REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
The following described bills were returned from Standing Committees of the Senate with the recommendation that they be indefinitely postponed. The reports were severally placed on the files of the Senate, to be taken up and considered when the bills shall come up for the second reading:
The bill [H. R. 71] to provide for the speedy publication of certain laws.
The bill [S. 92] to regulate insanity inquests; [S. 123] to amend Section 6 of the Supervisor of Highways act; [S. 188] supplemental to the act of March 5, 1859, and amending Section 6 of said act concerning Road Masters; [S. 197] to appropriate $51 to John Hahn, of Floyd County, for services rendered in guarding a prisoner from mob violence; [S. 200--see page 94 of these reports] legalizing sales on execution when made without special order; [S. 201] to amend Section 78 of the general practice act, approved June 17, 1852; [S. 222] to exempt one-fifth of timber land in this State, held by any one person, from taxation; [S. 252--see page 135 of these reports] to amend Section 8 of the Gravel Road act of February 28, 1855; [S. 254] requiring judgment plaintiffs upon payment of judgments to enter satisfaction on all dockets where noted; [S. 297] requiring County Superintendents to be appointed by County Commissioners.
The following described bills were returned from standing Committees of the Senate with the recommendation that they lie on the table. The reports were severally placed on the files of the Senate to be taken up and considered when the bills shall come up for the second reading:
The bill [S. 91] [see page 51 of these Reports] providing for converting toll into free roads; [S. 109 see p. 54] appropriating $10,000 to erect a monument on the Tippecanoe Battle Ground; [S. 140] prohibiting the playing of all kinds of games of chance in any saloon; [S. 159] to stop advertising of foreign Insurance Companies in the newspapers; [S. 179] legalizing employment of persons to discover and ferret out unassessed property; [S. 226--see page 120 of these Reports] enabling owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same; [S. 248--see page 135] providing for a Board of Visitors for all State Institutions; [S. 250--see page 135] supplemental to the law concerning the organization and perpetuity of voluntary Associations; [S. 259--see page 139] to prevent the throwing of rubbish in public highays; [S. 293--see page 180] to amend Section 19 of the liquor law; and the joint resolution [S. 1] to authorize the survey of lands of the State on the Kankakee River.
