NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills for acts of the General Assembly were introduced, read the first time and severally passed to the second reading:
By Mr. CULLEN, (S. 26) appropriating $75,000 to defray the expenses of the 45th Session of the General Assembly. [On his motion the rules were suspended,yeas 41, nays 2the bill read the second time and referred to the Committee on Finance.]
By Mr. MASON, [S. 27] to divide the State into Congressional Districts.
It provides as follows:
SEC. 3. The counties of Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer, Dubois, Pike, Gibson, Knox and Davis shall constitute the first District.
SEC. 4. The counties of Perry, Orange, Crawford, Martin, Lawrence, Washington, Harrison, Floyd, Clark and Scott, shall constitute the second District.
SEC. 5. The counties of Jackson, Bartholomew, Jennings, Jefferson, Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland, shall constitute the third District.
SEC. 6. The counties of Sullivan, Green, Monroe Brown, Owen, Clay, Vigo, Parke and Vermillion shall constitute the fourth district.
SEC. 7. The counties of Putnam, Hendricks, Boone, Hamilton and Marion shall constitute the fifth district.
SEC. 8. The counties of Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Hancock, Rush, Decatur, Franklin, Union and Fayette, shall constitute the sixth district.
SEC. 9. The counties of Wayne, Randolph, page: 38[View Page 38]Jay, Delaware, Henry, Madison and Grant shall constitute the seventh district
SEC. 10. The counties of Fountain, Warren, Tippecanoe, Carroll, Howard, Tipton, Clinton, and Montgomery shall constitute the eighth district.
SEC. 11. The counties of Benton, White, Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Starke, Laporte, Lake, Porter, Newton, Jasper and Pulaski shall constitute the ninth district.
SEC 12. The counties of St. Joseph, Elkhart, Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, DeKalb, and Kosciusko shall constitute the tenth district.
SEC. 13. The counties of Miami, Wabash Whitley, Allen, Huntington, Wells, Adams and Blackford shall constitute the Eleventh District.
By Mr. BONHAM, [S. 28] to amend section 18 of an act entitled An Act prescribing the powers and duties of Justices of the Peace in State prosecutions. [So as to give to Justices of the Peace power to collect costs in State prosecutions.]
By Mr. BENNETT, [S. 29] defining who shall be competent witnesses in any court of judicial proceeding in this State. [Without distinction of color or blood.]
By Mr. REAGAN, [S. 30] to provide for the protection of fish, defining the time in which they shall be trapped, &c [Unlawful between the first days of March and September in each year.]
By Mr. BELLAMY, [S. 31] to amend section 117 and repeal section 116 of an act entitled An Act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules practice, pleadings and forms in criminal actions in courts ot this State, approved June 17, 1852.
So that section 117 shall read as follows:
SECTION 117 When the defendant is found guilty the court shall determine the amount ot the fine and the punishment, to be inflicted, and render judgment accordingly: the defendant to be liable tor all costs unless the court expressly determine otherwise.
By Mr. RICE, [S.32] to provide for issuing capias ad satis aciendum in actions for repletion of personal property, defendant shall fraudulently conceal, remove, transfer, withhold or refuse to deliver said property, and providing the manner of proceedings to obtain said writ in certain cases therein specified.
By Mr. BENNETT, [S. 33] to amend sections 10,13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, of an act regulating the fees of officers, &c., approved March 2, 1855; [so as to increase the fees of Constables, Justices of the Peace, Jurors, Witnesses and County Commissioners.]
By Mr. CULLEN, [S.34] to amend section 3 of an act to establish Courts of Common Pleas, &c., approved May 14, 1852, and creating a new district, and appointing a Judge therein.
By Mr. STEIN, [S. 35] to amend sections 19 and 29 of an act defining felonies, &c., approved June 20, 1852; [making it "grand larceny" to steal $25instead of $5 as the law now is-penalty $1,000 fine and imprisonment not less than one nor more than seven years.]
By Mr. RICHMOND, [S. 36] to amend an act providing for the appointment of a Sheriff of the Supreme Court, &c., approved May 13,1852; [by adding an additional section, allowing that officer a salary of $2,000 per year,]
