INSPECTION-Continued. Inspector failing to prosecute offenders..... Adulteration of oil................ Failing to inspect oil on demand..... False branding barrels or filling with uninspected oil... Using oil on cars or boats that will not stand tests required.. INSURANCE: Fraud in procuring policy of insurance....... Violating provisions of foreign insurance law.. LABORERS: SEC. 7004 7005 7006 7007 7008 7013 7034 4905 4924 4950 Violation of act providing what shall be a day's labor......... False estimate by engineer, or neglect of duty as to drainage of lands......... 7199 7146 Failing to keep opening of shaft covered or fenced.................... 7438 Injuring or interfering with appliances so as to endanger life or health 7439 7446 Violating act of 1879 regulating the operation of mines........ 7456 Use of incorrect scales in weighing coal..... 7458 Failure to provide and use accurate scales in weighing coal....... 7463 Failure to weigh coal before screened and to supply timbers for mines........ Violating act of 1891 regulating the transportation and pumping of natural gas........ ..... 7508 Violating act of 1893 in reference to the escaping of natural gas or oil and the plugging of wells........... 7511 OFFICES AND OFFICERS. SEC. Failure of officers to perform duties relating to arrest of defendants who do not pay fines at the expiration of stay of execution .... 1934 Appointment of deputies who are not residents of the state, and acting as Failure of persons to answer questions, or make returns to the bureau of statistics......... 7769 Custodian of public buildings having interest in contracts involving expenditure by state 7787 Treasurer of county failing to keep office at proper place..... 7996 Notaries public violating law regulating duties......... 8042 Officers failing to file new bonds after destruction of bond.................... 1276 Refusal to transfer prisoner from jail to work-house when required................................ 8332 RAILROAD COMPANIES. Failing to keep flagmen at highway crossings when required............. Agents of railroad companies failing to obey order of court in reference to payment for animals killed......... 5319 Failure to furnish information as to contents of records, to applicants......... 8355, Withholding or destroying commissions or discharge papers of soldiers or sailors........... 8357 Defacing soldiers' and sailors' monument at Indianapolis................. 8364 Breaking or removing any part of such monument or fountains in Monument Place.......... 8365 TAXATION: False oath of person claiming to have no property...... SEC. 8454 Refusal to give evidence to assessor or to take proper oaths when required... 8466 Disobeying process issued by state board of tax commissioners..... False swearing, when perjury.... False assessment by officers...... TOWNS: TRADE MARKS: 8541 8672 8673 8674 Riding or driving on sidewalks of towns....... .4398-4399 Filling marked or labeled bottles without consent of owner.... 8678 Issuing false receipts as to goods, and unlawful removal of goods......... WATER-COURSE: Obstructing navigable water-courses......... 8716 8727 7887 [1881 S., p. 423. In force September 19, 1881.] 2365. (2217.) Circuit courts have.-1. The circuit courts of this state shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all matters relating to the probate and contest of last wills and testaments, the granting of letters testamentary and of administration, and the settlement and distribution of decedents' estates. The court granting the letters shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all matters touching the settlement and distribution of the estate whereon said letters shall have been granted. Courts having probate jurisdiction have exclusive control of all matters pertaining to the settlement of decedents' estates. Hiatt v. Hiatt, 30 Ind. 190. Justices of the peace have no jurisdiction of suits against executors or administrators. Palmer v. Fuller, 22 Ind. 115. Since the abolition of the common pleas courts, the circuit courts have had exclusive jurisdiction of all matters relating to the settlement of decedents' estates. Heaton v. Knowlton, 65 Ind. 255; Williams v. Perrin, 73 Ind. 57; Hillenberg v. Bennett, 88 Ind. 540. 2366. (2218.) Clerk to act in vacation.-2. For the purpose of granting probate of wills, issuing letters testamentary and of adminis tration, filing reports, accounts, and petitions of executors and administrators, filing claims against the estates and issuing process and notices required by this act, the clerks of the circuit courts shall keep the courts open in the vacation thereof; and such business done by a clerk shall be subject to the supervision of the court at the next ensuing term. 2367. (2219.) Vacation orders and entries.-3. The judges of the circuit courts shall have power, throughout their respective jurisdictions, to make orders in vacation for the sale of personal property at private vendue; for the compounding of debts; for the settlement of an estate as insolvent; for the execution of additional bonds, and such other orders of an ex parte nature as may facilitate the settlement of estates. Such orders shall be in writing, signed by the judge, and shall be, by the clerk, filed and recorded as a vacation entry in the proper record. Section 2220 of R. S. 1881, being section 4 of act of April, 1881, was repealed by section 35 of act of March, 1883, Acts 1883, p. 164; Elliott Supp., section 415. 2368. (2221.) Records and books.-5. All proceedings touching the probate of wills, and settlement of decedents' estates, shall be recorded in separate books, kept for that purpose: Provided, That proceedings touching the guardianship of infants and insane persons may be recorded therein. The clerk of each circuit court shall also keep, in his office, a book for the recording of wills, and probate thereof; a book in which he shall record all letters testamentary and of administration, within ten days after the same are issued; a book in which he shall record, in ten days after the same are filed, all bonds of executors and administrators; a book in which he shall record all inventories and sale bills of personal estate[s], within thirty days after the same are filed; a general entry, claim and allowance docket combined, and a fee book. He shall also keep a final record book, in which he shall, upon the order of the court, or request of a party in interest, but not otherwise, enter complete record of any matter or proceeding in the administration of an estate, and the cost thereof, if ordered by the court, shall be taxed as cost against the estate; or, if such complete record be made at the request of a party in interest, then the cost thereof shall be paid by him and charged to the estate, and in advance, if required by the clerk. (As amended, Acts 1883, p. 151. Elliott Supp., section 381. In force March 7, 1883.) [Acts 1891, p. 344. In force March 7, 1891.] 2369. Probate commissioner - Appointment - Salary.-1. In all counties of this state containing a voting population of over 30,000, as shown by the vote cast for secretary of state at the last preceding election, the judge of the circuit court of each of said counties, when he shall find that the probate business of his court requires it, and that the interest of minor heirs and other beneficiaries of estates, guardianships, or other trusts pending in said court, will be protected and subserved thereby, and that the same is demanded for the proper protec |