[Acts July special session 1920, p. 66. In force July 26, 1920.] 9604a. Legal notices, printers' rates.-1. That the cost of all advertising growing out of any duty of any county, township, city, town or school officer, or any executor, administrator, guardian, trustee or assignee shall be, by such officer, charged up, collected, and paid over to the printer. And when such printing is done for any county, township, city, town or school corporation the proper officer shall have the claim allowed and shall pay the same from the proper fund out of the public treasury, according to the rate herein fixed, except that claims for publishing notices of petitions for the improvement or construction of roads, drainage or other improvements by taxation, shall be paid out of the general fund of the county and the county shall be reimbursed for such payments from the funds derived from the sale of bonds for the improvement or construction of the several roads for which notices are published. The compensation for such publisher for such advertising shall be as herein set forth, to-wit: For the publication of all claims or allowances by any officer or board, for each item, ten cents (10c) for one insertion; for the publication of delinquent tax notices, thirty cents (30c) for each description to each newspaper for all insertions required; for the publication of all annual reports where detail of receipts and disbursements are to be shown, ten cents (10c) for each item for one insertion; for the county treasurer's annual tax levy, for rule and figure work contained therein, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for the first insertion per square of two hundred and fifty (250) ems, and for other matter contained therein, and all other advertisements and notices to be published as required by law, for each square of two hundred and fifty (250) ems, one dollar ($1) per square for first insertion and fifty cents (50) per square for each additional insertion required: Provided, That all advertisements shall be set in solid type not larger than the type used in the regular reading matter in said paper, without any leads or other devices for increasing the space, except as hereinafter provided; and said advertisement shall be set without more than two

(2) lines of display matter to each advertisement, neither of which display lines shall occupy more than four (4) solid lines of the type in which the body of the advertising is set: Provided, further, That in all publications required by law where payment is made to newspapers by items it shall be legal in all cases for newspapers to charge by the square for all heads and tails of such notices, said head and tail to be set in compliance with forms prescribed by the state board of accounts.

9604b. Number of insertions, posting notices.-2. All publications except that of annual reports of township trustees, school boards, boards of county commissioners and civil cities and towns (which publications shall be made one time only), shall be published as now required by law unless otherwise provided for in this act, except that no publication shall be made fewer than two (2) insertions one week apart. In case any officer charged with the duty of publishing any notice required by law shall be unable to procure such advertisement at the price herein fixed, it shall be sufficient for him to post up such written or printed notices as the law required, and such advertisement in newspaper shall be dispensed with.

9604c. Annual reports, city clerk, secretary of school city or town.. -3. Within thirty (30) days after the expiration of each calendar year, it shall be the duty of the clerk (or controller) of each civil city and town in the State of Indiana, to publish, in conformity with this act, an annual report of receipts and expenditures of said city or town, showing the same by funds and appropriations, as is now provided for by boards of county commissioners. Within thirty (30) days after the close of each school year it shall be the duty of the secretary of each school city or town in the State of Indiana, to publish in conformity with this act, an annual report of the receipts and expenditures of said school city or town for school purposes, the same as is now required of township trustees, except that payments made to teachers, janitors, and other regular employees shall be shown in said report in the total amount paid to each person during the said school year. In such annual report common school corporations in cities of the first and second class, need show only the total amount of each such appropriation actually expended without giving the names of the persons to whom payment was made and school cities of said two classes shall, in their published report, state that the vouchers and bills for all payments are in their possession and open to public inspection.

9604d. Publication in two newspapers or posting notices.-4. In all cases where county, township, city, town, and school officials are required by law to publish notices and reports affecting county, town

ship, city, town and school business respectively, in the public newspaper, said officials are hereby required to publish said notices and reports in two newspapers representing the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last preceding general election, published in said county, township, city or town. In case there are not published in said county, township, city or town, newspapers representing two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last preceding general election, then in that case one of such notices shall be published in any newspaper of general circulation within said county, township, town or city. If there be only one newspaper published in said township, city or town, all such notices shall be published in said newspaper and also in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county, representing a different political party, if there be such newspaper, otherwise said notice to be published in any newspaper published in the county. If there be no newspaper published in said city or town, sufficient notice may be given by posting a copy of such notice in each of three places within said city. or town, one of which places shall be at or near the meeting place of the board by which the allowance of such claims are to be made, and one of which places shall be at the post office or bank in said city or town, or such notice may be published in a newspaper of general circulation, circulating in said township, city or town, and published within said county: Provided, That in cities or counties of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) population, and in townships in any such counties, it shall be legal to publish any such notice or notices or report in any daily newspaper of general circulation published in such county or city.

9604e. Notices of sale of bonds or letting of contracts.-5. In all cases where notice of the sale of bonds or the letting of a contract, by any county, township, school corporation, civil city or town is now required to be given by publication of newspapers of general circulation, said notices shall, in addition to all notices required to be given within the county, be published one time in a newspaper published in the city of Indianapolis, said notice to be given at least one week prior to the date fixed for the letting of such contract, or the sale of said bonds: Provided, That in all cases where the estimated cost of construction under any proposed contract is less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and in all cases where the amount of any bond issue is less than two thousand dollars ($2,000), said additional notices need not be given: And provided further, That all such notices shall, in cases of awarding contracts, contain a statement of the estimated cost of such work, the nature thereof, and the time and place of said letting, and in the case of bond issues, shall state the purpose for

which issued, the total amount thereof, the time and place of sale, and the time and place of payment of such bonds, and the rate of interest thereon.

9604f. Notices published by state officer, board, commission or institution.-6. In all cases where notices are required by law to be published in the public newspaper by or under the supervision of any state officer, board, commission or institution of the State of Indiana, said notices are hereby required to be published in each of two daily newspapers published in the city of Indianapolis, and in such other cities as is now required by law, said notices to be in all cases published in two newspapers in each city where they are required to be published. In all cases where the officer, board, commission or institution making said publication is located outside of the city of Indianapolis, said notices shall also be published in newspapers published within the county where said officer, board, commission or institution maintains its office. The rate charged for all such notices and advertising shall be the same as is set out in section 1 of this act.

9604g. Publication of notices in daily or weekly newspapers.-7. In all cases where the law now provides for the publication of notices in any newspaper, it shall hereafter be legal to make such publication in either a daily, weekly, semi-weekly newspaper, provided that such publication, if made in a daily or semi-weekly newspaper shall be published once a week for the same period and time as now required by law, and it shall be made on the same day of each week.

Section 8 of the above act repeals all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith. Section 9 of the above act provides that the act take effect from and after its passage.

[Acts 1921, p. 6. In force February 7, 1921.] WHEREAS, The said act was approved on July 26th, 1920, with an emergency, and said acts were not published and distributed over this state for several months afterwards, and that notices have been. given in good faith and proceedings had and held under same in good faith without actual knowledge of the existence or requirements of said act and confusion in such notices and proceedings by reason thereof arises therein, therefore

9604h. Notices legalized.-1. All public notices given and all proceedings and acts held or had thereunder, given, made and done since the 26th day of July, 1920, to the time of the passage of this act, where such notices, proceedings and acts were not in strict conformity with the provisions of the said act of the general assembly, approved on said 26th day of July, 1920, in H. B. 508, chapter 23, page 66, Acts of Special Session 1920, and where such notices were given in substantial compliance with the requirements of the law therefor existing

prior to the passage of said act, are hereby legalized, and declared to be legal and valid.

Section 2 of the above act provides that the act be in force and effect from and after its passage.

The title of this act is to legalize notices and proceedings and acts thereunder since the passage of the act 1920, p. 66, being sections 9604a to 9604g inclusive. [Acts 1921, p. 12. In force February 9, 1921.]

96041. Bond issues legalized.-1. In all cases where cities, towns, boards of commissioners, school corporations, boards of school trustees, of school townships in the State of Indiana, have heretofore, in good faith, issued and sold bonds with the authority and approval of the state board of tax commissioners, and have received the purchase money therefor, but where the notice of the sale of such bonds has not been printed in a newspaper published in Indianapolis, Indiana, or has otherwise not been given in full compliance with the law, or where the notice of the hearing before the state board of tax commissioners upon the petition for authority to issue and sell such bonds has not been given to tax payers affected in the manner required by law, such bonds are hereby legalized and declared valid to the same extent as though the notice of the sale thereof or the notice of such hearing before the state board of tax commissioners had been given in full compliance with the laws thereto pertaining, Provided That nothing in this act shall affect pending litigation.

Section 2 of the above act provides that the act be in force from and after its passage. 9627.

Saturdays, closing offices at noon.

The holidays mentioned in this section are not to be excluded in computing the time for perfecting appeals. Board of Comrs. v. Tincher Motor etc. Co., 49 App. 221, 97 N. E. 22.

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ARTICLE 35.-IMPEACHMENT OF OFFICERS.

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9646. Judges and prosecutors, removal. 9662. Malfeasance, accusation, hearing, judgment.

9646. Judges and prosecutors, removal.

If a judge of a circuit court is convicted of a high crime in a federal court, the attorney-general of the state may institute a proceeding in the Supreme Court for his removal from office, and the pending of an appeal from such judgment does not deprive the Supreme Court of jurisdiction in the case. State v. Redman, 183 Ind. 332, 109 N. E. 184.

9662. Malfeasance, accusation, hearing, judgment.

The statute providing for the removal of officers for neglect of duty does not apply to the removal of prosecuting attorneys. State v. Patterson, 181 Ind. 660, 105 N. E. 228.

This section does not apply to the removal of municipal corporation officers from office, as the statute providing for the government of such corporations makes provisions for the removal of such officers. State ex rel. v. Schlicker, 55 App. 318,

103 N. E. 807.