SENATE BILLS
Introduced by Mr. Cobb:
S. 4. An Act to provide for the making and authentication of transcripts from the records of the recorder's office in certain cases, and for the admissibility in evidence of the same, and certified copies of the deeds and mortgages contained therein.
Introduced by Mr. Brown, of Wells:
S. 16. An Act to amend section three hundred, and forty-nine of an act entitled "an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in civil cases in the courts of this State; to abolish distinct forms of action at law, and to provide for the administration of justice in a uniform mode of pleading and practice, without distinction between law and equity," approved June 18th, 1852. [So as to except actions for divorce.]
Introduced by Mr. Vawter:
S. 21, An Act to amend sections nine, ten, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-four and thirty-three of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana," approved January 22, 1851.
Introduced by Mr. Bonham:
S. 25. An Act defining certain misdemeanors, and prescribing punishment therefor.
SECTION 1. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another, and every person who shall perpetrate an assault shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
SEC. 2. Every person who shall, by words, signs or gestures, provoke another to commit an assault, assault and battery, or other breach of the peace, shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
SEC. 3. That section one of the act entitled "an act prescribing certain misdemeanors punishable only by justices of the peace," approved June 7, 1852, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Introduced by Mr. Niles:
S. 82. An Act to authorize cities to prepare, execute, negotiate and sell bonds, to provide means to complete unfinished school buildings, and to pay debts contracted for the erection of school buildings, and to authorise the levy and collection of an additional special tax to provide means for the payment of the interest and principal of such bonds, and declaring an emergency.
Introduced by Mr. Hord:
S. 84. An Act to amend section two of an act entitled "an act prescribing the powers and duties of justices of the peace in State prosecutions," approved May 29,1852, so as to authorise the service of a warrant throughout the State.
Introduced by Mr. Hord:
S. 93. An Act defining the crime of embezzlement, and prescribing the punishment therefor.
Introduced by Mr. Bennett:
S. 103. An Act repealing all general laws now in force for the incorporation of cities, providing for the incorporation of cities, prescribing their powers, rights and duties, and the manner in which they shall exercise the same, and regulating other matters properly connected therewith, and repealing certain acts therein specified.
Introduced by Mr. Cobb:
S. 114. An Act to amend section thirty-eight of an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies," approved May 11, 1852.
[So that Stockholders shall be individually liable to laborers, their executors, administrators, and assigns for all labor done in the construction of said road, that shall remain unpaid, after the assets of the corporation shall have been exhausted.]
Introduced by Mr. Brown, of Wells:
S. 115. An Act to amend section eleven of an act entitled "an act concerning county prisons," approved May 27th 1852.
[By appropriately inserting this : "or any person convicted of a criminal offense and temporarily ordered to be imprisoned in the county prison."]
Introduced by Mr. Downey:
S. 156. An Act to amend the fourteenth section of an act entitled "an act to limit the number of Grand Jurors, and to point out the manner of their selection, defining their jurisdiction, and repealing all laws inconsistent therewith," approved March 4, 1852, and to change the form of the oath of Grand Jurors.
Introduced by Mr. Niles:
S. 175. An Act to authorize the formation of companies for the protection and apprehension of horse thieves and other felons, and for mutual protection and repealing all laws inconsistent therewith.
Introduced by Mr. Allison:
S. 187. An Act to amend sections three and fifty-three of an act entitled "an act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Madison, and the several acts amendatory thereto, into one act, and to amend the same," approved Feb. 14th, 1848, and declaring an emergency.
Introduced by Mr. Hord:
S. 196. An Act concerning the writ of Habeas Corpus.
Introduced by Mr. Bennett:
S. 198. An Act repealing an act entitled ("an act for the relief of the families of soldiers, seamen and marines, and sick and wounded Indiana soldiers in hospitals in the State and United States service, and of those who have died or been disabled in such service, and prescribing the duties of certain officers therein named," approved March 4, 1865, and providing for the collection and disposition of the taxes levied in pursuance thereof for the year 1865, and providing when the same shall take effect.
Introduced by Mr. Thompson:
S. 199. An Act to amend an act to incorporate the Indianapolis Insurance Company, approved Feb. 8, 1886.
Introduced by Mr. Bradley:
S 201. An Act to provide for the care and treatment of the incurable insane of the State of Indiana, and matters properly connected therewith.
[Appropriating $35,000 for the erection of a suitable building in connection with the present Hospital for the Insane.]
Introduced by Mr. Hord:
S. 202. An Act making a specific appropriation from the State Treasury.
["Ths sum of $50,000 is hereby appropriated to defray the Legislative expenses of the General Assembly."]
Introduced by Mr. Brown, of Hamilton:
S. 205. An Act to fix the time of holding the Circuit Court in the several counties composing the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
Introduced by Mr. Oyler:
S. 206. An Act supplemental to an act entitled "an act to authorize, regulate and confirm the sale of railroads, to enable purchasers of the same to form corporations, and to exercise corporate powers, and to define their rights, powers and privileges, to enable such corporations to purchase and construct connecting and branch roads, and to operate and maintain the same," approved March 3, 1865, and for the purpose of making the same more definite and certain.
page: 5[View Page 5]Introduced by Mr Hord:
S. 215. An Act to amend section seventy-seven of an act entitled "an act to revise simplify and abridge the rules, practice and proceedings and forms in criminal actions in the courts of this State, approved June 17, 1852."
["When the objection is to the judge of the Circuit Court, any other circuit judge, or judge of the common pleas, may hold the court and try the cause."]
Introduced by Mr. Hanna:
S. 216. An Act to repeal sections forty-three and forty-four of an act entitled "An act prescribing who may make a will, the effect thereof, what may be devised, regulating the revocation, admission to probate, and contest thereof," approved May 31st, 1852.
Introduced by Mr. Ward:
S. 219. An Act defining who shall be competent witnesses in any Court or judicial proceeding in this State, and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act.
["All persons of competent age, without distinction as to color or blood and not otherwise by law rendered incompetent, shall be competent witnesses to testify in any proceeding or suit, civil or criminal, in any court in this State: Provided, That no negro or mulatto who has come, or who shall hereafter come into this State in violation of the Thirteenth Article of the Constitution of the State, shall, while said Article continues in force, be competent to testify as a witness in any case in which a white person shall be a party in interest."]
Introduced by Mr. Bermett:
S. 223. An Act authorizing married women under the age of twenty-one years to join with their husbands in the conveyance of real estate in certain cases.
Introduced by Mr. McClurg:
S. 227. An Act for the relief of Isaac D. Armstrong, treasurer of Clinton county, in the State of Indiana.
[Became a law without Executive approval, under the provision of the Constitution in such cases made and provided.]
Introduced by Mr. Williams:
S. 233. An Act to enable any child heretofore adopted or which may hereafter be adopted by any person under the laws of any State of the United States to take and hold real estate in this State as if the child had been adopted under the laws and within the State of Indiana.
Introduced by Mr. Cason:
S. 241. An Act to amend an amendment of an act entitled "an act in relation to witnesses, and to repeal section 238, of article 13, of the act entitled 'an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in cases in the courts of this State ; to abolish distinct forms of actions at law ; and to provide for the administration of justice in a uniform mode of pleading and practice, without distinction between law and equity,' approved June 18, 1852, and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, and providing when the act shall take effect and be in force, which took effect and went into force March 17,1861."
[So as to apply in suits brought by heirs.]
Introduced by Mr. Dykes:
S. 249. An act defining the powers of companies organized to construct canals for hydraulic purposes.
Introduced by Mr. Allison:
S.256. An Act to amend the fortieth clause of section thirty of an act entitled, "an act granting to the citizens of the town of Evansville, in thecounty of Vanderburg, a city charter," approved January 27, 1847, and declaratory of the meaning of the second section of the same act.
Introduced by Mr Allison:
S. 269. An Act entitled an act requiring County Auditors to make examination of the records in their offices in relation to school fuuds, and make report, and providing compensation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Introduced by Mr. Oyler:
S. 281. An Act to amend an act entitled "an act to fix the amount of the salary of the State Librarian, and repealing all former laws conflicting therewith, and to dispense with an Assistant Librarian and Clerk," approved March 4,1859, and also increasing the powers and duties of the State Librarian.
[Raising his salary from 800 to $1200.]
Introduced by Mr. Niles:
S. 284. An Act to prevent unauthorized printing at the expense of the State.
Introduced by Mr. Cason:
S. 289. An Act to provide for the acknowledgment of the execution of official bonds and to declare the effect and obligation of such bonds as between the obligors and the State.
Introduced by Mr. Cullen:
S. 293. An Act to provide for the periodical enumeration of the white male inhabitants of this State over the age of twenty-one years; to prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of officers in relation thereto, and, also, to prescribe the penalties for the violation of official duty in connection with said enumerations, as well as the manner in and the courts by which said penalties shall be enforced.
["In the year 1866, and again in the year 1871, and at the end of each successive period of six years, after the last mentioned year, an enumeration of the white male inhabitants, over the age of twenty-one years, of this State, shall be made in obedience to the requirements of the Constitution, and according to the provisions hereinafter contained."]
Introduced by Mr. Downey:
S 300. An Act to amend the fifth section of an act entitled "an act providing for an organization of Circuit Courts, the election of judges thereof, and defining their powers and duties," approved June 1,1852.
[Circuit Courts shall have "concurrent jurisdiction of all misdemeanors, except where the fine can not exceed three dollars."]
Introduced, by Mr. Douglas:
S. 303. An Act to legalize and declare valid and effectual all the orders, judgments and other proceedings made, rendered and had", by and before the Court of Common Pleas of Whitley county, in this State, held in the court house of said county in the month of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, and then and there before the regular judge of said court.
Introduced by Mr. Finch:
S. 313. An Act to amend the first and fourth sections of an act entitled "an act to reorganize the Evansville Insurance Companies, chartered under the several acts of February 8, 1836, and: January 21, 1850."
Introduced by Mr Cobb:
S. 314. An Act to authorize the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners to invest any moneys belonging to said Fund in the Indiana State Bonds or Stocks or in United States Stocks, and when invested in Indiana State Bonds or Stocks to provide for the cancellation of such bonds or stocks and for the issuing & new non-negotiable bonds for the benefit of the School Fund.
