NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Mr. COFFROTH having obtained leave introduced a bill [H. R. 1] for an act to fix the time for holding the courts in the 20th Judicial District, (Adams, Wells, Allen and Huntington counties compose the District,) which was read the first time and referred to a Select Committee composed of members from that district.
Mr. CORY obtaining leave introduced a bill [H. R. 2,] for an act fixing the time of holding Circuit Courts in the counties composing the Fourth Judicial Circuit, and declaring an emergency; (Franklin, Union, Fayette, Rush, Shelby, Decatur and Dearborn counties compose the Circuit;) which was read the first time, and referred to a Select Committee composed of members from the counties therein named.
Mr. BOBO obtaining leave introduced a bill [H. E. 3] for an act providing for the appointment of suitable persons to hold Common Pleas Courts during the absence of Common Pleas Judges, for any part of any term of their said courts, and prescribing certain duties of Clerks and Sheriffs in relation to said Common Pleas Courts. (Any attorney of respectable character can be appointed Judge pro tempore by the regular Judge, and is to be qualified the same as the Judge proper,) which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
