1832 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Sixteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1832. Google Books

 

Page 22
Chapter XX.
An Act declaring Hogan creek, in Dearborn county, a public highway.
(Approved, January 24, 1832.)

 

Page 92
Chapter XCVII.
An Act to amend an act entitled, “An act confirming to John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, certain rights,” approved, January 6th, 1831.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

  • Whereas, it has been discovered that the act authorizing the trustees of school section in township six, of range number three west, of lands offered for sale at Cincinnati, situate in the county of Dearborn, Indiana, to sell and convey to John J. Akin and others, a certain tract of land therein named, is incorrectly stated, inasmuch as range number one west, is substituted for number three.

 

Page 104
Chapter CIX.
An Act to amend an act entitled, “An act to continue in force, an act for the benefit of 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 6th of March, 1826,” approved, January 29th, 1831.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

  • Sec 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the fees of the recorder of Dearborn county, as a compensation for services enjoined on him by the provisions of said act, shall hereafter be paid out of the county treasury of said county, instead of persons making application for such services, having to pay the same.
  • Sec 2. That so much of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

 

Page 173
Chapter CXLIV.
An Act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1832.)

  • That David Guard, Thomas Shaw, George H. Dunn and John Test, of the said town of Lawrenceburg; Daniel Plummer, William Purcell and Pinkney James of the county of Dearborn; Robert M. Johnson and Henry A. Reid, of Ripley county; Martin Adkins, Nathan D. Gallion and James Freeman, of Decatur county; John Walker and John Hendricks of Shelby county; and Nicholas McCarty and Benjamin I. Blythe of the town of Indianapolis, and their successors in office, duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “the resident and Directors of the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.”

 

Page 205.
Chapter CXLVIII.
An Act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1832.)

  • That John Godley and John D. Moore of Dearborn county, George Sutton, Richard Tyner, David Mount and John P. Case, of Franklin county, Reu Pugh, William B. Laughlin, and William S. Bussell, of Rush county, David Tracy of Shelby county, and Isaac N. Phipps, Harvey Bates and Alfred Harrison, of Marion county, and their successors in office, duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “the President and Directors of the Harrison and Indianapolis rail road Company.”

 

Page 282
Chapter CLXLIX.
A Joint Resolution, relative to the Saline Reserve in the county of Dearborn.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

  • On the fourth day of January, 1830, the Hon. Miles C. Eggleston, the president judge of the third judicial circuit, in which said saline reserve is situate, did by indenture in writing, lease the same to David Guard, for a term of three years from and after the date thereof, who took possession, and placed certain persons as tenants thereon, to-wit: Mary Muir, John Davis and Thoams Branan…. It also appears, that the above named agent and attorney in fact, of those persons, acting, or pretending to act, under the power so conferred on him by them, did also proceed to sell and convey the said land to one Levi Miller, who is also now claiming the same in virtue thereof.