEC. 4. The house of representatives shall elect a principal clerk, assistant clerk and principal doorkeeper whose pay, each, shall be six ($6.00) dollars per day. The appointment of any employees and the payment of the same and the purchase of any supplies or printing and the payment of the same that are authorized by house resolution No. 1 heretofore adopted at this session, is hereby legalized. Duty of Auditor of State. SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to audit the accounts and issue warrants upon the treasurer of state for the per diem of the officers, employees and assistants of the senate and house of representatives as may be authorized or employed respectively by such house or senate or its authorized officer or committee, and including the principal officers of such senate and house, clerks, stenographers, doorkeepers, assistant doorkeepers, postmaster, assistant postmaster, janitors, pages and such other assistants and employees as may be so authorized or employed by such senate or house or its authorized officer or committee. Where the pay of such officers, employees or other assistants is herein. fixed, they shall be paid accordingly. In other cases, their pay shall be fixed by the house of the general assembly employing them, or by its committee authorized by such house so to do. Repeal. SEC. 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Emergency. SEC. 7. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 2. AN ACT to provide for the election of delegates to a convention to revise the constitution of the state and providing for the assembling of the convention and preparations incidental to the conduct of the convention and making appropriation therefor. [H. 59. Approved February 1, 1917.] Election of Delegates. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That an election shall be held on the third Tuesday in September, 1917, at which delegates shall be elected who shall constitute a convention for the purpose of revising the constitution of the State of Indiana and which new constitution shall be submitted to the legal voters of the State of Indiana to be by them ratified or rejected at such time and in such manner as the convention may determine. Upon demand of fortyfive (45) delegates any question submitted to the legal voters by the convention shall be submitted separately. |