NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The SPEAKER [Mr. COMPTON in the chair] announced the order for the introduction of bills.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time, and severally referred to appropriate Committees:
By Mr. AIKEN [H. R. 401]: To enable married women to convey their separate real estates by deed without their husbands joining them in such conveyance, in case where the husband has abandoned the wife or the wife has abandoned the husband for cause, and defining the power of Judges of the Circuit and Superior Courts in reference to said conveyance. [Such coveyance can be made with the approval of Circuit or Superior Judges, who shall first examine into the cause of the separation of the husband and wife, also into the necessity and justness of the conveyance, and if he finds such trade or conveyance beneficial to the married woman, shall take the acknowledgement of such deed or conveyance.]
By Mr. GILLUM [H. R. 402], to amend Sections 4, 5 and 10 of an act to regulate and license the sale of spirituous, vinous, and other intoxicating liquors; to limit the license fee to be charged by cities and towns, prescribing penalties for intoxication, providing for the recovery of damages for injuries growing out of unlawful sales of intoxicating liquors, and all laws and parts of laws coming in conflict with the provisions of this act; prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and declaring an emergency, approved March 17, 1875: [The County Commissioners shall grant license upon the applicant giving bond for $2,000 with two freehold assureties, conditioned that such dealer shall keep an orderly and peaceable house, etc.]
