NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time and severally passed to the second reading, unless otherwise stated:
Mr. CHITTENDEN [H. R. 306] to amend Section 1 of an article to amend Section 1 of an act relating to the incorporation of cities and towns, [Provides for a prohibition of the playing of hand organs within city boundaries; a tax on vehicles owned or used within city limits.
By Mr. McCORMICK [H. R. 307] in relation to an act providing for the government; and discipline of State Prisons. [Providing that no contracts for Prison labor shall be let at less than the rate of sixty-five cents per day for each convict to be employed, and also prohibiting the employment of convicts outside of the Prison walls, but not effecting the validity of existing contracts, Prisoners shall be put to the kind of work they are acquainted with best. No contractor shall be allowed to work more than 300 convicts at one time.]
By Mr. McCORMICK [H. R. 308] concerning amending sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the trustees of the Hartsville Academy. [Changing the name from Hartsville University.]
By Mr. WILEY [H. R. 309] to regulate and license the sale of intoxicating liquors, etc., the leading provisions of which are as follows:
Section 1 defines what "intoxicating liquors" are.
Section 2 prohibits any sale of intoxicating liquors by any person or persons except persons regularly licensed under provisions of the act.
Section 3; that any person who'is a resident over the age of twenty-one years may procure license by paving County Treasurer $300, and presenting Treasurer's receipt to County Auditor, page: 153[View Page 153] who shall issue license, upon filing bond as provided in Section 5 of the act.
Section 4 provides for city and town license of $200.
Section 6 provides for execution at bond with at least two free-hold sureties, to be approved by Auditor, etc., conditioned for the payment of all fines and costs and damages occasioned by unlawful sales.
Section 7 provides penalty of $50 and imprisonment for violation of any provisions of act. Prevents any sale by any person, not excepting druggists, who have not procured a license under this act.
Section 8 keeps in force all laws relating to drunkenness, sale to minors, etc.
Section 9 prohibits employment of any minors in the sale of intoxicating liquors, and fixes penalty, etc.
Section 10 provides for action on bond for civil damages growing out of any unlawful sale.
Section 12 prohibits the keeping of gaming tables in any room or building where liquors are sold.
Section 13 requires persons engaged in sale of intoxicating liquors under this act to remove all screens, blinds, stained or painted glass, so as not to obscure place where sold.
The bill defines who are competent to receive license-any resident of a County where application is made; provides a license fee of $300, and that license shall not be issued for a longer or shorter period than one year; that an additional fee of $200 shall be charged in all incorporated cities and towns, such fees to be paid into the common school fund. Another section prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors by any person not having license as provided, fixes penalties, and provides that it shall be no defense for any such sale that the same was sold for medicinal, scientific, mechanical, culinary or sacramental purposes, or for any purpose whatever. This section does not permit any privileged class of persons (not even druggists) to sell without license). The bill also prohibits sale to minors, persons intoxicated or in the habit of becoming intoxicated.
By Mr. WILEY [H. R. 310] to regulate the fares to be charged on the sleeping, palace and parlor cars. [It makes the fare $1 for single, berth, $1.75 for a section, also twenty-five cents for each 100 miles for a seat in a palace car, and fifty cents for any distance over 100 miles. It also provides that tickets for this class of accommodation shall be on sale at all Stations where there is a population of 4,000 and over on the several lines passing through this State, and sets forth sufficient penalties for the non-observance of the rules and regulations presented.]
By Mr. WEAVER [H. R. 311] fixing the time for paying taxes in cities-third Monday in April and first Monday in November.
By Mr. Price [H. R. 312] in relation to the Board of Health.
By Mr. BROOKS [H. R. 213 313 ] to amend Section 4 of an act providing a Treasury system for the State of Indiana; State Treasurer to give $500,000 bonds and keep the security good.
By Mr. ROBINSON [H. R. 314] concerning attorneys employed by Boards of County Commissioners shall not appear before the Board in behalf of any other party-[making it unlawful for County Board Attorneys to appear as counsel or attorney for any litigant, petitioner or claimant before said Board.]
By Mr. PU[?]SE [H. R. 315] to amend Section 1 of an act regulating decedents' estates-[providing for a widow to sell her property where she has paid off her husband's debts to the amount of the value of the property; that is, to the amount of his two-thirds, after which she can give a clear title to the whole.]
By Mr. MOODY [H. R. 316] to fix fees to be taxed in certain offices, and the salaries of officers therein named [By it the salaries of State officers and Deputies are fized as follows: Governor, $5,000; Private Secretary, $1,500; Secretary of State, $2,000; Deputy, $1,500; Clerk, $700; Clerk of Printing Bureau, $1,200; Auditor, $1,500; Deputy, $1,500; Insurance Clerk, 1,500 (old law $1,200;) Land Clerk, $1,500 (old law $1,200); Adjutant General, $1,200; Quartermaster General, $300; Treasurer of State, $3,000; Deputy, $1,500; Watchman, $800; Attorney General, $2,500 and no other compensation whatever; Superintendent of Public Instruction, $2,000; two Clerks, $900 each; Law Librarian, $[?],200; State Librarian, $1,200; Assistant, $750; The feeds of the Clerk of the Supreme Court are the same as under the old law. Under the old law County Clerks are allowed for all kinds of copying and recording ten cents per each 100 words. The bill cuts this down to five cents, but makes up for the loss by providing that each figure shall count as a word, whereas four required before. The Clerk is also allowed $3 for each marriage license instead of $2.]
