NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were read the firs time and passed to the second reading:
By Mr. COLE [H. R. 258]: To amend Section 48 and repeal Section 49 of an act regulating general elections and prescribing the duties of officers in relation thereto, approved June 7, 1852. [Each Inspector, Judge or Clerk shall be allowed the sum of $2 a day for his services, to be paid out of the County Treasury.]
By Mr. COLE [H. R. 259]: To amend Section 11 of an act to enable the owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same when the same can not be done without effecting the land of others, and prescribing the powers and duties of County Boards and other officers in the premises, and to provide for the repair of such drains approved page: 110[View Page 110] March 9, 1875. If no damage or compensation shall have been claimed or no appeal taken from the action of the Board of Commissioners, the viewers shall proceed to make a just and fair estimate of the average cash value of the contracted number of lineal rods and sections of such ditch and apportion the costs, etc.
By Mr. WILSON [H. R. 260]: A bill for an act to provide exclusive jurisdiction to Justices of the Peace in certain misdemeanors. [They shall have exclusive jurisdiction throughout their respective Counties; of all misdemeanors that are punishable by fine only, where the maximum fine does not exceed $25.]
By Mr. WILSON [R. R. 261]: To prevent minors from loitering in saloons. [The proprietor of a saloon allowing any minor to remain in or about the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction fined not less than $10, nor more than $100.]
By Mr. GILMAN [H. R. 262]: To amend Section 19 of the fee and salary act of March 31, 1879. [In relation to Clerk's fees.]
By Mr. SCHWEITZER [H. R. 263]: To amend Section 253 of the general practice act, approved June 18, 1852. [Conceraning the taking of depositions.]
A message from the Senate by Chas. W. Brouse, Secretary thereof, announced th passage by that body of the following concurrent resolution:
Resolved, That the Senate, the House concurring, that the sympathies of the people of Indiana are with the masses of the people of Ireland in their present legal struggle to reform the of land laws at present existing in that country.
By Mr. TAYLOR, of Noble [H. R. 264]; To amend the act, concerning married women, of March 25, 1879, by adding an additional section requiring a married woman to be subject to the same liability for paying taxes as if she were unmarried.
By Mr. TAYLOR, of Nobel, [H. R. 265]: To amend Sections 197, 204, 229, 230 and 281 of the general assessment and valuation act of December 21, 1872. [In relation to delinquent tax sales; description of property.]
By Mr. GILLUM [H. R. 266]: To amend Section 1 of the act of May 14, 1869, to provide for the construction and repair of any bridge forming a boundary line between two Counties.
