BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following new propositions were passed the first reading without objection :
By Mr. CONLEY: [S. 15.] To amend an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice and pleading in courts, approved June 18, 1852; increasing the length of stay in the collection of debts to double the length of time that it is now.
By Mr. JONES: [S. 16.] Requiring township assessors to ascertain the number of sheep killed or injured by dogs.
By Mr. WILSON: [S. 17.] Allowing prosecuting attorneys ten percent, upon all moneys collected upon forced connoisance.
By Mr. CONNER: [S. 18.] To amend sec. 315 of an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in civil causes; making publication thirty days before the first day of the term sufficient.
By Mr. CLAYPOOL: [S. 19.] To amend sec. 3 of an act to provide for the protection of wild game, approved February 26, 1857; by inserting "March" and "November" instead of "April " and " October.'
By Mr. CRAVENS: [S. 20.] Supplemental to an act to regulate and license the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, approved March 5, 1859; provides that whenever persons applying for license shall be aggrieved, they may apply to the Circuit Court, or may demand a trial by jury without appeal.
By Mr. DICKINSON: [S. 21.] To apportion Senators and Representatives for the next six years.
By Mr. MURRAY: [S. 22.] Requiring the collection of moneys due for license for the sale of intoxicating liquors by taxation of the property in which such liquors are vended; adding the moneys so received to the common school fund.
By Mr. HULL: [S. 23.] To amend sec. 70 of an act for the valuation and assessment of real and personal property, for the collection of taxes, &c., approved June 21, 1852; so as to require the assessor to make out his lists " before the first day of March or the March session of the Commissioners' Court," instead of the " first day of June," as the statute now provides.
[A message from the House was received announcing the passage by that body of a resolution inviting the Senate to a joint convention for the purpose of electing a United States Senator, on Wednesday next at 2 o'clock, P. M.]
By Mr. LINE : [S. 24 ] To amend section 6 of an act for the encouragement of agriculture, approved June 17, 1852; so that the meetings of the State Board shall be on the " first Tuesday after the first Monday in January," instead of "the first Thursday after the first Monday."
By Mr. DICKINSON: [S. 25.] Authorizing justices of the peace, judges of courts and mayors of towns and cities to administer oaths generally; and making legal, oaths heretofore administered by such officers.
By Mr. SHOEMAKER: [S. 26.] Supplementary to an act concerning the re-location of county seats in certain cases, approved December 22, 1858, so as to legalize and confirm the action of Boards of Commissioners in cases when public property has been conveyed under the provisions of such act, and to provide for the conveyance of the asylum for the poor, in certain cases, and to provide also that certain trustees shall be created bodies politic and corporate.
By Mr. LOMAX: [S. 27.] To enable persons objecting to the location, vacation, or changing of highways, to remonstrate against the same.
