used as meeting places for such organization, when not being used for their prime purpose, shall provide, free of charge, light, heat and janitor service, where necessary, and shall make such other provisions as may be necessary for the free and convenient use of such building or grounds, by such organization for weekly, biweekly or monthly gatherings at such times as the citizens' organization shall request or designate.

Control of School Board.

SEC. 3. The school board or other board having charge of the school houses or other public properties, may provide for the free and gratuitous use of the school houses or other public properties under their charge for such other civic, social and recreational activities, as in their opinion do not interfere with the prime use of the buildings or properties.

Responsibility for Damages.

SEC. 4. The person or persons making application for the use of a school house or other public property for public meetings, shall be responsible for all damage to the property occurring at such meetings, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and upon failure of the responsible person or persons to respond in damages for any such injury to the property, the school board or other board in charge of the school house or other public property, may refuse all future applications for the wider use of the property until such injury is repaired, without expense to the board in charge of the property.

Repeal.

SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with any provisions of this act are repealed in so far as they are inconsistent therewith.

Emergency.

SEC. 6. 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.

[H. 339. Approved March 10, 1913.]

Schools-Arbor Day-Fixing Date.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That for the purpose of encourging the planting of shade and forest trees, shrubs and vines, the third Friday of April in each year is hereby designated as a day for general observance and to be known as Arbor Day.

Proclamation.

SEC. 2. The governor shall make proclamation of said day in each year at least thirty days prior thereto.

School Exercises.

SEC. 3. Appropriate exercises shall be introduced in all the schools of the state; and it shall be the duty of the several county and city superintendents to prepare a program of exercises for that day to be observed in all the schools under their respective jurisdictions. The exercises on arbor day shall give due honor to the conservors of forestry, and the founders of the study and conservation of Indiana forestry. And especially to the leading spirit of Indiana forestry conservation, Charles Warren Fairbanks.

Repeal.

SEC. 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

[S. 449. Approved March 12, 1913. Page 556.]

State Fire Marshal-Schools-Teachers-Compulsory Fire Drill.

SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the state fire marshal, his deputies and assistants to require teachers of public and private schools and educational institutions to have one fire drill each month and to keep all doors and exits unlocked during school hours.

Penalty.

SEC. 15. Any officer referred to in this act who neglects to comply with any of the requirements hereof shall be guil

ty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, for each neglect or violation and in default of the payment thereof shall be imprisoned not to exceed thirty days.

Fines Paid to State Treasurer.

SEC. 16. All penalties, fees or forfeitures collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the treasury of the state for the benefit of the state fire marshal fund.

[S. 171. Approved March 14, 1913.]

Rats-Extermination-Teaching Hygiene in Schools. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, company or corporation owning, leas ing, occupying, possessing or having charge of any land, place, building, structure, stacks or quantities of wood, hay, corn, wheat or other grains or materials, or any vessel or water craft, to permit the same to become rat infested, and it shall be the duty of any such person, firm, copartnership, company, or corporation, upon any knowledge or notice, to at once proceed and to continue in good faith to endeavor to exterminate and destroy such rats by poisoning, trapping and other appropriate means, such as may be suggested by the state board of health or the local health officers. And it shall be the duty of the trustees of the several townships and the boards of school trustees of the several cities and towns in the state, to make provisions in the public schools under their jurisdiction for the illustrative teaching of the anatomy, physiology and hygiene of the human system; the effects of alcohol and nicotine; the cause and course of consumption; the dissemination of diseases by rats, flies and mosquitoes and the effects thereof, and the prevention of diseases by the proper selection and consumption of food.

State Board of Health-Inspectors-Duties.

SEC. 2. The state board of health and inspectors appointed by such board and local health officers and inspectors appointed for the purpose, as hereinafter provided, shall

have authority and shall be permitted to enter into and upon all lands, places, buildings, structures, vessel or water craft for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are in fested with rats and whether the requirements of this act as to extermination and destruction thereof are being com plied with: Provided, That no building occupied as a dwelling, hotel or rooming house shall be entered for such purpose except between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon of any day.

Appropriation-County Commissioners.

SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners, with the consent of the county council, of each county, and the town board of any town or the common council of any city, whenever it may by resolution determine that it is necessary for the preservation of the public health or to prevent the spread of contagious or infectious disease, communicable to mankind, or when such board shall so determine that it is necessary to prevent great damage to crops, grain, food or other property, may appropriate moneys for the purchase of, and may purchase, poison, traps and other materials for the purpose of eliminating and destroying rats in such county, town or city, and may employ and pay inspectors, who shall have authority to and shall prosecute such work of extermination and destruction under the direction of such board or the local health officer, or board of health, on both private and public property, in such county, town or city, and such inspectors shall have authority, when necessary, to carry out the provisions of this act, to dig into the ground, to remove parts of floors, walls or other parts of buildings or structures, or to remove, from one place to another on the premises, any other property when reasonably necessary to do so: Provided, That such inspector or inspectors, after taking the necessary steps for the discovery and destruction of rats on any premises, shall restore the said premises, as far as may be reasonably practicable, to the condition in which the same were found.

Expense of Extermination-Lien.

SEC. 4. Whenever any person, firm, copartnership, company or corporation owning, leasing, occupying, possessing

or having charge of any land, place, building, structure, stacks or quantities of wood, hay, corn, wheat or other grains or materials, or any vessel or water craft, which is infested with rats, shall fail, neglect or refuse to proceed and continue to endeavor to exterminate and destroy such rats, as herein required, it shall be the duty of the state board of health, or its inspectors, and the local health officer, or the local board of health, or its inspectors, at once to cause such nuisance to be abated by exterminating and destroying such rats.

The expense thereof shall be a charge against the county, town or city which has, by its board or council ordered such destruction or extermination of rats, and such board or council shall allow and pay the same.

When such destruction of rats is ordered by the town board or city council, the clerk of such town or city shall at once file with the county auditor a certified statement of the expense of such extermination and in any such case the county auditor shall charge the amount so expended for destroying rats, as aforesaid, against the property on which said nuisance shall have been abated, and the same shall be collected as other taxes are now collected, and when so collected shall be paid to said county, town or city to reimburse it for the amount so paid out for the destruction of rats, as aforesaid.

"Rat Day"-Proclamation.

SEC. 5. The governor may annually, in the spring, designate by official proclamation, a day to be designated as "rat day," to be observed throughout the state as a day for exterminating and destroying rats about the homes and premises and public buildings and all other places, thus preventing the dissemination of disease and the destruction of property.

Rights of Officers.

SEC. 6. Any health officer or any inspector appointed under the provisions of this act shall have the right, without a warrant to enter upon or into any land, place, building, structure or premises suspected of being rat infested for the discovery or destruction of rats, and any person or