NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following bills were introduced, read, and severally passed to the second reading without objection :
By Mr. SLACK: A bill [S. 2.] for the immediate repeal of an act entitled "An act to page: 13[View Page 13] establish courts of conciliation, to prescribe rules, practice, and proceedings therein and the compensation of Judges," approved June 11, 1852.
By Mr. COBB: A bill [S. 3.] to amend section 18 of an act to prescribe the powers and duties of justices of the peace, in State prosecutions, so as to enable justices to commit defendants in case of conviction, upon failure to pay costs.
By Mr. MARCH: A bill [S. 4.] regulating the public printing of the State of Indiana, fixing the compensation therefor, and to abolish the office of State Printer.
By Mr. NEWCOMB: A bill [S. 5.] to amend section 238 of an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice and pleadings in court trials ; so that whenever the assignor is used as a witness by the assignee, the opposite party may offer himself as a witness in his own behalf.
