The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-12
Leci.ln,tve Summary.

On Friday both branches of the State
Legislature held three sessions, and dispOs-
ed of large amount of business. In the
Senate the entire morning session was con-
sumed in discussing the bill for the creation
of five additional branches to the Bank of
the State, without coming to any cOnclu-
sion. The House discussed the questions
relative to the two penitentlaries during
most of the day.
Below is a summary of the proceedings
on Friday:
SENATE.-Mr. Newcomb offered a joint
resolution, which was referred to the COM
mittee on federal relations, ratifying the
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, proposed by Congress, in
reference to the relation Of the General
Government to the institution of slavery.
A motion to take from the table the
House bill providing for the laying off by
the Bank of the State, of five additional
bank districts, and locate branches therein,
was discussed during nearly the whole three
hours of the morning session, and finally
agreed to. The bill was then amended so
as to require the Banks to pay municipal
taxes before the provisions of the bill under
consideration could be made operative.
Several other amendments were proposed
but not agreed to.
| a discussion of the Bank bill, the Senate in
formally passed over its consideration and
took up the House amendments to the
| House School bill, which were read and
! concurred in.
House bills were passed to quiet the title
to a certain piece of ground in Vanderburgh
county; to provide change in the terms of
the common pleas court in TippecanOe dis
trict; to provide change in the terms of
the common pleas court in the Floyd, Clark
and Scott district; authorizing township
! trustees to sign certificates of the purchase
of saline lands which were purchased with
school funds by the inhabitants of any
township for school house sites, &c; to fix
anew the times of holding court in the End
judicial circuit; to amend the act incorpo-
rating the South Bend Manufacturing Com
pauy; to amend the practice act in relation
to the qualification of witnesses, so as to
make parties to suits witnesses in their own
causes, and to license dogs and provide for
Compensation to owners of sheep killed or
manned by dogs.
Senate bills were passed TO ascertain the
amount of fees received by the Sheriff and
| Clerks of the Supreme and Circuit Courts,
and of County Auditors ard Recorders;
and for the organization of Street railroad
companies.
Inc house concurrent TeSOluIlOn LOT IN
vestigating the frauds committed on the
swamp land funds was taken up and con-
Cured in.
The House having disagreed to the Sen
ate's amendment to the bill for raising d
revenue for extinguishing the State debt,
a committee of free conference was appoint
ed which reported the striking out of the
levy of cents for 1862 and continuing it
for 1868, and each year therea after, which
was concurred in.
The House bill for the establishment of
FIVE additional branches of the Bank of the
T State was taken up again at 5 o'clock, and
the amendment adopted in the morning was
reconsidered, when the bill was put on its
passage, and failed for want of a constitu-
tional majority.
House bills were passed to revive the
character and extend the time for the con-
struction of the St. Louis & Jacksonville
Railroad, formerly known rs the Alton,
Mt Carmel and New Albany Railroad; to
provide for the removal of the dam across
: the Calumet river in the State of Illinois,
I and making appropriation for the expense
OF the samei to amend the act to provide
for the management and disposal of the
estates of persons who have gone TO parts
unknown to amend the charter of the St.
Joseph Iron Company; and authorizing
: county libraries to loan certain funds and
to regulate the same.
, Senate bills were passed to provide for
the location, vacation, &c, of public high
ways, and to repeal certain sections Of the