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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twenty-Ninth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1845. Google Books

Page 126
Chapter XCII
An Act for the relief of Joseph Proctor and others.
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

• Whereas, It is made known to the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that William Shepherd and Mary his wife, formerly of Dearborn county, in said State, sold and conveyed certain lands in said county, to divers persons for valuable considerations; and among others sold and conveyed to Joseph Proctor, the south east quarter of section ten, and the north east quarter of section fifteen, both in town six, range two west, in said county; and that the said William Shepherd, at the time of making the said conveyance was an alien, and that he has since died; whereby the said lands are escheated and forfeited to the State of Indiana.
• That any and all deeds or conveyances made by the said William Shepherd and Mary his wife, of any lands in the said county of Dearborn be confirmed.

Page 135
Chapter CVI
An Act to change the name of Susannah Poe to Susannah Cundale.
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

• That the name of Susannah Poe, of the county of Dearborn, in this State, and daughter of Jane Cundale of the same place, wife of John Cundale, be and the same is hereby changed to Susannah Cundale, by which name she shall hereafter be known and called.

Page 171
Chapter CL.
An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Lawrenceburgh Cemetery.
(Approved January 8, 1845.)

• That from the time this act shall take effect, Stephen Ludlow, Isaac Dunn, George P. Buell, William Tate, William McCullough, William Craft, George Tousey, and William Brown, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of the Lawrenceburgh Cemetery.

Page 192
Chapter CLXXXVII
An Act for the relief of the Administrators of John Coce, late of Dearborn county, deceased
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

• That the Agent of State be authorized to pay to John P. Coce and Abraham Hyter, administrators of the estate of John Coce, late of Dearborn county, deceased, out of the suspended debt, the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars, as a full compensation for ten thousand cubic feet of oak and other timber taken off the lands of John Coce, and applied to the construction of the White Water Canal, by order of the resident engineer, for which he has never received compensation.

Page 192
Chapter CLXXXVIII
An Act for the relief of Joana Mahoney.
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

• That whenever satisfactory proof shall be produced to the Dearborn probate court, that James Mahoney, late of the county of Dearborn, deceased, hath left him surviving no heirs within the United States, and that all demands presented against his estate have been paid, the said court shall be authorized to order and direct the administrator of said estate, to pay over to said Joana Mahoney, the residue of the personal estate of said decedent in his hands, not exceeding in amount one hundred dollars.

Page 232
Chapter CCXXXIX
An Act to locate a State Road in the county of Switzerland.
(Approved December 27, 1844.)

• That Stephen Humphrey, William Howe, and William McNutt, of the county of Switzerland , be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road from Henry McMakin’s, in Egypt bottom, on the Ohio river; thence a north-westerly direction until it intersects the State road leading from the town of Patriot to Querace’s Grove, at or near Supply Walker’s.

Page 263
Chapter CCLXXXII
An Act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh Seminary of Learning in the County of Dearborn
(Approved January 8, 1845.)

• That C. G. W. Comyges, J. H. Brower, Owen Tousey, George Tousey, Wm. E. Craft, Wm. Tate, Wm. Brown, J. H. Lane, John Calihan, Josiah Beldem, A. B. Adams, Wm. McCullough, Abraham Roland, Geo. H. Dunn, E. Morgan, Stephen Ludlow, B. S. Ferris, B. Stockman, B. Mahew and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of “The Lawenceburgh Seminary of Learning.”

Page 266
Chapter CCLXXXVII
An Act for the relief of Priscilla Lazenby, and others.
(Approved January 10, 1845.)

• That the judgment, order, decree, and proceedings of the Dearborn circuit court of the term of March, 1833, in the case of Robert Huddleston vs. the residue of the heirs of Thomas Huddleston, deceased, on petition for partition; and the judgment, order, decree and proceedings of the probate court of the said county of Dearborn, of the term of November, 1837, relative to the partition of the real estate which was of one William Huddleston, deceased, be, and the same are hereby declared to be valid and good, and sufficient in law to vest in the several persons therein mentioned, and the person or persons holding or claiming by, through, or under them, the several tracts of land therein set apart to them respectively.
• That the State of Indiana doth hereby grant, release, and forever quit claim unto the several persons respectively, now claiming or holding said lands, by, through, or under the persons to whom the same were, by the proceedings aforesaid set apart, all her right and title to the several tracts or parcels of land in said proceedings mentioned, acquired by escheat thereof, for alienage.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twenty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Dowling and Cole, 1844. Google Books

Page 56
Chapter XXIX.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Vevay and Napolean and other Turnpike Companies,” approved Feb. 8, 1836.

• That the thirteenth section of said act, be so amended as to allow Joel DeCoursey, William Lanius, and Abijah North, of the county of Ohio, and John Hunter, of the county of Ripley, and their successors in office, appointed or elected as hereafter provided be and the same are hereby created a body politic and corporate, who shall, by the name and style of “The Rising-sun, Versailles and Napoleon Turnpike Company.”

Page 87
Chapter LXXI.
An Act to vacate a part of the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to the mouth of the Great Miami river.

• That so much of the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to the mouth of the Great Miami river as lies between the recorded town plan and the lands of William Tate, be and the same are hereby vacated.

Page 101
Chapter XCIV.
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Melchoir Sooder and James Hayes, late of the county of Dearborn, deceased.

• That all the estate and interest of the State of Indiana, in and to any lands situate in the county of Dearborn, of which Melchoir Sooder, late of said county, died seized, acquired by escheat of the same, is hereby released to, and vested in, such person or persons as would take the same by devise, descent, or in right of dower, if the said deceased, and the person or persons hereby authorized to take, had been native born citizens of the United States.
• That the sale of lands of which James Hayes, late of the county of Dearborn and State of Indiana, died seized, situate in said county, made since the death of said Hayes, by his administrators, by order of the Dearborn probate court, be and the same is hereby declared to be as valid, and to vest in the purchaser or purchasers, the same title as if the said James Hayes had been a citizen of the United States, and had died without known heirs in the same; and that all right that the said State of Indiana may have acquired in said land by escheat, be and the same is hereby released to, and vested in such purchaser or purchasers respectively.
• That all moneys which have been realized or which may be realized from the sale of said lands, or from goods and chattels of which said James Hayes died seized or possessed, be and the same is hereby released to, and vested in, such person or persons as would have taken the said land and the said goods and chattels, by devise, descent, or in right of dower, if the said James Hayes, and the persons hereby authorized to take, had been native born citizens of the United States; and that they shall have the same remedy for recovering the same, as if they and the said James had been native born citizens of the United States.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twenty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Dowling & Cole, 1843. Google Books

Page 15
Chapter VII.
An Act to incorporate the Vevay Band of Musicians.

• That William Patton, John K. Brooks, Isaac Stevens, Selden Golay, William W. Morrow, Franklin Dufour, John Lewis Thieband, Victor Kessler, Thomas Armstrong Jr., and Henry H. Humber, of the county of Switzerland, State of Indiana, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, and shall be known by the name and style of the “Vevay Band.”

Page 26
Chapter XI.
An act to incorporate the Dearborn County Cotton Manufacturing Company and for other purposes.

• That Pinkney James, C. G. W. Comegeys, David Macy, Omer Tousey and Daniel S. Major, together with such other persons as may associate for the purpose of prosecuting a general business, but the more especially the manufacturing and spinning of cotton, to be established and located at or near the town of Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn county, be, and the same are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, to all intents and purposes, to be known and designated by the name of the “Lawrenceburgh Trading and Manufacturing Company.”

Page 66.
Chapter XLIII.
An Act concerning State Roads.

• That Peter Harper, William Lee and Benjamin Pecket of the county of Switzerland are appointed commissioners to mark, locate and establish a State road, beginning where the Ross township road intersects the road leading from Madison to Lawrenceburgh, thence a northwesterly course by way of Willey’s chapel to the State road leading from New York in said county of Switzerland to Versailles in Ripley county, at or near the farm of Lemuel Wiley.

Page 111
Chapter CV
An Act for the relief of William McCulloch, deputy collector of the state and county revenue of Cotton township, Switzerland county, State of Indiana, for the year 1841.

• That the treasurer of Switzerland county, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to William McCulloch, deputy collector of Cotton township, Switzerland county, for the year 1841, or to his legal representative, the sum of twenty dollars out of the revenue of the State in his hands, and that he take a receipt therefor from the said William McCulloch, or his legal representative, which shall be a sufficient voucher for said treasurer in making settlement with the Auditor of Public Accounts, and for which said Auditor is required to allow a credit to the said treasurer.

Chapter 118
Chapter CXX.
An Act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

• That the agent for loaning the surplus revenue in the county of Switzerland, be, and he is hereby authorized to take and receive of and from, Stephen G. Peabody and James Dalmazzo, (the securities of Causby M. Lewis) the sum of four hundred dollars in full satisfaction of a certain judgment rendered against them, in favor of the State of Indiana, at the April term, 1839, of the Switzerland circuit court.

Page 137
Chapter CXXXVIII.
An Act declaring certain names a misprint, and for other purposes.

• That the names of Ladig Rons and Benjamin Detruz, in the first section of an act entitled, “an act relating to the trustees of Vevay Seminary,” approved January 18th, 1842, are hereby declared to be misprints, and that the names of Ladig Rons and Benjamin Detruz were intended to be Zadig Rons and Benjamin Detraz.

Page 143
Chapter CLI.
An Act declaring a certain name a misprint, and for other purposes.

• That the name of Simon Slawson in the first section of an act entitled “an act respecting a county seminary, and the seminary funds of the county of Switzerland,” approved, January 19th, 1828, is hereby declared a misprint, and that the name of Simon Slawson was intended to be Simeon Slawson.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twenty-Third Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Douglass & Noel, 1839.

Page 119
Chapter XXVII.
An Act incorporating the Dearborn county Seminary.

• That Daniel Conaway Jr., Robert Moore, Spencer Davis, Benjamin Vail, Nathaniel L. Squibb, Benjamin Walker, John Tait, William S. Durbin, John B. Clark, Aaron B. Henry, Jacob W. Egelston, Jeremiah H. Brewer, Ebenezer Dumont, William V. Cheek, George W. Lane, William Perry, and Henry Walker, and their successors in office, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for be, and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the “Board of Trustees of the Dearborn county Seminary.”

Page 204
Chapter LXXII.
An Act to incorporate the Vevay Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company.

• Joseph C. Eggleston, Edward Patton, Philip Schinck, Abner Clarkson, Perret Dufour, Francis G. Sheets, William Shaw, John F. Dufour, Elisha Golary, and their associates, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Vevay steam mill and manufacturing company.

Page 230
Chapter C.
An Act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes.

• That Garrett Swallan, Oliver H. Hustus, and John Hansel, of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are appointed commissioners, to view, mark, and locate a state road, commencing at the town of Aurora, in Dearborn county, thence westerly to the town of Dillsborough, in said county.

Page 247
Chapter CVI.
An Act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner.

• That all the right, title, and interest, which the state of Indiana has in, and to the personal or real estate of Patrick Donohue, deceased, who departed this life on or about the 6th day of February, 1838, in Switzerland county, intestate, and without any known heir or heirs, is hereby relinquished to Catharine Falkner, to have and to hold, to her and her heirs forever.

Page 249
Chapter CIX.
An Act locating a state road in the county of Dearborn.

• That Hugh M’Clure, Z. A. Bonham, and S. Hallowell, of Dearborn county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to re-locate a state road as hereinafter provided.
• To re-locate said road, commencing at the elbow of the old road, north of the town of Harrison, on the land of George Arnold, at the state line; thence north-west, or nearly so, to a large elm tree near the house of George Arnold; thence to Cooper’s run where the old road crosses the same; thence on the same ground on which the old road ran, to an old blacksmith shop on the land belonging to the heirs of J. Case, deceased, on the present road, and said commissioners are authorized to make such other changes or alterations as they may deem necessary, to the line dividing the counties of Franklin and Dearborn.

Page 264
Chapter CXXXV.
An Act providing for the distribution of the three per cent fund of Dearborn county.

• That of the three per cent fund now due to, and unappropriated in Dearborn county, the sum of five hundred and sixty-five dollars is hereby appropriated, as follows, to wit: on a road leading from Aurora up south Hogan creek, by John Columbier’s, Phineas L. King’s and Samuel Ewan’s, to where it intersects the Aurora and Napoleon state road at John Dashiell’s house, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and John Columbier, Esq. and Samuel Ewan, are hereby appointed to expend the same; on the Lawrenceburgh and Madison state road, between Wilmington and Hartford, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and George Nichols, is hereby appointed to expend the same; from the elbow of the road, north of Harrison, where a change, authorized by the present Legislature, takes place, to where said change or new way intersects the old road, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and Elisha Metler and George Arnold are hereby appointed to expend the same; on a road leading from the bridge across Hogan creek, on the road between Wilmington and Aurora and running from thence by W. V. Cheek’s, Milburn’s mills and Daniel Hathaway’s, to north Hogan school house, said road hereafter to be laid out, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and Elisha Chisman and Thomas H. Milburn, are hereby appointed to expend the same; on a road hereafter to be laid out from Dillsborough to Aurora, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and Philip Wymond is hereby appointed to expend the same.

Page 270
Chapter CXLV.
An Act to revive “an act entitled an act to amend 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 in the court house, in Lawrenceburgh, on the 6th of March, 1826,” approved January 11, 1827.

• That James T. Brown, William R. Cole, and Richard H. Holman, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners under the provisions of the act hereby revived and continued in force.

Page 284
Chapter CLXXIII.
An Act to legalize the name of Nathan Walden.

• Whereas, Elizabeth Myers, previous to her intermarriage with James Walden, had a son, who has ever since the said marriage of his mother, assumed to himself the name of Nathan Walden, and by that name has been known and contracted with, and whereas the said Nathan Walden, who is now a resident of the township of Jefferson in the county of Switzerland in this state, is apprehensive that his acts under the name of Nathan Walden may not be valid; therefore,
• That the son of Elizabeth Myers shall hereafter be known by the name of Nathan Walden.

Page 319
Chapter CCXLIII.
An Act to relocate a part of the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Harrison in Dearborn county.

• That Stephen Ludlow, Ezra Guard and Isaac Dunn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to relocate that part of the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Harrison, commencing on the south-west side of the White-water canal, where said road now crosses the White-water canal near Andrew Morgan’s house to the Ohio state line near the residence of Isaac Hayes.

Page 321
Chapter CCXLV.
An Act to locate a state road in the county of Dearborn.

• That Lemuel G. Elder, Walter Kerr, and William Williams of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and re-locate a state road, commencing at the South Hogan creek bridge, between the towns of Aurora and Wilmington, in Dearborn county; thence up North Hogan creek, passing the farm of William V. Cheek, Amor Bruce, and Millburn’s mill; thence to the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis state road, near the North Hogan school house.

Page 326
Chapter CCLVI.
An Act supplemental to an act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner, approved, February 6th, 1839.

• That so much of the act to which this is supplemental, as vests more than one half of the estate of Patrick Donohue, deceased, named in said act, in the said Catharine Falkner, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
• One half of the estate aforesaid, shall be, and the same is hereby vested, in the children of the said Catharine, who are now living.
• The administrator of the estate aforesaid, shall pay over one half of said estate to Catharine Falkner, in the same manner as is prescribed for him to pay over the whole of said estate to the said Catharine, in the act to which this act is supplemental. The receipt of said Catharine Falkner, aforesaid, shall be a full and sufficient voucher for said administrator, on his final settlement of said estate with the probate court of the county of Switzerland, aforesaid.

Page 329
Chapter CCLXI.
An Act for the relief of the heirs of William Huddleston, Thomas Huddleston, and Robert Huddleston.

• That all the estate and interest of the state of Indiana, in any lands, situated in any county in said state, of which the said William, Thomas, and Robert Huddleston, late of Dearborn county, deceased, died seized, acquired by escheat of the same, is hereby released to, and vested in such persons, being inhabitants of the United States, as would take the same, by devise, descent, or in right of dower, if the said deceased persons, and the persons hereby authorized to take, had been native citizens of this state.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twentieth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Bolton and Emmons, 1836.

Page 68
Chapter X.
AN ACT to incorporate the town of New York in Switzerland county.
(Approved February 8, 1836.)

• That Daniel Kelso, Samuel Howard, George Land, and Erastus Moore they and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the trustees of the town of New York.

Page 69
Chapter XII.
AN ACT to incorporate the town of Vevay.
(Approved January 30, 1836.)

• The qualified voters of said town, shall on the first Monday in June A. D. 1836, proceed to elect seven trustees of said town…. That said election shall be held at the court house in said town, and Robert Drummon and Perret Dufour of said town, are hereby appointed inspectors of said election.

Page 299
Chapter LXXIV.
AN ACT to incorporate the Vevay and Napoleon and other Turnpike Companies.
(Approved February 8, 1836.)

• That Francis G. Sheets, Joseph Malin, Edward Patton, John F. Dufour, Elisha Golay, William Moss and Lyman W. Mix of Switzerland county and James Cravens and Miles Mendenhall of the county of Ripley 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 Vevay and Napoleon Turnpike Company.
• That Pinkney James, William Lanius, Robert Conaway, Cornelius Miller and William Gerard, of the county of Dearborn and John Hunter, John Bell, and Beverly Blair, of the county of Ripley, and their successors in office appointed or elected, as hereafter provided be and the same are hereby created a body politic and corporate who shall by the name and style of the Rising Sun, Versailles and Napoleon Turnpike Company.
• That George P. Buell, Elias Conwell, William Israel, Stephen Wood, Stephen Hardin, Aaron Foulk and Robert Moor, of Dearborn county, and their successors in office, duly elected and qualified in the same way and manner provided for in the act, incorporating the president and directors of Vevay and Napoleon Turnpike Company, be and are hereby constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “the president and directors of the Aurora and Napoleon Turnpike Company.”

Page 333
Chapter CXVI.
AN ACT appropriating certain portions of the three per cent fund in Dearborn county.
(Approved February 8, 1836.)

• That of the three per cent fund now due to the county of Dearborn, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the building of a bridge across Arnold’s creek where the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Madison crosses the same, the same to be expended under the direction of Col. Pinckney James of said county.
• Two hundred dollars, on the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Rising-sun in said county, to be appropriated under the direction of John J. French of said county, and one hundred and fifty dollars on the state road between Aurora and the town of Manchester, under the direction of William Dils.

Page 359
Chapter CLI.
(Approved, January 30, 1836.)
AN ACT appointing commissioners to review and extend a state road in Switzerland county.

• That Samuel Howard and Joseph Wilson, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, for the purposes hereinafter named.

Chapter 363
Chapter CLVIII.
AN ACT to lay out a state road in the counties of Ripley and Dearborn.
(Approved February 4, 1836.)

• That Oliver H. Heustis of Dearborn county and William Skeen and Reuben Sutton of Ripley county, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road from the town of Versailes in the county of Ripley, on the route that shall in their judgment, best comport with the public interest, to intersect the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Indianapolis to Manchester in Dearborn county at the corner of sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine and thirty-two and thirty-three, township six, range two west.

Page 374
Chapter CLXXVII.
AN ACT to locate a state road in Dearborn county, from the town of Dillsborough to Aurora.(Approved January 2, 1836.)

• That Johnson Watts, Martin Trester, and Thomas Folbree, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road from the town of Dillsborough in Dearborn county, to the town of Aurora in said county of Dearborn.

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Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed and Published at the Eighteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1834. Google Books

Page 115
Chapter LXIV.
An Act to incorporate the Rising Sun Insurance Company.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• The books for the subscription to the capital stock of said company shall be opened in the town of Rising Sun, by and under the direction of E. S. Bush, S. Hathaway, J. B. Craft, J. Haines, J. H. O’Neil, William Lanius, J. Decoursey, P. James, and A. C. Pepper, who are hereby appointed commissioners for that purpose.

Page 147
Chapter LXXI.
An Act to amend and revise the act entitled, “an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn,” approved February 7th, 1825, and for other purposes.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

Page 182
Chapter CI.
An Act for the relief of Robert W. Todd.
(Approved December 27, 1833.)

• That the circuit court of the county of Ripley, be, and the same is hereby authorized and required to change the venue in a certain case now pending and undetermined in said court, wherein the state of Indiana is plaintiff, and Robert W. Todd defendant, on an indictment for malicious prosecution, to the county of Switzerland, or such other county as the president judge in vacation, or the court in term time may direct upon application of said Todd, upon said defendant by himself or counsel filing an application for such change.

Page 258
Chapter CXLIV.
An Act to locate a State Road in Dearborn and Ripley counties.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Mark McCracken and Oliver Heustis of the county of Dearborn, and Thomas W. Sunman of the county of Ripley, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road from the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis state road, at or near the fourteen mile stake from Lawrenceburgh, thence in a north direction to intersect the Lawrenceburgh and Rushville state road at or near a school house in the neighborhood of Sunman’s mill in Ripley county.

Page 260
Chapter CXLVII.
An Act to locate a State Road in Dearborn county.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Daniel Plumer, John Dawson, and Milton Gregg of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road commencing at the state line dividing Indiana and Ohio, at the state road leading from Cincinnati through Elizabethtown to the state line as above mentioned, thence running on the nearest and best ground near where John Fairfield now lives, thence up the hill at the easiest point raised, thence through Abiah Hayes’ land, doing the least damage where a good road can be had, near where Hiram Duskey now lives, thence in the best direction to the stone bridge across Salt fork on the state line road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Rushville, until it strikes the road leading to John Roasberry’s mill on Tanner’s creek, thence down either of said roads near the mill, thence up said creek to where the road now crosses said creek, running on the nearest and best ground to Thomas Darling’s, thence running on the nearest and best ground to Washington Wright’s in Manchester township in Dearborn county, intersecting the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Indianapolis.

Page 264
Chapter CLI.
An Act to locate a State Road from Rising Sun in Dearborn county, to intersect the State Road leading from Vevay in Switzerland county to Versailles in Ripley county, at or near Cross Plains in Ripley county.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Samuel Jelley and Nathaniel L. Squibb of the county of Dearborn, and George Richmonds of the county of Switzerland, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road, commencing at the centre of main street in the town of Rising Sun in Dearborn county, and running thence on the main street aforesaid, to where the same intersects the old county road leading from Lahew’s ferry, on the Ohio river, to intersect the road leading from Madison in Jefferson county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county, at or near Jacob Myres’ tavern, thence on or as near said old county road as conveniently can be to Jacob Myres’ tavern aforesaid, thence the nearest and best route (having due regard to private property) to intersect the state road leading from Vevay to Versailles as aforesaid.

Page 266
Chapter CLIII.
An Act to locate a State Road in the county of Switzerland.
(Approved, February 1, 1834.)

• That William B. Campbell, Abbott Goddard, and Martin R. Green of the county of Switzerland, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road, beginning at New York in the county of Switzerland, and running from thence northwardly via John R. Wiley’s in said county, on the nearest and best road (having due regard to private property,) to intersect the state road running from Vevay in Switzerland county, to Rising Sun in Dearborn county, at or near the house of the widow Green’s on said road.

Page 234
Chapter CLXVIII.
An Act to establish a State Road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Joel Decoursey, John J. French, and John Callahan of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a state road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburgh in said county.

Page 303
Chapter CLXXXVI.
An Act to authorize the survey of roads in the county of Switzerland.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

Page 313
Chapter CCIV.
An act to change a part of the State Road leading from New-York in Switzerland county, to intersect the State Road leading from Vevay in said county, to Versailles in Ripley county.
(Approved, January 15, 1834.)

• That Enos Littlefield Esq., of the county of Switzerland, be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner to relocate so much of the state road leading from New York in Switzerland county, to the state road leading from Vevay in said county, to Versailles in Ripley county, as lies between Loglick Creek of the Ohio River. Said commissioner shall, on or before the fifteenth day of June, 1834, attend at the house of Thomas Carter, in the said county of Switzerland, and after taking an oath, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of commissioner as aforesaid, proceed to relocate so much of said state road as above mentioned, by continuing said road down said Loglick creek, on the north-west side thereof, to where the range line dividing ranges one and two west, crosses said creek; thence the nearest and best rout (having due regard to private property,) to the centre of the main street of the town of New-York on the Ohio River in said county.

Page 336
Chapter CCXXVIII.
An Act to incorporate the Switzerland county Seminary.

• That James Rous of Craig township, Stephen C. Stevens, of Jefferson township, William McCorkhill, of York township, Thomas Cole of Cotton township, Aribert Gaslay of Posey township, and Cornelius A. Voorhees of Pleasant township, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted and appointed the trustees of the Switzerland county seminary.

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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

Page 17
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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.