JOURNAL

OF THE

INDIANA STATE SENATE

DURING THE

FIFTY-THIRD SESSION

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

COMMENCING THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1883.

REGULAR SESSION.

INDIANAPOLIS:

WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR PUBLIC PRINTING.

1883.

JOURNAL

OF THE

SENATE OF INDIANA.

THURSDAY MORNING.

JANUARY 4, 1883.

This being the day prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Indiana (Article IV, section 9) for the meeting of the General Assembly, Senators holding over and Senators elect met in the city of Indianapolis, in the Superior Court room, in the northeast corner of the Marion County Court House, at 10 o'clock A. M.

Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hanna called the Senate to order, after which the Senate was led in prayer by Rev. Ross Houghton.

Twenty-three Senators elected in October 1880 for the constitutional term of four years appeared and answered to their names as follows:

From the county of Vanderburgh, Wm. Rahm, Jr.

From the counties of Decatur and Shelby, Francis M. Howard.

From the counties of Floyd and Washington, Samuel B. Voyles.

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