The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-02
Legislative summary.


SENATE.--Petitions were presented on
Federal Relations for the protection of
sheep from dogs; and asking for relief for
the starving people of Kansas, which were
referred.
Committees reported amendments to the
Senate embezzIement bill, so as to make it
applicable only to county and township Of
Gcers amendments to the bill for the relief
Of certain parties in jackson and Washing
ton counties, to be paid out of the Swamp
Land funds in said counties in favor of
the bill limiting the fees of officers in small
cities all of which were concurred in.
a select committee, in answer to a pc
tition, introduced bill giving attorneys
liens for fees in certain cases.
\ report, embracing amendments to the
bill for the government and discipline of
the State Prison, was made and discussed
at some length, and the bill and report
made the special order for tomorrow.
Bills were introduced to ascertain the
amount of fees of the clerks and sherifS of
the Supreme and Circuit Courts county
auditors and other officers to authorize the
construction OF Ievees and drains and for
the Improvement of any creek or river to
provide a more just and humane system of
medical treatment for the insane and pau
the enumeration of white male inhabitants
over the age of twenty-one years to
amend the practice act to provide for the
confession of judgment in courts of record
in certain cases to amend the act provid-
ing a treasury system for the State; to
amend an act prescribing the powers and
duties Of justices of the peace to amend
the general apprasement law all of which
were severally ordered to a second reading.
Bills were passed to dispense with the
summOning and selecting of petit juries in
the court of common pleas when the bust
ness of the court does not require it to re.
quire clerks of courts to render satisfaction
Of mortgages on foreclosure; to repeal an
act requiring juries to be returned on the
third day of the term of the court of COM
mon pleas, and making it optional with the
Judge and clerk to fix the day when the
jury shall be returned and to provide for
a change in the terms Of the common pleas
court in Bartholomew and jackson coun-
ties.
The bill to amend the free banking law,
SO as to provide for a speedy winding up of
all the business connected with the redemp-
ton of the issues of q busted " banks, was
recommitted with instructions to provide a
pro rata dividend.
passed-to amend the practice act to legal
ize the assessment of property in cities,
heretofore made to amend the act provid-
ing for the organization of county boards,
so as to legthen the terms to fifteen days in
counties of over 10000 inhabitants, when
the business requires it; to repeal the l43d
section of the general appraisement law in
relation to promissory notes and judgments
taken thereon; amending the act prescrib-
ing the duties and qualifications of justices
Of the peace ; to amend the practice act to
repeal the I'D section of the general ap-
praisement law :; to authorize county agri-
cultural societies to purchase and hold real
estate; to amend the 5lst section of an act
defining misdemeanOr5; TO amend the list
section Of an act for the settlement of the
estates OF decedents to amend the I'd sec
ton Of the practice act; changing the times
of holding courts in the l5t Judicial Cir
cult, so rs to lengthen the terms in Jefer-
son county; to authorize the compromising
of firm debts on dissolution and settlement !;
to amend the l68th section of the general
appralsement law; and to authorize the
Governor to obtain possession of all public
arms not now in the possession of military
companies meeting regularly for drill.
All the House bills reported to the Sem
ate passed their first reading. Several Sen
ate bills were recommitted and others taken
from the table and placed on the files.
HoUsE.-Petitions were presented on the
subjects Of protection of sheep from dogs !;
for the Crittenden propositions; a claim of
VIM. Rockhiil for payment for 100 acres of
land on which the Northern Prison is builtI
These petitions were referred.
Bill passed: to fix the holding of Courts
in the Second Judicial Circuit; bill read
three times and passed. Ayes "a, nays 4.
Reports from committees Senate bill to
amend section of the act relative to hold
ing Courts of Common Pleas with an
amendment as to the Courts in Ohio coun-