NEW BILLS
Were introduced and passed to the second reading, viz :
Mr. STOTSENBERG: [189] Authorizing the arresting and securing of fugitives from justice.
Mr. Branham : [190] To provide for the expenses of the present Legislature.
Mr. Grover: [191] To amend sections 176 and 190 of the practice act.
Mr. Jenkinson : [192] To provide for the organization of circuit courts, fixing the salaries of the judges thereof, the number of terms; and providing for the transfer of the probate business of the common pleas to the circuit court; and repealing, &c.
Mr. Anderson : [193] To provide for the location, vacation and change of highways ; for the damages in such location, change and vacation; and to repeal sections 15 to 26 of the act of January 17, 1852.
Mr. Kendrick: [194] To provide for the sale of certain property in the city of Indianapolis belonging to the State of Indiana ; and with the proceeds thereof to purchase other grounds within said city, and erect thereon anew house for the Governor; and for the regulation thereof-[Geo. W. Miller, W. O. Thompson, M. D. Williams, and Simon Yandis, the Board of Control.]
Mr. Lane: [195] To amend section 34, chapter 83, of the Revised Statutes of 1852 to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies, approved May 11, 1852.
Mr. Burgess: [196] Giving the clerks of the several circuit courts of the State, probate jurisdiction, defining their powers and duties, fixing their compensation, prohibiting their deputies from practicing law, and repealing, &c.
Mr. Stotsenburg: [197] To amend the 4th section of the act of March 5, 1852. declaratory of the law regulating marriages, &c., so as to give recorders power to issue marriage licenses.
Mr. Veatch: [198 To provide for the erection of an Asylum for Inebriates.
Mr. Thompson: [199] To amend the act of February 7, 1855, authorizing county agricultural societies to'hold real estate; and to authorize such societies to issue capital stock.
Mr. Fordyce: [200] To amend the 3d section of the act containing some general provisions respecting the sinking fund, its management and control; and to legalize and give validity to certain bonds therein named and to authorize debtors of the Branches of the State page: 204[View Page 204] Bank of Indiana to secure to the sinking fund a portion of their indebtedness, approved March 5, 1859, so as to authorize a partial release of lands mortgaged pursuant to the provisions of said act, and so as to authorize substitutions.
Mr. Parrett: [201] To attach the county of Benton to the tenth circuit, and to create the seventeenth judicial circuit; to provide for the election of judge, &c.
Mr. Knowlton : [202] To amend section 650 of article 36 of the practice act-[Mechanic shall file notice of intention to hold a lien within six months after the work.]
Mr. Hurd: [203] To provide for the registration of births, marriages and deaths; for the appointment of registers, and providing for the publication of such register; and a penalty.
Mr. Cooprider: [204] For the protection of swamp land ditches.
Mr. Williams: [205] To encourage the construction of free turnpikes, and to provide therefor.
Mr. COLLINS, of Adams, submitted an order, which was adopted, that no leave of absence shall be longer than for one day, unless it be for a limited time.
