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INDIANA. 



Among the acts passed were the following: 



Appropriating $60,000 to pay the expenses of the 

 extra session of the Legislature. 



Outlawing the English sparrow. 



Reorganizing the Soldiers' Orphans' Home and Asy- 

 lum for Feeble-Mindcd Children, and providing that 

 three trustees, one of them a woman and the others 

 honorably discharged Union soldiers, shall he ap- 

 pointed uy the Governor as a boar.d of management. 



Requiring the full monthly payment of employe's 

 engaged in manual or mechanical labor, and making 

 the claims of such employes preferred claims. 



Authorizing the appointment of short-hand report- 

 ers for courts of record in counties with 10,000 or 

 more inhabitants, and fixing the compensation at not 

 more than $5 for each day actually employed. 



Prohibiting gambling on fair-grounds. 



Prohibiting Sunday base-ball playing where any 

 fee is charged. 



Prohibiting forced contributions of money or prop- 

 erty from employes by corporations or their officers. 



Authorizing County Commissioners to make suita- 

 ble provision from the County Treasury for the edu- 

 cation of pauper children. 



Levying a tax and authorizing a loan of $500,000 for 

 the completion of the new State- House. 



Legalizing certain sales of real estate by commis- 

 sioners in proceedings by an executor or an adminis- 

 trator to sell such real estate. 



Authorizing a temporary loan of $600,000 and mak- 

 ing provision for funding the outstanding loan at a 

 lower rate of interest. 



Abolishing offices of City Treasurer and City As- 

 sessor in cities of over 70,000 people, and providing 

 for the discharge of their duties by the County Treas- 

 urer and Township Assessor respectively. 



Providing for the incorporation of fish-ladders, de- 

 fining misdemeanors, and providing penalties. 



Making the State Board of Health to consist of five 

 members instead of four, and providing for the elec- 

 tion of a secretary of the board. 



Authorizing municipal corporations to purchase and 

 hold real estate for sanitary purposes, and legalizing 

 purchases heretofore made. 



Amending section 5206 of the Revised Statutes of 

 1881 so that claims not exceeding $50 for work per- 

 formed at any time within the previous six months, 

 by laboring- men or mechanics, shall be treated as 

 preferred debts against any corporation or person 

 failing, assigning, or having his business suspended 

 by creditors. 



Prohibiting a tax levy of more than thirty-three 

 cents on the hundred dollars in counties having a 

 voting population of more than 25.000. 



Prohibiting the buying and selling of votes, and. 

 prescribing penalties of disfranchisement and ineligi- 

 bility to office. 



Appropriating $30,000 to Indiana University. 



Reapportioning the State for legislative purposes. 



Proposing an amendment to section 2 of the Con- 

 stitution so that no county officer except Survevor 

 shall be eligible to a re-election for the term of office 

 immediately succeeding a term already served by him. 



Authorizing County Commissioners in certain cases 

 to construct free turnpikes instead of free bridges, and 

 authorizing boards to pay for bridges built within the 

 corporate limits of towns and cities. 



To prevent the spread of Canada thistles. 



Extending for thirty years mining corporations ex- 

 isting before the State Constitution took effect. 



Legalizing certain sales of real estate made without 

 appraisement by majority votes of Common Councils 

 of incorporated cities. 



Appropriating $600,000 for the completion of the 

 three new asylums for the insane. 



Concerning drainage : repealing certain laws, pro- 

 hibiting the obstruction of drains, etc. 



Increasing the bond of the State Treasurer to $700,- 

 000. 



Appropriating $125,000 to defray the expenses cf 

 the regular session of the General Assembly. 



Appropriating' $3,000 to repair that portion of the 

 Asylum for the Insane damaged by fire. 



Prohibiting aliens from holding titles to real estate 

 in Indiana. 



Providing for the removal of obstructions from 

 highways. 



Appropriating from the general fund for the erec- 

 tion of tablets to the memory of Indiana soldiers who 

 fell at Gettysburg. 



Providing that in cities of fewer than 10,000 in- 

 habitants the County Auditor and Treasurer shall 

 levy and collect the city taxes and turn them over 

 to the proper city officers. 



Regulating the practice of medicine, surgery, and 

 obstetrics, and providing for the issuing of licenses 

 to practice by the County Clerk. 



Appropriating $3,900 "to maintain the Indiana ex- 

 hibit at New Orleans. 



Authorizing the levying of a township tax of 1 per 

 cent, to support libraries. 



Appropriating $40,000 to Purdue University for 

 1883 and 1884. 



Appropriating $6,800 for the erection of a new build- 

 ing at the Reform School for Boys. 



Regulating the business of building, loan fund, and 

 savings associations. 



Providing means for securing the health and safety 

 of persons employed hi coal-mines : prescribing pen- 

 alties for violations and repealing all conflicting laws. 



Empowering voluntary associations, incorporated 

 under the laws of the State for establishing homes 

 for aged women, to receive into such homes aged men 

 also. 



Providing that interest on county bonds may be 

 paid annually or semi-annually. 



Prohibiting the importation of foreign contract la- 

 bor. 



Amending the act providing for the organization 

 and perpetuity of voluntary associations. 



Prohibiting discriminations by telephone compa- 

 nies. 



Authorizing school trustees to pay out of the spe- 

 cial school fund money for real estate purchased for a 

 public library. 



Authorizing Boards of County Commissioners to ac- 

 cept gravel roads and maintain the same. 



Amending the law providing for the taxation and 

 registration of dogs. 



Amending section 32 of the election contest law, so 

 as to give the judges the right to examine ballots after 

 the same have been read and announced by the in- 

 spectors. 



Providing a contingent fund of $2,000 a month to 

 be disbursed by the Superintendent of the Hospital 

 for the Insane. 



Authorizing owners of land separated by railroads 

 to construct w~agon and driveways over such railroads ; 

 also, releasing railroads from liability for stock-killing 

 on account of such driveway. 



Authorizing the County 'Treasurer, Auditor, and 

 Recorder, jointly to accept offers of compromise 

 touching delinquent lands in certain cases by consent 

 of the Auditor of State. 



Allowing County Commissioners of different coun- 

 ties to unite in the purchase of grounds and buildings 

 for an Orphans' Home. 



Providing that any person may appeal from a dccis 

 ion of County Commissioners in claims against coun- 

 ties to the Circuit or Superior Courts. 



Authorizing universities and colleges to acquire, 

 hold, and dispose of real estate. 



Regulating weights and measures. 



Giving to all people, without regard to race or pre- 

 vious condition, the advantages of restaurants, in: 

 eating-houses, barber-shops, and all places^ of pub 

 accommodation and amusement, and providing pena 

 ties for violation. 



Authorizing commissioners of counties with ui 



