NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time and severally referred to appropriate Committees:
By Mr. M'CLURE [H. R. 500]: For the relief of Horatio S. Hazzard, formerly Trustee of Vienna Township, Scott County. [Amount, $600, for loss sustained while Trustee.]
By Mr. MOODY [H. R. 501]: To authorize cities and towns to loan the sinking fund, and defining the powers and duties of Trustees in certain cases. [Upon application by School Boards the Trustees shall loan out this fund on hand for school and school building purposes]
By Mr. RYAN [H. R. 502]: To legalize the purchase and drinking of intoxicating liquors. [Anyone wishing to buy in less quantity than a quart, at a saloon, shall be compelled to present a petition of such desire to the Board of County Commissioners, who, upon certain moral conditions of the individual, shall issue him an individual permit to purchase.]
On motion by Mr. Ryan, the bill was referred to a Special Committee of three, which the Speaker made to consist of Messrs. Miles, Davis and Ryan, the author of the bill to be Chairman of the Committee.
By Mr. VAWTER [H. R. 503]: Prescribing the mode of probating a will. [Wills and testments written in a foreign language shall undergo examination by a person well versed in the language in which it is written, and the same shall be interpreted and filed with the Clerk of the Court.]
By Mr. MARSHALL [H. R. 504]: Authorizing cities and towns to construct bridges and maintain them across a stream bordering on this State, where such terminus within the city or town. [If an incorporated city or town, upon petition of a majority of the resident freeholders, may construct, maintain or purchase and make free of toll any such bridge.]
By Mr. MILES [H. R. 505]: Concerning intoxicating liquors. [It shall be unlawful for a person to barter or give away any such liquors, etc.]
On motion by Mr. MILES, the bill was referred to a special Committee of three.
By Mr. LINSDAY [H. R. 506]: To provide for the page: 130[View Page 130] salary of Circuit, Criminal and Superior Judges hereafter elected or appointed. [The salary of Circuit and Superior Judges to be $ ,500.]
By Mr. TAYLOR, of Lagrange [H. R. 507]: To amend Section 4 of an act to regulate the sale of spiritual, vinous, malt and intoxicating liquors. [The County Commissioners may issue a license it not being imperative as under the old laws.]
By Mr. CARTER [H. R. 508]: Authorizing the sale and conveyance of certain real estate belonging to the State of Indiana. [The Governor, Auditor and Secretary of State are authorized to release and quit claim to Catharine Christian certain lands in Marion County, near Southport.]
Mr. CARTER moved to suspend the constitutional rule, read the bill the second time by title, third time by sections, and put the bill upon its passage.
The motion was laid on the table.
By Mr. HINTON [H. R. 509]: To prohibit the sale of poisonous drugs and medicines to persons under the age of fourteen years [except upon the written direction of a physician--violators shall be subject to a fine.]
By Mr. COLE [H. R. 510]: To amend Section 8 of act to authorize the construction of plank roads and macadamized roads, and empowering the owners to make sale of a portion of the road.
By Mr. WILSON, of Morgan, [H. R. 51l]: To amend Section 18 of an act to authorize aid for the construction of railroads by Counties and Townships, to take stock and make donations to railroads, approved May 12, 1879. [On failure of the road to commence work within six months from the date of such election, or on failure of the road being in running order three years after the assessment, will subject them to a loss of the amount raised.]
By Mr. GILMAN [H. R. 512]: To prevent the growth of burrs and other noxious weeds on public highways [each land owner is to destroy such weeds on his half of the highway.]
By Mr. FALL [H. R. 513]: To legalize the ordinances, resolutions, orders and by-laws of the Board of Trustees of the Town of North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana, in relation to levying and collecting taxes in said town in 1879 and 1880.
By Mr. GREGORY [H. R. 514]: Requiring the owners of osage orange and hedge fences along public highways to cut and prune the same each year. [In the month of February, March or April, to cut or prune them. It is not to stand over eight feet high, and not to spread over three feet on each side.
