Senate Officers and Employes-Per Diem.

SEC. 3. The senate shall elect a secretary, assistant secretary and principal doorkeeper, whose pay each shall be six dollars ($6). per day. The appointment of any employes 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-first general assembly, in conformity with senate rule 55, are hereby legalized.

House Officers and Employes-Per Diem.

SEC. 4. The house of representatives shall elect a principal clerk, assistant clerk and principal doorkeeper whose pay, each, shall be six dollars ($6) per day. The appointment of any employes 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, employes 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 employes 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, employes 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 All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.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 granting women citizens the right to vote for presidential electors; and providing for their registration.

[H. 63. Approved February 6, 1919.]

Qualification of Women Voters.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That all women citizens of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the state during the six months, and in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty day's immediately preceding any presidential election, shall be entitled to vote at such election for presidential electors, subject to the provisions of law regulating the votes of male electors, if they shall have been duly registered according to law.

Separate Ballots and Ballot Boxes.

SEC. 2. Separate ballot boxes and ballots shall be provided for women citizens in each election precinct, which ballots shall contain the names of the candidates for presidential electors who are to be voted for, and the ballots cast by women citizens shall be canvassed with the other ballots cast for presidential electors.

Separate Registration.

SEC. 3. Prior to any presidential election for which male voters are required to register, women citizens shall also register in the same place and manner as male voters, provision being made for women citizens to register separately by those whose duty it is to provide for registration of male voters.

CHAPTER 3.

AN ACT concerning common school corporations in cities of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants.

[H. 4. Approved February 10, 1919.]

Tuition Tax Levy in Cities of More Than 100,000 Inhabitants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That the board of school commissioners of the common school corporation of each city of this state having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) according to the last preceding United States census, shall, as respects the levy of taxes by it, and in addition to all tax-levying power now possessed by it, have power to levy annually, on each one hundred dollars ($100). of taxable property within the civil city in which such school city is located, a sum not exceeding fifty cents (50c), the proceeds of which shall be known as the "local tuition fund," which fund shall be used for the payment of the salaries of teachers, supervisors, superintendents and other persons employed by said school corporation, in its educational department, in conducting its schools, and shall be used for no other purpose.

Powers of Board of School Commissioners.

SEC. 2. The board of school commissioners of any such city as is described in section 1 of this act, in addition to the bond issuing power now possessed by it as authorized by law, shall have power, from time to time as the need may arise, to borrow money and issue the bonds of said school city to be known as "school building bonds," to supply said school city with funds to buy real estate and to erect buildings for school, library or administrative purposes and to enlarge, remodel and repair school, library and other buildings, or for any one or more of said purposes, but the proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be used for no purpose other than one or more of said above mentioned purposes.

It shall also have power, from time to time as the occasion may arise, to issue the bonds of said school city, to be known as "school funding bonds," to take up and retire the principal and accrued interest of any bonds of said

school city then outstanding which, in the opinion of the board of school commissioners thereof, can, to the advantage of said school city be refunded, and no "school funding bond" shall be issued or the proceeds thereof used for any purpose other than to refund or take up and discharge bonds of said school city then outstanding.

Preparatory to the issuance of any bond, under the authority hereby given, the board of school commissioners of said school city shall, by resolution, made a matter of record in its corporate minutes, show, in the case of "school building bonds," the particular need for the money and the inability of the school city to supply the money proposed to be raised by the bonds so to be issued, from any other fund in its hands applicable to such purpose, and, in the case of "school funding bonds," a description of the bonds to be taken up, their kind, date, date of maturity, and amount. Any bonds issued under authority of this section shall bear interest at not more than a rate of five per cent (5%) per annum, interest payable semi-annually, and shall mature at such time or times as shall be fixed in said resolution. No bond so to be issued shall be delivered until the price therefor shall be paid to the treasurer of said school city, in money or in bonds to be refunded, as the case may be, and no interest shall accrue thereon before such delivery. Such bonds shall be payable to bearer and shall be of the general form usual in municipal bonds. Preparatory to offering any such bonds for sale, the board of school commissioners shall give three weeks' notice of the date fixed for the sale of such bonds with a description thereof and inviting bids therefor; such notice shall be given by advertising by three insertions, one time each week, for three (3) consecutive weeks next before the day of sale in one (1) newspaper of general circulation published in and circulating in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, and in one (1) newspaper of general circulation published in and circulating in the city of New York, and by such other advertisements as the said board may make. The board shall sell the bonds to the highest and best bidder and shall reserve the right to reject any or all bids. The proceeds arising from such sale shall be used for no purpose other than the purpose declared in the resolution

of the board nor for a purpose not mentioned in this section.

Transfer of Funds.

SEC. 3. If any' such school city shall, at the end of any fiscal year thereof, have in any fund owned by such school city, other than the tuition fund or "local tuition fund," an unexpended balance, the proceeds of taxation, such balance may, by a resolution of its board of school commissioners, entered in its minutes, be transferred into and added to said school city's special fund and be used by such school city for any purpose for which its special fund may lawfully be used.

Temporary Loans.

SEC. 4. The board of school commissioners of any such school city, as is described in section 1 of this act, may, from time to time, whenever its "special fund" for the support of its schools shall be exhausted or, in the board's judgment, be in danger of exhaustion, make temporary loans, for the use of said special fund in the support of such schools, to be paid out of the proceeds of taxes levied by such school city for its special fund. Any amount so borrowed shall be paid into said "special fund” and may be used for any purpose for which the "special fund" may lawfully be used. Any such temporary loan shall be evidenced by the promissory note or notes of said school city; shall bear interest at not more than the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, interest payable at the maturity of the note or periodically, as the note may express; shall mature at such time or times as the board of school commissioners may decide, but not later than one (1) year from their date, and no new or other temporary loan, made in pursuance of this section, shall be made while any temporary loan made under the authority of this section shall be, in whole or in part, unpaid. No such loan made in any calendar year shall be for a sum greater than one-third (1-3) of the amount estimated by said board as the proceeds, collected or to be collected, in the calendar year in which the loan is made of a levy of taxes theretofore made by said school city for its said "special fund."

No such temporary loan shall be made until notice asking