NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were read the first time and severally referred to appropriate Committees:
By Mr. WALKER, the bill [H.R. 314] proscribing the duties of Clerks of the Circuit Court and County Recorders in certain cases, providing for their compensation and other matters properly connected therewith. [In all cases where the title of real estate is considered the Clerk shall make out a certificate, under the seal of said Court, and complete transcript of the judgment and decree of the Court, and deliver it to the Recorder of the County to be recorded on the record of deeds. He shall tax one dollar for his fee, and one dollar for the record fee, and ten cents for each description of land, this amount to be taxed as costs upon the losing party in the suit.]
By Mr. McDOWELL, the bill [H. R. 318] making it lawful for Notaries Public in the State of Indiana to perform the marriage ceremony.
By Mr. McDOWELL [H. R. 319] to amend Section 3 of an act providing for the protection of wild game, and defining the time and manner in which the same maybe taken, killed or otherwise disposed of, prohibiting shipment from the State of Indiana, and the destruction of birds' nests, and making it unlawful to go upon land purpose of hunting, without the permission of the owner.
By Mr. WRIGHT the bill [H.R. 320] requiring County, city and town officers having the care and custody of sinking funds, levied and collected for the liquidation of bonds and other indebtedness negotiated by any County, city or town in this city, which do not bcome due and in annual installments, the County, city or town to have all the interestand profits accrued there from.
By Mr. GILMAN the bill [H. R. 321] to relinquish the title of the State Indiana to lands in the bed of Beaver Lake, in Newton County, Indiana.
