The following message was received from the House. MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed House Bill No. 118, and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Engrossed House Bill No. 118, entitled: Clerk. A bill for an act fixing the salaries of Judges of the Circuit Courts of this State and when the same shall be paid, and providing in what manner in circuits containing cities of a certain population such salaries may be increased, and how and when such increase shall be paid, and declaring an emergency. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed House Bill No. 494 and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Engrossed House Bill No. 491, entitled: Clerk. A bill for an act to legalize the incorporation of the town of New Amsterdam in Harrison County, Indiana, and all official acts heretofore assumed and done under said corporation and declaring an emergency. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Cities and Towns. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed House Bill No. 459 and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Clerk. Engrossed House Bill No. 459, entitled: A bill for an act to protect domestic animals, domestic fowls, providing for the registration and taxation of dogs, providing for the killing of certain dogs, and prescribing penalties for the violation of this act, and other matters properly connected therewith, repealing sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of an act in force March 7, 1883, and section 1 of an act approved April 8, 1885, and section 47 of an act approved March 6, 1891, and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of an act approved March 5, 1891, and declaring an emergency. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed House Bill No. 66, and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Engrossed House Bill No. 66, entitled: Clerk. A bill for an act entitled an act to amend section two (2) of an act entitled an act to provide for the repair of free turnpike roads in the various counties of Indiana, and constituting the Board of County Commissioners of any county in this State a board of directors of such roads, approved March 24, 1879, as amended April 13, 1881, and March 6, 1883, and known as section 5105 in the Revised Statutes of 1881. Read first time and referred to Committee on Roads. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed House Bill No. 355, and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Clerk. Engrossed House Bill No. 355, entitled: A bill for an act regulating the weighing of wheat, when the same is weighed with testers, and providing a penalty for a violation thereof. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Agricul ture. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed House Bill No. 366 and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Engrossed House Bill No. 366, entitled: Clerk. A bill for an act for the relief of John S. Chinworth, former Treasurer of Wabash County, in the State of Indiana, ordering and empowering, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of the county of Wabash duly entered of record, the Auditor of Wabash County, in the State of Indiana, to draw a warrant upon the Treasurer of said county in payment of certain moneys, directing the Treasurer of said county to pay such warrant out of any funds in his hands belonging to said county, and declaring an emergency. Read first time and referred to the Committee on County and Township Business. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Senate Bill No. 384, and the same is herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHARLES E. CRAWLEY, Clerk. Engrossed House Bill No. 384, entitled: A bill for an act to amend section 93 of an act fixing the compensation and prescribing the duties of certain State and county officers and providing penalties for the violation of its provisions. Approved March 9, 1891. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Leave of absence was granted to Senators Magee, Hobson, Bingham and McHugh of Tippecanoe for the day. 1 Senator McLean offered a memorial concerning the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Knightstown. Referred to Committee on Military Affairs. Senator Boord offered a memorial from the Burnside Post, No. 54, G. A. R., asking the Legislature for an appropriation of $50,000 for the National Encampment, to be held at Indianapolis September, 1893. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Senator Holland offered a memorial from the C. C. Wheeler Post, G. A. R., asking the Legislature for an appropriation of $50,000 for the National Encampment, to be at Indianapolis September, 1893. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Senator Kopelke offered a memorial protesting against the Judicial Apportionment Bill. Signed by E. D. Crumpacker and twelve others. Referred to the Committee on Organization of Courts. Senator Kopelke offered a memorial favoring a judicial district of the counties of Porter and Starke. Referred to Committee on Organization of Courts. Senator Stuart offered a memorial from the members of John F. Buckles W. R. C. earnestly urging the passage of Senate Bill No. 122, signed Sarah Osborn, and others. Referred to Committee on Military Affairs. Senator Beck (by request) introduced Senate Bill No. 330, entitled: An act to amend sections three (3), five (5), six (6), seven (7), nine (9), fifteen (15), nineteen (19), twenty-six (26) of an act concerning drainage under specified conditions, approved March 7, 1891. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Swamp Lands and Drains. Senator Cranor introduced Senate Bill No. 331, entitled: An act to compel the attendance at school of all children of this State between the ages of six and sixteen years, for six months during each year, defining the duties of parents, guardians, teachers and trustees in relation thereto, and providing penalty for its violation. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Education. Senator Griffith introduced senate Bill No. 332, entitled: An act to amend section one of an act entitled an act relating to expenses incurred by one county by a change of venue from another county, approved March 10, 1873, being section 414 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The following message was received from the House: MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed Engrossed Senate Bill No. 108 with Engrossed House Amendments thereto, and the same are herewith transmitted for the action of the Senate. CHAS. E. CRAWLEY, The following is the House amendment: MR. SPEAKER: Clerk. I move to amend Engrossed Senate Bill No. 108 by inserting after the word "two," in line 4, page 2, of said bill the words "or more." The amendment was adopted by the Senate. |