delegate for the purpose of referring the same to any standing committee, shall embrace one subject only."

138. Supplementary Rules and Orders of the Convention.

The following supplementary rules were adopted from time to time as indicated below:

1. No member shall offer more than one resolution on the same day until every member choosing to offer a resolution has done so. Adopted by consent on October 17 (pp. 74, 93).

2. The minority of a committee may report, without argument, articles or sections for the new Constitution expressing the views of such minority. Adopted on October 29 (pp. 142, 153). A proposed amendment, that "such report shall be made without assigning any reasons for the same," was rejected.

3. All sections of the amended Constitution, reported from the standing committees, shall be printed on their first reading. Adopted on October 28 by consent (pp. 139, 142).

4. That in all cases, the sections of the amended Constitution, reported by the minority of a standing committee, be printed along with the sections reported by the majority of the same committee. Adopted on October 29 (p. 154).

5. The previous question shall not cut off a motion to commit previously made. Adopted December 13 (pp. 429-30).

6. On Saturday, resolutions shall have precedence of all other business until 11 o'clock a. m. at which time the order of the day shall be taken up, and speeches on resolutions shall be limited to five minutes each. Adopted December 27 (pp. 518, 544-45).

7. When a section or article has been recommitted with instructions, it shall not be in order to move additional instructions to said committee. Adopted January 2 (pp. 562, 588).

8. That the rules be so altered that it shall be in order, immediately after an article is disposed of, to introduce an additional section. Adopted January 24 (pp. 743, 764).

9. That after Tuesday next (February 4, 1851) no new sec

11. Rule No. 44 was not contained in the original report of the committee; it was proposed on the floor of the Convention by Mr. Graham of Warrick and adopted. An amendment to Rule No. 44, offered by Mr. Smith of Ripley, "That no member shall offer more than one resolution on the same day, and that each resolution shall embrace but one subject'', was rejected. An additional rule, proposed by Mr. Zenor, that **Any member submitting any matter which may be referred to any of the standing committees, shall be considered a member of the committee during the investigation of the subject'', and an amendment to this proposed rule, submitted by Mr. Hardin and accepted by Mr. Zenor, designed to add after the word 'subject'' the words but shall have no right to vote in such committee'', was rejected by the Convention.

tion shall be introduced; nor shall any motion be entertained to reconsider the passage of any section, unless three-fourths of the Convention so order. Adopted February 1 (p. 877).

10. Resolutions shall take precedence of the order of the day on every Saturday. Adopted November 2 (p. 189).

11. Each section may be separately engrossed or passed. Adopted November 12 (pp. 241-42).

12. That the rule requiring committees to report without argument, be suspended as to the Committee on Elections. Adopted October 18 (p. 97).

139. Rules and Orders Proposed and Rejected.

The following rules were proposed but apparently never adopted:

1. It shall not be in order to entertain a motion for the adoption of a resolution, where one of similar import has already been adopted. October 15 (p. 77).

2. Notice was given on November 21, to change the rule "to admit any member to vote if within the hall, when the question is put." Obviously no further action was taken (p. 281).

Notice was given on November 29, to amend the rules to provide that "a motion to reconsider a section that has passed, shall not be in order unless made within three days after its passage." No further action (p. 309).

4. December 13, notice was given that an attempt would be made to rescind the rule setting apart Saturday of each week for resolutions. The proposition was rejected (pp. 430, 444).

5. On December 13, notice was given of an attempt to amend the rules by adding that "No section of the new Constitution shall pass, unless the same shall be voted for by a majority of all the members elected to the Convention." This proposed amendment was laid on the table on December 14 (pp. 432, 448).

6. On December 26, notice was given to amend the rules of proceedings as follows but apparently the propositions were given no further consideration.

or

Rule. Whenever any Whenever any of the printed numbers reports of committees containing sections of the Constitution shall come on a second reading, if amendments are suggested, they shall be thereupon referred to a committee of the whole for that purpose, upon which the Convention may then or at any future time, resolve itself into such committee of the whole to consider the same, on which occasion the President shall call some member to pre

side for the time being, or the Convention may resolve itself into a quasi committee of the whole, during which the President shall continue to occupy the chair.

Rule. No proposition to amend any such printed section shall be considered or adopted in Convention, unless by unanimous consent, until after it has been submitted and discussed in committee of the whole, or in such quasi committee, or unless one day's notice thereof shall have been given in Convention.

Rule. Sections after having been amended materially and such as may be adopted in addition to such printed sections by the way of amendment, shall be printed as amended before being read the third time and finally passed.

Rule. After the business is disposed of, and previously to taking up the orders of the day, one hour is appropriated for the introduction of resolutions, and for that purpose the names of the members shall be called as they stand upon the list; and upon the presentation of any resolution, if opposition is made, no discussion shall be then had, but the same shall lie over until the next day. Rule. No member shall be heard in debate or be allowed to vote except from his desk.

Rule- No member shall be allowed to speak more than fifteen minutes, except upon original propositions or upon leave granted.

7. In accordance with notice previously given, the following proposed amendment to the rules was submitted: "Amendments may be made by adding sections to any report of any standing committee after the Convention shall have gone through the consideration of such report, and not while the Convention shall be considering such report. An attempt to amend by striking out the words "and not while the Convention shall be considering such report', and by adding that "no proposition on the engrossment having been voted down shall be offered or entertained as instruction to the same section on the third reading", was rejected. The original proposed amendment seems to have been laid on the table (pp. 551-52).

8. A proposed amendment "That hereafter the Convention meet in the morning at half-past eight o'clock instead of nine'', was indefinitely postponed after two subsidiary amendments providing "that this Convention will hold a night session" and "will not in future adjourn for dinner', were adopted January 4 and 11 (pp. 605, 643-44).

A proposition to amend the rules to provide that "No

delegate shall be allowed to change his vote or to record the same after the roll shall have been called', was rejected. January 24 and 31 (pp. 777, 859).

10. The following proposition was submitted but not adopted: "In all cases where members leave their seats and roam and swagger about the Hall, or hold loud conversations to the annoyance of others, the President shall call upon such members by name to take their seats, or be silent, and the secretary shall enter the name of such member or members upon the journal, with the cause of the call." January 24 (p. 777).

11. "That the failure of a motion to reconsider any vote on a section heretofore passed, shall not prevent a motion to instruct the Committee on Revision in regard to the same section." No further action after introduction (p. 783).

12. Reports made by the Committee on Revision, arrangement, and phraseology, may, if a majority so direct, be considered by sections, so that the question of concurrence may be taken on each amended section separately. Not further considered

(p. 882).

140.

Resolutions Submitted to the Convention of 1850 by Delegates. As soon as the Convention was organized, the delegates began to submit resolutions embodying provisions which they or their constituents desired to have incorporated in the new Constitution. The first of these resolutions was submitted on October 9, the third day of the Convention; the last on January 29, only two weeks before final adjournment. All told, 333 such resolutions were proposed. Such proposed resolutions were acted upon by the Convention, and either adopted or rejected; if adopted, they were submitted to the appropriate committee for consideration. No attempt has been made, except in important instances, to record the action of the Convention on these proposals, and they are here arranged under convenient headings to indicate the raw material out of which the Constitution was constructed.

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(a) RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF CITIZENS.

1. Property Rights of Married Women-Resolved, That women hereafter married in this State shall have the right to acquire and possess property, to their sole use and disposal; and that laws shall be passed, securing to them, under equitable conditions, all propery, real and personal, whether owned by them before marriage, or acquired afterwards, by purchase, gift, devise or descent,

12. Citations are to page numbers of the Convention Journal.

and also providing for the registration of the wife's separate property. Owen (p. 30).

2. White Females' Right of Petition-Resolved, That a provision be incorporated in the Constitution of the State of Indiana to instruct our representatives to provide by law the right of petition to all white females of the age of eighteen and upwards to the Indiana Legislature for such laws as will tend to protect their best interest and that of their posterity. Steele (p. 48).

3. Prohibiting Taking Property Without Consent and Compensation-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 person without his or her consent, and without a just compensation therefor, to be paid before the using of it. Shoup (p. 61).

4. Prohibiting Taking Property or Services Without Consent or Compensation-Resolved, That the Committee on the Rights and Privileges of the inhabitants of this State, inquire into the expediency of adopting as a constitutional provision, that no man's particular services shall be demanded or property taken or applied to public use without the consent of his representatives, or without a just compensation being first made therefor. Terry (p. 64).

5. Prohibiting Imprisonment For Debt-Resolved, That the Committee on the Rights and Privileges of the inhabitants of this State be instructed to inquire into the propriety of incorporating a section in the bill of rights prohibiting imprisonment for debt in any case whatever. Milligan (p. 66).

6. Homestead Exemptions-Resolved, That the Committee on Rights and Privileges be instructed to inquire into the expediency of securing, by a declaration in the bill of rights, to the head of each family in the State of Indiana, a reasonable homestead exemption. Hawkins (p. 67).

7. Preservation of Legal Rights to Women Entering into Married State-Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee on the Rights and Privileges of the inhabitants of this State, to enquire into the expediency of adding another section to our present bill of rights, to read as follows: Women who may enter into the married state from and after the ratification of this constitution by the people, shall not lose or forfeit any legal rights by said marriage. Milroy (p. 70).

Unassailable Land Titles-Resolved, That in our amended