BILLS FOR ACTS
Were introduced, read the first time and referred to appropriate committees:
Mr. BAKER [H. R. 249] to amend sections twenty and thirty-three of the supervisor's act of December 26, 1865.
Mr. BEELE [H. R. 250] to allow homestead of one thousand dollars to each householder who is head of a family.
Mr. BRITTON submitted a resolution fixing the hours for meeting and adjourning till the close of the session, which lies over one day.
Mr. CHITTENDEN, [H. R. 251] to legalize the assessment of taxes for the State debt, the State Debt Sinking Fund, [the tax of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars 1867, 1868, and of five cents for 1869 for State Debt Sinking Fund purposes.]
Mr. COFFROTH submitted a resolution directing the Committee on Prisons to inquire into the expediency of providing by law, that the same Board of Trustees shall examine and control both the Northern and Southern Prisons.
It was adopted.
Mr. CORY submitted a resolution, that no leave of absence shall be granted after this week except for special causes shown, and by a vote of the House.
Mr. GORDON proposed to amend so that leave of absence shall not be granted without unanimous consent.
Mr. BUSKIRK moved to lay the subject on the table.
The SPEAKER decided the resolution only declaratory of a rule of the House already adopted, and therefore out of order.
Mr. COTTON, [H. R, 252] to provide a board of trustees of, for, and to locate the Indiana Agricultural College; to provide for its endowment, employ teachers, etc., [accepting the donation of lands, etc., tendered by citizens of Hancock county, and locating the institution near Greenfield, in said county.
