NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Bills for acts of the General numbered and titled to the following effect were introduced and read the first time:
By Mr. BIRD, [H. R. 208] to protect young pigs from foxes and wild cats. [Every person killing a fox or wild cat shall receive a premium of $2.] It was passed to the second reading.
By Mr. PEELLE, [H. R. 209] to authorize canal companies, which have ceased to be used for purposes of navigation, to lease to hydraulic page: 149[View Page 149] companies said canals, or parts thereof, and authorizing hydraulic companies to control the same, requiring them to be kept in repair, and to fulfill leases made by the State or canal companies. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
By Mr. MOORE, [H. R. 210] to amend section twelve of the Common School law, approved March 6, 1865. [Increasing the school tax from twenty-five to fifty cents on each $100 worth of taxable property.] Referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. SHUEY, [H. R. 211] authorizing the Hydraulic Companies to appropriate lands to their use upon paying the assessed value thereof, and providing for such assessment. It was passed to the second reading.
By Mr. WOLFLIN, [H. R. 212] to repeal a portion of the 41st section of an act to repeal all laws, now in force, for incorporation of cities, etc., approved December 20, 1865 [Repeals so much of said section "as prohibits cities and incorporated towns thereunder from taxing more than five acres of farming land within such cities."] It was referred to the Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. WASON, [H. R. 213,] to amend sections one and four of the act to provide for a general system of common schools, &c., approved March 6, 1865. [Increasing the tax from 16 to 20 cents on each $100 of taxable property for supporting common schools, and striking from the law the following words: "Provided, however, that the taxes aforesaid shall not be levied and collected from negroes or mulattoes." Amends section four by adding the following: "A school trustee shall be triennially elected in each township to perform all the school duties now required of the township trustee by the school law. The term of office to begin and end with the first Wednesday after the first Monday in June."] It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. CAMPBELL, [H. R. 214] creating, establishing and providing for the maintenance of four colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts. [To be located, one at each of the following places, viz: Indianapolis, Crawfordsville, Greencastle and Bloomingion.] It was referred to the Committee on Agricultural Colleges.
By Mr. LOPP, [H. R. 215] to exempt soldiers and the widows and children of soldiers who were in the service of the United States, during the late rebellion, and who are or may be on the pension rolls of the United States, from poll tax, and from tax on property, when the amount of taxable property of such soldier, widow or child shall not exceed one thousand dollars of assessed value. It was referred to the Committee on Rights and Privileges.
By Mr. McCLASKEY, [H. R. 216] discharging the tax payers of Montgomery county, in the State of Indiana, from liability in the case of a judgment rendered in favor of the State against William H. Schooler, Treasurer of said county. [$38,441 69, with interest thereon. The Treasurer became a, defaulter during the year 1863.] It was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. WOODS, [H. R. 217] concerning tax sales, and to limit the time within which actions may be brought to set aside, vacate or annul such sales or deeds made in pursuance thereof, or to recover possession of real estate sold. Passed to the second reading.
By Mr. WOODS, [H. R. 218] to regulate the taxation of costs in certain cases. [That in actions upon money demands or contracts, commenced in the Circuit Court, or Court of Common Pleas, wherein any part of the relief prayed and granted shall be the enforcement of a mechanic's lien, mortgage or other lien, or of any other relief not within the jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace to grant, the plaintiff recovering judgment shall recover costs, though his demand be less than fifty dollars.] Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
