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Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed and Published at the Thirteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Smith and Bolton, 1829. Google Books

 

APPROPRIATIONS.

Chap. 1. An act making general appropriations for the year 1829.

Chap. 2. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1829.

Chap. 3. An act making appropriations for the payment of the commissioners and other persons employed in surveying and marking a road from Lake Michigan to Indianapolis.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

Chap. 4. An act to provide for the incorporation of agricultural societies.

APPORTIONMENT.

Chap 5. An act for the apportionment of senators and representatives in the counties and territory therein named.

ATTACHMENTS DOMESTIC.

Chap. 6. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act authorizing domestic attachments, and to regulate the proceedings thereon,” approved January 2, 1824.

CANALS.

Chap. 7. An act concerning the Wabash and Miami canal.

COUNTY BOUNDARIES.

Chap. 8. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act attaching certain territory to the counties therein named, “approved January 16, 1828.

Chap. 9. An act to authorize the surveying and marking the boundary line between the counties of Washington and Clark.

Chap. 10. An act authorizing the surveying and marking the boundary line between the counties of Clark and Scott.

COUNTY BUSINESS.

Chap. 11. An act authorizing the board of justices doing county business in the county of Lawrence, to assess a poll tax for county purposes.

Chap. 12. An act authorizing Samuel Conner to build a ware house on part of Water street in the town of Rome.

Chap. 13. An act regulating the mode of doing county business in the counties of Allen, Hendricks and Madison.

Chap. 14. An act to authorize the board of justices of Bartholomew county to levy an additional tax.

Chap. 15. An act legalizing the proceedings of the board of commissioners for the county of Vigo.

Chap. 16. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the counties of Decatur and Tippecanoe.

Chap. 17. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the counties of Wayne, Jefferson, Ripley and Fountain.

Chap. 18. An act to authorize the board of justices of Scott county, to sell a part of the public square in the town of Lexington, and for other purposes.

COUNTIES NEW.

Chap. 19. An act for the formation of the county of Cass.

Chap. 20. An act supplemental to the act, entitled “an act for the formation of the county of Cass,” passed at the present session of this general assembly.

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

Chap. 21. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act for the formation of congressional districts, and for the election of senators and representatives to congress,” approved January 30, 1824.

COURTS CIRCUIT.

Chap. 22. An act to authorize the judges of the Montgomery circuit court to hold a special session.

Chap. 23. An act supplementary to an act, entitled “an act to authorize the judges of the Montgomery circuit court to hold a special session,” approved Dec. 17, 1828.

Chap. 24. An act supplemental to an act, entitled “an act to amend the act to regulate the judicial circuits, and fixing the times of holding courts therein,” approved, February 12, 1825.

Chap. 25. An act to amend the several acts regulating the judicial circuits, and fixing the times of holding courts therein.

COURTS PROBATE.

Chap. 26. An act to organize probate courts, and defining the powers and duties of executors and administrators.

Chap. 27. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act amendatory of the law and for the better advancement of justice,” approved January 20, 1826.

Chap. 28. An act to authorize William Richards, administrator of the estate of Gabriel Richards, deceased, to act as guardian of the minor heirs of said Gabriel Richards, deceased.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

Chap. 29. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act relative to crime and punishment.”

DEBTORS INSOLVENT.

Chap. 30. An act supplementary to “an act for the relief of insolvent debtors,” approved January 28, 1824.

ELECTION PRESIDENTAL.

Chap. 31. An act to amend the act, entitled “an act to provide for the election of electors of president and vice president of the United States,” approved January 14, 1824.

EXECUTION.

Chap. 32. An act to amend the act, entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved January 30, 1824.

INCORPORATIONS.

Chap. 33. An act to incorporate the townships, in Shelby county.

Chap. 34. An act amending the several acts to incorporate the town of Madison.

Chap. 35. An act to incorporate the town of Washington in the county of Daviess.

Chap. 36. An act concerning the town of Fort Wayne.

INSPECTION.

Chap. 37. An act to provide for the inspection of salt, beef, and flour.

Chap. 38. An act to repeal part of the act entitled “an act regulating the inspection of tobacco, approved December 27, 1816.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chap. 39. An act amendatory to an act, entitled “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved January 20, 1824.

LIBRARIES COUNTY.

Chap. 40. An act in addition to an act, entitled “an act for the incorporation of county libraries,” approved January 28, 1824.

Chap. 41. An act supplemental to an act, entitled “an act to incorporate county libraries,” approved January 28, 1824.

MILITIA.

Chap. 42. An act supplementary to the act, regulating the militia in the state of Indiana.

MILLS.

Chap. 43. An act to amend the law regulating grist mills.

NAMES.

Chap. 44. An act to change the name of John Smith to John Lucius Smith.

NAVIGATION.

Chap. 45. An act for the improvement of the navigation of Eel river, and for other purposes.

Chap. 46. An act supplemental to an act declaring Busseron creek a public highway, approved January 21, 1826.

Chap. 47. An act relative to navigable streams declared highways, by the ordinance of congress of 1787.

Chap. 48. An act supplemental to act entitled “an act declaring certain streams therein named public highways,” approved January 26, 1824.

PRINTING.

Chap. 49. An act to provide for the printing and distributing the laws and journals of the present session.

RECORDERS OF GIBSON AND MONROE.

Chap. 50. An act making provision for compensation to the recorders of Gibson and Monroe counties.

RECORDS OF DEEDS.

Chap. 51. An act providing for the more certain preservation of the evidence of the title to real estate.

RELIEF.

Chap. 52. An act for the relief of George Henry, James Borand and Ellis Stone.

Chap. 53. An act to revive the act, entitled “an act to amend the act entitled, an act for the benefit of those persons, who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire in the court house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the sixth of March 1826,” approved January 11, 1827.

Chap. 54. An act for the relief of the securities of Samuel Stanley, deceased, collector of the county of Jackson.

Chap. 55. An act allowing additional compensation, to Austin Bishop and Robert Culbertson, for extra work done upon the Governor’s house.

Chap. 56. An act for the benefit of Samuel M’George.

Chap. 57. An act for the relief of the infant heirs of Westley Harrison deceased.

Chap. 58. An act for the relief of the purchasers of out-lots adjoining the town of Indianapolis, under the acts approved January 31, 1826, and February 12, 1825.

REVENUE.

Chap. 59. An act to amend the act, entitled “an act for assessing and collecting revenue, approved January 30, 1824.

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.

Chap. 60. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act for opening and repairing public roads and highways,” approved January 24, 1828.

Chap. 61. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act providing the mode of opening and repairing public roads and highways in certain counties therein named,” approved January 21, 1826.

Chap. 62. An act to revive an act, entitled “an act for opening and repairing public roads and highways, in certain counties therein named, approved January 21, 1826.

Chap. 63. An act supplementary to an act, entitled “an act to establish a levee, to preserve the road leading from Vincennes, through the lower prairie, near the Wabash river,” approved January 5, 1828.

Chap. 64. An act concerning the town of Utica.

Chap. 65. An act to establish a clay turnpike road from the town of Levenworth in Crawford county, twenty miles or more in the direction of Indianapolis.

ROADS STATE.

Chap. 66. An act in addition to an act, entitled “an act authorizing the laying off certain state roads, and appropriating one hundred thousand dollars of the three per cent fund, for opening the same,” and the several acts amendatory thereto.

Chap. 67. An act to establish a state road from Rushville in Rush county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.

Chap. 68. An act to locate a state road from Newcastle to Crawfordsville.

Chap. 69. An act to locate a state road from Indianapolis to Lafayette in the county of Tippecanoe, and for other purposes.

Chap. 70. An act to change part of the state road from Rockport to Bloomington.

Chap. 71. An act for viewing and laying out a state road from Bono, via Bedford to Terre Haute.

Chap. 72. An act to cause the state road leading from New Albany, in Floyd county, through Corydon and Fredonia, to Pinceton, to be opened.

Chap. 73. An act to locate a state road from the Ohio line, by Abington and Waterloo to Connersville.

Chap. 74. An act to establish a state road, commencing at or near Abraham Markle’s in Martin county, and running thence, through Mount Pleasant, thence to intersect the state road leading from New Albany to Vincennes, at or near the farm of John C. Clark.

Chap. 75. An act to establish a state road, from Mount Vernon, to the Wabash river at Collin’s ferry, in a direction to Vandalia, in the state of Illinois.

Chap. 76. An act to establish a state road from Madison to the county of Jefferson, to Lawrenceburgh in the county of Dearborn.

Chap. 77. An act to establish a state road from or near Brownsville, by the way of Waterloo and Milton, to intersect the state road leading from Centreville to Indianapolis.

Chap. 78. An act to change a part of the Bethlehem state road.

Chap. 79. An act establishing a state road from Grandison Thomas’s farm in Daviess county, to intersect the state road, at or near Richard Weaver’s in said county.

Chap. 80. An act providing for the opening of a state road in the county of Allen.

Chap. 81. An act to relocate that part of the state road, leading from the Ohio line to Winchester, thence to Indianapolis, which lies between the 30th, and 35th mile post.

Chap. 82. An act to establish a state road from Shelbyville, by the way of Marion in the county of Shelby, Greenfield in the county of Hancock, to Anderstontown in the county of Madison and for other purposes.

Chap. 83. An act to establish a state road, from a point on the line dividing the states of Indiana, and Illinois, by the way of the points therein named, to Greensburgh in Decatur county.

SCHOOLS.

Chap. 84. An act to authorize the sale of school lands and for other purposes.

SCHOOLS, MEETING HOUSES &c.

Chap. 85. An act authorizing the trustees of the first Presbyterian church in the town of New Albany, to sell and convey the real estate of said church.

SEATS OF JUSTICE.

Chap. 86. An act supplemental to an act, entitled “an act appointing commissioners to relocate the seat of justice of Lawrence county,” approved, February 9, 1825.

Chap. 87. An act to provide for the relocation of the seat of justice of Warren county.

Chap. 88. An act appointing commissioners to relocate the seat of justice of Dubois county.

SEMINARIES.

Chap. 89. An act to incorporate the Eel river seminary society.

Chap. 90. An act to incorporate Hanover academy.

SEMINARY FUNDS.

Chap. 91. An act to amend the act, entitled “an act respecting a county seminary, and the seminary funds of Switzerland county.”

Chap. 92. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to authorize the loaning of the seminary funds,” approved January 24, 1828.

Chap. 93. An act authorizing further sales, of the reserved townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties.

SURVEYORS COUNTY.

Chap. 94. An act to authorize the county surveyors, to obtain copies of the field notes of the original corners of land, in their respective counties.

TOLL BRIDGES.

Chap. 95. An act to authorize William Youze, to build a toll bridge across the east fork of White Water river.

TOWNS.

Chap. 96. An act to vacate the town of Owenville.

VENUE.

Chap. 97. An act to authorize the circuit court of the county of Perry, to change the venue in a certain case therein named.

WOLVES.

Chap. 98. An act to amend an act, entitled “an act to encourage the killing of wolves,” approved January 27, 1827.

 

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chap. 99. A joint resolution, to prolong the time allowed the board of commissioners of the Wabash and Miami canal, to make their report.

Chap. 100. A joint resolution, relative to the reserved lands of the United States on the margin of and contiguous to the contemplated canal, to unite the waters of Lake Erie and the Wabash river.

Chap. 101. A joint resolution appointing a commissioner to adjust the terms upon which the lands granted to this state, by the act of congress of the 2d March 1827, shall be conveyed to the state of Ohio.

Chap. 102. A joint resolution, relative to a portion of the three per cent fund.

Chap. 103. A joint resolution, relative to the three per cent fund.

Chap. 104. A joint resolution to increase the salary of the agent of the three per cent fund.

Chap. 105. A joint resolution.

Chap. 106. A joint resolution relative to the purchasers of public lands.

Chap. 107. A joint resolution, concerning the mail route, through the seats of government of Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.

Chap. 108. A joint resolution relative to the laws of congress remaining in the office of the secretary of state.

Chap. 109. A joint resolution, on the subject of the right which the state of Indiana has to the unappropriated lands within her boundaries.

Chap. 110. A joint resolution relative to monies due the state by the securities of William H. Moore, late collector of revenue of Clark county, and against the estate of Reuben W. Nelson of said county deceased.

Chap. 111. A joint resolution of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, relative to the American colonization society.

Chap. 112. A joint resolution of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, authorizing the printing of the act relating to the school lands.

 

MEMORIALS.

Chap. 113. A memorial of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, on the subject of the continuation of the Cumberland road, and the removal of the timber out of the same.

Chap. 114. A memorial to the congress of the United States, relative ot the French Lick township of land.

Chap. 115. A memorial of the general assembly on the subject of the extinguishment of the Indian title to lands within this state.