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10. On Manufactures.

Senators Fuller, Marshall, Williams, Goff, Beeson, Grubb, and New.

11. On Printing.

Senators Bradley, Wolfe, Williams, Davis of Cass, Murray, New, and Mansfield.

12. On Public Buildings.

Senators Hartley, Jenkins, Landers, Pleak, and New.

13. On the State Prison.

Senators Ferguson, Bradley, Gifford, Shoulders, Cobb, Wilson, Wolfe, Hoagland, Graves, Bearss, Murray, Browne of Randolph, Culver, Teegarden, Wright, and Brown of Wells.

14. On Canals and Internal Improvements.

Senators Hoagland, Finch, Davis of Cass, McClurg, Culver, Campbell, and Reed.

15. On the State Library.

Senators Hord, Fuller, Ferguson, Mansfield, and Blair.

16. On the Town of Indianapolis.

Senators Jenkins, Gaff, Hartley, Berry, Pleak, and New.

17. On Claims.

Senators Moore, Williams, Wilson, Shoulders, Blair, Grubb, and Pleak.

18. On Military Affairs.

Senators Landers, Shields, Ray, Corbin, Downey, Mansfield, Davis of Parke, Beeson, and Murray.

19.

On Phraseology and Arrangement of Bills.

Senators Gifford, Ray, Douglass, Dickinson, and Bearss.

20. On Unfinished Business.

Senators Graves, Hartley, Finch, Brown of Wells, Bearss, Teegarden, and Wright.

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Seneators Wolfe, Cobb, Corbin, Downey, White, Mellett, and Dickinson.

22. On Enrolled Bills.

Senators Brown of Wells, McClurg, Hord, Grubb, Blair, and Browne of Randolph.

23. On Federal Relations.

Senators Cobb, Wolfe, Johnson, Hoagland, Ray, Davis of Cass, March, Mansfield, Browne of Randolph, Mellett, and White.

24. On Expenditures.

Senators Marshall, Shields, Fuller, Douglass, Grubb, Bearss, and Campbell.

25. On Swamp Lands.

Senators McClurg, Hord, Marshall, Shields, Culver, Dickinson, and Reed.

26. On Temperance.

Senators Gaff, Jenkins, Finch, Cobb, Berry, New, and Murray.

27. On County and Township Business.

Senators Johnson, Moore, Wilson, Graves, March, Davis of Parke, and Blair.

28. On Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of this State.

Senators Downey, Ray, Hord, McClurg, Corbin, March, Claypool, Davis of Parke, and Dickinson.

The President laid before the Senate the following:

INDIANAPOLIS, January 12, 1863.

AGREEMENT.

The editor of the Weekly Indiana Free Press agrees to deliver to the Doorkeeper of the Senate of the State of Indiana, during its session, three copies of the same to each member of the Senate, and three copies of the same to four officers of the Senate, for the sum of eighteen cents per week for each member and officer, from this date. The same shall be enveloped in the usual style for mailing, and postage pre-paid.

W. H. MONTGOEERY,

Doorkeeper of Senate.

On motion of Mr. Cobb,

R. HENNINGER, Editor Indiana Free Press.

Mr. Brown of Wells, was added to the Committee on State Prisons.

Mr. Ray presented a petition from H. H. Dodd, in relation to the publication of Owens' Geological Survey;

Which, on his motion, was laid on the table.

Mr. Moore, from the select committee thereon, made the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:

The special committee, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 1, "a bill appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars to pay the Legislative expenses of the present General Assembly," &c., with cer tain instructions of the Senate, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and report the same back with the following amendment, and when so amended, a majority of the committee recommend the passage:

Amend by adding to the third section, "provided that no Senator or Representative shall be entitled to receive his per diem for such time as he may be absent without leave from the Senate or House of Representatives.

The report of the committee was concurred in.

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Mr. Browne of Randolph offered the following:

Be it resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be and is hereby instructed, at the earliest practicable moment, to prepare and report to the Senate a bill or bills embracing substantially the following:

1st. Abolishing the Court of Common Pleas and the office of District Prosecuting Attorney.

2d. Increasing the number of judicial circuits to not less than twenty, nor more than twenty-four, and providing for three terms of the Circuit Court in each year.

3d. Transferring the civil business that may be pending in the Common Pleas Courts at the time said act may go into effect to the Circuit Courts.

4th. Giving to justices of the peace exclusive jurisdiction of all misdemeanors, the punishment of which is by fine only; ex

tending the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the Grand Jury to misdemeanors, the punishment of which may be imprisonment in the county jail; and providing further that whenever a justice of the peace shall be of opinion, upon the investigation of a misdemeanor, that adequate punishment would exceed his jurisdiction, he shall require the accused to enter into recognizance for his appearance to answer the charge at the next ensuing term of the proper Circuit Court, or in default thereof commit him to the county jail, and in each case the Circuit Court shall proceed to try said cause upon the affidavit filed before the justice; also making it the duty of the prosecuting attorney to prosecute such case in the Circuit Court, and allowing him therefor such fees as are allowed by law in other cases.

5th. Giving the Circuit Courts jurisdiction in cases of application to sell land by guardians, assignees, executors and administrators, actions for partition, and in all cases of probate that may require litigation.

6th. Requiring guardians, assignees, executors and administrators to make their reports, accounts current, and final settlements to the clerk in vacation.

7th. Providing that in all cases of final settlement, or where an allowance for services may be demanded, in any report or account current, the clerk shall receive and docket the same in a proper record to be kept for such purpose, and shall present the same for inspection and allowance to the Circuit judge, on the first day of the next ensuing term of the Circuit Court.

8th. That in all cases, any person interested may appear before the clerk in vacation, or the court in term time, and file his written objections and exceptions to any report, account current, or final settlement; and upon the filing thereof the cause shall be properly docketed, and after the service of process upon the adverse party, as in other civil cases, it shall stand for trial; upon the hearing thereof, the court shall make such order respecting the controversy as the law of the case may require, and shall award the costs against the losing party, or divide them between the parties, in such manner as to the Court may seem equitable and just.

9th. Providing such additional compensation for the clerk as

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