Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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

LIST OF ACTS, &c.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. An act declaring Salt Creek a public highway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47. An act respecting the Knox county seminary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

56. An act incorporating the Washington county seminary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70. An act for the organization of Delaware county.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

84. An act concerning state roads.

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

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

87. A joint resolution respecting the revenue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

95. An act for the relief of Asahel Dunning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

104. A joint resolution respecting Blackford’s Reports.

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

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

107. A joint resolution relative to the state library.

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

109. An act to encourage the killing of Wolves.

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

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