NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced the first time and severally referred to appropriate Committees, unless otherwise stated:
By Mr. FAULKNER (by request), [S. 249] to prevent and punish the sale of adulterated articles of food, drink or medicine, whether injurious to health or not, unless the notice that the same is mixed is plainly marked thereon, or on the package containing it; and so informing toe buyer of the fact. Receipts from fines to go to the school fund.
By Mr. BELL (by request), [S. 250] to establish provisions respecting private corporations existing under corporate laws prior to 1852.
By Mr. HILLIGASS [S. 251] to amend Sections 2 to 10 Inclusive of an act concerning drainage of April 8, l881, being Sections 4,275 to 4,[2?]82 inclusive of the Revised Statutes of 1881. [ Amending the Circuit Court drainage law, by allowing lands in the Indian Reservation to be described in the petition. Provides that where lands are described as they appear of public record it shall be sufficient. That all objections to the petition and viewers must be made before viewers go out and giving additional grounds of remonstrance; following supplemental petitions; allowing Counties to be assessed in certain cases, and providing for the keeping in repair of ditches.]
By Mr. ADKISON [S. 252] to amend Section 67 of an act entitled concerning Criminal Courts, approved April 12, 1881-see Code, Section 1,640. [So that whenever any act is (or has been) made a public offense and also made punishable by my ordinance of any incorporated city or town, all prosecutions for any such offense before any Judicial officer of such incorporated city or town within the jurisdiction of such officer, shall be had under such city ordinance, provided that the offender shall not be made twice liable for the same offense.] Mr. A. states that under the present law such offenses are punishable under the State law as State offenses, and the object of his bill is to make them punishable under town or municipal laws, so as to give the town or city the benefit of the fines collected.
By Mr. McCLURE [S. 253] to amend Sections 8, 29, 71 and 87 of an act defining County boundaries on the Ohio and Wabash Rivers approved January 7, 1882, effecting the Counties of Grant, Blackford, Washington, Clark and Scott.
By Mr. RISTINE [S. 254] to authorize Boards of County Commissioners co construct or repair gravel or other roads on County lines, and authorizing the issue of bonds therefor [to authorize the construction of free gravel roads on the County lines by taxing the adjacent lands in two or more Counties to build said roads in the same manner that free gravel roads are now built, by a single County. The Boards of Commissioners of the several Counties acting together in its construction.]
By Mr. JOHNSON, by request, [S. 255] to provide for the incorporation of Orphan Asylums and Asylums for Indigent Females.
By Mr. WILLARD [S. 256] to fix the liability of railroads and other corporations for all damages or injuries received by their employes. [Makes Railroad Companies liable for injuries done employes, even if the injury was done through the carelessness of a co-employe.]
By Mr. GRAHAM, by request, [S. 257] to provide for the care and custody of orphans and abandoned children.
By Mr. HOOVER [S. 258] to empower Boards of Trustees of incorporated towns to compel owners page: 175[View Page 175] of lots to repair or build sidewalks in front of their lots.
Mr. KEISER [S. 259] to amend section 210 of the act concerning taxation, being Section 6,479 of the Code of 1881.
By Mr. RISTINE [S. 260] to legalize the incorporation of the town o Darlington, Montgomery County.
By Mr. VAN VORHIS [S. 261] to authorize cities to condemn or fill up mill races in certain cases.
