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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Second Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : John D. Defrees, 1848. Google Books
Chapter 1. An act in relation to the New Albany and Vincennes Turnpike Road.
Chapter 2. An act explanatory of an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act for the benefit of the volunteers of the Mexican war, and for the relief of county treasurers,” approved January 13, 1848.
Chapter 3. An act authorizing the repair of the building on the Governor’s Circle.
Chapter 4. An act relative to the Marion circuit court.
Chapter 5. An act fixing the time of holding courts in Hancock county.
Chapter 6. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Shelby.
Chapter 7. An act to authorize the treasurer of state to draw the state’s dividends on here stock in the Madison and Indianapolis railroad, and for other purposes.
Chapter 8. An act to amend the ninth article of chapter 30 of the Revised Laws of 1843.
Chapter 9. An act relative to the suit of the Vincennes University against the State of Indiana.
Chapter 10. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes Road, and for other purposes.”
Chapter 11. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys by the people in the several counties,” approved January 27, 1847.
Chapter 12. An act to regulate clerk’s fees in the probate court of Jackson county.
Chapter 13. An act to authorize the inspection of hay in the several counties in this state.
Chapter 14. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the people of the several townships of the several counties to prohibit the retailing of spirituous liquors,” approved January 28, 1847.
Chapter 15. An act concerning the State Library.
Chapter 16. An act to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in certain criminal cases.
Chapter 17. An act to extend the February term of the probate court of Bartholomew county.
Chapter 18. An act prescribing the manner of assessing and paying the taxes due upon the stock of individuals in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad company.
Chapter 19. An act to regulate the practice of law in the Lagrange circuit court.
Chapter 20. An act in relation to mortgages due to the Treasury Fund and the Indianapolis Fund.
Chapter 21. An act for the relief of replevy bail.
Chapter 22. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the formation of voluntary associations,” approved January 27, 1847.
Chapter 23. An act to authorize the construction of plank or coal roads.
Chapter 24. An act to provide for the taxing of estates in dower.
Chapter 25. An act to repeal so much of an act fixing the time of holding the Probate Courts of Ripley county, approved January 7, 1847, as relates to the compensation of the Probate Judge.
Chapter 26. An act providing for a special term of the Probate Court of Washington County, Indiana.
Chapter 27. An act relative to the practice in the Laporte Circuit Court.
Chapter 28. An act relative to the time of making reports to the Legislature.
Chapter 29. An act to extend the time for appraising certain lands belonging to the Wabash and Erie canal.
Chapter 30. An act relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United States.
Chapter 31. An act to regulate the signing of bills of exceptions in the circuit courts.
Chapter 32. An act to amend the 14th section of article 1st of chapter 14 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
Chapter 33. An act for the relief of widows and orphans.
Chapter 34. An act creating the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas, and defining its jurisdiction.
Chapter 35. An act to amend the second article of the 30th chapter of the Revised Statutes of A. D. 1843, concerning the probate of wills and testaments.
Chapter 36. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in Franklin county.
Chapter 37. An act to allow parties to take depositions in actions at law after injunction granted.
Chapter 38. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in Dearborn county.
Chapter 39. An act releasing the right of the State to certain land in Hancock county, which was acquired by escheat.
Chapter 40. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in the county of Allen, and to repeal certain acts therein named.
Chapter 41. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Clark county.
Chapter 42. An act authorizing the sale of the “Old Indiana State Prison.”
Chapter 43. An act in relation to the organization of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Chapter 44. An act declaring certain words in section 43, chapter 16, of the Revised Statutes of 1843 a misprint.
Chapter 45. An act to amend article five of chapter forty-five of the Revised Code of 1843.
Chapter 46. An act to amend chapter one of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
Chapter 47. An act to require the trustees of the Indiana University to report to the General Assembly.
Chapter 48. An act for the speedy completion of a portion of the Indiana Hospital of the Insane.
Chapter 49. An act to authorize the people to vote for or against a tax for the support of Free Schools.
Chapter 50. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the formation of voluntary associations,” approved January 27, 1847.
Chapter 51. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1848.
Chapter 52. An act to regulate agencies of Foreign Insurance Companies.
Chapter 53. An act to amend the 25th section of article 2, of chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
Chapter 54. An act to amend “an act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorney by the people,” approved January 27th, 1847.
Chapter 55. An act regulating special elections ordered by the Governor.
Chapter 56. An act to change the time of holding Probate Court in the county of Daviess.
Chapter 57. An act declaring a misprint in “an act to amend the practice in the Probate Court,” approved January 28, 1847.
Chapter 58. An act in regard to Bonds of County Officers.
Chapter 59. An act authorizing county auditors to take acknowledgements of deeds in certain cases.
Chapter 60. An act to extend the February term of the Probate court in the county of Washington.
Chapter 61. An act repealing so much of section 233 of chapter 30 of the Revised Statutes of 1843 as requires the probate court to set the time of sales of real estate by executors and administrators.
Chapter 62. An act relative to the probate court of Monroe County.
Chapter 63. An act authorizing the boards doing county business to continue in session ten days at their March and June session, in certain counties therein named.
Chapter 64. An act to repeal a part of an act entitled “an act to change the time of holding the probate court in Ripley county.”
Chapter 65. An act making general appropriations for the year 1848.
Chapter 66. An act concerning the duties of clerks of circuit courts of this state.
Chapter 67. An act for the relief of tax payers of this state.
Chapter 68. An act to encourage the organization of fire companies.
Chapter 69. An act in relation to the saline lands in this state.
Chapter 70. An act in relation to the duties of auditor of state and commissioner of the sinking fund in certain cases herein named.
Chapter 71. An act changing the time of holding the Probate Courts in the Counties of Jefferson, Switzerland and Ohio.
Chapter 72. An act to authorize the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer of State to borrow a sum of money not exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars to pay the interest due on the funded debt on the 1st day of January, 1848.
Chapter 73. An act changing the time of holding courts in the county of Knox.
Chapter 74. An act to raise a revenue for state purposes for the year 1848.
Chapter 75. An act authorizing the State Librarian to procure a suitable book in which to record the names of volunteers from the State of Indiana.
Chapter 76. An act exempting the property of the blind and deaf and dumb persons from taxation.
Chapter 77. An act to amend sections 134 and 137 of chapter 37 of the Revised Statutes.
Chapter 78. An act to amend the 22d section of an act of the Revised Statutes entitled “an act for the relief of the poor.”
Chapter 79. An act extending the time for holding the several terms of the probate court of Madison county.
Chapter 80. An act to fix the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Putnam.
Chapter 81. An act to amend the charter of the Indiana Medical College.
Chapter 82. An act fixing the time of holding circuit courts in the county of Marion, and for other purposes.
Chapter 83. An act authorizing county auditors to make deeds in certain cases.
Chapter 84. An act for the benefit of Widows.
Chapter 85. An act amendatory to the laws in regard to writs of ad quod damnum.
Chapter 86. An act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.
Chapter 87. An act to amend an act compelling speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers.
Chapter 88. An act amending section four hundred and fifty-three, chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, and for other purposes.
Chapter 89. An act to fix the time of holding courts in the eighth Judicial Circuit.
Chapter 90. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts in the third Judicial Circuit.
Chapter 91. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the benefit of the volunteers for the Mexican war, and for the relief of county treasurers.”
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Chapter 1. A joint resolution to postpone the public sales of the lands in the Miami Reserves.
Chapter 2. A joint resolution on the subject of locating land warrants.
Chapter 3. A joint resolution in relation to increasing the clothing pay of Volunteer non-commissioned officers and privates to our armies in Mexico.
Chapter 4. A joint resolution for the reduction of the price of public lands in the Great Miami Reserve to one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to actual settlers.
Chapter 5. A joint resolution in relation to a mail route from Belleville, in Hendricks County, to Lebanon, in Boone County, in the State of Indiana.
Chapter 6. A joint resolution relative to a mail route from Salem to Bloomington.
Chapter 7. A joint resolution in relation to the improvement of the Iroquois and Kankakee rivers, in the State of Indiana.
Chapter 8. A joint resolution relative to the National Road.
Chapter 9. A joint resolution in relation to volunteers who have settled on government lands in the great Miami reserve.
Chapter 10. A joint resolution relating to the Miami Indians.
Chapter 11. A joint resolution in relation to making compensation to the Adjutant General of the State.
Chapter 12. A joint resolution relative to a marsh and wet tract of land in the counties of Jay and Adams.
Chapter 13. A joint resolution asking the aid of the General Government for the American Colonization Society.
Chapter 14. A joint resolution relative to bound land warrants.
Chapter 15. A joint resolution for the purpose of procuring a mail route from Brownstown, in Jackson county, Indiana, to David Bowman’s, in Salt Creek township, in said county, and from thence to Nashville, in Brown county.
Chapter 16. A joint resolution relative to the reduction of postage on newspapers and periodicals.
Chapter 17. A joint resolution of thanks to Captain Simonson and Captain Ford.
Chapter 18. A joint resolution of thanks to Elhanan Moberly.
Chapter 19. A joint resolution accepting the colors of the Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers.
Chapter 20. A preamble and joint resolution in relation to the Flag of the second Indiana Regiment.
Chapter 21. A joint resolution in relation to the claims of the State of Indiana upon the United States for expenses incurred in raising troops for the Mexican war, upon the requisitions of the Secretary of War.
Chapter 22. A joint resolution of sympathy with Pope Pius the Ninth for his efforts in behalf of liberal reform in his dominions.
Chapter 23. A joint resolution relative to the Indiana State Historical Society.
Chapter 24. A joint resolution in relation to the Education Society of Indiana.
Chapter 25. A joint resolution relative to International Literary Exchanges.
Chapter 26. A joint resolution on the subject of the laws of the Indiana Territory for the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804.
Chapter 27. A joint resolution in relation to certain Canal Funds.
Chapter 28. A joint resolution relative to the claim of Col. Francis Vigo, late a citizen of Knox county, Indiana.
Chapter 29. A joint resolution in relation to the contract entered into between the State of Indiana and her bondholders.
Chapter 30. A joint resolution on the subject of reducing the price of our public lands.