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 INDIANA.

An act concerning the ownership and alienation of real estate by aliens, provides, that all aliens residing in the State of Indiana, who shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, conformably to the laws thereof, may acquire and hold real estate in like manner as citizens of that state.

Aliens can not take or hold land except by devise or grant. They may convey the same at any time within five years thereafter and no longer; and all land so left and remaining unconveyed at the end of five years shall escheat to the state.

Telegraph and telephone companies are prohibited from discriminating between patrons, under heavy penalties—provided, that arrangements may be made with publishers of newspapers for transmission of intelligence of general and public interest, and that communication for and from officers of justice shall take precedence of all others.

An act to prohibit the importation and migration of aliens, foreigners, and others, under contract or agreement to perform labor within the state of Indiana, declares, that from and after the passage of the act all contracts or agreements, express or implied, between any person, company, or corporation, and any foreigners or alien to perform labor or service in Indiana prior to their immigration to the United States, shall be utterly null and void, and the violation of any of the provisions of this act are made a misdemeanor. This enactment is in exact accordance with a similar one of Congress on the same subject already cited.

This legislation is somewhat novel in the United States. It is supposed to have originated in an effort to suppress the recent extraordinary strikes by foreign laborers in large mining and manufacturing establishments in Ohio and other western states. Some of these recent, fearfully destructive, popular outbreaks and strikes originated and were led, as was stated by the public press, by foreign labor, which, a few years ago,