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THE
BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS.
VOLUME TWENTY-TWO.
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.
List of Bills introduced into the House of Representatives the titles of which were not printed when first presented because crowded out by Debates. The author's name follows the figures indicating the number of the bill.
133. Boyd. To provide for the recovery of attorney's fees in case where any person Bhall
recover a judgment against a railroad for stock killed. 134. Deem. To authorize library
associations to change their names. 135. Deem. To provide for a convention to amend the
Constitution of the State. 136. Unsday. To require all railroada in this State to fence, put
in crossing gates and cattle guards. 138. Robertson. For the perfect organization and the
transaction of the Boards of County Commissioners. 139. Robertson. To amend sections 7 and 20
of an act concerning highways. 140. Eley. To repeal an act enabling owners of land to reclaim
the same, etc, 141. Wynn. To amend section 38 of an act concerning highways. 143. Rivers.
Concerning the carrying of passengers by railroad companies. 144. Rivers. To amend section 1
of an act concerning highways. 145. Williams. To make appropriations to test the
constitutionality of section 87 of an act concerning taxation. 147. Wilson. In relation to
claims against) municipal corporations. 148. Wilson. To amend sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act
amending sections 218, 227 and 228 of an act concerning taxation. 149. Peudleton. To abolish
the office of City Assessor in cities having a voting population of 18.000 or more. 150.
Pendleton. To repeal sections 2136 ana 2137 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. 152. Schley. To
repeal section 105 of an act conerning taxation. 155. Sohmidt. For the opening of the polls,
on petition of voters, at 6 o'clock a.m. 156. Schmidt. To amend section 4= of act regulating
the license and sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors. 157.
Franklin. To amend an act providing for a system of common schools. 158. 'Kellison. To
legalize the in corporation of the town of Bourbon, Marshall county. 160. Adams. To amend
section 409 of Revised Statutes of 1881. 161. Adams. To prevent th,e keeping open of places
of public tippling on certain days and at "certain hours therein mentioned. 163. Pieasants.
To amend section 8 of an act amending an act providing for a general system of common
schools. 165. Smith of Perry. For the relief of John D. Works, of Ohio county, et al. 166.
Gordon. Concerning common carriers, and to prevent unjust dissrimiua-tion by them. 168.
Gordon. To prescribe the duties ol Clerfcs and Judges of the Circuit Courts in relation to
estates, etc. 171. Engle. To amend section 5 of an act authorizing tne appointment of short'
hana reporters for certain courts, etc. 172. Loyd. To prevent gaming and gambling on county
fair grounds. 173. Lord. To amend section 9 of an act amending an act providing for a general
system of common scaools, etc. 174. Frazee. To require all persons handling stallions to pay
a license for the same, and giving owner a lien on mares for service. 175. Hoban. To enforce
the laws of the State of Indiana. 176. floban. To regulate railroad freights. 177. Moody.
Concerning taxation of railroads, and repealing all laws in conflict.
page: 342[View Page 342] 342 BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS. 178. Glazebrook. To amend section
4521 of an act for the encouragement of teacnere' institutes, etc. 179. Glazebrook. To amend
section 211O of an act preventing hunting on lands. 180. Best. To amend section 240 of an act
coneerniner public offansee. 181. Best. To make it a misdemeanor to employ on any railroad
any person in the habit "of using intoxicating liquors as a beverage. 182. McMichael. To
amend sections 1 and 2 of an act concerning taxation. 183. McMichael. To amend section 108 of
an act concerning taxation. 184. Trout. To amend section 5096, Revised Statutes of 1881. 185.
Overman. To amend section 162 of an. act providing for a general system of common schools.
186. Patten. To amend section 70 of • • the Justice of the Peace act. 188. Smith of
Tlppecanoe. To fix the compensation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and his
Clerks. 189. Smith of Tippecanoe. To amend section 4439 Revised Statutes of 1881. 190.
French. To amend the school laws. 191. Haworth. To amend section 4369 Revised Statutes of
1881. 192. Debs. To authorize Boards of Commissioners to issue bonds for completion of public
buildings. 193. MeBrnome. To provide for Justices of the Peace issuing executions to other
counties, etc. 194. Smith. To define the legal rate of interest. 195. Shanks. To provide for
cash books in certain cases. 196. Snanks. To secure the healthful location and construction
of school .houses, etc. 198. Maun. To amend section 2120 " Revised Statutes of 1881
concerning fisu. 199. MeGovney. Concerning the repair of ditches and drains. 200. Garrison.
Concerning taxation. 228. Robertson. To amend section 2 of an act allowing owners of real
estate to petition for the opening: of streets. 229. Robertson. To amend section 1 of an act
amending an act providing for the regulation of the running at large of all kind of animals.
230. I3unn. To amend section 231 of an act concerning taxation. 231. Dnnu. To amend section
20 of an act concerning highways. 232. Eley. Concerning tax sales, prohibiting the
enforsernent of tax liens under tax deeds, etc. 233. Rivers. To amend section 256 of an act
concerning public offenses. 234. Rivers. To amend section 187 of an act concerning public
offenses. 236. Williams. To regulate the ownership of real estate. 237. Reiter. To amend ah
act to amend section 189 of an act concerning taxation. 238. Reiter. To repeal section 21 of
an act fixing the compensation of the officers named therein. 239. Krueeer. To empower the
Trustee of Cold Spring township, Laporte county, to release judgment against Barry Keir'er
and Robert Curran. 240. Schley. To amend the election iaw. 241. Schley. To protect the health
of female employes in mercantile and»inami-facturing establishments. * 242. Jameson. For the
relief of county asylums, providing for better accommodations, etc. 243. Pendleton. For the
relief of P, Kirland. 244. Overman. To repeal an act providing for a general system of common
bchools. 245. Passage. For the admission of all insane persons to the Insane Asylum. 246-
Adams. To amend section 191 of an act concern in g public offcmees. 269. Butz. To provide a
metropolitan police in cities of 29,000 or more inhabitants. 270. Brooks. Concerning roads.
273. Rivers. Concerning public of-tenses. 274. Timmona. In relation to taking turnpikes. 275.
Mock. Concerning proceeding in criminal cases. 276. Mock. Relating to the levy of city taxes,
and abolishing the office of City Assessor. 277. Browning, Concerning grand and petit juries.
278. Loop. To provide for the erection of fish ladders, etc. 279. Barnes. In relation to the
organization of county Boards. 281. Staley. In relation to the buying and selling of votes.
282. Staiey. Concerning building and loa-n associations. 284. Taylor. Concerning public
of-tenses. 285. Taylor. Concerning proceedings in civil cases. 286. Frazee. To am end section
284 of an act concerning proceedings in civil cases. 287. Floyd. Relating to printing
contracts by county commissioners. 288. Hanion. In relation to assessment for eravei and
macadamized i*oads. 290. Moody. Concerning taxation. 291. Moody. To pay the claim of John W.
Pulleu. 292. Harrell. To authorize Boards of Commissioners to construct free gravel roads.
293. Twineham. To provide tor the copying of official records in certain cases, 294.
Twineham. Concerning proceedings in cviil cases. 296. Helms. To require railroads to carry
oaosengers and baggage on local freight trains. 297. Deem. To regulate insanity inquests.
298. Gooding. Concerning drainage. 299. Goodlng. Concerning proceedings in criminal cases.
300. Dt-em. Concerning the regulation of the sale of vinous, malt and other liquors. 301.
Barr. For the protection of game, 302. Rivers. Concerning proceeding in criminal cases. •
303. Rivers. Concerning public offenses and their punishment, f 304, Copeiand. To provide for
the election of Reporter of Supreme Court, 305. Williams. Relating to the release of sureties
on bonds of retail liquor deal- . ." ers. • ,:. . : " '".' 306. Wilaon. To define slander and
prescribing punishment. 307. Wildnian. In relation in the State Library. 308. Jameson.
Concerning taxation* ; and abolishing the-office-of City Assessor in cities ol 70,000
inhabitants.
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Jameson. To provide for voluntary assignment of property. 310. Williams. For the relief of
Mrs. Sarah May. 311. Schley. For the incorporation of trades unions and Industrial
associations. 312. Schmidt. To authorize the city of Indianapolis to erect a market house and
other public buildings. 313. Scbmidt. For the incorporation of onion railroad companies. 314.
KeJlison. Concerning mechanics, liens. 315. Kellison. To authorize aid for the construction
of railroads by counties and townships. 316. Adams. To give incorporated towns and cities
control of public highways, etc. 317. Adams. To authorize the construction of levees, etc.
319. Robinson. Concerning liquor licences. 220. Engle. Concerning drainage. 321. Loyd.
Concerning taxation. 322. Glazebrook. To authorize the Di-rectore of State Prison North to
sell certain lands. 323. Hoban. To provide for the payment for the services of persons wot on
gravel or macadamized roads. 324. McMicbael. Concerning election contests, etc. 325.
McMichael. To provide for a gen-•eral system of common ecnools-. 326. Williams. To
appropriate $3,000 to repair loss by fire at the Insane Hos-oital. 328. Patten. To legalize
judgment and decrees of courts. 329. Vickrey. To legalize sanity inquests, etc- 330.
Garrison. To provide for the regulation of stock running at large: 331. Garrison. Relating to
highways. 332. Hayden. Relating to petit juries. 333. Dale. To amend an act providing for a
Metropolitan Police. 334. Browning. Relating to unexpended, general and specific
appropriations. 335. Cartwright. To provide for completion of trial8~in certain courts. 336.
Cartwrignt. Concerning elections and contests thereof. 337. Robinson. In relation to mine
inspectors. 338. Robinson. To prevent the payment of wasres in script, or selling goods to
employes at excessive prices. 339. Taylor. To provide for redemption of personal property
sold for taxes. 340. Mauck. To prescribe certain duties of County Clerks and Prosesuting
Attorneys, 341. McMullen. To require foreign insurance companies doing business in this State
to make semi-annual statements to the Auditor. 342. McMullen. To legalize the appraisement of
real estate and assessment of taxes made by common councils. 343. Moody. To organize the
State militia. 344. Passage. To make appropriations for certain improvements at Purdue
University. 345. Linvilie. To prevent the propelling of velocipedes, bicycles, on public
biehways. 346. Mosier. For the protection of game. 347. Hanlon. To amend the act concerning
public offenses. 348. Enerle. To abolish certain offices in cities and incorporated towns in
this State. 349. Helms. To provide for the organization of the State militia. 35U. Gopdingr.
Concerning and defining the jurisdiction of Grand Juries. 351. Goodincr. For the protection
of pu blic ditches and drains. 353. Loyd. For relief of Jane F. Brown. 354. Robertson.
Regarding the construction of plank, macadamized, gravel, clay and dirt roads. 355. Rivers.
To amend an act concerning public offenses and their punishment. 356. Williams. Appropriating
money for maintaining the State exhibit at the New Orleans Exhibition. 357. Passage.
Supplemental to an act authorizing the sale of"lands. 358. Patten. To provide a treasury
system for State. 359. Wilson. To provide for the fees of justjces of the peace, 360.
Franklin. To provide for the more effectual care, ^support and education of pauper children.
362. Pendleton. For an appropriation for Baker, Smith Co. et al. 363. Jameson. An act
concerning public offenses and their punishment, 364. Schley. To provide for the construction
of bridges over railroads. 365. Kellison. To authorize aid in construction of railroads by
counties and townships. 366. Passage. To legalize the acts of the trustees of the town of
Bunker Hill, Miami county. 367. Trout. To authorize Boards of County Commissioners to take
care of certain improved roads, 368. Passage. In regard to collection of tolls on toll roads*
369. Adams. To define the liabilities of railroads for Killing stock. 370. Adams. For the
consolidation of wards in cities, 372. Carr. * Relating to the incorporation of towns,
defining their powers, etc. 373. Akins. To prevent wagers for drinks in saloons. 374.
Hargrave. Regarding estrays, etc. 375. Engle. To provide for the election and qualification
of Justices of the Peace. 376. McClelland, To provide for the organization of County Boards.
378. Gordon, To create liens in favor of decedents' estates, etc. 379. Gordon. To regulate
foreign insurance companies doing business in this State. 380. Engle. In relation to turnpike
and gravel roads. 381: Engle, To provide for the election of Justices of the Peace. 382.
Frazee. To prevent the spread of Pleuro-pnuemonia, and to suppress that and other contagious
diseases. 383. Frazee. To regulate buying and Belling of dynamite, giant powder, etc. 384.
Medcalf. To legalize the acts of the Board of Trustees of the town of Rock-port, Spencer
county. 385. Medcalf. To enable the Trustees of Rockport to pass an ordinance requiring the
holders of town orders to present the sume for payment. 386. Gooding. For the relief of
Tsaiah Curry, ex-Treasurer of Hancock county. 387. Gooding. For the relief of Calvin Jackson,
Trustee of Vernon township, Hancock county.
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LEGISLATIVE REPORTS. 388. Best. Declaring it is a misdemeanor to sell or give away cigars,
cigarettes, etc., to minors. 389. Best. To authorize guardians to sell lands in certain
cases. 390. Taylor. To repeal section 269 of an act concerning public offenses. 391.
McMichael, In relation to streets and alleys in cities and towns. 392. Franulin To
authorizing the township trustee of Union township, Union county, to pay certain indebtedness
incurred by other trustees. 393. Franklin. Concerning highways and supervisors thereof. 394.
Butz. To regulate the business of life insurance companies. 395. Butz. Relating to fees and
salaries. 396. Eley. To fix certain fees to be taxed by certain officers. 397. Eley. To
enable the owners of lands to drain and reclaim the same 398. Taylor. To legalize the acts of
notaries public and mayors in certain cases. 401. McMullen. Concerning the powers and duties
of cities and their common councils. 402. Williams To define the {Tenth, Twelfth and
Forty-seventh Judicial Circuits. . 403. Williams. To repeal laws authorizing counties and
townships to aid in the construction of railroads, 404. Mock. To prescribe a general system
of common schools. 405. Taylor. To provide for the satisfaction of judgments in certain
cases. 406. Eley. Concerning the sale of the Revised Statutes. 407. Mock. Concerning public
offenses and their punishment. 408. Cartwright. Concerning fencing. 409. Crecelius. To
provide for the payment of semi-annual interest on county bonds. 410. McMullen. Concerning
public offenses and their punishment, 413. Hanlon. To authorize the construction of plank,
gravel, and macadam, ized roads. 414. Helms. Relating to tuition funds. 415. Robertson. To
regulate the fees of certain assistants to county surveyors. 416. McGovney. To authorize
county commissioners to construct gravel and macadamized roads. 417. Eley. Concerning public
offenses, 418. Krueger. To make specific appropriation for the State Prison North. 419.
Pendleton. To establish meteorological bureaus, etc. 420. Pendleton. To regulate banks of
discount. 421. Jameson. To regulate the incorporation of cities. 424. Williams To amend
sections 2 and 3 of an act relating to the State University. 425. Adama. To require joint
stock associations to pay a tax of one dollar on each telephone operated in their offices.
426. French. To provide for steam boiler inspectors. 427. Overman. To amend an act concerning
taxation. 428. x Robinson. Concerning the appointment of nine coal mine inspectors, 429.
Eagle. To fix certain fees to be taxed and salaries of certain officers. 431. Best. In regard
to regulating the sale and license of intoxicating liquors. 432. Best. To declare unlawful
the erection ana maintenance of certain fences, constructed in whole or in part of barbed
wire. 433. Pleasants. Relating to attorneys' fees. 434. Smith of Tippecanoe. Concerning the
duties of county treasurers and auditors and requiring the prompt payment of all funds due
township trustees. 435. Smith of Tippecanoe. Concerning the election of Township Trustees.
436. Barr. To establish a bureau of scientific information in the different counties of the
State. 437. Debs. Concerning license for vending merchandise, and for exhibiting menageries,
etc. 438. Debs. To amend section 1 of an act for the encouragement of agriculture. 439. Butz.
To amend the act establishing a State Board of Health. 440. Butz. To authorize county
district agricultural societies to purchase real estate. 441. Hanlon, Concerning ferries, and
providing appeals from the Board of County Commissioners. 442. Sears. To amend section 3 of
an act encouraging agricultural fairs, etc. 443. Eley. To fix the fees, salaries and
compensation of certain officers named therein. 444. Dale. Relating to gravel, macadamized
and paved roads. 445. Dale. To prohibit the playinsrof billiards, pool, or other games, in
saloons 446. Taylor. To provide for the support of illegitimate children. 447. Gooding. To
require railroad companies, their lessees and assignees, to construct fences along their
lines. 448.- Gooding. Relating to the payment of attorney fees in drainage proceedings. 480.
McMullen. To provide means for erection of the New State House, and the collection of certain
taxes. 482.——————. To authorize the Board of Trustees of school cities to pay for certain
real estate. 483. McClelland. To fix the time of holding court in the Thirty-first Judicial
Circuit. 484. Robertson. To legalize certain acts of the Board of Trustees of Browns-town,
Jackson county. 488. Ways and Means Committee. To establish the Indiana Volunteer Weather
service, and locating the same. 489. Williams. To provide fire protection to the Insane
Hospital. 490. Carr. To create the Forty-Eighth Judicial Circuit. 491. Haworth. Concerning
the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors. 492. Helms, To limit the hours of labor
performed by street railway laborers. 493. Branch. To amend sections 318 and 81 of the
Revised Statutes of 1881. 494. Bailey. To drain lands by straightening Eel River. 495.
Robinson, For the relief of George D. Armstrong, Trustee of Perry township, Clay County. 496.
Staley. To amend an act providing for the appointment of the trustees of the Home for the
feeble-minded children and the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. 497. Floyd. To amend the act
concerning the election, duties, etc., of justices of the peace. 498. Floyd. Concerning the
Fish Commissioners for the State.
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REPORTS. 345 499. Taylor. To create liens against the property of railroad companies in
certain cases etc. 500. Linville. To prevent the spread of hoe: cholera. 501. Fisher.
Concerning the records of County Surveyors and County School Superintendents. 502. Barney.
Concerning soldiers monuments. 503. Jewetfc, Concerning the boundary -of Scott county. 504.
Mauck, To legalize the the incor poration of the town of Laconia, Harrison county. 505.
Mauck. To provide for the redistribution among the counties of the common school fund. 506.
Williams. To abolish the office of ^•Sapreme Court Commissioner. 507. Pendleton. To amend an
act to , provide for the crossing of railroads, etc. .•508, Pendleton. To amend an act con-•
earning taxation. 50#. Farrell. To repeal section 5 of an act concerning liens of mechanics.
51Q. Schley. Concerning book and stationery manufacturing companies, 511. Schley. Concerning
th9 license of hucksters, peddlers, tftc. 512. Overman. To amend section 6 of an act to
reeulate and license the sale of spirituous, vinous, rnalt and other liquors. 513. Hargrave.
To regulate the sale of nursery stock, and protect horticulture. 514. Engle. To prohibit the
giving of passes by railroads to judicial, legislative and other officers. 515. Engle. For
additional powers to the Boards of Trustees of towns. 516. Glazebrook. To protect muskrats.
517. But#. To protect trees and shrubs. 518. Sayre. To prohibit forced contributions of
money, etc. 519. Smith of Tippecanoe. To compel county offiicera to produce their records in
court on supoenas. 520. Hanlon. Concerning water works companies, etc, 521. Frazee. To
require gravel and macadamized road companies to make an annual statement of assets and
liabilities. 522. Smith of Tippecanoe. In relation to the rights and liabilities of married
women. 523. Brownlee. To provide for the appointment of a fee and salary commission. 524.
Staley. To regulate the tenure of the appointment of teachers by school boards. 525. Reeves.
To amend the act concerning the partition of lands. 526. Taylor. To provide for the
computation and reporting of the average daily attendance of pupils in public schools, and
the apportionment of school revenue accordingly. 528. Rivers. Concerning the abandonment of
county offices, and providing for declaring them vacant.