Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An act to amend the sixth, seventh, eleventh, twelfth, nineteenth sections of an act entitled, "An act regulating the granting of divorces, nullifications of marriage, and decrees and orders of court incident thereto, approved May 13, 1852, and to repeal the twentysecond section of said act. Mr. Lent introduced the following concurrent resolution : WHEREAS, the Governor in his late message to the General Assembly of the late Extra Session thereof recommended, that further provisions be made for the care and treatment of insane persons within this State, and that the State should be divided, viz: a Central, a Northern and a Southern; therefore be it Resolved by the House the Senate concurring, that the Comittees on Benevolent Institutions of the two Houses be instructed to prepare plans for buildings, necessary to carry out said recommendation with the estimated cost thereof, and also prepare a bill, dividing the State into districts and providing for the erection of said buildings, and the government of the same. Which was adopted. Mr. Baxter introduced House bill No. 332-an act to authorize the enlargement of the House of Refuge for juvenile offenders and making appropriations therefore, and declaring an emergency to exist. Which was read a first time, and referred to the Committee on Reformatory Institutions. Mr. Baxter presented a petition from sundry citizens of Wayne county on the subject of temperance. Which was referred to the Committee on Temperance. The following message was received from the Governor by his private Secretary, Samuel R. Downey. MR. SPEAKER: By direction of the Governor, I have the honor to transmit herewith a communication from his Excellency, accompanied by a copy of a communication from Hon. James B. Ryan, Treasurer of State. SAMUEL R. DOWNEY, Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I submit for your consideration, a communication of the Treasurer of State, of this date, calling my attention to the fact that the act of December 12, 1872, providing for the payment of sundry bonds does not authorize the cancellation of the bonds and coupons after their payment. I recommend that the officers charged with the execution of that law be directed to cancel and deface the bonds or stocks and coupons before placing them in the office of the Treasurer of State. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, Governor. OFFICE OF TREASURER OF STATE, To his Excellency, Thomas A. Hendricks, Governor of the State of SIR: I would respectfully call your attention to section three of enrolled act No. 85, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of sundry bonds or stocks, etc.," approved December 12, 1872. Said section reads as follows: SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Treasurer of State to exercise the utmost scrutiny in testing the genuineness and validity of each bond and coupon which may be presented for redemption under the provision of this act; and no bond or coupon shall be paid or redeemed unless the same is surrendered to the Treasurer of State at the time of redemption, and the bonds and coupons so redeemed shall be preserved by the Treasurer of State, and be subject to such disposition as the General Assembly may hereafter cause to be made thereof, and the Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Treasurer of State shall, immediately after making any redemption under this act, prepare and sign a detailed description, shall be filed in the office of the Auditor of State, and shall be so recorded by him in some book to be provided and kept for that purpose. Your Excellency will observe that while it directs the State Treasurer to retain the bonds and coupons in the State Treasury, until the Legislature may direct that the Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Treasurer of State should see that the bonds or stock and coupons were cancelled or defaced before being placed in the vault of the Treasury for safe keeping. I would respectfully suggest that your Excellency call the attention of the Legislature to this fact, recommending the passage of a joint resolution directing the defacing of the coupons and cancelling of bonds redeemed, be'ore being placed in the State Treasury. Your very obedient servant, JAMES B. RYAN, Treasurer of State. Mr. Woollen introduced House bill No. 333-an act concerning the granting of divorces. Which was read a second time and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Glasgow introduced House bill No. 334-an act to repeal an act entitled "An act in relation to the taxing of lands in towns and cities, approved June 18, 1852.” Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee on Cities and Towns. Mr. Anderson presented a petition from sundry citizens on the subject of the completion of the Indiana Reformatory Institute for Woman and Girls, etc. Which was referred to the Committee on Reformatory Institutions. On motion by Mr. Cobb the House adjourned until 9:30 o'clock to-morrow morning. This journal was read in the hearing of the Committee and found to be correct. W. K. EDWARDS, Speaker. FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 17, 1873, 9:30 O'CLOCK. The House met pursuant to adjournment, with the Speaker in the chair. The journal of yesterday was read in part, when on of motion by Mr. Hatch the further reading of the same was dispensed with. Mr. Broaddus, Chairman of the Committee on Engrossed bills, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER: I am directed by the Committee on Engrossed bills to report to the House that said Committee has compared Engrossed bills Nos. 76, 225, 213, 261 and 291, with the original copies and find them in all respects properly engrossed. Mr. Walker, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER: The Committee on the Judiciary to whom was referred House bill No. 253 entitled, "An act to amend section twenty-six of an act entitled, 'An act providing the powers and duties of justices of the peace in the State prosecutions,"" approved May 29, 1852, have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it lie on the table, as the law on the subject is the same as that proposed by said bill. Which report was concurred in. Mr. Walker, Chairman of the Committe on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 247, entitled, "An act in relation to the qualification of jurors in certain cases therein named," have had the same under -consideration, and directed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. Which report was concurred in and the bill indefinitely postponed. Mr. Buskirk, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee on the Judiciary to whom was referred House bill No. 143, entitled, "An act to amend section one of an act to incorporate the University of Notre Dame Du Lac, in this State," report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it pass, but, qualify their recommendation in this, that the committee would leave the amount blank to be filled by the House, where it now is written $300,000. Which bill was read a second time. Whereupon, Mr. Willson, of Ripley, moved to recommit to the Committee on the Judiciary with the following instructions: Recommit to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to amend the bill so as to permit the corporation to hold property not exceeding in value, at the time of purchase, the amount limited by their charter, and so as not to divest the title on account of its increase in value since its purchase. Mr. Butterworth moved to lay the motion to recommit and the instructions on the table. Which motion did not prevail. Mr. Cobb moved to recommit to the Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to amend as follows: Recommit with instructions to amend "so that said Institution may hold all the property they now have without regard to value, but shall not be empowered to make any additional purchase." Mr. Thayer moved to lay the motions made by Messrs. Cobb and Willson, of Ripley, and instructions to amend, on the table. |