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1833 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Seventeenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1833. Google Books

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Chapter XVII.
An Act to provide for a special session of the Switzerland Circuit Court.
(Approved January 19, 1833.)

That the associate judges of the Switzerland Circuit Court, are hereby authorized to hold a special session, for the trial of all prisoners now confined in the jail of said county.

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Chapter XVIII.
An Act for the relief of Vincent Dufour, heir of John James Dufour, deceased.
(Approved January 15, 1833.)

Whereas, John Francis Siebenthal, collector of the revenue for the county of Switzerland for the year 1825, was a defaulter, to the amount of six hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-one cents, in said year 1825; and John James Dufour became his security, and a judgment has lately be rendered against John Francis Dufour, administrator of the estate of the said John James Dufour, in the Switzerland Circuit Court, for the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-two dollars and four cents, on account of John James Dufour having been security as aforesaid, which judgment includes interest, percentage, damage, cost, &c.; and being satisfied that said Siebenthal is insolvent, and that the money might have been made without having recourse on the security, had the auditor of public accounts pressed the collection in due season; and that Seibenthal’s landed estate, worth two thousand dollars, was sold for seven hundred dollars, to satisfy a later defalcation, by reason of which the estate of said John James Dufour became liabe to pay said debt, costs and damages—Therefore
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That if the said John Francis Dufour, administrator as aforesaid, or the said Vincent Dufour, heir as aforesaid, or either of their legal representatives, do well and truly pay the said sum of six hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-one cents, with interest at six per cent per annum from the passage of this act, and all costs that have accrued of may accrue on said judgment, such payment shall be a full satisfaction of the judgment aforesaid; and all officers are hereby directed to govern themselves accordingly.

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Chapter XXX.
An Act to declare the post road passing Allensville in Switzerland county a state road.
(Approved January 28, 1833.)

That the road from Jacksonsville by Allensville in Switzerland county, intersecting the state road from Madison to Lawrenceburgh, near Myers’ tavern in Dearborn county, is hereby declared a state road.

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Chapter XLI.
An Act to repeal all special acts and parts of special acts allowing the County Commissioners of Dearborn county to lay an additional tax on said county.
(Approved, January 30, 1833.)

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Chapter XLV.
An Act amendatory of “an act to incorporate the town of Lawrenceburgh.”
(Approved, February 2, 1833.)

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Chapter LVIII.
An Act to appropriate part of the Three per Cent Fund.
(Approved, January 31, 1833.)

That the sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of the fund commonly called the three per cent fund, to each of the counties in this state.
That the sum herein appropriated to the county of Dearborn, shall be applied as follows: Fifty dollars thereof on the bridge over Laughery creek, on the road from Napoleon to Lawrenceburgh, to be expended by Luman Andrews, the present commissioner on said bridge. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars, on a bridge over Arnold’s creek at James’ saw mill, to be expended by Caleb A. Craft. Fifty dollars on the road leading from the state road at Boardman’s, to Harrison, to be expended within the county of Dearborn by Benjamin B. Bonham. One hundred dollars on the Tanners creek Hill, on the state road from Napoleon to Lawrenceburg, to be expended by Davis Woodward; also, twenty five dollars on that part of the same road lying between Micajah Dunn’s and Hogan creek, to be expended by Cyrus Mills. Twenty-five dollars on the hill near Wilmington, on the road leading from Wilmington to Lawrenceburg, to be expended by Robert Moore; and twenty-five dollars on Tanner’s creek Hill, on the road running up York ridge, to be expended by James T. Gedney; and that John P. Dunn, of Lawrenceburg, be, and is hereby appointed a commissioner to draw on the agent of the three per cent fund, for the whole amount due the county of Dearborn, and shall pay over the same as above directed.
The five hundred dollars allowed for the county of Switzerland by this act, shall be appropriated as follows, to wit: Two hundred and fifty dollars to Edward Patton or his successor in office, to be applied towards building a bridge across Indian creek in said county in pursuance of the 31st section of “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund, and for other purposes,” approved February 10th, 1831, with full power to draw the money in the same manner as therein expressed; And two hundred and fifty dollars to Newton H. Tapp, or his successor in office, to be applied to the building of a bridge over Plumb creek in said county heretofore directed to be built by an act approved, January 25, 1830, and the act supplemental hereto, approved, December 20, 1831; but said commissioner or his successor shall draw the said money immediately on giving the security required by that act.

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Chapter C.
An Act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1833.)

That William Pursell of Dearborn county, George Sutton, John Quick, Richard Tyner, David Mount, and Joseph Anderson of Franklin county, Joseph Nichols and William J. Brown of Rush county, Willis Atherton of Marion county, and David Tracy of Shelby county, and their successors in office duly elected, as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “The President and Directors of the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company.”

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Chapter CXI.
An Act to establish a certain State Road therein named.

That George Waldroff, Merit Hubble, of county of Dearborn, and John Whitehead, of the county of Ripley, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road, beginning at Harrison in the county of Dearborn, and running thence on the nearest and best ground, via McKinsie’s Cross roads, to intersect the Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg state road at or near Amos Boardman’s, in Ripley county.

1832 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Sixteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1832. Google Books

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Chapter XX.
An Act declaring Hogan creek, in Dearborn county, a public highway.
(Approved, January 24, 1832.)

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Chapter XCVII.
An Act to amend an act entitled, “An act confirming to John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, certain rights,” approved, January 6th, 1831.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

Whereas, it has been discovered that the act authorizing the trustees of school section in township six, of range number three west, of lands offered for sale at Cincinnati, situate in the county of Dearborn, Indiana, to sell and convey to John J. Akin and others, a certain tract of land therein named, is incorrectly stated, inasmuch as range number one west, is substituted for number three.

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Chapter CIX.
An Act to amend an act entitled, “An act to continue in force, an act for the benefit of persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire in the Court House at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the 6th of March, 1826,” approved, January 29th, 1831.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

Sec 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the fees of the recorder of Dearborn county, as a compensation for services enjoined on him by the provisions of said act, shall hereafter be paid out of the county treasury of said county, instead of persons making application for such services, having to pay the same.
Sec 2. That so much of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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Chapter CXLIV.
An Act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1832.)

That David Guard, Thomas Shaw, George H. Dunn and John Test, of the said town of Lawrenceburg; Daniel Plummer, William Purcell and Pinkney James of the county of Dearborn; Robert M. Johnson and Henry A. Reid, of Ripley county; Martin Adkins, Nathan D. Gallion and James Freeman, of Decatur county; John Walker and John Hendricks of Shelby county; and Nicholas McCarty and Benjamin I. Blythe of the town of Indianapolis, and their successors in office, duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “the resident and Directors of the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.”

Page 205.
Chapter CXLVIII.
An Act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1832.)

That John Godley and John D. Moore of Dearborn county, George Sutton, Richard Tyner, David Mount and John P. Case, of Franklin county, Reu Pugh, William B. Laughlin, and William S. Bussell, of Rush county, David Tracy of Shelby county, and Isaac N. Phipps, Harvey Bates and Alfred Harrison, of Marion county, and their successors in office, duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “the President and Directors of the Harrison and Indianapolis rail road Company.”

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Chapter CLXLIX.
A Joint Resolution, relative to the Saline Reserve in the county of Dearborn.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

On the fourth day of January, 1830, the Hon. Miles C. Eggleston, the president judge of the third judicial circuit, in which said saline reserve is situate, did by indenture in writing, lease the same to David Guard, for a term of three years from and after the date thereof, who took possession, and placed certain persons as tenants thereon, to-wit: Mary Muir, John Davis and Thoams Branan…. It also appears, that the above named agent and attorney in fact, of those persons, acting, or pretending to act, under the power so conferred on him by them, did also proceed to sell and convey the said land to one Levi Miller, who is also now claiming the same in virtue thereof.

1831 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Special Acts Passed at the Fifteenth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1831. Google Books

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Chapter XVIII.
An Act to dissolve the Bands of Matrimony between Daniel Bilderback and Abigail his wife.
(Approved, February 1, 1831.)

That the bands of matrimony heretofore existing between Daniel Bilderback and Abigail his wife, are hereby dissolved, and the bands of matrimony now existing between James Leonard and Abigail his wife, of Dearborn county, are hereby legalized and confirmed to all intents and purposes.

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Chapter XIX.
An Act to provide for semi-annual Fairs in the counties of Floyd and Switzerland.
(Approved, January 8, 1831.)

That there shall be two fairs in each year, in the county of Switzerland, for the sale and exchange of the various agricultural products of said county, to be holden at the county seat, on such days and times as the board doing county business for said county may direct.

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Chapter XX.
An Act to Incorporate the Lawrenceburgh Bridge Company.
(Approved, January 24, 1831.)

Each person who has subscribed to aid in building the bridge over Tanner’s creek, near Lawrenceburgh, shall be entitled to as many shares of stock in said company, as the amount paid to the trustees heretofore appointed to contract with some person or persons to build said bridge, or to Phiney and Spooner or either of them, as undertakers to build said bridge…and Jeremiah Phiney shall be entitled to as many shares as the amount he has expended on said bridge.
The affairs of said company shall be managed by seven trustees…. And until the first election to be held by said company, the following persons are hereby authorized to act as such viz: Oliver Heustis, Mark McCracken, Jeremiah Phiney, William S. Durbin, Amos Lane, Jabez Percival, and William Tate.

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Chapter XXIV
An Act concerning the Corporation of the Town of Lawrenceburgh.
(Approved, February 10, 1831.)

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Chapter LII
An Act confirming to John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, certain Rights.(Approved, January 6, 1831.)

That the trustees of school section in township number six, of range number one west, of lands offered for sale at Cincinnati, situate in the county of Dearborn, state of Indiana, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, by a good and sufficient deed in fee simple, clear of all incumbrances, unto John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, severally, their heirs and assigns forever, fifty acres of land, each, out of the aforesaid school section, it being the same several fifty acres which they are now severally possessed of, under a certain illegal lease, from Robert Faulkner, Abraham Everson and Samuel Lawford, at a price not less than two dollars per acre, payable in four years, with interest from the date of such sale.

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Chapter LXIV.
An act to continue in force “An act for the benefit of persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire in the court-house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the 6th of March, 1826,” approved, January 11, 1827.
(Approved, January 29, 1831.)

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That the recorder of Dearborn county is hereby authorized to carry into effect, all the provisions of the above named act, (as fully as the commissioners therein named are authorized to do until the first day of January, 1835, except that said recorder shall be his own clerk, and may attend to business at any time when called on for that purpose, without being required to give notice, or holding any special session.
Said recorder shall receive as a compensation for his services hereby required, for taking the necessary proof of each deed, and for recording the same, one dollar, to be paid by the person making application for such services.

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Chapter CXI.
An act to appropriate part of the Three Per Cent Fund, and for other purposes.
(Approved, February 10, 1831.)

That the sum of four hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated, out of the fund commonly called the three per cent fund, to each of the counties in this state.
Sec 28. That the sum of four hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the improvement of state roads, bridges and navigable streams, in the county of Dearborn, in the following manner, to wit: that the sum of two hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated toward finishing the Salt fork bridge, on the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Rushville, and from Lawrenceburgh to Fort Wayne, where both cross the same; and that Jacob Blasdell of Lawrenceburgh township, be authorized to superintend the completion of the same; and that the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated to repairing the state road leading from Aurora to Napoleon, and that James Powell be appointed to superintend the same; and the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated to repairing the state road leading from Rising Sun to Napoleon, and that John Barricklow be appointed to superintend the same; and that the sum of sixty dollars be appropriated to the opening of the navigation of Laughery creek, between Robert Canaway’s ford and the western line of Dearborn county, and that James Rand be appointed to superintend the same; and that the sum of forty dollars be appropriated to the opening of the road from Madison to Lawrenceburgh, within the county of Dearborn, and that Reed Brandel be appointed to superintend the same; and John Barricklow, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, to draw on the agent of the three per cent fund for the whole amount, and who shall pay over to the several commissioners in the county of Dearborn, who are hereby appointed for this object in said county.
Sec 31. That four hundred dollars be appropriated to Switzerland county, to the building of a bridge of Indian creek in said county, on or near the road leading from Vevay to Madison; and Edward Patton of Switzerland county, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, with authority to draw the money hereby appropriated to Switzerland county, and to apply it to the object aforesaid.

1830 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed and Published at the Fourteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Smith and Bolton, 1830. Google Books

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Chapter 3. An act authorizing Asylums for the Poor in the counties of Washington and Dearborn.
(Approved, January 29, 1830.)

That the boards of justices of the counties of Washington and Dearborn, whenever they shall deem it advisable, shall purchase and hold a tract of land, in the name of the county, and erect building thereon for the accommodation of the poor, as to them may appear expedient and proper; and in order that the same may be effected, the board of justices shall have power, from time to time, to assess on property liable to the assessed for raising a county revenue, to an amount sufficient to carry this act into complete effect.

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Chapter 40. An act giving further powers to the President and Select council, of the town of Lawrenceburgh, in the county of Dearborn, Indiana.
(Approved, January 29, 1830.)

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Chapter 90. An act relative to the state road from Rushville in Rush county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.
(Approved January 29, 1830.)

That Elias Poston of the county of Rush, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner on the road leading from Rushville to Lawrenceburgh; and that the agent of the three per cent fund, is hereby directed to pay over to the said commissioner all monies that may heretofore have been appropriated…on said road, between John Hopkins’ in Decatur county and John Simmons’ in Ripley county.

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Chapter 114. An act to Incorporate the Rising Sun Seminary Society.
(Approved, December 30, 1829.)

That Pinkney James, Matthias Haines, Abel C. Pepper, James Jones, Samuel Jelley, William Lanius, Basil James and their associates, shall be and hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the president and trustees of the Rising Sun seminary society.

1829 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Thirteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis: Smith and Bolton, 1829.

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Chapter LIII.
An act to revive the act, entitled “an act to amend the act entitled, an act for the benefit of those persons, who have, or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire in the court house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the sixth of March 1826;” approved, January 11, 1827.
(Approved, December 18, 1828.)

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That the act to amend the act, entitled “an act for the benefit of those persons who have, or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records, of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire, in the court house at Lawrenceburgh on the morning of the sixth of March, 1826,” approved January 11, 1827, adopted for one year, be and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the period of two years.
Sec. 2. That the said commissioner therein named, shall meet on the first Monday in March, May, September, December and February, and continue in session one week if the business shall require it, during the period of two years.
This act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its publication in the Indiana Palladium, a weekly newspaper printed and published in the town of Lawrenceburgh in said county of Dearborn.

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Chapter LXVI.
An act in addition to an act, entitled, “an act authorizing the laying off certain State Roads, and appropriating one hundred thousand dollars of the three per cent. fund, for opening the same;” and the several acts amendatory thereto.
(Approved, January 23, 1829.)

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That from and after the first day of July next, several acts, to which this is an addition, shall cease; and there shall be only one road commissioner, on each of the several roads in this state, in lieu of the board of commissioners now existing.
That from and after said first day of July…that Simeon Slawson of the county of Switzerland, be appointed commissioner on road number sixteen; … that John Barricklow of Dearborn county, be appointed commissioner on road number twenty-three….

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Chapter LXVII.
An act to establish a State Road from Rushville in Rush county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.
(Approved, January 17, 1829.)

That William P. Rush of Rush county, James Ardery of Decatur county, and John M’Pike of Dearborn county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and mark a state road, from the town of Rushville in the county of Rush, to the town of Lawrenceburgh, in Dearborn county, commencing at Lawrenceburgh, thence on a way recently marked to Joseph Henderson’s tavern in Decatur county, thence to intersect a county road at William Hill’s in Rush county, thence with said road to Rushville.

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Chapter LXXVI.
An act to establish a state road from Madison in the county of Jefferson, to Lawrenceburgh in the county of Dearborn.
(Approved, January 14, 1829.)

That Robert B. Mitchell of Jefferson county, David Finley of Ripley county and James Walker of Dearborn county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, and mark a state road from Madison in the county of Jefferson, to Lawrenceburgh in the county of Dearborn, on or as near the route of the present road, as the ground will admit, by the way of Riker’s ridge in the county of Jefferson, and by Demeree’s mills, and by Robert B. Mitchell’s in the same county, to the forks of the roads leading to Versailles and Laughery creek, in the county of Ripley; thence on the road leading to said creek, by the way of the Cross Plains in said county of Ripley, to the farm lately occupied by Erastus Lathrop; thence the nearest and best way to Parkers’ horse mill, in Dearborn county; thence the nearest and best way to Wilmington in said last named county, and thence to Lawrenceburgh aforesaid.

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Chapter XCI.
An act to amend the act entitled “an act respecting a county Seminary, and the Seminary funds of Switzerland county.”
(Approved, December 18, 1828.)

1828 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Twelfth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis: Smith and Bolton, 1828. Google Books

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Chapter IV.
An act making specific appropriations for the year 1828.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

Page 8 – That John Spencer, Collector of Dearborn county be allowed fifty-three dollars and thirty-four cents for interest on Treasury notes.

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Chapter XLIII.
An act to improve the navigation of certain rivers in this state.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

1. That two hundred and fifty dollars are hereby appropriated for improving the navigation and clearing out obstructions from Laughery creek; and that James Rand of Dearborn county, is hereby appointed a commissioner for so much of Laughery creek as lies below where the line of Ripley county strikes the same; and David Findley of Ripley county, is hereby appointed a commissioner, for so much of Laughery creek, as lies between the last mentioned line, and the town of Versailles, in said county of Ripley, and that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, of said appropriation shall be subject to the draft of, and be applied by the said James Rand; and that one hundred dollars shall be subject to the draft of, and be applied by the said David Findley.
10. The commissioners of Laughery creek, one dollar each per day [for their services]; which they are authorized to retain out of the sums herein appropriated.

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Chapter LIX.
An act for the relief of John Spencer, collector of Dearborn county, and for other purposes.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That if the collectors of the state and county revenue for the counties of Dearborn, Switzerland and Wayne, shall severally pay into the State Treasury, on or before the first Monday in April next, all the state revenue due from the counties aforesaid, for the year 1827, then, and in that case, the Treasury officers be, and they are hereby directed to remit the damages, which, by the revenues laws have accrued thereon.
2. That each and every collector of the several counties in this state, who have settled or may settle up the full amount of the state revenue due from their respective counties with the Treasurer of State, on or before the 26th day of January, 1828, shall not be compelled to pay the forfeiture and per centum now imposed by law, for failing to pay their respective amounts, previous to the second Monday in December last.
This act to take effect from and after its passage.

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Chapter LX.
An act for the benefit of the devises of Thomas Watts deceased.
(Approved, January 11, 1828.)

WHERAS, it appears to the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, that Thomas Watts, in his life time, and John Watts, purchased by entry of the United States, factional section numbered twenty-nine, in township five, of range numbered three, west of the meridian, lying and being in Dearborn county, and that a division thereof was made, by and between the said Thomas and John Watts, he, the said Thomas, retaining the south end of said fraction; since which, and before the said division was perfected by conveyance, the said Thomas Watts departed this life, leaving said land to sundry devisees, in whose names, with the said John Watts, the said land is patented, constituting them tenants in common: THEREFORE:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That all the right, title and claim, to which the devisees of Thomas Watts deceased, are entitled to the part of fractional section numbered twenty-nine, township five, range three, which lies north of a line drawn from the centre of the section, running east and west, be, and the same is hereby fully and absolutely vested in John Watts, in fee forever, and all the right and title of the said John Watts, to the part of said fractional section, lying south of said central line, be, and the same is hereby fully and absolutely vested in the devisees of the said Thomas Watts, in fee forever.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all that part of said fractional section, so as above secured to the devisees aforesaid, of Thomas Watts, shall be sold at public vendue, for the best price it will bring, by Daniel Kelso, of Dearborn county, who is hereby appointed commissioner for that purpose, and who is required to give six weeks notice of such sale, in the Indiana Palladium, published at Lawrenceburgh. The said commissioner is directed to allow a credit of twelve months, at said sale, on bond with approved security being given, being freehold, for payment of the purchase money to John Watts, administrator of the estate of Thomas Watts, with the will annexed; and on production of the receipt therefor, of the said administrator, the said commissioner is authorized to convey the said tract last named, in fee simple to the purchasers, reserving however the lease of Polly Shepherd, which is to be and remain ensured on said tract, as originally given. The said commissioner shall be allowed one dollar and fifty cents per day, whilst engaged as above authorized; and the circuit court of Dearborn county is authorized to appoint a substitute for said commissioner if necessary.
This act to take effect from and after its publication.

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Chapter LXII.
An act to amend an act, entitled an act for the benefit of persons who have, or are likely to suffer, by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire, in the court house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the sixth of March, 1826; approved, January 11, 1827.
(Approved, January 7, 1828)

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That John Porter of Lawrenceburgh, in the county of Dearborn, be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, with full power to carry all the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, into full effect, in the same manner the commissioners in said act were empowered to do, except as hereinafter mentioned.
Sec. 2. That the said commissioner, hereby appointed, shall continue in office until the last Monday in January, 1829; and shall attend to the duties herein required, on the fourth Mondays of March, July and October, and continue one week, if the business require it.
Sec. 3. That in case of the refusal, death or resignation of said commissioner, the circuit court of Dearborn county, shall, and are hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy.
Sec. 4. That so much of the act above referred to, as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Indiana Palladium, a weekly newspaper printed and published in the town of Lawrenceburgh, in said county of Dearborn.

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Chapter LXXXII.
An act to establish a college in state of Indiana.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

Page 117 – Sec. 11 – George H. Dunn, of the county of Dearborn [appointed one of trustees].
Page 118 – Sec 13 – Jesse L. Holman, of the county of Dearborn [appointed to board of visitors].

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Chapter LXXXVI.
An act respecting a county Seminary, and the Seminary funds of the county of Switzerland.
(Approved, January 19, 1828.)

That Israel R. Whitehead of Jefferson township, James Rouse of Craig township, Simon Slawson of Pleasant township, Aaron Chamberlain of Cotton township, and William R. Wiley of Posey township, in the said county of Switzerland, be, and they are hereby appointed Seminary trustees, for said county, for the special purposes hereinafter provided.

1853 Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1853. Google Books

ALLOWANCES.

Chapter 1. An act amendatory of the sixth section of an act entitled “an act to authorize and limit allowances by Courts and boards, and drafts upon county treasurers,” approved May 27, 1852, and to authorize allowances to poor persons in certain cases.

APPROPRIATIONS, GENERAL.

Chapter 2. An act making general appropriations for the years 1853 and 1854.

APPROPRIATIONS, SPECIFIC.

Chapter 3. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1853.

ASSESSORS, TOWNSHIP.

Chapter 4. An act providing for the compensation of Township Assessors.

BASTARDY.

Chapter 5. An act giving Common Pleas Courts concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts in cases of complaints for Bastardy and Surety of the Peace.

BLIND AND DEAF AND DUMB.

Chapter 6. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the support and management of the Indiana Institute for the education of the Blind,” approved June 18, 1852; also, amendatory to an act entitled “An act to provide for the government and support of the Institution for the education of the Deaf and Dumb,” approved June 14, 1852.

BOUNDARY, WARRICK AND SPENCER COUNTIES.

Chapter 7. An act to correct and define more correctly the boundary line between the counties of Warrick and Spencer.

Chapter 8. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the erection and repair of Bridges,” approved May 22, 1852.

Chapter 9. An act in relation to the Construction of Bridges over certain Navigable Streams, and prescribing the penalty of a violation of the permission herein set forth.

CANAL, WABASH AND ERIE.

Chapter 10. An act to amend the fourteenth section of an act entitled “an act for providing for the incorporation of bridge companies,” approved March 9, 1852.

Chapter 11. An act in regard to Criminal Prosecutions against the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal.

CENSUS REPORTS.

Chapter 12. An act for the distribution of the Census Reports of 1840 and 1850 to the Counties.

CITIES.

Chapter 13. An act amendatory of the second section of an act for the incorporation of cities, approved June 18, 1852; and for a more economical method of ascertaining the population of such cities, preparatory to the adoption of the provisions of the act herein mentioned, of June 18, 1852.

Chapter 14. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of Cities,” approved June 18, 1852.

Chapter 15. An act authorizing Cities to subscribe Stock in Railroad, Plankroad or Turnpike Companies.

COLONIZATION.

Chapter 16. An act providing for the colonization of Free Negroes, making appropriation therefor, and establishing a colonization agency.

CONVEYANCES.

Chapter 17. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act concerning real property and the alienation thereof,” approved May 6th, 1852, and to provide for the sale and conveyance of the interest of an insane wife in the hands of her husband.

Chapter 18. An act to provide for the conveyance of donation lands adjoining the town of Indianapolis, in cases where the holder of the certificate of purchase therefor is deceased.

CORONERS.

Chapter 19. An act to amend section four and section six of an act entitled “an act prescribing the powers and duties of Coroners,” approved May 27, 1852.

COUNTY BOARDS.

Chapter 20. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the organization of County Boards, and prescribing some of their powers and duties,” approved June 17, 1852.

COUNTY SEAT.

Chapter 21. An act to authorize the re-location of the seat of justice of the county of Clay, and to authorize the receiving of subscriptions and donations for the erection of the public buildings in said county.

Chapter 22. An act to authorize the voters of Switzerland county to determine the location of the county seat of said county, and to fix the same, and providing for the erection of public buildings, should a change of location be made; and matters properly belonging thereto.

COURTS, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 23. An act to create the Eleventh Judicial Circuit and to fix the time of holding Circuit Courts therein, and to attach Jasper county to the Ninth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 24. An act to change the time of holding circuit courts in the second judicial circuit.

Chapter 25. An act fixing the time of holding Circuit Courts in the fifth judicial circuit.

Chapter 26. An act to fix the time for holding the Circuit Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 27. An act to fix the time of holding Courts in the ninth judicial circuit and the length of terms.

Chapter 28. An act to change the time of holding Circuit Courts in the tenth judicial circuit.

Chapter 29. An act to provide for the postponement of the Marion Circuit Court during a part of the session of the Supreme Court.

COURTS, COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 30. An act to transfer the business in the Probate Courts, and the Probate business pending in the Circuit Courts, to the Courts of Common Pleas, to provide for empaneling juries, and to legalize the business heretofore done therein.

Chapter 31. An act giving to the Court of Common Pleas concurrent jurisdiction with Justices of the Peace in actions of forcible entry and detainer, and against tenants holding over.

Chapter 32. An act to change the time of holding the courts of Common Pleas in the district composed of the counties of Vanderburgh and Warrick, and to authorize an extra term of said court in each of said counties.

Chapter 33. An act fixing the time of holding the courts of common pleas, and the length of the terms thereof, in the several counties of this State.

Chapter 34. An act to regulate the taking of Appeals from the court of Common Pleas.

DECEDENTS’ ESTATES, SETTLEMENT OF.

Chapter 35. An act to amend an act providing for the settlement of decedents’ estates, prescribing the rights, liabilities and duties of officers connected with the management thereof, and the heirs thereto, and certain forms to be used in such settlement, approved June 17, 1852.

Chapter 36. An act to amend section 95 of an act entitled “an act providing for the settlement of decedents’ estates, prescribing the rights, liabilities and duties of officers connected with the management thereof, and the heirs thereto, and certain forms to be used in such settlement,” approved June 17, 1852.

DELINQUENT LANDS.

Chapter 37. An act to authorize county Treasurers to sell delinquent lands, in certain cases, to the highest bidder.

DESCENT, LAW OF.

Chapter 38. An act to amend the eighteenth, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth sections of an act entitled “an act regulating descents and the apportionment of estates,” approved May 14th, 1852, and adding a supplemental section to said act.

DRAINS AND LEVEES.

Chapter 39. An act to amend section first and section twelfth of an act entitled “an act to authorize the construction of Levees and Drains.”

DRAW-BRIDGE COMPANIES.

Chapter 40. An act requiring drawbridge companies to keep lights at night.

ENUMERATION.

Chapter 41. An act to provide for the enumeration of all the white male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years, in the State of Indiana, in the year 1853, and pay the officers for taking the same.

EVIDENCE.

Chapter 42. An act to prohibit the evidence of Indians and persons having one-eighth or more of negro blood in all cases where white persons are parties in interest.

EXCHANGE OF STATUTES, ETC.

Chapter 43. An act to authorize and request the Governor to exchange the Revised Statutes, Laws, Documentary Journals, and reports of the Supreme Court of this State with those of other States of the Union.

FEES.

Chapter 44. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the fees of officers,” approved June 16, 1852.

FELONY.

Chapter 45. An act to provide for the punishment of persons guilty of counseling and advising, aiding and abetting, in this State, in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, an offense in another State, which by the laws of this State shall be a felony.

Chapter 46. An act to repeal section six of an act entitled “an act defining felonies and prescribing punishment therefor,” approved June 10, 1852.

FERRIES.

Chapter 47. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish and regulate Ferries,” approved June 17, 1852.

FRAUDS IN THE USE OF FALSE STAMPS.

Chapter 48. An act to punish and prevent frauds in the use of false Stamps and Labels.

GUARDIANS.

Chapter 49. An act authorizing guardians, executors and administrators to lay off the real estate of their wards and decedents into town lots, and to dedicate streets, alleys and squares to public use, when so ordered by the proper court.

Chapter 50. An act to authorize foreign guardians to sell real estate of their wards in this State.

HIGH SCHOOLS.

Chapter 51. An act to amend the first, second and third sections of an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of high schools, academies, colleges, universities, theological institutions, and missionary boards,” approved May 13, 1852.

HIGHWAYS.

Chapter 52. An act to amend sections 24 and 31 of an act entitled “an act to provide for the opening, vacation and change of highways,” approved June 17th, 1852.

ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.

Chapter 53. An act to enable Illegitimate Children to inherit in certain cases.

INCORPORATIONS, TRUSTEES OF.

Chapter 54. AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to enable trustees to receive lands and donations, and convey the same, for the use of schools, churches, religious societies, Masonic and Odd Fellows’ Lodges, Sons and Daughters of Temperance, and for the construction of cemeteries, houses of worship, or other buildings therein mentioned,” approved June 17, 1852.

INDIANA COTTON MILLS.

Chapter 55. An act amendatory of, and supplemental to, an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indiana Cotton Mills,” approved Feb. 15, 1848.

INSANE, HOSPITAL FOR.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane,” approved January 15, 1852.

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of Insurance companies, defining their powers, and prescribing their duties,” approved June 17, 1852.

Chapter 58. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of insurance companies, defining their powers and prescribing their duties,” approved June 17, 1852.

JURORS, PETIT.

Chapter 59. An act to provide for the selection and empaneling of petit jurors in the Court of Common Pleas, and providing compensation therefor, being supplemental to an act entitled “an act prescribing the manner of empaneling petit jurors, the number and compensation thereof,” approved May 20, 1852.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chapter 60. An act to authorize justices of the peace to issue subpoenas for witnesses in adjoining counties, and fixing their fees.

LAND OWNERS IN RISING SUN.

Chapter 61. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act for the relief of certain land owners within the corporate limits of the city of Rising Sun, in Ohio county,” approved January 5, 1849.

LAWS—PRINTING, DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLICATION.

Chapter 62. An act providing for the printing, binding and distribution of the laws of the present session of the General Assembly.

Chapter 63. An act to consolidate the laws in relation to Highways, as also the election and duties of Supervisors of the same in pamphlet form.

Chapter 64. An act to provide for the distribution of the Township Law.

LIENS.

Chapter 65. An act to give livery stable keepers and others engaged in the feeding of cattle, horses, hogs and other live stock a lien upon the same for their services as such, being supplemental to an act concerning liens of mechanics, merchants and others, approved May 20, 1852.

LIQUORS.

Chapter 66. An act to regulate the retailing of Spirituous Liquors, and for the suppression of evils arising therefrom.

Chapter 67. An act to amend the thirty-seventh section of an act entitled “an act defining misdemeanors, and prescribing punishment therefor,” approved June 14, 1852.

MANUFACTURING COMPANIES.

Chapter 68. An act to amend section one of an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies, and companies for mechanical, chemical and building purposes,” approved May 20, 1852.

Chapter 69. AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Cannelton Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company,” approved February 16th, 1848; changed to the name of the Troy Manufacturing Company, by an act approved January 15th, 1849, to enable said company to increase its capital stock to two hundred thousand dollars, and to hold real estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and to manufacture cotton.

MASTER COMMISSIONERS.

Chapter 70. An act to authorize judges of the circuit courts and courts of common pleas to appoint Master Commissioners, and denning the duties and fixing the compensation of such master commissioners.

MILLS OR MACHINERY.

Chapter 71. AN ACT to authorize any person desiring to erect a flouring mill or other machinery to be propelled by water, on his own land, to make a race way below such mill or machinery, through land belonging to other persons, and to regulate the assessment and payment of dam ages therefor, being an act supplemental to article 41, chapter 1, of part second of the Revised Statutes of 1852.

Chapter 72. AN ACT to prevent the forfeiture of the charters of mining or manufacturing companies within this Slate, on account of irregularities in the time and place effecting of stockholders or directors, or in the election of officers, or for having subscribed stock in or made loans to any other incorporated company in this State.

MISDEMEANORS.

Chapter 73. An act to amend section 3 of an act entitled “an act defining misdemeanors, and prescribing punishment therefor,” approved June 14th, 1852.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

Chapter 74. An act to amend an act entitled “an act providing for the appointment of Notaries Public, and defining their powers and duties,” approved June 9th, 1852, “amending section 2, and repealing section 3 of said act.”

OATHS.

Chapter 75. An act to amend an act entitled “an act touching official bonds and oaths,” approved June 9, 1852.

PENITENTIARY.

Chapter 76. An act authorizing the Governor to contract for the erection of an additional number of cells at the Penitentiary, and for making certain improvements upon the grounds thereof.

PLANK ROADS.

Chapter 77. An act to legalize irregularities heretofore occurring in the filing of articles of association of Plank Road Companies.

Chapter 78. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing the construction of Plank, McAdamized, and Gravel Roads,” approved May 12, 1852.

Chapter 79. AN ACT to enable Turnpike, Plank, Gravel, and McAdamized Road Companies heretofore chartered, who have gone on to construct their roads, but hare failed to complete the same within the time specified in their charters, to complete their unfinished roads, and to erect tollgates.

PRACTICE.

Chapter 80. AN ACT to amend section 75 of an act entitled “an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in civil cases in the courts of this State; to abolish distinct forms of action at law, and to provide for the administration of justice in a uniform mode of pleading and practice, without distinction between law and equity.”

Chapter 81. An act to amend section 119, of an act entitled “an act to revise, simplify and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings and forms in criminal actions, in the courts of this State,” approved June 17, 1852.

PROCESS ON RAILROAD COMPANIES.

Chapter 82. An act providing for serving process upon the Officers, Directors, Attorneys or Agents of any Railroad Company.

RAILROADS.

Chapter 83. An act authorizing Railroad Companies to change their names.

Chapter 84. An act to authorize two or more Railroad Companies to assume a common name, and to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and prosecute their business, under such common name.

Chapter 85. AN ACT to authorize Railroad companies to consolidate their stock with the stock of Railroad companies in this or in an adjoining State, and to connect their roads with the roads of said companies, and to authorize Railroad companies to construct their roads on the routes which they may hare heretofore surveyed and located, and to use and occupy the same when completed.

Chapter 86. AN ACT to explain an act entitled “an act authorizing Railroad Companies to consolidate their stock with the stock of railroad companies in this or an adjoining State, and to connect their roads with roads of said companies, and to authorize railroad companies to construct their roads on the routes which they may hare heretofore surveyed and located, and to use and occupy the same when completed,” approved February 23, 1853.

Chapter 87. AN ACT authorizing corporations formed in pursuance of an act entitled “an act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies,” approved May 11, 1852, to file in the office of the Secretary of State a certified copy of their articles of association, in lieu of their original articles of association, and legalizing the action of such corporations in that respect where such certified copy has been heretofore so filed in lieu of the original articles, and prescribing the effect of such copy.

Chapter 88. AN ACT granting the right of way to the Ohio and Indianapolis Railroad Company to construct a railroad through the grounds of the State surrounding the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.

Chapter 89. An act to amend the charter of the Lawrenceburgh and Upper Mississippi Railroad Company.

Chapter 90. AN ACT to amend the first section of an act approved February 11, 1851, entitled ” an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lake Michigan, Loganaport and Ohio Railroad Company,” enacted by the General Assembly in February, 1848, and empowering said company to run their road to such point on the tine of the Northern Indiana Railroad as said company may select.

Chapter 91. An act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company.

Chapter 92. An act to prevent Railroad Companies from changing their Depots, except on conditions therein named.

Chapter 93. An act to provide compensation to the owners of animals killed or injured by the cars, locomotives or other carriages of any railroad company in this state.

RECORDERS.

Chapter 94. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing Recorders to make out complete or general indexes to records of deeds and mortgages, and to procure and use seals,” approved February 16th, 1852.

RECORDS.

Chapter 95. AN ACT to authorize and require clerks of the court of Common pleas, in all cases where the proper record books have not been provided in time for the January term of said court, for the year 1853, to transcribe from the original records into the new record-books, when provided, and to legalize the same.

RELIEF.

Chapter 96. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act for the relief of certain persons therein named,” approved February 16, 1848, which act reads in the words and figures following: “An act for the relief of certain persons therein named,” approved February 16, 1858.

Chapter 97. An act for the relief of Henry Pittenger, of Delaware county, and prescribing the duties of the Auditor of said county in relation thereto.

REPEAL.

Chapter 98. An act to repeal certain acts therein named.

Chapter 99. An act to repeal certain sections of the law incorporating the town of Cleaveland, in Hancock county.

Chapter 100. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to locate a State road in the counties of Clay and Owen.”

Chapter 101. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company,” approved Feb. 8, 1851.

REPORTS OF OFFICERS OF STATE.

Chapter 102. An act to provide for Annual Reports of State Officers, Branches of the State Bank, and Benevolent Institutions to be made to the Governor.

RESERVOIRS.

Chapter 103. An act in relation to the Reservoirs in the counties of Gibson and Clay.

REVENUE.

Chapter 104. An act to raise a revenue for State purposes for the years 1853 and 1854.

REVISED STATUTES.

Chapter 105. An act giving validity to the alterations made and omissions supplied to the Revised Statutes, and in the code of civil and criminal practice of 1852, by the persons superintending the publication of the same.

SCHOOLS, COMMON.

Chapter 106. An act amendatory of, and supplemental to, an act entitled “an act to provide for a general and uniform system of common schools, and school libraries, and matters properly connected therewith,” approved June 14, 1852.

SCHOOL FUND.

Chapter 107. An act to provide for the distribution of the School Fund for the year ending on the fourth Monday in March, 1853.

SCHOOL MONEYS.

Chapter 108. An act for the relief of the inhabitants of township twelve north, of range nine west, in Vigo county, Indiana, and providing a receiver for certain school moneys belonging to the common school fund of said township.

SWAMP LANDS.

Chapter 109. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled ” an act to regulate the sale of the swamp lands donated by the United States to the State of Indiana, and to provide for the draining and reclaiming thereof in accordance with the condition of said grant. This act to regulate the title of all those who purchased swamp land of the United States after the date of the donation and before the selection of the swamp lands, and to enable purchasers to purchase forty acre tracts, and to grant pre-eruptions in certain cases to occupiers of the swamp lands.

TAXES.

Chapter 110. An act requiring county Commissioners to perform certain duties in relation to the refunding of taxes wrongfully assessed and collected.

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

Chapter 111. An act for the better regulation of telegraph companies, and legalizing their former acts.

TOWNS.

Chapter 112. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of towns, defining their powers, providing for the election of the officers thereof, and declaring their duties,” approved June 11, 1852.

TOWNSHIP BUSINESS.

Chapter 113. AN ACT to amend the fifth section of an act entitled “an act for the more uniform mode of doing township business,” approved May 6th, 1852, which section reads as follows, to wit: “The qualified voters in each township shall, on the first Monday in April, annually, at the usual place of holding elections in such township, elect three trustees, a clerk and treasurer, who shall severally hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, they shall take an oath or affirmation, before a justice of the peace of the proper township, for the faithful performance of their respective offices.

Chapter 114. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for a more uniform mode of doing Township Business,” approved May 6, 1852.

Chapter 115. An act authorizing the township trustees, in the several townships in this State, to administer oaths.

TREASURER OF STATE.

Chapter 116. An act to amend an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of Treasurer of State,” approved May 20th, 1852.

Chapter 117. An act to amend an act entitled “an act in relation to County Treasurers,” approved June 4, 1852.

TREASURERS, COUNTY.

Chapter 118. An act requiring County Treasurers to keep their offices in Fire Proof Buildings, where the same have been provided by the County Board.

VACANCIES IN OFFICE.

Chapter 119. An act to repeal section 3, of an act entitled “an act touching vacancies in office, and filling the same by appointment,” approved May 13, 1852.

VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS.

Chapter 120. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the formation of Voluntary Associations,” approved May 13, 1852.

Chapter 121. An act to authorize Voluntary Associations to hold and convey property.

CANAL CERTIFICATES.

Chapter 122. An act to legalize certain State Wabash and Erie canal Certificates.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Chapter 123. An act to amend section three of an act entitled “an act for the regulation of Weights and Measures,” approved June 9, 1852.

WILL.

Chapter 124. AN ACT to amend section 36 of an act entitled “an act prescribing who may make a will, the effect thereof, what may be devised, regulating the revocation, admission to probate, and contest thereof,” approved May 31st, 1852.

Chapter 125. AN ACT to amend the 17th section of an act entitled “an act prescribing who may make a will, and the effect thereof, what may be devised, and regulating the revocation, admission to probate, and contest thereof.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution in reference to obtaining permission of the State of Illinois to open the falls and straighten the channel of the Kankakee river above said falls.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution to instruct our Senators and request our Representatives to procure the passage of a law by Congress to grant lands to actual settlers.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution asking Congress to donate all the unsold lands in the State of Indiana for common school purposes.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to use their influence to procure the passage of an act for the benefit of John Linsey and James Elliott.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution relating to the construction of a canal around the Falls of Ohio.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution relative to the Michigan City Harbor.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution in regard to a right of way.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution asking indemnity from the Congress of the United States for the failure of the title of a portion of lands heretofore granted by Congress to the State of Indiana, for the use of a Seminary of learning.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution on the subject of a Ship Canal around the Falls of Niagara, connecting Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution relative to granting Pensions to Widows and Orphans.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution in regard to the Industrial Exhibitions to be held in New York in May next, and in New Orleans in February 1854.

1852 Special Laws of Indiana

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ACTS, SUSPENDED.

Chapter 1. An act to suspend certain acts therein named.

AGENT, COUNTY.

Chapter 2. An act transferring the duties of county agent to county auditor.

APPEALS.

Chapter 3. An act regulating appeals from the awards of arbitrators to assess damages in certain cases.

APPROPRIATIONS, GENERAL.

Chapter 4. An act making general appropriations for the year 1852.

APPROPRIATIONS, SPECIFIC.

Chapter 5. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1852.

ASSESSORS, COUNTY.

Chapter 6. An act giving to Assessors longer time to file their official bonds, and take the oath of office.

ASSESSMENT OF TAXES.

Chapter 7. An act to provide for the valuation and assessment of the real and personal property, and collection of taxes in the State of Indiana; for the election of township assessors, and prescribing the duties of assessors, appraisers of real property, county treasurers and auditors, and of the Treasurer and Auditor of State.

ATTORNEYS, PROSECUTING.

Chapter 8. An act to provide for the election and certain duties of Prosecuting and District Attorneys.

AUDITORS, COUNTY.

Chapter 9. An act to repeal special laws in relation to the fees of county auditors.

Chapter 10. An act authorizing county auditors and their deputies to take acknowledgments of deeds, and administer oaths in certain cases.

BATTLE GROUND.

Chapter 11. An act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner to superintend the fencing of the Tippecanoe Battle Ground.

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

Chapter 12. An act to provide for filling vacancies in boards of county commissioners, until the taking effect of the general law upon this subject.

BONDS, OFFICIAL.

Chapter 13. An act to authorize the board of county commissioners to take and approve the official bonds of sheriffs, coroners, county recorders, clerks of the circuit court.

BRIDGE COMPANIES.

Chapter 14. An act to legalize the election of directors of bridge companies, and the acts of such directors, and fixing a time for holding the election, and prescribing the term of office of such directors.

CANAL COMPANIES.

Chapter 15. An act to regulate the mode of proceeding against canal companies for failing to construct, build, rebuild, repair or supply bridges at such places across such canal as said canal crosses any State or county or county road or street of a town.

CANALS AND WATER WORKS.

Chapter 16. An act to provide for the organization of Canal and Water works companies, and for the completion of the unfinished Canals in the State of Indiana.

CLARKSVILLE CHARTER.

Chapter 17. An act amendatory of the Charter of the town of Clarksville in Clark and Floyd counties.

COUNTY SEATS.

Chapter 18. An act to quiet the title to lands granted for the purpose of county seats, and to legalize the sales of any such lands or any part thereof.

COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY.

Chapter 19. An act to provide for the appointment of Commissioners to revise and simplify the practice and pleadings of courts of justice.

COURTS, SUPREME.

Chapter 20. An act districting the State for the purpose of electing four judges of the Supreme court.

COURTS, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 21. An act districting the State for judicial circuits.

Chapter 22. An act fixing the time of holding Circuit Courts in the several counties of this State.

Chapter 23. An act to change the time of holding Circuit Courts in the eighth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 24. An act to create a special term of the Tippecanoe circuit court.

Chapter 25. An act to postpone the day of the beginning of the Dearborn circuit court, for the February term, 1852.

Chapter 26. An act to change the time of holding circuit courts in Jennings county.

Chapter 27. An act to attach the county of Boone to the first judicial circuit.

Chapter 28. An act authorizing the circuit court of Clinton county to sit two weeks if the business shall require it.

Chapter 29. An act prescribing the time of holding the circuit courts in the second judicial circuit, fixing the length of the respective terms of the same, and conforming the business of said courts in the changes therein made.

Chapter 30. An act supplemental to an act, entitled “an act to create a special term of the Tippecanoe circuit court.”

Chapter 31. An act to regulate the times of holding courts in the 12th judicial circuit.

COURTS, COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 32. An act to abolish the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas, to provide for the trial of causes pending therein, and to regulate all proceedings in reference to the records, judgments, orders and decrees thereof.

Chapter 33. An act to abolish the Marion court of common pleas, and to transfer its proceedings and records to the Marion circuit court, and providing for the compensation of the judge of said circuit.

COURTS, PROBATE.

Chapter 34. An act relative to Probate Courts.

Chapter 35. An act to extend the terms of the probate courts in Daviess county.

FORT WAYNE.

Chapter 36. An act to repeal the 11th, 12th and 13th sections of an act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Fort Wayne,” and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereto.

FREE TURNPIKES.

Chapter 37. An act to repeal sections five and six of an act entitled “an act to establish a free turnpike road in Jay county,” approved January 13th, 1845; also, to repeal so much of section five of an act entitled “an act to establish a free turnpike road,” approved February 12th, 1851, as applies to that portion of the above named road lying in Jay county.

GOVERNOR.

Chapter 38. An act to authorize the Governor of this State to engage the services of a clerk to examine the maps and lists of the swamp lands granted by the General Government to this State, and fixing the compensation of said clerk.

GRANNIN, MICHAEL, JR.

Chapter 39. An act to repeal an act entitled, “an act for the relief of Michael Grannin, jr., late of Daviess county,” approved February 13, 1851.

HABEAS CORPUS.

Chapter 40. An act to authorize masters in chancery, probate judges, and clerks of the circuit court, to issue writs of habeas corpus, and to try cases arising under such writs, and to award injunctions and writs of ne exeat, and regulating appeals in such cases, and providing for their compensation for said services.

HOSPITAL, INSANE.

Chapter 41. An act to provide for the enlargement of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

INCORPORATED TOWNS AND CITIES.

Chapter 42. An act providing for the election of town and city officers, and prescribing the qualifications of voters in such elections.

Chapter 43. An act explanatory to the act entitled “an act providing for the election of town and city officers, and prescribing the qualifications of voters in such elections,” approved March 10th, 1852, and to provide for filling vacancies in the office of councilman or trustee.

LAWS, PRINTED.

Chapter 44. An act in relation to the printing and the distribution of the Revised Statutes and the Code of Civil and Criminal Practice.

LAWS, PRINTED IN GERMAN.

Chapter 45. An act to authorize the State Printer, to print, bind and publish one thousand copies of the laws passed by the present General Assembly, in the German language.

LAWS FURNISHED.

Chapter 46. An act to authorize the Secretary of State to furnish the clerks’ offices of the several counties, copies of the local and general laws, and providing for binding of the same.

LANDS, UNIVERSITY.

Chapter 47. An act to extend the time of final payment for University lands and to exempt purchasers of such lands from forfeiture of the same, in certain cases, and provide for the sale of forfeited lands.

MICHIGAN ROAD LAND FUNDS.

Chapter 48. An act to appropriate unappropriated Michigan road land funds to school purposes.

MONUMENT.

Chapter 49. An act to authorize the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of the State of Indiana to erect and maintain a monument on the battle ground of Tippecanoe.

NEW COUNTY.

Chapter 50. An Act to submit to the voters of the counties of Perry and Spencer at the general election for the year 1852, a proposal to create a new county out of a portion of the territory of said counties, under the provision of the fifteenth specification of the schedule to the Constitution, and. providing for the manner of voting on said proposition, and the duty of the officers of election, and of the clerks of the circuit courts and sheriffs of said counties respectively, and of the Secretary of State in relation thereto.

OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS.

Chapter 51. An act in relation to the officers and soldiers of Indiana who served in the war of 1811, 1812 and 1813, and in the war with Mexico, and in all other wars since the settlement of the State of Indiana.

OFFICERS.

Chapter 52. An act to require certain officers to execute further official bonds, and take an additional oath of office.

PATTERSON, SAMUEL H.

Chapter 53. An act for the relief of Samuel H. Patterson and to reduce his rent as lessee of the Penitentiary.

PLANK AND TURNPIKE ROADS.

Chapter 54. An act to amend acts in corporation for the construction of Plank Roads and Turnpike Roads.

PLANK ROAD AND TURNPIKE COMPANIES.

Chapter 55. An act authorizing Plank Road and Turnpike companies to create a sinking fund for the repair of said roads.

Chapter 56. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend an act authorizing the construction of plank roads, approved January 15th, 1849,” approved January 14, 1850.

PLYMOUTH, TOWN OF.

Chapter 57. An act declaring the word “ten,” in the tenth section of an act to incorporate the town of Plymouth, Marshall county, approved February 11th, 1851, a misprint.

PUBLIC WORKS.

Chapter 58. An act regarding the Public Works of the State.

RAILROAD.

Chapter 59. An Act to enable the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company to avoid the inclined plane at Madison, to provide for the sale of the interest of the State in said railroad, and to repeal, so far as affects the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company, the 55th and 58th sections of the act entitled, ” an act for the continuance and 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/A, 1842.

Chapter 60. An act to provide for the sale of the stock owned by the State of Indiana in the Madison and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.

RAIL ROADS.

Chapter 61. AN ACT to authorize any company heretofore organized under the provisions of any general or special law of this State, for the purpose of constructing a plank, turnpike, gravel, McAdamized or coal road, to construct a railroad instead of such turnpike, gravel, plank, McAdamized or coal road, and prescribing the manner in which such change may be made.

RELIEF.

Chapter 62. An act to extend the time of complying with the provisions of an act entitled “an act for the relief of persons therein named,” approved January 26, 1847.

REVISED STATUTES.

Chapter 63. An act declaring what documents shall be published along with the Revised Statutes.

REVENUE.

Chapter 64. An act to fix the time at which county treasurers shall make their annual settlement with county auditors, and with the Auditor of State, and to authorize them to make deposits under the direction of the Treasurer of State, so far as the revenue of 1851 is concerned.

Chapter 65. An act providing a remedy for the illegal reduction of the aggregate valuation of real estate in the several counties of this State.

Chapter 66. An act to raise a revenue for State purposes for the year 1852.

SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

Chapter 67. An act to legalize the action of School Commissioners in cases where the tax duplicates have been made out before the taking effect, in their counties, of the school law of 1849.

SCHOOL SECTIONS.

Chapter 68. An act for the relief of the purchasers of school lands where no record has been made of the appraisement, as required by any previous law, and the confirmation of titles to lands previously sold, and prescribing the duty of county auditors in relation thereto.

SEMINARY LANDS.

Chapter 69. An act to provide for a uniform enumeration of the sub-divisions of sections and quarter sections in the township of land, in Monroe county, reserved for a State Seminary; and for making out and recording the plats of such sub-divisions, and the compensation therefor.

SINKING FUND.

Chapter 70. An act to provide that purchasers of real estate forfeited to the sinking fund, who are the legal owners, but who have purchased the State’s interest for a sum greater than that due the State and interest thereon, shall not be compelled to pay to the commissioners of the fund, the overplus nor interest thereon.

STATE PRISON.

Chapter 71. An act providing for the erection of buildings appertaining to the State Prison.

STATE HOUSE.

Chapter 72. An act authorizing the State Librarian to contract for re-covering the State House with fire and water proof composition roofing material, or Boston sheet paper, also for the re-painting of the outside wood-work, and the necessary plastering to the same.

Chapter 73. An act to amend the tenth and eleventh sections of article two, of chapter twelve, of part one, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, on the subject of enlisting property of taxation.

TREASURY NOTES.

Chapter 74. An act to provide for the speedy redemption of the outstanding Treasury notes of the State of Indiana.

WHITE RIVER.

Chapter 75. An act to amend the third section of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the White River Navigation Company,” approved February 13th, 1851, and to extend the rights and privileges of said company.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution relative to granting Public Lands to settlers.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution in favor of the Hungarian Patriots.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution to William Smith O’Brien and others.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution in relation to a donation of public lands for a Geological, Agricultural and Topographical survey.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution in favor and behalf of the Cuban prisoners condemned by the Spanish authorities and now imprisoned in Spain.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution in relation to mistakes in the purchase of lands in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to procure the site for a National Armory on the waters of the Ohio River, at Evansville within the State of Indiana.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution in relation to constructing a canal around the Falls of the Ohio River.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution for the purpose of obtaining from the General Government a grant of the unsold lands belonging thereto, in the Vincennes district, for the benefit of common schools.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution directing the publication of the Constitution of this State.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution on the subject of emigration to Oregon and the Pacific coast.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution asking the passage of a law by Congress, authorizing the State of Indiana to sell the Saline lands that remain unsold, at such price as may be deemed right by the General Assembly of the State.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution relating to the Harbor at Michigan City.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution asking a more liberal construction of an act of Congress of May 9, 1848.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution on the subject of an Agricultural Bureau at Washington City.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution on the subject of a ship canal around the rapids of the St. Mary’s River connecting Lake Superior with the other northern lakes.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution asking an appropriation of Congress to erect public buildings in the city of Indianapolis.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution on the subject of the slave trade, and for the purpose of Colonization.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution relative to Bounty Lands.

Chapter 20. A joint resolution on the subject of donating the Government Lands in the State of Indiana, to the State.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution in relation to declaring the Bridge over the Ohio River, at Wheeling, Virginia, a Post Route.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution in relation to the Indiana Normal University for the eduction of females.

Chapter 23. A Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of State to publish and circulate an act to provide for the incorporation of Railroad companies, an act to authorize and regulate the business of General Banking, au act to establish the courts of Common Pleas, an act to regulate the sale of the Swamp Lauds donated by the United States to the State of Indiana, and to provide for the draining and reclaiming thereof, ill accordance with the conditions of said grant, an act to divide the Slate into congressional districts, and an act to submit to the voters of the counties of Perry and Spencer, at the general election of the year 1852, a proposal to create a new county.

Chapter 24. A joint resolution memorializing Congress to pass an act placing certain surgeons on the same footing as surgeons regularly commissioned.

Chapter 25. A joint resolution in relation to the extension of time for the payment of claims due from certain citizens of this State to the bond holders.

Chapter 26. A joint resolution inviting and welcoming Thomas Francis Meagher to the hospitalities of the citizens of Indiana.

Chapter 27. A joint resolution in relation to certain duties of the Wabash and Erie Canal trustees, in reference to the erection of Reservoirs in Clay county.

Chapter 28. A joint resolution on the subject of Bridges over navigable rivers.

Chapter 29. A joint resolution to require the Secretary of State to publish certain act therein named.

Chapter 30. A joint resolution asking Congress for a grant of land to aid in constructing a Railroad from Anderson, Indiana, via Crawfordsville along the dividing ridge of Big and Little Vermillion rivers through Springfield, Illinois, and Hannibal, Missouri, to Fort Leavenworth.

1851 Local Laws of Indiana

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Chapter 1. An act to incorporate the Town of Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana.

Chapter 2. An act for the relief of John Henry Lewis Gerke, and Frederick Myers.

Chapter 3. An act to repeal an Act entitled “an Act authorizing the Commissioners of Fountain county to vacate a certain street in the town of Rob Roy, in Fountain county.

Chapter 4. An act to locate a State Road in the Counties of Kosciusko and Wabash.

Chapter 5. An act to open an alley in the town of Perrysville, in Vermillion county.

Chapter 6. An act to revive the 61st section of an Act entitled “an Act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes,” approved February 18, 1839.

Chapter 7. An act to vacate the town of Charleston, in Huntington county.

Chapter 8. An act to legalize the election of the County Commissioners of the county of Owen.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the Athenian Society of Indiana University.

Chapter 10. An act to amend an act entitled “an Act to incorporate the Western Plank Road Company,” approved Jan. 14, 1850.

Chapter 11. An act to vacate part of Water street, in the town of Williamsport, in the county of Warren, and state of Indiana.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an Act entitled “An act to incorporate the White County Monticello Bridge Company,” approved January 15th, 1850.

Chapter 13. An act to amend an Act entitled “An act to incorporate certain Turnpike Companies therein named,” approved Jan. 29th, 1839.

Chapter 14. An act to extend the powers of the Lawrenceburgh and Upper Mississippi Rail Road Company.

Chapter 15. An act to enable the inhabitants of School District No. 8, in Congressional Township No. 36 north of range No. 3 west, in the county of Laporte, to levy a tax sufficient to build a school house.

Chapter 16. An act for the relief of the inhabitants of Congressional Township No. 25, north of range 2 east, in Cass county.

Chapter 17. An act relative to the Jeffersonville Association.

Chapter 18. An act in relation to the assessment and collection of a specific road tax in Deer creek township, Cass county.

Chapter 19. An act to revive a certain Act therein named.

Chapter 20. An act to amend the charter of the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad Company.

Chapter 21. An act to locate a State Road on the line dividing Bartholomew and Decatur Counties.

Chapter 22. An act requiring the supervisors to settle with the township trustees in the county of Wells.

Chapter 23. An act to enable the qualified voters of school district number seven, in township 36 north of range three, in Laporte county, to levy a tax in said district for the purpose of building a school house.

Chapter 24. An act to repeal an act therein named, so far as the same relates to the counties of Boone, Lawrence and Martin.

Chapter 25. An act to correct a misprint and supply an omission in an act entitled “An act directing the Secretary of State to make a patent to James Hensley for certain Wabash and Erie canal lands,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 26. An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the LaGrange Phalanx,” approved January 13, 1845.

Chapter 27. An act to authorize the Auditor of Clinton county to make to John Mohn a certificate of purchase for a certain tract of land in said county.

Chapter 28. An act authorizing the Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road Company, to issue bonds, for the sole purpose of borrowing money to complete said road and to secure their repayment by mortgaging the property of said company.

Chapter 29. An act to change the name of the town of Rochester, in Franklin county, Indiana, to Cedar Grove.

Chapter 30. An act to authorize the appointment of a guardian of the person and estate of the person therein named and for other purposes.

Chapter 31. An act legalizing the proceedings of a certain Plank Road Company.

Chapter 32. An act to repeal an Act therein named.

Chapter 33. An act to amend section 29 of the act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and Columbia Plank Road Company.

Chapter 34. An act to change the name of Melissa Jane Gillespie to that of Melissa Jane Blair.

Chapter 35. An act to vacate the streets and alleys in the town of Fairview, Montgomery county.

Chapter 36. An act to legalize the election of Samuel Geisinger to the office of County Treasurer of Elkhart county.

Chapter 37. An act to further amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Michigan Road Company,” approved Jan. 13, 1845, and for other purposes.

Chapter 38. An act authorizing the Probate Judge of Hamilton county to appoint an administrator on the estate of John S. Massey.

Chapter 39. An act to amend the act to incorporate the trustees of the Indiana Asbury University, approved January 10, 1837.

Chapter 40. An act for the benefit of the New Albany and Salem Rail Road Company.

Chapter 41. An act to amend an Act entitled “An act to incorporate the Richmond and Miami Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 42. An act for the relief of Amasa Hazen, of Ripley county.

Chapter 43. An act to change the name of the town of Nicklesonville.

Chapter 44. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Junction Railroad Company,” passed 8th day of February, 1848.

Chapter 45. An act to change the name of Nancy Ann Kelso, of Dubois county, to Nancy Ann McMahan.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Patriot, in Switzerland county, and legalize the action of the collector of said town.

Chapter 47. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named, in Warren county.

Chapter 48. An act to authorize the extension of the New Castle and Richmond Rail Road.

Chapter 49. An act authorizing Reason W. Prather to drain certain low lands therein mentioned.

Chapter 50. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Richmond and Williamsburgh Turnpike Company,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 51. An act to change the name and extend the corporate privileges of the Perry Cotton Mill at Cannelton.

Chapter 52. An act to repeal section one of an act approved January 19, 1850, “of an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Indianapolis,” approved May 27, 1848.

Chapter 53. An act to incorporate the Cannelton Levee and Draining Company.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Noblesville,” approved January 19, 1850.

Chapter 55. An act to consolidate and publish in one act the several acts incorporating the city of Lawrenceburgh, and to revise and amend the same.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road Company,” approved January 26, 1847, and the several acts amendatory of said act.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Williamsburgh and Centreville Turnpike Company,” approved January 11, 1849.

Chapter 58. An act to incorporate the town of Pendleton, in Madison county.

Chapter 59. An act to reorganize the Evansville Insurance Companies, chartered under the several acts of February 8th, 1836, and January 21st, 1850.

Chapter 60. An act to locate a State road on the line dividing Wayne and Randolph counties.

Chapter 61. An act to incorporate the Ohio and Wabash Plank Road Company.

Chapter 62. An act to incorporate the Wabash Railroad Company.

Chapter 63. An act to incorporate the Covington and Danville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 64. An act to incorporate the Columbia, Oswego and Leesburgh Plank Road company.

Chapter 65. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Bedford Insurance Company,” approved February 8, 1836, and to change the name of said company.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the charter of the Madison Insurance Company.

Chapter 67. An act to authorize a company to construct the Manchester, Pleasant Ridge and Elizabethtown Turnpike.

Chapter 68. An act to amend “an act to incorporate the Ohio River and Princeton Plank Road Company.”

Chapter 69. An act to incorporate the Liberty and Miami Railroad Company.

Chapter 70. An act to legalize the doings and proceedings of the Alton, Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad company, and for other purposes.

Chapter 71. A preamble and act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indiana Canal Company,” approved December 6th, 1848, and the amendment thereto, approved January 17th, 1849.

Chapter 72. An act to repeal an act therein named.

Chapter 73. An act locating a State Road on the line dividing the counties of Allen and DeKalb, and for other purposes.

Chapter 74. An act for the benefit of the Martinsville and Franklin Railroad Company.

Chapter 75. An act to incorporate the Sparta and Versailles Turnpike Company.

Chapter 76. An act for the relief of Joseph Allen, Elias Grant, and Joseph Mathers, of Crawford county.

Chapter 77. An act legalizing a certain deed of conveyance heretofore made and executed by the County Auditor, of Perry county, to William Elder.

Chapter 78. An act to amend “an act to incorporate the town of Liberty in Union county,” approved January 18, 1850.

Chapter 79. An act to legalize the election of Isaac P. Snellson to the office of Treasurer of Madison County.

Chapter 80. An act declaring a mis-print in an Act approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 81. An act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Alexis Le Roy, deceased.

Chapter 82. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company.”

Chapter 83. An act to incorporate the Winchester and Greenville Railroad Company.

Chapter 84. An act to incorporate the Goshen and Plymouth Plank Road Company.

Chapter 85. An act to incorporate the town of Covington, in the county of Fountain.

Chapter 86. An act to incorporate the Wabash and Marion Plank Road Company.

Chapter 87. An act to incorporate the Laporte Male and Female Seminary.

Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Hamilton Manufacturing Company,” approved January 15, 1850.

Chapter 89. An act to incorporate the Newport and Winchester Plank Road Company.

Chapter 90. An act to incorporate the Bluffton, Camden, and Winchester Plank Road Company.

Chapter 91. An act to incorporate the Mulliean Mill and Junction Plank or Clay Turnpike Road Company.

Chapter 92. An act to incorporate the Town of Valparaiso, in the county of Porter.

Chapter 93. An act to incorporate the New Albany and Vincennes Plank Road Company.

Chapter 94. An act to change the name of Levi Gear to that of Levi Frash.

Chapter 95. An act legalizing an order for the publication of the delinquent list for the year 1850, in DeKalb county.

Chapter 96. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish a certain State Road therein named,” approved February 16, 1848.

Chapter 97. An act in relation to the streets and alleys in the town of Lexington, in Scott county.

Chapter 98. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the West Delphi Bridge Company,” approved February 15th, 1838; and an act entitled an act to amend said act, approved January 23, 1847.

Chapter 99. An act relative to the borough of Vincennes.

Chapter 100. An act for the relief of Rebecca Elder, of the county of Union, State of Indiana.

Chapter 101. An act for the relief of Michael Grannin, Jr., late of Daviess county.

Chapter 102. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for incorporating the Wabash Manual Labor College, and Teachers’ Seminary,” approved January 15, 1834.

Chapter 103. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Brownsburg Plank Road Company,” approved January 18, 1850.

Chapter 104. An act to incorporate the Aurora and Hartford Turnpike Company.

Chapter 105. An act to incorporate the town of Bluffton, in Wells county, Indiana.

Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Rushville and Muncietown Railroad Company,” approved January 21, 1851.

Chapter 107. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to locate a State road from Crawfordsville, in Montgomery county, to Concord, in Tippecanoe county,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 108. An act to legalize the survey and location of the Vistula State road in Elkhart county.

Chapter 109. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Decatur, Portland, and Winchester Plank Road Company.”

Chapter 110. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Knightstown and Shelbyville Rail Road Company.”

Chapter 111. An act authorizing the removal of drift and obstructions in Little river, in the counties of Allen and Huntington.

Chapter 112. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Centreville and Abington Turnpike Company,” approved 12th February, 1848.

Chapter 113. An act to authorize William M. Miller, administrator of the estate of James K. Helphill, to make a deed to John Vawter.

Chapter 114. An act for the relief of John H. Cutter, surviving partner of B. G. Cutter & Co.

Chapter 115. An act to vacate a part of Jennings and Jackson streets, in the town of Rushville.

Chapter 116. An act to change the name of Anne Able, of Martin county, to Anne Henderson.

Chapter 117. An act to legalize the sale of lands and town lots for taxes, in Spencer county, on the first Monday in January, 1851.

Chapter 118. An act to change the name of Howard Allen.

Chapter 119. An act to authorize certain school districts in Adams county to draw their proportion of the common school funds.

Chapter 120. 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 the same relates to the county of Putnam.

Chapter 121. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Clinton, in Vermillion county,” approved February 14, 1848.

Chapter 122. An act for the relief of Hezekiah A. Sutton, of Jackson county.

Chapter 123. An act to locate a State Road from Dover Hill, in Martin county, to Bloomington, in Monroe county.

Chapter 124. An act to locate and establish a State Road in the counties of Allen and Adams.

Chapter 125. An act to incorporate the Peru Hotel Company.

Chapter 126. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Moors Hill and Aurora Turnpike Company,” approved February 15, 1848.

Chapter 127. An act to authorize an extension of the Knightstown and Shelbyville Railroad.

Chapter 128. An act to incorporate the Bellville Branch Railroad Company.

Chapter 129. An act for the benefit of the Mount Vernon and New Harmony Plank Road Company.

Chapter 130. An act to amend the charter of the town of Bloomington, in the county of Monroe.

Chapter 131. An act in relation to the Northern Indiana Railroad Company.

Chapter 132. An act to incorporate the Danville and White Lick Plank Road Company.

Chapter 133. An act to incorporate the Danville and Claysville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 134. An act to incorporate the Ohio and Indiana Railroad Company.

Chapter 135. An act to constitute a School District from a portion of territory in the counties of Grant and Blackford.

Chapter 136. An act to fix a tax on a Museum in Lafayette.

Chapter 137. An act to incorporate a Fire Engine Company at North Madison.

Chapter 138. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Crawford and Perry.

Chapter 139. An act to incorporate the “Grape Vine Marsh Plank Road Company.”

Chapter 140. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in Bartholomew county,” approved January 14, 1850.

Chapter 141. An act for the relief of Thomas Decimus Franklin, Sophia Whitworth, William Whall, John Whall, and Robert Whall.

Chapter 142. An act to repeal an act therein named.

Chapter 143. An act authorizing the board of commissioners of Howard county to cause a record to be made of a certain State Road therein named.

Chapter 144. An act limiting the jurisdiction of the corporation of the town of South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph.

Chapter 145. An act to repeal a certain act therein named so far as it relates to Grant county, and to revive certain other acts.

Chapter 146. An act for the relief of Harvey Bates, of the county of Marion.

Chapter 147. An act to locate a State Road from Pleasant Grove, in Fulton county, by the way of the Fulton Steam Mill to Perrysburg, in Miami county.

Chapter 148. An act to incorporate the town of Hope, in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 149. An act to change a portion of a certain State road therein named, in the counties of Boone and Hamilton.

Chapter 150. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ladies’ Sigourney Library, at Logansport,” approved December 27, 1848.

Chapter 151. An act to change the name of the Madison and Napoleon Turnpike Company.”

Chapter 152. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Richmond and Newport Turnpike Company,” approved January 5, 1849.

Chapter 153. An act providing for the annexation of Lamasco to Evansville.

Chapter 154. An act to incorporate the White River Navigation Company.

Chapter 155. An act to authorize certain persons therein named to erect a Toll Bridge across the west fork of White river, at or near the falls, in Morgan county.

Chapter 156. An act for the relief of the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad Company, and of the Indiana Central Railway Company.

Chapter 157. An act to incorporate the Central Plank Road Company, of Vanderburgh county, Indiana.

Chapter 158. An act to incorporate the Blountsville, Smithfield, and Montpelier Plank Road Company.

Chapter 159. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Springfield Plank Road Company,” approved January 19, 1850.

Chapter 160. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis Gas Light and Coke Company.

Chapter 161. An act to locate a state road in the county of Warrick.

Chapter 162. An act authorizing the administrator and widow of Josiah F. Oakes, deceased, to execute certain quit claim deeds.

Chapter 163. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Montgomery and Tippecanoe.

Chapter 164. An act to enable the Board of Commissioners of Lake county to borrow money to build and finish a Court House and Jail.

Chapter 165. An act to establish a free turnpike road.

Chapter 166. An act to incorporate the Rising Sun Hotel Company.

Chapter 167. An act for the relief of the heirs of Elizabeth Blatner, late of Dearborn county, Indiana, but now deceased.

Chapter 168. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Cass and Howard.

Chapter 169. An act to incorporate the Central Michigan Plank Road Company.

Chapter 170. An act to incorporate a company to construct a railroad from Newburgh, on the Ohio river, to connect with the Evansville and Illinois railroad.

Chapter 171. An act to incorporate “The Madison Medical Society,” at Madison, in the county of Jefferson.

Chapter 172. An act for the relief of the inhabitants of District No. one, in Congressional Township No. one north, of range two west, in Orange county.

Chapter 173. An act to enable the Auditor of Spencer county to convey a certain tract of land therein named to John Masterson.

Chapter 174. An act to amend the charter of the Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 175. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Fort Wayne,” and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereto.

Chapter 176. An act to locate a State Road from Bennettsville, in Clark county, to Salem, in Washington county.

Chapter 177. An act for the sale of the public square of Evansville, and the application of its proceeds to the erection of new county buildings for Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 178. An act to incorporate the Albion and Lisbon Turnpike Company.

Chapter 179. An act to repeal an act therein named, relating to the county of Elkhart.

Chapter 180. An act to incorporate the Kankakee Bridge Company.

Chapter 181. An act to incorporate the Washington and Maysville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 182. An act to incorporate the town of Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana.

Chapter 183. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the city of Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana, approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 184. An act to re-locate the seat of justice of Fountain county.

Chapter 185. An act to incorporate the Cicero and Kirklin Plank Road Company.

Chapter 186. An act granting further powers to the township of Lawrenceburgh, in the county of Dearborn, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 187. An act to enable the qualified voters of school districts Nos. 5 and 8, in township 37, range 3 west, in Laporte county, to build a union school house, and for other purposes.

Chapter 188. An act to incorporate the Covington, Newtown and Lafayette Plank Road Company.

Chapter 189. An act to incorporate the Central Canal Manufacturing, Hydraulic, and Water Works Company.

Chapter 190. An act to incorporate the Bedford Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 191. An act to authorize the commissioners of Ohio county to collect tolls at a certain bridge therein named.

Chapter 192. An act to authorize the erection of a mill-dam across the Wabash river, in Cass county, Indiana.

Chapter 193. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company.”

Chapter 194. An act for the benefit of the Edinburgh and Western Plank Road Company.

Chapter 195. An act for the relief of Daniel Stowell, of St. Joseph county.

Chapter 196. An act to incorporate the Vincennes and Orleans Plank Road Company.

Chapter 197. An act to provide for the payment of the dbts and liabilities of the Hagerstown Canal Company.

Chapter 198. An act to incorporate the Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum of Indianapolis.

Chapter 199. An act for the relief of the estate of John Reily, late of Martin county, deceased.

Chapter 200. An act for the protection of an orphan.

Chapter 201. An act in relation to State Roads in Johnson county.

Chapter 202. An act to locate a State Road in Warren and Fountain counties.

Chapter 203. An act to enable the qualified voters of district No. six (6), township No. twenty-six (26), range No. one (1) west, in Carroll county, to levy a tax in said district sufficient to build a school house.

Chapter 204. An act to authorize the city of Lafayette, to subscribe to the stock of the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad Company.

Chapter 205. An act to incorporate the Columbus Plank Road Company.

Chapter 206. An act relative to leveeing and draining the lands in the Lower Prairie, below Vincennes in Knox county.

Chapter 207. An act to incorporate the Sparta and Napoleon Turnpike Company.

Chapter 208. An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Indiana Female College.

Chapter 209. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Martin county to order a vote to be taken in a certain case relating to the seat of justice of said county.

Chapter 210. An act to incorporate the Ayers University.

Chapter 211. An act to incorporate the Clinton Draw Bridge Company.

Chapter 212. An act to incorporate the Patriot and Allensville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 213. An act to revive an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Milton and Waterloo Turnpike Company.”

Chapter 214. An act to legalize the sale made for delinquent taxes at the Mayor’s office, in the city of Fort Wayne, on the 3d and 4th days of February, 1851.

Chapter 215. An act to enable John Travis, of Laporte county, to prosecute a suit for a divorce.

Chapter 216. An act to incorporate the Philalethean Society of Hanover College.

Chapter 217. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Indiana Railroad Company,” approved January 15, 1851.

Chapter 218. An act declaring a certain name a misprint.

Chapter 219. An act to authorize the County Surveyor of Miami county to re-survey the town of Mexico, in said county.

Chapter 220. An act to authorize Joseph Morrow, Silas Parks, and Robert Wilson, commissioners appointed by the Grant Probate Court, to sell the real estate of William Wallace, deceased, at private sale.

Chapter 221. An act to legalize certain roads in Clinton County.

Chapter 222. An act to relocate the State Road between Paoli, in the county of Orange, and Troy, in the county of Perry.

Chapter 223. An act supplementary to the act for the relief of John L. Gerke, passed at the present session of the General Assembly.

Chapter 224. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the Ohio, Indiana, and Lake Michigan Railroad Company,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 225. An act in relation to the county debt of Scott county, and authorizing the County Commissioners of said county to borrow money for certain purposes.

Chapter 226. An act to amend the charter of the town of Dublin, in Wayne county.

Chapter 227. An act to extend the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad.

Chapter 228. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Troy, in Perry county,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 229. An act for the relief of Peter Helphenstine, a purchaser of school lands.

Chapter 230. An act to extend a certain road therein named.

Chapter 231. An act to locate a State Road between the counties of Tipton and Howard.

Chapter 232. An act for the relief of persons who have suffered by the destruction of the Justice’s docket of Joseph F. Marshall, a justice of the peace of the county of Hancock, on the 24th day of December, 1850.

Chapter 233. An act to incorporate the Aurora Hotel Company.

Chapter 234. An act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company.

Chapter 235. An act to vacate a certain street in the town of Crawfordsville.

Chapter 236. An act to authorize the board of commissioners of Putnam county to issue bonds.

Chapter 237. An act providing for the election of three School Commissioners in township No. 12 north, of range No. 11 east, in the counties of Franklin, Rush and Decatur.

Chapter 238. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the German Theological Seminary of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 239. An act incorporating the Madison and Cross Plains Plank Road Company.

Chapter 240. An act to incorporate the Camden and Lockport Plank Road Company.

Chapter 241. An act to incorporate the Franklin Insurance Company.

Chapter 242. An act to authorize John Warren to file a bill in chancery in the Tipton Circuit Court.

Chapter 243. An act authorizing the president and trustees of the town of Lafayette to purchase and hold real estate.

Chapter 244. An act to authorize the Lafayette Insurance Company to increase its capital stock.

Chapter 245. An act declaring Flat Creek, or so much thereof as lies within the counties of Pike and Dubois, a public highway.

Chapter 246. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend the Road law in Jefferson county.”

Chapter 247. An act to vacate part of the road leading from Harrison to Indianapolis.

Chapter 248. An act to change the name of Shadrach Anderson to that of William Johnson.

Chapter 249. An act declaring a certain county road therein named a State road.

Chapter 250. An act to change the name of Mount Wallaston in the county of White, to Norway.

Chapter 251. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to the leveeing the Wabash river on Shaker prairie,” approved January 14, 1846, and to repeal an act amendatory thereto, approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 252. An act relative to the Laporte and Plymouth Plank Road Company.

Chapter 253. An act in relation to the South Bend and Plymouth Plank Road Company.

Chapter 254. An act to vacate an alley in the town of Bloomington.

Chapter 255. An act to incorporate the Peru and Andersontown Plank Road Company.

Chapter 256. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Terre Haute Draw Bridge Company,” approved January 13, 1845.

Chapter 257. An act authorizing Cyrus Taber and Allen Hamilton to build a dam across the Wabash River, in Cass county.

Chapter 258. An act to incorporate the Pittsborough and Crawfordsville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 259. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to declare certain water courses in the counties of Perry and Spencer, public highways, and for other purposes,” approved January 17, 1850.

Chapter 260. An act for the relief of George Coit.

Chapter 261. An act to revive and extend the provisions of an act to incorporate the town of Anderson, approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 262. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Hamilton, Tipton and Howard.

Chapter 263. An act authorizing John Heiney to build a mill-dam across the Salamonia river.

Chapter 264. An act to authorize Loyd Brown and Eli Brown to erect and maintain a mill-dam across White river near Anderson in Madison county.

Chapter 265. An act to locate a State road in Allen county.

Chapter 266. A bill to legalize certain acts of the Henry County Turnpike Company and for other purposes.

Chapter 267. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Pulaski, Starke and Laporte.

Chapter 268. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to incorporate the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 269. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Madison County Hydraulic and Manufacturing Company,” approved January 15th, 1849.

Chapter 170. An act for the benefit of the Union Plank Road Company, and the Michigan City and South Bend Plank Road Company, in Laporte county.

Chapter 171. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Greensburgh and Brookville Turnpike Company,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 172. An act to change the names of persons therein named.

Chapter 173. An act for the relief of Dempsey Linton.

Chapter 174. An act for the relief of Andrew Morgan, of Dearborn county.

Chapter 175. An act to amend an act to incorporate the Logansport and Rochester Michigan Road Company, approved January 15, 1846.

Chapter 176. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Lake Michigan, Logansport, and Ohio River Railroad Company,” enacted by the General Assembly in February 1848.

Chapter 177. An act to extend the Martinsville and Franklin Railroad via Spencer, in Owen county, to the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 178. An act to incorporate the Connersville and Milton Turnpike Company.

Chapter 179. An act amendatory to the acts incorporating the townships of Dearborn, so as to authorize the board of county commissioners of said county to establish additional election precincts, if they deem it expedient.

Chapter 180. An act authorizing the location of a State road from Hartford in Blackford county, through New Cumberland in Grant county, to Kokomo in Howard county.

Chapter 181. An act to amend the charter of the town of Terre Haute.

Chapter 182. An act to incorporate the Vanderburgh Manufacturing company.

Chapter 183. An act to authorize the building of a Bridge across Laughery creek by Andrew Morgan.

Chapter 184. An act to exempt from taxation the Marine Hospital at Evansville, Indiana.

Chapter 185. An act to incorporate the New Trenton and Southgate Bridge and Road Company.

Chapter 186. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Trustees of the Hartsville Academy,” approved January 12, 1850.

Chapter 187. An act establishing a state road in the counties of Orange and Crawford.

Chapter 188. An act for the relief of Ann Blythestone of Allen county.

Chapter 189. An act to incorporate the New Albany Hotel Company.

Chapter 190. An act to legalize the acts of the late treasurer of Elkhart county, and to extend the time of paying taxes in said county.

Chapter 191. An act to relocate a State road in DeKalb county.

Chapter 192. An act declaring Mill creek in Morgan county a public highway.

Chapter 193. An act for the relief of the administrator of the estate of Albert Monson, late of St. Joseph county, deceased.

Chapter 194. An act providing for electing township assessors in Rush county.

Chapter 195. An act authorizing the secretary of state to issue a Patent to Daniel K. Smith for a tract of land therein named.

Chapter 196. An act to authorize the city of Madison to borrow money.

Chapter 197. An act to change the name of Joseph Grandison Jones to that of Joseph Grandison Talbot.

Chapter 198. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Connersville and Brownsville Turnpike Company, approved 16th January, 1849.

Chapter 199. An act authorizing the Western Plank Road Company to issue and sell bonds.

Chapter 200. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Rushville and Muncietown Railroad Company,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 201. An act to vacate a portion of a certain State road.

Chapter 202. An act to amend the act to incorporate the Brookville and Connersville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 203. An act to annex the town of Belleville in the county of Posey, to the town of Mount Vernon.

Chapter 204. An act in relation to a certain road and street therein named.

Chapter 205. An act to enable Thomas G. Alvord to file his bill in chancery in the Laporte circuit court.

Chapter 206. An act to incorporate the Vernon Insurance, Life and Trust, Trading, and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 207. An act to authorize the construction of a mill-dam across the Tippecanoe river in the county of White.

Chapter 208. An act to vacate an alley in the town of Greencastle in Putnam county.

Chapter 209. An act to repeal a Plank Road law of Huntington and Whitley counties.

Chapter 210. An act to vacate a part of Gilmore’s addition to the village of Angola in Steuben county.

Chapter 211. An act to amend an act entitled “an act requiring the supervisors of roads in Coal Creek township, in Montgomery county, to keep the same in repair, and for other purposes therein contained.

Chapter 212. An act to authorize the treasurer of Laporte county to charge a per centage on road tax receipts.

Chapter 213. An act for the relief of Harmon N. Kress, of Clay county, Indiana.

Chapter 214. An act to authorize the electing a supervisor for Laurel township in Franklin county.

Chapter 215. An act declaring a part of Poison creek, in Perry county, a public highway.

Chapter 216. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Richmond and Boston Turnpike Company,” approved February 15, 1839.

Chapter 217. An act to incorporate the Plainfield Seminary.

Chapter 218. An act extending the provisions of “an act for the benefit of the Clark County Central Plank Road Company,” to the Madison, Hanover and Lexington Plank Road Company.

Chapter 219. An act to extend the provisions of an act entitled “an act to enable the qualified voters of District No. 4, in township No. 31 north, of range 6 east, in Kosciusko county, to levy tax in said district sufficient to build a school house,” approved January 21, 1850, to the several school districts in Fulton county.

Chapter 220. An act relative to the Western Plank Road Company.

Chapter 221. An act entitled “an act for the relief of John J. Cummins.”

Chapter 222. An act to incorporate the Evansville Hotel Company.

Chapter 223. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Wayne county Turnpike Company,” approved December 5, 1848.

Chapter 224. An act to authorize the draining of wet lands in Miami, Allen, Huntington, and St. Joseph counties.

Chapter 225. An act to authorize the board doing county business in Tipton county, to change burial ground for the town of Tipton.

Chapter 226. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Lafayette Plank Road Company,” approved January 3, 1849.

Chapter 227. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Crawfordsville and Wabash Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846, and the acts amendatory thereto.

Chapter 228. An act to incorporate the German Union Support Society, of Jefferson county.

Chapter 229. An act to authorize the township trustees of Lawrenceburgh township, of Dearborn county, to assess and collect a free bridge tax.

Chapter 230. An act to incorporate the Bluffton Band.

Chapter 231. An act to incorporate the town of Milford, Decatur county.

Chapter 232. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the Jeffersonville Railroad Company to issue and secure the payment of bonds,” approved December 29, 1849.

Chapter 233. An act for the relief of Samuel Shimer, and other purchasers of school lands in Randolph and Delaware counties.

Chapter 234. An act legalizing the sale of the school section in township 11 north, of range one east, in Morgan county, Indiana.

Chapter 235. An act to incorporate the Montpelier and Matamoras Plank Road Company.

Chapter 236. An act to incorporate the Congregation of the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Church, in the city of Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen.

Chapter 237. An act providing for the location of a State road from Troy, in Perry county, to Spencer, in Owen county, in this State.

Chapter 238. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Boone and Marion.

Chapter 239. An act to incorporate the Indiana Fire and Marine Insurance Company.

Chapter 240. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Peru,” approved February 14, 1848.

Chapter 241. An act to create a school district in Marshall county.

Chapter 242. An act relative to the Clark County Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 243. An act to incorporate the Madison and Vevay Plank Road Company.

Chapter 244. An act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company.

Chapter 245. An act providing for a certain State road therein named.

Chapter 246. An act amendatory of the several acts relating to the city of Logansport, approved February 17, 1838, January 13, 1845, and January 14, 1848.

Chapter 247. An act to incorporate the Anderson, Alexandria, and Jonesborough Plank Road Company.

Chapter 248. An act to incorporate the Franklin and Shelbyville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 249. An act to incorporate a gas-light company in the city of Madison.

Chapter 250. An act to change the name of the town of Portland, in Hancock county, to that of Cleveland, and to incorporate the same.

Chapter 251. An act to authorize the formation of Gas-light companies.

Chapter 252. An act to incorporate the Charleston and Brownstown Plank Road Company.

Chapter 253. An act to incorporate the Wabash, Warsaw and Goshen Plank Road Company.

Chapter 255 [sic]. An act to incorporate the town of New Winchester in Hendricks county.

1850 Local Laws of Indiana

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Chapter 1. An act for the relief of Chris Miller, of the County of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 2. An act for the relief of Charles Warner.

Chapter 3. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Milton and Waterloo Turnpike Company,” approved February 11th, 1849.

Chapter 4. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Madison and Napoleon Turnpike Company.

Chapter 5. An act to give the Monroe Circuit Court jurisdiction of a cause therein named.

Chapter 6. An act legalizing the proceedings of the Trustees of the corporation of the town of Vevay.

Chapter 7. An act for the relief of certain Turnpike Companies therein named.

Chapter 8. An act to amend an act to incorporate Anderson’s Collegiate Institute.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the Union Turnpike Company.

Chapter 10. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize a company to construct a turnpike road from the point where the present State road from Oxford to Connersville crosses the State line of Ohio and Indiana to Connersville.”

Chapter 11. An act to protect from waste certain lands therein mentioned.

Chapter 12. An act to amend the charter of the Rushville and Shelbyville Railroad Company.

Chapter 13. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Fountain, Montgomery, and Putnam.

Chapter 14. An act to amend an act to incorporate the Central Plank Road Company, approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 15. An act relating to the Docket of Bela Hearick, a Justice of the Peace in Posey Township, Switzerland county.

Chapter 16. An act for the relief of Betsy Ann Simpson.

Chapter 17. An act to incorporate the Old School Presbyterian Church of Dunlapsville, in the county of Union, and State of Indiana.

Chapter 18. An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Princeton Female College.

Chapter 19. An act to incorporate the Indiana Insurance Company.

Chapter 20. An act for the relief of Anthony Frederic Yager.

Chapter 21. An act for the relief of the heirs of William Shultze, deceased.

Chapter 22. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to incorporate the Moscow and Blooming Grove Turnpike Company,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 23. An act more effectually to enable the Trustees of the Harrison County Seminary to convey certain lots therein named.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Knightstown and Shelbyville Railroad Company,” returned by the Governor to the Senate the 11th February, 1848.

Chapter 25. An act for the relief of Herman Henry Kluter and Frederick William Kluter, of the county of Ripley, Indiana.

Chapter 26. An act to extend the powers of the President and Trustees of the town of Columbus.

Chapter 27. An act to amend the charter of the Columbus, Nashville, and Bloomington Railroad Company.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana,” approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 29. An act to consolidate and publish in one act the several acts and parts of acts that now incorporate the Madison and Napoleon Turnpike company.

Chapter 30. An act to vacate Streets and Alleys therein named.

Chapter 31. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Martin, Orange, and Crawford.

Chapter 32. An act amendatory of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Delphi and Frankfort Plank Road Company,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 33. An act to amend the charter of the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad Company.

Chapter 34. An act to amend the charter of the city of Evansville.

Chapter 35. An act to incorporate the Tippecanoe Fire Company.

Chapter 36. An act to legalize the acts of the Board of County Commissioners of the counties of St. Joseph, Marshall, and Fulton, in assessing the road tax in said counties for the year 1849.

Chapter 37. An act to incorporate “The Indiana Asbury Female College.”

Chapter 38. An act to consolidate the Richmond Turnpike Company, and the Wayne County Turnpike Company, and for other purposes connected therewith.

Chapter 39. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Lafayette Plank Road Company,” approved January 3d, 1849.

Chapter 40. An act to incorporate a company to construct a turnpike road from Dillsborough to Versailles.

Chapter 41. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Crawfordsville and Wabash Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846, and an act amendatory thereto, approved February 15, 1848.

Chapter 42. An act to amend an act to provide for the construction of a Railroad from Martinsville, in Morgan county, to Franklin, in Johnson county.

Chapter 43. An act legalizing the election of Trustees of the town of Cloverdale, in Putnam county.

Chapter 44. An act to change the name of Abraham Moore, to that of Cyrus Moore Dunham.

Chapter 45. An act to provide for the election of Trustees of the town of Lafayette, by single districts.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 47. An act for the relief of David Baker, of Cass County.

Chapter 48. An act to incorporate the Vincennes and Orleans Railroad Company.

Chapter 49. An act to locate a State Road from Warsaw to Plymouth.

Chapter 50. An act to change the name of the town of Westport, in the county of Parke, to that of Howard.

Chapter 51. An act granting the right of way to Companies in the State of Illinois, to construct Plank Roads in the county of Vermillion, in this State.

Chapter 52. An act to prevent the unnecessary obstruction of Otter Creek, in the county of Vigo.

Chapter 53. An act to amend the charter of the New Albany and Salem Railroad Company.

Chapter 54. An act for the benefit of certain citizens of the Seminary Township of Gibson county.

Chapter 55. An act to provide for a general index of deeds in Marion county.

Chapter 56. An act for the relief of Aaron Wright of Marion county.

Chapter 57. An act to incorporate the town of Newbern in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 58. An act to change the name of Trenton in the county of Randolph.

Chapter 59. An act to incorporate the Drewersburg Turnpike Company.

Chapter 60. An act to legalize the Lafayette and Muncietown State road in the counties of Clinton and Tipton.

Chapter 61. An act to change the name of the town of White Hall, in Miami county, to that of Waw-pe-cong.

Chapter 62. An act to legalize certain proceedings in the Grant Probate Court.

Chapter 63. An act declaring Calumic river a public highway.

Chapter 64. An act to incorporate the Otter Creek and Racoon Plank Road Company.

Chapter 65. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Attica and Warren county Bridge Company,” approved January 16, 1848.

Chapter 66. An act to vacate the village of Mount Pleasant, in St. Joseph county.

Chapter 67. An act to alter and change a State Road therein named.

Chapter 68. An act to declare certain water courses in the counties of Perry and Spencer public highways, and for other purposes.

Chapter 69. An act for the relief of William Starner and children.

Chapter 70. An act to legalize the acts of George R. Proctor, as agent of Martin county.

Chapter 71. An act to vacate certain State roads therein named.

Chapter 72. An act to incorporate the Marion County Horse Company, for the detection and apprehension of horse thieves, and others charged with crime.

Chapter 73. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to levee the Wabash river on Shaker Prairie,” approved January 14, 1846.

Chapter 74. An act authorizing the Vermillion Circuit Court to hear the application of Susan Coleman for a divorce and change of name.

Chapter 75. An act to incorporate the Lamasco Iron Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 76. An act to change the name of Andrew Jackson Keeth to that of Andrew Jackson Wiggins.

Chapter 77. An act to attach certain familites to a school district therein named, in the county of Knox.

Chapter 78. An act to authorize the construction of a dam across the Tippecanoe river, in Pulaski County.

Chapter 79. An act to change the name of Uniontown, in Grant County.

Chapter 80. An act to locate a State road on the line dividing Miami and Wabash counties.

Chapter 81. An act to incorporate the Eagle Creek Plank Road Company.

Chapter 82. An act to locate a state road from Orleans, in Orange county, to Newberry, in Greene county.

Chapter 83. An act relative to the County Seminary property of Vanderburgh County.

Chapter 84. An act defining the boundaries of School district No. 1, in congressional township No. 12 north, of range No. 5 west, in the counties of Clay and Owen.

Chapter 85. An act to authorize the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, in Bartholomew county, to sell and convey a certain house and lot therein named.

Chapter 86. An act to incorporate the Evangelical Protestant Congregation of Christians in Haysville, Dubois county.

Chapter 87. An act to incorporate the Jonesboro and New Cumberland Plank Road Company.

Chapter 88. An act to incorporate the Decatur, Portland, and Winchester Plank Road Company.

Chapter 89. An act to incorporate the Centreville and Jacksonburgh Turnpike Company.

Chapter 90. An act to authorize Margaret Hurd to file a bill for a divorce in the Martin Circuit Court, and to regulate the proceedings thereon.

Chapter 91. An act authorizing the county commissioners of Fountain county to vacate a certain street in Rob Roy, Fountain county.

Chapter 92. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Indiana Mutual Fire Insurance Company, approved January 30, 1837.

Chapter 93. An act to incorporate the Spring Creek and Tippecanoe Hydraulic Company, of White county.

Chapter 94. An act in relation to the President and Directors of the Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road Company, and to secure the more speedy completion of said road.

Chapter 95. An act to legalize the proceedings of Robert A. Chandler, as master in chancery, in the county of Warren, and for other purposes.

Chapter 96. An act further to amend the charter of the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad Company.

Chapter 97. An act to locate a State road on the line between the counties of Steuben and De Kalb.

Chapter 98. An act for the relief of William J. H. Robinson of Jackson county.

Chapter 99. An act to incorporate the Rising Sun and Allensville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 100. An act to authorize Presley A. Irwin of Jennings county to file a bill in Chancery.

Chapter 101. An act to incorporate the Eagle creek, Marion county, Horse Thief Detecting Company.

Chapter 102. An act for the relief of Sarah M. Emerson.

Chapter 103. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Lagro, Marion, and Jonesboro Plank Road Company,” approved Jan. 16, 1849.

Chapter 104. An act to authorize the Commissioners of Howard county to borrow money.

Chapter 105. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Hagerstown, in Wayne county,” approved Jan. 19, 1846.

Chapter 106. An act to incorporate the American Live Stock Insurance Company.

Chapter 107. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Harrison, New Trenton, Rochester, and Brookville Turnpike Company,” approved January 13, 1849.

Chapter 108. An act to incorporate the White County Monticello Bridge Company.

Chapter 109. An act to authorize the draining of the Peru Prairie, in Miami county.

Chapter 110. An act to change the name of Reastine Cox.

Chapter 111. An act to change the name of Eliza Jane Bristo to Eliza Jane Swisher, and that of Nancy Brown to Nancy O’Neal.

Chapter 112. An act to change the name of Mary Jane Manning and Margaret Ann Manning, of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 113. An act in relation to Lamasco City.

Chapter 114. An act in relation to extra taxes in Lamasco City.

Chapter 115. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act authorizing Supervisors to work a certain road in Ohio county.”

Chapter 116. An act to legalize the settlement of the Auditor and Treasurer of Kosciusko county, for the financial year ending June, 1849, and for other purposes.

Chapter 117. An act incorporating the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 118. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to re-charter Hanover College.”

Chapter 119. An act to amend “An act to incorporate the Logansport and Rochester Michigan Road Company,” approved January 15, 1846, and for other purposes.

Chapter 120. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Howard and Miami.

Chapter 121. An act to vacate the alleys of the town of Cumberland.

Chapter 122. An act for the relief of Henry Berst and Titus G. Berst.

Chapter 123. An act for the relief of William Sloan and Richard Sloan.

Chapter 124. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of the Liberty and Brownsville Turnpike Company, approved February the 12, 1848, and the Liberty and Abington Turnpike Company, approved January 15, 1844.”

Chapter 125. An act to incorporate the Jasper County Plank Road Company.

Chapter 126. An act in relation to public roads and highways in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 127. An act for the relief of William Nothern.

Chapter 128. An act for the benefit of the Clark County Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 129. An act to authorize William McDowell, of the county of Adams, to erect a mill dam across the Wabash river in said county of Adams.

Chapter 130. An act to incorporate the Spring Creek and Tippecanoe Bridge Company.

Chapter 131. An act to authorize the citizens of Adams county to vote for or against the re-location of the county seat of said county.

Chapter 132. An act granting the right of way through the county of Vermillion to the Danville and Georgetown Plank Road Company.

Chapter 133. An act to incorporate the “Independent Relief Fire Company,” No. 1.

Chapter 134. An act to amend an act entitled “an act granting to the citizens of the town of Aurora, in the county of Dearborn, a city charter,” approved February 14, 1848.

Chapter 135. An act to exempt from the payment of State and county tax the Olive Branch Church in Jefferson county.

Chapter 136. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Miami and Wabash.

Chapter 137. An act to incorporate the Tippecanoe Horse-thief Detecting Company.

Chapter 138. An act to incorporate the Evangelical Lutheran St. John’s Church in Dearborn county.

Chapter 139. An act to amend the city charter of the city of Madison, approved February 14, 1848.

Chapter 140. An act to incorporate “the Goodwin Female Institute of Lafayette.”

Chapter 141. An act to amend the Charter of the City of Evansville.

Chapter 142. An act to change the name of Emanuel Pidcock.

Chapter 143. An act for the relief of Catharine Schnell and Dorothy Debler (wife of Louis Debler) of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 144. An act relating to the Sullivan County Library.

Chapter 145. An act to confirm the Angola Plank Road Company.

Chapter 146. An act for the benefit of Lewis Chappell.

Chapter 147. An act to authorize Joseph A. Williams and John Morgan to erect and maintain a mill-dam across the Wabash River, at or near Bluffton, in Wells county.

Chapter 148. An act to authorize Isaac Wilcox to construct a bridge or culvert over a State road, in the county of Morgan, therein described.

Chapter 149. An act for the relief of Cain Dockry.

Chapter 150. An act for the relief of Hannah S. Martin.

Chapter 151. An act to legalize the acts of Commissioners appointed to locate a road in the counties of Fountain and Tippecanoe.

Chapter 152. An act to locate a State road between the counties of Vigo and Clay.

Chapter 153. An act to vacate an alley in Greencastle.

Chapter 154. An act in relation to the auditor of Warrick county.

Chapter 155. An act to incorporate the West Point Literary Agricultural College, in Tippecanoe County.

Chapter 156. An act to vacate a certain state road in the county of Dekalb, and for other purposes.

Chapter 157. An act for the relief of Paul Egbert and others.

Chapter 158. An act to incorporate the Cincinnati and St. Louis Telegraph Company.

Chapter 159. An act in relation to the erection of a school house in Cambridge City.

Chapter 160. An act to authorize the location of a State road on the county line of Porter and Lake counties.

Chapter 161. An act relative to the Union Plank Road Company in Laporte county.

Chapter 162. An act to amend a certain act therein named.

Chapter 163. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana,” passed February 15, 1838.

Chapter 164. An act to authorize James Taylor to erect a Mill-dam across Salamony river, in Huntington county.

Chapter 165. An act to change the name of Mary Bell Niel to Mary Bell Noble.

Chapter 166. An act relative to a Receiver in Chancery in the county of St. Joseph.

Chapter 167. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Sullivan, Clay, Owen, and Hendricks.

Chapter 168. An act to incorporate the Harrison and Boardman Turnpike Road Company.

Chapter 169. An act to incorporate the Western Plank Road Company.

Chapter 170. An act to vacate a certain alley in the town of West Harrisonville, and a certain street in the town of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Martin.

Chapter 171. An act to authorize John C. Hursh, of Dekalb county to erect a mill-dam across the Little St. Joseph river in Allen county, Indiana.

Chapter 172. An act to incorporate the Alamo Sons of Reform of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 173. An act to incorporate the Delphi Northern Plank Road Company.

Chapter 174. An act to incorporate the Rushville and Muncietown Railroad Company.

Chapter 175. An act to amend the act to incorporate the Trustees of Indiana Asbury University, approved January 10, 1837.

Chapter 176. An act for the relief of Nehemiah Cheesman, of Wayne county.

Chapter 177. An act to incorporate the Noblesville Bridge Company.

Chapter 178. An act to incorporate the Peru and Warsaw Plank Road Company.

Chapter 179. An act to legalize certain acts therein named.

Chapter 180. An act to incorporate the Evansville Insurance Company.

Chapter 181. An act for the relief of James Bertenshaw.

Chapter 182. An act for the relief of Elias Abel, of Monroe county.

Chapter 183. An act to incorporate “The Mount Vernon Insurance Company.”

Chapter 184. An act permanently fixing the location of the Greenfield and Franklin state road, within the Counties of Hancock and Shelby.

Chapter 185. An act to incorporate the town of Troy, in Perry County.

Chapter 186. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Henry and Delaware.

Chapter 187. An act to incorporate the Pittsburgh Library Institute.

Chapter 188. An act for the relief of Samuel Scott, sen., of Posey county.

Chapter 189. An act for the relief of Hugh M. Stevenson and James Wilson, of Wabash county.

Chapter 190. An act to incorporate the Cannelton Savings Institution.

Chapter 191. An act to incorporate the town of Shelbyville, in the county of Shelby.

Chapter 192. An act to incorporate the Madison and Clifton Water Works.

Chapter 193. An act to incorporate the Chaffrane Biken-Chalim Irkfirrans Mesini Society, of Fort Wayne.

Chapter 194. An act for the relief of Charles Martin, Daniel Seward, and John Bundy.

Chapter 195. An act for the relief of Israel Bayless.

Chapter 196. An act to vacate parts of certain streets and alleys in the town of South Bend, St. Joseph county, Indiana.

Chapter 197. An act to legalize the marriage between William Brazzle and Sarah Vaughan, of Daviess county.

Chapter 198. An act to incorporate the Logansport Insurance Company.

Chapter 199. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the City of Indianapolis,” approved May 27, 1848.

Chapter 200. An act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 201. An act to incorporate the Brookville Literary and Scientific Lyceum.

Chapter 202. An act for the relief of Crawford Byrd.

Chapter 203. An act to vacate a certain alley in the town of Spencerville.

Chapter 204. An act to amend an act to incorporate the Wilmington and Aurora Insurance Company, approved February the 2d, 1839.

Chapter 205. An act authorizing Michael F. Bourke to obtain license to practice an attorney and counsellor at law, in this State.

Chapter 206. An act to authorize a company to construct the Hart’s Mill and Marion Turnpike.

Chapter 207. An act to amend an act entitled “an act granting the citizens of Lawrenceburgh a city charter,” and for revising and repealing all laws and parts of laws heretofore enacted on that subject.

Chapter 208. An act to re-open a road in Cass county.

Chapter 209. An act to change the name of the town of Harrisburgh, in Hendricks county.

Chapter 210. An act to incorporate the Town of Greenfield, in the county of Hancock.

Chapter 211. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Cross Plains and Laugherty Turnpike Company” approved Jan. 15, 1849.

Chapter 212. An act for a plank road from Newcastle in Henry county to Dublin in Wayne county.

Chapter 213. An act in relation to wardens and vestrymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Chapter 214. An act to incorporate the Clinton County Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 215. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Brownsburg Plank Road Company.

Chapter 216. An act to incorporate the town of Liberty, in Union county.

Chapter 217. An act to incorporate the Mount Carmel and Owensville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 218. An act to legalize a certain order of the Knox Probate Court.

Chapter 219. An act to vacate the town of Baltimore in the county of Warren.

Chapter 220. An act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and Columbia Plank Road Company.

Chapter 221. An act for the relief of the estate of William Harris, deceased, late of the county of Martin.

Chapter 222. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Franklin and White River Turnpike Company,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 223. An act to authorize Jeremiah T. Draper to file his bill for divorce in Hancock Circuit Court.

Chapter 224. An act to enable the qualified voters of District No. eight, in township No. thirty-three north of range No. seven east, in Kosciusko county, to levy a tax in said District sufficient to build a School-house.

Chapter 225. An act to vacate certain blocks, streets, and alleys in Michigan City, Laporte county, Indiana.

Chapter 226. An act to authorize Charity Ann Wise to file a bill for a divorce.

Chapter 227. An act to incorporate the German Theological Seminary of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States.

Chapter 228. An act to incorporate the Harrison Drawbridge Company.

Chapter 229. An act to extend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Town of Peru,” approved February 14, 1848, to the Town of Vernon.

Chapter 230. An act to legalize the location of a State road in Franklin and Ripley counties.

Chapter 231. An act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company.

Chapter 232. An act to incorporate the Rising Sun and Versailles Turnpike Company.

Chapter 233. An act to incorporate the Danville, North Salem, and Crawfordsville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 234. An act to incorporate the Lagrange Male and Female Seminary.

Chapter 235. An act for the relief of Montgomery County.

Chapter 236. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Springfield Plank Road Company.

Chapter 237. An act to authorize the auditor of Grant county to loan money to the trustees of the Grant County Seminary.

Chapter 238. An act to improve Laughery Creek in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 239. An act to authorize the board of commissioners of Daviess county to compound a certain claim against the surviving security of Joseph Doherty, late of said county, deceased.

Chapter 240. An act for the relief of Hezekiah Hinkston, heir-at-law of David Hinkston, deceased, late of Marion county, State of Indiana.

Chapter 241. An act to provide for draining wet lands in the county of Adams.

Chapter 242. An act for the relief of Nancy Kitchen.

Chapter 243. An act declaring a certain stream therein named a public highway, in the county of Shelby.

Chapter 244. An act providing for the opening of streets and alleys in the City of Indianapolis.

Chapter 245. An act to repeal an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Town of Bloomfield,” approved February 2, 1837.

Chapter 246. An act to locate a State road from Crawfordsville, in Montgomery county, to Concord, in Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 247. An act declaring a certain road in Morgan county a state road.

Chapter 248. An act for the relief of William Mackey.

Chapter 249. An act to transfer the dockets of John Hodge and Jefferson S. S. D. Carey, late Justices of the Peace in Grant County, Indiana, to the custody of Thomas Wall, a Justice of the Peace in said County.

Chapter 250. An act for the relief of Zadock C. Smith, of Miami county.

Chapter 251. An act for the relief of persons who have made improvements on school section in township 25 north, of range 3 east, in the counties of Cass and Miami.

Chapter 252. An act for the relief of John Maharry, and others.

Chapter 253. An act for the relief of the trustees of Union Meeting House for the United Brethren in Christ, in Wayne county.

Chapter 254. An act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and Wolf Lake Turnpike road Company.

Chapter 255. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend the charter of the Milford and Columbus Railroad Company.”

Chapter 256. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to locate a State road in the counties of Decatur, Jennings, and Bartholomew,” approved January 5, 1849.

Chapter 257. An act to incorporate the Kossuth Bridge Company.

Chapter 258. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Greencastle, in the county of Putnam,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 259. An act to vacate a certain road therein named.

Chapter 260. An act to repeal certain sections of an act therein named.

Chapter 261. An act to change the name of George Searle Stephens.

Chapter 262. An act concerning the easement of the Valley Mills in Allen county.

Chapter 263. An act to incorporate the Covington Drawbridge Company.

Chapter 264. An act for the relief of George W. Potter, of Knox county.

Chapter 265. An act to incorporate the Trustees of St. Paul’s Church and of St. Joseph’s School Society of New Alsace in Dearborn County.

Chapter 266. An act to authorize a Company to construct the King’s Ridge and Moore’s Hill Turnpike.

Chapter 267. An act for the relief of John M. Cook, of Knox County.

Chapter 268. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Jeffersonville,” and to enlarge the boundaries thereof.

Chapter 269. An act to enable Indiana Yearly Meeting of the religious Society of Friends to receive, hold, manage, appropriate, and dispose of property for religious, educational, charitable, and benevolent purposes.

Chapter 270. An act to incorporate the Bowling Green Manufacturing and Navigation Company.

Chapter 271. An act to legalize the assessments of taxes of Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 272. An act to amend an act incorporating the Michigan Road Company, approved January 13, A. D. 1845.

Chapter 273. An act for the relief of the Lawrenceburgh and Napoleon Turnpike Company.

Chapter 274. An act to legalize the return of the vote given for and against the School Law, in the county of Shelby.

Chapter 275. An act to change the name of the Town of Springfield, in Hendricks county.

Chapter 276. An act to legalize the acts of Johnson Farley.

Chapter 277. An act for the relief of Delila and Sylvester Conklin, of Wayne county.

Chapter 278. An act incorporating the trustees of the Hartsville Academy.

Chapter 279. An act to amend “an act to incorporate the Henry County Turnpike Company,” approved December 5th, 1848.

Chapter 280. An act authorizing the vacation of a part of the State road leading from Fort Wayne to Lima, and for other purposes.

Chapter 281. An act to amend the act entitled “an act for the relief of the heirs of Louisa Jane Cassatt,” approved January 22, 1848.

Chapter 282. An act to authorize the trustees of the First Regular Baptist Church, of Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, Indiana, to sell land.

Chapter 283. An act to amend the charter of the Crawfordsville Female Institute.

Chapter 284. An act to incorporate the Madison Gas-light Company.

Chapter 285. An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Indianapolis Collegiate Institute.

Chapter 286. An act to locate a State road from West Franklin, in the county of Posey, to Evansville, in the county of Vanderburgh.

Chapter 287. An act to repeal an act, entitled “An act to vacate a certain road in the county of Switzerland,” approved Jan. 17, 1849.

Chapter 288. An act to locate a State Road in Morgan and Owen counties.

Chapter 289. An act for the relief of Sylvester P. Morgan and Benjamin Fuller of the county of Clarke.

Chapter 290. An act to authorize the Jeffersonville Railroad Company to issue and secure the payment of Bonds.

Chapter 291. An act to incorporate the “Eel River Bridge Company.”

Chapter 292. An act to authorize the Superintendent of the New Albany and Vincennes McAdamized Road to pay the Attorney’s fee in the case of Clendennin vs. Frazier, in the Supreme Court.

Chapter 293. An act to vacate certain streets and alleys in Jeffersonville.

Chapter 294. An act for the relief of Nancy C. Barrow, of Jefferson county.

Chapter 295. An act to locate a State road in the County of Washington.

Chapter 296. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Daviess County to compromise certain actions now pending against the securities of Friend Spears, late Treasurer of said County.

Chapter 297. An act to incorporate the White River Railroad Company.

Chapter 298. An act for the relief of Mary Huffman.

Chapter 299. An act to legalize the sale of lot No. 85, in the town of Wabash, Wabash county, Indiana.

Chapter 300. An act to incorporate the Mixerville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 301. An act for the relief of the estate of Noah Noble, deceased.

Chapter 302. An act to incorporate the Point Commerce Bridge Company.

Chapter 303. An act to incorporate the Presbyterian Female College in the county of Washington.

Chapter 304. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and Bluffton Turnpike Company.”

Chapter 305. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of New Albany, and to repeal all laws in force incorporating the town of New Albany,” approved 14th of February, 1838, and of the various acts amendatory thereto.

Chapter 306. An act declaring a certain county road therein named, a state road.

Chapter 307. An act to incorporate the Shelbyville and Indianapolis Railroad Company, and for other purposes.

Chapter 308. An act to incorporate the Lagro and North Manchester Plank Road Company.

Chapter 309. An act to vacate a certain road in the county of De Kalb.

Chapter 310. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to incorporate the city of Fort Wayne,” approved February 22d, 1840.

Chapter 311. An act to amend “An act to incorporate the American Cannel Coal Company,” approved December 23, 1847.

Chapter 312. An act to change the name of Losson Brinton, to that of Losson Rowing Lane, and for other purposes.

Chapter 313. An act to incorporate the town of West Union, in Fayette county, State of Indiana.

Chapter 314. An act to change the name of Belsora Barsheba Inglewright and others.

Chapter 315. An act to incorporate the Cloverdale Seminary.

Chapter 316. An act to authorize the trustees of the School Society of Mooresville to convey real estate.

Chapter 317. An act providing for the re-location of Orr & Harrison’s addition to the eastern enlargement of Evansville, and for other purposes.

Chapter 318. An act to incorporate the town of Noblesville.

Chapter 319. An act to incorporate the town of Hartsville, Bartholomew county.

Chapter 320. An act to incorporate Congressional Township No. 19, in Delaware and Henry counties, for the encouragement of free schools.

Chapter 321. An act to incorporate the Hamilton Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 322. An act to incorporate the Vevay, Mount Sterling, and Versailles Turnpike Road Company.

Chapter 323. An act supplemental to an act to incorporate the town of Mount Vernon, approved 27th January, 1847.

Chapter 324. An act to incorporate the town of Bellville, Hendricks county.

Chapter 325. An act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and Piqua Plank Road Company.

Chapter 326. An act to incorporate the Rushville and National Road Plank Road Company.

Chapter 327. An act to incorporate the Lafayette, Rossville, and Michigan Road Plank Road Company.

Chapter 328. An act to incorporate the Clinton and Illinois Plank Road Company.

Chapter 329. An act to incorporate the Ohio River and Princeton Plank Road Company.

Chapter 330. An act to incorporate the Noblesville and Northfield Plank Road Company.

Chapter 331. An act to incorporate the North Western Christian University.

Chapter 332. An act to authorize the construction of a Rail Road from Rushville to Lewisville, in Henry county.

Chapter 333. An act for the punishment of misdemeanors in the town of Lafayette, in Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 334. An act to incorporate the Tippecanoe Monumental Association.

Chapter 335. An act incorporating the Crawfordsville and Terre Haute Plank Road Company.

Chapter 336. An act to incorporate the Richmond and Liberty Turnpike Company.

Chapter 337. An act to amend several acts incorporating Turnpike Roads therein named.

Chapter 338. An act to incorporate the Jefferson County Historical Society.

Chapter 339. An act for the relief of George Donaldson, of the county of Lagrange.

Chapter 340. An act to incorporate the Fort Wayne, Auburn, and Steuben Plank Road Company.

Chapter 341. An act to incorporate the trustees of the Indiana Female Normal School.

Chapter 342. An act to change the name of Virginia Young to that of Virginia McAfee.

Chapter 343. An act to incorporate the Firemen and Mechanics’ Insurance Company.

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