NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Bills for acts of the General Assembly numbered and titled to the following effect were introduced:
By Mr, FULLER, [H. R. 275] to amend the Assessment laws.
By Mr. FULLER, [H. R. 276] to amend the Assessment laws.
By Mr. FULLER, [H. R. 277] to amend the Assessment laws. They were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. MONTGOMERY, [H. R. 278] to amend the fourth paragraph of section one of the act fixing the times of holding the Circuit Courts in the several counties of this State. [It respects the 4th Circuit - Franklin, Union, Fayette, Rush, Shelby, Decatur, Dearborn. It gives three weeks, instead of two weeks, for the time of holding court in Shelby and Decatur.] It was referred to the Committee on the Organization of Courts.
By Mr. SLACKHOUSE, [H. R. 279] to provide for the sale of forfeited saline lands. [Sale on the 22d of December annually.] It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. COREY, [H. R. 280] to fix the qualifications of teachers in the common schools ofthe State of Indiana, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith. [Teachers to be examined in orthography, reading, writing, geography, English grammar and arithmetic.] It was referred to the Committee on Education.
By Mr. SMITH of Lagrange, [H. R. 281] regulating the fees of clerks of Circuit and Common Pleas Courts, and supplemental to the act regulating the fees of officers. It was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. HAMILTON, [H. R. 282] to organize a system for the promotion of emigration to the State of Indiana, [the Secretary of State to be Commissioner of emigration, with district committees - to offer $300 premiums for pamphlet inducements, &c.] It was referred to the Committee on Emigration.
By Mr. VAWTER a joint resolution. [H. R. No. 15] reciting that whereas the Congress of the United States, on the 30th of June, 1864, passed a law exempting from taxation the bonds, notes, and other securities of the United States ; therefore,
Resolved, &c. That our Senators, &c., be instructed to use their influence to procure a modification of said law so as to authorize the taxation of all except the bonds of the United States.
