NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described joint resolutions and bills were introduced, read the first time and referred to Appropriate Committees:
By Mr. SHAFFER [S. J. R. 12]: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State, prohibiting the manufacture, sale or keeping for sale, spirituous, vinous, malt or any other intoxicating liquors, except for scientific, medical, mechanical, and wine for sacramental purposes.
By Mr. YANCEY [S. J. R. 13]: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution, conferring the privilege of the elective franchise on females possessing the same qualifications as males.
By Mr. YANCEY [S. J. R. 14]: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution to entitle females having the same qualifications as males to admission to the practice of law in all the Courts.
By Mr. BENZ [S. 339]: Concerning County Judges.
By Mr. HOSTETTER [S. 340]: To amend Section 2 of the act to enable towns to lay out, open, etc., sreets, approved April 27, 1869.
By Mr. KEISER [S. 341]: To limit the operation of an amendatory act touching the laying out, vacating towns, streets, alleys, etc., approved March 3, 1881.
By Mr. BUNDY [S. 342]: To authorize married women to apply to the proper Courts of this State for alimony in certain cases therein specified.
By Mr. COMSTOCK [S. 343]: To provide for the appointment of a Clerk for Grand Juries; prescribing the pay and duties of such Clerk.
By Mr. DAVIDSON [S. 344]: To make the Township Trustee of each civil Township Superintendent of roads and highways in his Township, and fixing a commutation road tax in connection with road labor. [It was read the first time by title only under a dispensation of the Constitutional rule.]
By Mr. MACARTNEY [S. 345]: To amend Sections 15 and 17 of an act providing for the election and qualification of Justices of the Peace. [Defining jurisdiction in replevin cases.]
By Mr. RAHM [S. 346]: To amend Sections 1 and 5 of an act to promote the science of medicine and surgery by providing methods whereby human subjects for anatomical and scrientific dissection and experiment may be lawfully obtained. [The object of the bill is to allow Medical Colleges, upon proper application, to have the use of all bodies of persons having died in any State, County or City Prison or Asylums, whose bodies are not claimed by next kin or relatives or friends within twenty-four hours after such death. Where relatives of such dead persons are known notice is to be given them, so they can claim and bury such corpses at their own expense. This is also to apply to any person or felon meeting with an accidental death, where an inquest is held, etc. Coroners and Superintendents not complying with this law, after proper application for such dead bodies are made, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined from $25 to $100 for each offense.]
By Mr. HENRY [S. 347]: To repeal a supplemental act authorizing cities and towns to negotiate and sell bonds to procure means with which to erect and complete unfinished school buildings, approved March 20, 1879. [It provides for the repeal of the law now in force requiring the school Trustees of a city to get the order and consent of the Common Council of the city before purchasing any real estate for school purpose.]
By Mr. RISTINE [S. 348]: For the relief of the commissioned officers of the Twelfth and Fifteenth Regiments of Indiana Volunteer Infantry. [Allowing one-quarter pay, they having heretofore received but three-quarters.] page: 67[View Page 67] By Mr. SAYRE [S. 349]: To legalize the incorporation of Lagro, Wabash Country, etc.
By Mr. SHAFFER [S. 350]: To regulate and license the sale of spirituous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, prescribing penalties for intoxication, and providing for the recovery of damages for injuries growing out of sales of intoxicating liquors, and requiring police officers and Constables to see this act enforced, which was read the first time by title only, under a suspension of the constitutional rule.
