pledges that such paper money shall be redeemed in specie on demand. And every such person, association, or corporation, shall be individua'y liable for the redemption of the whole amount of such circulation; nor shall any such person, association of persons, or corporation issue notes or paper money of a less denomination than ten dollars.

3. The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the suspension of specie payments in behalf of any individual, association, or incorporation issuing paper money of any description.

Which was laid upon the table by consent.

Mr. Read of Clark submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on currency and banking be instructed to enquire into the expediency of inserting in the Constitution the following sections, to-wit:

SEC. 1. The Legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any special charter for banking purposes, but corporations or associations may be formed for such purposes under general laws.

SEC. 2. The Legislature shall have no power to pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly or indirectly, the suspension of specie payments by any person, association, or corporation issuing bank notes of any description.

SEC. 3. The Legislature shall provide by law for the registering of all bills or notes issued or put in circulation as money, and shall require ample security for the redemption of the same in specie.

SEC. 4. The stockholders in every corporation and joint stock association for banking purposes, issuing bank notes or any kind of paper credits to circulate as money after the first day of January, 1852, shall be individually liable to the amount of their respective share or shares of stock in any such corporations or associations for all its debts and liabilities of every kind, contracted after the said first day of January.

SEC. 5. In case of the insolvency of any bank or banking souciation, the bill holders thereof shall be entitled to preference in payment over all other creditors of such bank or association.

Which was laid on the table by consent.

Mr. Foley submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the following reforms ought to be engrafted in the new Constitution:

1. A provision for biennial instead of annual sessions of the Legislature.

2. All officers to be elected by the people.

3. General elections to be held on the first Tuesday in October, instead of the first Monday in August,

4. The Legislature to commence its session on the first Monday in January.

5. The gubernatorial office extended to a four years' term, and a Governor to be ineligible for a second term.

6. No person to be allowed to hold two offices of honor and profit at the same time, as is now the case as to the clerk and recorder's office.

7. Associate Judges of Circuit Courts dispensed with. 8. Local and special legislation wholly prevented.

9. No tax to be levied by an act of the Legislature, except to carry on and support the State Government, unless such tax is first submitted to a separate and direct vote of the people and by them authorized; existing charitable institutions to be excepted from this rule.

10. An express provision against allowing the Legislature to borrow money excepting in time of war or for public defence without first submitting it to the people.

11. Fines and forfeitures now appropriated to county seminaries to be distributed for common school purposes.

Which resolution was laid upon the table by consent.

Mr. Holman submitted the following resolution; which was laid upon the table by consent:

Resolved, That the legitimate object of a Constitution is to declare the natural and inherent rights of the citizen, to fix and establish the several departments of government, and declare and limit the powers to be exercised by each.

2. That no subject of a merely legislative character and not fundamental in its nature, should be engrafted on the Constitution. 3. That it is anti-republican to restrain the exercise of the public will through the Legislature by unnecessary restraints on the legislative department of Government.

The report of Mr. Read of Monroe was taken from the table by

consent.

Upon motion of Mr. Edmonston,

The report of the committee on standing committees was taken up as the same is numbered, commencing at number one, two, and so on, until completed.

The question being upon the adoption of number one,

Which was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Borden moved to strike out number two and insert the following in lieu thereof.

"On apportionment, election, and tenure of office of the Legislature, to consist of ten members, one from each Congressional District.

"On the powers and duties of the legislative department except matters otherwise referred, to consist of nine members."

Which was decided in the negative.

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

The question being taken separately on numbers three and four, It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Pettit moved to strike out number five and insert the following:

"On the judiciary, to consist of one member from each judicial circuit."

Mr. Niles proposed the following as a substitute, which was accepted by Mr. Pettit:

"On the organization of courts of justice, the practice of law, and law reform:"

And the question being upon the adoption thereof,

It was decided in the negative.

The question recurring upon the adoption of number five, as reported by the committee,

It was decided in the affirmative.

The question being taken separately on the adoption of numbers six and seven,

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Edmonston moved to amend number eight by striking out the word "seven" and inserting the word "nine;"

Which was decided in the negative.

The question being upon the adoption of number eight,

It was decided in the affirmative.

The question being upon the adoption of number "nine,”

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Borden moved to amend number "ten" by striking out the word "nine," and inserting " one from each judicial circuit;" Which was decided in the affirmative.

Number "ten," as amended, was then adopted.

Numbers "eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen," were separately adopted by consent.

Mr. Holman moved to amend number "fifteen," by striking out the word "nine," and inserting one from each judicial circuit; Which was décided in the affirmative.

Number "fifteen," as amended, was then adopted by consent. Numbers "sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen," were separately adopted by consent.

Mr. Watts moved to amend "number twenty" by striking out the word "five" and inserting "nine;"

Which was consented to.

Mr. Holman moved to amend by striking out the words "and tenure ;"

Which was decided in the negative.

Number "twenty" was then adopted by consent.

Mr. Borden moved the adoption of the tollowing additional standing committee, to come in after number twenty, "on exemptions, real and personal."

Mr. Read of Monroe moved to amend as follows:

"On legal questions not otherwise provided for, and on the division and limitation of the powers of government, to consist of seven members;"

Which was not adopted.

The question recurring upon the additional standing committee proposed by Mr. Borden,

It was decided in the negative.

Numbers "twenty-one and twenty-two," and the committees on elections and accounts, were adopted by consent.

Mr. Cookerly moved to take from the table the resolution, submitted by him, on the subject of a correspondence by the Secretary and Auditor of State, with certain county officers for information. Which was decided in the negative.

The Chair submitted the following communication, which was laid upon the table by consent:

To the President of the Convention:

The undersigned, Printer to the State, having been excused from participating in any action in the Convention, in regard to the subject of his claims and responsibilities as State Printer, respectfully asks the privilege of having the question argued on his behalf, upon its legal and equitable merits, before the Convention by his attorney. J. P. CHAPMAN, State Printer.

On motion of Mr. Pettit,

The Convention adjourned until Monday morning 9 o'clock,

MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1850.

The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.

Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Babb.

The journal of the preceding day was read.

Mr. Bowers asked leave of absence for Mr. Robinson of Decatur for one week;

Which was granted.

The President announced the following standing committees:

No. 1.-On the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of this

State.-Messrs. Owen, Graham of Miami, Niles, Haddon, Prather, Coats, Murray, Chapman, and Berry.

No. 2.-On the legislative department.-Messrs. Bright, Smiley, Clark of Tippecanoe, Schoonover, Walpole, Edmonston, Duzan, Beach, and Miller of Gibson.

No. 3. On the executive.-Messrs. Morrison of Marion, Stevenson, Beard, Sherrod, Gordon, Wolfe, Morgan, Bascom, and Barbour.

No. 4.-On State officers other than the executive and judiciary. -Messrs. Read of Clark, Moore, Bicknell, Bracken, Farrow, Mowrer, and Frisbie.

No. 5.-On the organization of the courts of justice.-1st circuit, Mr. Pettit; 2d circuit, Mr. Thornton; 3d circuit, Mr. Dunn of Jefferson; 4th circuit, Mr. Lockhart; 5th circuit, Mr. Nave; 6th circuit, Mr. Rariden; 7th circuit, Mr. Davis of Vermillion; 8th circuit, Mr. Biddle; 9th circuit, Mr. Anthony; 10th circuit, Mr. Terry; 11th circuit, Mr. McClelland; 12th circuit, Mr. Howe; 13th circuit, Mr. Smith of Ripley.

No. 6.-On matters pertaining to criminal law.-Messrs. Kent, Davis of Madison, Mooney, Hawkins, Chandler, Carter, and May.

No. 7.-On the practice of the law and law reform.-12th circuit, Mr. Borden; 1st circuit, Mr. Ristine; 2d circuit, Mr. Gibson; 3d circuit, Mr. Kelso; 4th circuit, Mr. Hall; 5th circuit, Mr. Wallace; 6th circuit, Mr. Newman; 7th circuit, Mr. Cookerly; 8th circuit, Mr. Kendall of W.; 9th circuit, Mr. Mather; 10th circuit, Mr. Read of Monroe; 11th circuit, Mr. March; 13th circuit, Mr. Hol

man.

No. 8.-On special and local legislation, and uniformity of laws. -Messrs. Newman, Helmer, Miller of Gibson, Allen, Snook, Crumbacker, and Pepper of Crawford.

No. 9.-On impeachment and removals from office.-Messrs. Rariden, Biddle, Garvin, Mathis, aud Brookbank.

No. 10. On the elective franchise and the apportionment of representation.-4th circuit, Mr. Graham of Warrick; 1st circuit, Mr. Miller of Clinton; 2d circuit, Mr. Smith of Scott; 3d circuit, Mr. Pepper of Ohio; 5th circuit, Mr. Vanbenthusen; 6th circuit, Mr. Thomas; 7th circuit, Mr. Davis of Parke; 8th circuit, Mr. Harbolt; 9th circuit, Mr. Anthony; 10th circuit, Mr. Foster; 11th circuit, Mr. Clark of Hamilton; 12th circuit, Mr. Wunderlich; 13th circuit, Mr. Berry.

No. 11.-On county and township organization, powers, and officers. 3d congressional district, Mr. Smith of Ripley; Ist district, Mr. Alexander; 2d district, Mr. Prather; 4th district, Mr. Beeson; 5th district, Mr. Hendricks; 6th district, Mr. Gootee, 7th district,