Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twentieth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Bolton and Emmons, 1836. Viewed at the Allen County Public Library. Digital copies of specific laws available by request.
Chapter 1. An act making General Appropriations for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Chapter 2. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1836.
Chapter 3. An act to incorporate Michigan City.
Chapter 4. An act to incorporate the town of Rome in Perry county.
Chapter 5. An act entitled an act respecting the Borough of Vincennes.
Chapter 5 [sic]. An act to incorporate the Madison Water and Manufacturing Company.
Chapter 6. An act to incorporate the town of Indianapolis.
Chapter 7. An act to incorporate the town of Dublin.
Chapter 8. An act to incorporate the town of Bellville, Hendricks County.
Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the town of Milton, Wayne County.
Chapter 10. An act to incorporate the town of New York in Switzerland county.
Chapter 11. An act to revive and continue in force “an act to incorporate the town of Washington in Daviess county” approved January 31st, 1832.
Chapter 12. An act to incorporate the town of Vevay.
Chapter 13. An act to incorporate the town of New Albany.
Chapter 14. An act to amend the charter and define the powers and duties of the President and Trustees of the town of Evansville.
Chapter 15. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Leavenworth” approved February 7, 1835.
Chapter 16. An act to incorporate “the Western Scientific and Agricultural College.
Chapter 17. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Crawford county Seminary,” approved February 7, 1835.
Chapter 18. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Crawfordsville Seminary.”
Chapter 19. An act to incorporate the Vincennes Academy.
Chapter 20. An act to incorporate the Parke county Seminary.
Chapter 21. An act to incorporate the President and Trustees of the Rush county Seminary.
Chapter 22. An act to incorporate the Websterian Social Library.
Chapter 23. An act to incorporate the Indiana Baptist Education Society and the Indiana Baptist Manual Labour Institute.
Chapter 24. An act to incorporate the Peru and Wabash Bridge Company.
Chapter 25. An act to incorporate the White River Bridge Company.
Chapter 26. An act to incorporate the Lafayette Insurance Company.
Chapter 27. An act to incorporate the Miami Bridge Company.
Chapter 28. An act to incorporate the Eel River Bridge Company.
Chapter 29. An act to incorporate the Evansville Insurance Company.
Chapter 30. An act to incorporate the Bedford Insurance Company.
Chapter 31. An act to incorporate the Logansport and Eel River Bridge Company.
Chapter 32. An act to incorporate the Bethlehem Savings Institution.
Chapter 35 [sic]. An act to incorporate the Northern Indiana Company of the State of Indiana.
Chapter 34. An act to incorporate the Evansville and Vincennes Rail Road Company.
Chapter 36. An act to incorporate the St. Joseph’s Mutual Insurance Company.
Chapter 37. An act to incorporate the Bloomington Savings Institution.
Chapter 38. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Wabash and Michigan Rail Road Company,” approved February 2, 1832.
Chapter 39. An act to amend the act to “incorporate the Michigan City of Kankakee & Rail Road Company.
Chapter 40. An act to incorporate the Crawfordsville, Covington and Illinois Rail Road Company.
Chapter 41. An act to incorporate the Connersville and Fort Wayne Savings Institutions and Insurance Companies.
Chapter 42. An act to incorporate the Charlestown Savings Institution.
Chapter 43. An act to incorporate the Princeton and Wabash Rail Road Company.
Chapter 44. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis Insurance Company.
Chapter 45. An act to incorporate the Laporte Canal and Rail Road Company.
Chapter 46. An act to incorporate the Madison Savings Institution.
Chapter 47. An act to incorporate the Hanover Steam Mill Company.
Chapter 48. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the St. Joseph Iron Company.”
Chapter 49. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company,” approved, February 2, 1833.
Chapter 50. An act to incorporate the Perrysville and Danville Rail Road Company.
Chapter 51. An act to incorporate the Franklin, Fayette and Rush Turnpike Company.
Chapter 52. An act to incorporate the Rockville Steam Mill Company.
Chapter 53. An act to incorporate the Rome Savings Institution.
Chapter 54. An act to incorporate the New Albany Ferry Company.
Chapter 55. An act to incorporate the Vernon Savings Institution.
Chapter 56. An act to incorporate the Fulton Company.
Chapter 57. An act to incorporate the Lafayette and Danville Rail Road Company.
Chapter 58. An act to incorporate the Rockport Savings Institution.
Chapter 59. An act to incorporate the Jeffersonville and New Albany Canal Company.
Chapter 60. An act to incorporate the Lagrange County Manufacturing Company.
Chapter 61. An act for the incorporation of the Freedom Steam Mill Company.
Chapter 62. An act to incorporate the Troy Savings Institution and Insurance Company.
Chapter 63. An act to incorporate the Brownstown Turnpike Company.
Chapter 64. An act to incorporate the Kraco Steam Mill Manufacturing Company.
Chapter 65. An act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh and Harrison Turnpike Company.
Chapter 66. An act to amend the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Lexington Steam Mill Company,” approved February 7, 1835.
Chapter 67. An act to incorporate the Salem Savings Institution.
Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Wayne and Union Turnpike Company,” approved February 7, 1835, and to incorporate the Rush, Fayette, and Union Turnpike Company.
Chapter 69. An act to authorize the inhabitants of Newtown, in Fountain county, to become incorporated.
Chapter 70. An act to incorporate the Clark county Trading and Manufacturing Company.
Chapter 71. An act to incorporate the Vincennes Manufacturing Company.
Chapter 72. An act to incorporate the Leavenworth Savings Institution.
Chapter 73. An act to incorporate the Winchester Turnpike Company.
Chapter 74. An act to incorporate the Vevay and Napoleon and other Turnpike Companies.
Chapter 75. An act to authorize the payment of expenses incurred in suppressing a riot on the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Chapter 76. An act to authorize certain individuals therein named, to build a toll bridge across the Kankakee river.
Chapter 77. An act to legalize the official acts of Josiah Reeder.
Chapter 78. An act to authorize the inhabitants of township eight south, of range two west, to sell their school lands.
Chapter 79. An act relative to county orders in the county of Parke.
Chapter 80. An act for the survey of a Turnpike road from Mount Vernon to Princeton.
Chapter 81. An act to legalize the Rising Sun, Dearborn county, Agricultural Society.
Chapter 82. An act to legalize a certain act of James Davis school commissioner of Sullivan County.
Chapter 83. An act to legalize the proceedings of the board of commissioners of the county of Lawrence.
Chapter 84. An act to make the Knox county Agricultural Society a branch of the State Agricultural Society of Indiana.
Chapter 85. An act authorizing Amasa Makepeace, to apply for a writ of ad quod damnum, to establish a mill on White river in Madison county.
Chapter 86. An act providing for the correction of a mistake in a deed therein mentioned for part of the plat of the town of Newport, and for other purposes.
Chapter 87. An act authorizing the school commissioners of Dearborn county to sell and convey certain school lands therein mentioned.
Chapter 88. An act to change certain alleys in the town of Livonia.
Chapter 89. An act to record and incorporate Wilson’s addition to the town of Crawfordsville.
Chapter 90. An act to vacate a part of the public common in the town of Spencer in the county of Owen.
Chapter 91. An act to change the name of the town of Somersett.
Chapter 92. An act to change the name of Greensborough in Franklin county, to that of Blooming Grove.
Chapter 93. An act to vacate the town of Cynthiana in Hamilton county.
Chapter 94. An act to change the name of the town of Carthage in the county of Putnam.
Chapter 95. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the promotion of Schools in, and for the sale of lands belonging to the Vincennes Donation Tract,” approved February 7, 1835.
Chapter 96. An act to authorize the Recorder of Boone county to record the plat of Jamestown and for other purposes.
Chapter 97. An act to legalize the sale of school lands in the county of Pike.
Chapter 98. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act incorporating Congressional townships and providing for public schools therein,” approved February 2, 1833.
Chapter 99. An act for the relief of Elias Osborn.
Chapter 100. An act for the relief of John Dickens and others.
Chapter 101. An act to legalize the sale of the west half of the public square in the town of Newcastle in Henry county.
Chapter 102. An act to vacate a part of a certain street in the town of Washington in Wayne county, Indiana.
Chapter 103. An act to provide for a justice of the peace in Rockford, Jackson county.
Chapter 104. An act to authorize the election of an additional Justice of the Peace for Franklin township in Marion county.
Chapter 105. An act to authorize the election of an additional justice of the peace in the county of Jefferson.
Chapter 106. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in or near Milroy in Rush county.
Chapter 107. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in the town of Brownsville.
Chapter 108. An act to authorize the citizens of Madison township in the county of Morgan, to elect an additional justice of the peace.
Chapter 109. An act to renew the corners, stakes, and boundaries of the town of Greenfield, the seat of justice of Hancock County.
Chapter 110. An act for the improvement of Morgantown in Morgan county.
Chapter 111. An act to provide for a special session of the Jefferson Circuit Court.
Chapter 112. An act for the relief and benefit of Thomas Smyth of Vanderburgh county.
Chapter 113. An act for the relief of John G. Brown.
Chapter 114. An act to authorize Joseph D. Clark, a minor, to sell real estate.
Chapter 115. An act to legalize the marriage of Derastus Fry and Miss Snodgrass.
Chapter 116. An act appropriating certain portions of the three per cent fund in Dearborn county.
Chapter 117. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Nowland, widow of Matthias Nowland, deceased.
Chapter 118. An act for the relief of Stephen Trickle.
Chapter 119. An act to authorize the holding of an additional term of the Circuit Court for the county of Floyd.
Chapter 120. An act to authorize the sale of certain real estate of James Johnson, late of Indianapolis, deceased.
Chapter 121. An act to change the name of Middleton in the county of Tippecanoe, to West Point.
Chapter 122. An act for the relief of Elias Murray.
Chapter 123. An act in relation to certain sections of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Chapter 124. An act for the relief of Wilson Anderson.
Chapter 125. An act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund and for other purposes.
Chapter 126. An act to authorize certain persons therein named, to erect a dam across the St. Joseph River.
Chapter 127. An act to continue in force an act, entitled “an act for the benefit of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Parke county,” approved December 28, 1832; and also an act amendatory thereto, approved January 8, 1834; and amendatory of an act entitled “an act for the benefit of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Spencer county,” approved December 27, 1833.
Chapter 128. An act appropriating so much of the three per cent fund as is now due to Greene county.
Chapter 129. An act to amend the several acts for the promotion of schools and education in Clark’s Grant.
Chapter 130. An act to empower Alexis Copeland and others to drain off the waters of the Kankakee ponds in St. Joseph county and for other purposes.
Chapter 131. An act for the relief of James H. King, Recorder of Monroe county.
Chapter 132. An act to authorize the Agent of the State of Indiana, to make a deed, to a certain lot of land adjoining Indianapolis, called the brick yard lot No. 3, to Wilks Reagan.
Chapter 133. An act to authorize the board doing county business of the county of Franklin to lay off a street in the town of Brookville in said county.
Chapter 134. An act for the improvement of the Michigan Road, and for other purposes.
Chapter 135. An act to establish a state road west of the Wabash river in Vigo county.
Chapter 136. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to establish a State road from Martinsville in Morgan county via Middletown in Owen county to John Chances ferry on Eel river, thence to Hayne’s old cabin in Vigo county,” approved January 31st, 1835.
Chapter 137. An act to establish a certain state road.
Chapter 138. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act establishing as a state road, the county road from Livonia to George Becks” approved January 30, 1836.
Chapter 139. An act authorizing the location of a state road.
Chapter 140. An act to declare two certain roads therein named, state roads.
Chapter 141. An act for the re-location and improvement of certain state roads therein named.
Chapter 142. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to establish a state road from Bedford in Lawrence county via Washington in Daviess county, to the rapids of the Wabash river at or near the mouth of White river,” approved, January 20, 1834.
Chapter 143. An act to alter and change a part of the Mooresville, Danville and Crawfordsville state road.
Chapter 144. An act to locate a state road from Greencastle in Putnam county via Carthage in said county to Martinsville in Morgan county.
Chapter 145. An act to vacate a part of the Mooresville, Danville and Crawfordsville state road.
Chapter 146. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to relocate a certain state road in the counties of Hancock and Henry,” approved February 7, 1833.
Chapter 147. An act to authorize a review of a part of the Cumberland and Huntington state road.
Chapter 148. An act to locate a State Road in Posey county.
Chapter 149. An act to legalize the proceedings of Rezin Malott, a Road Commissioner.
Chapter 150. An act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund in the county of Orange.
Chapter 151. An act appointing commissioners to review and extend a state road in Switzerland county.
Chapter 152. An act to establish a state road from a point in the county of Clay to the Wabash River near the mouth of Honey Creek in Vigo county and thence to the state line.
Chapter 153. An act to establish a state road from Rome, in Perry county, to Jasper in Dubois county.
Chapter 154. An act to locate a state road from Boonville in Warrick county, to Jasper in Dubois county.
Chapter 155. An act to locate a state road from Portage Point to the state line.
Chapter 156. An act to locate a state road from South Bend in the direction of Bertrand.
Chapter 157. An act to amend an act entitled, “An act to locate a state road from Levenworth town in Crawford county to Salem in Washington county,” approved, January 8, 1835.
Chapter 158. An act to lay out a state road in the counties of Ripley and Dearborn.
Chapter 159. An act to locate a state road from Montezuma in Parke county, to the state line, in the direction of the Hickory Grove, in Edgar county Illinois.
Chapter 160. An act declaring a misprint.
Chapter 161. An act to authorize the location of a state road from the mouth of Eel river in Green county, to Bowlinggreen in Clay county.
Chapter 162. An act to locate a state road from South Bend to the north line of the State of Indiana.
Chapter 163. An act to establish a state road from Scott’s ferry in Morgan county, to Hadley’s mill in said county, to Bellville in Hendricks county.
Chapter 164. An act to vacate a part of a state road therein named, and for other purposes.
Chapter 165. An act establishing a s a state road, the county road from Livonia to George Beck’s.
Chapter 166. An act to vacate a part of the Indianapolis, Centreville and Richmond state road in Wayne county.
Chapter 167. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.
Chapter 168. An act authorizing the location of a state road from Marion in Grant county to the town of Lagro in Wabash county.
Chapter 169. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.
Chapter 170. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.
Chapter 171. An act to repeal the act, approved, December 24, 1834, authorizing the re-location of a certain part of the New Albany and Vincennes state road at or near Fredericksburgh in Washington county.
Chapter 172. An act to locate a state road from the north line of the State in the direction of Chicago.
Chapter 173. An act declaring a certain road therein named a state road.
Chapter 174. An act to establish a state road from Delphi in Carroll county, to Dayton in Tippecanoe county.
Chapter 175. An act to legalize the proceedings of the commissioner of a certain state road therein named.
Chapter 176. An act declaring a county road from Owensville to the mouth of Patoka, in Gibson county, a state road.
Chapter 177. An act to locate a state road in Dearborn county, from the town of Dillsborough to Aurora.
Chapter 178. An act to establish a state road, the county road from Jasper via Portersville and Smith’s Ferry on the East Fork of White river, to Washington in Daviess county.
Chapter 179. An act to re-locate a state road in the county of Orange, from Orleans to George French’s.
Chapter 180. An act to locate a state road from New Albany in Floyd county to Mauksport in Harrison county.
Chapter 181. An act relating to State roads.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Chapter 182. A joint resolution on the subject of authorizing the Secretary of State to furnish the counties of Allen and Laporte with copies of the revised laws.
Chapter 183. A joint resolution on the subject of the Ohio and Charleston rail road.
Chapter 184. A joint resolution on the subject of the survey of a rail road route from Charleston in South Carolina to some suitable point on the Ohio river in the state of Ohio or Indiana.
Chapter 185. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of a purchase of a tract of land of the United States, for the purpose of constructing a canal from Fort Wayne to Muncietown.
Chapter 185 [sic]. A joint resolution on the subject of furnishing such new counties as may hereafter be organized, with the laws of the State.
Chapter 187. A joint resolution authorizing the publishing of an act of Congress therein named.
Chapter 188. A joint resolution to extend the time of the public printing for 1835 and 6.
Chapter 189. A joint resolution on the subject of the admission of Michigan Territory into the Union.
Chapter 190. A joint resolution relative to the Michigan road lands.
Chapter 191. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the payment of postage.
Chapter 192. A joint resolution for the relief of James Scott.
Chapter 193. A joint resolution authorizing the reception of the State House from the contractor.
Chapter 194. A joint resolution relative to pre-emption to settlers on the public lands of the United States, within the State of Indiana.
Chapter 195. A joint resolution confirming the sale of certain Michigan road lands.
Chapter 196. A joint resolution in relation to the Marion county Library moneys.
Chapter 197. A memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to the Congress of the United States, praying further appropriations on the National road which lies within the limits of Indiana.
Chapter 198. A joint resolution on the subject of Maps.
Chapter 199. A joint resolution respecting Blackford’s Reports.
Chapter 200. A joint resolution on the subject of a Geological Survey of the State.
Chapter 201. A joint memorial and resolution on the subject of the Wabash and Erie canal.
Chapter 202. Memorial and joint resolution of the state of Indiana, to Congress on the subject of granting a bounty in land to the organized militia men, mounted men and rangers of the last war.
Chapter 203. A joint resolution on the subject of revising the school laws.
Chapter 204. A joint resolution and memorial for the relief of Margaret Nation and others.
Chapter 205. A joint memorial and resolution to the Congress of the United States.
Chapter 206. A memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, praying an appropriation for the construction of a Harbor at the mouth of Trail creek.
Chapter 207. A joint resolution relative to certain unreclaimed lands in the Wabash bottom below Vincennes in Knox county.
Chapter 208. A joint resolution on the subject of providing compensation to the United States rangers, raised under the act of Congress of June 1832, for horses lost by them whilst in the service.