OF THE State of Indiana FOR THE YEAR 1919 Compiled and Published under the Direction of JAMES P. GOODRICH GOVERNOR 、 BY THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU CHARLES KETTLEBOROUGH, Director FORT WAYNE PRINTING COMPANY INTRODUCTION The Indiana Year Book was provided for and established by an act approved February 24, 1917, and is compiled, published and distributed under the direction of the Governor by the Legislative Reference Bureau. The Year Book is designed to present in a concise and compact form the essential parts of the annual official reports of all of the state offices, boards, commissions, departments, bureaus and institutions, except the educational, benevolent and correctional institutions, whose official reports are issued separately, together with selected information, data and statistics concerning the State of Indiana, its people, resources, government, crops and economic and social conditions. Aside from the institutional reports and special departmental bulletins of a technical or scientific character, no official reports or statistical or other state manuals except those herein contained are published. The first volume of the Year Book was issued in 1918, the second in 1919, and the third or present volume, which covers the fiscal year ending September 30, 1919, was issued in 1920. Each office, board, commission, bureau or department maintained wholly or partly by state funds is required to submit a report to the Governor not later than December 1st, setting forth the duties, functions, personnel, expenditures, income and the character and extent of the achievements and activities of the department during the fiscal year last preceding. These reports are then edited and standardized for publication by the Legislative Reference Bureau. In the present volume, these official reports constitute 927 pages and the remainder of the book is devoted to a discussion of local government, including counties, townships, cities and towns, together with such agricultural, economic, financial and social statistics as seem to be of most general importance. As the Year Book is designed as a manual of the state government, it is hoped that copies may be made available to all citizens of the state, and particularly that all public officials, newspapers, libraries, schools and colleges may be amply supplied. Upwards of 18,000 copies of the 1919 Year Book have been issued, and persons who are interested may obtain copies free of charge by applying in person or by mail to the Legislative Reference Bureau, Room 335, State House, Indianapolis. JAMES P. GOODRICH, Governor of the State of Indiana. |