NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time and referred to appropriate Committees:
By Mr. COFFEY [S. 225]: To prohibit the sale, barter, loan or gift of certain fire arms to persons under the age of fifteen years. [Rifle, musket, pistol, shot-gun, or ball,powder, percussion caps or other articles manufactured for the use in such fire-arms.]
By Mr. Hostetter [S. 226]: To enable the owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim them, when the same can not be done without affecting the lands of others, prescribing the powers and duties of County Commissioners and other officers in the premises, and to provide for the repair and enlargement of such drains, and repealing certain acts therein specified and declaring a emergency.
By Mr. HOSTETTER [S. 227]: Prepared by the Adjutant General of the State, supplemental to the act for the organization and regulation of the Indiana Militia, approved May 11, 1861, providing an exemption from jury duty and poll-tax for members of the active Militia, and for Armories, and for the control and use of such Armories, defining offenses for molesting such Armories, and officers and soldiers while on duty, fixing penalties for such offenses; providing right of way for the State Militia when on duty and parade, prescribing the powers of officers thereof to make arrests, fixing the compensation of the State Militia when called out for duty, the manner of payment and the term of enlistment and discharge of the Militia.
By Mr. KAHLO, by request, [S 228]: To provide a general system for improvement the streets, alleys and sidewalks of the cities of this State, providing the mode of paying for such improvements and for other purposes.
By Mr. KRAMER [S. 229]: To legalize sales made to enforce collections of municipal taxes for the years 1875 to 1881 inclusive. [Inasmuch as there is no express provision in the act approved December 21,1872, that makes the same applicable to incorporate cities and towns, this remedial measure is proposed.]
Mr. MACARTNEY [S. 230]: To legalize the incorporation of the town of Angola and each and every official act of each and every officer thereof.
By Mr. RAHM [S. 231]: To provide payment for expert testimony in the Courts of this State. [Physicians can not be compelled to testify till paid blank dollars.]
By Mr RISTINE[S. 232]: Defining the jurisdiction and powers of, and allowing City Marshals additional fees. [Shall have powers and fees of Constables.]
By Mr. SAYRE, by request [S. 233]: To repeal Section 6 of the act to regulate and license the sale of intoxicating liquors, approved March 7, 1875.
By Mr. VAN VORHIS, by request [S. 234]: To amend the act dividing the State into Judicial Circuits, approved March 6, 1863. [Concerning Monroe, Brown, Lawrence, Martin and Orange Counties.]
By Mr. YANCEY [S. 235]: To Amend Section 119 of the Justices' act, approved June 9, ,1852. [Requiring notice to judgement defendant before issuances of execution.]
By Mr. CHAPMAN [S. 236]: To prevent trespassers on inclosed or uninclosed land of another.
By Mr. COMPTON [S. 237]: To legalize acknowledgment and recording of certain instruments. [By Notaries whose commission had expired or were ineligible, but exercised the functions thereof in good faith.]
Mr. FOSTER made an ineffectual motion to have his bill [S. 7], to establish school libraries in towns of 15,000 inhabitants and over, pressed to, the final vote on its passage.
