NEW PROPOSITION8.
The following described bills were read the first time, and severally referred to Appropriate committees, except those reported from the Joint Committees on Revision of the Laws:
By Mr. LANGDON, from the Joint committee on Revision of Laws [S. 152]: Concerning contempts of courts.
By Mr. VIEHE, from the same [S. 153] To amend Section 1 of an act amendatory and supplementary to the act providing for voluntary assignment of personal and real property for the benefit of creditors, and regulating the mode of administering the same, approved March 5, 1859; approved February1 , 1875.
By Mr. VIEHE, from the same [S.154]: To amend Section 3 of an act to provide for the more speedy trial of causes, and faciliate the transaction of business in Courts, etc.
By Mr. MENZIES, from the same, [S. 155]: Concerning Circuit Courts.
By Mr. MENZIES, from the same [S. 156]: To amend an act concerning the partiton of land, approved May 20, 1852.
By Mr. LANGDON, from the same [S. 157]: To amend an act to amend section 4 of an act touching the relation of guardian and ward, approved June 9, 1852 ; approved January 22, 1857.
By Mr. LANGDON, from the same committee [S. 158] Authorizing the Board of Revision to employ a clerk.
By Mr MENZIES [S. 159]: To amend Section 1 of an act regulating foreign Insurance Companies doing business in this State, approved December 21, 1865, and adding supplementary sections, approved March 3, 1877. [It stops the advertising in the daily newspapers.]
By Mr. URMSTON [S. 160]: To Amend Section 1 of the act for the appointment of Notaries Public.
By Mr. SPANN [S. 161]: Authorizing the appointment of short-hand reporters in certain Courts in this State (in Counties casting over 6,000 votes).
By Mr. VAN VORHIS [S. 162]: To amend Sections 3 of the act concerning the incorporation of voluntary Associations.
By Mr. VOYLES [S. 163]: To amend Section 2 of the misdemeanor act, approved December 2, 1865, commonly known as the "provoke law."
By Mr. CHAPMAN, [S. 164]: To amend Sections 6 and 16 of an act of February 8, 1836, incorporating the Indianapolis Insurance Company.
By Mr. GARRIGUS [S. 165]: To legalized the incorporation of the Kokomo and Greentown Gravel Road Company.
By Mr. HUTCHINGSON [S. 166]: For the relief of a former Trustee of Cool Spring Township, Laporte County, and his sureties.
By Mr. KAHLO [S. 167]: to regulate the charges and fares that shall be charged by sleeping cars and coaches run in this State. (May charge one-half cent per mile in addition to regular fare.)
