The roll was then called and the following members answered to their names and were sworn into office by the Hon. William E. Niblack, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana, and took their seats, namely:

From the county of Morgan, George A. Adams.
From the county of Sullivan, Charles T. Akin.
From the county of Miami, Nott N. Antrim.
From the county of Huntington, John H. Barr.
From the county of Wayne, Mumford G. Beeson.
From the county of Steuben, Doak R. Best.

From the counties of Franklin, Dearborn and Ripley, Andrew J. Bowers.

From the county of Jennings, John Brazelton.
From the county of Allen, Albert W. Brooks.
From the county of Clinton, De Witt C. Bryant.
From the county of Marion, William D. Bynum.
From the county of Warrick, James W. Cabbage.
From the county of Vermillion, Josiah Campbell.
From the county of Whitley, William Carr.
From the county of Hancock, Morgan Chandler.
From the county of Allen, Erastus L. Chittenden.
From the county of Jefferson, William M. Copeland.
From the county of Laporte, Eugenius W. Davis.
From the county of Henry, John A. Deem.

From the counties of Adams and Jay, David Eley.

From the county of Marion, John C. Ferriter..

From the counties of Pike and Dubois, Morman Fisher.

From the county of Hendricks, Jacob H. Fleece.

From the county of Rush, E. S. Frazee.

From the counties of Kosciusko and Wabash, William D. Frazer.

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From the county of Johnson, Orlando Furnas.

From the county of Noble, John Gants.

From the counties of Elkhart, Noble and DeKalb, Eli B. Gerber.

From the county of Gibson, William Genung.

From the county of Clark, George H. D. Gibson.

From the counties of Newton and Jasper, William W. Gil

man.

From the county of Putnam, John R. Gordon.

From the counties of Monroe and Brown, John Graham.
From the counties of Dubois and Martin, Brazil L. Greene.
From the county of Tipton, George W. Ham..
From the county of Hamilton, Milton Hanson.
From the county of Washington, Horace Heffren.
From the county of Greene, Alexander S. Helms.

From the counties of St. Joseph and Starke, Alexander H.
Henderson.

From the county of St. Joseph, Christian Holler.

From the county of Marion, Elisha J. Howland.

From the counties of Fayette and Union, James N. Huston.

From the counties of Clark, Scott and Floyd, Charles L
Jewett.

From the county of Ripley, John B. Kennedy.

From the county of Vigo, Isaac N. Kester.

From the counties of Benton and White, Freeman Kirkpatrick.

From the county of Parke, William Knowles.

From the county of Bartholomew, Patrick H. McCormack.
From the county of Lawrence, James McClelland.
From the county of Porter, Marquis L. McClelland.
From the county of Allen, Joseph D. McHenry.

From the county of Dearborn, Hugh D. McMullen.

From the counties of Madison, Hancock and Henry, Henry Marsh.

From the county of Harrison, William D. Mauck.

From the county of Delaware, Josiah E. Mellett.

From the county of Wayne, L. M. Mering.

From the county of Franklin, Albert Miller.

From the counties of Jay, Adams and Wells, Levi Mock.
From the county of Owen, John S. Montgomery.

From the county of DeKalb, Daniel D. Moody.
From the county of Elkhart, Cyrus F. Mosier.
From the county of Shelby, Jacob Mutz.

From the county of Fountain, Joseph S. Nave.

From the counties of Knox, Sullivan and Greene, James B. Patten.

From the counties of Fulton and Pulaski, George W. Peters. From the county of Lake, Harry Pettibone.

From the county of Clay, James M. Price.

From the county of Vanderburgh, John F. Pruitt.

From the county of Decatur, Oscar L. Pulse.

From the county of Jackson, George A. Robertson.

From the counties of Clay, Putnam and Hendricks, Fredrick J. S. Robinson.

From the county of Vigo, Philip Schloss.

From the county of Madison, Henry P. Shaffer.

From the county of Marshall, William Shaw.

From the county of Wabash, Harvey B. Shively.

From the county of Randolph, Theodore Shockney.

From the counties of Wells and Blackford, Henry B. Smith.

From the county of Lagrange, James Smith.

From the county of Perry, Philip Smith.

From the county of Tippecanoe, B. Wilson Smith.
From the county of Vanderburgh, James W. Spain.
From the county of Boone, Howard D. Sterrett.

From the county of Spencer, William Stevenson.

From the counties of Switzerland and Ohio, Stephen H. Ste

wart.

From the county of Montgomery, John W. Straughan.

From the counties of Crawford and Orange, Jas. F. Stucker. From the counties of Marion, Shelby and Bartholomew, Bellamy S. Sutton.

From the county of Cass, James Thomas.

From the county of Howard, Michael Thompson.

From the county of Carroll, William H. Weaver.
From the county of Tippecanoe, Harvey Westfall.
From the county of Marion, Jesse Whitsit.

From the counties of Warren and Benton, Ulric Z. Wiley.
From the county of Knox, Samuel W. Williams.
From the county of Posey, Leroy Williams.
From the county of Kosciusko, John W. Wilson.
From the county of Marion, John R. Wilson.
From the county of Daviess, Haman Woodling.
From the county of Grant, Andrew T. Wright.

The House then proceeded with the elections of officers.

Nominations for Speaker of the House being in order,

Mr. Heffren placed in nomination the Hon. William D. Bynum, of Marion County.

Mr. Frazer placed in nomination the Hon. Andrew J. Wright, of Grant County.

Those who voted for Mr. Bynum were:

Messrs. Akin, Barr, Bowers, Brooks, Bryant, Cabbage, Carr,

Chandler, Chittenden, Davis, Eley, Ferriter, Fisher, Gibson, Gordon, Graham, Greene, Ham, Heffren, Howland, Jewett, Kennedy, Kester, McCormack, McHenry, McMullen, Mauck, Miller, Mock, Montgomery, Moody, Mutz, Nave, Patten, Peters, Price, Pruitt, Pulse, Robertson, Robinson, Schloss, Shaffer, Shaw, Smith of Blackford, Smith of Perry, Spain, Stevenson, Stucker, Sutton, Thomas, Weaver, Whitsit, Williams of Knox, Williams of Posey, Wilson of Marion, Woodling, Wright. Total, 57.

Those who voted for Mr. Wright were:

Messrs. Adams, Antrim, Beeson, Best, Brazelton, Bynum, Campbell, Copeland, Deem, Fleece, Frazee, Frazer, Furnas, Gerber, Genung, Gilman, Hanson, Helms, Henderson, Holler, Huston, Kirkpatrick, Knowls, McClelland of Lawrence, McClelland of Porter, Marsh, Mellett, Mering, Mosier, Pettibone, Shively, Shockney, Smith of Lagrange, Smith of Tippecanoe, Sterrett, Stewart, Straughan, Thompson, Westfall, Wiley, Wilson of Kosciusko. Total, 41.

Mr. Bynum having received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for and during the present session, whereupon the presiding officer, Secretary of State Hawn, appointed Messrs. Wright and Moody to conduct the Speaker to the Chair.

The Speaker, escorted by this committee, was conducted to the Speaker's stand, where the oath of his office was administered by Judge William E. Niblack.

Mr. Bynum took the Chair and addressed the House as follows:

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:

I thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me by selecting me to preside over your deliberations. I regret that I do not bring to the position that legislative experience so necessary to a prompt and efficient discharge of the duties. I promise you, however, that I will strive to obtain a perfect