Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-19
Legislative summary.


2 ries, the following bills were taken ~
and passed:
278--Amending the valuation anC
IS assessment act so as to allow to Trea
surers the same fees for collections oi
railroad assessments IS to other cases.
272-To provide for the employment
of watchmen in cities
283-Providing for the appointment
of Town Attorneys.
! 285-Amending the School Act, so as
TO authorize the council of Incorporated
towns to appoint an examiner, to act
within their corporate limits.
2e6-Empowering incorporated cities
to construct gas works.
303-Legslizing the acts of the Whit
ley County Common Please Court in
March, 1865.
305-Concerning the laying out of
highways across railroads, requiring ten
days notice to be given to the agent of
such railroad. ~
b The following House bills were
- 1910 establish State Normal
School
270--Fixing the per diem and mile.
aral Assembly, was taken up, and finally
passed & cfCee
The bill regulating railroad fares was
discussed and referred to the Juditiary
Committee
The bill declaring forfeited the right
of way Of certain railroads to contract
branches, where no part thereof has
O been completed, was read first time,
second time by title, and referred to
committee of one from each district in.
terested.
In the afternoon Mr. Cobb introduced
Senate bill No. 314, to authorize the
Board of Sinking Fund Com missioners
to invest said Fund in Indiana State
bonds or stocks, etc. The bill is de-
signed to take the place of House bill
No. AZ, which was vetoed by the Gov
ernor. 1t was, by dispensing with the
Constitutional restriction, read three
times and passed by vote Of SO to4
The following Senate bills were also
psssed;
3l2-Amending the title of the act
concerning licenses.
3l0-Amending the act in relation to
draining and reclaiming wet lands
3l8-Amendiny the charter of the
Evansville Insurance Company.
308-Providing tor the relief of pur-
chasers of lands to which the State can
not give title. a-a..--.
158-tor the establishment of House
of Refuge
A large number of Senate and House
bills were up on the first and second
readings. @
The House met at 9 o'clock.
A number of reports were made from
the different committees.
Mr. Newcomb reported bill estab- |
fishing Soldiers aud Seamen's Home
at Jacksonville; also bill to buy the
State Bank building for State officers, at |
q cost not to exceed $4,000
House bill No. At, vetoed by the Gov.
ernor, was rejected by h unanimous
House bill No. 16S, with Senate en-
crossed amendments of the Committee
of Ways and Means, for the taxation of
property of railroad companies, passed
the House.
.a q. B. No. lS9, amending the I'd sec.
tion of the General Banking Law, was
passed.
Senate bill No. 1913, for the repeal of
. the law leyying thirty cents tax for the
relief of families Of soldiers and sea-
men, with amendments by the Select
Committee on Soldiers Home, was pass
ed.
A considerable portion of the session
was spent upon bill to provide Sol
diers' Home, ending in all amendments
looking to that end being laid upon the
table by vote OF ayes 4S, noes 81.
FL. B. No. 225, regulating life insu-
rance by foreign companies, failed for a
constitutional majority.
The House passed the bill from the
Senate to repeal the thirty cents tax for
the relief Of soldiers families, with
sundry amendments.
H. B. 206 amending the act for re- !
pairing bridges, was passed.
< A joint resolution, asking Congress
for an equalization of the pay and bounty
of all soldiers, was passed.. l944W
"A resolution by Mr.. Buskirk was
passed, that Committee be appointed
to draft bill to rescind the contract
with the Indianapolis Gas Company, it
having failed to supply the State House
with Gas. -.z-g
The House adjourned at 4:3O, P. II
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