NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following bills were introduced, and severally passed the first reading :
page: 233[View Page 233]By Mr. CONNER: [187] To repeal an act providing for extending the terms of Circuit Courts, &c., approved February 12, 1855; and the act amending section 1 of said act, approved December 24, 1858.
By Mr. DEHART: [188] To amend sec. 9 of an act providing for the appointment of notaries public, approved June 9, 1852; by giving them the same powers conferred upon justices of the peace in certain cases. (To try and determine such suits as are founded on contract or tort, when the debt or damages does not, exceed $300. May confess judgment before them in any sum not exceeding $400. Suits may be instituted before them.)
By Mr. MURRAY : [189] To repeal all laws making appropriations in aid of the colonization of negroes and mulattoes of this or other States.
Mr. CARNAHAN declared this bill unconstitutional, and made an ineffectual motion to reject it.
By Mr. MARCH: [190] To amend section 1 Of an act concerning the interest on money, approved May 27, 1852; so as to declare usurious all greater profits than would be realised from discounting notes or bills of exchange made payable in this State.
By Mr. MELLETT: [191] To create the seventh judicial circuit of the State of Indiana.
By Mr. HULL: [192] To provide for a change in width of State roads.
