The committee amendment was amended by adding, in the proper place, "and to use their influence to procure immediate payment of amounts already due, and a more punctual payment in future."

Mr. Wolfe moved to lay the committee amendment as amended on the table.

The ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Mansfield and Landers, and being taken, resulted as follows:

The committee amendment, as amended, was agreed to.

The resolution, as amended, was concurred in.

Senate bill No. 48 was read a second time by title only, and referred to a select committee of five;

Which the President makes to consist of Messrs. Dickinson, Hoagland, Brown of Wells, Douglass, add Murray.

A message from the House:

MR. PRESIDENT:

I am directed to inform the Senate that the House of Representatives has passed the following engrossed bill of the Senate, without amendment, to-wit:

Senate bill No. 47. "An act to fix the times of holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the 20th Judicial District of the State of Indiana, and repealing former laws on the subject, and declaring when this act shall take effect."

Senate bill No. 49 was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Senate bill No. 50 was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on Swamp Lands.

The following amendment, by Mr. Wright, was also referred to the same committee:

Sec. 2. It is hereby declared that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, and that the same shall be in force from and after its passage.

Mr. Shields offered the following additional instructions:

Instruct so as to amend the bill that it shall apply to all persons who have paid money to the State for Swamp Lands, and who, for any reason, have not been able to procure a title for said land. Which was also referred to the same committee.

Mr. Brown of Randolph offered the following, which was adopted:

Resolved, That the President of the Senate be and is hereby

authorized to appoint and retain Dickey Richards as a page of the Senate, with the same pay as the other pages.

On motion by Mr. Bearss,

The Senate adjourned.

2 O'CLOCK, P. M.

Senate met.

Senate bill No. 51 was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on to-morrow.

Senate bill No. 52 was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Senate bill No. 53 was read a second time, and,

On motion by Mr. Wolfe,

Was referred to the Committee on the Organization of Courts.

Senate bill No. 54 was read a second time, which,

On motion by Mr. March,

Was laid on the table.

Senate bill No. 55 was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on County and Township Business.

Senate bill No. 56 was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 57 was read a second time.

Mr. Ray moved to amend by striking out five miles and insert ten miles, in the proper place.

Mr. Downey moved to amend so as to make the law apply to

roads which have been partly made by voluntary donations, or by authority of any company which has been dissolved, and so as to credit persons who have already contributed, by way of donations or stock paid for the construction of such roads, on the taxes so assessed against them.

Mr. Williams offered the following instructions:

Amend by inserting in the proper place the following section: Persons whose place of business requires them to travel regularly, at least on an average of once a day, through any gate in going from their residence to said place of business, shall have the right to travel through such gates at an annual rate, or at a rate per trip, not exceeding one half the above rates.

Mr. Wolfe made an ineffectual motion to refer the bill and pending amendment to the Committee on Corporations.

On motion by Mr. Beeson,

They were referred to the Committee on Roads.

Senate bill No. 58 was read a second time, and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate bill No. 59 was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Senate joint resolution No. 3 was read a second time.

Mr. Wolfe moved to refer the resolutions to the Committee on Federal Relations.

Mr. Browne of Randolph moved to lay on the table and have one hundred copies of the resolutions printed for the use of the Senate.

Mr. Johnson demanded a division of the question.

The first question being on laying the resolution on the table,

The ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Johnson and Shields, and being taken, resulted as follows:

The question recurring on the motion to refer to the Committee

on Federal Relations,

It was agreed to.

Mr. Shields asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Bradley, on account of sickness.

The President laid before the Senate the following:

JAMES H. VAWTER,

INDIANAPOLIS, January 28, 1863.

Secretary of the Senate:

SIR-In answer to the resolutions of the Senate of this day, we can report and print, and "furnish ready for binding," the propositions, proceedings, debates and votes of the General Assembly now in session, in newspaper and book, to the extent of two hundred pages of the capacity of the Brevier Legislative Reports, on all subjects having relation to the state of the Union and the war, towit: 250 copies-five copies to each Senator-eleven hundred and fifty dollars; or we can furnish fifteen hundred copies, (as in the resolution proposed to be amended by the committee,) for fifteen