NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Bills for acts of the General Assembly, numbered and titled to the following effect,were introduced, read the first time and referred to the appropriate committees:
By Mr. CARSON, [S. 105] to amend section 5 of an act entitled An act to amend sections two and five of an act entitled An act providing for an organization of Circuit Courts, the election of Judges thereof, and defining their powers and duties, approved June 1,1852; and providing for Criminal and Civil Circuit Courts, approved December 20,1865, [so as to authorize the holding of Criminal Circuit Courts in all counties having eight thousand voters ] It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
By Mr. BONHAM,[S. 106] to amend section13 of an act entitled An Act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in criminal actions of this State, approved June 17,1852. [Amending the rules of procedure in trials so that the Prosecuting Attorney shall open and close the argument.] It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
By Mr. CASON, [S. 107] to invest School Trustees of cities, incorporated towns and townships in their discretion at the same time and in like manner as they levy the special school tax to levy a tax for the purpose of continuing their schools after the school revenues distributed by the State have been expended. It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. BELLAMY, [S. 108] to amend an act entitled An Act for the incorporation of Insurance Companies, defining their powers and presenting their duties, approved June 17,1852. [Amending sections 26 and 55.] It was referred to the Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. CARSON, [S. 109] to amend section five of an act entitled, An act to provide for a general system of common schools, the officers thereof, and their respective powers and duties, and matters properly connected therewith, and prescribing the fees for certain officers thereof named, and for the establishment and regularation of township libraries, and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, providing penalties therein prescribed, approved March 6, 1865; [so as to provide for the election of school trustees in cities and towns by the qualified electors, fixing their compensation at two dollars per day and limiting the same to fifty dollars per year and providing for the election of one of said trustees each year, and prohibiting them from interest in contracts made by them in matters pertaining to their duties.] It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. STAGGS. [S. 110] to repeal An Act to discourage the keeping of useless, sheep-killing dogs, and providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions of said act by officers and others ; and also repealing an act to license dogs, approved March 11, 1861. It was referred to the Committee on Rights and Privileges.
By Mr. KINLEY, [S. 111] authorizing township trustees, trustees of incorporated towns and the Common Council of cities to levy a tax for school purposes, [not exceeding 25 cents each $100 of taxable property, and 25 cents on each taxable poll .] It was referred to the to Committee on Education.
By Mr. PARRISH, [S. 112] declaring what shall be evidence of desertion under the first section of the act of Congress entitled An Act amend the several acts in force heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and the national forces and for other purposes, approved March 3. 1865. ["The certificate of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana that such person in a deserter, as shown by the examination of the records of the office of the Provost Marshal of the proper district."] It was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
By Mr. TERRY, [S. 113] to amend the 647th section, and repeal the 649th section of the General Practice Act, approved June 18, 1852 [ adding these words: "sub-contractors, journeymen, laborers," after the first word (mechanics) in sec- page: 111[View Page 111] tion 647.] It was referred to the Committee on Rights and Privileges.
By Mr. KINLEY, [S. 114] to amend the Common School Law, approved March 6, 1865, and adding supplimental sections thereto. [Amending sections 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 26, 30, 41, 157, 158.] It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. SMITH, [S. 115] to provide by law for draining and tiching low, wet and overflowed lands in the State of Indiana. It was referred to the Committee on Swamp Lands.
By Mr. TERRY, [S. 116] to amend sections 18 and 25 of an act entitled An Act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and the care of the insane of Indiana, approved January 15, 1852. It was referred to the Committee on Benevolent Institutions.
By Mr. KINLEY, [S. 117] to amend sections first and tenth of the common school law. [Striking out the priviso in section one, and striking the word "white" from the tenth section. [It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. NILES, [S. 118] to require clerks of the Courts of Common Pleas to specify by separate items the fees and services for which they may demand payment of executors, administrators or guardians. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
By Mr. THOMPSON, [S. 119] amending the thirteenth section of the act approved June 4, 1861, entitled An Act to provide for the incorporation of street railroad companies. [So that stockholders shall be individually liable only "to the same extent and no greater than stockholders in other railroad companies."] It was referred to the Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. NILES, [S. 120] to amend section 63 of an act defining misdemeanors and prescribing punishment therefor, approved June 14, 1852 [By adding the words "or his deputy," and adding to the punishment, disfranchisement; "and besides the punishment above specified any person injured by such extortion by such officer or his deputy, may sue such officer on his official bond, or otherwise recover the amount or value of the money or other thing of value, together with ten per cent interest thereon from the date the same was so unlawfully received by such officer or his deputy. " It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
By Mr. KINLEY [S. 121], to amend an act to regulate and license the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors ; to prohibit the adulteration of liquors; to repeal all former laws contravening the provisions of this act, and prescribing penalties for violation thereof, of approved March 5, 1859. [Amends Sec. 31 by providing that "Any person over the age of 21 years" may obtain license, on presenting "to the Board of County Commissioners a petition" "signed by a majority of the legal voters of their township in which he wishes to sell," and recites a form of petition. Sec. 4 provides that the bond shall be in the sum of $1,000. Amends Sec. 5 by requiring the seller to pay $100 into the County Treasury for the benefit of Common Schools. Adds these words to sec 9: ''to a minor or to any person in a state of intoxication " the fine in this and the following Section shall not be less than $50 nor more than $100. Section 11 of the old law is omitted. Sec. 11 raises the minimum fine from $50 to $100. Sec. 12 makes the fine for keeping a, disorderly house not less than $100 nor more than $500. Sec. 13 punishes a minor representing himself to be of age, by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $25. Sec. 14 punishes every person found in a state of in toxication.] It was referred to the Committee on Temperance.
By Mr. HANNA, [S. 122] regulating the practice of Dentistry in the State of Indiana. [Practitioners shall not practice after the 1st day of September, 1867, without a diploma from the faculty of a Dental College, &c.] It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. WOLCOTT asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Armstrong, on account of sickness in his family.
Mr. CARSON obtained leave of absence for Mr. Bowman until Wednesday.
By leave, Mr. THOMPSON presented a petition concerning the grading of certain streets, which was referred to the Committee on the Affairs of the town of Indianapolis, without reading.
The bill [H. R. 8] amending seetion 99 of the General Practice Act, approved June 18, 1852, was read the first time and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
