HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, February 28, 1861.The SPEAKER asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill [326] to revive the act to legalize the doings and proceedings of the Alton, Mount Carmel and New Albany Railroad Company, &c., and to change some things in regard to the corporate powers thereof: [Changes the style to the St. Louis and Louisville Railroad Company-gives them five years to commence and 15 years to complete said road;]
Mr. Jenkinson: [32f] To amend the act to prohibit evidence of person of one-eighth part or more of negro blood in cases where white persons are parties in interest; which were passed to the second reading.
Mr. Gresham: [328] To amend the 4th section of the Common Pleas act of March 5, '59, [fixing the terms in the counties of Washington, Clark, Scott and Harrison.] This bill (the constitutional provision being suspended for the purpose) was passed to the engrossment and third reading, and read the third time and passed the House-yeas 89, nays 0.
