WORK FOR COMMITTEES.
The bill [H. R. 50] requiring hotels and lodging houses to provide means of escape in case of fire; [H. R. 112] amendatory of the act providing for the election and qualification of Justices; [H. R. 205] for the regulation of insanity inquests; [H. R. 194] to fix the ownership of property held for school purposes; [H. R. 191] to amend Section 120 of the Justice's act of June 9, 1852; [H. R. 122] to amend the act prescribing certain duties of Commissioners and other officers; [H. H. 192] to amend the Justice's act of June 9,1852; [H. R. 198] to amend Section 8 of the act of June 17, 1852, relating to trustees of voluntary associations; [H. R. 69] to provide for security and payment of laboring men, etc., and giving them liens; [H. R. 201] concerning County Prisons; [H. R. 271] relating to Clerks of the General Assembly; [H. R. 200] to amend the act of May 14, 1852, relating to decedents and the apportionment of estates; [H. R. 7] concerning quails and pheasants; [H. R. 65] legalizing the Christian College at Merom; [H. R. 141] regulating the sale of scrap metals; [H. R. 199] to amend Section 45 of the act of May 31, 1852, prescribing wo may make a will, etc.; [H. R. 48] to amend the act of June 16, 1852, concerning inclosures, etc.; [H. R. 17] to establish a Superior Court in Vigo County; [H. R. 435] to repeal an act providing for the payment of sundry bonds and stocks of Indiana issue prior to 1841; [H. R. 53] relating to the sounding of locomotive whistles; [H. R. 101] to amend Section 19 of the act establishing a Female Prison; [H. R. 102] to amend an act establishing a House of Refuge; [H. R. 81] to refund to Benton County extraordinary expenses incurred in a murder trial; [H. R. 88] to authorize execution sales of plank and other roads, and empowering purchasers to reorganize; [H. R. 340] to legalize ordinance 63, passed by the town of Edinburgh, etc.; [H. R. 126] requiring railroads to remove rubbish along their lines; [H. R. 134] concerning the employment of shorthand reporters; [H. R. 196] to abolish the office of Assessor in cities and towns; [H. R. 124] relating to sales of property by infants; [H. R. 202] to amend Section 126 of the Justices' act of June 9, 1852; [H. R. 46] to consolidate the Congressional Township fund for the purpose of loaning; [H. R. 197] to amend the act of June 9, 1852, concerning guardian and ward; [H. R. 172] requiring railroads to destroy Canada thistles and other noxious weeds on their right-of-way; [H. R. 193] to amend Section 10 of the decedent estates act of June 17, 1852, and repeal Section 70; [H. R. 195] to provide for the consolidation of two or more Agricultural Societies; [H. R. 227] to amend Sections 3, 8 and 11, and repeal 5, 6 and 7, of the Presidential Electors act; [H. R. 140] to authorize the election of women to school offices; [H. R. 237] concerning landlord and tenant; the House concurrent resolution requesting Congressmen to favor passage of an act making Treasury notes taxable; the House concurrent resolu page: 45[View Page 45] tion relating to the State's indebtedness to the Common School fund.
The above described bills and resolutions were read the first time and referred to appropriate Committees.
