AFTERNOON SESSION.
By Mr. LOCKRIDGE [S. 183]: to provide for the issuing of arms and ordinance stores, camp and garrison equipage to Colleges of Universities having a military department under charge of an officer of the United States army, as provided by the act of Congress of July 28, 1866, and acts amendatory thereto.
By Mr. WHITE [S. 184]: To repeal an act limiting the eligibility to the office of Township Trustee.
By Mr. WILSON [S. 185]: To amend Section 4 of an act of January 11, 1852, providing for the election of Prosecuting and District Attorneys. [In cases before Justices of the Peace no proceedings shall be valid except such attorney shall be present, unless after refusal upon notification to attend.]
By Mr. YANCEY [S. 186]: To extend the elective franchise in the election for choice of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States to certain classes of woman. |Every female having the came qualification as to age, residence, registration, declaration, that would entitle her to vote if she were a male].
By Mr. Bell [S. 187]: Making the Township Trustee of Civil Townships Cuperintendent of Roads and Highways in his Township and fixing a commutation road tax in lieu of road labor; [not to exceed $2 per capita, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty].
By Mr. BUNDY [S. 188]: Supplemental to the act of March 5, 1859, providing for the election or appointment of Supervisor of highways, etc.
By Mr. CHAPMAN [S. 189]: Defining the power of attorney; providing for the recording of the same; fixing the fee for recording, and prescribing penalties for violation.
By Mr. COFFEY [S. 190]: Authorizing incorporate towns to require of persons engaged in the retail liquor traffic within their corporate limit a license to do so. [In addition to County license-the license fee to be fixed by the Town Board.]
By Mr. COMPTON [S. 191]: To give the security to the persons who contract with railroad corporations.
By Mr. COMSTOCK [S. 192]: To legalize the proceeding of the Board of Trustees of the town of Milton, Wayne County.
By Mr. DAVIS [S. 193]: To amend the first section of an act of May 14, 1869, to provide for the erection and repair of any bridge forming the boundary line between two Counties, etc.
By Mr. GARRIGUS [S. 194]: To amend Section 30 of the act of March 5, 1859, providing for the appointment and election of Supervisor of Highways, and approved March 5, 1859.
By Mr. HUTCHINSON [S. 195]: To amend Section 634 of general practice act, approved June 18, 1852. [Concerning mortgage or other written agreement relating thereto.]
A bill to amend Section 634 of an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in civil cases in the Courts of this State; to abolish distinct forms of action at law, and to provide for the administration of justice in a uniform mode of pleading and practice, without distinction between law and equity, approved June 18, 1852.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that Section 634 of the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Section 634. When there is an express written agreement for the payment of the sum of money secured contained in the mortgage, or any separate instrument, the Court shall not, upon foreclosure , render any personal judgement, and shall not disrect in the order of sale that the balance due on the mortgage and costs which may remain unsatisfied after the sale of the mortgaged premises shall be levied of any property of the mortgage debtor. Section 3 of this act shall be in force from and after it passage.
By Mr. KEISER [S. 169]: To abolish the Superior Court of Cass Country, and transferring the business thereof to the Cass Circuit Court, etc.
By Mr. VOYLES [S. 197]: To appropriate $50 to John Hahn, of Floyd County, for services rendered in guarding one Thomas Joseph from threats of mob violence, while confined in Jail.
By Mr. COMSTOCK [S. 198]: To make legal and valid the articles of association and incorporated of plank, macadamized and gravel roads, sold and conveyed under a foreclosure of mortgage, but not organized within three months, but conveyed by the purchaser to an incorporated company, formed to purchase and continue such road as corporation, and making valid and binding all tolls, dues and contract of the same and regulating the establishment of toll gates thereon, prohibiting quo warranto, etc.
By Mr. RISTINE [S. 199]: To amend the seventh section of an act approved December 21, 1872, to provide for a uniform assessment of property and for the collection and return of taxes thereon-reciting what property shall be exempt from tax action.
By Mr. BELL [S. 200]: To legalize executor's sales and Sheriff's sales in certain cases. [All executions issued within ten years from entry of judgement, and without leave of Court, or revision, together with all levies and sales by virtue of such executions.]
On motion by Mr. GRAHAM, the Senate proceeded to consideration of the special order for this afternoon, being the resolution reported from a Special Committee of the two Houses in relation to the death of the late Governor James D. Williams.
Whereas, Hon. Isaac P. Gray, late Governor of the State, in his biennial message to the General Assembly, and His Excellency, Albert G. Porter, Governor of the State, in his inaugural address, delivered before the Senate and House of this General Assembly, on the 10th instant, have refereed to the death of James D. Williams, late Governor of the State of Indian, in complimentary and befitting terms, and have thus called the attention of this General Assembly to this sad dispensation of Providence; therefore be it.
Resolved, that this General Assembly has
page: 95[View Page 95]heard with deep feelings of regret of the death of Hon. James D. Williams, late Governor of the State of Indiana, and recognize that in his death the State has lost one of her pioneer citizens, who in assisted in building up and developing the material resources of the State, who for almost half a century served his adopted State in various official places of trust and profit, without the least suspicion of venality or corruption ever having benn charged against him; and that he has left behind him a name and fame that will long be cherished with pride by the people of the State.
Resolved, That in the death of Hon. James D. Williams the State of Indiana has sustained the loss of a faithful and honest public servant, whose place will be difficult to fill in the councils of the different fields in which he labored for the welfare of the people and the State.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the relatives and friends of the distinguished dead in the irreparable loss which they have sustained, and beg leave to assure them that the people of the State will remember with grateful feelings his worth and meritorious efforts in their behalf.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, attested by the Principle Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House. be forwarded by these officers to the family of the deceased.
Resolved, As a further mark of respect to the deceased, the General Assembly do now adjourn Monday next at 2 o'clock.
J. S. Briscoe, Samuel B. Kerr, Henry Hostetler, N. R. Lindsay, W. G. Sayre, Samuel Hargrove, Henry S. Cauthorn, S. S. Skinner, Committee for the Senate and House of Representatives.
