Category Archives: Indiana

1833 Probate Court Rules

The following is a transcription of the 1833 probate court rules from Switzerland County, Indiana
“Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999,” Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9045 : accessed 26 June 2017); Switzerland > Probate Order Book, Vol 1, 1814-1824, 1831-1837 and 1837-1841 > image 221, 1831-1837, p. 127.

May Term 1833

The Court now adopts the following rules for the government of this Court which is ordered to be spread on the words, to wit,

All attorneys are to be sworn faithfully and impartially to perform and discharge the duties of an attorney of this Court &c.
At the meeting of the Court on Each day, all the officers &c. will be expected to be present to attend to their several duties when called on, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff on each meeting of the court to call all the attornies [sic] attending the same in an audible voice
The minutes of the preceding day must be read every morning by the Clerk before any business are taken up, the attorneys concerned, are requisted [sic] to attend and see that the enteries [sic] are correctly made by the Clerk.
Motions must be made as soon as the minutes are read and signed on each day of the term, and onley [sic] one attorney will be allowed to argue motions on each side, unless the Court, under peculiar Circumstances should wish to hear Others.
In all cases the attorney holding the affirmation shall have the opening and closing of the question.
The Clerk will Docket litigated cases first in order, and each day of the term not incompatable [sic] with the laws and attornies [sic] in making motions will be heard in order according to their seniority.
The Causes on the docket will be called and tried in the order in which they stand, unless for good cause shewn & case may be passed over or Continued by Consent.
In Chancery cases councel will furnish the Court with epitome of each case the points and brief of the authorities they rely on, with references to evidence in support of the several points material to be examined, when required, and will in all cases, write the decrees and submitt [sic] them to the Court for approval or correction.
When Counsel is addressing the Court or a Jury the opposing Counsel must be silent, In addressing the court the attorney will rise to his feet in his place and when he has closed his address he will immediatly [sic] resume his seat, and remain silent untill [sic] his oponent [sic] has closed his remarks, and while one attorney is speaking the others must keep their seates [sic].
While one attorney is examining a witness the opposing counsel will not be allowed to interrupt him by cross examining the witness, but will wait untill [sic] he is told that the examination of the witness in Chief is ended.
On the first day of each term, the Court will meet at eleven of the clock on each suceeding [sic] day at nine of the Clock.

County Commissioners Records

Have you used county commissioners’ records in your genealogy research?

County commissioners handled county business. They still do today. Minutes of the county commissioners have many details about life with a county and activities of many individuals living in the county. Some of their duties included:

Creating townships and altering township boundaries
Auditing treasurer and auditor’s reports
Defending the county in the courts
Appointing constables
Appointing overseers of the poor
Appointing trustees to the county seminary
Appointing school trustees
Granting licenses for liquor, taverns, retailing foreign merchandise, ferries, etc.
Opening and maintaining public roads and bridges
Building and maintaining county buildings, including the courthouse, jail, and county asylum
Purchasing materials and supplies for the county
Levying county taxes
Appointing assessors
Selecting juries
Poor relief, including boarding, food, clothing, medicine, and burials
Overseeing the county asylum or farm for the poor
Offering rewards
Military bounties

Records produced before 1850 are rich in details about people who were only enumerated as tally marks on the census. Women are recorded boarding the poor or receiving poor relief themselves. Poor men, women, and children are recorded when someone else was paid to provide their coffin or dig their grave.

You may find details about the criminals within your family. The Sheriff and his constables were paid for fire wood, food, clothing, and ironing (not their clothes) the county’s prisoners.

You may be able to recreate a neighborhood by reading petitions for roads or changes in township boundaries.

Liquor, tavern, store, and ferry licenses may tell you more about your ancestors’ professions. Or your ancestor may have been reimbursed for flour or shoes he provided the poor.

County commissioners records contain a wealth of information about our ancestors. Abstracts for the Dearborn County, Indiana County Commissioners’ Records are online from 1826 to 1852.

Find online records of county commissioners Records:

Indiana Naturalization Records

You can learn more about your ancestors’ immigration experience if they became a U.S. citizen.

In order to become a citizen, an individual followed the following process:

Declared his intent to become a citizen in front of a court. Declarations of intent can be rich in details about a ancestor’s life before immigration, including their birth date, birth place, when they migrated, and ports of departure and arrival. They may detail the persons migration within the United States. Sometimes family details are included, such as names of their spouses and children, along with ages.
Petitioned to become a citizen after a period of time set by federal law. At the time of their naturalization, the person may state where they filed their declaration of intent, which may be in another county or state if they have moved. Sometimes other citizens in the county vouched for the individual and can expand your knowledge of your ancestors’ family, friends, neighbors, and associates.

Individuals could file their naturalization documents in any court from the federal to state to local level before the 1950s. Records relating to your ancestors’ naturalization process may be found in a variety of locations in Indiana:

Circuit Court Order Books
Common Pleas Order Books
Probate Order Books
Superior Court Order Books
Naturalization Books
Loose papers

The Indiana State Archives is the official repository of Indiana naturalization records prior to 1951, with the exception of naturalizations found in court order books. Unfortunately, some counties submitted none or only some of their records. A partial index of these records are online at the Indiana Digital Archives.

An incomplete index of Indiana naturalizations has been compiled into An Index to Naturalization Records in Pre-1907 Order Books of Indiana County Courts by Indiana Historical Society (Indianapolis, 2001).

Check each county for online records:

1814 Divorce of Nancy and Benjamin Whitford

Early Indiana divorces may have been granted by the Indiana General Assembly and recorded as private laws. The divorce of Nancy and Benjamin Whitford of Dearborn County, Indiana in 1814 is one example. Due to the Dearborn County Courthouse fire in March 1826 that destroyed all of the county’s records, this marriage and divorce are preserved within the state’s records. Discover more laws in the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Ewbank, Louis B. and Dorothy L. Riker, editors. The Laws of Indiana Territory, 1809-1816. Indianapols : Indiana Historical Bureau, 1934.

Fifth General Assembly of the State of Indiana, First Session, 1814.

Page 727

AN ACT for the relief of Nancy Whitford.

Whereas it has been represented to this Legislature, That Nancy Whitford, of Dearborn County, in this Territory, was formerly married to one Benjamin Whitford, who not only refused to provide food and apparel for her, but likewise deserted her—And whereas it has likewise been represented that the said Nancy Whitford, but now Nancy Ives, being herself deserted by her husband Benjamin Whitford, and being in a forlorn and distressed situation, and being informed of the said Benjamin Whitford’s having contracted a second marriage, she was induced to contract on her part a marriage, with one Nehemiah Ives, and as some doubts have arisen with respect to the legality of her marriage with the said Nehemiah Ives, Therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislative Council & House of Representatives, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Nancy shall from the said Benjamin be and she is hereby divorced from the bands of matrimony contracted between them; and the marriage which was contracted by the said Nancy with the said Nehemiah is hereby legalized to all intents and purposes, and shall be so taken & esteemed, as well within as without all courts of Judicature, & Tribunals whatsoever—any law, usage or custom to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.

Approved 2d September 1814

Indiana Complete Probate Records

Sometimes when a probate case is finalized and settled, the county clerk will compile all of the probate proceedings and copy them into the Probate Complete Record books. But only sometimes. What estates should appear in the Complete Record books? In 1857, the Ohio County Probate Court put into writing their guidelines.

Read more about Indiana probate records.

Transcription from:
“Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999,” Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9045 : accessed 28 Sep 2017); Ohio > Probate Order Book, Vol 1-3, 1853-1871 > Image 191-192; Vol 1, p. 343-2.

Ohio County, Indiana Probate Court

October Term 1857

In the matter of making Complete Records in this Court.}

It is ordered by the court that the clerk of this Court shall make Complete Records in cases estates, and Guardianships hereafter finally settled or disposed of in this Court as follows Towit, of the Inventories, Sale Bills and the accounts current on final Settlement of Executors, administrators and Guardians and in proceedings in Partition, and where the court decrees a Conveyance of Real Estate, and also in cases of Dower and in the Sale of Real Estate by Executors, administrators and Guardians, and in all cases where the title to Real Estate comes in question by way of Probate.

Switzerland County Circuit Court Rules – 1845

In April 1845, the Switzerland County, Indiana Circuit Court wrote down the rules for how the court would function. They also wrote down their rules for Probate Court in 1833.

The following is a transcription from:
Switzerland County, Indiana, Circuit Court Order Book L, p. 401-4, April 1845.

April Term 1845

The Court now here order that the following rules of Practice be entered of record, and that the same be observed in this court,

Admission of Attornies &C.

1st. When application is made for admission to the bar of this Court, the applicant shall furnish the court with a certificate of his good moral character, and satisfactory proof that he is twenty one years of age, and a citizen of the United States.

2d. The President Judge will then examine the applicant or appoint three members of the bar as examiners, who shall examine the applicant, and on the filing of a written report by the majority of the examiners favorable to the applicant, his Commissioner will be signed by the President Judge.

3d. No Attorney of this Court shall be received as bail or surety in any cause in Court, unless as security for non resident parties.

Motions.

4th. Motions may be made immediately after the orders of the preceding day an[d] read and signed, and the opinions of the Court delivered in; but at no other time, unless in Cases of necessity, or in relation to a cause when called in course.

5th. Motions are to be made by the Counsel in the order in which their names stand on the roll; but no one is to make more than one motion at a time.

6th. When a motion is founded on a matter of fact, which is not admitted nor apparent on the record, it must be supported by affidavit.

7th. All motions for new trials, or in arrest of Judgment, must be made, and a statement in writing of the points in which the motion is founded, filed with the clerk the same or succeeding day after the verdict of the Jury shall be given; unless further time shall be granted by the Court.

8th. All motions to set aside proceedings for irregularity, to set aside non-suits, to make entries in Journal, nune pro tune; or for amending Journal, to set aside awards, or for attachments, shall be made in writing, setting forth the grounds of such motion, and filed, and when the proceeding is not in its nature exparte, the opposite party or his counsel shall have twenty-four hours notice.

9th. Upon motions founded upon affidavit for a continuance of a cause, no argument shall be heard in support of it (unless specially requested by the Court) and but one Counsel against it.

10th. The party making a motion, or an objection in the nature of a motion, will be heard in argument by one Counsel. If the Court do not thereupon overrule the motion or objection, the opposite party will be heard by one Counsel, and the mover or objector will be heard in reply; the discussion is then at an End.

Continuances.

11th. On motion for a Continuance, no Contradictory, supplemental, or amended affidavit shall be permitted.

12th. Notice to take depositions in term time, shall not be considered reasonable notice.

13th. In all cases in law or Equity, where there has been one or more depositions taken and filed, either party shall have a right to have the deposition or depositions published, without prejudice, at any time before the case shall be set down for a final hearing in chancery, or the Jury is sworn in suits at law.

Bills of Particulars.

14th. If a bill of particulars be demanded, or oyer craved of any writing obligatory, or inspection of a note asked, the party demanding the same shall have as long to file his pleadings after the same shall have been furnished, as he would be entitled to, at the entering of the rule.

Pleadings.

15th. No Rule to Join in demurrer shall be necessary; but on demurrer being put in, the opposite party shall join instanter.

Proof of Notice.

16th. Proof of publications required by law, and of notices shall in all cases be by affidavit, with a copy of the publications or notice attached—all of which shall be filed with the clerk.

Bills of Exceptions.

17th. When parties except to any order, opinion, or Judgment of the Court, a memorandum in writing of the particular order, opinion, or Judgment excepted to, shall be made by the Counsel excepting, at the time the order is made, or opinion, or Judgment pronounced, and delivered to the Court immediately.

Clerk’s Files.

18th. No papers or records filed in Court, or in the Clerk’s office, shall be taken therefrom, except by a member of the Court, unless the Clerk shall take a receipt for the same; and each party may have a copy of any paper, or of his adversary’s pleadings, the expense of which may be taxed in the bill of costs. During the trial of a cause, the parties shall be equally entitled to the use of the papers on file.

19th. No paper shall be received on file in a cause, until the title of the Cause, the number of the Case to which it belongs, and the Character of the paper, be endorsed thereon.

Docket.

20th. The names of the parties must be entered on the record, and on the dockets of the Court and Clerk without abbreviation, unless the names exceed five.

21st. The causes on the Docket at any term must be numbered, and when referred to, the number must make a part of such reference.

22nd. In Criminal Causes, the substance of the Sheriff’s return must be entered on the Docket of the Court and Clerk, together with the names of the recognizers, if any there be; and the Sheriff shall file all process served three days before term.

23rd. In Civil Causes, the substance of the Sheriff’s return upon Original process, and the date of the service, must be entered upon the docket of the Court and Clerk, after the manner prescribed in the foregoing rule.

Trial.

24th. In the trial of Causes, but one Counsel on each side shall be permitted to examine or cross examine the same witness; and no witness once dismissed from the stand, shall again be called, until the other testimony is gone through, except at the request of a Juror, or by permission of the Court.

25th. Upon a final hearing, each party will be heard by two Counsel only, unless leave of the Court, which may never be asked for, except in a case of importance and difficulty; the party upon whom the onus lies, is entitled to open and close the argument.

Miscellaneous.

26th. No cause will be delayed by reason of the absence of Counsel, unless on good cause shewn.

27th. Judgment by Confession may be entered up at any time during the term by the Clerk, without application to the Court; the Warrant of attorney, when the confession is by attorney being filed with an affidavit of a disinterested person, of the execution of the warrant.

28th. Agreements of parties in reference to a cause when Entered on record, will be enforced, or if in writing signed by the parties. Agreements not disclosed by a plea, or proved as above, may never be mentioned in argument, or brought into discussion.

29th. Witnesses may be called at the door, from a written list to be furnished by the party desiring them to be called. A party may array his own witnesses, but if he desires them to be called, he must be prepared to furnish the list aforesaid.

30th. When the Sheriff calls witnesses he must promptly announce the names of those who do, and of those who do not answer. Parties are to be called at the Bar, unless otherwise ordered.

Chancery.

31st. Bills, pleas, answers, and special replications, or responses in Chancery, must have a left hand margin not less than one inch widw, and the pages and lines must be numbered. References thereto, by exception or otherwise must note the pages, and lines containing the matter referred to.

32d. No litigated Chancery Causes will be received on Submission, either with, or without argument, until the parties furnish the Court with an abstract—of facts charged and admitted, or not well denied—of facts aversed in Avoidance—of facts proved, with references to the proofs, establishing the same—of evidence counteracting the evidence of party upon whom the onus lies, with references as aforesaid—each party show by his abstract, that which it behooves him to show. One party furnishing such abstract is entitled to a reasonable rule against the opposite party, to furnish the same on his part in order to submission.

33d. Exceptions to a Master’s report must be made in writing, on or before the first calling of the Cause after the report is filed, unless further time be granted by the Court.

34th. Exceptions to a Master’s report must particularly point out such parts of the report as are excepted to, or the parts not so excepted to, will be taken as admitted.

35th. If the Court is dissatisfied with the master’s report it may Refer it back to the Master with special directions.

Indiana Enrollment of Late Soldiers, 1886-1894

On 13 April 1885, the Indiana General Assembly passed “An Act to enroll the late soldiers, their widows and orphans, of late armies of the United States, residing in the State of Indiana.” Township assessors were to enroll anyone who served during the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the Indian wars. Individuals were to be included on the lists if they were:

Officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, including regulars, volunteers, and militia
Enlisted men in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, whether regularly mustered or not
Gunboat masters, pilots, engineers, sailors, or others, not regularly mustered
Persons serving in the militia
Surgeons, physicians, or anyone who volunteered to assisted in the care of sick or wounded
Chaplains
Widows, whether remarried or not
Children under 16 years of age

The names of deceased husbands and fathers were also included.

The first enrollment took place in 1886 and was to be taken every 4 years thereafter.

The enrollments were returned to the County Clerk. The clerks created duplicate rolls by townships and cities and arranged names in alphabetical order. One copy was kept in order to furnish information to ex-soldier reunions and pension claimants. The other copy was sent to the Indiana Adjutant General. The AG was to create a general list, arranged in alphabetical order by regiments and companies. A copy of this list was to be sent to the Commissioner of Pensions in Washington, D.C.

In 1889, the AG reported that he was unable to make a general list because many counties did not submit reports.

The law was repealed in 1895.

Enrollments collected by the Adjunct General were later transferred to the Indiana State Library and microfilmed by the Family History Library. Some counties that did not send copies to the Adjunct General may have retained their own records. For example, some Dearborn County enrollments were kept at the Dearborn County Courthouse and microfilmed by the Family History Library there.

Online indexes are available for:

The Indiana Genealogical Society also indexed all counties with an 1890 enrollment that was transferred to the Adjunct General.

Sources:

Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Fifty-Fourth Regular Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Wm. B. Burford, 1885, p. 232-4.
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed at the Fifty-Ninth Regular Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Wm. B. Burford, 1895, p. 206-207.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana for the Two Years Ending October 31, 1888. Indianapolis : Wm. B. Burford, 1889, p. 117-119.

Indiana Common Pleas Courts, 1853-1872

On May 14, 1852, the Indiana General Assembly approved “An act to establish Courts of Common Pleas, and defining the jurisdiction and duties and providing compensation for the Judges thereof.” The Common Pleas Courts were active in Indiana from 1853 to 1872, when they were discontinued.

The Common Pleas Courts had original jurisdiction over probate matters, including:

Probating wills
Granting letters testamentary, of administration, and of guardianship
Settlement and distribution of decedents’ estates
Personal estates of minors
Cases against executors and administrators
Authorizing guardians to sell and convey real estate of their wards
Appointments of guardians of persons of unsound mind
Allowances of accounts of executors and administrators and guardians

The Common Pleas Courts had concurrent jurisdiction with the county Circuit Courts for:

Actions against heirs, devisees, and sureties of executors, administrators, and guardians
Partitions of real estate
Assignments of dower
Appointments of commissioner to execute a deed on any title bond given by a decedent
Civil cases, when sum due or damages claimed did not exceed $1000, except slander, libel, breach of marriage contract, action on official bond of any State or county officer and where title to real estate was disputed.

Criminal offenses that did not amount to felony, except those where justices of the peace had exclusive jurisdiction, could also be heard by the Common Pleas Court if the person charged with the felony was in custody, agreed to have a trial in Common Pleas Court before a Grand Jury indictment was issued, and the felony was not punishable by death.

Some records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library, but coverage varies by county. For example, all 4 volumes for Ohio County were filmed but only the last 2 volumes for Switzerland County were filmed.

1827 Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

List of Indiana laws from:
Richmond Public Leger – 27 Jan 1827 – Page 3 AND 3 Feb 1827 – Page 3

LIST OF ACTS, &c.

Passed at the 11th session of the General Assembly of Indiana.

1. An act to authorize the board of Justices of Ripley county to appoint a lister for Brown township in said county.

2. An act legalizing the marriage of Benjamin Patterson and Abigail Hultz.

3. An act to amend “an act organizing circuit courts, and defining their powers, approved January 30th, 1824;” and also to amend an act entitled, “an act concerning prosecuting attorneys, approved, January 20, 1826.”

4. A memorial of the General Assembly of Indiana, on the subject of reducing the minimum price of public lands.

5. An act making an appropriation to pay the debt due from this state to the United States.

6. A Joint resolution relative to the lands appropriated for the use of salt springs.

7. A Joint resolution on the subject of certain public lands in the vicinity of Indianapolis.

8. An act authorizing Samuel S. Graham to convey certain lots in the town of Paris, Jennings county.

9. An act for the relief of persons owning lots in Springfield, the late seat of justice of Posey county.

10. An act for the relief of the securities of Nathaniel W. Mark, late sheriff of Rush county.

11. An act to amend the act regulating the mode of summoning and empaneling grand and petit jurors, approved, January 31st, 1824.

12. An act authorizing Alexander Divin, Robert Milbern, and Samuel Hall, to convey a lot therein named.

13. An act to legalize certain official acts of William W. Kennedy, late recorder of Vermillion county.

14. An act for the relief of Ansel Richmond, recorder of Madison county, and clerk of the Madison circuit court.

15. An act supplemental to the several acts declaring Blue river a public highway.

16. An act appointing commissioners to re-locate the seat of justice of Crawford county.

17. An act for the benefit of the widow and heirs of Peter B. Wright, deceased.

18. An act to repeal an act entitled, “An act to authorize called sessions of the circuit court.”

19. An act for the benefit of the persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which was consumed by fire in the court house in Lawrenceburgh on the morning of the 6th March, 1826.

20. An act legalizing certain contracts made by the agent of the reserved township of Monroe.

21. An act requiring the board of justices of Washington county to fix on a place for holding circuit courts.

22. An act for the benefit of persons leasing the school sections in township twenty-one, of range seven west in the year 1825.

23. An act to authorize the board of justices of Pike county to appoint trustees of Pike county library.

24. An act declaring Salt Creek a public highway.

25. An act declaring the Brushy Fork of Muscatitack a public highway.

26. An act authorizing Henry Thornburgh and Henry Hoover, administrators of the estate of John Charles, deceased, to convey a certain water privilege.

27. An act to amend an act entitled, “An act for the appointment of trustees to receive deeds for lots or lands given or purchased for the use of schools, meeting houses or masonic lodges, approved January 7, 1824.

28. An act amending an act entitled, “an act, supplemental to an act entitled, ‘an act defining the duties of recorders, and pointing out the mode of conveying real estate,’” approved Feb. 12, 1825.

29. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act for the incorporation of county libraries, approved, January 28, 1824.

30. An act to enable the citizens of Vigo county to appropriate their road fund to the removal of stagnant waters in said county.

31. An act to provide for removing the obstruction in the river Patoka.

32. An act to incorporate the county seminary of Harrison county.

33. An act for the formation of a new county out of the county of Wabash.

34. An act to amend the act concerning salt springs in Orange county, approved Jan. 20, 1826.

35. An act to authorize Robert R. Roberts and others, to keep a public ferry on the West Fork of White river in Owen county.

36. An act to amend the act declaring certain streams therein named public highways.

37. An act to repeal part of the act, entitled an act providing the mode of opening and repairing public roads and highways in certain counties therein named, approved Jan. 21, 1826.

38. An act to repeal part of the act, entitled an act for opening public roads and highways, approved Feb. 12, 1825, and for other purposes.

39. An act for the relief of Jesse Jackson, late collector of the revenue of Scott county.

40. An act authorizing John Hammersley to erect a wing dam, at the Indian ford on White river, near Bono in Lawrence county.

41. An act to improve the navigation of Sand creek.

42. An act authorizing Alexander Craig to erect a dam across the West Fork of White river and for other purposes.

43. An act organizing a county library in the county of Crawford.

44. An act respecting the state road from the Wabash, by the way of the High Banks on White river to Indianapolis.

45. An act for the relief of John Carter and Joel Dixon.

46. An act to amend the act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace.

47. An act respecting the Knox county seminary.

48. An act declaring the Mississinewa river navigable and a public highway.

49. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Whitewater canal company.”

50. An act to legalize the proceedings of the board of justices of Green county, at a special session held on the 13th day of May 1826.

51. An act attaching part of the county of Perry to the county of Crawford.

52. An act to provide for building certain bridges, and for other purposes.

53. An act to provide for recording brands, ear marks and for posting estrays in certain counties therein named, and for other purposes.

54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for opening and repairing public roads and highways, in certain counties therein named, approved Jan. 12, 1826.

55. An act declaring the East Fork of White river, a public highway.

56. An act incorporating the Washington county seminary.

57. An act to amend the several acts now in force relative to assessing and collecting the revenue.

58. An act making general appropriations for the year 1827.

59. An act to amend an act entitled, an act providing for the settlement of decedents, estates and for other purposes, approved January 26, 1824.

60. An act concerning the Seminary townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties.

61. An act to establish a road from the town of Crawfordsville in Montgomery, to the town of Covington in Fountain county.

62. An act to extend a certain law therein named.

63. An act for raising the salary of the agent of the state for the town of Indianapolis.

64. An act for the relief of the securities of Abraham Elliott, late sheriff of Wayne County.

65. An act supplemental to an act entitled, an act for the appointment of Trustees to receive deeds for lots or lands given for the use of schools, meeting houses, or Masonic Lodges, approved January 7th, 1824.

66. An act more fully to carry into effect an act to provide for the appointment of a separate commissioner on that part of the state road leading from Mauk’s ferry to Indianapolis, which lies between the towns of Franklin and Indianapolis.

67. A joint resolution of the General Assembly relative to purchasers of public land.

68. A joint resolution on the subject of school lands in the state of Indiana.

69. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the practice in suits at law.

70. An act for the organization of Delaware county.

71. An act providing for the erection of an office for the Clerk of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes.

72. An act establishing the eastern boundary of Henry county.

73. An act to amend an act entitled an act authorizing the laying off certain state roads in this state and appropriating one hundred thousand dollars of the three per cent fund for opening the same, approved December 31, 1821.

74. An act legalizing the proceedings of the school trustees in Congressional township No. 9, in range No. 2 west, also Congressional township No. 12, in range No. 13 east, in Franklin county.

75. An act regulating the manner of doing county business in certain counties therein named, and also to elect township officers.

76. An act to authorize Franklin F. Sawyer to sell and convey certain real estate.

77. An act authorizing Daniel Fetter and Lewis Stryer to purchase and occupy five acres of land therein named.

78. An act authorizing Arthur Major to build a bridge across Big Flat Rock.

79. An act appointing a Board of Visitors to the state seminary at Bloomington and for other purposes.

80. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the fees of the several officers and persons therein named, approved January 30, 1824.

81. An act in aid of the corporation of the President and Trustees of the town of Jeffersonville.

82. An act for the sale of the real estate of Thomas Bullett deceased.

83. An act in addition to an act entitled an act regulating the fees of the several officers therein named, approved January 30, 1824.

84. An act concerning state roads.

85. An act to provide for the surveying of a state road from Indianapolis to Newport.

86. An act legalizing the proceedings of the Board of Justices of Franklin county, and for other purposes.

87. A joint resolution respecting the revenue.

88. An act to provide for contracting with a public printer, and for printing and distributing the Laws and Journals of the present session.

89. An act to authorize an additional sale of lots in the town of Indianapolis, and for other purposes.

90. An act to establish county seminaries in the several counties therein named.

91. An act to vacate a part of Evan’s enlargement of the town of Princeton.

92. An act providing for the relocation of the seat of justice in the county of Dearborn.

93. An act for the relief of William W. Wick.

94. An act authorizing the sale of a lot of land near Indianapolis for the erection of a Steam Mill.

95. An act for the relief of Asahel Dunning.

96. An act to establish a county seminary in the county of Fayette.

97. An act to amend the act, entitled an act regulating the mode of doing county business.

98. An act for the relief of John Wilson late Collector of Fayette county.

99. An act to provide for incorporating a county seminary in the county of Clark.

100. An act for the re-location of the seat of justice of the county of Madison and for the formation of the county of Hancock.

101. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1827.

102. An act supplemental to the act for the re-location of the county seat of Crawford.

103. An act to authorize the executors of William Ballard, deceased, to convey certain lands therein named.

104. A joint resolution respecting Blackford’s Reports.

105. An act to authorize Polly Branham administratrix of Lindsfield Branham to sell and convey certain lands therein named.

106. An act authorizing the removal of obstruction in water courses in certain counties therein named.

107. A joint resolution relative to the state library.

108. An act to amend an act to regulate the Militia of the state of Indiana approved January 20, 1824.

109. An act to encourage the killing of Wolves.

110. An act to amend an act entitled an act to regulate judicial circuits and fixing the times of holding courts approved January 24, 1824.

111. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the partition of real estate, approved January 21, 1824.

Indiana's Gore – Genealogy Resources

Genealogy Resources for Southeastern Indiana