NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following bills were introduced, read the first time, and severally passed to the second reading, to-wit:
By Mr. GRAVES, by direction of a select committee, and in lieu of the bill S. 104see page 127which was laid on the table, [133] fixing and determining the amount of the equivalent to be paid by persons conscientiously opposed to bearing arms in pursuance of the requirements of the Constitution, declaring when the same shall be due and payable; directing the making of rules and regulations for the collection thereof, and the manner in which suit therefor shall be brought and judgment recovered; and also declaring when this act shall take effect.
By Mr. MURRAY, [134] supplemental to an act to regulate and license the sale of spiritous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, approved March 5, 1859.
By Mr. WILLIAMS, [135] to amend the first and third sections of "An act for the encouragement of agriculture," approved February 17, 1852.
page: 152[View Page 152]By Mr. RAY. [136] to divide the State Into eleven Congressional Districts, and to repeal "An act to divide the State into Congressional Districts," approved February 9, 1852.
