Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-02

To provide for the descent of the es-
tates of illegitimate children.
Continuing liens of DEGREES of the
Chancery courts.
To erect hospitals at $1,000 per an
mum.
To punish the killing of another's
stock.
To prohibit the playing of baseball,
cricket or any other game of ball or
bat or club on Sunday.
To exempt Mexican veterans from
the payment of peddling taxes.
To prohibit the sale of intoxicating
bitters within four miles of institutions
of learning, except within incorporated
towns and cities.
To enable county courts to build
bridges over streams and rivers.
To apportion the State into insane
hospital districts and provide for the
trusteeship and management of the
Eastern Asylum, to amend the laws Of
admission and commitment to such hos.
pital and to fix uniform rate for the
support of patients.
To empower corporations, upon a
vote of a majority of the whole capital
stock issued to issue or dispose of bonds
for any corporate purpose, and to make
a mortgage upon its property or fran.
chise, and providing that thepurchasers
thereof shall be and are constituted the
corporation with all its powers, except
railroad and turnpike companies.
To provide for the incorporation Of
agricultural, horticultural, fruit growers
and fruit canning establishments.
To furnish the code to Justices,
Clerks, Judges and Chancellors.
To continue the lien of judgments
and DEGREES of Chancery Courts when
appealed to the Supreme Courts.
To provide for the establishment Of
hospitals in towns and cities.
To provide for the erection of an in
sane asylum in West Tennessee.
To provide for the assessment Of
property for taxation and the assess
ment and collection of taxes for privil.
eye.
To amend the road laws passed at
the regular session Of 1881 and amend
ed at the first extra session of 1882,
and amended in 1888 in regular ses-
sion.
To bar the collection of back taxes
now due the State, counties or muuici>
palities for the collection of which no
suits have been commenced, and all
liens for said taxes unless the same are
collected or suits instituted, first IN the
case of taxes for the year 1878 and
previous thereto, within one year from
the passage of this act, and second in
the cases of taxes for the year 1879
and up to and inclusive of the year
1884, within six years from the time
they fell due.
To change the law barring upon the
organization of corporations SO as to
read: The maintenance of clubs for
social enjoyment, gymrhstic and gym
nasium and other clubs base ball, polo
clubs and other clubs fr the promotion
OF athletic sports, either for profit or
pleasure.
To limit the time of pertecting ap-
peal to thirty days from the judgment
or decree, if the court bold so long ;
otherwise before the adjournment of
the court.
To amend the fish Inv and allow
any person to catch fish by means of
any trap, box, basket q bait net, any
of whose meshes or Openings are not
less than one and onehalf inches in
diameter, in any stream in this State
as far as navigable.
To extend the statute of limitation
on realty and to quit titles to ten years
from the maturity of ths debt.
To perfect the mechanic lien law
and to secure to the me hanic his just