HOUSE BILLS READ THE FIRST TIME.
The bill [H. R. 128] empowering the Board of Trustees of any incorporated town to compel the owners of lots to plant, maintain and protect shade trees -
The bill [H. R. 118] making the parties competent witnesses as to certain matters in actions by executors or administrators upon contracts assigned to the decedentswhere the assignor is alive and a competent witness -
The bill [H. R. 64] making the first day of January, fourth day of July, Thanksgiving days twenth-fifth day of December and all general State and National election days, legal holidays -
The bill [H. R. 112] to make wives competent to testify in actions brought for injuries done to them -
The bill [H. R. 138] to amend section 2 of the act authorizing cities and towns to issue bonds for the erection or completion of school buildings approved March 11, 1867The bill [H. R. 174] to amend section 32 of the general city incorporation law, approved March, 14, 1867 -
The bill [H. R. 123] prescribing time for the transaction of road business, and the appointment of superintendent and physician for the poor -
The bill [H. R. 171] prescribing the manner of selecting petit jurors for the Circuit and Common Pleas Court -
The bill [H. R. 130] to render uniform the rate of interest [8 per cent.] on the common school funds of the State of Indiana -
The bill [H. R. 177] fixing the time of holding courts in the first Judicial Circuit -
The bill [H. R. 136] to amend section 647 of the General Practice Act of June 18, 1852 -
The bill [H. R. 56] authorizing the appropriation of money out of the State Treasury for the use of the Indiana University -
The bill [H. R. 210] to amend section 20 of the act establishing a Reformatory Prison for Females -
The bill [H. R. 218] to amend section 208 of the General Practice Act of June 18, 1852 -
[Mr. DWIGGINS gave notice that on tomorrow he should move to amend the rules by increasing the number of Standing Committees and adding a Committee on Woman's Suffrage.]
The bill [H. R. 214] to amend section 25 and 26 of the act of May 14, 1852, regulating descents and apportionment of estates -
The bill [H. R. 170] to amend the 157th and 664th sections of the General Practice Act of June 18, 1852 -
The bill [H. R. 178] to amend section 1 of the act to amend section 77 of the act of June 17, 1852, regulating the code of Practice -
The bill [H. R. 167] to preserve the original manuscript journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Indiana -
The bill [H. R. 188] to amend section 433 of the act of June 18, 1852, regulating the Code of Practice -
Were read the first time and severally passed to the second reading.
(On motion of Mr. Rhodes, the bill [H. R. 241] to give security to persons who contract with railroad companies to perform work, was referred to the Committee on Railroads.)
