LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Passed at the Seventy-Sixth Regular Session Begun on the Tenth Day of January, A. D. 1929 1929 BY AUTHORITY OTTO G. FIFIELD, Secretary of State INDIANAPOLIS: WM. B. BURFORD PRINTING CO., CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING 1929 LAWS OF INDIANA CHAPTER 1. AN ACT to appropriate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the seventy-sixth 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. 1. Approved January 18, 1929.] Appropriation-Expenses of General Assembly. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the seventy-sixth general assembly of the State of Indiana. If any part of the amount thus appropriated shall remain after all the expenses of the said seventy-sixth general assembly shall have been paid, the amount so remaining shall revert into the general fund of the state treasury: Provided, however, That in no case shall the amount hereby appropriated or any part thereof be available after September 30, 1929, for any expenses which may have been in curred by the seventy-sixth general assembly. Per Diem and Allowances-Duty of Auditor of State. 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 prescribed and fixed 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 case of representatives, upon the certificate of the speaker of the house of representatives, setting forth the time of service and the amount of mileage and allowance to which such senators and representatives may be entitled, including 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. SEC. 3. The senate shall elect a secretary, assistant secretary and principal doorkeeper whose pay each shall be six dollars ($6.00) 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 seventy-sixth general assembly, in conformity with senate rule 55, are hereby legalized. House of Representatives-Officers and Employees. SEC. 4. The house of representatives shall elect a principal clerk, assistant clerk and principal doorkeeper whose pay each shall be six dollars ($6.00) 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 any house resolution heretofore adopted at this session, are hereby legalized. Audit of Accounts-Issuance and Payment of Vouchers. 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 of representatives, clerks, stenographers, doorkeepers, assistant doorkeepers, postmasters, assistant postmasters, janitors, pages and such other assistants and employees as may be so authorized or employed by such senate or house of representatives 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 amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of students to Purdue university, by the board of commissioners of each county, and to provide for the admittance of such scholars, and defining their privileges therein," approved March 12, 1877. [H. 21. Approved February 12, 1929.] Purdue University-Appointment of Students by Board of Commissioners. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to read as follows: Section 1. The board of commissioners of each county in this state may appoint, in such manner as it may choose, two students, or scholars to Purdue university, who shall be entitled to enter, remain and receive instruction in the same, upon the same conditions, qualifications and regulations prescribed for other applicants for admission to, or scholars in, said university: Provided, however, That every student admitted to said university by appointment by virtue of this act, shall in no wise be chargeable for tuition or matriculation fees. |