NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time and passed to the second reading:
Mr. SULZER [H. R. 267]: Authoring County Superintendents to collect fines and unclaimed fees Justices of the Peace.
By Mr. SULZER [H. R. 268]: To repeal and amend portions of an act regulating the license and sale of spirituous, vinous and intoxicating liquors, and prohibiting cities and towns from granting license. [To enforce the provision of the present license law by increasing the penalties attaching to drunkenness, by severely punishing minors who represent themselves to be of age, and by increasing the penalty against persons convicted of selling without license. It is in no wise intended to encourage prohibitory legislation but only provides for the more stringent enforcement of the present laws.]
By Mr. WALZ [H. R. 269]: To amend an act regulating general elections. [Each Inspector, Judge and Clerk of election to receive $1.50 for everyday employed and attending such election, except that whenever more than 300 votes are taken at any poll, the Board of County Commissioners shall make such compensation as shall be just and reasonable].
By Mr. NEFF [H. R. 270]: To amend Section 5 of an act to provide for a general system of Common School, ect. [Fixing salaries and fees of officers, and the township to elect a Trustee to seve for one year].
By Mr. NEFF [H. R. 271]: Concerning the Clerks of the General Assembly. [The principal Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the House shall each appoint one Reading Clerk, one Register Clerk, one File Clerk. Clerks not to receive salary except when on actual duty, and Committee Clerks not to receive pay until after the Committees meet.]
By Mr. MURRAY [H. R. 272]: To amend Sections 2 and 3 of an act, and amend Sections 4, 6 and 7 of an act to provide for the election of a Reporter of the Supreme Court, etc. approved March 7, 1877. [The Secretary of State shall not receive such reports unless the same comply fully, in all respects, with the provisions of this act, and shall deliver to said Reporter a certificate stating the number of the reports for the sum of $2.50 per volume for each report.]
By Mr. MURRAY [H. R. 273] to legalize the board of Trustees of the town of Ridgeville, Randolph County, Indiana. [The levy and assessment of taxes and all other official duties performed heretofore.]
By Mr. SMELZER [H. R. 274]: Concerning Gravel Road and other Turnpike Companies.
By Mr. COOPER [H. R. 275]: Prescribing the qualifications necessary for the office of the County Superintendent and declaring who shall be eligible to said office, and providing for the election of school teachers by the qualified voters of the several School Districts of the State.
[The bill provided that the County Superintendent shall be elected for a term of two years, at the general elections, after the taking effect of this act, and that the State Board of Education shall be required to examine all persons who shall apply to them, touching their qualifications to hold the office of County Superintendent, and give li- page: 115[View Page 115] censes according to their fitness, as determined. Without this license no person shall be eligible to the office of County Superintendent, and, if he desires to be a candidate for such office in his County, he shall advertise the possession of this license sixty days prior to any election at which a Superintendent is to be chosen in the County, in two newspapers of the County having the largest circulation, provided they shall be of different political parties. No person now serving in such office shall be subject to the examination during the term for for which he was elected. The bill further provides that the School Board of any District or Township shall, not more than Sixty days prior to the opening of a school term, call a meeting of the patrons at the school house or school houses, and these shall be the qualified electors, who shall proceed at once to elect a teacher for the ensuing term.]
