2d. What was the aggregate amount of the loans and discounts of each separate Branch on the 1st day of October, 1850?

3d. What amount of the above loans and discounts were made upon bills of exchange, and what amount in accommodation paper?

4th. What was the aggregate indebtedness, both as principal and security, of the President, Directors, and all other officers and agents of each separate Branch, including the officers and agents of the State Bank and all other Branches, on the 1st day of October, 1850?

5th. What was the aggregate indebtedness, both as principal and security, of all the stockholders in each separate Branch, exclusive of the officers, &c., alluded to in the 4th interrogatory, on the 1st day of October, 1850?

6th. What is the estimated value of all the real estate held and owned by the State Bank and its several Branches?

7th. What is the probable present value of the interest held by the State, both in stock and accumulated profits, in the State Bank and its several Branches?

8th. What length of time, since the organization of the State Bank, have its Branches refused to redeem all or any considerable portion of their circulation on demand, in gold and silver coin?

9th. What was the highest rate charged by the various Branches of the State Bank for exchange on New York city, during the suspension of specie payment, by said Branches?

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Graham of Warrick offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Auditor of State be, and he is hereby requested, at as early a day as practicable, to communicate to the Convention the number of "White male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years" in the different counties of the State, as appears from the enumeration this year, and on file in his office.

The question being on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Huff submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on county and township organization be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the 12th section of the 11th article of our present State Constitution as follows: Strike out four hundred where it occurs and insert three hundred.

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the negative.

Mr. Robinson offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on elections be, and they are hereby instructed to inquire into the justice and expediency of inserting

in the Constitution a clause securing to the legal voters of each county the right to vote for State and county officers on the day of the annual election at any precinct or place of holding such election in their respective counties.

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the negative.

Mr. Terry submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the organization of courts of justice be instructed to inquire into the expediency of inserting into the Constitution a provision for the election or appointment of an Attorney General and also Prosecuting Attorneys for the several judicial circuits.

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Alexander submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the executive committee inquire into the expediency of engrafting into the Constitution a clause that wherever the Governor shall remit a fine or forfeiture, or grant a reprieve or pardon, he shall enter his reason for so doing on the records of the Secretary of State, in a book kept for that purpose.

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Nofsinger offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on county and township organization, &c., be instructed to inquire into the expediency of inserting a clause into the Constitution prohibiting counties from taking stock in any corporation whatever, or lending their credit thereto in any nanner whatever, without the sanction of a majority of the votes of said counties.

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Prather submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on rights and privileges, &c., be structed to inquire into the expediency of providing in the Contitution that no act of the Legislature shall dispose of the estate f minor heirs during their minority.

The question being taken on the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Wiley submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That committee No. 1 be directed to inquire into the xpediency of incorporating the following section in article 1 of the onstitution, to-wit:

That the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions and orship without discrimination or preference, shall always be alwed in this State to all mankind, and no person shall be rendered

incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on religious belief; but that liberty of conscience, hereby secured, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.

The question being taken on the resolution,

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Haddon offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the State be instructed to report to this Convention on the expediency of incorporating into the Constitution the third section of the first article of the existing Constitution with the following amendment, viz: and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief.

And the question being taken on the adoption of the resolution, It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Hawkins submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the elective franchise and apportionment be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by a clause in the new Constitution, that a majority of the legal votes of this State, at a general election, by a direct vote upon the subject, may extend the right of universal suffrage.

Mr. Hovey submitted the following amendment:

Insert in the proper place, "except negroes, mulattoes, and indians."

Mr. Colfax moved to lay the amendment on the table, and
The ayes and noes being demanded by ten members:

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Anthony, Ballingall, Beard, Berry, Bicknell, Biddle, Borden, Bracken, Bryant, Chapman, Clark of Tippecanoe, Cole, Colfax, Conduit, Crawford, Davis of Vermillion, Foley, Garvin, Gibson, Gordon, Hamilton, Hawkins, Helm, Kendall of White, Kinley, Maguire, March, Mather, May, McClelland, Morgan, Mowrer, Niles, Ritchey, Watts, and Wheeler-36.

Those who voted in the negative were,

Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Badger, Barbour, Bascom, Blythe, Bourne, Bowers, Bright, Butler, Carr, Carter, Chandler, Chenowith, Clark of Hamilton, Coats, Cookerly, Davis of Madison, Dick, Dobson, Dunn of Jefferson, Duzan, Edmonston, Farrow, Fisher, Frisbie, Gootee, Graham of Miami, Graham of Warrick, Haddon, Hall, Holliday, Harbolt, Hardin, Helmer, Hendricks, Hogin, Holman, Hovey, Howe, Huff, Johnson, Jones, Kelso, Kendall of Wabash, Lockhart,

Logan, Mathis, McLean, Miller of Fulton, Miller of Gibson, Milroy, Mooney, Moore, Morrison of Marion, Morrison of Washington, Murray, Nave, Newman, Nofsinger, Owen, Pepper of Crawford, Pepper of Ohio, Pettit, Prather, Rariden, Read of Clark, Read of Monroe, Ristine, Robinson, Schoonover, Shannon, Sherrod, Smiley, Snook, Smith of Ripley, Smith of Scott, Spann, Steele, Stevenson, Tague, Taylor, Terry, Thomas, Todd, Trembly, Vanbenthusen, Wallace, Walpole, Wiley, Wolfe, Wunderlich, Yocum, Zenor and Mr. President.-105.

So the amendment was not laid on the table.

The half hour for which the order of business was suspended having expired, the further consideration of the subject was postponed.

On motion,

The order of business was further suspended, to enable

Mr. Robinson to submit a petition upon the subject of the formation of a new county out of the counties of Decatur, Jennings, Ripley, and Bartholomew;

Which was referred to the committee on county and township organization.

Also, to enable

Mr. Foley to submit a remonstrance upon the same subject;
Which was referred to the same committee.

The special order was then taken up, being the resolution submitted by Mr. Pettit on the subject of grand juries, with the pending amendments.

The question being on the amendment submitted by Mr. Bascom, but before action thereon,

On motion of Mr. Rariden,

The Convention adjourned to 2 o'clock, P. M.

Two o'clock, P. M.

The consideration of the business pending at the last adjournment (in relation to grand juries) was resumed, but without coming to any conclusion in relation thereto,

On motion of Mr. Lockhart,

The Convention adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow.

THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1850.

The Convention met.

Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Cressy.

Journal of yesterday was read.

Mr. Graham of Warrick gave notice that he would, on to-morrow, move a reconsideration of the vote taken yesterday on the resolution of Mr. Huff on the subject of the size of counties.

On motion of Mr. Hamilton,

Mr. Wunderlich had leave of absence for one week.
On motion of Mr. Allen,

Leave of absence was granted Mr. Miller of Clinton.

On motion of Mr. Borden,

The special order of the day was suspended for one hour.

Mr. Pepper of Ohio introduced a petition from the citizens of Ohio county on the subject of the abolition of grand juries; Which was laid upon the table by consent.

Mr. Borden submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That after Monday next, this Convention will not hold an afternoon session until otherwise ordered.

Mr. Kelso moved to lay the resolution upon the table;
Which was decided in the negative.

The question recurring upon the adoption of the resolution,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Hawkins introduced a petition from the members of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church against the licensing or traficking in intoxicating liquors;

Which was,

On motion,

Referred to the committee on the Legislative department.

Mr. Hamilton introduced a petition from the citizens of the city of Fort Wayne, praying a modification of certain articles of the present Constitution in relation to corporations;

Which was,

On motion,

Referred to the committee on corporations other than banking. Mr. Edmonstop, from the committee on the Legislative department, to whom was referred the resolution of Mr. Tague on the subject of future amendments to the Constitution, made the following report: