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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1851. Google Books
AD QUOD DAMNUM.
Chapter 1. An act to amend article 5, chapter 48, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to the writ of ad quod damnum.
AGENT OF STATE.
Chapter 2. An act for the benefit of the State Agent.
AGRICULTURE.
Chapter 3. An act for the encouragement of Agriculture.
APPORTIONMENT.
Chapter 4. An act to apportion Senators and Representatives for the next five years.
APPRAISEMENT OF REAL ESTATE.
Chapter 5. An act to appraise the real estate of this State, and to make the value of the same equal and uniform throughout this State.
APPROPRIATIONS, GENERAL.
Chapter 6. An act making General Appropriations for the year 1851.
APPROPRIATIONS, SPECIFIC.
Chapter 7. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1851.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Chapter 8. An act for the relief of the assignees of J. & E. L. Beard.
ASSESSMENT AND VALUATION OF PROPERTY.
Chapter 9. An act for the more effectual, just, and equal Assessment and Valuation of the personal property, moneys, rights, credits, effects, and corporation stock in the State of Indiana.
ASSESSORS.
Chapter 10. An act to repeal an act giving further time to Assessors, approved January 15, 1844, and all laws contravening the provisions of section 28, of chapter 12, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
ATTORNEYS.
Chapter 11. An act to prevent Attorneys from doing the duties of Sheriff in the county of Tippecanoe.
AUDITORS, COUNTY.
Chapter 12. An act to authorize the Auditor of Harrison county to make a deed therein named.
Chapter 13. An act to re-instate the office of County Auditor in the county of Johnson.
Chapter 14. An act to authorize County Auditors to appoint deputies.
Chapter 15. An act to legalize certain acts of County Auditors.
Chapter 16. An act defining the duties of Auditor and Treasurer of the counties of DeKalb and Noble, and for other purposes.
Chapter 17. An act authorizing County Auditors to administer oaths in certain cases therein specified.
AUDITOR OF STATE.
Chapter 18. An act directing the Auditor of State to pay over to the Treasurers of Ripley and Greene counties certain funds therein named.
BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.
Chapter 19. An act in relation to Bills of Exceptions.
CLOCKS.
Chapter 20. An act authorizing license merchants to vend clocks.
COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY.
Chapter 21. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of Wabash county to sell the surplus Bank Stock of said county.
Chapter 22. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to restrict the County Commissioners of Steuben county in levying a tax, to fifty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation,” approved January 16, 1848.
Chapter 23. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of Pike county to make an appropriation therein named.
Chapter 24. An act to extend the powers of the Board of Commissioners of Delaware county.
Chapter 25. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Pike and Gibson counties to employ by the year a physician to attend on the paupers of said counties.
Chapter 26. An act to extend the time of holding the sessions of the Board of County Commissioners of Warren county.
Chapter 27. An act authorizing the Board of Commissioners of the county of Morgan to make additional allowances to the auditor of said county.
CONSTABLES.
Chapter 28. An act to amend sections 302, 303, and 304, of article 13, chapter 47, Revised Statutes of 1843; also, section 2, of chapter 61, on pages 1030, 1031, and 1032, of Revised Statutes of 1843, and for other purposes.
CONVENTION.
Chapter 29. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the call of a convention of the people of the state of Indiana to revise, amend, or alter the Constitution of said state,” approved January 18, 1850.
CORONERS.
Chapter 30. An act to amend section 11, chapter 56, Revised Statutes of 1843, authorizing Coroners to pay the expenses of inquest and burial.
COSTS.
Chapter 31. An act relative to the taxation of costs in certain cases.
COUNSEL, PAY OF.
Chapter 32. An act to pay counsel in certain cases.
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT.
Chapter 33. An act in relation to the commission and punishment of crime.
COUNTY BOUNDARIES.
Chapter 34. An act to attach the south half of section five, township No. 3 north, of range 8 east, in the county of Jefferson, to the county of Scott.
Chapter 35. An act defining the boundaries of Laporte, Porter, and Lake counties.
COUNTY BUSINESS.
Chapter 36. An act to amend an act entitled “an act changing the mode of doing business in the county of Crawford,” approved January 18, 1850, and for other purposes.
Chapter 37. An act to abolish the offices of school commissioner and county agent in Brown county.
Chapter 38. An act to extend the time of the sessions of the board of commissioners of Wayne county.
Chapter 39. An act to amend chapter 7, article 1, section 2, of the revised code.
COURTS, CIRCUIT.
Chapter 40. An act giving additional time to the Hancock circuit court.
Chapter 41. An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts in the thirteenth judicial circuit.
Chapter 42. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the transfer of cases pending in the probate to the circuit court, as far as relates to Putnam county,” approved January 16, 1849, and for other purposes.
Chapter 43. An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts in the twelfth judicial circuit.
Chapter 44. An act to alter the time of holding the circuit courts in certain counties in the third judicial circuit.
COURTS, COMMON PLEAS.
Chapter 45. An act to organize a court of common pleas in the county of Jefferson.
COURTS, CIRCUIT.
Chapter 46. An act to change the time of holding courts in the eighth judicial circuit.
Chapter 47. An act to extend the time of holding courts in the eleventh judicial circuit.
Chapter 48. An act to repeal certain acts therein named, and for other purposes, in Allen county.
Chapter 49. An act extending the provisions of an act therein named to Randolph county, in the eleventh judicial circuit.
COURTS, COMMON PLEAS.
Chapter 50. An act to amend an act entitled “an act creating the Marion court of common pleas,” approved January 4, 1849.
COURTS, PROBATE.
Chapter 51. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to extend the term of the probate court of the county of Monroe, and for other purposes,” approved January 21, 1839.
Chapter 52. An act to amend an act regulating the time of holding probate courts in the county of Tipton.
Chapter 53. An act to change the time of holding February term of the Crawford probate court.
Chapter 54. An act to extend the terms of the February and May terms of the Laporte probate court.
Chapter 55. An act extending the time of holding the probate court in the county of Carroll.
Chapter 56. An act in relation to the January term, A. D., 1851, of the probate court of Martin county.
Chapter 57. An act to change the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Vermillion.
Chapter 58. An act to repeal an act therein named.
Chapter 59. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Jasper.
Chapter 60. An act to change the time of holding the February term of the probate court of Elkhart county for the year 1851.
Chapter 61. An act to extend the February and October terms of the Marion probate court.
Chapter 62. An act to change the next February term of the probate court of Hamilton county.
Chapter 63. An act to amend section 2 of an act entitled “an act to amend the laws relating to the execution of deeds by order of the probate court,” approved January 15, 1849.
Chapter 64. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in the county of Grant.
DAMAGES.
Chapter 65. An act to enable persons sustaining damages occasioned by the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal to have their damages assessed without further delay, and for the more convenient service of process on the trustees of said canal.
DEEDS.
Chapter 66. An act relative to recording deeds in Laporte county.
DEPUTY CLERKS.
Chapter 67. An act to repeal an act therein named.
ELECTIONS.
Chapter 68. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Silver Creek township, in Clark county.
Chapter 69. An act relative to township elections when there is more than one precinct in any township in the counties of Daviess and Martin.
Chapter 70. An act to authorize the voters of Jackson township, in the county of Blackford, to vote at Hartford, in said county.
Chapter 71. An act to amend “an act providing for the election of township assessors in the counties of Greene and Hamilton,” approved January 18, 1850.
Chapter 72. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to the county of Ripley.
Chapter 73. An act to repeal an act establishing additional places of holding elections in certain counties therein named, approved December 21, 1849, so far as the county of Greene is concerned.
Chapter 74. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the election of township assessors and collectors in Jennings county, and for other purposes,” approved February 12th, 1848.
Chapter 75. An act to establish additional places of holding elections in certain counties therein named.
EXECUTIONS AND FEE BILLS.
Chapter 76. An act to regulate the issuing of executions and fee bills in the several courts in the counties of Marion, Dearborn, Daviess, Lawrence, Union, Fayette, Martin, and Blackford, upon which no execution has issued for three years from the rendition thereof, and when fees have not been collected for three years from the termination of the suit in which the same is taxed.
FEES AND SALARIES.
Chapter 77. An act to increase the pay of the probate judges of the counties of Union, Fayette, Rush, Hendricks, Sullivan, Marion, and Gibson.
Chapter 78. An act to increase the per diem allowance of the probate judges of the probate courts of Montgomery and Madison counties.
Chapter 79. An act to amend section 27, chapter 7, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as relates to the county of Greene.
Chapter 80. An act to reduce the fees of the Recorder of the county of Brown.
Chapter 81. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act fixing the salary of the auditor of the county of Owen.”
Chapter 82. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act regulating the salary of the auditor of Putnam county,” approved Feb. 11, 1848.
Chapter 83. An act to fix the compensation of clerks of the circuit courts in cases of naturalization.
GRAND JURIES.
Chapter 84. An act to repeal an act to restrict the grand juries in Franklin county in their sessions, approved January 15th, 1850.
Chapter 85. An act to restrict the Grand Jury of the county of Marshall to a limited time in their sessions.
Chapter 86. An act to restrict the Grand Juries of the counties of Porter and Lake to a limited time in their sessions, and for other purposes.
Chapter 87. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to restrict the Grand Juries of the counties of Porter and Lake to a limited time in their sessions, and for other purposes,” approved February 8, 1851.
Chapter 88. An act to restrict the powers of the Grand Jury of Shelby and Knox counties, and to limit the time of their sessions.
GUARDIANS.
Chapter 89. An act to exempt guardians from the payment of clerk’s fees in certain cases.
INDICTMENTS.
Chapter 90. An act to prevent the consolidation of indictments in certain cases in the county of Dearborn.
INSANE HOSPITAL.
Chapter 91. An act for the benefit of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.
JUDGMENTS.
Chapter 92. An act to prevent clerks and sheriffs from purchasing judgments in the court to which they act as clerk or sheriff.
JURIES, PETIT.
Chapter 93. An act to repeal the first 13 sections of chapter 50, of the Revised Code of 1843, so far as relates to the counties of Scott and Greene.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Chapter 94. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace.
Chapter 95. An act to amend an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace in the county of Dearborn.
Chapter 96. An act to provide for a Justice of the Peace in West Franklin, Posey county.
Chapter 97. An act relative to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in certain criminal cases in the county of Carroll.
Chapter 98. An act to enable the citizens of Orange township, Fayette county, to elect an additional Justice of the Peace, so as to reside in the south part of said township.
Chapter 99. An act defining the powers of Justices of the Peace in Marion county.
Chapter 100. An act to repeal an act therein named.
LANDS, SWAMP.
Chapter 101. An act to provide for defraying the expense of selecting the overflowed and swamp lands in the State of Indiana, and for other purposes.
Chapter 102. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to provide for defraying the expense of selecting the overflowed and swamp lands in the State of Indiana, and for other purposes,” passed in February, 1851.
Chapter 103. An act to equalize the price of the Swamp Lands in the State of Indiana.
LANDS, FORFEITED.
Chapter 104. An act in relation to sales of land forfeited to the State by borrowers of college and other funds.
LANDS, GEORGIA.
Chapter 105. An act confirming the title of the Georgia Lands to Martin R. Green.
LANDS.
Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to protect from waste certain lands therein mentioned,” approved December 13, 1849.
LAW, PRACTICE OF.
Chapter 107. An act relative to the practice of the law in Marion county.
Chapter 108. An act relative to the practice of law.
Chapter 109. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to regulate the practice of law in the Lagrange Circuit Court,” approved February 16, 1848.
LEGISLATURE.
Chapter 110. An act fixing the per diem of members of the Legislature.
LIENS.
Chapter 111. An act to extend the provisions of article No. 1, of chapter No. 42, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
LIQUORS, SPIRITUOUS.
Chapter 112. An act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors in the county of Tippecanoe.
Chapter 113. A preamble and act in reference to vending spirituous liquors in Green township, in Hancock county.
Chapter 114. An act to repeal “an act to regulate the retailing of spirituous liquors in the county of Kosciusko,” approved January 19, 1850.
Chapter 115. An act to prevent intemperance in Wayne township, in the county of Henry.
Chapter 116. An act to repeal “an act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in Blue River township, Johnson county,” approved January 21, 1850.
Chapter 117. An act in relation to the sale of spirituous liquors in Johnson county.
Chapter 118. An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in the town of Middletown, Henry county.
Chapter 119. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors in Adams, Fall Creek, and Anderson townships, in Madison county by a less quantity than thirty gallons,” approved January 17, 1849.
Chapter 120. An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in the county of Randolph.
Chapter 121. An act in relation to the sale of spirituous liquors in Jefferson township, in Wayne county.
Chapter 122. An act to prohibit the traffic of intoxicating liquors in the town of Columbus.
Chapter 123. An act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors in Jackson county, Indiana.
LOANS AUTHORIZED.
Chapter 124. An act to authorize the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer of State to borrow money to pay the interest due on the funded debt on the first day of July next, and defray the expenses of the Constitution Convention.
LODGES, OF ODD FELLOWS.
Chapter 125. An act to provide for the incorporation of subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Chapter 126. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act relative to Overseers of the Poor,” approved January 15, 1844, so far as relates to the county of Clay.
PAUPERS.
Chapter 127. An act in reference to the poor of Wayne township, Allen county, Indiana.
PEDDLERS.
Chapter 128. An act regulating the license of traveling peddlers in the county of Dearborn.
PLANK ROADS.
Chapter 129. An act in relation to plank roads.
PRINTING, STATE.
Chapter 130. An act in relation to the pay of Austin H. Brown, printer to the Constitution Convention of Indiana.
PRINTING.
Chapter 131. An act to authorize the printing of reports of Commissioners of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and Trustees of the institutions for the education of the blind, and deaf and dumb.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.
Chapter 132. An act to repeal an act therein named, and to revive the statutes of 1843 relative to the election of Prosecuting Attorneys.
RECORDS.
Chapter 133. An act for the relief of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Sullivan county.
RECORDERS, COUNTY.
Chapter 134. An act for the relief of the Recorder of Franklin county.
REVENUE.
Chapter 135. An act to raise a revenue for the year 1851.
Chapter 136. An act transferring the duties of agent of the surplus revenue fund in Scott county to the Auditor of said county.
Chapter 137. An act to regulate the collection of the surplus revenue in Carroll county.
RIGHT OF WAY.
Chapter 138. An act surrendering the right of way to railroad companies across swamp lands.
ROADS.
Chapter 139. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to compel non-residents to pay a road tax equal to that paid by residents in the county of Whitley,” approved January 14, 1850.
Chapter 140. An act for the better improvement of highways in the counties of Carroll and Delaware.
Chapter 141. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a tax equal to that paid by actual settlers in the county of Lagrange,” approved January 21, 1850.
Chapter 142. An act to amend the general road law approved January 16, 1849, so far as the same relates to the county of Cass.
Chapter 143. An act in relation to supervisors of roads and highways in Jackson county.
Chapter 144. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to improve the roads in Centre township, in Dearborn county,” approved Jan. 18, 1847.
Chapter 145. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the per diem allowance for work done on the public highways in the county of Adams, and other counties therein named,” approved Jan. 17, 1850.
Chapter 146. An act to repeal an act therein named so far as the same relates to the counties of Parke and Shelby.
Chapter 147. An act to authorize the assessment and collection of a specific tax for road purposes in the county of Marshall.
SCHOOLS, COMMON.
Chapter 148. An act for the benefit of the common schools of Boone county.
Chapter 149. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17th, 1849, and the act declaring said act in force, approved January 19th, 1850, so far as the name relates to the county of Vigo.
Chapter 150. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.
Chapter 151. An act declaring certain laws in force in the counties of DeKalb, Noble, and Steuben.
Chapter 152. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.
Chapter 153. An act to abolish the office of school commissioner of the county of Morgan.
Chapter 154. An ac to legalize the assessment of taxes for school purposes in district No. seven, in township thirty-three north, of range fourteen east, in DeKalb county.
Chapter 155. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.
Chapter 156. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the fifteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes,” approved January 26, 1847, so far as relates to the county of Shelby.
Chapter 157. An act to authorize the inhabitants of school district No. 2, in township No. 36, range No. 3 west, in Laporte county, to levy an additional school tax.
Chapter 158. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to a school district in the county of Fayette.
Chapter 159. An act to amend section thirteen of “an act to increase and extend the benefit of Common Schools in the county of Noble and for other purposes.”
Chapter 160. An act to provide for the return of the vote on the school laws to the office of the Secretary of State.
Chapter 161. An act to repeal a part of the 31st section of an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools.
SCHOOL LANDS.
Chapter 162. An act authorizing the sale of section sixteen (16), in township No. eight (8) north, of range No. five (5) east, in the county of Bartholomew.
Chapter 163. An act to authorize the sale of school land in Perry county.
Chapter 164. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands in the county of Lagrange.
Chapter 165. An act providing for the sale of school section in congressional township No. 28 north, of range No. four west, lying in the county of White.
Chapter 166. An act to authorize the sale of section sixteen, in congressional township twenty-four north of range twelve east, in Jay and Blackford counties.
STATE PRISON.
Chapter 167. An act to abolish the office of superintendent of the work on the state prison, and for other purposes.
SCIRE FACIAS.
Chapter 168. An act in reference to proceedings upon scire facias.
SHERIFFS.
Chapter 169. An act to extend an act entitled “an act to authorize the sheriff of Lawrence county to serve process issued by justices of the peace, in certain cases,” to the county of Owen.
SINKING FUND.
Chapter 170. An act for the relief of the owners of lands mortgaged to the sinking fund.
STATE PRISON.
Chapter 171. An act for the construction of a sewer at the state’s prison.
Chapter 172. An act relative to the purchase of books made by the Governor for the use of the convicts in the state prison, and for other purposes.
SUPERVISORS.
Chapter 173. An act to provide for electing supervisors by districts in the counties of Wells, Allen, Noble, Steuben, Miami, Henry, Lagrange, Tipton, Clinton, Harrison, Adams, Jay, Blackford, and Morgan.
SURETIES.
Chapter 174. An act to amend chapter 4th of the Revised Code of 1843.
SURVEYOR, COUNTY.
Chapter 175. An act in relation to the county surveyor of Putnam county.
Chapter 176. An act to authorize the election of a county surveyor in Greene county.
TOWNSHIP BUSINESS.
Chapter 177. An act to regulate the mode of doing township business in the county of Wabash.
Chapter 178. An act for the relief of township clerks in the county of Posey.
TREASURER, COUNTY.
Chapter 179. An act to amend section 12, of chapter 56, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.
Chapter 180. An act defining the duties of County Treasurers in the counties of Pike, Delaware, Daviess, Elkhart, Tipton, Sullivan, Noble, Washington, Marshall, Fulton, Starke, Johnson, and Randolph.
Chapter 181. An act defining the duties of the Treasurer of Morgan county.
Chapter 182. An act defining the duties of the county treasurer of Lake county.
Chapter 183. An act to amend sections 54 and 55, article 5, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as relates to Miami county.
Chapter 184. An act to give county treasurers until the 1st day of April, 1851, to make settlement with the auditor of State.
TREASURER AND AUDITOR OF STATE.
Chapter 185. An act authorizing the Treasurer and Auditor of State to re-settle with George H. Dunn, late Treasurer of State, and to correct any mistake that may be found in the former settlement of the said Dunn.
TRUST FUNDS.
Chapter 186. An act to extend further time to the borrowers of the Sinking Fund and other trust funds.
Chapter 187. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the school fund.
Chapter 188. An act reducing the fees for taking acknowledgements of mortgages to the trust funds.
VENUE.
Chapter 189. An act to repeal “an act to amend the Statute providing for taking a change of venue in criminal cases as far as Allen county is concerned,” approved January 16th, 1849.
Chapter 190. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend the statute providing for the taking a change of venue in criminal cases,” approved January 16, 1849, so far as relates to the county of Steuben.
VIADUCTS.
Chapter 191. An act to authorize the construction of viaducts under public highways.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Chapter 1. A joint resolution authorizing the United States to purchase a site and erect a Marine Hospital at Evansville, or in the immediate vicinity.
Chapter 2. A joint resolution relative to the claim of Col. Francis Vigo, late a citizen of Knox county, Indiana.
Chapter 3. A joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan City Harbor.
Chapter 4. A joint resolution in relation to the bounty land law of Congress, of September 28th, 1850.
Chapter 5. A joint resolution upon the subject of lands for school purposes.
Chapter 6. A joint resolution on the subject of the sale of the Northern Division of the Central Canal.
Chapter 7. A joint resolution on the subject of appropriating money for the erection of a public building.
Chapter 8. A joint resolution in relation to the World’s Fair.
Chapter 9. A joint resolution suspending the operation of a certain act therein named.
Chapter 10. A joint resolution in relation to the Slave Trade.
Chapter 11. A joint resolution authorizing the distribution of the Debates of the late Constitutional Convention.
Chapter 12. A joint resolution in relation to paupers and records appertaining to the Wabash and Erie Canal, its extensions and Feeders.
Chapter 13. A joint resolution for the relief of Captain William Waldo.
Chapter 14. A joint resolution granting the freedom of the State Library to Capt. Michael Fitzgibbon and John B. Dillon.