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JOURNAL

OF THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SPECIAL SESSION, 1872.

During the special session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, begun and held in the City of Indianapolis, on Wednesday, the 13th day of November, A. D., 1872, being the day fixed for the meeting of the same by the following proclamation of the Governor of the State of Indiana, calling the said special session:

PROCLAMATION.

STATE OF INDIANA,

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, The public welfare requires that the General Assembly of the State of Indiana should be convened in special session :

Therefore, In pursuance of the constitutional provision on that subject, I, CONRAD BAKER, Governor of the State of Indiana, do, by this Proclamation, call a Special Session of said General Assembly, to be held at the State House, in Indianapolis, commencing at

2 o'clock P. M. of Wednesday, the 13th day of November, A. D., 1872, hereby requiring the members and the members elect thereof to meet at their respective Halls of Legislation, in said State House, at the time above designated.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the State to be affixed at the City of [L. S.] Indianapolis, this 22d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

By the Governor:

CONRAD BAKER.

JOHN H. FARQUHAR, Sec'y of State.

By O. M. EDDY, Deputy.

In obedience to the foregoing proclamation the members of the House of Representatives convened in their hall on the day and hour above mentioned.

The Clerk of the last regular session, Samuel W. Holmes, called the House to order, and upon a call of the districts the following members presented their credentials, and were duly sworn as Representatives of the General Assembly by the Hon. Samuel H. Buskirk, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Those who answered to their names were:

From the county of Allen-Jefferson C. Bowser and Mahlon Heller.

From the counties of Adams and Wells-John M. McConnell. From the county of Bartholomew-John M. Cline.

From the counties of Boone and Clinton-Marquis L. Martin. From the counties of Bartholomew and Shelby-Stenson J. Bar

rett.

From the county of Boone-Christian S. Wesner.
From the county of Carroll-John F. Richardson.
From the county of Cass-Charles W. Anderson.
From the county of Clinton-William Strange.
From the county of Clay-William H. Gifford.

From the counties of Clark, Jefferson and Scott-Daniel Blocher.
From the county of Clark-Joseph Baker.

From the county of Decatur-George Goudie.

From the counties of Decatur and Rush-John D. Miller.

From the county of Dearborn-Noah S. Given.
From the county of DeKalb-Samuel S. Shutt.
From the county of Davies-Mathew L. Brett.

From the counties of Dubois and Martin-Henry A. Peed.
From the county of Elkhart-John E. Thompson.

From the counties of Elkhart and Noble-David S. Scott.

From the county of Floyd-James H. Willard.

From the counties of Fayette and Union-Warner H. Broadus.
From the county of Franklin-Israel Goble.

From the county of Fountain-Horatio R. Claypool.
From the county of Gibson-Clarance A. Buskirk.
From the county of Grant-Edward S. Lenfesty.
From the county of Greene-John R. Isenhauer.
From the county of Huntington-Buell M. Cobb.
From the county of Hamilton-Nathan H. Clark.
From the county of Henry-John F. Hedrick.
From the county of Hendricks-Allen Furnas.
From the county of Hancock-Charles G. Offutt.

From the counties of Hamilton and Tipton-John E. Rumsey.
From the county of Harrison-William H. Pfrimmer.
From the county of Howard-Thomas M. Kirkpatrick.
From the county of Johnson-Thomas W. Woollen.

From the county of Jefferson-David C. Branham.

From the counties of Jefferson and Ripley-William D. Wilson. From the counties of Jackson and Brown-James A. McKinney. From the county of Jennings-James M. Wynn.

From the counties of Jay and Blackford-Abraham Wilson. From the counties of Jasper, Pulaski and Newton-Jethro A. Hatch.

From the counties of Kosciusko and Fulton-Peter L. Troutman. From the county of Knox-Henry S. Cauthorn.

From the county of Kosciusko-John D. Thayer.

From the counties of Laporte and Starke-L. Dow Glazebrook, From the county of Laporte-George H. Teeter.

From the county of Lawrence-William H. Edwards.

From the county of Lake-Martin Wood.

From the county of Lagrange-William Prentiss.
From the county of Madison-Thomas M. Jones.

From the county of Montgomery-Jessie Y. Durham.
From the county of Marshall-Reson B. Eaton.