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Laws of a General Nature, Passed at the Twenty-Fourth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : J. Livingston, 1840. Google Books
Chapter 1. An act making general appropriations for the year 1840.
Chapter 2. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1840.
Chapter 3. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this state,” approved February 8, 1836.
Chapter 4. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relating to public roads and highways,” approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 5. An act appointing Surplus Revenue Agents for the year 1840.
Chapter 6. An act for the immediate relief of contractors and others engaged on the public works.
Chapter 7. An act to authorize the qualified voters of this State to vote for or against a convention for a revision of the constitution of this State.
Chapter 8. An act for the better regulation of the militia of the State of Indiana.
Chapter 9. An act prescribing a uniform mode of ascertaining by weight the quantity of the different kinds of grain that shall pass for a standard bushel in this State.
Chapter 10. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the protection of the Madison and Indianapolis rail road,” approved February 14, 1839.
Chapter 11. An act to prohibit the issuing or circulating of small notes, communing called “shin plasters.”
Chapter 12. An act providing for selecting, rating and selling lands yet due, on the Wabash and Erie Canal, east of the mouth of the Tippecanoe River, and for other purposes.
Chapter 13. An act for the relief of settlers on the Wabash and Erie Canal lands.
Chapter 14. An act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.
Chapter 15. An act to provide for taking the enumeration of the white male inhabitants, above the age of twenty-one years, in this State.
Chapter 16. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act incorporating congressional townships, and providing for common schools therein,” approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 17. An act to relocate the county seat of Scott county.
Chapter 18. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 19. An act entitled an act amendatory to an act entitled “an act relative to practice in circuit courts.”
Chapter 20. An act to amend an act “defining the duties of county treasurers, collectors, &c.,” approved February 18, 1839.
Chapter 21. An act supplemental to an act to provide for the inspection of salt, beef, flour, pork, and tobacco.
Chapter 22. An act for the relocation of the seat of justice of Blackford county.
Chapter 23. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to organize probate courts, and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians,” approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 25. An act for attaching Carroll county to the eighth judicial circuit, and for other purposes.
Chapter 26. An act to relocate the seat of justice in the county of La Grange.
Chapter 27. An act to amend an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution, approved February 4, 1838.
Chapter 28. An act to dissolve the present board of internal improvement, the board of fund commissioners and the engineer department.
Chapter 29. An act in relation to the State House, and for other purposes.
Chapter 30. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business, in the several counties in this State,” approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 31. An act to amend an act entitled “an act dividing the State into judicial circuits and fixing the times of holding courts therein, and for other purposes.”
Chapter 32. An act to repeal so much of the fourth section of an act entitled “an act for the formation of the second and third judicial circuits, and providing for holding courts therein,” approved February 17, 1838, as relates to the June term of the Jefferson circuit court.
Chapter 33. An act to extend the time of payment to the purchasers of saline and school lands.
Chapter 34. An act relative to the collectors of the revenue.
Chapter 35. An act to regulate vending merchandise at auction in this State.
Chapter 36. An act relative to the counties in the fifth judicial circuit.
Chapter 37. An act amendatory of an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17, 1838, and for other purposes.
Chapter 38. An act to encourage the raising of sheep and hogs, and to increase the revenue of the State, and the wealth of the people.
Chapter 39. An act to amend the several acts of this State, relative to the taking up of animals going astray, and water craft and other articles of value adrift.
Chapter 40. An act creating the county of Benton, and for other purposes.
Chapter 41. An act in relation to the commissioners of the college funds, in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.
Chapter 42. An act to amend the act regulating the summoning and empaneling grand and petit jurors.
Chapter 43. An act to change the time of holding courts in the several counties of the eleventh judicial circuit.
Chapter 44. An act to amend “an act to amend the several acts for the collection of the revenue, and to repeal ‘an act to provide a fund to encourage common schools, approved February 2, 1832,’ and ‘an act in furtherance thereof, approved February 7, 1835,’ approved February 18, 1839.”
Chapter 45. An act to authorize Osborn and Chamberlain, late printers to the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, or either of them, to sue the State.
Chapter 46. An act for the relocation of the seat of justice in the county of Lake.
Chapter 47. An act to amend the act to regulate general elections, approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 48. An act to amend the several acts regulating the practice at law.
Chapter 49. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to amend the law concerning domestic attachment,” passed at the present session, and for other purposes.
Chapter 50. An act to amend an act for the incorporation of county libraries, approved 17th February 1838.
Chapter 51. An act to provide for the support of the indigent blind of this State.
Chapter 52. An act to amend an act concerning insane persons, approved February 22, 1818.
Chapter 53. An act to provide for the sale of the Michigan road lands remaining unsold, and for other purposes.
Chapter 54. An act to fix the times of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit.
Chapter 55. An act to amend the several acts for the promotion of schools and education in Clarke’s Grant, and in reference to the school fund in Clarke county.
Chapter 56. An act fixing the time of holding the courts in the sixth judicial circuit.
Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act organizing the supreme court and defining its powers and duties, approved February 17, 1838.”
Chapter 58. An act to amend an act entitled “an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, and fixing the per centum for State purposes.”
Chapter 59. An act in relation to county surveyors.
Chapter 60. An act defining the boundaries of Jay county.
Chapter 61. An act to amend the law concerning domestic attachments.
Chapter 62. An act to amend act entitled “an act fixing the time of holding the courts in the fourth judicial circuit.”
A joint resolution in relation to contractors and others engaged on the public works.
Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein name, approved February 17, 1838.”
Chapter 64. An act to declare the meaning of the 29th section of an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State, approved Feb. 17, 1838.”
Chapter 65. An joint resolution supplemental to a joint resolution approved December 21, 1839, entitled “a joint resolution in relation to contractors and others on the public works.”
Chapter 65 [sic]. A joint resolution in relation to contractors.
Chapter 66. A joint resolution in relation to money due in the eastern cities and States, for State bonds disposed of.
Chapter 67. A joint resolution in relation to the expenditures attendant upon the issue of treasury notes, and for other purposes.
Chapter 68. Of the mode of surveying the public lands. From Gordon’s Digest of the Laws of the United States, published under the provisions of an act entitled “an act in relation to county surveyors, approved February 12, 1840.”
Chapter 69. An act to recover the value of sheep killed by dogs.
Chapter 70. An act to amend an act entitled “an act concerning the seminary townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties, approved January 25, 1837.”
Chapter 71. An act to amend so much of an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, as relates to the counties of Clinton, Delaware and Hancock.”