bation officer, and the state juvenile probation officer shall endeavor by such means as may seem most suitable to secure the effective application of the probation system and the enforcement of the probation law in all parts of the state. The state juvenile probation officer shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per year, and all necessary traveling expenses.

1649b. Advisory juvenile committee.-2. The governor shall appoint an advisory juvenile committee which shall consist of five (5) members, one of whom shall serve for year, two of whom shall serve for three years, and two of whom shall serve for four years. Thereafter all members shall be appointed to serve for terms of four years. The members of the committee shall serve without compensation but shall be allowed their actual expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of duty. It shall be the duty of the committee to serve in an advisory capacity to the state juvenile probation officer and the governor in carrying out the probation work of the state. The committee shall hold one regular meeting each year and may hold special meetings on call of the state juvenile probation officer, or the governor or a majority of the committee.

1649c. Statistics of juvenile courts.-3. The state juvenile probation officer shall collect, compile and systematize statistical and other information relating to the business of juvenile courts, juvenile probation and such other information as may be of value and the collection of which may be deemed desirable. All juvenile probation officers are hereby required to submit quarterly each year to the state juvenile probation officer, on forms to be prescribed and furnished by the state juvenile probation officer, any information relative to juvenile probation which the state juvenile probation officer may request, which reports shall be in addition to those now required by law. Any person or officer contemplated in this section who shall fail or refuse to furnish any such information requested within thirty days after the making of such request shall be deemed quilty [guilty] of a misdemeanor and upon convistion [conviction] thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).

1649d. Annual report to governor.-4. The state juvenile probation officer shall submit a report to the governor on December 1 of each year and may submit such reports to the general assembly as are deemed advisable.

1649e. Appropriation.-5. The sum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000) is hereby appropriated annually to defray any and all expenses contemplated in this act.

SEC.

ARTICLE 8.-INCIDENTAL MATTERS.

1650a. Salary of judges.

1650b. Judges' salary and allowance.

1650c. Payment of additional salary of judges.

1650d. Application of act. 1650e. Repeal.

1651. Salaries of circuit and superior court judges.

1658. Term prolonged to finish trial. 1668. Grand and petit, how drawn. 1674. Qualifications of jurors.

SEC.

1684a. Chief clerk of the court, salary. 1684b. Repeal.

1685. Shorthand reporter.

1686. Who eligible.

1689. Transcript certificate fees.

1690. Filing transcript, certificate of
judge.

1690a. Court reporters-Salaries.
1690b. Repeal.

1691. Pay of reporter, illegal fees.
1692. Laws repealed.

[Acts 1921, p. 187. In force May 31, 1921.]

1650a. Salary of judges.-1. The salary of each judge of the circuit, superior, criminal, probate and juvenile courts of this state shall be $4,200 annually, payable monthly out of the state treasury: Provided, That in all judicial districts of this state, composed of one county, whether for circuit, superior, criminal, probate or juvenile courts, containing any city which had a population of more than 30,000, as shown by the last preceding United States census, or which contain cities whose aggregate population was more than 60,000 as shown by such census, whenever twenty or more resident freeholders of the county in which such city is, or such cities are, situated shall, by their petition, filed with the board of commissioners of such county, represent that the annual salary of the judge of such circuit, superior, criminal, probate or juvenile court, as otherwise provided by law, is not an adequate compensation for the services of such judge or judges, and should be increased in a sum to be specified in such petition, then it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of such county, in open session, without delay, at any term of such board, to consider such petition and hear the evidence thereon, and thereupon, such board of commissioners may, by entry of record, fix and allow a certain sum as an addition to or increase of the annual salary of the judge or judges of such circuit, superior, criminal, probate or juvenile court, but in no event in excess of the sum of $2,800 or in excess of the sum specified in such petition; no appropriation by the county council shall be required to authorize such allowance or the payment thereof.

1650b. Judges' salary and allowance.-2. In all judicial districts. of this state composed of more than one county, whether for circuit, superior, criminal or probate courts, containing any city which had a population of more than 30,000, as shown by the last preceding United States census, or which contain cities whose aggregate population was more than 60,000, as shown by such census, whenever

twenty or more resident freeholders of any one of such counties shall by their petition filed with the board of commissioners of such county, represent that the annual salary of the judge of such circuit, superior, criminal or probate court, as otherwise provided by law, is not an adequate compensation for such services, then it shall be the duty of such board of commissioners of such county, in open session, without delay at any term of such board, to consider such petition and hear the evidence thereon, and thereupon such board of commissioners may, independently of and without regard to what action may or may not be or has been taken in any other county or counties of said judicial district on a similar petition, by entry of record, fix and allow a sum as an addition to or increase of the annual salary of the judge or judges of such circuit, superior, criminal or probate courts: Provided, however, Such sum shall not be in excess of that proportion of $2,800 that the population of such county bears to the total population of all the counties of such judicial district, and in no event shall be in excess of the sum specified in such petition; no appropriation by the county council shall be required to authorize such allowance or the payment thereof.

1650c. Payment of additional salary of judges.-3. Upon such additional allowance or allowances being made by such board or boards of commissioners, as provided for in sections one (1) or two (2) of this act, the sum so allowed shall be payable only out of the treasury of the county in which any such allowance or allowances may be made, and shall be payable monthly upon warrants drawn by the auditor of such county upon the treasurer thereof, and from and after the date of such allowance by such board the same shall be held as an addition to the annual salary of such judge, as otherwise fixed and provided by law, and shall not be diminished during the term of office of such judge; and any such allowance, and the proceedings of any board of commissioners in relation thereto, if in compliance with the provisions of this act, shall be final and conclusive.

1650d. Application of act.-4. Nothing in this act shall be construed or taken to less [en] or reduce any increase of or addition to the salary of any judge heretofore made payable out of any county treasury under existing law, and any order of any board of commissioners heretofore made and entered, under and by virtue of laws heretofore existing, increasing the salary of any judge or judges, and which increase is payable out of the county treasury, shall continue and remain in full force and effect, under the provisions of this act, until and unless such order is superceded by another order of said board made pursuant to this act increasing the salary or salaries of any such judge or judges.

1650e. Repeal.-5. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

1651. Salaries of circuit and superior court judges.

This section, being the act of 1907, fixing the salaries to be paid by the state to circuit and superior court judges, repealed the act of 1903, making an allow ance to such judges for traveling expenses. State ex rel. v. Billheimer, 178 Ind. 83, 96 N. E. 801.

1658. Term prolonged to finish trial.

If a case is on trial when the term of the court ends by limitation of law, such term is extended until the trial is completed. Moerecke v. Bryan, 183 Ind. 591, 108 N. E. 948.

1668. Grand and petit, how drawn.

See notes to sections 544a, 2065.

[Acts 1917, p. 688. In force May 31, 1917.]

1674. (1458.) Qualifications of jurors.-9. To be qualified as a juror, either grand or petit, a person must be a resident voter of the county, and a freeholder or householder. Any person shall be excused from acting as a juror who is over sixty years of age and desires to be excused for such reason.

This act amends section 1674 of the Revised Statutes of 1914.

[Acts 1921, p. 396. In force May 31, 1921.]

1684a. Chief clerk of the court, salary.-1. The judge of the circuit court and the judge of the criminal court, respectively, in counties having a population of 300,000 or more according to the last preceding United States census, may appoint in each of said courts, a chief clerk whose salary shall be fixed by said judge and which salary shall not be in excess of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, the same to be paid out of the county treasury. 1684b. Repeal.-2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. are hereby repealed.

This section has been declared unconstitutional. Huffman v. Thompson, 177 Ind. 366, 98 N. E. 113; Bottorff v. Bottorff, Ind., 129 N. E. 478. [Acts 1921, p. 177. In force May 31, 1921.]

1690a.

Court reporters-Salaries.-1. The salary of the official court reporters shall be fixed by the judges of the respective courts

with the approval of the board of county commissioners and shall be payable monthly on the last day of each calendar month out of the county treasury, which salary shall be certified, audited and paid in like manner as provided by law for the payment of county officers attending upon courts.

1690b.

Repeal.-2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

See section 1691.

[Acts 1919, p. 111. In force May 15, 1919.]

1691. Pay of reporter, illegal fees.-7. The compensation of such official reporter shall be as follows: He shall be allowed a compensation of not more than five dollars ($5.00) per day for each day required by such judge to be in attendance upon the court as such official reporter: Provided, That in lieu of such per diem, the judge of any such court may fix the annual salary of such official reporter not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, which shall be paid in equal monthly installments out of the county treasury, in like manner as is provided by law for the payment of other officers for attendance upon the court, and in case such circuit or district comprises more than one county, the same to be apportioned by the judge among the counties comprising such judicial circuit or district: Provided, further, That in all judicial districts, whether for circuit, probate, criminal or superior courts, composed of one (1) or more counties, one (1) of which counties having a population of more than eighty thousand (80,000) as shown by the last preceding United States census, which judicial districts have more than three (3) judges, the compensation of each of such official reporters shall be eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum, payable out of the county treasury in installments according to the terms of such courts. Such compensation shall be certified, audited and paid in like manner as is provided by law for the payment of other officers for attending upon the court. Such official reporter may also collect as fees ten cents (10c) per folio of one hundred (100) words, for making and furnishing transcripts of his shorthand notes of testimony, to be paid by the party requiring such transcript: Provided, That if any such reporter, appointed and acting under the provisions of this act, shall charge, or charge and receive, or receive any compensation in excess of that provided in this act he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined a sum not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).

This section amends section 1691 Revision of 1914. See section 1690b. 1692.

Laws repealed.

This section does not repeal section 657, Revised Statutes of 1914, Acts 1897, p. 244. Adams v. State, 156 Ind. 596, 59 N. E. 24.