NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time and passed to the second reading as submitted from the Revision Committee:
By Mr. RYAN [H. R. 225]: Concerning elections and the contest thereof. [General elections shall be held binnially on the day now fixed by law. All vacancies s hall be filled within a year unless otherwise provided.]
By Mr RYAN [H. R. 226]: To create a State Board of Pardons. [The Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor of the State shall constitute a Council called the Executive Council,, without whose advice and consent the Governor shall have no power to grant pardons in cases of felony.]
By Mr. RYAN [H. R. 227]: Amending Sections 3, 8, 11; repealing Sections 5, 6, 7, of an act to provide for Electors of President and Vice Presidents of the United States. Approved May 28, 1852, [The Board of Judges shall make out a certificate of the number of votes cast at each election, attested by the Clerk of such election, put into the hands of the inspector, who shall deliver the same to the Clerk of the Circuit Court].
By Mr. LINDSAY [H. R. 228]: Concerning streets and sewers. [For all incorporated cities or towns the Circuit Court shall appoint three, Commissioners, resident free-holders, who shall pass on and issue permits for any resident to open a street or alley, or change a road.]
By Mr. NEFF [H. R. 229]: Concerning high- page: 98[View Page 98] was. [No public highway shall be more than thirty feet wide.]
By Mr. NEFF [H. R. 230] : Concerning the making of improvements on roads and highways. [The Township Trustee with concurrence of County Commissioners shall asses a road tax of not less than five cents or more than twenty cents on the $100 on all property in the Township, to be collected as other taxes. The amount of such taxes may be worked out in the road district where such persons resides.]
By Mr. NEFF [H. R. 231]: Concerning partition fences. [Where controvesy arises in building fence, one of the parties can apply to the County Trustee, who shall dictate how such fence shall be constructed, and the amount of compensation each shall pay to the builder.]
By Mr. KENNER [H. R. 232]: Concerning and amending the act establishing a Bureau of Statistics and Geology. [Shall collection additional information.]
By Mr. KENNER [H. R. 233]: Concerning gaming contracts. [All moneys wagered on bets of any kind, or contracts relating thereto, shall be absolutely void and of no effect].
By Mr. KENNER [H. R. 234]: To amend Section 2 of an act concerning the general fund and the expenditures charged thereon, approved May 13, 1852 and providing for the disposition of the unexpended appropriations. [From the general fund shall be paid the salaries of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General and other State officers, whose salaries are payable by the State. The appropriation not expended shall be credited to the general fund.]
By Mr. CHANDLER [H. R. 235]: Concerning the periodical enumeration of all the male inhabitants of the State over the age of twenty-one years. [In 1883 and every three years thereafter the enumeration shall be instituted and prosecuted by the Trustees of the County.]
By Mr. MILES [H. R. 236]: To amend Section 1 of an act to limit the powers of Trustees of Townships to contract indebtedness, ect., approved March 11, 1875. [The Trustee is prohibited from drawing money, the amount not to exceed the amount on hand, without an order from the County Commissioners authorizing him to do so].
Mr. WRIGHT offered a resolution, which was adopted, that a Committee of five be appointed consisting of three from the House and tow from the Senate to institute an investigation and inquire into the condition of affairs of the House of Refuge at Plainfield, Ind., giving them power to send for persons and papers.
Mr. ADRIAN offered a resolution authorizing the Committee on Benevolent Institutions to have 200 copies of blank forms printed, to be filled out by the County Auditors of the State, which will give the numbers of orphan children in the County Poor House, the number of orphan children supported by the Township Trustees of the County, and the number of Orphan Homes located in each County, and forward such blanks filled out to the Chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Institutions.
It was adopted.
By Mr. GIBSON [H. R. 237]: Concerning landlord and tenant [It changes eight sections of the present law.]
By Mr. LINDSAY [H. R. 238]: Providing for the sale of lands and lots purchase on behalf of the State at Judicial or other sales. [Such land shall be appraised at a fair cash value by two disinterested persons, and must be sold for not less than the appraised value, at a sale made at the Court House of said County.]
Mr. KENNER offered a resolution to the effect that new quarters be obtained for the Engrossing and Enrolling Clerks, and if necessary, a Janitor, whose compensation shall not be to exceed $2 per day.
It was adopted.
The following new propositions were read first time and passed to the second reading:
By Mr. KAIN [H. R. 239]: To legalize the incorporation of the town of Geneva, in the County of Adams and State Of Indiana, and to legalize the official acts of the Board of Trustees in the town of Geneva.
By Mr. JOHNSON[H. R. 240]: To repeal rn act defining certain misdemeanors, and prescribing punishment therefor.
By Mr. JOHNSON [H. R. 241]: To amend SEctions 1 and 2 of an act legalzing the assessment, equalization, levy and collection of municipal taxes for the years 1873 and 1874. Approved March 11, 1875.
By Mr. VAWTER [H. R. 242] For the relief of Joel S. Davis, and authorizing the refunding to him of certain damages paid by him into the treasury of Bartholomew County. [Amount, $989.02]
By Mr. CAUTHORNE [H. R. 243]: To amend Section 9 of an supplementary to and act to provide for the election, fixing the compensation and prescribing the duties of the Attorney General of the State of Indiana, approved February 31, 1855, and repealing an act to amend Sections 4 and 7 of an act to provide for the election, fixing the compensation and prescribing the duties of the Attorney General, approved June 3, 1861, and prescribing additional duties of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts and District Attorneys. approved March 10, 1873.
Mr. O'BRIEN offered a concurrent resolution that the House of Representatives, with the concurrence of the Senate, respectfully request our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their influence towards the enactment of such laws for the regulation of freight and passenger rates on all railroad lines as shall be just and equitable to all parties concerned.
It was odopted.
By Mr. FRAZER [H. R. 244]: To amend Section 7 an act approved December 31, 1872, to provide for the uniform assessment of property and for the collection and return of taxes thereon. [All property for religious worship, schools, city government, and fire-extinguishing machines, etc., are exempted.]
Mr. FANCHER offered a resolution that Miss Kate Curry, of the Telephone Exchange, be employed, for an amount not to exceed two dollars per day, to take charge of the telephone until further ordered.
By motion of Mr. THOMPSON, the resolution was laid on the table.
By Mr. DAVIS [H. R. 245]: To repeal an act defining libel and the publication thereof.
By Mr. DAVIS [H. R. 246]: To provide for a better security of persons and property, and fixing a penalty for violation of such act. [All persons using machinery run by steam or water power shall be required to use every possible safeguard and precaution to prevent injuries to persons and property, and imposing penalties where injuries are sustained.]
By Mr. EDWINS [247]: To regulate the proper entries for taxation of mortgages. [When a person shall have executed a mortgage for an indebtedness, the possessor shall, within two weeks thereafter, present the same to the Auditor of the County, who shall enter the same in a book kept for that purpose, for taxation, and in making up the tax duplicate, shall make an entry of the same.]
Mr. EDWARDS offered a resolution that when the House meet again, the morning session shall be from 10 o'clock a. m. until 12, and its afternoon session from 2 o'clock p. m. till 4 o'clock p. m., until further ordered by the House.
By the SPEAKER: According to the rule the resolution will lay on the table until Monday.
By Mr. CARTER [H. R. 248]: A bill for an act increase to the satisfaction of mortgages, and page: 99[View Page 99] prescribing the manner in which the same may be done, fixing the fees of the Recorder.
By Mr. CARTER [H. R. 249]: To amend an act incorporating the Indianapolis Insurance Company, approved February 8, 1836
By Mr. COTTON [H. R. 250]: To regulate the practice in actions for negligence, and providing that in such actions the burden of proving contributory negligence of the plaintiff shall be upon the defendant, and that the defendant shall set up in his answer contributory negligence, if he would avail of it.
By Mr. COTTON [H. R. 251] To legalize the acknowledgment and recording of certain instruments. [Mortgages, deeds, ect., acknowledged and recorded after the expiration of the officers commissions and declared valid and effectual.]
Mr. FURNAS [H. R. 252]: To extend the elective franchise in the elections for the choice of Electors for the President and Vice President of the United States to a certain class of women herein designated. [Every female citizen of the United States who shall have at the time of such election the same qualifications as to age, residence, and registration that would entitle her to vote at such an election if she were a male citizen of the United States; also every female of foreign birth who shall have at the time of such election the same qualification as to age, residence, the declaration of her intention to become a citizen of the United States, and registry, that would entitle her to vote at such an election as if she were a male person of foreign birth, to such shall be extended the elective franchise.]
By Mr. HINTON [H. R. 253]: To amend the Section 10 of an act providing for the election of Justices of the peace, and defining their jurisdiction, powers and duties in civil cases; approved June 9, 1852. [They shall have jurisdiction and power to determine cases of contract and tort where the debt on the value of the property sought to be recovered does not exceed $200 and concurrent jurisdiction to the amount of $400. No Justice shall have authority in action for slander, malicious prosecution of breach of the contract, or where title of land is in controversy.]
By Mr. HINTON [H. R. 234]: To amend Section 1 of an act to amend Sections 4 and 6 of an act for the incorporation of Manufacturing and Mining Associations, etc. [Manufacturing Companies may increase their stock by concurrence of the stockholders.]
By Mr. BERRYMAN [H. R. 255]: To provide for the appointment and confirmation of Trustees of the Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, the Hospital for the Insane, the Asylum for the Feeble Minded, and the Soldiers' and Orphans' Home, and for more effectual management and government thereof. [Each to be governed by a Board of Trustees, consisting of three appointed by the Governor.]
By Mr. SUMNER [H. R. 256]: To amend Section 28 of an act defining felonies and prescribing punishments therefor, approved June 10, 1852.
By Mr. SUMNER [H. R. 257]: To amend Section 1, 2 and 3 of an act making it unlawful for owners and proprietors of billiard and other tables to suffer minors to play thereon or congregate about such table. [Shall not apply where such table is kept in a private house or used in a family.]
The House took a recess till 2 o'clock.
