Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana: During the Forty-First Regular Session of the General Assembly, Commencing Thursday, January 10, 1861 Allow me to return to you my sincere thanks for the honor you have conferred upon me in my selection to preside over your delib erations during the present session of the General Assembly. Deeply, I may say painfully, impressed with the importance of the position to which you in your partiality have elevated me, and with my inability to promptly and satisfactorily discharge its duties, I, nevertheless, trusting to the kindness of your hearts, and asking you all to extend to me the assistance necessary for the preservation of order and dispatch of business, enter upon the station with a deter mination, to the utmost of my ability, to discharge the duties faith fully, efficiently, and impartially, discarding all party bias, and with an eye single to the dispatch of business and the rights of every member of this House. Again thanking you for the honor you have conferred upon me, let me recommend that we proceed at once with the business for which we have assembled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.