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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Third Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : John D. Defrees, 1849. Google Books
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
Chapter 1. An act authorizing compensation to be made to the Adjutant General for organizing the 4th and 5th Regiments of Indiana Volunteers.
AD QUOD DAMNUM.
Chapter 2. An act to amend Article 5 of the Revised Statutes of 1843, relative to writs of ad quod damnum.
Chapter 3. An act to authorize the erection of dams in the Wabash River and its tributaries, above the Delphi Dam.
APPROPRIATIONS—GENERAL.
Chapter 4. An act making General Appropriations, &c., for the year 1849, and for other purposes.
APPROPRIATIONS—SPECIFIC.
Chapter 5. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1849.
ASSESSORS.
Chapter 6. An act providing for the election of Township Assessors in the counties of Dearborn, Switzerland, Ohio, and Jay.
Chapter 7. An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the county of Scott.
Chapter 8. An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the county of Jay.
ATTORNEYS.
Chapter 9. An act respecting Attorneys at Law.
AUDITOR AND AGENT OF STATE.
Chapter 10. An act in relation to duties of Auditor and Agent of State.
AUDITOR—COUNTY.
Chapter 11. An act to amend section 89 of article 7 of chapter 12 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
Chapter 12. An act to increase the pay of the Auditor of Hamilton County.
Chapter 13. An act fixing the fees of the Auditor of Switzerland County.
BANK—ADDITIONAL BRANCHES.
Chapter 14. An act authorizing the establishment of the additional Branches of the State Bank of Indiana.
BANK STOCK.
Chapter 15. An act to facilitate the discharge of mortgages given to the State of Indiana for the payment of Bank stock.
BILLS OF EXCEPTION.
Chapter 16. An act repealing a certain act therein named.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
Chapter 17. An act allowing grace on all bills of exchange.
BLIND—INSTITUTE OF.
Chapter 18. An act making the education of the Blind in Indiana free.
CENTRAL CANAL.
Chapter 19. An act for the relief of certain laborers on the Central Canal, for work done in 1847 and 1848.
CANAL LANDS.
Chapter 20. An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act for the relief of purchasers of Canal land;” approved January 19, 1846, approved December 28, 1846.
CHANCERY.
Chapter 21. An act amendatory of the laws relating to the practice in chancery.
Chapter 22. An act relative to the execution of decrees in Chancery.
CLOVER SEED.
Chapter 23. An act prescribing the number of pounds of Clover Seed to be considered a bushel in this State.
COUNTY BUSINESS.
Chapter 24. An act to change the mode of electing Grand Jurors in the county of Orange.
Chapter 25. An act relative to the Board of Commissioners of Boone county.
Chapter 26. An act changing the mode of doing county business in the county of Orange.
Chapter 27. An act to provide for the selection of Petit Jurors in the county of Jackson.
Chapter 28. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Warrick, from justices of the peace to county commissioners.
Chapter 29. An act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the county of Putnam.
Chapter 30. An act defining the duty of the board of commissioners of the county of Monroe.
Chapter 31. An act to extend the time of the sessions of the March and June terms of the Board of County Commissioners of Knox county.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Chapter 32. An act in relation to official misconduct of county commissioners.
CONSOLIDATION OF INDICTMENTS.
Chapter 33. An act to prevent the consolidation of indictments in certain cases in Hamilton county.
CONVENTION.
Chapter 34. An act to provide for taking the sense of the qualified voters of the State on the calling of a Convention to alter, amend, or revise the constitution of this State.
COSTS.
Chapter 35. An act to amend section 336, of chapter 40, of the Revised Code of 1843.
COURT, SUPREME.
Chapter 36. An act declaratory of the meaning of the Thirtieth (30) Section of Chapter Thirty-Seven (37) of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
COURT, CIRCUIT.
Chapter 37. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act regulating the practice of law in the Allen circuit court, and for other purposes,” approved Jan. 15, 1845.
Chapter 38. An act to fix the time of holding courts in the First Judicial Circuit and the Probate Court of Tippecanoe county.
Chapter 39. An act to change the time of holding Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.
Chapter 40. An act fixing the time of holding the several Circuit Courts in the eleventh Judicial Circuit.
Chapter 41. An act to alter the time of holding Circuit Courts in Owen, Morgan, and Brown Counties, in the Tenth Judicial Circuit.
Chapter 42. An act to change the time of holding Circuit Courts in the Counties of Jennings and Bartholomew.
Chapter 43. An act to reduce the expenses of the Circuit Courts in the Counties of Greene and Brown, and for other purposes.
Chapter 44. An act fixing the time of holding the Courts in Porter and Laporte counties.
COURT—COMMON PLEAS.
Chapter 45. An act creating the Marion Court of Common Pleas.
Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “An act creating the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas, and defining its jurisdiction,” approved January 8, 1848.
COURT—PROBATE.
Chapter 47. An act to amend an act in relation to the sale of real estate by executors and administrators, approved 13th January, 1845.
Chapter 48. An act to amend the 209th section of chapter 30 of the revised statutes of 1843.
Chapter 49. An act defining the duties of administrators de bonis non in certain cases.
Chapter 50. An act to amend the laws relating to the execution of deeds by order of the Probate Court.
Chapter 51. An act for the Relief of Widows.
Chapter 52. An act to authorize the transfer of cases pending in the Probate to the Circuit Court, as far as relates to Putnam county.
Chapter 53. An act relative to the Probate Court of Morgan county.
Chapter 54. An act to authorize the probate court in Bartholomew county to sit two weeks at its February term.
Chapter 55. An act in reference to the appointment of probate judge of Wayne county.
Chapter 56. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in the county of Monroe.
Chapter 57. An act fixing the time of holding the February and August terms of Hancock probate court.
Chapter 58. An act relative to the practice in Probate Courts.
DEAF AND DUMB.
Chapter 59. An act making the education of Deaf and Dumb persons in Indiana free.
Chapter 60. An act to provide for the manner of letting the work of the Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
DEPUTY CLERKS.
Chapter 61. An act to amend section one hundred and one, of chapter thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
DIVORCES.
Chapter 62. An act to amend the statute regulating the granting of divorces.
ELECTIONS.
Chapter 63. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Delaware township, in the county of Hamilton.
EXECUTIONS.
Chapter 64. An act to amend the thirteenth article of the fortieth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
FEES AND SALARIES.
Chapter 65. An act to increase the salary of probate judge of Wayne county.
Chapter 66. An act relative to the probate judge of Laporte county.
Chapter 67. An act relative to the pay of the Probate Judge in the county of Grant.
Chapter 68. An act to regulate Clerk’s Fees in the Probate Court of Parke county.
Chapter 69. An act regulating the Fees of Justices of the Peace, Mayors and Constables, and for other purposes.
Chapter 70. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of the county of Monroe, to make additional compensation to the Probate Judge of said county.
Chapter 71. An act establishing the salaries of the Auditor and Treasurer of Jay County, and the Recorder of Steuben County.
Chapter 72. An act to regulate the fees and emoluments of the Auditors and Treasurers of the counties of Lagrange and Steuben.
Chapter 73. An act to increase the pay of the Probate Judge of certain Counties therein named.
FUNDED DEBT.
Chapter 74. 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 first day of January, 1849.
HABEAS CORPUS.
Chapter 75. An act to authorize the Judge of the Probate Court of St. Joseph county to grant and try writs of habeas corpus, and for other purposes.
INDIANS—CONTRACTS WITH.
Chapter 76. An act in relation to the law prohibiting the Indians from selling lands in this State.
Chapter 77. An act to repeal section 3, chapter 28, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, relative to sales by Indians, relative to contracts with Indians.
INSANE HOSPITAL.
Chapter 78. An act to amend “An act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane,” approved February 15, 1848.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Chapter 79. An act to exempt the county of Washington from the force and operation of the 61st section of the act entitled “An act to provide for the continuation of the construction of all or any part of the public works of this State by private companies, and for abolishing the board of Internal Improvements, and the offices of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer,” approved January 28, 1842.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Chapter 80. An act authorizing Justices of the Peace in Harrison county to perform the duties of Coroner in certain cases.
Chapter 81. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Wayne county.
Chapter 82. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to repeal the fourth section of the forty-seventh chapter of the Revised Statutes, so far as relates to Elkhart county.”
Chapter 83. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Jefferson, Rush, Union, and Jennings counties.
Chapter 84. An act to define the jurisdiction of the peace in the several counties therein named.
Chapter 85. An act to amend an act extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in certain criminal cases, approved Feb. 16, 1848.
Chapter 86. An act relative to the jurisdiction of the peace in criminal cases.
LAWS DISTRIBUTED.
Chapter 87. An act to equally distribute the local and general laws of this State.
Chapter 88. An act to authorize the Secretary of State to send an additional number of copies of the laws of the State to the county of Jay.
LEVEE.
Chapter 89. An act amendatory of an act, entitled “An act to establish a Levee from the town of Vincennes through the lower Prairie near the Wabash River to the Grand Coulee,” approved Feb. 2, 1833.
LIENS.
Chapter 90. An act to amend article 2 of chapter 42 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
LIQUORS—TO PROHIBIT SALE OF.
Chapter 91. An act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in Dalton township, Wayne county.
Chapter 92. An act more effectually to prevent the retailing of Spirituous Liquors in certain counties therein named.
Chapter 93. 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,” so as far relates to the county of Wabash.
Chapter 94. An act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in Posey township, in the county of Rush.
PATENTS.
Chapter 95. An act directing the Secretary of State to make patents for certain Michigan Road lands.
PAUPERS.
Chapter 96. An act in relation to Paupers in the county of Dearborn.
PLANK ROADS.
Chapter 97. An act authorizing the construction of Plank Roads.
Chapter 98. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the construction of plank or coal roads,” approved 16th February, 1848.
POISONING FISH.
Chapter 99. An act to prevent the poisoning of fish in the county of Green.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.
Chapter 100. An act defining the duties and fixing the compensation of the prosecuting attorney of Hancock county.
Chapter 101. An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys in the 4th and 8th Judicial Circuits.
PUBLICATION OF LAWS.
Chapter 102. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to require certain statutes to be published in some newspaper at Indianapolis, and for other purposes,” approved January 20, 1846.
RAILROADS.
Chapter 103. An act explanatory of the act prescribing the manner of assessing and paying the taxes due upon the stock of individuals, in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company, approved February 16th, 1848.
Chapter 104. An act relative to Railroads.
RECORDER.
Chapter 105. An act to repeal an act, entitled “an act reducing the fee for recording deeds in Delaware county,” approved February 14, 1848.
REVENUE.
Chapter 106. An act to exempt the property of invalids from taxation.
Chapter 107. An act repealing the several acts exempting soldiers of the Mexican War from the payment of taxes.
Chapter 108. An act to raise a Revenue for State purposes for 1849.
ROADS.
Chapter 109. An act to revise and consolidate the several acts of the General Assembly relative to laying out, opening, repairing, changing, and vacating public highways, and to the erection and repair of bridges, and to amend the same.
Chapter 110. An act declaratory of the meaning of a certain act therein named.
Chapter 111. An act in relation to the highway tax of the county of Lagrange.
Chapter 112. An act in relation to road taxes in Adams county.
Chapter 113. An act to revive the law authorizing the assessment of a tax on real estate in the county of Morgan for road purposes.
Chapter 114. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of the county of Cass to increase the highway tax in said county.
Chapter 115. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers, and for other purposes, in the county of Tipton.
SCHOOLS—COMMON.
Chapter 116. An act to increase and extend the benefits of Common Schools.
Chapter 117. An act more effectually to provide for the security of the school fund.
SCHOOL LANDS.
Chapter 118. An act in relation to school lands in Floyd county.
Chapter 119. An act authorizing the re-appraisement of certain school lands in Clinton county.
Chapter 120. An act relative to the sale of School Lands in certain Counties therein named, and to amend article 13, chapter 13, of Revised Statutes of 1843.
Chapter 121. An act in relation to the powers and duties of the Trustees of Congressional Townships in Daviess County.
Chapter 122. An act legalizing the sale of the school section in Township 20th North of Range 10 East, in Delaware County.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
Chapter 123. An act in relation to School-houses in Dearborn County.
Chapter 124. An act authorizing the trustees of school district number thirteen, (13) in township thirty-six, (36) north of range three (3) west, in Laporte county, to levy a tax to build a school house.
SECURITIES—SINKING FUND.
Chapter 125. An act for the relief of securities of Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Commissioners to sell real estate.
SEMINARY FUND.
Chapter 126. An act relative to the seminary fund in Cass county.
SINKING FUNDS.
Chapter 127. An act to authorize the president of the sinking fund commissioners to execute patents or deeds in certain cases.
Chapter 128. An act authorizing the sale of certain sinking fund lands.
STATE PRISON.
Chapter 129. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to lease the Indiana State Prison, and for other purposes, approved January 16, 1846.
STATE PROPERTY.
Chapter 130. An act authorizing David Moss to sell certain stone in Hamilton county.
SURPLUS REVENUE.
Chapter 131. An act for the better security of the Surplus Revenue Fund in Boone county.
Chapter 132. An act in relation to the Agent of State for loaning the Surplus Revenue in Clark county.
SURVEYORS—COUNTY.
Chapter 133. An act to amend the 10th chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to the duties of county Surveyors.
TENANTS HOLDING OVER.
Chapter 134. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to amend article 5, of chapter 45, of the Revised Code of 1843,” approved February 16, 1848.
TREASURERS.
Chapter 135. An act to prevent Treasurers and other officers in the counties of Steuben, De Kalb, and Noble from receiving constructive per centage.
Chapter 136. An act defining the duties of county Treasurers in several counties therein named.
Chapter 137. An act to amend the first article, of chapter seven, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
VENUE—CHANGE OF.
Chapter 138. An act to amend the Statute providing for the taking a change of venue in criminal cases.
WABASH AND ERIE CANAL.
Chapter 139. An act declaring certain acts therein named in full force.
Chapter 140. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the Superintendent of the Wabash and Erie Canal to pay such equitable claims as counties and individuals may have for surveying and locating the canal from Tippecanoe to Terre Haute,” approved January 25, 1847.
WOLF SCALPS.
Chapter 141. An act to repeal so much of an act entitled “an act to encourage the raising of sheep and hogs, and to increase the revenue of the State, and the wealth of the people,” as relates to Jasper county.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Chapter 1. A Joint Resolution instructing our Senators in Congress, and requesting our Representatives, to use their influence to procure a donation by Congress of four thousand acres of land in the Miami Reserve, for the use of the Indiana University, in lieu of four thousand acres conferred by Congress to the President and Trustees of the Vincennes University, out of the two sections of land previously granted by Congress to the State of Indiana, for the use of the Indiana Seminary, in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.
Chapter 2. A joint resolution in relation to the navigation of the Kankakee and Iroquois Rivers in the States of Indiana and Illinois.
Chapter 3. A joint resolution relative to the Harbor at Michigan City.
Chapter 4. A joint resolution in relation to Soldiers of the War with Great Britain.
Chapter 5. A joint resolution in relation to certain Official Documents connected with the conduct of the Second Indiana Regiment.
Chapter 6. A joint resolution relative to the right of way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road in the State of Illinois.
Chapter 7. A joint resolution relative to the right of way for a Rail-way in Illinois.
Chapter 8. A joint resolution relative to the scrip account between the State of Indiana and the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Chapter 9. Joint resolution on the independence of Liberia.
Chapter 10. A joint resolution to authorize the purchase of a picture of the Tippecanoe Battle Ground, now in the State Library.
Chapter 11. A joint resolution in relation to State instruments.
Chapter 12. A joint resolution on the subject of donating lands by the General Government.
Chapter 13. A joint resolution on the subject of publishing the General Laws of the present session.
Chapter 14. A joint resolution in relation to the time of payment of the semi-annual interest due to the bondholders of this State.
Chapter 15. A joint resolution in relation to the contract between the State and her Bond-holders.
Chapter 16. A joint resolution authorizing an additional subscription by the State in the stock of the Indianapolis and Madison Railroad company, and for the sale of the same.
Chapter 17. A joint resolution in relation to the Indianapolis and Peru Rail Road.
Chapter 18. A joint resolution in relation to the postage on Newspapers and Public Documents.
Chapter 19. A joint resolution in relation to the Second and Third Regiments of Indiana Volunteers.
Chapter 20. A joint resolution in relation to the Seat of Government of the United States.
Chapter 21. A joint resolution relative to Land selected by the State of Indiana for Canal purposes.
Chapter 22. A joint resolution on the subject of the Three Per Cent Fund.
Chapter 23. A joint resolution relative to the reduction of the price of Public Lands in the Great Miami National Reserve.
Chapter 24. A joint resolution in relation to the existing Post Office Laws.
Chapter 25. A joint resolution authorizing the Governor or Agent of State to make sale of all or any real estate owned by the State of Indiana in the State of Georgia.