Two o'clock, P. M.

The Convention met.

The Chair announced the following

STANDING ORDER OF BUSINESS.

I. Prayer by the Reverend Clergy.

II. Reading the journal.

III. Petititions, memorials, and remonstrances.

IV. Reports from standing committees.

2d. On Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of the State. 3d. On the Legislative Department.

4th.

On the Executive

5th. On State Officers other than Executive and Judicial.

6th.

On the Organization of Courts of Justice.

7th. On Matters pertaining to Criminal Law.

8th.

On the Practice of law and Law Reform.

9th. On Special and Local Legislation and Uniformity of the Laws.

10th. On Impeachment and Removal from Office.

11th. On the Elective Franchise and the apportionment of Representation.

12th. On County and Township Organization.

13th. On Currency and Banking.

14th. On Corporations other than Banking.

15th. On State Debt and Public Works.

16th. On Finance and Taxation.

17th. On the Militia.

18th. On Education.

19th. On the Future amendments of the Constitution. 20th. On Public Institutions of the State.

21st. On Salaries, Compensation, and Tenures of Office. On Miscellaneous Provisions.

On Revision, Arrangement, and Phraseology..

24th. On Accounts.

V. Reports from Select Committees.

VI.

Resolutions of the Convention.

VII. Orders of the Day.

Which was laid upon the table, and three hundred copies ordered to be printed.

When the Chair announced the first thing in order was the report of the committee on the legality of the claim of the present State Printer to do the printing of this Convention.

The question then being upon concurring in the report,
It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Bascom offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Convention proceed on to-morrow, at 10 o'clock, A. M., to the election of a Printer for this body; said printing to be done at the rates fixed by law for doing the printing of the State;

Which,

On motion of Mr. Brookbank,

Was laid upon the table,

Mr. Tague offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the legislative department be instructed to inquire into the expediency of engrafting into the Constitution a clause providing for tri-annual sessions of the Legisture, and report to this Convention;

Which was adopted, and referred to the committee on the legislative department.

Mr. Pettit offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on organization of courts of justice be instructed to report a provision for the Constitution abolishing the grand jury system, and substituting public examinations in its place.

Which lies over one day under the rules.

Motion by Mr. Taylor to adjourn;

Which was decided in the negative.

Mr. Edmonston offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the legislative department be instructed to insert a provision in the amendment to the Constitution adopting biennial, instead of annual, sessions of the Legislature;

Which resolution, under the rule, lies over one day.
Mr. Perry offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the organization of courts, &c., enquire into the expediency of engrafting on the Constitution a provision that the jury in criminal cases find upon the facts of the issue only; and that the courts apply the penalty and punishment in case of conviction;

Which was referred to the committee on the practice of the law and law reform.

Mr. McClelland offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on finance and taxation be in: structed to inquire into the expediency of abolishing the poll tax;

Which was referred to the committee on finance and taxation. Mr. Shoup offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of this State be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing in the bill of rights a provision prohibiting the Legislature of the State from the enacting of laws authorizing incorporated companies taking the property of any erson without his or her consent, and without a just compensation therefor, to be paid before the using of it;

Which was referred to the committee on rights and privileges of the inhabitants of this State.

Mr. Chapman offered the following resolution :

Resolved, That the committee on salaries, &c., be directed to inquire into the expediency of fixing, so far as practicable, minimum and maximum rates for the salaries of all legislative, executive, and judicial officers; and further, as to the expediency of abolishing, as far as practicable, all perquisites and privileges which may now be attached to any office;

Which was adopted by consent.

Mr. Smiley offered the following resolution :

Resolved, That the committee on legislation, be requested to inquire into the expediency of inserting a provision in the Constitution requiring the legislative body of this State, at each session when met, to organize within ten days, and on failure to organize within ten days, then to receive no pay until an organization takes place;

Which was adopted by consent.

Mr. Maguire offered the following resolution :

Resolved, That the committee on currency and banking be requested to inquire into the expediency of providing in the new Constitution that the Legislature shall have power to recharter the State Bank of Indiana, with such alterations and modifications as experience shall have suggested, or to establish independent banks on safe and sound principles, or both State and independent banks, as the people, in their discretion, shall think most conducive to their convenience and prosperity;

Which was adopted by consent.

Mr. Kent submitted the following resolution :

Resolved, That the committee on State officers inquire into the expediency of providing in the Constitution for the election, by the people, of a clerk and a reporter of the Supreine Court;

Which was referred to the committee on State officers, by con

sent.

On motion of Mr. Sherrod,

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

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1850

The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Myers.

The Journal of the preceding day was read.

Mr. Pepper of Ohio submitted the following resolution :

Resolved, That the committee on currency and banking be instructed to report a provision that at the expiration of the charter of the present State Bank, all connection between the State Government and Banks shall cease.

Which lies over one day under the rule.

Mr. Harbolt offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on elective franchise and the apportionment, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of engrafting a clause in the Constitution, so that in all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who has resided in this State six months immediately preceding such election, shall be entitled to vote in the county where he resides, except such as shall be enlisted in the armies of the United States or their allies;

Which was referred to the committee on elective franchise.
Mr. Allen offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on currency and banking be requested to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting the Legislature from passing any bank charter, or giving to any person or number of persons any banking privileges which are not extended to all the people of the State;

Which was referred to the committee on banking.

Mr. Hamilton submitted the following resolution :

Resolved, That the committee on banking be instructed to inquire into the expediency of introducing a clause into our Constitution giving to the Legislature power to establish a State Bank and Branches, and also power to grant charters for private banking: Provided, Stocks of the United States or of the State of Indiana be deposited as security for the redemption of the paper issued by such private banks, the same to be lodged with an officer of the State, who shall, on receiving the stock, deliver blank bank paper, countersigned and registered, to an amount not to exceed the par value of the stock deposited: And provided also, That the stockholders be held individually liable for the final redemption of such paper as the bank may issue;

Which was referred to the committee on banking.
Mr. Stevenson, submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the legislative department be directed to report the following as an amendment to the Constitution, viz.: No bill shall be passed unless by the assent of a majority of all the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly, and the question upon the final passage shall be taken immediately upon the last reading, and the yeas and nays entered on the journal;

Which lies over one day under the rule.

Mr. Hardin offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on impeachment and removals from office be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing in the Constitution that all county officers, for wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanors in office, shall be liable to presentment or indictment, by a grand jury or otherwise, and trial by a petit jury, and, upon conviction, be removed from office;

Which was referred to the committee on impeachments and removals from office.

Mr. Morrison of Washington submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the superintendent of common schools be requested to lay before the Convention a statement of the amount and condition of "surplus revenue fund," "saline fund," "bank tax fund," and "congressional township fund," together with the annual interest which has been derived from the same during each year from 1845 to 1849, inclusive, and the amount of interest actually paid out each year for common school purposes;

Which was adopted by consent.

Mr. Hendricks offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on education be instructed to report an amendment of the second section of the ninth article of the Constitution providing that the Legislature in the establishment of a general system of education, shall not provide for or establish, at the public charge, any schools or institutions of learning other than district or township schools;

Which was referred to the committee on education.

Mr. Wolfe submitted the following preamble and resolution: WHEREAS, The people of the State of Indiana, in calling this Convention, did not intend to abolish, but amend the present Constitution, and the Convention being now fully organized, therefore,

Resolved, That the Convention now proceed to take up the Constitution, article by article, and section by section, until we shall have made the few but necessary amendments thereto, as asked for or contemplated by the people.