AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following bills were introduced, read the first time and severally passed to the second reading:
By Mr. HIGGINS, [32] amending 18th section of act relating to incorporated cities.
By Mr. ATKISON. [33] amending section 447 of the Practice Act.
By Mr. SPENCER, [34] prohibiting clerks of the Circuit Court and Common Pleas Courts from practicing law in the courts aforesaid.
By Mr. HOSTETTER.[35] amending the 5th section of the act of 1859 relative to township business.
By Mr. GREGG, [38] providing for the registry of voters and to punish frauds at the ballot-box.
By Mr. TARKINGTON, [37] amending the 22d section of the act relating to the Indiana University.
By My. GREGORY, [38] to protect: live stock along railroads, and for the punishment of certain persons therein named.
By Mr NOYES, [39] amending the acts defining misdemeanors, approved 1852.
By Mr. BROWN, [40] repealing section 2d of the act amending section 11 of the act establishing Courts of Common Pleas--taking jurisdiction in cases of felony from said Courts.
By Mr. BURTON,[41] providing for the more effectual enforcement of the article of the Constitution, making immigration negro immigration of the Constitution and a felony.
By Mr. ANDERSON, [42] to enforce the 13th article of the Constitution--hanging every negro, he or she, who came into the State, till he or she, be dead.
By Mr. PUETT,[43] to secure the rights of married women in real estate told upon execution.
By Mr. PERRY, [44] amending the 6th section of the Common Pleas Court act of March 5, 1859.
By Mr. GREGORY, [45] relative to the rights of landlords and tenants
On motion by Mr. HUTCHINGS, it was--
Resolved, That when the House adjourn it will be till Monday, at 2 o'clock p.m.
LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES.
The bill [S. 1] appropriating $75.000 for legislative expenses, coming up in order--
Mr. LASSELLE made an ineffectual motion to recommit the bill with instruction; to reduce the amount to $40.000.
The bill then passed the House by yeas 84, nays 8.
BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS.
Mr. ANDERSON submitted the following, and asked that it be tabled for the present:
page: 55[View Page 55]Resolved, By the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring,) that the Principal Secretary of the Senate, and the Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives, be authorized to contract with ARIEL & W. H. DRAPIER, reporters, for 1,500 copies of the continuation of their Brevier Legislative Reports, to contain verbatim reports of the proceedings and debates of the present session of the General Assembly, on all propositions and questions having relation to the state of the Union and the war; the said reports to be printed in the Daily State Sentinel,or the Daily Indianapolis Journal newspaper, and when so printed the said reports to be transferred from the columns of such newspaper into book form of double column pages-- said reports, so printed, to be paper-covered and sent to the office of the Secretary of State, and by him sent by mail to the several members of the General Assembly-- 10 copies to each member--as soon as possible after the adjournment of the session; Provided said reports shall not cost more than two thirds of one cent a page per copy for the writing and printing thereof.
Mr. Anderson's motion was agreed to.
WORK FOR COMMITTEES.
House bills were read the second time and referred to appropriate committees, unless otherwise designated, to-wit:
Mr. Waterman's [27] special meeting of County Commissioners.
Mr. Lamb's [28] amending the wild same act was ordered engrossed for the third reading.
Mr. Miller'.s [29] fining-disturbers of meeting, was ordered engrossed.
Mr. Wolfe's [30] amending the witness act.
Mr. Packard's [31] punishing violations of injunctions by attachment.
