RECORD OF PATENTS.
Mr. Wood's bill [S.76] to permit all patents issued by the United States and by the State of Indiana, conveying real estate in said State and the record of all patents aforesaid, legal evidence in the Courts thereof, and to provide for recording all patents aforesaid for said purpose-coming up in regular order, it was read the third time.
Mr. WOODS explained that the bill allows swamp land patents to be recorded,and the General Government legalizes the recording of all heretofore recorded, and provide that the record evidence shall be received in the Courts of this State. It is of the same import as the law of 1879 in reference to canal land patents. As the law now stands, these patents can not be record because not acknowledged, as existing laws admit to record no paper unacknowledged. The Supreme Court has decided that such records are not evidence. In the northern part of the State are thousands of acres of this condition, and such a bill as this is measure greatly desired in that section by the people at large.
The question being, shall the bill pass? a constitutional provision requiring the yeas and nays to be recorded on the passage of every bill, they were ordered, and being taken, resulted yeas 44; nays 1; two-thirds of all members elected to the Senate voting therefor.
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR made that declaration, and announced the passage of the bill.
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR laid before the Senate the following communication from the Governor:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. January, 26 1881.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE-
I have had the honor to receive a letter dated the 25th inst. from a Committee composed of Moses Fowler, W. De Witt Wallace, Albert Henderson, John R. Colfroth, W.S. Lingle and S. Voter, appointed by and representing the citizens of Lafayette requesting me to state that the hospitalities of that city will be extended to Members of the Senate and House of Representatives and their wives during the contemplated visit of the Members of the General Assembly to Purdue University. It gives me pleasure in this manner to comply with the request of said Committee.
A. G. Porter.
