NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were read the first time and severally referred to appropriate Committees:
By Mr. HUFF, the bill [H. R. 276]: To amend Section 194 of an act to provide for a uniform assessment of property and the collection and return of taxes thereon; approved December 1, 1872.
By Mr. HUFF, the bill [H. R. 277]: To regulate the sale of medicine and poisons. [Any person so selling must be a pharmacist.]
By Mr. HARGROVE, the bill [Ii. R. 278]: To amend Section 199, to provide for a uniform assessment and collection and return of taxes. Approved December 21, 1872.
By Mr. HARGROVE, the bill [H, R. 279]: To amend Section 1. of an act to amend Section 21 of the act describing the duties of Justices of the Peace in State prosecutions. Approved May 29, 1852. [The Justices of the Peace shall, on the first Monday in January and July of each year, pay over to the Treasury of the County all moneys received for fees and fines due the County remaining in his hands, for the use of the Common Schools. and also deliver a statement to the Treasurer stating the source from which it was derived.]
By Mr. WRIGHT, the bill [H. R. 280]: To legalize the election of officers of incorporated towns in this State, and also to legalize the orders, ordinances, by-laws, rules, regulations, appointments, elections, proceedings and official acts of the Boards of Town Trustees and the Boards of School Trustees, and the official acts and proceedings of all other officers of such towns made, done, ordained and performed by such Boards or officers since the year 1877, under and in compliance with the laws in such cases made and provided.
By Mr. BEATTY, the bill [H. R. 281]: To give security to persons who contract with railroad corporations and sub-contractors, such persons performing work or labor in the construction of same, etc.
By Mr. BEATTY, the bill [H. R. 282]: To authorize any Railroad Company now organizing or which may be organized under the laws of the State of Indiana to purchase other roads.
By Mr. AKIN, the bill [H. R. 283]: To legalize the corporation of the town of Argos, Marshall County, Indiana, the acts of the Board of Trustees of the town and official acts of every officer of said town.
By Mr. STEWART, the bill [H.R. 284]: Fixing the time of holding the Circuit Court in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, describing the term thereof.
By Mr. STEWART, the bill [H.R. 285]: To exempt certain pensioners. [Pensioned soldiers, wounded during the late war, to be exempted from paying poll tax.]
By Mr. O'Neal, the bill [H. R. 286]: To make an appropriation to Purdue University. [The sum of $20,000 to be appropriated annually, to be expended by, and under the direction of, the Board of Trustees for the payment of current expenses, repairs, improvements, etc., in all the Departments, also the salaries of officials.]
By Mr. O'NEAL, the bill [H. R. 287]: To repeal Section 10 of an act concerning married women, approved March 25, 1879. [To repeal that clause which provides that a married woman shall not be liable as bondsman of her husband or other person.]
By Mr. HAM, the bill [H. R. 288]: To provide for the reimbursement of civil Townships and Counties of the State of Indiana in cases where any of such Townships less than the whole number of Townships in the County, have heretofore, or shall hereafter, vote a tax to aid in the construction and building of any railway, any part of which shall be located in the County in which the Township voting the tax may be situated, such reimbursement to be made from the taxes collected in any such County from any Railway Company for which the tax is voted, and other matters properly connected herewith.
By Mr. HAM, the bill [H. R. 289]: To amend Sections 2, 12 and 13, to enable owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim them, when it can not be done with affecting the land of others.
And then the House adjourned to meet Monday at 10:30 a. m.
