NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first lime, and severally referred to appropriate Committees:
By Mr. HENRY [S. 246] to amend Section 10 of an act concerning drainage of April 8, 1881, and declaring an emergency-being section 4,282 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. [Concerning assessment on lands for repair of di[?]cnes ]
By Mr. CAMPBELL [S. 247] to provide for the more profitable and equitable hiring by the State of the convicts in the State Prison, and to amend Section 10 of the State Prison act, being Section 6,138 of the Code of l88l, so as to prevent contractors, getting a monopoly of the convict labor. [Proposed contracts shall be advertised by the Prison Directors for ten days in two of the leading dally papers of Indianapolis, Chicago and Cincinnati, and by such othes means as the Directors may deem profitable. When exclusive right to manufacture any article is given, any subsequent addition of convicts by new contract shall not extend beyond the expiration of the first pending contract. New contracts to take effect at the expiration of the old shall be made sixty days before the expiration of the old ]
By Mr. SPANN [S. 248] to provide for a Constitutional Convention to amend, alter or make a new Constitution for the State of Indiana. [The members of the Convention are to be fifty in number, to be chosen from the several Senatorial Districts at an election to be held on the first Monday in April, 1883. The Convention is to meet in Indianapolis on the first Thursday in June, 1883, and its members are to be allowed $10 per day. The mode in which the business of the Convention is to be conducted is set forth, and the new Constitution, or such amendments as shall be recommended for adoption, are to be submitted to the vote of the people within thirty days after the first Monday after the Convention adjourns.]
