Category Archives: Indiana Laws

1850 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fourth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : John D. Defrees, 1850. Google Books

 

AD QUOD DAMNUM.

Chapter 1. An act to amend article 5, chapter 48, of the Revised Statutes.

AGENT—STATE.

Chapter 2. An act to modify the Agency of State, and reduce the expenses thereof.

APPROPRIATIONS—GENERAL.

Chapter 3. An act making general appropriations for the year 1850.

APPROPRIATIONS—SPECIFIC.

Chapter 4. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1850.

ASSESSORS.

Chapter 5. An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors, in the county of Steuben.

Chapter 6. An act providing for the election of Township Assessors in the counties of Greene and Hamilton.

Chapter 7. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the Counties therein named, and defining their duties,” approved January 27th, 1847, so far as relates to the County of Monroe.

Chapter 8. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the Counties therein named, and defining their duties,” approved January 27th, 1847.

Chapter 9. An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the county of Crawford.

AUDITOR, COUNTY.

Chapter 10. An act to authorize suits to be brought in the name of the State of Indiana, upon the relation of the county auditor.

Chapter 11. An act relative to the office of auditor, in Warrick county.

Chapter 12. An act to legalize the acts of the several clerks of Martin Circuit Court, heretofore done in relation to the duties of the office of County Auditor of the county of Martin, and for other purposes therein named.

BLIND, INDIGENT.

Chapter 13. An act to revive an act to provide for the support of the indigent blind of the State of Indiana.

CANAL, CENTRAL.

Chapter 14. An act to authorize the Governor of Indiana to compromise with, and to cause suit to be brought against the Lessees of the Water Power of the Northern Division of the Central Canal.

Chapter 15. An act to authorize the sale of the Northern Division of the Central Canal.

CANAL, WABASH AND ERIE.

Chapter 16. An act to regulate the relinquishment of damages upon the Wabash and Erie Canal.

CENSUS.

Chapter 17. An act requiring the enumeration of the white male inhabitants of this State.

CENTRAL MEDICAL COLLEGE.

Chapter 18. An act to provide for the sale of a portion of square No. 25, in the Town of Indianapolis, for the purpose of erecting thereon buildings for the use of the Indiana Central Medical College.

COMMISSIONER, COUNTY.

Chapter 19. An act declaring the meaning of the 11th Section of Chapter Four of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 20. An act repealing an act therein named.

CONVENTION.

Chapter 21. An act to provide for the call of a Convention of the people of the State of Indiana, to revise, amend, or alter the Constitution of said State.

CORONERS.

Chapter 22. An act to amend Section 11, Chapter 56, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

COSTS.

Chapter 23. An act in relation to costs in certain cases.

COUNTY BUSINESS.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the county of Putnam,” approved, Jan. 15, 1849.

Chapter 25. An act to change the time of holding the April terms of the Commissioners’ Court in Jefferson county.

Chapter 26. An act relative to the Board of Commissioners of Franklin county.

Chapter 27. An act to extend the time of holding County Courts in Perry county.

Chapter 28. An act changing the mode of doing county business in the county of Crawford.

Chapter 29. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Owen.

Chapter 30. An act to amend an act authorizing the board of commissioners of Cass county to issue bonds bearing ten per cent interest per annum, approved January the 28th, A. D. 1843.

Chapter 31. An act to authorize the county commissioners of Pulaski county to borrow money.

Chapter 32. An act to extend the time of the March and June sessions of the Board of Commissioners of Cass county.

Chapter 33. An act to extend the time of holding Commissioners’ Court in Marion county.

Chapter 34. An act extending the time of holding the sessions of the Board of County Commissioners of the county of Fountain.

Chapter 35. An act extending the time of holding the sessions of the Board of County Commissioners of the county of Montgomery.

Chapter 36. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to change the mode of electing Grand Jurors in the county of Orange,” approved January 12th, 1849.

Chapter 37. An act authorizing the Board doing county business for the county of Morgan to continue in session ten days at their March and June terms.

Chapter 38. An act to regulate and change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Laporte county.

Chapter 39. An act to repeal all laws of this State authorizing counties to subscribe for any corporation stock, so far as relates to the county of Morgan, and declaring the meaning of certain acts therein named.

COURT, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 40. An act to extend the term of the Circuit Court of Marion County, authorized to be begun and held on the last Monday in October, 1849.

Chapter 41. An act prescribing the time of holding the Circuit Courts in the second judicial circuit.

Chapter 42. An act to regulate the holding of Circuit Courts in certain counties in the third judicial circuit.

Chapter 43. An act fixing the time of holding the several Circuit Courts in the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 44. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to fix the time of holding courts in the tenth judicial circuit,” approved January 25th, 1847.

Chapter 45. An act to extend the time of holding the circuit court in and for the county of Henry.

Chapter 46. An act to regulate times of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit.

Chapter 47. An act to regulate the time for civil and chancery business of the Marion and Hancock circuit courts.

Chapter 48. An act changing the time of holding the Hancock circuit court from the second Mondays in February and August to the fourth Mondays in March and September.

Chapter 49. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to change the time of holding Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 50. An act in relation to the change of names.

Chapter 51. An act to repeal part of an act entitled “An act to fix the time of holding Courts in the First Judicial Circuit and Probate Court of Tippecanoe county,” approved January 2, 1849.

Chapter 52. An act to provide for the trial of criminal causes in Marion county.

COURT, CIRCUIT, AND PROBATE.

Chapter 53. An act to change the times of holding the Circuit and Probate Courts in the county of Switzerland.

COURT, COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act creating Marion Court of Common Pleas,” approved 4th January, 1849.

COURT, PROBATE.

Chapter 55. An act to extend the time of holding the Probate Court of Hendricks county.

Chapter 56. An act to change the time of holding the October term of the Probate Court of Martin county.

Chapter 57. An act to provide for an extension of the time of holding the terms of the Marion Probate Court.

Chapter 58. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Court of Allen county.

Chapter 59. An act to extend the term of the Probate Court of the county of Monroe, and for other purposes.

Chapter 60. An act to extend the terms of Probate Courts of certain counties.

Chapter 61. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to change the time of holding the Probate Court in Franklin county,” approved February 15, 1848.

Chapter 62. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts of Dearborn county.

Chapter 63. An act to change the time of holding the February term of the Probate Court in the county of Crawford.

Chapter 64. An act to repeal the second section of an act, entitled “An act to change the time of holding the probate courts in the counties of Perry and Harrison,” approved December 30, 1845, and for other purposes.

Chapter 65. An act to extend the time of the sittings of the Probate Court of Fulton county.

Chapter 66. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Courts in the county of Randolph.

Chapter 67. An act to regulate the manner of doing business in the Jasper Probate Court.

Chapter 68. An act relating to the Probate Court of Parke county.

Chapter 69. An act to amend the 224th section of the 30th chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 70. An act relative to appeals and changes of venue from Probate Courts.

COURT, PROBATE, SUPREME.

Chapter 71. An act to amend the 36th section of the 37th chapter of article 1, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

Chapter 72. An act to amend section 65, of chapter 54, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, as far as relates to the county of Tippecanoe.

DEEDS.

Chapter 73. An act relative to the acknowledgement and recording of deeds heretofore made and recorded.

DEPOSITIONS.

Chapter 74. An act to authorize the taking of depositions of practicing physicians in certain cases.

DEPUTY CLERKS.

Chapter 75. An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to amend section 101, of chapter 38, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.”

Chapter 76. An act to repeal an act therein named, so far as the county of Fayette is concerned.

Chapter 77. An act to repeal an act therein named.

DESCENT.

Chapter 78. An act to amend article 5, chapter 28, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 79. An act for the relief of Widows whose husbands die intestate, without any heirs lineally descended from them.

ELECTIONS.

Chapter 80. An act to amend the 18th Section of Article 3, Chapter 5, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 81. An act to establish an additional precinct in Marrs township in the county of Posey.

Chapter 82. An act to authorize the voters of Washington township, in the county of Blackford, to vote at Hartford in said county.

Chapter 83. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to confine voters to their respective townships,” approved January 13, 1845, so far as the same relates to the county of Martin.

Chapter 84. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Eagle township, in Boone county.

Chapter 85. An act to authorize the voters of Daviess county to vote in Washington township in said county.

Chapter 86. An act establishing additional places of holding elections in certain counties therein named.

EQUALIZATION, BOARD OF.

Chapter 87. An act to change the time of holding the Board of Equalization in the county of Warren.

ESTRAYS.

Chapter 88. An act to amend the tenth section of chapter twenty-one, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

EXECUTIONS.

Chapter 89. An act to provide for ascertaining the value of personal property exempt from execution.

FEEDER DAM, MUNCIE.

Chapter 90. An act to authorize the sale of the dam of the Andersontown, and Muncie Feeder of the lateral cut of the Northern Division of the Central Canal.

FEEDER DAM, NORTHPORT.

Chapter 91. An act to cede and transfer the right and interest of the State in and to the Northport Feeder Dam to the Board of Commissioners of the county of Noble, for the use of common schools.

FEES AND SALARIES.

Chapter 92. An act fixing the salary of the Auditor of the county of Owen.

Chapter 93. An act to increase the pay of the probate judge of Harrison county.

Chapter 94. An act to increase the per diem allowance of the Probate Judge of the Probate Court of Fountain county.

Chapter 95. An act to increase the pay of the Board of Commissioners of Daviess county.

Chapter 96. An act relative to the Probate Judge of Randolph county.

Chapter 97. An act defining the duties of Auditor and Treasurer of the counties of Delaware and Randolph.

Chapter 98. An act to increase the per diem allowance of the Probate Judge of the Probate Court of Vermillion county.

Chapter 99. An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to regulate Clerks’ fees in the Probate Court of Parke county,” approved Jan. 16, 1849.

Chapter 100. An act to increase the pay of the Probate Judges of the counties of Knox, Kosciusko, and Randolph.

Chapter 101. An act to increase the salary of Probate Judge of Elkhart county.

Chapter 102. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to abolish the office of County Auditor, in the county of Johnson,” approved Jan. 14, 1846.

Chapter 103. An act relative to the extra pay of Clerk and Auditor of the county of Parke.

Chapter 104. An act fixing the salary of the Auditor of Miami County.

Chapter 105. An act to increase the pay of the Clerk of the Carroll Circuit Court, for discharging the duties of Auditor of Carroll county.

Chapter 106. An act to regulate witness fees in the courts of Common Pleas, and the Probate Courts of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 107. An act to regulate the fees of Jurors in the county of Adams and other counties therein named.

Chapter 108. An act regulating the pay of the Probate Judge of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 109. An act to increase the fees of Jurors before Probate Courts.

Chapter 110. An act fixing the salaries of the auditor and treasurer of Allen county, Indiana.

Chapter 111. An act to reduce the fees and emoluments of the auditor and treasurer of Steuben county.

FENCES, MAY BE REMOVED.

Chapter 112. An act providing for the removal of fences from canal lands.

FIELD NOTES.

Chapter 113. An act relative to the field notes, maps, records, and other papers, appertaining to land titles within the State of Indiana.

FISH.

Chapter 114. An act to prohibit the stretching of seins across Laughery Creek and other streams in the State of Indiana.

FREE TURNPIKE SUPERVISOR.

Chapter 115. An act to amend the act to establish a free turnpike road in Adams county, approved January 13, 1845.

FUNDED DEBT.

Chapter 116. 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 January and first day of July, 1850.

GRAND JURY.

Chapter 117. An act to restrict the Grand Jury in Franklin County to a limited time in their sessions.

HABEAS CORPUS.

Chapter 118. An act to give the Probate Judges of the counties of Gibson, Warren, and Jennings, jurisdiction of writs of Habeas Corpus.

INSANE HOSPITAL.

Chapter 119. An act for the more speedy completion of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

Chapter 120. An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane,” approved February 15th, 1848.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chapter 121. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Henry.

Chapter 122. An act to define the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Vermillion.

Chapter 123. An act supplemental and declaratory of the meaning of an act entitled an act to define the jurisdiction of justices of the peace within the county of Vermillion.

Chapter 124. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to define the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the several counties therein named,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 125. An act authorizing the election of an additional justice of the peace for North Madison.

Chapter 126. An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act to define the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the several counties therein named.”

Chapter 127. An act to authorize Justices of the Peace in Posey Township, Switzerland county, to perform the duties of Coroner in certain cases.

Chapter 128. An act to repeal an act relating to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, so far as relates to Gibson county.

Chapter 129. An act to repeal a certain act therein named, so far as it relates to Randolph county, and to revive certain other acts.

Chapter 130. An act authorizing the election of an additional Justice of the Peace in Highland Township, Vermillion county.

Chapter 131. An act to amend the 336th Section of Chapter 47 of the Revised Code of 1843.

Chapter 132. An act to extend an act, entitled “An act to define the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the several counties therein named,” approved January 16, 1849, to Wayne county.

Chapter 133. An act relative to the jurisdiction of Justices of the peace, in certain criminal cases in the county of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 134. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to define the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the several counties therein named,” approved January 16, 1849, so far as the county of Putnam is concerned.

Chapter 135. An act to repeal a certain section of an act therein named.

Chapter 136. An act to amend an act extending the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in certain criminal cases, approved, February 16, 1848, and also to limit the sessions of the Grand Jury in Fulton county.

Chapter 137. An act defining the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Marion and Boone, and Perry counties, and amendatory of an act entitled “An act to define the jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace, in the several counties therein named,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 138. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to the counties of Huntington and Whitley.

Chapter 139. An act repealing an act relating to the jurisdiction of Justices of the peace, so far as relates to Montgomery count.

Chapter 140. An act to authorize Justices of the Peace, in certain cases, to perform the duties of Coroner.

LAPORTE COUNTY.

Chapter 141. An act to attach certain territory to the county of Laporte.

LAWS, DISTRIBUTED.

Chapter 142. An act for the distribution of the local laws, statutes, public documents, and reports to the city of Jeffersonville.

LAWS, PUBLICATION OF.

Chapter 143. An act authorizing an additional number of copies of the Revised Statutes of 1843, to be distributed to the counties of Miami and Adams.

Chapter 144. An act in relation to printing additional copies of the General and Special laws of this State.

LEGISLATURE.

Chapter 145. An act to change the name of convening the Legislature in 1850.

LIENS.

Chapter 146. An act authorizing the transfer of the liens of mechanics and others on buildings.

LIBERIA.

Chapter 147. An act authorizing the State Librarian to send surplus copies of public documents to Liberia.

LIBRARY OF STATE.

Chapter 148. An act to amend section eighty-two, chapter six, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, extending the use of the State Library to Professors and Teachers.

LIQUORS, SALE OF PROHIBITED.

Chapter 149. An act to amend an act entitled “an act more effectually to prevent the retailing of spirituous liquors in certain counties therein named,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 150. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the people of the several counties to prohibit the retailing of spirituous liquors,” approved January 28, 1848, so for as relates to the counties of Parke, Monroe, and Brown.

Chapter 151. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act more effectually to prevent the retailing of spirituous liquors in certain counties therein named.”

Chapter 152. An act conferring the power upon the voters of Wayne township, Henry county, to determine the question of “license,” or “no license.”

Chapter 153. An act to extend an act entitled “an act more effectually to prevent the retailing of spirituous liquors in certain counties therein named,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 154. An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Plainfield and vicinity, in Hendricks county.

Chapter 155. An act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in the township of Mound, in the county of Warren and State of Indiana, without procuring a license therefor.

Chapter 156. An act to provide for the more effectually preventing the sale of intoxicating drinks in the town of Lewisville.

Chapter 157. An act to amend an act entitled “An act regulating the granting of license to retail spirituous liquors in the counties of Gibson and Dubois,” approved February 16, 1848, so far as relates to Gibson county, and to extend the same to Pike county.

Chapter 158. An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors in Jackson and Monroe townships, in Madison county by a less quantity than thirty gallons.

Chapter 159. An act to regulate the retailing of spirituous liquors in the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 160. An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in Blue River township, Johnson county.

Chapter 161. An act in relation to the sale of spirituous liquors in Ripley Township, in the county of Rush.

LOANS BY THE STATE.

Chapter 162. An act relative to lands mortgaged and forfeited to the State of Indiana.

MADISON AND INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD.

Chapter 163. An act to provide for paying the amount due on the new stock belonging to the State in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, and for other purposes.

Chapter 164. An act to preserve the interest of the State of Indiana in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad.

MANUFACTURES.

Chapter 165. An act to encourage the investment of capital for Manufacturing purposes.

NATIONAL MONUMENT.

Chapter 166. An act relative to the National Monument at Washington.

NEW ALBANY AND VINCENNES ROAD.

Chapter 167. An act making additional appropriations for the year 1850, upon the New Albany and Vincennes Turnpike Road.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

Chapter 168. An act extending the jurisdiction of Notaries Public.

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.

Chapter 169. An act to repeal an act passed January 15, 1844, so far as relates to Fairfield township, Tippecanoe county.

PARTITION.

Chapter 170. An act to amend the 138th section of the 45th chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

PATENTS.

Chapter 171. An act directing the Secretary of State to make a patent to James Hensley for certain Wabash and Erie Canal lands.

Chapter 172. An act directing the Secretary of State to make a patent for a certain lot in the town of Indianapolis to Samuel Henderson.

PAUPERS.

Chapter 173. An act for the temporary relief of the poor in Dearborn county.

Chapter 174. An act to amend section 141, of chapter 35, of the Revised Laws of 1843, relating to the duties of overseers of the poor.

Chapter 175. An act to authorize the commissioners of Carroll county to employ a physician for the poor.

PEDLARS.

Chapter 176. An act to repeal a certain act therein named, as far as the same applies to Randolph county.

Chapter 177. An act to amend the 11th article of the 12th chapter of the revised laws of 1843, so far as Putnam county is concerned.

Chapter 178. An act regulating the license of Traveling Pedlars in several counties therein named.

PLANK ROADS.

Chapter 179. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act authorizing the construction of Plank Roads,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 180. An act to amend the General Plank Road Law.

Chapter 181. An act to amend an act authorizing the construction of Plank Roads, approved January 13, 1849.

Chapter 182. An act to correct a mistake in the act relative to Plank Roads.

Chapter 183. An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of Plank Roads,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 184. An act to enable the inhabitants of the counties of Huntington and Whitley to construct Plank Roads.

PRIVATE SECRETARY.

Chapter 185. An act to authorize the appointment of a private secretary to the Governor.

PROBATE JUDGE.

Chapter 186. An act relative to the probate judge of Shelby county.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.

Chapter 187. An act defining the duties and fixing the compensation of the prosecuting attorney of Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 188. An act providing for the election of Prosecuting Attorney in Wabash county.

Chapter 189. An act to provide for the election of a Prosecuting Attorney in the second Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 190. An act in relation to the Prosecuting Attorney of Hendricks county.

REVENUE.

Chapter 191. An act to raise a revenue for State purposes for 1850.

Chapter 192. An act to extend the time for collecting delinquent taxes in Elkhart county.

Chapter 193. An act relative to the Sale of land for taxes in the county of Johnson, and for other purposes.

Chapter 194. An act to provide for carrying the unpaid taxes of 1847, and the delinquent taxes of previous years on the tax list of 1850, in the county of Adams.

Chapter 195. An act to amend an act entitled an “An act defining the duties of Treasurer, Auditor, and Supervisors of highways in the county of Dearborn,” approved January 26, 1847.

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.

Chapter 196. An act to amend an act entitled “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,” so far as relates to the county of Wabash.

Chapter 197. An act regulating the road laws in the county of Monroe.

Chapter 198. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Owen, Lawrence, and Greene,” approved February 1, 1834.

Chapter 199. An act to amend the Road Law in Jefferson county.

Chapter 200. An act to amend an act, entitled “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 the erection and repair of bridges, and to amend the same,” approved January 17, 1849, so far as relates to Gibson county.

Chapter 201. An act to amend the Road Laws in Porter County.

Chapter 202. An act to amend the Road Law so far as Jefferson County is concerned.

Chapter 203. An act declaratory of the meaning of the 129th section of the act entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the several acts of the General Assembly in relation to laying out, opening, repairing, changing, and vacating public highways, and to the erection and repairing of bridges, and to amend the same,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 204. An act to provide for electing supervisors by districts in the counties of Boone, Delaware, Huntington, Whitley, Parke, and Posey.

Chapter 205. An act amending an act therein named.

Chapter 206. 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.

Chapter 207. An act to repeal a certain act therein named, so far as relates to the county of Perry.

Chapter 208. An act to repeal a provisio to an act therein named.

Chapter 209. An act to amend an act entitled an act requiring the supervisors of roads in Sullivan county to make report at the March term in each year, and for other purposes, approved January 26th, 1847.

Chapter 210. An act to amend the 43d section of the Revised Road Law of 1849.

Chapter 211. An act for the better improvement of highways.

Chapter 212. An act to prevent frauds upon the revenue.

ROAD TAX.

Chapter 213. An act to amend an act entitled, “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,” approved, January 16, 1849.

Chapter 214. An act to compel speculators to pay a tax equal to that paid by actual settlers in the county of Noble.

Chapter 215. An act defining the duties of the treasurer of Madison county, as to road tax.

Chapter 216. 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 Noble.”

Chapter 217. An act to distribute a surplus road tax in Jefferson county.

Chapter 218. An act to compel speculators to pay a tax equal to that paid by actual settlers, in the county of Lagrange.

Chapter 219. An act to secure the more prompt payment of Road Tax.

Chapter 220. An act authorizing the county commissioners of the county of Pike to levy a road tax so far as relates to the county of Pike.

Chapter 221. An act to compel speculators to pay their due proportion of road tax in the county of Miami.

Chapter 222. An act to compel non-residents to pay a road tax equal to that paid by residents, in the county of Whitley.

Chapter 223. An act to revive an act approved January 13, 1845, to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers.

Chapter 224. An act to compel non-resident land owners to pay a road tax equal to that paid by resident proprietors.

SCHOOLS, COMMON.

Chapter 225. An act to appropriate part of the school funds in the county of Warren.

Chapter 226. An act to revive and amend an act entitled, “An act to authorize the election of a School Commissioner in township nine, range one west, in Franklin county.”

Chapter 227. An act defining the duties of the Treasurer of Dearborn county and other counties therein named, and other officers in relation to the Common School fund of said counties.

Chapter 228. An act declaring an act entitled “An act to increase and extend the benefits of Common Schools,” approved, January 17, 1849, to be in force in certain counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 229. An act to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Carroll county to sell certain lots therein named.

Chapter 230. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools.

Chapter 231. An act to legalize the acts of the school commissioner of Marion county and abolish the office of school commissioner.

Chapter 232. An act to authorize the school trustees of Noble township in Jay county to make additional districts, &c.

Chapter 233. An act in relation to the school fund in Floyd county.

Chapter 234. An act to organize an additional School District in the county of Sullivan.

Chapter 235. An act to amend the 38th Section of Article two of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 236. An act to attach a portion of Township No. 4 South, of Range 9 West, to Township 3, Range 9 West, in Gibson County.

Chapter 237. An act to enable qualified voters of District No. 4, in township 31 north of range 6 east, in Kosciusko County, to levy a tax in said District, sufficient to build a School House.

Chapter 238. An act to amend the 8th section of the School Law of 1849, in the County of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 239. An act to amend section thirteen of an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools within the counties therein named.

Chapter 240. An act to amend an act therein named.

Chapter 241. An act to amend the school law so far as the same relates to fractional township No. 3, range 10, in Jefferson county.

Chapter 242. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize county auditors to sell lands at private sale, which have been bid in for the use of the School Fund,” approved January 28, 1847, so far as relates to the counties of Fountain and Martin.

Chapter 243. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 244. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to increase and extend the benefits of Common Schools,” approved Jan. 17, 1849.

SCHOOL LANDS.

Chapter 245. An act providing for the sale of the School Section in Congressional Township No. 26 north, of range three west, lying in the counties of White and Carroll.

Chapter 246. An act to prevent the forfeiture of School lands in Warren, Franklin, and Dearborn counties.

Chapter 247. An act relative to the sale of School Lands in certain counties therein named, and to amend Article 13, Chapter 13, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 248. An act to authorize the County Auditor of Henry county to sell a certain piece of school lands.

Chapter 249. An act to authorize the sale of school section in township 26 north, range 1 west, in Carroll county.

Chapter 250. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands and those persons indebted to the Common School Funds belonging to the State of Indiana.

SEMINARIES.

Chapter 251. An act relative to the Seminary in Sullivan county.

Chapter 252. An act to repeal an act in relation to the County Seminary Fund of Tippecanoe county, approved February 11, 1848.

SEMINARY LANDS.

Chapter 253. An act for the relief of the purchasers of Seminary lands in Monroe county.

SENATORS, UNITED STATES.

Chapter 254. An act changing the mode of electing United States Senators.

SHERIFFS.

Chapter 255. An act to repeal an act therein named, concerning sheriffs, so far as relates to the county of Martin.

Chapter 256. An act to authorize the Sheriff of Lawrence county to serve process issued by justices of the peace, in certain cases.

SINKING FUND.

Chapter 257. An act respecting Sinking Fund mortgages.

STARKE COUNTY.

Chapter 258. An act to organize the County of Starke.

STATE HOUSE, APPROPRIATION FOR.

Chapter 259. An act making an appropriation for repairing the State House.

STATE PRISON.

Chapter 260. An act for the appropriation of a State Fire Engine for the use of the State Prison.

Chapter 261. An act imposing additional duties on the Warden and the Superintendent of the State Prison buildings.

SURVEYOR, COUNTY.

Chapter 262. An act to amend the 16th section of chapter 10 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

TAVERN AND GROCERY LICENSES.

Chapter 263. An act in relation to tavern and grocery license in Hancock county.

Chapter 264. An act to regulate the retailing of spirituous liquors in the county of Tippecanoe.

TOWNSHIP BUSINESS.

Chapter 265. An act to reduce the number of Township Trustees in the county of Grant.

Chapter 266. An act to restrict the Board of Trustees of Washington Township, in Warren county, from levying a tax without the consent of the inhabitants thereof.

Chapter 267. An act supplemental to an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing Township business in the several counties therein named, approved February 17, 1838, so far as the county of Warren is concerned.

Chapter 268. An act to authorize Township Trustees to appoint Supervisors in certain cases in Warren county.

Chapter 269. An act to provide for a uniform mode of doing township business in Clay county.

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

Chapter 270. An act explanatory of an act, and to amend an act approved February 12, 1848, providing for the election of township assessors and township collectors in Jennings county, and for other purposes.

TREASURER, COUNTY.

Chapter 271. An act concerning the duties of the county treasurers of the counties of Kosciusko and Knox.

Chapter 272. An act defining the duties of county treasurers in several counties therein named.

Chapter 273. An act defining the duties of the county treasurer of Hancock county.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution in relation to the navigation of the Kaukakee and Iroquois rivers, in the States of Indiana and Illinois.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution in relation to donating the public lands to actual settlers.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution in reference to the reduction of the price of the lands in the Miami National Reservation.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution relative to the claim of Col. Francis Vigo, late of citizen of Knox county, Indiana.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution in relation to the brave and patriotic sons of Hungary.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution in relation to a Mail Route from Stilesville, in Hendricks county, to Gosport, in Owen county, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution on the subject of the Public Lands.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution on the subject of Public Lands in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution relative to the Miami Indians.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution relative to the Donation of certain lands in the Vincennes District for the purpose of sustaining and encouraging Common Schools.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution in relation to the Soldiers of the War with Great Britain.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution in relation to a Mail Route from Rushville, by way of Greenfield, to Noblesville, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution relative to using the Lash in the United States Navy.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution in regard to the compensation of Jurors in the United States District Court.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution relating to the bounty land and three months extra pay of deceased officers, musicians, and privates, engaged in the war against Mexico.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan City Harbor.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution in relation to the officers and soldiers of the war of 1812.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution to enable the State of Indiana to draw Arms and Equipments from the United States.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution concerning the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio river.

Chapter 20. A joint resolution on the subject of increasing the Common School Fund.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution allowing to each of the Benevolent Institutions of this State a copy of the General and Local Laws and the Revised Code.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution awarding the thanks of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana to Mrs. Monimia Boyd, for her valuable present of a painting called, “A Hoosier’s Nest.”

Chapter 23. A joint resolution in relation to the public documents of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 24. A joint resolution for the relief of James Gallatly and others therein named.

Chapter 25. A joint resolution relative to a settlement of the accounts between this State and General Government relative to the three per cent fund.

Chapter 26. A joint resolution on the subject of admitting slave territory.

Chapter 27. A joint resolution in relation to the slave trade.

Chapter 28. A joint resolution upon the subject of a grant of land for a Geological Survey of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 29. A joint resolution on the subject of the vacant lands in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 30. A joint resolution in relation to costs in the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in suits involving questions of Patent Rights, by patentees and their assigns who are insolvent.

Chapter 31. A joint resolution relative to granting the use of Fire Buckets to O. K. Fire Bucket Company No. 1, of Indianapolis.

Chapter 32. A joint resolution to extend the privileges of the State Library.

Chapter 33. A joint resolution authorizing the Officers of State to procure a suitable room for the sittings of the Convention.

Chapter 34. A joint resolution providing for the purchase of land for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

Chapter 35. A joint resolution in relation to publishing an act therein mentioned.

Chapter 36. A joint resolution authorizing the reports from the State Bank and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to be made on the second week of the session.

Chapter 37. A joint resolution declaratory of the rights of John Stockton, an insane person.

 

 

1849 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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.

 

 

1848 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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.

 

1847 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-First Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1847. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act supplementary to “An act to provide for the Funded Debt of the State of Indiana, and for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to Evansville,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 2. An act fixing the time of holding the Marion Circuit Court, and the commencement of the Courts in Johnson, Hamilton, Hendricks, and Boone.

Chapter 3. An act to regulate and change the time of holding Courts in the fourth Judicial Circuit, and authorizing special Chancery Courts to be held therein.

Chapter 4. An act to establish an Institute for the Education of the Blind of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 5. An act to create the thirteenth Judicial Circuit, and to change the time of holding Courts in the third Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 6. An act for the protection of the property of married women.

Chapter 7. An act to authorize the people of the several townships of the several counties to prohibit the retailing of spirituous liquors.

Chapter 8. An act to raise a revenue for State purposes for 1847.

Chapter 9. An act relative to loaning school funds.

Chapter 10. An act to amend the forty-eighth chapter, article fifth, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, in regard to writs of ad quod damnum.

Chapter 11. An act to fix the time of holding courts in the tenth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 12. An act to amend the first article of the fiftieth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 13. An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys by the people in the several counties.

Chapter 14. An act for the suppression of Obscene Books, &c.

Chapter 15. An act for the relief of the sufferers by the late floods.

Chapter 16. An act for the better protection of religious assemblies.

Chapter 17. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to modify the thirtieth section, chapter sixteen, of the Revised Statutes,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 18. An act for the benefit of the Volunteers for the Mexican war, and for the relief of county Treasurers.

Chapter 19. An act to regulate chancery practice.

Chapter 20. An act to amend section one hundred and twenty-eight, chapter thirty-five, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 21. An act to amend article one, of chapter forty-two, of the Revised Statutes, on the subject of the liens of mechanics and others on buildings.

Chapter 22. An act in relation to the service of Subpoenas in Chancery.

Chapter 23. An act in relation to proof of notice by publication.

Chapter 24. An act defining the duties of County Treasurers.

Chapter 25. An act to repeal the third section of an act entitled “An act to provide for the re-appraisement of real estate heretofore appraised and subject to taxation,” and for other purposes.

Chapter 26. An act repealing all laws allowing docket fees, excepting in certain cases.

Chapter 27. An act declaring an act therein named to be a misprint.

Chapter 28. An act to authorize Clerks of Circuit Courts to administer oaths in certain cases.

Chapter 29. An act granting to Probate Judges in this State the right of taking acknowledgements of deeds and other instruments in writing.

Chapter 30. An act defining the mode of publishing the delinquent tax lists in the several counties in this State.

Chapter 31. An act to authorize settlers on the public lands to petition for county roads.

Chapter 32. An act changing the time of holding the Probate Courts in Jefferson county.

Chapter 33. An act to reduce the price of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 34. An act to compel non-residents to pay a road tax equal to that of residents.

Chapter 35. An act to amend section four hundred and fourteen of chapter forty, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, relative to the advertising of real estate at sheriff’s sales.

Chapter 36. An act to amend the one hundred and forty-fourth section of the thirtieth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 37. An act to prevent the Circuit and Probate Courts in the county of Marion from sitting at the same time.

Chapter 38. An act relative to granting letters of guardianship.

Chapter 39. An act to amend the acts now in force in regard to sending Students to the State University.

Chapter 40. An act providing for the correction of errors in patents for lands sold by the State.

Chapter 41. An act fixing the time for the report of the Trustees of the Indiana Asylum for the education of the Deaf and Dumb.

Chapter 42. An act in relation to Brokers.

Chapter 43. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Court in Ripley county.

Chapter 44. An act for the further relief of the Volunteers of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 45. An act for the extension of the time of holding the Probate Courts in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 46. An act changing the time of holding the Probate Court of the county of Delaware.

Chapter 47. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Courts in the county of Parke.

Chapter 48. An act to amend an act entitled “An act relative to overseers of the poor,” approved January 15th, 1844.

Chapter 49. An act fixing the time of holding the May and November terms of the Grant Probate Court.

Chapter 50. An act to authorize the Probate Judge of Dearborn county to issue writs of habeas corpus.

Chapter 51. An act to amend section one hundred and twenty-eight, chapter sixteen, Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 52. An act more fully to explain the fifty-fourth section, chapter sixteen, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 53. An act to amend the eighth section of an act regulating the fees and salaries of the several officers and persons therein named, approved February 7th, 1831.

Chapter 54 An act to provide for the recording of bonds and letters of guardians.

Chapter 55. An act to authorize writs of ne exeat.

Chapter 56. An act making General Appropriations for the year 1847.

Chapter 57. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1847.

Chapter 58. An act to change the time of holding Courts in the seventh Judicial circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 59. An act to amend an act entitled “An act fixing the time of holding the Courts in the ninth Judicial circuit,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 60. An act to authorize the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to receive substitution of stock mortgages and for other purposes.

Chapter 61. An act authorizing deeds in certain cases to be made.

Chapter 62. An act changing the time of holding the Probate Courts in the county of St. Joseph.

Chapter 63. An act explanatory of the act therein named.

Chapter 64. An act to fix the time of holding Courts in the eighth Judicial circuit.

Chapter 65. An act to authorize the formation of Voluntary Associations.

Chapter 66. An act to provide for the further erection of the Hospital for the Insane, and for other purposes connected therewith.

Chapter 67. An act to regulate the practice in cases of impeachment.

Chapter 68. An act to authorize the Probate Judge of Fountain county to issue writs of habeas corpus, and take acknowledgements of deeds.

Chapter 69. An act declaratory of the powers of the President and Associate Judges to enforce injunctions in vacation.

Chapter 70. An act to provide for the improvement of County Libraries.

Chapter 71. An act the better to keep members of the General Assembly from abandoning their seats and breaking a quorum.

Chapter 72. An act relating to the Probate Court in Allen county.

Chapter 73. An act to provide for the holding of special terms of the Circuit Court in the county of Jefferson.

Chapter 74. An act to authorize Clerks of Circuit Courts to issue writs to other counties in certain cases.

Chapter 75. An act to refund to the several Branches of the State Bank of Indiana, the amounts advanced to them to aid in transporting the volunteers to New Albany.

Chapter 76. An act to give additional time to the Probate Court in Monroe county.

Chapter 77. An act relative to allowances to Guardians.

Chapter 78. An act to prevent County Treasurers and other officers from purchasing certain real estate.

Chapter 79. An act to give to married women the power to make wills, and to repeal section nine, of chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 80. An act to amend the eighth section of an act regulating the fees and salaries of the several persons therein named, approved February 7, 1831.

Chapter 81. An act changing the time of holding Courts in the eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 82. An act to extend the privileges of the State Library to the Benevolent Institutions of the State.

Chapter 83. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Court at the August term, in Greene county.

Chapter 84. An act to vest the title of land in the heirs, devisees, or assignees of the purchasers of lands in certain cases where said purchaser has died or shall hereafter die before the date of the patent or deed of conveyance.

Chapter 85. An act extending the time for holding the several terms of the Probate Court of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 86. An act relative to assignment of dower, and to amend article third, chapter forty-five, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 87. An act to authorize the Probate Judges of the counties of Decatur, Dearborn, Fountain, and Laporte, to grant writs of habeas corpus.

Chapter 88. An act declaring the meaning of the one hundred and forty-third and one hundred and forty-fifth sections of chapter forty of the Revised Acts of 1843.

Chapter 89. An act to amend the provisions of the thirty-seventh chapter of the Revised Code.

Chapter 90. An act amendatory to the thirtieth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 91. An act relative to the Probate Court of Fayette county.

Chapter 92. An act to authorize County Auditors to sell lands at private sale which have been bid in for the use of the School Fund.

Chapter 93. An act to amend the practice in the Probate Court.

Chapter 94. An act to amend the fifteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

Chapter 95. An act to provide for the punishment of seduction.

Chapter 96. An act to repeal “An act more effectually to enable supervisors to open and keep in repair public highways.”

Chapter 97. An act for the relief of County Treasurers.

Chapter 98. An act defining the duties of State Agent.

Chapter 99. An act to change the time of holding the February Term of the Probate Court in the county of Johnson.

Chapter 100. An act to authorize the Superintendent of the New Albany and Vincennes road to rebuild bridges that have washed away on said road, and for other purposes.

Chapter 101. An act authorizing the Governor of this State to order a special election for Representatives in Congress in certain cases.

Chapter 102. An act relative to executions.

Chapter 103. An act supplementary to article fifth, chapter thirty, Revised Statutes.

Chapter 104. An act to provide for a special session of the probate court of Hamilton county.

Chapter 105. An act extending the time of holding the probate court in the county of Fountain.

Chapter 106. An act to repeal certain special laws in force in the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 107. An act to legalize the adjournment of the Decatur circuit court, at the fall term, 1846.

Chapter 108. An act to enable widows to avail themselves of the law allowing them one hundred and fifty dollars of their husbands’ effects.

Chapter 109. An act to vacate offices when officers become insane.

Chapter 110. An act providing for a special term of the Madison circuit court.

Chapter 111. An act to enable executors and administrators to settle estates.

Chapter 112. An act to authorize the judge of the probate court of Shelby county to take the acknowledgement of deed and other instruments of writing, and also to grant and try writs of habeas corpus.

Chapter 113. An act to require certain Statutes to be published in some newspaper at Indianapolis, and for other purposes.

Chapter 114. An act to provide for the erection of a Monument on the Tippecanoe Battle Ground.

Chapter 115. An act to amend an act entitled “An act declaratory of the meaning of the twenty-ninth section of the third article of the thirty-first chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 116. An act to change the time of holding the circuit court in the county of Wells, and for other purposes.

Chapter 117. An act concerning the practice of the circuit court in the thirteenth judicial circuit, and repealing an act providing for a special term in Decatur county.

Chapter 118. An act to correct a mistake in the enrolling and publishing an act to amend the several acts now in force relative to the New Albany and Vincennes road, approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 119. An act providing for the payment of damages assessed for the private property taken for public use in the construction of the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 120. An act declaring a certain act therein named to be in force.

Chapter 121. An act fixing the time of holding the terms of the Probate Courts in the county of Marion.

Chapter 122. An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of purchasers of canal lands,” approved January 19, 1846.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution praying the confirmation of the selection of lands made in 1843, to aid in extending the Wabash and Erie Canal from the mouth of Tippecanoe river to Terre Haute.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution relative to the duties of the Superintendent of the Central Canal.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution relative to the removal of the remains of the late Hon. Tilghman A. Howard.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution authorizing the printing of certain acts with the laws of this session.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution relative to the public lands in the county of Gibson.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution in regard to the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, the Institution for the Education of the Blind, and the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution relative to International Literary Exchanges.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution for the reduction of the price of public lands to actual settlers.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution in regard to the Hospital for the Insane.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution relative to the Public Printing.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution in relation to pre-emptors on the Miami National Reservation in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution on the subject of school section number sixteen, township twenty-seven, range six.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution in relation to granting land to Mr. Whitney to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution to the Congress of the United States on the subject of increasing the monthly pay and making a donation of land to the Volunteers in the Mexican War.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution on the subject of arming our light companies with rifles.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution in relation to holding a session of the Supreme Court of the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution on the subject of improving the mail communication between Toledo, Ohio, by way of the Wabash Valley, to New Orleans.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution in relation to the Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution on the subject of Postage.

Chapter 20. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution relative to the sale of intoxicating liquors by white men to Indians.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution in relation to the claim of Francis Vigo, late a citizen of Knox county, Indiana.

 

1846 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirtieth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1846. Google Books

 

Chapter 1. An act to provide for the Funded Debt of the State of Indiana, and for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to Evansville.

Chapter 2. An act in relation to County Treasurers.

Chapter 3. An act repealing an act, amendatory of “An act for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal, from the mouth of Tippecanoe River to Terre Haute, approved January 1, 1842, and for other purposes,” approved February 8, 1843.

Chapter 4. An act in relation to damages on Sinking Fund Sales.

Chapter 5. An act to amend an act relative to the Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

Chapter 6. An act in relation to taking up of Estrays.

Chapter 7. An act in relation to County Auditors.

Chapter 8. An act to authorize the re-appraisement of School Lands in certain cases.

Chapter 9. An act amendatory of an act, entitled, “An act relative to the appointment of County Commissioners of the several counties of this State, to act as Boards of Library Trustees in their respective Counties, and for other purposes,” approved January 6, 1845.

Chapter 10. An act in relation to Certificates and Patents of Michigan Road Lands.

Chapter 11. An act to amend the 109th section of the 16th chapter of the Revised Laws of 1843, on the subject of the Road Tax.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an act relative to claims for damages on the Public Works.

Chapter 13. An act to provide for the distribution of certain Public Documents.

Chapter 14. An act to extend further time to the Borrowers of the Sinking Fund and other Trust Funds.

Chapter 15. An act to apportion Senators and Representatives for the next five years.

Chapter 16. An act for the relief of Purchasers of Canal Lands.

Chapter 17. An act in relation to the Northern Division of the Central Canal.

Chapter 18. An act to protect certain Private Rights.

Chapter 19. An act declaratory of the meaning of the act entitled, “An act authorizing the Commissioners of the Wabash and Erie Canal east and west of Tippecanoe to sell Lands in tracts of forty acres or quarter-quarter sections,” approved February 13, 1843.

Chapter 20. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 21. An act defining the duties of County Auditors and School Commissioners.

Chapter 22. An act to provide for the taking, holding, and transmitting of Real Estate by Aliens and for quieting titles to Real Estate.

Chapter 23. An act relative to the issuing of Executions.

Chapter 24. An act to authorize the refunding of Taxes in certain cases.

Chapter 25. An act to amend the law regulating the practice of Courts in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 26. An act relative to the punishment of Treason and Murder in the First Degree.

Chapter 27. An act fixing the per diem allowance of Grand and Petit Jurors in the several Counties in this State.

Chapter 28. An act in relation to the Bank Tax Fund.

Chapter 29. An act declaratory of the meaning of the Twenty-ninth Section of the First Article of the Forty-fifth Chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 30. An act to provide for the Leasing of Water Power on the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 31. An act in relation to the Limitation of Actions upon Transcripts of Justices of the Peace.

Chapter 32. An act to repeal part of the Eighteenth Section of Article Third of Chapter Five of the Revised Statutes of 1843, and to authorize the County Commissioners to grant additional Precinct in any Township upon application of the Voters.

Chapter 33. An act authorizing the Superintendent of the Wabash and Erie Canal to employ an Engineer.

Chapter 34. An act to amend the Ninety-first Section of the Sixteenth Chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 35. An act relating to the Third Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 36. An act making General Appropriations for the year 1846.

Chapter 37. An act amending the Forty-fifth Section of Chapter Twelfth of the Revised Statutes of 1843, and for other purposes.

Chapter 38. An act to amend the Seventh Chapter, Section Seventy-fourth of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 39. An act regulating the times of holding Probate Courts in the County of Greene.

Chapter 40. An act to provide for a settlement with the Superintendent of the State Prison.

Chapter 41. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1846.

Chapter 42. An act in relation to Collectors of State and County Revenue.

Chapter 43. An act to extend the time of holding Probate Courts in Parke and Posey Counties.

Chapter 44. An act providing for the safety of the Mortgages to the Trust Funds.

Chapter 45. An act giving the Auditor and Secretary of State a compensation for issuing Canal Lands Patents.

Chapter 46. An act to provide for the payment of the expenses of selecting and classifying the Lands granted by Congress, for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal from Terre Haute to Evansville.

Chapter 47. An act to provide for the payment of the expense of surveying and locating the Wabash and Ohio Canal from Terre Haute to Evansville.

Chapter 48. An act to amend the Fourth Article of Chapter Seven of Revised Statutes of 1843, and for other purposes.

Chapter 49. An act to repeal an act, entitled, an act in relation to the appointment of County Commissioners of the several Counties in this State, to act as Boards of Library Trustees in their respective Counties, and for other purposes, approved January 6th, 1845, so far as the County of Posey is concerned.

Chapter 50. An act extending the time of holding Courts in the Sixth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 51. An act fixing the time of holding the Courts in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 52. An act to raise a Revenue for State purposes, for 1846.

Chapter 53. An act to amend the Ninety-fourth Section of Chapter Twelve of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 54. An act to extend the time of the February Term of the Franklin Circuit Court.

Chapter 55. An act for the education of the Indigent Blind of this State.

Chapter 56. An act to authorize the holding of Special Terms of the Circuit Courts in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 57. An act providing for the better payment of the Mortgages due the University Fund and other Trust Funds.

Chapter 58. An act to provide for a special term of the Allen Circuit Court.

Chapter 59. An act to extend the time of holding Probate Courts in the Counties of Jackson and Greene.

Chapter 60. An act changing the time of holding the Probate Courts in the County of Allen, and for other purposes therein named.

Chapter 61. An act for the relief of Purchasers of Canal Lands.

Chapter 62. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in Dubois County.

Chapter 63. An act relative to the June Term of the Tippecanoe Circuit Court.

Chapter 64. An act to define the powers of Judges when acting on Writs of Habeas Corpus, and applications for Writs of Injunction.

Chapter 65. An act to prevent County Auditors from practicing as Attorneys and Counsellors at Law in the County Commissioners’ Court.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the several acts providing for the Preservation of the State House, State Library, and Legislative papers.

Chapter 67. An act to subject certain Lands to Taxation.

Chapter 68. An act relative to Tax Titles.

Chapter 69. An act relative to the duties of County Recorders.

Chapter 70. An act prescribing the mode of Advertising sales of Lands returned delinquent for the non-payment of Taxes.

Chapter 71. An act relative to Apprentices.

Chapter 72. An act for the relief of Messengers to notify Electors for President and Vice President of the United States.

Chapter 73. An act amending the Two Hundredth and Eighteenth Section of the Revised Code, Chapter Thirteen and page Two Hundred and Sixty-seven.

Chapter 74. An act regulating the mode of enforcing the collection of certain costs in the several Courts of the State.

Chapter 75. An act to allow the Commissioners of the Wabash and Erie Canal to employ an Engineer, and for other purposes.

Chapter 76. An act to amend an act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, approved January 13th, 1845.

Chapter 77. An act to amend the Sixty-fifth Section of the Fifty-fourth Chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 78. An act declaring a mistake in the Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to the boundary of Fulton and Kosciusko Counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 79. An act prescribing the mode of advertising sales of Lands mortgaged to the Sinking Fund.

Chapter 80. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to provide for the continuance of the construction of all or any part of the Public Works, by Private Companies, and for abolishing the Board of Internal Improvements, and the office of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer, approved January 28, 1842.

Chapter 81. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Courts in the County of Pike.

Chapter 82. An act changing the time of holding Probate Courts in Cass County.

Chapter 83. An act providing for the better preservation of the Legislative Papers.

Chapter 84. An act to enable the inhabitants of the several Congressional Townships in this State to re-appraise and sell any of their unsold School Lands.

Chapter 85. An act to extend an act to provide for the transfer of the Surplus Revenue Fund, &c., approved February 11th, 1843.

Chapter 86. An act to amend an act, entitled, An act to change the time of holding the Probate Court in the county of Martin, approved January 13th, 1845.

Chapter 87. An act to change the time of holding Circuit Courts in the County of Adams.

Chapter 88. An act to amend the Statute regulating the duties of Clerks of Executors’ and Administrators’ Sales.

Chapter 89. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in the Counties of Perry and Harrison.

Chapter 90. An act limiting the time within which actions for the recovery of Real Estate shall be commenced.

Chapter 91. An act changing the time of holding Circuit and Probate Courts in the Counties of Clark and Floyd.

Chapter 92. An act to allow owners of partnership Fences to remove the same.

Chapter 93. An act to provide for taking the sense of the qualified voters of the State on calling a Convention to alter, revise, or amend the Constitution of this State.

Chapter 94. An act to amend the First Article of the Fifty-third Chapter of the Revised Laws of 1843, and for other purposes.

Chapter 95. An act to amend the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Section, of Chapter Forty, Revised Statutes of 1843, relative to Charges to Juries.

Chapter 96. An act to change the time of summoning petit jurors to appear in the Circuit Court for Vigo County, and for other purposes therein named.

Chapter 97. An act in relation to the Probate Courts of Henry County.

Chapter 98. An act to legalize the assignment of Certificates to certain School Lands in this State.

Chapter 99. An act amendatory of the Third Section of Chapter Fifty, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 100. An act extending the time of holding the Probate Courts in Shelby County.

Chapter 101. An act transferring the duties of School Commissioner in the Counties of Daviess and Martin, to the County Treasurer of said Counties.

Chapter 102. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes Road, and for other purposes,” approved January 13th, 1844.

Chapter 103. An act to amend the several acts now in force relative to the New Albany and Vincennes Road.

Chapter 104. An act to prohibit the County Court of Scott County from levying a Tax therein named.

Chapter 105. An act to provide for the re-appraisement of Real Estate heretofore appraised and subject to Taxation.

Chapter 106. An act to prescribe the mode of selecting Grand and Petit Jurors in the County of Hendricks.

Chapter 107. An act to extend the provisions of the Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to Roads and Highways, to the County of Posey.

Chapter 108. An act to repeal in part an act entitled “An act to provide for summoning grand and petit jurors in Decatur and Warren counties,” approved January 15, 1844.

Chapter 109. An act regulating the fees of Petit Jurors in the County of Hancock.

Chapter 110. An act defining the boundaries between the counties of Clark and Washington.

Chapter 111. An act declaring a misprint in a certain case.

Chapter 112. An act in relation to the sale of Saline Lands in Orange county.

Chapter 113. An act to reduce the Fees of the Recorder of Johnson County.

Chapter 114. An act to modify the Thirtieth Section, Chapter Sixteen, of the Revised Statutes.

Chapter 115. An act to restrict the operation of an act, entitled, “An act relative to the appointment of County Commissioners of the several Counties in this State, to act as Boards of Library Trustees in their respective Counties, and for other purposes,” approved January 6th, 1845.

Chapter 116. An act to amend Section Twenty-seven, Chapter Seven, Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to allowances to Sheriffs by County Boards.

Chapter 117. An act to abolish the office of County Auditor in the County of Johnson.

Chapter 118. An act authorizing the erection of suitable Buildings for the use of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution relative to the Naturalization Laws.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution providing for the publication of General Washington’s Farewell Address, with the Governor’s Message.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution legalizing the acts of Henry Sticklen, a Justice of the Peace of Greene County.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives to vote for an appropriation on the Saint Joseph River.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution upon the subject of Overflowed Public Lands.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution in relation to the claim of Francis Vigo, late a citizen of Knox County, Indiana.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution in relation to the Buffalo and Mississippi Rail Road.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution extending the provisions of a certain act therein named.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution in relation to the Indiana Historical Society.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana in relation to Colonel John Spencer’s settlement with the United States, as late Receiver in the Land Office of the United States at Fort Wayne.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution transferring a certain Book therein named from the State Library, to the Library of the State University.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution instructing our Senators, and requesting our Representatives in Congress, to procure the passage of a Law for the relief of Pre-emption Settlers on the Miami Reserve.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution relating to the Signers of the Declaration of our Independence.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution upon the subject of improving the Western Rivers.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution on the subject of Liens upon Real Estate.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution for the continuation and completion of the Cumberland Road.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution on the subject of Vacant Lands in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution on the subject of School Sections.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution in relation to the election of Superintendent of the New Albany and Vincennes Road.

Chapter 20. A joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan City Harbor.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution establishing the per diem allowance of the Probate Judges of Tippecanoe and Greene Counties.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution for the reduction of the price of Public Lands to actual settlers.

Chapter 23. A joint resolution on the subject of the Oregon Boundary.

Chapter 24. A joint resolution in relation to a State Road from Saint Mary’s River, on the State line to the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 25. A joint resolution in relation to the improvement of the Ohio River.

Chapter 26. A joint resolution on the subject of the Reservoir in Mercer County, Ohio.

Chapter 25 [sic]. A joint resolution on the subject of the Public Lands.

1845 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Ninth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1845. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act regulating the election of President Judges.

Chapter 2. An act to legalize the official acts of James Blair and Stearns Fisher, former Commissioners of the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 3. An act to amend an act entitled “An act abolishing Docket Fees, and dispensing with Final Records in certain cases.

Chapter 4. An act defining the duties of County Treasurers in certain cases.

Chapter 5. An act to authorize Supervisors to purchase suitable tools to work the roads with.

Chapter 6. An act to amend the law relative to licenses upon Clocks.

Chapter 7. An act in relation to School Commissioners.

Chapter 8. An act to confine Voters in their respective Townships.

Chapter 9. An act to prevent the election of Public Defaulters.

Chapter 10. An act providing compensation to Supervisors of Roads and Highways.

Chapter 11. An act to secure to Recorders their Fees in certain cases.

Chapter 12. An act supplemental to an act, entitled “An act relative to the Water Power at Northport, in Noble County,” approved Jan. 21, 1843.

Chapter 13. An act to authorize the re-occupation (by the original Proprietors,) of Lands set off to the use of the State, under the various acts in relation to Internal Improvements.

Chapter 14. An act to authorize Pirogues and Canoes to navigate the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 15. An act to revive in part the First Section of the Eighth Chapter of an act, entitled, “An act incorporating Congressional Townships, and providing for Schools therein,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 16. An act declaratory of the meaning of the 29th Section of the 3d Article of the 31st Chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 17. An act in relation to the Expenses of Removal on Change of Venue in civil cases.

Chapter 18. An act to amend the 2d Article of the 42d Chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 19. An act to authorize the Borrowers of the Congressional Township Fund, to secure their loans by lands within the proper Congressional Townships.

Chapter 20. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to abolish the Fee for issuing Patents to purchasers of Wabash and Erie Canal Lands,” approved January 13, 1844.

Chapter 21. An act to require the Auditor and Treasurer of State to annex a list of Defaulters to their Annual reports.

Chapter 22. An act subjecting equitable interests in School Lands, to sale on execution.

Chapter 23. An act to extend an act, entitled, an act to revive and amend an act, entitled, “An act for the relief of Settlers on the Wabash and Erie Canal Lands,” approved February 24, 1840—approved January 15, 1844.

Chapter 24. An act concerning certain Conveyances therein named.

Chapter 25. An act in relation to sales of Real Estate by Executors and Administrators.

Chapter 26. An act providing for the distribution of the Road Tax paid into the State Treasury by the several Branches of the State Bank.

Chapter 27. An act to amend the 1st Article of the 50th Chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 28. An act to amend the several acts for the Loaning and Collecting of the Sinking Fund, and for other purposes.

Chapter 29. An act requiring an enumeration of the White Male Inhabitants of this State.

Chapter 30. An act to regulate the attendance of Grand and Petit Jurors in the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 31. An act authorizing the State Treasurer to receive certain Treasury Notes, and for other purposes.

Chapter 32. An act for the appointment of Commissioners of the Reserved Township of Land in the Counties of Gibson and Monroe.

Chapter 33. An act to extend the time of holding the May Term of the Decatur Circuit Court.

Chapter 34. An act to repeal a part of Section 56, Chapter 12, Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 35. An act to provide for the payment of the Members and Officers of the General Assembly.

Chapter 36. An act repealing certain acts relative to the establishment of Bank Districts.

Chapter 37. An act to extend the time of payment to Purchasers of School Lands and Borrowers of the School Funds.

Chapter 38. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 39. An act providing for the distribution and sale of the surplus copies of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 40. An act to legalize the Assignment of Certificates to certain School Lands in the State.

Chapter 41. An act to regulate the Fees of County Treasurers, for receiving and expending the County Seminary Fund.

Chapter 42. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to provide for the Collection of Debts due from the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Railroad Company.

Chapter 43. An act for the benefit of Bail for the Stay of Execution.

Chapter 44. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 45. An act regulating the issuing of Writs of Supersedeas.

Chapter 46. An act to allow a bounty on Wolf Scalps.

Chapter 47. An act to amend Section three hundred and forty-two, Chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes, as relates to fees and services of Executors and Administrators.

Chapter 48. An act exempting personal property from execution.

Chapter 49. An act to amend Section eighty-eight, Chapter forty-eight, Article fourth, Part Third, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 50. An act to amend Article four, Chapter forty-five, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 51. An act relative to the appointment of County Commissioners of the several counties in this State, to act as Boards of Library Trustees in their respective counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 52. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to provide for the continuance 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.

Chapter 53. An act prescribing a uniform mode of ascertaining by Weight the quantity of the different kinds of Grain that shall pass for a standard Bushel in this State.

Chapter 54. An act authorizing copies of State Documents to be furnished to the New York Historical Society.

Chapter 55. An act providing for the better collection of the Water Rents due the State.

Chapter 56. An act to fix the time of holding Courts in the Tenth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 57. An act more effectually to enable Supervisors to open and keep in repair Public Highways.

Chapter 58. An act defining the mode of electing a Secretary of State.

Chapter 59. An act relative to Official Bonds.

Chapter 60. An act in relation to the proceedings in the Probate Courts.

Chapter 61. An act in relation to Water Power on the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 62. An act to raise a Revenue for State Purposes.

Chapter 63. An act in relation to Patents to Purchasers of Land in the reserved townships in Gibson and Monroe, and of the Saline Lands.

Chapter 64. An act relative to proceedings upon Writs of ad quod damnum.

Chapter 65. An act defining the duties of Petitioners for the formation of New Counties.

Chapter 66. An act to authorize Special Sessions of the Boards of County Commissioners.

Chapter 67. An act to provide for the Binding of the Laws and Journals.

Chapter 68. An act making General Appropriations for the year 1845.

Chapter 69. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish an Asylum for the education of Deaf and Dumb persons in the State of Indiana,” approved January 15, 1844.

Chapter 70. An act to authorize Plaintiffs to collect the bid of Purchasers at Sheriffs’ and Constables’ sales, and to repeal the four hundred and twenty-ninth section of the fortieth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 71. An act directing the Superintendent of the New Albany and Vincennes Road, to report to the Auditor of State, and authorizing the auditing of Reports heretofore made to the Treasury.

Chapter 72. An act reviving and amending a certain act, entitled, “an act to compel Speculators to pay a Road Tax equal to that paid by actual Settlers,” approved January 31, 1842.

Chapter 73. An act to provide for the procuring a suitable Site for the erection of a State Lunatic Asylum.

Chapter 74. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act regulating the time of holding Courts in the County of Tippecanoe,” approved January 15, 1844.

Chapter 75. An act providing for the distribution of the Saline and Bank Tax Funds among the several Counties of this State.

Chapter 76. An act relative to the fall term of the Circuit Courts in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 77. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1845.

Chapter 78. An act to abolish the office of County Auditor in the County of Tipton.

Chapter 79. An act to abolish the office of County Auditor in the County of Orange.

Chapter 80. An act fixing a certain annual compensation to the Auditor of Hamilton County.

Chapter 81. An act authorizing the election of a County Auditor in Clay County.

Chapter 82. An act providing for the Fees of Auditor of Hancock county.

Chapter 83. An act allowing additional Compensation to the Auditor of Monroe county.

Chapter 84. An act limiting the Fees of Auditor in the county of Marshall.

Chapter 85. An act abolishing the office of County Auditor in the county of Blackford.

Chapter 86. An act in relation to the fees of Recorder and Auditor in the county of Wabash.

Chapter 87. An act providing for a special term of the Shelby Circuit Court.

Chapter 88. An act to authorize a special term of the Henry Circuit Court.

Chapter 89. An act providing for holding a special term of the Cass Circuit Court.

Chapter 90. An act to alter the times of holding the Circuit Courts in the county of Marion.

Chapter 91. An act to provide for a special session of the Whitley Circuit Court.

Chapter 92. An act to grant New Trials in certain cases therein named.

Chapter 93. An act fixing the times of holding Probate Courts in the county of Greene.

Chapter 94. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in the county of Daviess.

Chapter 95. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Courts in the county of Martin.

Chapter 96. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in the county Ripley.

Chapter 97. An act to legalize certain proceedings in the Probate Court of Carroll county.

Chapter 98. An act to restrict the Grand Jury in Franklin county to a limited time in their sessions.

Chapter 99. An act in relation to Petit Jurors in the county of Porter.

Chapter 100. An act fixing the time of holding the terms of the Probate Court in Marion county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 101. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to change the mode of selecting Petit Jurors in Jackson and Bartholomew counties, and for other purposes,” approved December 29, 1841, so far as it relates to Jackson county.

Chapter 102. An act to extend the term of February, A. D. 1845, of the Miami Probate Court.

Chapter 103. An act to extend the times of holding Probate Courts in the counties of Washington, Ripley, and Jefferson.

Chapter 104. An act to legalize the selecting, drawing, &c., of the Grand and Petit Jurors for the county of Daviess.

Chapter 105. An act regulating the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Lake and Porter counties.

Chapter 106. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in Dearborn county.

Chapter 107. An act to extend the time of holding the Probate Court of Montgomery county.

Chapter 108. An act for the extension of the time of holding the Probate Courts in the county of Allen, and for other purposes.

Chapter 109. An act to revive part of an act therein named, in the county of Ripley.

Chapter 110. An act for summoning Grand and Petit Jurors in the counties of Madison and Hancock, and fixing their fees.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution on the subject of the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution on the subject of Repudiating State Debts.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution reviving in part a certain act therein named.

 

1844 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Dowling and Cole, 1844. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes Road, and for other purposes.

Chapter 2. An act to organize a new County out of the County of Dearborn, and re-locate the county seat thereof.

Chapter 3. An act to organize the counties of Tipton and Richardville.

Chapter 4. An act to reduce the salaries of Governor of State and other officers.

Chapter 5. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts in the several counties in the fifth judicial circuit.

Chapter 6. An act fixing the time of holding the courts in the ninth judicial circuit.

Chapter 7. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to organize the militia of Indiana,” approved February 10, 1831; and to revise and amend the laws authorizing the formation of companies of independent militia by voluntary enlistment.

Chapter 8. An act to regulate the practice of law in the Allen Circuit Court, and for other purposes.

Chapter 9. An act relative to practice in Circuit Courts.

Chapter 10. An act to extend the time of holding the Circuit Court in the county of Ripley, and to change the times of holding the same in the counties of Jennings, Jefferson, Switzerland, and Dearborn.

Chapter 11. An act to provide for a special session of the Circuit Court of the county of Jefferson.

Chapter 12. An act to authorize a special session of the Switzerland Circuit Court.

Chapter 13. An act providing for a special term of the Vigo Circuit Court.

Chapter 14. An act regulating the time of holding courts in the county of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 15. An act for the relief of the boatmen on the Wabash and Erie Canal, and for the establishment of a Medical Informary.

Chapter 16. An act to establish an Asylum for the education of deaf and dumb persons in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 17. An act to enable Forwarding and Commission Merchants to enforce liens.

Chapter 18. An act making general appropriations for the year 1844.

Chapter 19. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1844.

Chapter 20. An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the issue of five dollar treasury notes for the redemption of the fifty dollar treasury notes now in circulation,” approved February 31, 1842.

Chapter 21. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Florida township, in Parke county.

Chapter 22. An act abolishing the office of County Auditor in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 23. An act relative to Overseers of the Poor.

Chapter 24. An act to reduce the expenditures of the county of Carroll.

Chapter 24 [sic]. An act regulating the licensing of Auctioneers in the city of Fort Wayne.

Chapter 25. An act to raise a revenue for state purposes, and to redeem treasury notes.

Chapter 26. An act establishing an additional place of holding elections in Perry county.

Chapter 27. An act to revive and amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of settlers on the Wabash and Erie Canal lands,” approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 28. An act to provide for the establishment of an additional place of holding elections in Vermillion county.

Chapter 29. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Jackson township, in the county of Washington.

Chapter 30. An act for the relief of Delaware and Grant counties.

Chapter 31. An act providing for opening and repairing roads and highways in Hancock county.

Chapter 32. An act in relation to road tax in Elkhart county.

Chapter 33. An act authorizing and directing supervisors of public roads and highways to make their returns to the boards of commissioners of their respective counties at the June term thereof.

Chapter 34. An act to provide for electing supervisors of roads in Boone county.

Chapter 35. An act in relation to the auditor of the county of Knox.

Chapter 36. An act to extend an act entitled “An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved January 31, 1842.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Gibson and Pike,” approved January 31, 1842.

Chapter 38. An act to change the mode of selecting Seminary trustees in the county of Lawrence, and for other purposes.

Chapter 39. An act for the encouragement of domestic manufactures.

Chapter 40. An act to amend an act to authorize the commissioners of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and Whitley counties to equalize the appraisement of real estate in said counties; approved February 13, 1843.

Chapter 41. An act defining the duties of the State Agent.

Chapter 42. An act to provide for the election of Agent of State, State Printer, Commissioner or Superintendent on the Wabash and Erie canal, and other officers by viva voce.

Chapter 43. An act regulating the granting of licenses in the counties of Adams, Allen, Huntington, and Wells.

Chapter 44. An act abolishing the fee for issuing patents to purchasers of Wabash and Erie Canal lands.

Chapter 45. An act to improve the breed of sheep.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish and regulate ferries,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 47. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled “An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved January 31, 1842, to the counties of Jay and Adams.

Chapter 48. An act providing for the loaning of the school funds of Vigo county.

Chapter 49. An act vesting the duties of school commissioner in the county treasurer in certain counties.

Chapter 50. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands.

Chapter 51. An act to apply the saline funds to common school purposes.

Chapter 52. An act to reduce the compensation of county auditor in the county of Ripley.

Chapter 53. An act to further reduce the expenses of Brown and Owen counties.

Chapter 54. An act for the better regulation of the county board in the county of Warrick.

Chapter 55. An act to repeal an act therein named.

Chapter 56. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to Delaware county.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to confine the voters of Tippecanoe, Cass, Porter, Lake, and Franklin counties to their respective townships, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1843.

Chapter 58. An act to repeal an act therein named so far as the same relates to Delaware county.

Chapter 59. An act regulating elections in the counties of Adams and Jay.

Chapter 60. An act to give effect to an act entitled “An act to restrict the county commissioners in the counties of Allen, Laporte, Wells, Huntington, Adams, and Jay,” approved February 13, 1843.

Chapter 61. An act to detach certain territory from the county of Miami and attach the same to the county of Fulton.

Chapter 62. An act to repeal in part a certain law therein named.

Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred for the protection of the school funds, and for other purposes,” approved February 11, 1843.

Chapter 64. An act to declare the Mississinewa river a public highway.

Chapter 65. An act giving further time to Assessors.

Chapter 66. An act giving authority to take acknowledgements or proofs of deeds and conveyances as therein named.

Chapter 67. An act to revive the first section of an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of pilots at the falls of the Ohio in this state,” approved February 8, 1841.

Chapter 68. An act for the relief of the purchasers of school lands in Delaware, Randolph, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and De Kalb counties.

Chapter 69. An act concerning marks and brands.

Chapter 70. An act regulating the fees of auditor in the counties of Randolph and Grant.

Chapter 71. An act for the better improvement of the important state roads in the counties of Allen, De Kalb, Noble, Huntington, and Wells.

Chapter 72. An act for the protection of wild fruit growing on public lands in the counties of Lake, Porter, Laporte, St. Joseph, Marshall, Fulton, and Kosciusko.

Chapter 73. An act to provide for a transfer of the management of the Saline lands and funds in the county of Orange.

Chapter 74. An act to provide for a more efficient mode of expending the road tax in the several counties therein named.

Chapter 75. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands in Monroe county.

Chapter 76. An act making the road tax on land in the counties of Fulton, Marshall, White, Pulaski, Jasper, Benton, and Starke uniform, and for other purposes.

Chapter 77. An act to appoint the board of county commissioners of Carroll county the only board of seminary trustees for the county seminary of said county.

Chapter 78. An act regulating the salary of the county auditor in the county of Fountain.

Chapter 79. An act converting the moneys arising from the sale of estrays and property taken up adrift into the common school fund.

Chapter 80. An act in relation to the boundary line between the counties of Clark and Floyd.

Chapter 81. An act regulating the boundaries of the counties of Warrick and Gibson.

Chapter 82. An act in relation to road tax in the town of Laporte.

Chapter 83. An act regulating the road law in the county of Warrick.

Chapter 84. An act providing for the election of one school commissioner in Russel township, Putnam county.

Chapter 85. An act to authorize the auditor of Hendricks county to become the purchaser of real estate in certain cases therein named.

Chapter 86. An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors in the town of Greensboro, in the county of Henry.

Chapter 87. An act correcting a discrepancy in the estray law.

Chapter 88. An act to transfer books, papers, and vouchers of Michigan Road Commissioner’s office to the office of Auditor of State.

Chapter 89. An act the better to secure the payment of the revenue into the State Treasury in such funds as are collected by the County Treasurers.

Chapter 90. An act changing the sessions of the county boards.

Chapter 91. An act relative to the assessment of canal lands.

Chapter 92. An act in relation to the sale of lands and town lots for delinquent taxes.

Chapter 93. An act to amend the fourth article of the sixteenth chapter of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as the same relates to the counties of Washington and Jackson.

Chapter 94. An act extending the benefit of the valuation laws to judgment debtors to the surplus revenue, and giving additional time to such persons for the payment of the same.

Chapter 95. An act to reduce the salary of the clerk of the state prison.

Chapter 96. An act to abolish the office of county auditor in the county of Warrick.

Chapter 97. An act amending the criminal law.

Chapter 98. An act to amend the fifteenth chapter of the revised statutes of Indiana, and repeal the eighty-third and ninety-eighth sections of the same.

Chapter 99. An act to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace.

Chapter 100. An act to amend an act entitled an act providing for the incorporation of towns.

Chapter 101. An act relative to the establishment of ferries.

Chapter 102. An act changing the time for the payment of taxes.

Chapter 103. An act supplemental to the twelfth article of the fortieth chapter of the revised code of 1843.

Chapter 104. An act defining the duties of Justices of the Peace in Owen county.

Chapter 105. An act to transfer the books and papers, &c. of the office of Agent of the town of Indianapolis, and the books, papers, &c. of the Michigan Road Commissioner to the office of State Auditor.

Chapter 106. An act to amend a certain act therein named.

Chapter 107. An act for the relief of justices of the peace.

Chapter 108. An act to restrict the session of the grand jury to three days at each term of the Hancock circuit court.

Chapter 109. An act to provide for the appointment of township assessors in certain counties therein named, and defining their duties.

Chapter 110. An act to reduce the prices paid for ferriages in Lawrence county.

Chapter 111. An act in relation to tavern licenses in Hancock and Carroll counties.

Chapter 112. An act relating to proof of title to state lands.

Chapter 113. An act amending the ninetieth section of the twelfth chapter, article seven, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as the same relates to certain counties therein named.

Chapter 114. An act to restrict the assessment of a poll tax within the county of Spencer.

Chapter 115. An act to amend an act entitled “An act providing for the summoning and empaneling jurors in the counties of Delaware, Grant, Franklin, Scott, Floyd, and Union,” approved January 23, 1843.

Chapter 116. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in and for the county of Blackford.

Chapter 117. An act to postpone the sale of lands forfeited to the common school and saline funds.

Chapter 118. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the county of Hamilton.

Chapter 119. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in the county of Lawrence, and for other purposes.

Chapter 120. An act repealing all laws now in force providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in Miami county.

Chapter 121. An act extending the provisions of a certain act therein named to the county of Spencer.

Chapter 122. An act extending certain laws therein named to the county of Randolph.

Chapter 123. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Martin.

Chapter 124. An act to provide for summoning petit jurors in the Lagrange circuit and probate courts.

Chapter 125. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, A. D. 1838, approved February 11, A. D. 1843, to the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 126. An act to provide for summoning grand and petit jurors in Decatur and Warren counties.

Chapter 127. An act repealing so much of an act entitled “An act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, 1838, so much as relates to the county of Clay.

Chapter 128. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Dubois county.

Chapter 129. An act to require the superintendents on the lines of public works to furnish the auditor of state with a list of tolls.

Chapter 130. An act declaring a misprint in the revised statutes of 1843.

Chapter 131. An act continuing the means for the instruction of the deaf and dumb in this state.

Chapter 132. An act to suspend the further issue of five dollar treasury notes in lieu of fifties.

Chapter 133. An act regulating the selecting grand jurors in the county of Randolph.

Chapter 134. An act to provide for changing the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Vanderburgh.

Chapter 135. An act to repeal the militia law.

Chapter 136. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in Dearborn county.

 

1843 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Dowling & Cole, 1843. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17th, A. D. 1838.

Chapter 2. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the First Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 3. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and in the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 4. An act supplemental to “An act fixing the time of holding circuit courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and in the Fifth Judicial Circuit,” approved February 3d, 1843.

Chapter 5. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 6. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 7. An act to authorize a special session of the Johnson circuit court.

Chapter 8. An act to prescribe the times and manner of holding the circuit court in Allen county, and to provide for a special term thereof.

Chapter 9. An act to authorize a special session of the Floyd circuit court.

Chapter 10. An act providing for a special term of the Montgomery circuit court, and for other purposes.

Chapter 11. An act to amend an act entitled “an act supplemental to an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved January 8, 1842.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘an act to organize the militia of Indiana,’ approved February 10th, 1831,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 13. An act to amend an act entitled an act to organize the militia of the State of Indiana, approved February 10th, 1831, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 14. An act for the encouragement of the growth, and manufacture of silk.

Chapter 15. An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys by the people.

Chapter 16. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act for the relief of the borrowers of the Sinking Fund, Surplus Revenue Fun, and other Funds, and for the better securing the payment thereof,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 17. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act amendatory of an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties,” approved February 17th, 1838, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 18. An act to amend the act entitled “an act concerning proceedings in ejectment, and for the relief of occupying claimants of land,” approved January 13th, 1831.

Chapter 19. An act in relation to canal land patents.

Chapter 20. An act to provide for the assessment of damages on the Wabash and Erie canal, west of the Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 21. An act in relation to the letting of water power by the State of Indiana.

Chapter 22. An act to provide for paying claims and purchasing land at sites for water power on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 23. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to authorize the building of the towing path bridge across the Wabash river at Carrollton, in Carroll county,” and for other purposes, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 24. An act to provide for the reception of certain Treasury Notes in payment of county Revenue, and for other purposes.

Chapter 25. An act regulating the rate of tolls on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 26. An act amendatory of an act for the completion of the Wabash and Erie canal from the mouth of Tippecanoe river to Terre Haute, approved January 1st, 1842.

Chapter 27. An act to extend the provisions of an act entitled, “An act for the relief of the settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands,” approved February 24th, 1840, and supplemental to an act on the same subject, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the leasing of water power at the town of Pittsburgh, Carroll county, and for other purposes,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 29. An act authorizing the commissioners of the Wabash and Erie canal east and west of Tippecanoe to sell canal lands in tracts of forty acres, or quarter quarter sections.

Chapter 30. An act providing for numbering, signing, and registering the Wabash and Erie canal scrip east and west of Tippecanoe river, and for other purposes.

Chapter 31. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 32. An act prescribing certain duties to the commissioners and agents on the public works.

Chapter 33. An act relative to suits against Miami Indians.

Chapter 34. An act to divide the State into Congressional Districts.

Chapter 35. An act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred for the protection of the School Funds, and for other purposes.

Chapter 36. An act to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace and of Constables in certain cases therein named.

Chapter 37. An act making general appropriations for the year 1843.

Chapter 38. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1843.

Chapter 39. An act to compel supervisors to expend money in their hands.

Chapter 40. An act in relation to the printing and the distribution of the Revised Statutes.

Chapter 41. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the inspection of Salt, Beef, Flour, Pork, and Tobacco,” approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 42. An act amending an act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 43. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue fund, saline fund, college fund, and common school fund.

Chapter 44. An act in relation to enrolling the acts of the General Assembly.

Chapter 45. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the preservation of sheep,” approved January 25th, 1841.

Chapter 46. An act to regulate the sale of real estate by executors, administrators, and guardians.

Chapter 47. An act to require the Bank to continue specie payments, and to enable it to maintain them.

Chapter 48. An act to provide for the reduction of the state and individual stock in the State Bank, and for other purposes.

Chapter 49. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to provide for the reduction of State and Individual Stock in the State Bank and for other purposes,” approved February 2d, 1843.

Chapter 50. An act concerning the eligibility and qualifications of Directors of the State Bank and Branches thereof.

Chapter 51. An act to repeal the thirtieth section of the second amendment of the Bank Charter, and to act to create a seventeenth Branch Bank District.

Chapter 52. An act to amend an act relative to granting license.

Chapter 53. An act to amend the several acts for the regulation of the State Prison.

Chapter 54. An act fixing a premium on wolf scalps.

Chapter 55. An act to authorize a special term of the Probate Court in Allen county.

Chapter 56. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in Jay county.

Chapter 57. An act to change the time of holding Probate Court in the county of Vigo.

Chapter 58. An act providing for the alteration of the time of holding Probate Court in the county of Allen when the present terms shall conflict with the terms of the Circuit Courts of said county.

Chapter 59. An act relating to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Crawford, St. Joseph, Franklin, and Laporte counties.

Chapter 60. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Union, Johnson, and Martin.

Chapter 61. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the counties of Warrick and Dubois.

Chapter 62. An act to amend an act approved January 29th, 1842, entitled “an act to provide the mode of doing township business in Miami county,” approved December 24th, 1840.

Chapter 63. An act in relation to the Jeffersonville and Crawfordsville turnpike road.

Chapter 64. An act to repeal certain parts of an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17th, 1838, so far as the same relates to the county of Clay.

Chapter 65. An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes road, and to provide for the completion of the grade from Paoli to Mount Pleasant.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the act in relation to descents, distribution, and dower.

Chapter 67. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of summoning and empaneling Grand and Petit Jurors, approved, February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 68. An act abolishing docket fees, and dispensing with final records in certain cases.

Chapter 69. An act abolishing a complete record in certain criminal cases.

Chapter 70. An act to provide for summoning Grand and Petit Jurors in the county of Madison.

Chapter 71. An act relative to summoning petit jurors in the counties of Sullivan, Madison, Owen, and Vermillion.

Chapter 72. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Jackson and Bartholomew counties, and for other purposes,” approved December 29th, 1841, and continuing the laws in reference to the manner of selecting jurors in Bartholomew, Jackson, and Hancock counties.

Chapter 73. An act fixing a certain annual compensation to the auditors of Hancock and Boone counties.

Chapter 74. An act to amend the 12th section of an act entitled “An act prescribing the duties of county treasurers,” approved February the 12th, A. D. 1841.

Chapter 75. An act reducing the fees of the auditors in the counties of Morgan, Owen, Monroe, Knox, Gibson, and Fountain.

Chapter 76. An act to provide for the collection of township tax, by the County Treasurers, in certain counties.

Chapter 77. An act remitting the penalties for the non-payment of taxes in certain cases.

Chapter 78. An act relating to taxation for State purposes, and the redemption of Treasury Notes.

Chapter 79. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the duties of Clerks of the Circuit Courts and County Auditors, approved, January 31, 1842.

Chapter 80. An act to provide means to support a Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 81. An act further to amend an act entitled “an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes,” approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 82. An act relative to the collection of delinquent taxes.

Chapter 83. An act to authorize the commissioners of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and Whitley counties to equalize the appraisement of real estate in said counties.

Chapter 84. An act to amend an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of county auditor,” approved February 12th, A.D. 1841.

Chapter 85. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the election of the county assessor,” approved February 10th, 1841.

Chapter 86. An act to extend the time of the treasurer of Clinton county to distrain property for the non-payment of taxes.

Chapter 87. An act to repeal so much of the fifty-second section of an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of county auditor,” approved February 12th, 1841, as allows certain fees to be paid out of the county treasury, so far as the same relates to the county of Switzerland, and for other purposes.

Chapter 88. An act to repeal the sixteenth section of an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of county treasurers,” approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 89. An act to postpone the sale of delinquent lands and lots.

Chapter 90. An act to amend an act entitled “An act repealing the 18th, 21st, and 23d sections of the act prescribing the duties of county treasurers, approved February 12th, 1841,” approved December 24th, 1841.

Chapter 91. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crime and punishment,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 92. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Greenville township, Floyd county.

Chapter 93. An act to reduce the expense of Putnam county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 94. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to reverse and amend ‘an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein,’ approved February 17th, 1838,” approved February 15th, 1841.

Chapter 95. An act reducing the expenses of the county of Porter, and for selecting petit Jurors therein.

Chapter 96. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the apportionment of the Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,” approved, February 16, 1841.

Chapter 97. An act to extend in part the provisions of the act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a road tax, equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved, January 31, 1842, to the counties of Elkhart, Jay, Adams, Blackford, Hamilton, Miami and Wabash.

Chapter 98. An act for the relief of the purchasers of the saline lands in the counties of Orange, Washington, and Brown.

Chapter 99. An act providing for the summoning and empaneling jurors in the counties of Delaware, Grant, Scott, Franklin, Floyd, and Union.

Chapter 100. An act to appoint an inspector of salt in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 101. An act to amend an act approved January 31st, 1842, entitled “an act to amend an act entitled ‘an act to organize the militia of Indiana” approved, February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 102. An act in relation to the docketing of causes in the Lake Circuit Court.

Chapter 103. An act fixing the time of holding the terms of the Board of Commissioners in the county of Porter.

Chapter 104. An act to extend an act entitled “an act for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, approved, February 17, A. D. 1838, to Kosciusko county.

Chapter 105. An act to prevent fraudulent conveyances.

Chapter 106. An act to assist and make Common Schools more effective.

Chapter 107. An act to restrict the county commissioners in the counties of Allen, Laporte, Wells, Huntington, Adams, and Jay.

Chapter 108. An act defining the duties of sheriffs in the counties of Owen and Hancock.

Chapter 109. An act for the relief of the people of Noble, Lagrange, Steuben, and DeKalb counties.

Chapter 110. An act to appropriate a certain sum for the procurement of books for the use of the prisoners in the state prison.

Chapter 111. An act to authorize the printing of two thousand copies of the Revised Code in the German language.

Chapter 112. An act providing additional means for the improvement of public roads and highways in the county of Carroll.

Chapter 113. An act relating to voting in Laporte county.

Chapter 114. An act to repeal an act therein named so far as the same relates to the counties of Switzerland and Montgomery.

Chapter 115. An act to repeal all acts or parts of acts declaring the White Water rivers navigable streams, except in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 116. An act to provide for opening and repairing roads and highways in Posey county.

Chapter 117. An act relative to the three per cent fund and for other purposes.

Chapter 118. An act to amend all the acts heretofore passed on the subject of electing an additional justice of the peace and constable in and for Morgan township, in the county of Harrison.

Chapter 119. An act regulating the granting of licenses in the counties of Rush, Shelby, Spencer, Harrison, Warrick, Greene, Delaware, Union, Dubois, Floyd, Switzerland, Marshall, Cass, and Gibson.

Chapter 120. An act providing for the opening and repairing roads, and highways, and streams in the counties of Bartholomew, Putnam, Owen, Henry, and Perry.

Chapter 121. An act to encourage agricultural improvements in Allen, Wells, Huntington, Blackford, Adams, Jay, Kosciusko, Whitley, St. Joseph, Delaware, and Elkhart counties.

Chapter 122. An act to confine the voters of Tippecanoe, Cass, Porter, Lake, and Franklin counties to their respective townships, and for other purposes.

Chapter 123. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Reserve township, in the county of Parke.

Chapter 124. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 125. An act in relation to granting license in the counties of Jennings, Bartholomew, and Scott.

Chapter 126. An act regulating the compensation of Road Supervisors in the counties of Rush and Hancock.

Chapter 127. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the fees and salaries of the several officers and persons therein named,” approved February 7th, 1831, so far as the same relates to the counties of Ripley and Switzerland.

Chapter 128. An act regulating elections in the county of Shelby.

Chapter 129. An act relative to the mode of doing township business in the county of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 130. An act to repeal a certain act therein named.

Chapter 131. An act to amend an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved December 30th, 1840.

Chapter 132. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to the counties of Huntington and Wells.

Chapter 133. An act declaring Sugar creek a public highway, and for other purposes.

Chapter 134. An act to repeal certain acts therein named.

Chapter 135. An act in relation to the three per cent fund in Monroe county.

Chapter 136. A joint resolution in relation to the valuation of Mills and Manufactories propelled by water power.

Chapter 137. A joint resolution relative to the Wabash and Erie Canal towing path bridge.

Chapter 138. A joint resolution declaring certain provisions of the Revised Statutes to be in force.

 

 

 

1842 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Sixth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Dowling and Cole, 1842. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act to provide for the continuance 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.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution requiring the State Agent to give an official bond and to take an oath of office.

Chapter 3. An act relative to the duties of the State Agent.

Chapter 4. An act to prevent the further sale, or hypothecation of Indiana State Bonds, by any Fund Commissioner or other agent of the State.

Chapter 5. An act for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal, from the mouth of Tippecanoe river to Terre Haute.

Chapter 6. An act to provide for the election of a Commissioner on the Wabash and Erie canal, west of the Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 7. An act to provide for the preservation of the southern end of the southern division of the Central Canal.

Chapter 8. An act to authorize the leasing the water power at the town of Pittsburgh, Carroll county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 9. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act providing for the selecting, rating, and selling lands yet due on the Wabash and Erie canal east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river, and for other purposes,” approved, Feb. 24, 1840.

Chapter 10. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled “an act for the relief of the settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands, approved, February 24, 1840.

Chapter 11. An act authorizing the sale of the sixth chain reservation of land bordering on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the Tippecanoe river,” approved, February 15, 1841.

Chapter 13. An act for the relief of the owners of Wabash and Erie canal lands.

Chapter 14. An act providing for classing and selecting the lands not yet offered for sale belonging to the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 15. An act relative to water power at the town of Delphi, Carroll county.

Chapter 16. An act to change the time of holding courts in Jay county.

Chapter 17. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the first judicial circuit.

Chapter 18. An act to amend an act regulating the times of holding the circuit courts in the second Judicial circuit of this State, approved, Feb. 10th, 1841.

Chapter 19. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the fourth Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 20. An act to fix the time of holding the Marion Circuit Court.

Chapter 21. An act amending an act entitled “an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river,” approved, February 15, 1841.

Chapter 22. An act to change the time of holding the circuit court in Madison county.

Chapter 23. A joint resolution to suspend the operation of a certain law therein named.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to fix the times of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit,” approved, January 30, 1841.

Chapter 25. An act to authorize a special session of the Marion Circuit Court.

Chapter 26. An act to provide for the return of process, &c., in the Shelby Circuit Court for March term, 1842.

Chapter 27. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts, in the ninth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 28. An act to re-organize the eighth, and to create the twelfth Judicial Circuits.

Chapter 29. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act organizing circuit courts and defining their powers and duties, approved, February 15, 1838.

Chapter 30. An act to limit the time of holding the circuit court in Vigo county.

Chapter 31. An act to authorize the President Judge of the 3d judicial circuit to hold an extra term in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 32. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled ‘an act dividing the State into judicial circuits, and fixing the times for holding courts therein, and for other purposes, approved, Feb. 10, 1831,’ approved Jan. 28th, 1839.”

Chapter 33. An act changing the time of holding probate courts in Clay county.

Chapter 34. An act extending the time for holding the probate courts in Knox county.

Chapter 35. An act to provide for changing the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Orange.

Chapter 36. An act authorizing the Associate Judges of the county of Ripley to sit and perform the duties of probate judge in certain cases therein prescribed.

Chapter 37. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Greene county.

Chapter 38. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in the counties of Jefferson and Washington.

Chapter 39. An act to exempt Probate Judges from arrest.

Chapter 40. An act amendatory to an act to organize probate courts, and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians, approved, Feb. 17, 1838.

Chapter 41. A Bill to change the mode of selecting jurors in Lawrence county and for other purposes.

Chapter 42. An act for reducing the expenses of the counties of Monroe and Brown, and for selecting petit jurors therein.

Chapter 43. An act to regulate the duties of clerks of the circuit courts and county Recorders.

Chapter 44. An act amendatory to an act, entitled “an act concerning clerks,” approved January 20, 1831.

Chapter 45. An act entitled an act regulating the duties of clerks of the circuit Courts, and county auditors.

Chapter 46. An act concerning Petit Jurors in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 47. An act to provide for selecting petit jurors in Laporte county.

Chapter 48. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Jackson and Bartholomew counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 49. An act to provide for the summoning and empaneling Grand and Petit Jurors in the counties of Allen, Hamilton, Vigo, Delaware, Grant, Marion, Clark, Switzerland, Spencer, Greene, Putnam, Morgan, Fulton, Jennings, Marshall and Orange.

Chapter 50. An act to regulate the summoning of petit jurors in Dearborn county.

Chapter 51. An act to provide for selecting petit jurors in Hendricks county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 52. An act supplemental to “an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved, February 4th, 1841.

Chapter 53. An act giving additional stay of execution, where specie is demanded.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the taking up of animals going astray, and water crafts, and other articles of value adrift,” approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 55. An act to abolish imprisonment for debts.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing aliens and foreigners to hold real estate within the State of Indiana,” approved, January 14, 1818.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish seats of Justice in new counties,” approved, January 14, 1824.

Chapter 58. An act supplementary to an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States, as the State of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of Congress, approved June 23, 1836, approved, February 6, 1837.

Chapter 59. An act levying a tax for state purposes and for the gradual redemption of Treasury Notes.

Chapter 60. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers.

Chapter 61. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 62. A joint resolution respecting sales of personal property on execution.

Chapter 63. An act taxing individual stock in the several Branches of the State Bank of Indiana, and for other purposes.

Chapter 64. An act to create the seventeenth branch bank district.

Chapter 65. An act amendatory of the acts now in force on the subject of notaries public.

Chapter 66. A joint resolution on the subject of bank directors.

Chapter 67. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States, as the State of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of Congress, approved 23d of June, 1836,” approved, February 6th, 1837.

Chapter 68. A joint resolution on the subject of a resumption of specie payments, and for other purposes.

Chapter 69. An act to repeal part of “an act converting the sinking fund, saline fund, college fund, surplus revenue fund, and State Bank school fund into Bank stock,” approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 70. An act to repeal so much of a law passed February 15, 1841, as provides for converting the college fund into bank stock, and other matters therein contained.

Chapter 71. An act to authorize agents of the surplus revenue and others to dispose of lands by them bid off on behalf of the State.

Chapter 72. An act to provide for increasing the stock of the present stockholders in the South Bend branch of the State Bank.

Chapter 73. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue and other funds, and for the better securing the payment thereof.

Chapter 74. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue fund and other funds, and for the better securing of payment thereof.

Chapter 75. An act prescribing the duties of the quarter-master general and fixing his rank and compensation.

Chapter 76. An act to amend an act entitled an act to organize the militia of Indiana, approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 77. An act to amend the several acts for the regulation of the State Prison.

Chapter 78. An act to define more particularly the duties of the commissioner of the three per cent fund in Daviess county.

Chapter 79. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to provide for the settlement of accounts of commissioners of the three per cent fund in the several counties,” approved February 4, 1837.

Chapter 80. An act for the further relief of purchasers of the seminary lands in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.

Chapter 81. An act to prevent the forfeiture of school lands and for other purposes.

Chapter 82. An act providing for the sale of certain school lands in Fayette county.

Chapter 83. An act to regulate the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace in Lawrence county, and amendatory of the act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 84. An act for the relief of the purchasers of 16th sections of congressional townships, and for the better securing the payment thereof.

Chapter 85. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 86. An act to attach an additional school district to congressional township number five, south of range number eight west, in Warrick county.

Chapter 87. An act to amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein, approved February 17, 1838, approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled an act to revise and amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein, approved February 17, 1838, approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 89. An act relating to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in actions by and against corporations.

Chapter 90. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Knox and Vigo.

Chapter 91. An act relative to exchange brokers.

Chapter 92. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Jay.

Chapter 93. An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to crime and punishment.

Chapter 94. An act to amend an act for the relief of the poor, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 95. An act to amend the several acts in relation to the surplus revenue.

Chapter 96. An act authorizing the State Treasurer to collect and pay over to the counties of De Kalb, Welss and Lake that portion of the surplus revenue to which the same are entitled.

Chapter 97. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Madison county.

Chapter 98. An act concerning criminal practice.

Chapter 99. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Dubois.

Chapter 100. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Spencer county.

Chapter 101. An act to amend an act entitled an act relative to the surplus revenue of the United States allotted to Carroll county, approved February 10, 1841.

Chapter 102. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act to provide for a keeper of the State House and Library,” approved February 2, 1841.

Chapter 103. An act to establish a tobacco inspection in the town of Point Commerce, in Greene county.

Chapter 104. An act relative to the duties of Auditor and Treasurer of State.

Chapter 105. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Hamilton county.

Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17th, 1838, and to secure the observance of the 103d section of said act.

Chapter 107. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Greene county.

Chapter 108. An act amendatory of an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 109. An act to amend an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838, and for other purposes.

Chapter 110. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 111. A joint resolution to provide for distributing the acts of Congress, deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

Chapter 112. An act to provide for the distribution of the laws of Congress to the several counties in this state.

Chapter 113. An act to repeal the state board of equalization.

Chapter 114. An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the duties of county auditor, approved February 12, 1841.

Chapter 115. An act to amend an act in relation to county auditor.

Chapter 116. An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the duties of county auditors, approved February 12, 1841.

Chapter 117. An act repealing the 18th, 21st and 23d sections of the act prescribing the duties of county treasurers, approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 118. An act giving further time to assessors.

Chapter 119. An act applying certain funds to purposes of education.

Chapter 120. An act to authorize the collection of State revenue in those counties which have failed to assess and collect the same for the year 1841.

Chapter 121. An act to amend an act relating to county seminaries, approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 122. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named, approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 123. An act making general appropriations for the year 1842.

Chapter 124. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1842.

Chapter 125. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Washington.

Chapter 126. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the mode of doing township business in Miami county, approved December 24, 1840.

Chapter 127. An act prescribing the mode of levying and collecting township taxes in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 128. An act to amend the act entitled an act to amend and revise the act entitled an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn, approved February 7th, 1825, and for other purposes.

Chapter 129. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the promotion of schools and education in Clark’s Grant, approved February 15th, 1838.

Chapter 130. An act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.

Chapter 131. An act to allow each county in this State to send two students to the State University.

Chapter 132. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State, approved Feb. 15, 1840.

Chapter 133. An act to keep in repair the Cumberland and Michigan roads.

Chapter 134. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement of the Michigan road, approved February 13, 1841.

Chapter 135. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the preservation of sheep, approved January 25th, 1841.

Chapter 136. An act to amend an act entitled “an act concerning ejectments, and for the relief of occupying claimants of land,” approved January 13, 1831.

Chapter 137. An act to amend an act entitled an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties therein named.

Chapter 138. An act to provide for the appointment of a commissioner to make deeds, and for other purposes.

Chapter 139. An act to repeal the 13th section of an act therein named, so far as it relates to the counties of Porter and Lake.

Chapter 140. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to provide for the revision of the laws, approved February 4th, 1841.

Chapter 141. An act to amend an act entitled an act declaring Patoka a public highway and for other purposes.

Chapter 142. An act to amend an act entitled an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved February 12, 1841.

Chapter 143. An act to amend the act entitled an act supplemental to 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 February 10, 1831, approved February 16, 1839.

Chapter 144. An act to amend an act entitled an act more effectually to secure the purity of elections, approved Feb. 15, 1841.

Chapter 145. An act to amend an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 146. An act to amend an act entitled an act declaring Patoka a public highway and for other purposes, approved January 27th, 1841.

Chapter 147. An act for the attachment of a part of Stark county to the county of Laporte.

Chapter 148. An act authorizing the issue of five dollar treasury notes, for the redemption of the fifty dollar treasury notes now in circulation.

Chapter 149. An act to amend certain acts therein named.

Chapter 150. An act to repeal a portion of a joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan road lands, approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 151. An act to extend the provisions of an act for the preservation of sheep, approved January 25th, 1841, to the county of Delaware.

Chapter 152. An act relative to licensing groceries in the counties of Carroll and Cass.

Chapter 153. An act to confine the voters of Hamilton, Steuben, De Kalb, Union, Franklin, St. Joseph, and Cass to their respective townships, and for other purposes.

Chapter 154. An act to exempt the lands of revolutionary soldiers from taxation.

Chapter 155. An act to amend an act allowing and regulating the writ of ad quod damnum, approved December 20, 1823.

Chapter 156. An act for the better security of the college and seminary funds arising from the lands in Gibson and Monroe counties.

Chapter 157. An act to change the mode of doing county business in Daviess county.

Chapter 158. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Owen, Lawrence and Greene, approved February 1, 1834.

Chapter 159. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 160. An act appointing commissioners to locate and re-locate State roads therein named.

Chapter 161. An act further to amend an act entitled an act relating to public roads and highways, approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 162. An act to fix the fees of sheriffs in certain cases.

Chapter 163. An act changing the mode of doing county business in the county of Clay.

Chapter 164. An act to amend an act relating to public roads and highways, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 165. An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Gibson and Pike.

Chapter 166. An act to authorize the distribution of the road laws.

Chapter 167. An act to amend an act concerning insane persons, approved January 22, 1818.

Chapter 168. An act amendatory of the several acts regulating foreign and domestic attachment.

Chapter 169. A joint resolution on the subject of lands mortgaged to the sinking fund.

Chapter 170. A joint resolution appointing an agent to examine the state and condition of the State Bank and each and every branch thereof.

Chapter 171. A joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Indiana in relation to Indiana University.

Chapter 171 [sic]. An act further to amend an act entitled an act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries, approved January 24th, 1831.

 

 

1841 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass & Noel, 1841. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act to value the property of this State.

Chapter 2. An act prescribing the duties of County Auditor.

Chapter 3. An act for the election of county assessor.

Chapter 4. An act prescribing the duties of county treasurers.

Chapter 5. An act pointing out the mode of Levying Taxes.

Chapter 6. An act supplemental to an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution on the subject of the state board of equalization.

Chapter 8. An act to tax individual stock in the several branches of the State Bank of Indiana.

Chapter 9. An act levying a tax for state and internal improvement purposes.

Chapter 10. An act for the apportionment of Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 11. An act to revise and amend “an act incorporating congressional townships, and providing for public schools therein,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 12. An act regulating the time of holding courts in the first judicial circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 13. An act regulating the times of holding circuit courts in the several counties of the second judicial circuit within the state of Indiana.

Chapter 14. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the fourth judicial circuit.

Chapter 15. An act to fix the times of holding the courts in the sixth judicial circuit.

Chapter 16. An act to amend an act attaching Decatur county to the sixth judicial circuit, and for other purposes, approved February 14, 1840.

Chapter 17. An act fixing the times of holding courts in the eighth judicial district.

Chapter 18. An act supplemental to an act fixing the times of holding circuit courts in the eighth judicial circuit.

Chapter 19. An act to regulate the times of holding courts in the several counties in the ninth judicial circuits.

Chapter 20. An act regulating the time of holding courts in the county of Madison, in the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 21. An act repealing so much of an act, regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved Feb. 17, 1838, so much as relates to Madison county.

Chapter 22. An act to further amend an act entitled “an act dividing the State into Judicial Circuits, and fixing the time of holding Courts therein, and for other purposes,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 23. An act authorizing a special term of the Putnam circuit court.

Chapter 24. An act providing for an additional term of the Delaware circuit court.

Chapter 25. An act to equalize the judicial circuits of the state of Indiana, and for other purposes.

Chapter 26. A joint resolution relative to the judicial circuits.

Chapter 27. An act to provide for a better regulation of the Indiana University.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relating to county seminaries.”

Chapter 29. An act to extend to the settlers of the Wabash and Erie canal lands, the benefits of an act for the relief of settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands, approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 30. An act more effectually to secure the purity of elections.

Chapter 31. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state.”

Chapter 32. An act to provide for keeper of the State House and Library.

Chapter 33. An act fixing the times of holding the probate courts in Marion county and for other purposes.

Chapter 34. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved, February 4th, 1831.

Chapter 35. An act to prohibit the making, issuing, or circulating small notes or bills.

Chapter 36. An act supplemental to an act making specific appropriations for the year 1841.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act “incorporating congressional townships, and providing for public schools therein,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 38. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Brown and Martin counties.

Chapter 39. An act to prevent speculation by collectors in treasury notes, and other moneys.

Chapter 40. An act relative to officers of state.

Chapter 41. An act to extend the time of final payment to purchasers of the sixteenth sections.

Chapter 42. An act to amend an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution.

Chapter 43. An act to revive certain acts relative to a stay of execution.

Chapter 44. An act to provide for the selection of grand and petit jurors.

Chapter 45. An act to amend the act, authorizing the seizure of boats and other vessels for debt, approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled an act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.

Chapter 47. An act to authorize probate judges to issue writs of habeas corpus, and proceed to trial thereon.

Chapter 48. An act to repeal “an act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Jackson county,” approved, January 25, 1840.

Chapter 49. An act supplemental to “an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved February 4, 1831.

Chapter 50. An act regulating the salaries of auditor, secretary, and treasurer of state.

Chapter 51. An act for the relief of the Miami and other Indians.

Chapter 52. A joint resolution suspending the fifth section of an act passed the present session of the general assembly, entitled “an act for the relief of the Miami and other Indians.”

Chapter 53. An act to attach certain territory therein named to Jasper county.

Chapter 54. An act to authorize the board doing county business in Spencer county to increase the number of places of holding elections in said county.

Chapter 55. An act to amend “an act for the regulation of the state prison,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to provide for public printing, and for the distribution of the laws and journals, approved Feb. 16, 1839.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act, amendatory to an act entitled an act concerning the seminary townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties, approved January 25, 1837, approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 58. An act to authorize the state of Michigan to make certain improvements on the St. Joseph river, and for other purposes.

Chapter 59. An act to amend an act entitled, an act for the encouragement of agriculture, approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 60. An act to authorize the governor of this state to order a special election for representatives in congress.

Chapter 61. An act for the preservation of sheep.

Chapter 62. An act to prevent the spreading of the disease, commonly called the glanders, among horses.

Chapter 63. An act in relation to school moneys deposited with the superintendent of the loan office.

Chapter 64. An act to define the boundary line between the counties of Clark and Floyd.

Chapter 65. An act defining the duties of petitioners for re-locating seats of justice, and for other purposes.

Chapter 66. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties of this state.”

Chapter 67. An act to provide for the revision of the laws.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of the poor,” approved, February 17, 1838, so far as the same relates to Marion county.

Chapter 69. An act to amend “an act to provide for the distribution of the laws and journals,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 70. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 71. An act to protect lands mortgaged to the state from forfeiture for the non-payment of corporation taxes.

Chapter 72. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to incorporate county libraries,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 73. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crime and punishment,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 74. An act to authorize school commissioners to refund money in certain cases therein mentioned.

Chapter 75. An act concerning petit jurors in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 76. An act to amend an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved February 4, 1831.

Chapter 77. An act to regulate the practice in suits at law.

Chapter 78. An act to amend an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved, February 4, 1831.

Chapter 79. An act entitled an act to amend an act, entitled an act to amend and revise “an act entitled an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn,” approved February 1, 1834.

Chapter 80. An act for the relief of owners of Indian reservations.

Chapter 81. An act to enable the treasury to meet the current demands, for the civil list for 1841, growing out of the deficit of 1840.

Chapter 82. An act to make general appropriations for the year 1841.

Chapter 83. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1841.

Chapter 84. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating grist mills and millers,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 85. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crimes and punishments,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 86. An act to stop the per diem compensation of members of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, in certain cases therein mentioned.

Chapter 87. An act to provide for the improvement of the Michigan road.

Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act authorizing the appointment of pilots at the falls of the Ohio, in this state,” approved February 7, 1825.

Chapter 89. An act providing the opening and repairing public roads and highways, in the county of Monroe.

Chapter 90. An act to amend an act entitled an act concerning enclosures, and trespassing animals, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

Chapter 91. An act regulating the taking of animals going astray and water craft, and other articles of value adrift.

Chapter 92. An act to distribute the school funds and for other purposes, in Perry county.

Chapter 93. An act to repeal certain acts therein named, so far as they relate to the county of Carroll.

Chapter 94. An act legalizing the acts of William G. Thomas, school commissioner of Spencer county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 95. An act to fix the time of holding probate courts in Fayette county.

Chapter 96. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the county of Elkhart.

Chapter 97. An act to repeal an act, entitled “an act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township boundaries in the county of Randolph,” approved January 21, 1839.

Chapter 98. An act to provide for the assessment and collection of the state revenue in the county of Spencer, due for the year 1837; and also to provide for the assessment and collection of the state revenue in the county of Cass, due for the year 1839.

Chapter 99. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to repeal a certain act in Dearborn county, therein named,” approved February 5, 1839.

Chapter 100. An act to authorize the board of commissioners, and the probate judge of Jackson county to hold the sessions of their respective courts in the clerk’s office of said county.

Chapter 101. An act regulating the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in Fountain county.

Chapter 102. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the counties of Lagrange, Steuben, Dekalb, and Noble.

Chapter 103. An act to authorize the commissioners of Dubois to levy a tax ad valorem, for certain purposes therein named.

Chapter 104. An act to amend an act relative to crime and punishment, approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 104 [sic]. An act to repeal so much of an act approved February 24, 1840, as relates to the county of Union.

Chapter 105. An act to provide for the mode of doing township business in Miami county.

Chapter 106. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Posey county.

Chapter 107. An act to extend the provisions of certain acts therein named, to the county of Grant.

Chapter 108. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Daviess county.

Chapter 109. An act to authorize the removal of the obstructions to the free passage of the water down Mud creek and the Mill fork of Eel river, in Morgan county.

Chapter 110. An act to authorize the collection of the state of county revenue for the year 1839 for the county of Dubois.

Chapter 111. An act defining the manner of selecting petit jurors in Hancock county.

Chapter 112. An act to amend an act approved February 6, 1837, entitled an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States as the state of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of congress, approved June 23, 1836.

Chapter 113. An act declaring Patoka a public highway, and for other purposes.

Chapter 114. An act to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in the county of Hamilton, approved, February 18, 1840.

Chapter 115. An act legalizing the election of a probate judge in Kosciusko county.

Chapter 116. An act to amend an act entitled, an act authorizing the sale of certain school lands therein named, and for other purposes, approved January 1, 1838.

Chapter 117. An act providing for the payment of the bank debt.

Chapter 118. An act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 119. An act to provide for the payment of the interest on the public debt of the state of Indiana, and for the redemption of the treasury notes of the state.

Chapter 120. An act to secure the safety of the public funds by requiring bonds of certain officers.

Chapter 121. An act to provide in part for the payment of the interest on the public debt, and to increase the stock of the state, in the state bank, and to authorize said bank to issue notes of a less denomination than five dollars.

Chapter 122. An act authorizing purchasers of the Wabash and Erie canal lands to pay interest thereon.

Chapter 123. An act to repeal part of an act entitled, an act relative to the New Albany and Vincennes McAdamized road, and for the better regulation thereof, and for other purposes, approved February 22, 1840.

Chapter 125 [sic]. An act to secure to the owners of land upon which the public works have been suspended, the use of the same.

Chapter 125. An act to provide for the settlement of suspended claims for labor on the public works.

Chapter 126. An act to classify the public works, and for other purposes.

Chapter 126 [sic]. An act to provide for the further construction of the Madison and Indianapolis rail road.

Chapter 127. An act to regulate the receipt and distribution of the internal improvement fund.

Chapter 128. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to allow further time to the Lawrencburgh and Indianapolis rail road company, to settle up and close their affairs,” approved, February 18, 1840.

Chapter 129. An act to provide for the appointment of a fund commissioner, to collect the suspended debt of the state.

Chapter 130. An act in relation to tolls upon the public works.

Chapter 131. An act repealing all laws now in force authorizing the sale of state bonds for internal improvements.

Chapter 132. An act to legalize and give effect to certain official acts of the late clerk of the Floyd circuit court.

Chapter 133. An act to enforce the payment of tolls on the public works in Indiana.

Chapter 134. An act to provide for the completion of that portion of the Cross-cut canal which lies between the feeder dam and Terre Haute.

Chapter 135. An act supplementary to an act entitled “an act to provide for the completion of that portion of the Cross-cut canal, which lies between the feeder dam and Terre Haute,” approved January 30, 1841.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution on the subject of Michigan road lands.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution in relation to the affairs of the town of Indianapolis.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution relative to the auditor of public accounts.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution on the subject of the State Bank of Indiana.