WORK FOR COMMITTEES.
The following described bills were read the second time and severally referred to appropriate Committees:
The bill [H. R. 191]: To amend Section 120 of an act concerning Justices of th Peace, their general jurisdiction and mode proceeding, etc, approved January, 1852.
The bill[H. R. 192]: To amend Section 8 of an act concerning Justices of the Peace, the mode of proceeding before them, etc., approved June 9, 1852, and June 11, 1861.
The bill [H. R. 193]: To amend an act providing for the settlement of decedent estates, proscribing the rights, liabilities and duties of officers connected with the management thereof, the heirs thereto, and certain forms to be used in such settlement etc., approved June 9, 1852.
The bill [H. R. 194]: Fixing the ownership of property held for school purposes.
The bill [H. R. 195]: To enable two or more Agricultural, Horticultural or Mechanical Societies to consolidate with each other and confer on the consolidated Companies the same powers as those of the original Societies.
The bill [H. R. 196]: To abolish the office of Assessor in cities and incorporated towns in this State.
The bill [H. R. 197]: To amend an act touching the relation of guardian and ward. Approved June 9, 1852.
The bill [H. R. 198]: To amend Section 8 of an act to enable Trustees to receive lands and donations, and to convey the same for the use of schools, Churches, Lodges, Societies, Masonic and Odd Fellow Lodges, construct cemeteries and houses of worship, and approved June 17, 1852.
The bill [H. R. 199] to amend an act prescribing who may make a will, the effect thereof, what may be devised, regulating the admission to probate, revocation and contest thereof, approved May 31, 1852.
The bill [H. R. 200] amending an act regulating descents and the apportionment of estates, approved May 14, 1852.
The bill [H. R. 201] concerning County Prisons.
The bill [H. R. 202] to amend Section 126 of an act providing for the election and qualification of Justices of the Peace and defining their jurisdiction and powers in civil cases, approved June 9, 1852.
The bill [H. R. 203] to amend Section 1 of an act regarding estrays and articles of drift, approved June 15, 1852.
Mr. HUESTON offered a concurrent resolution, reciting that the Committee for the codification of the insurance laws had completed its work and were ready to report. Therefore,
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That 200 copies of the same be printed for the information of the Legislature.
Mr. BERRYMAN, from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, submitted a report on the bill [H. R. 75] concerning marriages, recommending its indefinite postponement.
Mr. MITCHELL said this was one of his bills, and he considered it a good one. The bill prohibited from a matrimonial alliance habitual drunkards, felons, and those infected with syphilitic diseases, and he thought it a duty due to mankind in general, and to the propagation of the race in particular, to restrict the marriage privileges as specified in this bill.
The report of the Committee was concurred in.
Mr. McSHEEHY,from the Committee on the Affairs of the City of Indianapolis, submitted a report, recommending the passage of the Police Judge bill [H. R. 34], with certain amendments. The bill provides for the election of a Police Judge for the city of Indianapolis.
The report of the Committee was concurred in.
Mr. FRAZER, from the Committee on Revised Statutes, submitted a report concerning the purchase of Revised Statutes for the use of the Assembly, and offered a resolution that the House indorse the action of the State Librarian in the purchase of the Revised Statutes for the House from Bingham & Co.
page: 82[View Page 82]The resolution was adopted by yeas, 47; nays, 42.
On motion of Mr. CAUTHORNE, the Constitutional rule was suspended--yeas, 72; nays, 14--and the bill [H. R. 205] for the regulation of insanity inquest and the committal of insane persons to Hospitals for the Insane, and their discharge therefrom, was read the first time, the second time by title, and referred to the Committee on Benevolent Institutions.
And then the House adjourned till 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
