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1843 Local Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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

Chapter 1. An act to incorporate the South Bend Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 2. An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act, entitled an act to incorporate the Liverpool Bridge Company.

Chapter 3. An act supplemental to an act, entitled “an act to incorporate the South Bend Manufacturing Company,” approved, December 28, 1842.

Chapter 4. An act to incorporate the first Presbyterian Church, of Fort Wayne.

Chapter 5. An act providing for the incorporation of the town of Leavenworth in the county of Crawford.

Chapter 6. An act to incorporate the Wabash Bridge Company.

Chapter 7. An act to incorporate the Vevay Band of Musicians.

Chapter 8. An act to incorporate the Lafayette Hussars.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the town of Portland in the county of Jay, Indiana.

Chapter 10. An act to incorporate the Perrysville Canal Lock Company.

Chapter 11. An act to incorporate the Dearborn County Cotton Manufacturing Company and for other purposes.

Chapter 12. An act to incorporate the Lafayette Band.

Chapter 13. An act to incorporate the Cambridge city and Venice turnpike company.

Chapter 14. An act to incorporate the Lagro Wabash Bridge Company.

Chapter 15. An act to incorporate the Spring Creek Academy.

Chapter 16. An act to incorporate the Columbus Band of Musicians.

Chapter 17. An act to amend an act entitled an act granting to the citizens of Madison and the town of Lawrenceburgh a city charter.

Chapter 18. An act to incorporate and establish, in the city of Madison, an institution for the dissemination and promotion of the Medical and associate sciences.

Chapter 19. An act to incorporate the Dayton band and the New Albany law institute.

Chapter 20. An act to incorporate the Delany Academy in the town of Newburgh, Warrick county, Indiana.

Chapter 21. An act to incorporate the Darlington Trading Company.

Chapter 22. An act to incorporate the German Lutheran and Reformed Church of the city of New Albany.

Chapter 23. An act to amend an act therein named.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Hagerstown Canal Company, approved, Feb. 15th, 1841.

Chapter 25. An act to repeal a part of the fifth section of an act entitled, “An act to incorporate the Indiana Iron Manufacturing Company,” approved, January 20th, 1841.

Chapter 26. An act to incorporate the Muncietown Band of Musicians.

Chapter 27. An act to amend an act entitled “an act incorporating the town of Terre Haute,” approved, February 17, 1838, and “an act amendatory thereto,” approved, February 16, 1839.

Chapter 28. An act to revive and amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Crawford county, Seminary, approved, February 7, 1835.

Chapter 29. An act to incorporate the Tippecanoe Academy.

Chapter 30. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Centreville, Wayne county, Indiana,” approved, January 31, 1834.

Chapter 31. An act amendatory to an act entitled, An act to incorporate the town of Cambridge City, app. Feb. 12th, 1841.

Chapter 32. An act to amend an act entitled, “An act to incorporate the Wayne, Union and Randolph Turnpike Company, and the Union and Wayne Turnpike Company,” approved, January 24th, 1842.

Chapter 33. An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act to incorporate the St. Joseph Iron Company,” app. Jan. 22d, 1835.

Chapter 34. An act to amend an act entitled, An act to incorporate the Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad Company.

Chapter 35. An act to incorporate the President and Trustees of the Evansville Female Seminary.

Chapter 36. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Perry county Seminary, approved, January 30, 1834.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the New Albany Patent Bagging Manufacturing Company, approved, January 29th, 1842.

Chapter 38. An act to incorporate the Marion Band in Grant county.

Chapter 39. An act incorporating the Greensburgh Band.

Chapter 40. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Mount Carmel and New Albany Railroad Company, approved, February 4, 1837.”

Chapter 41. An act authorizing a company to construct a Railroad from Muncietown, to Fort Wayne.

Chapter 42. An act to provide for the construction of a Railway in Laporte county.

Chapter 43. An act concerning State Roads.

Chapter 44. An act appointing commissioners to locate certain State Roads, therein named.

Chapter 45. An act to locate a state road in Orange county.

Chapter 46. An act for the improvement of the Fort Wayne and South Bend state road, so far as the same passes through Elkhart county.

Chapter 47. An act for the location of a state road from Vincennes to Dicksburgh.

Chapter 48. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the location of a certain State Road therein named, approved, January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 49. An act to locate a State Road in DeKalb and Steuben counties.

Chapter 50. An act to locate a State Road from Frankfort, in Clinton county, to Shielsville, in Hamilton county.

Chapter 51. An act to legalize the survey of a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 52. An act appointing commissioners to locate a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 53. An act authorizing a change in the location of a part of a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 54. An act to change a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 55. An act to re-locate a State road from Columbus in Bartholomew county, to Nashville in Brown county.

Chapter 56. An act to locate a State Road from the town of Evansville in Vanderburgh county, to the town of Petersburgh in Pike county.

Chapter 57. An act to vacate a portion of a certain State Road in Noble and Lagrange counties.

Chapter 58. An act to locate a State Road in the county of Wayne.

Chapter 59. An act declaring a certain county road, a State road in the county of Clay.

Chapter 60. An act to vacate a part of a State Road therein named.

Chapter 61. An act providing for the location of a state road in Delaware, Blackford and Huntington counties.

Chapter 62. An act to locate a certain State road therein named.

Chapter 63. An act to review a certain State Road therein named.

Chapter 64. An act to locate a State Road in the county of Greene.

Chapter 65. An act amendatory to an act entitled an act appointing commissioners to locate and relocate state roads therein named, and for other purposes, app. Jan. 31st, 1842.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the act in relation to the location of the Rome and Paoli state road.

Chapter 67. An act to establish a State Road in Henry county.

Chapter 68. An act to open the Bloomington and Salem road.

Chapter 69. An act authorizing the re-location of a part of a certain State road, in the county of Clay.

Chapter 70. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the establishment of a State road in Fayette county,” approved, December 24, 1841.

Chapter 71. An act to locate a State road in Fulton county.

Chapter 72. An act to change a certain State road in Monroe county.

Chapter 73. An act to locate a state road in the county of Dubois.

Chapter 74. An act to authorize Abednego W. Inman, of the county of Dubois, to change a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 75. An act to locate a state road in Pike and Dubois counties.

Chapter 76. An act to provide for recording a State road in Sullivan and Vigo counties.

Chapter 77. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to provide for recording a state road in Sullivan and Vigo counties,” passed at the present session.

Chapter 78. An act to increase the width of the Frankfort road.

Chapter 79. An act for the relief of Job B. Eldridge, Thomas J. Cummings, and Isaac Clary, and for other purposes.

Chapter 80. An act for the relief of the people of Allen county.

Chapter 81. An act for the relief of the securities of John Plasters school commissioner of Miami county.

Chapter 82. An act for the relief of Henry Johns.

Chapter 83. An act for the relief of Catharine Melville.

Chapter 84. An act for the relief of Reuben Main.

Chapter 85. An act for the relief of Hiram Prather, collector of Jennings county.

Chapter 86. An act for the relief of Adam Clark of Carroll county.

Chapter 87. An act for the relief of the people of Vermillion county.

Chapter 88. An act for the relief of the board doing county business in the county of Clay.

Chapter 89. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Harris and Susannah Antin.

Chapter 90. An act for the relief of sundry citizens of the town of Charleston, Clarke county.

Chapter 91. An act supplemental to an act entitled, an act for the relief of Reuben Main, approved December 20th, 1842.

Chapter 92. An act for the relief of Alexander Ray.

Chapter 93. An act for the relief of John C. Riely, of Perry county.

Chapter 94. An act for the relief of Mary B. Brown, late Mary B. Bowles.

Chapter 95. An act for the relief of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the town of Centreville in Wayne county.

Chapter 96. An act for the relief of Nathan Burchfield.

Chapter 97. An act for the relief of David Matlock, road commissioner of Hendricks county.

Chapter 98. An act for the relief of Amory Kinney, Salmon Wright, and Samuel B. Gookins.

Chapter 99. An act for the relief of the securities of Elisha Long, deceased, late Treasurer of Franklin county, Indiana.

Chapter 100. An act for the relief of Harmon Warram, of Hancock county.

Chapter 101. An act for the relief of James Gee and Abigail Gee, of Huntington county.

Chapter 102. An act for the relief of Jacob Bookwalter.

Chapter 103. An act for the relief of the estate of Hugh O’Neal, deceased, late of Huntington county.

Chapter 104. An act for the relief of the citizens of Huntington county.

Chapter 105. 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.

Chapter 106. An act for the relief of Zera Sutherland.

Chapter 107. An act for the relief of the late sheriff of Jackson county.

Chapter 108. An act for the relief of John Morgan.

Chapter 109. An act for the relief of the executors of Joseph Ratliff, deceased.

Chapter 110. An act for the relief of a certain person therein named.

Chapter 111. An act for the relief of William T. Scott, collector for Delaware county.

Chapter 112. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of Huntington county,” approved, January 25, 1842.

Chapter 113. An act for the relief of John J. Graham.

Chapter 114. An act for the relief of Philip Sweetser.

Chapter 115. An act for the relief of Jesse J. Burton and Joseph Luther.

Chapter 116. An act for the relief of purchasers of Seminary lands, in Monroe county.

Chapter 117. An act for the relief of William F. Lane and Gideon Lane, of Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 118. An act for the relief of Stephen Kitson.

Chapter 119. An act for the relief of James Smith of Gibson county.

Chapter 120. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 121. An act for the relief of John Brookbank.

Chapter 122. An act to repeal an act incorporating the town of Greensburgh, in Decatur county, Indiana.

Chapter 123. An act to relocate the county seat of Clay county.

Chapter 124. An act to provide for the relocation of the seat of justice in the county of Crawford and for other purposes.

Chapter 125. An act to locate the seat of justice in Benton county.

Chapter 126. An act for the collection and settlement of the funds belonging to the “Delphi Insurance Company.”

Chapter 127. An act for the regulation of the Graveyard at Lafayette.

Chapter 128. An act to establish a Board of Trustees of the County Library of the County of Marion.

Chapter 129. An act to repeal an act extending the provisions of certain acts to Grant county.

Chapter 130. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to change the town of Jeffersonville,” approved January 3, 1817, and for other purposes.

Chapter 131. An act to vacate the town of New Lexington in Grant county.

Chapter 132. An act to amend an act to provide for the continuance of the construction of all or any part of the public works of this State by private companies, and for abolishing the board of internal improvements and the offices of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer, approved Jan. 28th, 1842.

Chapter 133. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to provide for the collection of the debt due from the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis rail-road company, approved January 20th, 1842.

Chapter 134. An act to vacate a certain alley in the town of Delphi.

Chapter 135. An act to authorize Rice Davis to make a deed.

Chapter 136. An act to repeal an act therein named, approved January 14th, 1837, to provide for the electing of a justice of the peace in Owen county, and for electing one in Vienna, in Scott county.

Chapter 137. An act to amend an act therein named.

Chapter 138. An act declaring certain names a misprint, and for other purposes.

Chapter 139. An act to vacate Oak street and certain alleys in the town of Charlestown in the county of Clarke.

Chapter 140. An act giving further time to the treasurer of Perry county.

Chapter 141. An act to vacate the town of Marion, in Lagrange county.

Chapter 142. An act to authorize the Agent of State to “sign off” under the bankrupt law for the discharge of Woram and Haughunet, or either of them.

Chapter 143. An act to authorize the County Board of the county of Daviess, to appoint an agent to collect any funds due the late trustees of the town of Washington, and for other purposes.

Chapter 144. An act to authorize the purchase of land for water power in the town of Logansport.

Chapter 145. An act to provide for the collection of the tax on Bank Stock in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 146. An act to facilitate a final settlement of the accounts of Milton Stapp as Fund Commissioner.

Chapter 147. An act to authorize the board doing county business in the county of Clay to transcribe a certain road therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 148. An act to authorize the board of commissioners of Grant county to rescind an order made upon their record.

Chapter 149. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of the county of Tippecanoe to sell the poor house farm of said county.

Chapter 150. An act for the relief of the tax payers of Franklin township, Washington county, Indiana.

Chapter 151. An act declaring a certain name a misprint, and for other purposes.

Chapter 152. An act to change certain alleys in the town of Eaglevillage, in the county of Boone.

Chapter 153. An act supplemental to the act authorizing a subscription for the history of Indiana.

Chapter 154. An act authorizing a subscription for the History of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 155. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to authorize the administrator of Matthew H. Kempton, deceased, to bring certain suits in Perry county,” approved, January 29, 1842.

Chapter 156. An act in relation to the town of Laporte.

Chapter 157. An act extending the provisions of an act authorizing the recorder of Noble county to correct the records of said county in a certain case therein named, approved January 29th, 1842.

Chapter 158. An act to continue in force a certain act therein named.

Chapter 159. An act to change the name of John Cade alias John Mitchell.

Chapter 160. An act to change the name of Luther Thomas Griffing to Luther Thomas Martin.

Chapter 161. An act to change the name of Henry Harrison Collins of Greene county.

Chapter 162. An act to change the names of Jay Thompson and Mary Elizabeth Lee.

Chapter 163. An act to change the name of William Todhunter.

Chapter 164. An act consolidating certain school districts in Hancock county.

Chapter 165. An act in relation to county Seminaries.

Chapter 166. An act to authorize the School Commissioner of the county of Boone to redeem certain certificates therein named.

Chapter 167. An act to legalize the proceedings of the trustees and citizens of school district number four, in township number ten north, of range number five east, in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 168. An act relative to School taxes in Noble and Lagrange counties.

Chapter 169. An act for the relief of School district number two, in township number thirty-five and thirty-six north, of range number two west, in the county of Laporte.

Chapter 170. An act legalizing certain proceedings of the trustees of township fifteen, range eight east, in the counties of Rush and Hancock.

Chapter 171. An act defining the duties of the School Commissioners, in township number fourteen north, of range six west, in Parke county.

Chapter 172. An act to reinstate a certain tract of seminary lands therein named.

Chapter 173. An act respecting the seminary of Martin county.

Chapter 174. An act providing for the formation of two separate corporations, for school purposes, out of township number thirty-seven north, of range four east.

Chapter 175. An act relating to the Seminary Fund, in Cass county.

Chapter 176. An act providing for the election of the School Commissioners in the townships of Jackson and Florida, in the county of Parke.

Chapter 177. An act to authorize the school commissioner of St. Joseph county to reconvey certain forfeited lands to Betsey Sherwood.

Chapter 178. An act amendatory and explanatory of an act entitled “an act relating to the trustees of Vevay seminary,” approved January 18th, 1842.

Chapter 179. An act for the relief of congressional township number thirty-three north, of range six west, in Porter county.

Chapter 180. An act to authorize George Richards, Isaac Coonfield, James Epison, Henry Harper, and Benjamin Hentsley to file their claim against school district number one, township twelve north, of range two east, in Morgan county.

Chapter 181. An act authorizing the board doing county business, of the county of Knox, to adjust all claims with and against the trustees of the late nominal Vincennes University, in relation to the sale of the building and lots set apart for a county seminary by law.

Chapter 182. An act relative to the county Seminary and Laporte University buildings, in Laporte county.

Chapter 183. An act to authorize the rebuilding a bridge across the canal at Logansport.

Chapter 184. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize Daniel J. Hancock and Isaac Hancock to build a toll-bridge across South Hogan Creek in Dearborn county,” approved February 22d, 1840.

Chapter 185. An act to authorize certain individuals therein named to build a bridge across Big Walnut creek in Putnam county, where the Spencer and Rockville state road crosses said stream.

Chapter 186. An act to provide for the building of a bridge across the Wabash and Erie canal, west of Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 187. An act to authorize John Sour to build a mill dam across the Wabash river, in Wells county.

Chapter 188. An act authorizing the erection of dams and locks in Elkhart river.

Chapter 189. An act to legalize the mill dam now erected across the Salmonia river owned by Robert and Michael English.

Chapter 190. An act to authorize the erection of a mill dam across the east fork of White river, in Jackson county.

Chapter 191. An act authorizing Richard Palmer of Daviess county to build a mill dam across White river in the counties of Daviess and Knox.

Chapter 192. An act to authorize Amos Myers to build a Mill dam across White river.

Chapter 193. An act to authorize Levi M. R. Pumphrey to build a Mill dam across White river.

Chapter 194. An act authorizing Smith Lounsbury to build a Mill dam across the Salmonia river, and for other purposes.

Chapter 195. An act to authorize Isaac Letsenberger to build a Mill dam across the Mississinawa river.

Chapter 196. An act to legalize an appointment of a constable in Floyd county.

Chapter 197. An act to legalize the election of the trustees of the Jennings county library.

Chapter 198. An act legalizing the recording of the addition to the town of Fayetteville.

Chapter 199. An act legalizing the ordinances of the borough council of the borough of Richmond and the city council of the city of Richmond and for other purposes.

Chapter 200. An act to legalize the acts of Conrad Beard, a constable of White river township, Hamilton county, Indiana.

Chapter 201. An act to legalize the assessment in Steuben county for the year A. D. 1842.

Chapter 202. An act to legalize the last will and testament of Rowland Hunter, deceased, and for other purposes.

Chapter 203. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act legalizing the ordinances of the borough council of the borough of Richmond, and the council of the city of Richmond,” and for other purposes, approved Feb. 6th, 1843.

Chapter 204. An act to legalize the proceedings of the trustees of the Greensburgh Presbyterian Church.

Chapter 205. An act legalizing the appraisement of lands in Madison county.

Chapter 206. An act to vacate the town of Frankfort in Lagrange county.

Chapter 207. An act to legalize the appointments of certain constables in Henry county.

Chapter 208. An act to legalize an election therein named and for other purposes.

Chapter 209. An act relative to the water power at Northport in Noble county.

Chapter 210. An act to legalize the districting the county of Daviess into commissioners districts, and for other purposes.

Chapter 211. An act concerning a certain estate without known heirs.

Chapter 212. An act to legalize the acts of Isaac Tullis, deceased, late a justice of the peace for Rush county, Indiana.

Chapter 213. An act to vacate a part of the town of Claysville.

Chapter 214. An act to authorize the commissioners of Ripley county to pay the associate judges of said county for serving in the capacity of probate judges.

Chapter 215. An act authorizing the Sheriff of Sullivan county to select appraisers in a certain case therein named.

Chapter 216. An act legalizing the publication of the delinquent list in Delaware county.

Chapter 217. An act to confirm a title to certain lands in certain heirs and devisees.

Chapter 218. An act to legalize the acts of the Clerk of the Tippecanoe circuit court.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution to provide a home market for water rotted hemp.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution relative to the distribution of certain public documents.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution in relation to the grand rapids of the Wabash river.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution in relation to the effect of a joint resolution therein named.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution for the benefit of the Wabash Manual Labor College and Teachers Seminary.

Chapter 6. A Preamble and Joint Resolution in reference to the Mississippi trade.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution to suspend a certain act therein named, in Laporte, Tippecanoe, Randolph, and Delaware counties.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution for the relief of the estate of Ezekiel L. Dunbar, deceased.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution for the relief of Joseph H. Hendricks.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution on the subject of a Lunatic Asylum.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution for the benefit of James McLean of Parke county Indiana, a deaf and dumb person.

Chapter 12. A memorial and joint resolution to the Congress of the United States, praying appropriations to improve the navigation of the Mississippi, Ohio, Wabash and other important rivers, which are reserved national highways and tributaries of those mentioned.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution for the relief of Joshua Holland, treasurer of Henry county.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution for the relief of Andrew Wilson commissioner of the French Lick Reserve, in Orange county.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution ascertaining the strength of the Militia of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution authorizing the immediate publication of so much of the Revised Code as regulates the summoning and empaneling grand and petit jurors.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution in relation to the establishment of Marine Hospitals on the Mississippi and its tributaries, and the great Northern Lakes, for the benefit of sick and disabled boatmen.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution relative to the completion of the Wabash and Ohio Canal.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution in relation to the territory of the United States, West of the Rocky Mountains, called the Oregon Territory.

Chapter 20. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, respecting United States pensioners.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution relating to the construction of a harbor at Michigan city.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution in relation to postage on newspapers, pamphlets, &c.

Chapter 23. A joint resolution to provide for ascertaining the amount due contractors and laborers on the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad.

Chapter 24. A joint resolution asking aid of Congress to improve the navigation of the Wabash river.

Chapter 25. A memorial and joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, praying the passage of a law to extend the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, to the volunteers and militia who were in service against the Western Indiana, from the nominal close of our revolutionary war by treaty with England in 1783, to the final close thereof by treaty with the Indians at Greenville in 1795.

Chapter 26. A joint memorial to Congress praying for a donation of lands on behalf of the Rangers and Militia, in the service of the United States during the last war.

Chapter 27. A joint resolution supplemental to “a Joint Resolution to provide for ascertaining the amount due contractors and laborers on the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, approved, January 28, 1843.”

Chapter 28. A joint resolution in reference to the reduction of the rates of letter postage.

Chapter 29. A joint resolution relating to delinquent lands in Kosciusko, Elkhart, Whitley, Porter, and Lake counties.

Chapter 30. A joint resolution in regard to pre-emptioners.

Chapter 31. A joint resolution authorizing the Agent of State to settle with J. J. Cohen Jr. and Brothers.

Chapter 32. A joint resolution for the preservation of the books and papers belonging to the system of internal improvements, and for other purposes.

Chapter 33. A joint resolution on the subject of counting and cancelling state bonds that have been received by the Treasurer of State.

Chapter 34. A joint resolution relative to “American State Papers.”

 

 

1839 Local Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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. Viewed at Allen County Public Library. Digital copies of specific laws available by request.

Chapter 1. An act making general appropriations for the year 1839.

Chapter 2. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1839.

Chapter 3. An act to incorporate the Rushville Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 4. An act to incorporate the Jeffersonville Association.

Chapter 5. An act to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the Eel river bridge company, approved Feb. 6, 1837.

Chapter 6. An act to incorporate the Marion Blues.

Chapter 7. An act to incorporate the Indiana Mechanics’ Institute.

Chapter 8. An act to incorporate the town of New Castle, in the county of Henry.

Chapter 8 [sic]. An act to incorporate the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the Wilmington and Aurora Insurance Company.

Chapter 10. An act to incorporate the town of Mount Vernon.

Chapter 11. An act to incorporate the town of Danville, in Hendricks county.

Chapter 12. An act to incorporate certain turnpike companies therein named.

Chapter 13. An act to incorporate the Bartholomew county Seminary.

Chapter 14. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis, Rushville, and Brookville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 15. An act to incorporate the Western Mutual Life Insurance and Trust Company.

Chapter 16. An act to incorporate the “Governor’s Guards” of Evansville.

Chapter 17. An act to incorporate the Andersontown and Greenfield turnpike and trust company.

Chapter 18. An act to incorporate the town of Columbus, the county of Bartholomew, Indiana.

Chapter 19. An act to incorporate the Indiana Medical Institute.

Chapter 20. An act to incorporate the New Albany and Georgetown Turnpike company.

Chapter 21. An act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Terre-Haute, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 22. An act to incorporate the Dublin Academy.

Chapter 23. An act to incorporate Goulding’s Patent Bagging Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 23 [sic]. An act to incorporate the Greencastle Savings Institution and Manufacturing and Trading Company.

Chapter 25. An act to incorporate the city of New Albany, and to repeal all laws now in force incorporating the town of New Albany.

Chapter 26. An act to incorporate the Richmond and Boston Turnpike company.

Chapter 27. An act incorporating the Dearborn county Seminary.

Chapter 28. An act to incorporate the town of Pendleton, in Madison county.

Chapter 29. An act to incorporate the Noblesville Insurance Company.

Chapter 30. An act to incorporate the Glenhope Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 31. An act to incorporate the Steam Mill company in the town of Paris.

Chapter 32. An act to incorporate the Spencer and Terre Haute M’Adamized Company.

Chapter 33. An act to incorporate the Hancock Guards, and for other purposes.

Chapter 34. An act to incorporate the Young Mens’ Literary Association of Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana.

Chapter 35. An act to incorporate the Dalton Steam Mill, Manufacturing, and Trading Company.

Chapter 36. An act to amend the act, entitled, an act granting to the citizens of Madison and the town of Lawrenceburgh, a city charter.

Chapter 37. An act to incorporate the Laurel Trading and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 38. An act to incorporate the Wabash and Goshen turnpike company.

Chapter 39. An act to incorporate the Bloomington Band.

Chapter 40. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Richmond and Brookville canal company.”

Chapter 41. An act supplemental to an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Rushville Steam Mill Company, approved, January 27th, 1839.”

Chapter 42. An act to incorporate the New Harmony Working-man’s Institute for mutual instruction.

Chapter 43. An act to incorporate the Centreville Musical Institute.

Chapter 44. An act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Rising Sun, in Dearborn county.

Chapter 45. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the city of Logansport; approved February 17, 1838.”

Chapter 46. An act to incorporate the Bedford Band of Musicians.

Chapter 47. An act to incorporate the Citizens’ Basin in Milton, Wayne county, Indiana.

Chapter 48. An act to incorporate the Connersville Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 49. An act to incorporate the Rob Roy Manufacturing company.

Chapter 50. An act amendatory to an act incorporating the town of Indianapolis, in Marion county, approved, Feb. 17, 1838.

Chapter 51. An act to revive and amend an act to incorporate the town of Bethlehem, in Clark county, approved, February 6th, 1837.

Chapter 52. An act to incorporate the town of Laporte.

Chapter 53. An act to incorporate the Hagerstown and Winchester Turnpike Company, and for other purposes.

Chapter 54. An act to incorporate the Philomathean Society of Spencer County.

Chapter 55. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Mayor and Common Council of the Town of Lafayette,” approved, February 6, 1837.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to incorporate the Town of Princeton, approved, February 14, 1838.”

Chapter 57. An act to incorporate the Columbus and Drift Wood Bridge Company.

Chapter 58. An act supplemental to an act entitled, an act incorporating the Connersville and Fort Wayne Savings’ Institution and Insurance Company.

Chapter 59. An act to amend an act, entitled, an act to amend an act, to incorporate the Buffalo and Mississippi Rail Road company, approved, February 7, 1838.

Chapter 60. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act to incorporate the Perry county Seminary.”

Chapter 61. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate Michigan city, approved February 8, 1836.”

Chapter 62. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Liverpool Bridge company,” approved February 6, 1837.

Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mount Carmel and New Albany Rail Road company, approved February 4, 1837.

Chapter 64. An act to revise and amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Perrysville in Vermillion County, approved, January 29, 1831.

Chapter 65. An act to incorporate the Shelbyville and Blue River Rail Road Company.

Chapter 66. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Jeffersonville Savings Institution,” approved February the 17th, 1838.

Chapter 67. An act amendatory to an act, entitled, “an act incorporating the Warsaw Manufacturing company,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the Michigan City,” approved February 8, 1836.

Chapter 69. An act to incorporate the town of Aurora.

Chapter 70. An act to incorporate the Bedford Presbyterian Church.

Chapter 71. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the Baileytown and Chicago Turnpike company, approved Feb. 15, 1838.

Chapter 72. An act to incorporate the Vevay Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 73. An act to amend the act relative to the town of Evansville.

Chapter 74. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the Crawfordsville and Williamsport turnpike company.

Chapter 75. An act to amend an act, to incorporate the town of Vevay, approved, January 30, 1836.

Chapter 76. An act to incorporate the Orange Blues.

Chapter 77. An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Lebanon, in the county of Boone.

Chapter 78. An act to incorporate the Tippecanoe and Monticello Bridge Companies.

Chapter 79. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Lafayette and Danville Rail Road Company,” approved February 5, 1836.

Chapter 80. An act appointing and authorizing Isaac Coleman as commissioner to make deeds on behalf of George Hollingsworth’s heirs, to the purchasers of certain lots in the town of Attica.

Chapter 81. An act to provide for a re-survey of the enlargement to the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 82. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Paoli, in the county of Orange, approved February 15, 1838.

Chapter 83. An act relative to the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 84. An act to legalize certain acts of the Trustees of the town of Bloomington.

Chapter 85. An act for the relief of George D. Prentice, George W. Weissenger and J. B. Moulton, and for other purposes.

Chapter 86. An act to authorize Samuel Patterson to build a Toll Bridge.

Chapter 87. An act providing means for the completion of the White river Bridge, on the Michigan road.

Chapter 88. An act relative to roads in Parke county.

Chapter 89. An act authorizing the location of a state road leading from Allisonville, in the county of Marion, to Franklin, in the county of Johnson.

Chapter 90. An act to authorize a survey on Pattoka river, in Gibson, Pike, Dubois and Orange counties.

Chapter 91. An act relative to the Clay County Seminary.

Chapter 92. An act to extend the privileges granted to the Salem Savings Institution.

Chapter 93. An act to change the name of the town of Ceylon, to Andersonville.

Chapter 94. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Princeton,” approved December the 20th, 1838.

Chapter 95. An act to locate a state road from New Albany in Floyd county, to Charlestown in Clark county.

Chapter 96. An act for the relief of John Miller and Lavinia Miller his wife.

Chapter 97. An act to locate a State road in Greene county.

Chapter 98. An act concerning a road in Porter and Lake counties.

Chapter 99. An act to re-locate a part of the Greenfield and Franklin state road.

Chapter 100. An act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 101. An act for the relief of John Rodolph Fischli.

Chapter 102. An act to change the name of certain persons therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 103. An act to provide for a special session of the Hendricks Circuit Court.

Chapter 104. An act declaring a certain name a mis-print.

Chapter 105. An act to locate a state road in Pike county.

Chapter 106. An act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner.

Chapter 107. An act for the relief of Aaron Rawlings, collector of Scott county, for the years 1834-35.

Chapter 108. An act to authorize the election of a Justice of the Peace and a Constable, in the town of Philomath, in the county of Union.

Chapter 109. An act locating a state road in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 110. An act vacating the Albany and Burlington state road in Delaware county.

Chapter 111. An act to legalize the proceedings of the Board doing county business in Jasper county.

Chapter 112. An act authorizing the probate court of Monroe county to sell certain real estate therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 113. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace, in the town of Moscow, in the county of Rush.

Chapter 114. An act to authorize the Board of Justices of Scott county to sell a part of the public square in the town of Lexington.

Chapter 115. An act for the relief of Abner McCarty and other purchasers of Michigan Road Lands.

Chapter 116. An act establishing a State Road therein named.

Chapter 117. An act to locate a State Road therein named.

Chapter 118. An act relative to the county boundary between the counites of Warrick and Spencer.

Chapter 119. An act to change the name of Isaac Smith, brother of John L. Smith, deceased, late of Crawford county.

Chapter 120. An act to authorize Louisa Jane Cossatt to make conveyance of real estate.

Chapter 121. An act relative to a side cut canal opposite the town of Clinton.

Chapter 122. An act to re-locate a State Road therein named.

Chapter 123. An act declaring main Flat Rock a public highway, and for other purposes.

Chapter 124. An act relative to a state road in the counties of Warrick and Spencer.

Chapter 125. An act correcting a mistake in the specific appropriation act.

Chapter 126. An act to locate a state road from the east line of Whitley county, to Fort Wayne.

Chapter 127. An act for the relief of the owners of certain forfeited lands and town lots in Clinton county.

Chapter 128. An act to repeal a certain act in Dearborn county, therein named.

Chapter 129. An act attaching the county of Newton to the county of White, and for other purposes.

Chapter 130. An act to authorize the sale of the county Seminary in the county of Union.

Chapter 131. An act for the relief of Franklin Winchill.

Chapter 132. An act authorizing the appointing of Assessors in the county of Orange.

Chapter 133. An act for the relief and benefit of Solomon Vanada, of Warrick county.

Chapter 134. An act for the election of an additional Justice of the Peace for the town of Russelsville, in Putnam county.

Chapter 135. An act providing for the distribution of the three per cent fund of Dearborn county.

Chapter 136. An act to establish a state road in the county of Morgan.

Chapter 137. An act to re-locate a part of the state road leading from Indianapolis, in the county of Marion, to where it intersects the state road leading from Strawtown, in the county of Hamilton, to Miamisport in the county of Miami, by the way of Shieldsville and Knightstown, (Kingston) in the county of Hamilton.

Chapter 138. An act for the improvement of Little Racoon creek, in Parke county.

Chapter 139. An act relating to the Trustees of the town of Paris, in Jennings county.

Chapter 140. An act to legalize the acts of Wesley Parke, and for other purposes.

Chapter 141. An act for the relief of John Busby.

Chapter 142. An act for the relief of William W. Wilson.

Chapter 143. An act to authorize John Davis to convey certain property therein named.

Chapter 144. An act for the relief of John Bowland.

Chapter 145. 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.

Chapter 146. An act relating to a Lunatic Asylum in Fayette county.

Chapter 147. An act to repeal an act entitled, an act specifically appropriating a certain amount of the Three per Cent Fund now due, or hereafter first to become due and payable to the county of Porter,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 148. An act relative to a state road in Laporte County.

Chapter 149. An act authorizing John Manning, Sen’r, to build a Mill Dam across the Little St. Joseph River.

Chapter 150. An act for the relief of Joseph Hendricks.

Chapter 151. An act to repeal an act, entitled “an act to vacate part of a street in the bounds of the donation near Indianapolis,” approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 152. An act for the relief of the securities of Norris U. Sexton, late collector of Laporte county.

Chapter 153. An act to change the name of Daniel Bully.

Chapter 154. An act for the benefit of certain owners of lots in the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 155. An act providing for the mode of electing county commissioners in Spencer county.

Chapter 156. An act authorizing the sale of lot number seven, in square forty-six, in the town of Indianapolis.

Chapter 157. An act declaring a certain road vacated.

Chapter 158. An act repealing the 117th section of an act for establishing certain state roads therein named.

Chapter 159. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 160. An act to extend the privileges granted to the Salem Savings’ Institution.

Chapter 161. An act to establish a state road in Lawrence county.

Chapter 162. An act concerning the Logansport and Chicago state road.

Chapter 163. An act to provide for the election of an additional justice of the peace in the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 164. An act authorizing the opening of a state road therein named.

Chapter 165. An act for the relief of Thomas Strong.

Chapter 166. An act for the relief of Joshua Wilson of Morgan county.

Chapter 167. An act to extend the time for the collection of the state revenue of St. Joseph county.

Chapter 168. An act declaring certain names misprint.

Chapter 169. An act to locate a state road from the Fort Wayne state road in Decatur county to Hartsville in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 170. An act authorizing the opening of a state road therein named.

Chapter 171. An act to appropriate three per cent fund in Fountain county.

Chapter 172. An act to legalize the election of the probate judge of Kosciusko county.

Chapter 173. An act to legalize the name of Nathan Walden.

Chapter 174. An act to change the name of the town of Clarkstown in the county of Boone.

Chapter 175. An act for the relief of Edward Gird, late collector of Shelby county.

Chapter 176. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes, approved, February 17, 1838.”

Chapter 177. An act to vacate a state road in Morgan county.

Chapter 178. An act to authorize the election of two additional justices of the peace in Shelby county.

Chapter 179. An act to legalize the acts of Jane Owens, executrix of the last will and testament of Samuel Owens, deceased.

Chapter 180. An act legalizing the report of James Holliday, late collector of Tippecanoe county, and extending the time for completing the collection of the revenue of said county, for the year 1838.

Chapter 181. An act to improve the navigation of the Muscatitack river.

Chapter 182. An act to legalize the acts of the board of Justices of the peace in Crawford county.

Chapter 183. An act to legalize the sale of the school section of congressional township number three, north of range number six east, in Scott county.

Chapter 184. An act relative to an additional Justice of the Peace in Plummer township, Greene county.

Chapter 185. An act declaring a certain word a misprint.

Chapter 186. An act for the formation of a school district in Monroe county.

Chapter 187. An act for the benefit of John Robinson.

Chapter 188. An act for the relief of the Collector of the state revenue of Porter county.

Chapter 189. An act for the relief of Matthew Griggs.

Chapter 190. An act authorizing an additional Justice of the Peace in Vermillion county.

Chapter 191. An act to extend the time for the collection of the revenue of Laporte county.

Chapter 192. An act for the relief of Gideon Conklin and Frederick Ellzroth.

Chapter 193. An act for the relief of J. H. M’Maken and Elias Murray.

Chapter 194. An act authorizing an additional Justice of the Peace in Clarke township, Montgomery county, and in Vigo township, in Knox county.

Chapter 195. An act providing for the clearing out of Pride’s Creek, in Pike county.

Chapter 196. An act to legalize the acts of Avery McGee, of Brown county.

Chapter 197. An act for the relief of Thomas Jones.

Chapter 198. An act for the relief of William Post.

Chapter 199. An act to authorize a special session of the Probate Court of Knox county.

Chapter 200. An act for the relief of Jonathan Legg.

Chapter 201. An act authorizing the sale of certain school lands in Sullivan county.

Chapter 202. An act to vacate the town of New Market.

Chapter 203. An act to provide for a justice of the peace in Eagle Village, Boone county.

Chapter 204. An act for the relief of Clinton C. Owens.

Chapter 205. An act to legalize the acts of the county commissioners of Dubois county.

Chapter 206. An act to authorize a state road from Spencer, in Owen county, to Anguilla, in the county of Clay.

Chapter 207. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace and constable in the town of Millgrove, in Owen county.

Chapter 208. An act for the relief of Henrietta Ames and Charles Dewey.

Chapter 209. An act to authorize Samuel L. Olmstead to build a mill dam on Pigeon creek.

Chapter 210. An act for the relief of Mary Jane Peck.

Chapter 211. An act relating to the county seminary of Shelby county.

Chapter 212. An act for the formation of school district number one, in Morgan county.

Chapter 213. An act to provide for the location of the seat of justice of Lake county.

Chapter 214. An act to re-locate a part of the state road from Rockville to Covington.

Chapter 215. An act to repeal the 117th section of an act for establishing certain state roads therein named.

 

Chapter 216. An act to locate a state road therein named.

Chapter 217. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to attach a part of township No. 19, north of range No. 4 east, to township No. 19 north, of range No. 5 east, and for other purposes.”

Chapter 218. An act to provide for the repair of the roof of the house on the Governor’s Circle.

Chapter 219. An act to repeal an act entitled, “an act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund of Jasper county,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 220. An act to legalize certain proceedings of the board of commissioners of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 221. An act to provide for the survey of a road from Charlottesville, in Hancock county, via Rushville, to the White-water canal.

Chapter 222. An act for the relief of Benoni P. Downes.

Chapter 223. An act to locate a state road in the county of Vigo.

Chapter 224. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to authorize a location of a state road from Salem, in Washington county, to Charlestown, in Clarke county,” approved February 1, 1838.

Chapter 225. An act to legalize the sale of certain school lands in Clinton county.

Chapter 226. An act to locate a state road from Angola to the state line, and from the state line to the county seat of De Kalb county.

Chapter 227. An act for the relief of John Shelby, collector of the county of Kosciusko, in the year 1836.

Chapter 228. An act to vacate and sell the Public Square, in the town of Edinburgh, county of Johnson.

Chapter 229. An act to legalize certain proceedings in Martin county.

Chapter 230. An act for the relief of the collector of the revenue of Spencer county.

Chapter 231. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of New Washington, in Clark county.

Chapter 232. An act legalizing the proceedings of the commissioners of Whitley county.

Chapter 233. An act to locate a state road from the centre of section seventeen, township thirty-seven north, of range six east, to the Goshen and Elkhart state road in Elkhart county.

Chapter 234. An act to authorize the re-location of a part of a state road therein named, approved, February 6, 1837.

Chapter 235. An act to locate a state road from Muncietown to Camden.

Chapter 236. An act for the relief of Thomas White.

Chapter 237. An act to change the mode of electing the members of the board doing county business in Perry county.

Chapter 238. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing the sale of certain seminary lands in Monroe county,” approved, February 4th, 1837.

Chapter 239. An act making allowances to John Course, for services in applying a part of the three per cent fund in Fountain county.

Chapter 240. An act for the relocation of the seat of justice of Whitley county.

Chapter 241. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act authorizing a change of venue in certain cases therein named,” approved, January 20, 1838.

Chapter 242. An act relative to the Perry county seminary funds.

Chapter 243. An act to relocate a part of the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Harrison in Dearborn county.

Chapter 244. An act to locate a state road in Wayne county.

Chapter 245. An act to locate a state road in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 246. An act to change the location of section number eighty-one, in the northern division of the Central canal.

Chapter 247. An act to legalize the sale of lots on a part of the reserved township adjoining Bloomington.

Chapter 248. An act to authorize an additional Justice of the Peace in Jackson township, Fountain county.

Chapter 249. An act more particularly defining the western and southern boundaries of the county of Scott.

Chapter 250. An act to legalize the proceedings of the board of commissioners of the county of St. Joseph.

Chapter 251. An act to vacate part of a state road in the county of Wayne.

Chapter 252. An act to vacate a part of the town of Milford, in the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 253. An act to legalize the acts of the Clerk of Dubois county.

Chapter 254. An act to change the name of Parkersburg, in Montgomery county, to Faithville.

Chapter 255. A act to repeal an act, entitled, “an act to authorize the mutual transfer of certain school funds between the townships of Eel and Noble, in Cass county,” approved, February 6th, 1837.

Chapter 256. An act supplemental to an act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner, approved, February 6th, 1839.

Chapter 257. An act authorizing an additional Justice of the Peace in White River township, in Hamilton county.

Chapter 258. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of Lockport, in Vigo county.

Chapter 259. An act to vacate a part of Cayuga Alley, in that part of the town of Indianapolis laid out by John Wood.

Chapter 260. An act to authorize the Circuit Court of Hamilton county to change the venue in a certain case therein named.

Chapter 261. An act for the relief of the heirs of William Huddleston, Thomas Huddleston, and Robert Huddleston.

Chapter 262. An act to provide for the erection of a bridge over the Big Vermillion river.

Chapter 263. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to appropriate the three per cent fund in certain counties therein named,” approved February 4, 1837.

Chapter 264. An act concerning Lost creek.

Chapter 265. An act to change a part of the Knightstown and Bluntsville state road.

Chapter 266. An act for the benefit of George Harland.

Chapter 267. An act to locate a state road from the Ohio state line, to Newport in Wayne county.

Chapter 268. An act to locate a state road from South Bend to Lafayette.

Chapter 269. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 270. An act relative to an additional justice of the peace in Harrison township in Clay county.

Chapter 271. An act to legalize the proceedings of the president and trustees of the Morgan county seminary.

Chapter 272. An act to attach the quarter of township thirty, north of range four east, to Fulton county.

Chapter 273. An act to provide for an additional Justice of the Peace for the south-east township, in the county of Orange.

Chapter 274. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to authorize the sale of certain school lands therein named, and for other purposes,” approved January 1, 1838.

Chapter 275. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of Montezuma, in Parke county.

Chapter 276. An act to repeal an act entitled, “an act relative to taverns and tavern-keepers, in Vermillion county.

Chapter 277. An act relative to injury done the public works by the freshet of January, 1838.

Chapter 278. An act concerning a school district in Dearborn county.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 279. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of the Cumberland Road.

Chapter 280. A joint resolution relative to the early completion of that part of the Wabash and Erie canal lying within the state of Ohio.

Chapter 281. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of the New Albany and Mount Carmel Rail Road.

Chapter 282. A joint resolution to authorize a loan of the Sinking Fund.

Chapter 283. A joint resolution in relation to the Supreme Judges of this State.

Chapter 284. A joint resolution relative to a steam boat canal around the Falls of the Ohio.

Chapter 285. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the duties of Enrolling Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Chapter 286. A memorial and joint resolution of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 287. A joint resolution to correct an error in copying the general appropriation bill of last session.

Chapter 288. A joint resolution relative to the three per cent on lands in the state, sold at Cincinnati.

Chapter 289. A joint resolution relative to section No. 21, of the Wabash and Erie canal west of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 290. A joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of State to perform an act therein named.

Chapter 291. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 292. A joint resolution relative to a mail stage route therein named.

Chapter 293. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of the refuse lands in the counties of Jackson, Scott, and Clark.

Chapter 294. A joint resolution for the benefit of John K. Welch, late collector of Clark county.

Chapter 295. A joint resolution concerning Standing Committees.

Chapter 296. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the State Seal.

Chapter 297. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of a school for the education of the deaf and dumb.

Chapter 298. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, for the relief of William Perdue.

Chapter 299. A joint resolution concerning the state library.

Chapter 300. A joint resolution relative to the Great St. Josephs River.

Chapter 301. A joint resolution on the subject of a stage line.

Chapter 302. A joint resolution on the subject of the Southern States.

Chapter 303. A joint resolution relative to Blackford’s reports.

Chapter 304. A memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, on the subject of a mail stage route.

Chapter 305. A joint memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana in relation to a harbour at City-West.

Chapter 306. A joint resolution authorizing Patrick M’Ginley to sue the state.

Chapter 307. A joint resolution on the subject of the public printing done for the state for the year 1838.

Chapter 308. A memorial and joint resolution in relation to the navigation of Lake Michigan.

Chapter 309. A joint resolution relative to the Terre-Haute and Spencer M’Adamized road company.

Chapter 310. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana.

Chapter 311. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, relative to the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis rail road.

Chapter 312. A joint resolution concerning the tax on Bank shares.

Chapter 313. A joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan and Erie canal.

Chapter 314. A joint resolution relative to the Governor.

Chapter 315. A joint resolution on the subject of the public printing.

 

1836 Local Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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. Viewed at the Allen County Public Library. Digital copies of specific laws available by request.

 

Chapter 1. An act making General Appropriations for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six.

Chapter 2. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1836.

Chapter 3. An act to incorporate Michigan City.

Chapter 4. An act to incorporate the town of Rome in Perry county.

Chapter 5. An act entitled an act respecting the Borough of Vincennes.

Chapter 5 [sic]. An act to incorporate the Madison Water and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 6. An act to incorporate the town of Indianapolis.

Chapter 7. An act to incorporate the town of Dublin.

Chapter 8. An act to incorporate the town of Bellville, Hendricks County.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the town of Milton, Wayne County.

Chapter 10. An act to incorporate the town of New York in Switzerland county.

Chapter 11. An act to revive and continue in force “an act to incorporate the town of Washington in Daviess county” approved January 31st, 1832.

Chapter 12. An act to incorporate the town of Vevay.

Chapter 13. An act to incorporate the town of New Albany.

Chapter 14. An act to amend the charter and define the powers and duties of the President and Trustees of the town of Evansville.

Chapter 15. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Leavenworth” approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 16. An act to incorporate “the Western Scientific and Agricultural College.

Chapter 17. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Crawford county Seminary,” approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 18. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Crawfordsville Seminary.”

Chapter 19. An act to incorporate the Vincennes Academy.

Chapter 20. An act to incorporate the Parke county Seminary.

Chapter 21. An act to incorporate the President and Trustees of the Rush county Seminary.

Chapter 22. An act to incorporate the Websterian Social Library.

Chapter 23. An act to incorporate the Indiana Baptist Education Society and the Indiana Baptist Manual Labour Institute.

Chapter 24. An act to incorporate the Peru and Wabash Bridge Company.

Chapter 25. An act to incorporate the White River Bridge Company.

Chapter 26. An act to incorporate the Lafayette Insurance Company.

Chapter 27. An act to incorporate the Miami Bridge Company.

Chapter 28. An act to incorporate the Eel River Bridge Company.

Chapter 29. An act to incorporate the Evansville Insurance Company.

Chapter 30. An act to incorporate the Bedford Insurance Company.

Chapter 31. An act to incorporate the Logansport and Eel River Bridge Company.

Chapter 32. An act to incorporate the Bethlehem Savings Institution.

Chapter 35 [sic]. An act to incorporate the Northern Indiana Company of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 34. An act to incorporate the Evansville and Vincennes Rail Road Company.

Chapter 36. An act to incorporate the St. Joseph’s Mutual Insurance Company.

Chapter 37. An act to incorporate the Bloomington Savings Institution.

Chapter 38. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Wabash and Michigan Rail Road Company,” approved February 2, 1832.

Chapter 39. An act to amend the act to “incorporate the Michigan City of Kankakee & Rail Road Company.

Chapter 40. An act to incorporate the Crawfordsville, Covington and Illinois Rail Road Company.

Chapter 41. An act to incorporate the Connersville and Fort Wayne Savings Institutions and Insurance Companies.

Chapter 42. An act to incorporate the Charlestown Savings Institution.

Chapter 43. An act to incorporate the Princeton and Wabash Rail Road Company.

Chapter 44. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis Insurance Company.

Chapter 45. An act to incorporate the Laporte Canal and Rail Road Company.

Chapter 46. An act to incorporate the Madison Savings Institution.

Chapter 47. An act to incorporate the Hanover Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 48. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the St. Joseph Iron Company.”

Chapter 49. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company,” approved, February 2, 1833.

Chapter 50. An act to incorporate the Perrysville and Danville Rail Road Company.

Chapter 51. An act to incorporate the Franklin, Fayette and Rush Turnpike Company.

Chapter 52. An act to incorporate the Rockville Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 53. An act to incorporate the Rome Savings Institution.

Chapter 54. An act to incorporate the New Albany Ferry Company.

Chapter 55. An act to incorporate the Vernon Savings Institution.

Chapter 56. An act to incorporate the Fulton Company.

Chapter 57. An act to incorporate the Lafayette and Danville Rail Road Company.

Chapter 58. An act to incorporate the Rockport Savings Institution.

Chapter 59. An act to incorporate the Jeffersonville and New Albany Canal Company.

Chapter 60. An act to incorporate the Lagrange County Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 61. An act for the incorporation of the Freedom Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 62. An act to incorporate the Troy Savings Institution and Insurance Company.

Chapter 63. An act to incorporate the Brownstown Turnpike Company.

Chapter 64. An act to incorporate the Kraco Steam Mill Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 65. An act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh and Harrison Turnpike Company.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Lexington Steam Mill Company,” approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 67. An act to incorporate the Salem Savings Institution.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Wayne and Union Turnpike Company,” approved February 7, 1835, and to incorporate the Rush, Fayette, and Union Turnpike Company.

Chapter 69. An act to authorize the inhabitants of Newtown, in Fountain county, to become incorporated.

Chapter 70. An act to incorporate the Clark county Trading and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 71. An act to incorporate the Vincennes Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 72. An act to incorporate the Leavenworth Savings Institution.

Chapter 73. An act to incorporate the Winchester Turnpike Company.

Chapter 74. An act to incorporate the Vevay and Napoleon and other Turnpike Companies.

Chapter 75. An act to authorize the payment of expenses incurred in suppressing a riot on the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 76. An act to authorize certain individuals therein named, to build a toll bridge across the Kankakee river.

Chapter 77. An act to legalize the official acts of Josiah Reeder.

Chapter 78. An act to authorize the inhabitants of township eight south, of range two west, to sell their school lands.

Chapter 79. An act relative to county orders in the county of Parke.

Chapter 80. An act for the survey of a Turnpike road from Mount Vernon to Princeton.

Chapter 81. An act to legalize the Rising Sun, Dearborn county, Agricultural Society.

Chapter 82. An act to legalize a certain act of James Davis school commissioner of Sullivan County.

Chapter 83. An act to legalize the proceedings of the board of commissioners of the county of Lawrence.

Chapter 84. An act to make the Knox county Agricultural Society a branch of the State Agricultural Society of Indiana.

Chapter 85. An act authorizing Amasa Makepeace, to apply for a writ of ad quod damnum, to establish a mill on White river in Madison county.

Chapter 86. An act providing for the correction of a mistake in a deed therein mentioned for part of the plat of the town of Newport, and for other purposes.

Chapter 87. An act authorizing the school commissioners of Dearborn county to sell and convey certain school lands therein mentioned.

Chapter 88. An act to change certain alleys in the town of Livonia.

Chapter 89. An act to record and incorporate Wilson’s addition to the town of Crawfordsville.

Chapter 90. An act to vacate a part of the public common in the town of Spencer in the county of Owen.

Chapter 91. An act to change the name of the town of Somersett.

Chapter 92. An act to change the name of Greensborough in Franklin county, to that of Blooming Grove.

Chapter 93. An act to vacate the town of Cynthiana in Hamilton county.

Chapter 94. An act to change the name of the town of Carthage in the county of Putnam.

Chapter 95. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the promotion of Schools in, and for the sale of lands belonging to the Vincennes Donation Tract,” approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 96. An act to authorize the Recorder of Boone county to record the plat of Jamestown and for other purposes.

Chapter 97. An act to legalize the sale of school lands in the county of Pike.

Chapter 98. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act incorporating Congressional townships and providing for public schools therein,” approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 99. An act for the relief of Elias Osborn.

Chapter 100. An act for the relief of John Dickens and others.

Chapter 101. An act to legalize the sale of the west half of the public square in the town of Newcastle in Henry county.

Chapter 102. An act to vacate a part of a certain street in the town of Washington in Wayne county, Indiana.

Chapter 103. An act to provide for a justice of the peace in Rockford, Jackson county.

Chapter 104. An act to authorize the election of an additional Justice of the Peace for Franklin township in Marion county.

Chapter 105. An act to authorize the election of an additional justice of the peace in the county of Jefferson.

Chapter 106. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in or near Milroy in Rush county.

Chapter 107. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in the town of Brownsville.

Chapter 108. An act to authorize the citizens of Madison township in the county of Morgan, to elect an additional justice of the peace.

Chapter 109. An act to renew the corners, stakes, and boundaries of the town of Greenfield, the seat of justice of Hancock County.

Chapter 110. An act for the improvement of Morgantown in Morgan county.

Chapter 111. An act to provide for a special session of the Jefferson Circuit Court.

Chapter 112. An act for the relief and benefit of Thomas Smyth of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 113. An act for the relief of John G. Brown.

Chapter 114. An act to authorize Joseph D. Clark, a minor, to sell real estate.

Chapter 115. An act to legalize the marriage of Derastus Fry and Miss Snodgrass.

Chapter 116. An act appropriating certain portions of the three per cent fund in Dearborn county.

Chapter 117. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Nowland, widow of Matthias Nowland, deceased.

Chapter 118. An act for the relief of Stephen Trickle.

Chapter 119. An act to authorize the holding of an additional term of the Circuit Court for the county of Floyd.

Chapter 120. An act to authorize the sale of certain real estate of James Johnson, late of Indianapolis, deceased.

Chapter 121. An act to change the name of Middleton in the county of Tippecanoe, to West Point.

Chapter 122. An act for the relief of Elias Murray.

Chapter 123. An act in relation to certain sections of the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 124. An act for the relief of Wilson Anderson.

Chapter 125. An act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund and for other purposes.

Chapter 126. An act to authorize certain persons therein named, to erect a dam across the St. Joseph River.

Chapter 127. An act to continue in force an act, entitled “an act for the benefit of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Parke county,” approved December 28, 1832; and also an act amendatory thereto, approved January 8, 1834; and amendatory of an act entitled “an act for the benefit of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Spencer county,” approved December 27, 1833.

Chapter 128. An act appropriating so much of the three per cent fund as is now due to Greene county.

Chapter 129. An act to amend the several acts for the promotion of schools and education in Clark’s Grant.

Chapter 130. An act to empower Alexis Copeland and others to drain off the waters of the Kankakee ponds in St. Joseph county and for other purposes.

Chapter 131. An act for the relief of James H. King, Recorder of Monroe county.

Chapter 132. An act to authorize the Agent of the State of Indiana, to make a deed, to a certain lot of land adjoining Indianapolis, called the brick yard lot No. 3, to Wilks Reagan.

Chapter 133. An act to authorize the board doing county business of the county of Franklin to lay off a street in the town of Brookville in said county.

Chapter 134. An act for the improvement of the Michigan Road, and for other purposes.

Chapter 135. An act to establish a state road west of the Wabash river in Vigo county.

Chapter 136. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to establish a State road from Martinsville in Morgan county via Middletown in Owen county to John Chances ferry on Eel river, thence to Hayne’s old cabin in Vigo county,” approved January 31st, 1835.

Chapter 137. An act to establish a certain state road.

Chapter 138. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act establishing as a state road, the county road from Livonia to George Becks” approved January 30, 1836.

Chapter 139. An act authorizing the location of a state road.

Chapter 140. An act to declare two certain roads therein named, state roads.

Chapter 141. An act for the re-location and improvement of certain state roads therein named.

Chapter 142. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to establish a state road from Bedford in Lawrence county via Washington in Daviess county, to the rapids of the Wabash river at or near the mouth of White river,” approved, January 20, 1834.

Chapter 143. An act to alter and change a part of the Mooresville, Danville and Crawfordsville state road.

Chapter 144. An act to locate a state road from Greencastle in Putnam county via Carthage in said county to Martinsville in Morgan county.

Chapter 145. An act to vacate a part of the Mooresville, Danville and Crawfordsville state road.

Chapter 146. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to relocate a certain state road in the counties of Hancock and Henry,” approved February 7, 1833.

Chapter 147. An act to authorize a review of a part of the Cumberland and Huntington state road.

Chapter 148. An act to locate a State Road in Posey county.

Chapter 149. An act to legalize the proceedings of Rezin Malott, a Road Commissioner.

Chapter 150. An act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund in the county of Orange.

Chapter 151. An act appointing commissioners to review and extend a state road in Switzerland county.

Chapter 152. An act to establish a state road from a point in the county of Clay to the Wabash River near the mouth of Honey Creek in Vigo county and thence to the state line.

Chapter 153. An act to establish a state road from Rome, in Perry county, to Jasper in Dubois county.

Chapter 154. An act to locate a state road from Boonville in Warrick county, to Jasper in Dubois county.

Chapter 155. An act to locate a state road from Portage Point to the state line.

Chapter 156. An act to locate a state road from South Bend in the direction of Bertrand.

Chapter 157. An act to amend an act entitled, “An act to locate a state road from Levenworth town in Crawford county to Salem in Washington county,” approved, January 8, 1835.

Chapter 158. An act to lay out a state road in the counties of Ripley and Dearborn.

Chapter 159. An act to locate a state road from Montezuma in Parke county, to the state line, in the direction of the Hickory Grove, in Edgar county Illinois.

Chapter 160. An act declaring a misprint.

Chapter 161. An act to authorize the location of a state road from the mouth of Eel river in Green county, to Bowlinggreen in Clay county.

Chapter 162. An act to locate a state road from South Bend to the north line of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 163. An act to establish a state road from Scott’s ferry in Morgan county, to Hadley’s mill in said county, to Bellville in Hendricks county.

Chapter 164. An act to vacate a part of a state road therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 165. An act establishing a s a state road, the county road from Livonia to George Beck’s.

Chapter 166. An act to vacate a part of the Indianapolis, Centreville and Richmond state road in Wayne county.

Chapter 167. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 168. An act authorizing the location of a state road from Marion in Grant county to the town of Lagro in Wabash county.

Chapter 169. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 170. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 171. An act to repeal the act, approved, December 24, 1834, authorizing the re-location of a certain part of the New Albany and Vincennes state road at or near Fredericksburgh in Washington county.

Chapter 172. An act to locate a state road from the north line of the State in the direction of Chicago.

Chapter 173. An act declaring a certain road therein named a state road.

Chapter 174. An act to establish a state road from Delphi in Carroll county, to Dayton in Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 175. An act to legalize the proceedings of the commissioner of a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 176. An act declaring a county road from Owensville to the mouth of Patoka, in Gibson county, a state road.

Chapter 177. An act to locate a state road in Dearborn county, from the town of Dillsborough to Aurora.

Chapter 178. An act to establish a state road, the county road from Jasper via Portersville and Smith’s Ferry on the East Fork of White river, to Washington in Daviess county.

Chapter 179. An act to re-locate a state road in the county of Orange, from Orleans to George French’s.

Chapter 180. An act to locate a state road from New Albany in Floyd county to Mauksport in Harrison county.

Chapter 181. An act relating to State roads.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 182. A joint resolution on the subject of authorizing the Secretary of State to furnish the counties of Allen and Laporte with copies of the revised laws.

Chapter 183. A joint resolution on the subject of the Ohio and Charleston rail road.

Chapter 184. A joint resolution on the subject of the survey of a rail road route from Charleston in South Carolina to some suitable point on the Ohio river in the state of Ohio or Indiana.

Chapter 185. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of a purchase of a tract of land of the United States, for the purpose of constructing a canal from Fort Wayne to Muncietown.

Chapter 185 [sic]. A joint resolution on the subject of furnishing such new counties as may hereafter be organized, with the laws of the State.

Chapter 187. A joint resolution authorizing the publishing of an act of Congress therein named.

Chapter 188. A joint resolution to extend the time of the public printing for 1835 and 6.

Chapter 189. A joint resolution on the subject of the admission of Michigan Territory into the Union.

Chapter 190. A joint resolution relative to the Michigan road lands.

Chapter 191. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the payment of postage.

Chapter 192. A joint resolution for the relief of James Scott.

Chapter 193. A joint resolution authorizing the reception of the State House from the contractor.

Chapter 194. A joint resolution relative to pre-emption to settlers on the public lands of the United States, within the State of Indiana.

Chapter 195. A joint resolution confirming the sale of certain Michigan road lands.

Chapter 196. A joint resolution in relation to the Marion county Library moneys.

Chapter 197. A memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to the Congress of the United States, praying further appropriations on the National road which lies within the limits of Indiana.

Chapter 198. A joint resolution on the subject of Maps.

Chapter 199. A joint resolution respecting Blackford’s Reports.

Chapter 200. A joint resolution on the subject of a Geological Survey of the State.

Chapter 201. A joint memorial and resolution on the subject of the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 202. Memorial and joint resolution of the state of Indiana, to Congress on the subject of granting a bounty in land to the organized militia men, mounted men and rangers of the last war.

Chapter 203. A joint resolution on the subject of revising the school laws.

Chapter 204. A joint resolution and memorial for the relief of Margaret Nation and others.

Chapter 205. A joint memorial and resolution to the Congress of the United States.

Chapter 206. A memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, praying an appropriation for the construction of a Harbor at the mouth of Trail creek.

Chapter 207. A joint resolution relative to certain unreclaimed lands in the Wabash bottom below Vincennes in Knox county.

Chapter 208. A joint resolution on the subject of providing compensation to the United States rangers, raised under the act of Congress of June 1832, for horses lost by them whilst in the service.

 

 

1851 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1851. Google Books

 

AD QUOD DAMNUM.

Chapter 1. An act to amend article 5, chapter 48, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to the writ of ad quod damnum.

AGENT OF STATE.

Chapter 2. An act for the benefit of the State Agent.

AGRICULTURE.

Chapter 3. An act for the encouragement of Agriculture.

APPORTIONMENT.

Chapter 4. An act to apportion Senators and Representatives for the next five years.

APPRAISEMENT OF REAL ESTATE.

Chapter 5. An act to appraise the real estate of this State, and to make the value of the same equal and uniform throughout this State.

APPROPRIATIONS, GENERAL.

Chapter 6. An act making General Appropriations for the year 1851.

APPROPRIATIONS, SPECIFIC.

Chapter 7. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1851.

APPROPRIATIONS.

Chapter 8. An act for the relief of the assignees of J. & E. L. Beard.

ASSESSMENT AND VALUATION OF PROPERTY.

Chapter 9. An act for the more effectual, just, and equal Assessment and Valuation of the personal property, moneys, rights, credits, effects, and corporation stock in the State of Indiana.

ASSESSORS.

Chapter 10. An act to repeal an act giving further time to Assessors, approved January 15, 1844, and all laws contravening the provisions of section 28, of chapter 12, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

ATTORNEYS.

Chapter 11. An act to prevent Attorneys from doing the duties of Sheriff in the county of Tippecanoe.

AUDITORS, COUNTY.

Chapter 12. An act to authorize the Auditor of Harrison county to make a deed therein named.

Chapter 13. An act to re-instate the office of County Auditor in the county of Johnson.

Chapter 14. An act to authorize County Auditors to appoint deputies.

Chapter 15. An act to legalize certain acts of County Auditors.

Chapter 16. An act defining the duties of Auditor and Treasurer of the counties of DeKalb and Noble, and for other purposes.

Chapter 17. An act authorizing County Auditors to administer oaths in certain cases therein specified.

AUDITOR OF STATE.

Chapter 18. An act directing the Auditor of State to pay over to the Treasurers of Ripley and Greene counties certain funds therein named.

BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.

Chapter 19. An act in relation to Bills of Exceptions.

CLOCKS.

Chapter 20. An act authorizing license merchants to vend clocks.

COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY.

Chapter 21. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of Wabash county to sell the surplus Bank Stock of said county.

Chapter 22. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to restrict the County Commissioners of Steuben county in levying a tax, to fifty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation,” approved January 16, 1848.

Chapter 23. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of Pike county to make an appropriation therein named.

Chapter 24. An act to extend the powers of the Board of Commissioners of Delaware county.

Chapter 25. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Pike and Gibson counties to employ by the year a physician to attend on the paupers of said counties.

Chapter 26. An act to extend the time of holding the sessions of the Board of County Commissioners of Warren county.

Chapter 27. An act authorizing the Board of Commissioners of the county of Morgan to make additional allowances to the auditor of said county.

CONSTABLES.

Chapter 28. An act to amend sections 302, 303, and 304, of article 13, chapter 47, Revised Statutes of 1843; also, section 2, of chapter 61, on pages 1030, 1031, and 1032, of Revised Statutes of 1843, and for other purposes.

CONVENTION.

Chapter 29. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the call of a convention of the people of the state of Indiana to revise, amend, or alter the Constitution of said state,” approved January 18, 1850.

CORONERS.

Chapter 30. An act to amend section 11, chapter 56, Revised Statutes of 1843, authorizing Coroners to pay the expenses of inquest and burial.

COSTS.

Chapter 31. An act relative to the taxation of costs in certain cases.

COUNSEL, PAY OF.

Chapter 32. An act to pay counsel in certain cases.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT.

Chapter 33. An act in relation to the commission and punishment of crime.

COUNTY BOUNDARIES.

Chapter 34. An act to attach the south half of section five, township No. 3 north, of range 8 east, in the county of Jefferson, to the county of Scott.

Chapter 35. An act defining the boundaries of Laporte, Porter, and Lake counties.

COUNTY BUSINESS.

Chapter 36. An act to amend an act entitled “an act changing the mode of doing business in the county of Crawford,” approved January 18, 1850, and for other purposes.

Chapter 37. An act to abolish the offices of school commissioner and county agent in Brown county.

Chapter 38. An act to extend the time of the sessions of the board of commissioners of Wayne county.

Chapter 39. An act to amend chapter 7, article 1, section 2, of the revised code.

COURTS, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 40. An act giving additional time to the Hancock circuit court.

Chapter 41. An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts in the thirteenth judicial circuit.

Chapter 42. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the transfer of cases pending in the probate to the circuit court, as far as relates to Putnam county,” approved January 16, 1849, and for other purposes.

Chapter 43. An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts in the twelfth judicial circuit.

Chapter 44. An act to alter the time of holding the circuit courts in certain counties in the third judicial circuit.

COURTS, COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 45. An act to organize a court of common pleas in the county of Jefferson.

COURTS, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 46. An act to change the time of holding courts in the eighth judicial circuit.

Chapter 47. An act to extend the time of holding courts in the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 48. An act to repeal certain acts therein named, and for other purposes, in Allen county.

Chapter 49. An act extending the provisions of an act therein named to Randolph county, in the eleventh judicial circuit.

COURTS, COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 50. An act to amend an act entitled “an act creating the Marion court of common pleas,” approved January 4, 1849.

COURTS, PROBATE.

Chapter 51. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to extend the term of the probate court of the county of Monroe, and for other purposes,” approved January 21, 1839.

Chapter 52. An act to amend an act regulating the time of holding probate courts in the county of Tipton.

Chapter 53. An act to change the time of holding February term of the Crawford probate court.

Chapter 54. An act to extend the terms of the February and May terms of the Laporte probate court.

Chapter 55. An act extending the time of holding the probate court in the county of Carroll.

Chapter 56. An act in relation to the January term, A. D., 1851, of the probate court of Martin county.

Chapter 57. An act to change the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Vermillion.

Chapter 58. An act to repeal an act therein named.

Chapter 59. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Jasper.

Chapter 60. An act to change the time of holding the February term of the probate court of Elkhart county for the year 1851.

Chapter 61. An act to extend the February and October terms of the Marion probate court.

Chapter 62. An act to change the next February term of the probate court of Hamilton county.

Chapter 63. An act to amend section 2 of an act entitled “an act to amend the laws relating to the execution of deeds by order of the probate court,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 64. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in the county of Grant.

DAMAGES.

Chapter 65. An act to enable persons sustaining damages occasioned by the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal to have their damages assessed without further delay, and for the more convenient service of process on the trustees of said canal.

DEEDS.

Chapter 66. An act relative to recording deeds in Laporte county.

DEPUTY CLERKS.

Chapter 67. An act to repeal an act therein named.

ELECTIONS.

Chapter 68. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Silver Creek township, in Clark county.

Chapter 69. An act relative to township elections when there is more than one precinct in any township in the counties of Daviess and Martin.

Chapter 70. An act to authorize the voters of Jackson township, in the county of Blackford, to vote at Hartford, in said county.

Chapter 71. An act to amend “an act providing for the election of township assessors in the counties of Greene and Hamilton,” approved January 18, 1850.

Chapter 72. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to the county of Ripley.

Chapter 73. An act to repeal an act establishing additional places of holding elections in certain counties therein named, approved December 21, 1849, so far as the county of Greene is concerned.

Chapter 74. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the election of township assessors and collectors in Jennings county, and for other purposes,” approved February 12th, 1848.

Chapter 75. An act to establish additional places of holding elections in certain counties therein named.

EXECUTIONS AND FEE BILLS.

Chapter 76. An act to regulate the issuing of executions and fee bills in the several courts in the counties of Marion, Dearborn, Daviess, Lawrence, Union, Fayette, Martin, and Blackford, upon which no execution has issued for three years from the rendition thereof, and when fees have not been collected for three years from the termination of the suit in which the same is taxed.

FEES AND SALARIES.

Chapter 77. An act to increase the pay of the probate judges of the counties of Union, Fayette, Rush, Hendricks, Sullivan, Marion, and Gibson.

Chapter 78. An act to increase the per diem allowance of the probate judges of the probate courts of Montgomery and Madison counties.

Chapter 79. An act to amend section 27, chapter 7, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as relates to the county of Greene.

Chapter 80. An act to reduce the fees of the Recorder of the county of Brown.

Chapter 81. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act fixing the salary of the auditor of the county of Owen.”

Chapter 82. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act regulating the salary of the auditor of Putnam county,” approved Feb. 11, 1848.

Chapter 83. An act to fix the compensation of clerks of the circuit courts in cases of naturalization.

GRAND JURIES.

Chapter 84. An act to repeal an act to restrict the grand juries in Franklin county in their sessions, approved January 15th, 1850.

Chapter 85. An act to restrict the Grand Jury of the county of Marshall to a limited time in their sessions.

Chapter 86. An act to restrict the Grand Juries of the counties of Porter and Lake to a limited time in their sessions, and for other purposes.

Chapter 87. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to restrict the Grand Juries of the counties of Porter and Lake to a limited time in their sessions, and for other purposes,” approved February 8, 1851.

Chapter 88. An act to restrict the powers of the Grand Jury of Shelby and Knox counties, and to limit the time of their sessions.

GUARDIANS.

Chapter 89. An act to exempt guardians from the payment of clerk’s fees in certain cases.

INDICTMENTS.

Chapter 90. An act to prevent the consolidation of indictments in certain cases in the county of Dearborn.

INSANE HOSPITAL.

Chapter 91. An act for the benefit of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

JUDGMENTS.

Chapter 92. An act to prevent clerks and sheriffs from purchasing judgments in the court to which they act as clerk or sheriff.

JURIES, PETIT.

Chapter 93. An act to repeal the first 13 sections of chapter 50, of the Revised Code of 1843, so far as relates to the counties of Scott and Greene.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chapter 94. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace.

Chapter 95. An act to amend an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 96. An act to provide for a Justice of the Peace in West Franklin, Posey county.

Chapter 97. An act relative to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in certain criminal cases in the county of Carroll.

Chapter 98. An act to enable the citizens of Orange township, Fayette county, to elect an additional Justice of the Peace, so as to reside in the south part of said township.

Chapter 99. An act defining the powers of Justices of the Peace in Marion county.

Chapter 100. An act to repeal an act therein named.

LANDS, SWAMP.

Chapter 101. An act to provide for defraying the expense of selecting the overflowed and swamp lands in the State of Indiana, and for other purposes.

Chapter 102. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to provide for defraying the expense of selecting the overflowed and swamp lands in the State of Indiana, and for other purposes,” passed in February, 1851.

Chapter 103. An act to equalize the price of the Swamp Lands in the State of Indiana.

LANDS, FORFEITED.

Chapter 104. An act in relation to sales of land forfeited to the State by borrowers of college and other funds.

LANDS, GEORGIA.

Chapter 105. An act confirming the title of the Georgia Lands to Martin R. Green.

LANDS.

Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to protect from waste certain lands therein mentioned,” approved December 13, 1849.

LAW, PRACTICE OF.

Chapter 107. An act relative to the practice of the law in Marion county.

Chapter 108. An act relative to the practice of law.

Chapter 109. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to regulate the practice of law in the Lagrange Circuit Court,” approved February 16, 1848.

LEGISLATURE.

Chapter 110. An act fixing the per diem of members of the Legislature.

LIENS.

Chapter 111. An act to extend the provisions of article No. 1, of chapter No. 42, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

LIQUORS, SPIRITUOUS.

Chapter 112. An act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors in the county of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 113. A preamble and act in reference to vending spirituous liquors in Green township, in Hancock county.

Chapter 114. An act to repeal “an act to regulate the retailing of spirituous liquors in the county of Kosciusko,” approved January 19, 1850.

Chapter 115. An act to prevent intemperance in Wayne township, in the county of Henry.

Chapter 116. An act to repeal “an act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in Blue River township, Johnson county,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 117. An act in relation to the sale of spirituous liquors in Johnson county.

Chapter 118. An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in the town of Middletown, Henry county.

Chapter 119. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors in Adams, Fall Creek, and Anderson townships, in Madison county by a less quantity than thirty gallons,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 120. An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in the county of Randolph.

Chapter 121. An act in relation to the sale of spirituous liquors in Jefferson township, in Wayne county.

Chapter 122. An act to prohibit the traffic of intoxicating liquors in the town of Columbus.

Chapter 123. An act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors in Jackson county, Indiana.

LOANS AUTHORIZED.

Chapter 124. An act to authorize the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer of State to borrow money to pay the interest due on the funded debt on the first day of July next, and defray the expenses of the Constitution Convention.

LODGES, OF ODD FELLOWS.

Chapter 125. An act to provide for the incorporation of subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.

Chapter 126. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act relative to Overseers of the Poor,” approved January 15, 1844, so far as relates to the county of Clay.

PAUPERS.

Chapter 127. An act in reference to the poor of Wayne township, Allen county, Indiana.

PEDDLERS.

Chapter 128. An act regulating the license of traveling peddlers in the county of Dearborn.

PLANK ROADS.

Chapter 129. An act in relation to plank roads.

PRINTING, STATE.

Chapter 130. An act in relation to the pay of Austin H. Brown, printer to the Constitution Convention of Indiana.

PRINTING.

Chapter 131. An act to authorize the printing of reports of Commissioners of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and Trustees of the institutions for the education of the blind, and deaf and dumb.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.

Chapter 132. An act to repeal an act therein named, and to revive the statutes of 1843 relative to the election of Prosecuting Attorneys.

RECORDS.

Chapter 133. An act for the relief of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Sullivan county.

RECORDERS, COUNTY.

Chapter 134. An act for the relief of the Recorder of Franklin county.

REVENUE.

Chapter 135. An act to raise a revenue for the year 1851.

Chapter 136. An act transferring the duties of agent of the surplus revenue fund in Scott county to the Auditor of said county.

Chapter 137. An act to regulate the collection of the surplus revenue in Carroll county.

RIGHT OF WAY.

Chapter 138. An act surrendering the right of way to railroad companies across swamp lands.

ROADS.

Chapter 139. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to compel non-residents to pay a road tax equal to that paid by residents in the county of Whitley,” approved January 14, 1850.

Chapter 140. An act for the better improvement of highways in the counties of Carroll and Delaware.

Chapter 141. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a tax equal to that paid by actual settlers in the county of Lagrange,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 142. An act to amend the general road law approved January 16, 1849, so far as the same relates to the county of Cass.

Chapter 143. An act in relation to supervisors of roads and highways in Jackson county.

Chapter 144. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to improve the roads in Centre township, in Dearborn county,” approved Jan. 18, 1847.

Chapter 145. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the per diem allowance for work done on the public highways in the county of Adams, and other counties therein named,” approved Jan. 17, 1850.

Chapter 146. An act to repeal an act therein named so far as the same relates to the counties of Parke and Shelby.

Chapter 147. An act to authorize the assessment and collection of a specific tax for road purposes in the county of Marshall.

SCHOOLS, COMMON.

Chapter 148. An act for the benefit of the common schools of Boone county.

Chapter 149. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17th, 1849, and the act declaring said act in force, approved January 19th, 1850, so far as the name relates to the county of Vigo.

Chapter 150. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 151. An act declaring certain laws in force in the counties of DeKalb, Noble, and Steuben.

Chapter 152. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 153. An act to abolish the office of school commissioner of the county of Morgan.

Chapter 154. An ac to legalize the assessment of taxes for school purposes in district No. seven, in township thirty-three north, of range fourteen east, in DeKalb county.

Chapter 155. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 156. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the fifteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes,” approved January 26, 1847, so far as relates to the county of Shelby.

Chapter 157. An act to authorize the inhabitants of school district No. 2, in township No. 36, range No. 3 west, in Laporte county, to levy an additional school tax.

Chapter 158. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to a school district in the county of Fayette.

Chapter 159. An act to amend section thirteen of “an act to increase and extend the benefit of Common Schools in the county of Noble and for other purposes.”

Chapter 160. An act to provide for the return of the vote on the school laws to the office of the Secretary of State.

Chapter 161. An act to repeal a part of the 31st section of an act to increase and extend the benefits of common schools.

SCHOOL LANDS.

Chapter 162. An act authorizing the sale of section sixteen (16), in township No. eight (8) north, of range No. five (5) east, in the county of Bartholomew.

Chapter 163. An act to authorize the sale of school land in Perry county.

Chapter 164. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands in the county of Lagrange.

Chapter 165. An act providing for the sale of school section in congressional township No. 28 north, of range No. four west, lying in the county of White.

Chapter 166. An act to authorize the sale of section sixteen, in congressional township twenty-four north of range twelve east, in Jay and Blackford counties.

STATE PRISON.

Chapter 167. An act to abolish the office of superintendent of the work on the state prison, and for other purposes.

SCIRE FACIAS.

Chapter 168. An act in reference to proceedings upon scire facias.

SHERIFFS.

Chapter 169. An act to extend an act entitled “an act to authorize the sheriff of Lawrence county to serve process issued by justices of the peace, in certain cases,” to the county of Owen.

SINKING FUND.

Chapter 170. An act for the relief of the owners of lands mortgaged to the sinking fund.

STATE PRISON.

Chapter 171. An act for the construction of a sewer at the state’s prison.

Chapter 172. An act relative to the purchase of books made by the Governor for the use of the convicts in the state prison, and for other purposes.

SUPERVISORS.

Chapter 173. An act to provide for electing supervisors by districts in the counties of Wells, Allen, Noble, Steuben, Miami, Henry, Lagrange, Tipton, Clinton, Harrison, Adams, Jay, Blackford, and Morgan.

SURETIES.

Chapter 174. An act to amend chapter 4th of the Revised Code of 1843.

SURVEYOR, COUNTY.

Chapter 175. An act in relation to the county surveyor of Putnam county.

Chapter 176. An act to authorize the election of a county surveyor in Greene county.

TOWNSHIP BUSINESS.

Chapter 177. An act to regulate the mode of doing township business in the county of Wabash.

Chapter 178. An act for the relief of township clerks in the county of Posey.

TREASURER, COUNTY.

Chapter 179. An act to amend section 12, of chapter 56, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 180. An act defining the duties of County Treasurers in the counties of Pike, Delaware, Daviess, Elkhart, Tipton, Sullivan, Noble, Washington, Marshall, Fulton, Starke, Johnson, and Randolph.

Chapter 181. An act defining the duties of the Treasurer of Morgan county.

Chapter 182. An act defining the duties of the county treasurer of Lake county.

Chapter 183. An act to amend sections 54 and 55, article 5, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as relates to Miami county.

Chapter 184. An act to give county treasurers until the 1st day of April, 1851, to make settlement with the auditor of State.

TREASURER AND AUDITOR OF STATE.

Chapter 185. An act authorizing the Treasurer and Auditor of State to re-settle with George H. Dunn, late Treasurer of State, and to correct any mistake that may be found in the former settlement of the said Dunn.

TRUST FUNDS.

Chapter 186. An act to extend further time to the borrowers of the Sinking Fund and other trust funds.

Chapter 187. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the school fund.

Chapter 188. An act reducing the fees for taking acknowledgements of mortgages to the trust funds.

VENUE.

Chapter 189. An act to repeal “an act to amend the Statute providing for taking a change of venue in criminal cases as far as Allen county is concerned,” approved January 16th, 1849.

Chapter 190. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend the statute providing for the taking a change of venue in criminal cases,” approved January 16, 1849, so far as relates to the county of Steuben.

VIADUCTS.

Chapter 191. An act to authorize the construction of viaducts under public highways.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution authorizing the United States to purchase a site and erect a Marine Hospital at Evansville, or in the immediate vicinity.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution relative to the claim of Col. Francis Vigo, late a citizen of Knox county, Indiana.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan City Harbor.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution in relation to the bounty land law of Congress, of September 28th, 1850.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution upon the subject of lands for school purposes.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution on the subject of the sale of the Northern Division of the Central Canal.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution on the subject of appropriating money for the erection of a public building.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution in relation to the World’s Fair.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution suspending the operation of a certain act therein named.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution in relation to the Slave Trade.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution authorizing the distribution of the Debates of the late Constitutional Convention.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution in relation to paupers and records appertaining to the Wabash and Erie Canal, its extensions and Feeders.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution for the relief of Captain William Waldo.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution granting the freedom of the State Library to Capt. Michael Fitzgibbon and John B. Dillon.

 

 

 

1850 General Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

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

 

AD QUOD DAMNUM.

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

AGENT—STATE.

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

APPROPRIATIONS—GENERAL.

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

APPROPRIATIONS—SPECIFIC.

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

ASSESSORS.

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

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

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

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

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

AUDITOR, COUNTY.

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

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

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

BLIND, INDIGENT.

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

CANAL, CENTRAL.

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

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

CANAL, WABASH AND ERIE.

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

CENSUS.

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

CENTRAL MEDICAL COLLEGE.

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

COMMISSIONER, COUNTY.

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

Chapter 20. An act repealing an act therein named.

CONVENTION.

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

CORONERS.

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

COSTS.

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

COUNTY BUSINESS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COURT, CIRCUIT.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COURT, CIRCUIT, AND PROBATE.

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

COURT, COMMON PLEAS.

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

COURT, PROBATE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COURT, PROBATE, SUPREME.

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

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

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

DEEDS.

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

DEPOSITIONS.

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

DEPUTY CLERKS.

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

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

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

DESCENT.

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

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

ELECTIONS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EQUALIZATION, BOARD OF.

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

ESTRAYS.

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

EXECUTIONS.

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

FEEDER DAM, MUNCIE.

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

FEEDER DAM, NORTHPORT.

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

FEES AND SALARIES.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FENCES, MAY BE REMOVED.

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

FIELD NOTES.

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

FISH.

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

FREE TURNPIKE SUPERVISOR.

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

FUNDED DEBT.

Chapter 116. An act to authorize the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer of State to borrow money to pay the interest due on the Funded Debt on the first day of January and first day of July, 1850.

GRAND JURY.

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

HABEAS CORPUS.

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

INSANE HOSPITAL.

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

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

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LAPORTE COUNTY.

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

LAWS, DISTRIBUTED.

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

LAWS, PUBLICATION OF.

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

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

LEGISLATURE.

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

LIENS.

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

LIBERIA.

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

LIBRARY OF STATE.

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

LIQUORS, SALE OF PROHIBITED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOANS BY THE STATE.

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

MADISON AND INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD.

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

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

MANUFACTURES.

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

NATIONAL MONUMENT.

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

NEW ALBANY AND VINCENNES ROAD.

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

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

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

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.

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

PARTITION.

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

PATENTS.

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

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

PAUPERS.

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

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

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

PEDLARS.

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

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

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

PLANK ROADS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

PRIVATE SECRETARY.

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

PROBATE JUDGE.

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

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.

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

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

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

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

REVENUE.

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

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

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

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

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

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.

Chapter 196. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to revise and consolidate the several acts of the General Assembly relative to laying out, opening, repairing, changing, and vacating public highways, and to the erection and repair of bridges, and to amend the same,” so far as relates to the county of Wabash.

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

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

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

Chapter 200. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the several acts of the General Assembly relative to laying out, opening, repairing, changing, and vacating public highways, and the erection and repair of bridges, and to amend the same,” approved January 17, 1849, so far as relates to Gibson county.

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

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

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

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

Chapter 205. An act amending an act therein named.

Chapter 206. An act to regulate the per diem allowance for work done on the public highways in the county of Adams and other counties therein named.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ROAD TAX.

Chapter 213. An act to amend an act entitled, “An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers, and for other purposes in the county of Tipton,” approved, January 16, 1849.

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

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

Chapter 216. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a tax equal to that paid by actual settlers in the county of Noble.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHOOLS, COMMON.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHOOL LANDS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

SEMINARIES.

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

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

SEMINARY LANDS.

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

SENATORS, UNITED STATES.

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

SHERIFFS.

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

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

SINKING FUND.

Chapter 257. An act respecting Sinking Fund mortgages.

STARKE COUNTY.

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

STATE HOUSE, APPROPRIATION FOR.

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

STATE PRISON.

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

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

SURVEYOR, COUNTY.

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

TAVERN AND GROCERY LICENSES.

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

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

TOWNSHIP BUSINESS.

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

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

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

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

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

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

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

TREASURER, COUNTY.

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

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

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

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

1849 General Laws of Indiana

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ADJUTANT GENERAL.

Chapter 1. An act authorizing compensation to be made to the Adjutant General for organizing the 4th and 5th Regiments of Indiana Volunteers.

AD QUOD DAMNUM.

Chapter 2. An act to amend Article 5 of the Revised Statutes of 1843, relative to writs of ad quod damnum.

Chapter 3. An act to authorize the erection of dams in the Wabash River and its tributaries, above the Delphi Dam.

APPROPRIATIONS—GENERAL.

Chapter 4. An act making General Appropriations, &c., for the year 1849, and for other purposes.

APPROPRIATIONS—SPECIFIC.

Chapter 5. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1849.

ASSESSORS.

Chapter 6. An act providing for the election of Township Assessors in the counties of Dearborn, Switzerland, Ohio, and Jay.

Chapter 7. An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the county of Scott.

Chapter 8. An act to provide for the election of Township Assessors in the county of Jay.

ATTORNEYS.

Chapter 9. An act respecting Attorneys at Law.

AUDITOR AND AGENT OF STATE.

Chapter 10. An act in relation to duties of Auditor and Agent of State.

AUDITOR—COUNTY.

Chapter 11. An act to amend section 89 of article 7 of chapter 12 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 12. An act to increase the pay of the Auditor of Hamilton County.

Chapter 13. An act fixing the fees of the Auditor of Switzerland County.

BANK—ADDITIONAL BRANCHES.

Chapter 14. An act authorizing the establishment of the additional Branches of the State Bank of Indiana.

BANK STOCK.

Chapter 15. An act to facilitate the discharge of mortgages given to the State of Indiana for the payment of Bank stock.

BILLS OF EXCEPTION.

Chapter 16. An act repealing a certain act therein named.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

Chapter 17. An act allowing grace on all bills of exchange.

BLIND—INSTITUTE OF.

Chapter 18. An act making the education of the Blind in Indiana free.

CENTRAL CANAL.

Chapter 19. An act for the relief of certain laborers on the Central Canal, for work done in 1847 and 1848.

CANAL LANDS.

Chapter 20. An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act for the relief of purchasers of Canal land;” approved January 19, 1846, approved December 28, 1846.

CHANCERY.

Chapter 21. An act amendatory of the laws relating to the practice in chancery.

Chapter 22. An act relative to the execution of decrees in Chancery.

CLOVER SEED.

Chapter 23. An act prescribing the number of pounds of Clover Seed to be considered a bushel in this State.

COUNTY BUSINESS.

Chapter 24. An act to change the mode of electing Grand Jurors in the county of Orange.

Chapter 25. An act relative to the Board of Commissioners of Boone county.

Chapter 26. An act changing the mode of doing county business in the county of Orange.

Chapter 27. An act to provide for the selection of Petit Jurors in the county of Jackson.

Chapter 28. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Warrick, from justices of the peace to county commissioners.

Chapter 29. An act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the county of Putnam.

Chapter 30. An act defining the duty of the board of commissioners of the county of Monroe.

Chapter 31. An act to extend the time of the sessions of the March and June terms of the Board of County Commissioners of Knox county.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Chapter 32. An act in relation to official misconduct of county commissioners.

CONSOLIDATION OF INDICTMENTS.

Chapter 33. An act to prevent the consolidation of indictments in certain cases in Hamilton county.

CONVENTION.

Chapter 34. An act to provide for taking the sense of the qualified voters of the State on the calling of a Convention to alter, amend, or revise the constitution of this State.

COSTS.

Chapter 35. An act to amend section 336, of chapter 40, of the Revised Code of 1843.

COURT, SUPREME.

Chapter 36. An act declaratory of the meaning of the Thirtieth (30) Section of Chapter Thirty-Seven (37) of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

COURT, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act regulating the practice of law in the Allen circuit court, and for other purposes,” approved Jan. 15, 1845.

Chapter 38. An act to fix the time of holding courts in the First Judicial Circuit and the Probate Court of Tippecanoe county.

Chapter 39. An act to change the time of holding Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 40. An act fixing the time of holding the several Circuit Courts in the eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 41. An act to alter the time of holding Circuit Courts in Owen, Morgan, and Brown Counties, in the Tenth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 42. An act to change the time of holding Circuit Courts in the Counties of Jennings and Bartholomew.

Chapter 43. An act to reduce the expenses of the Circuit Courts in the Counties of Greene and Brown, and for other purposes.

Chapter 44. An act fixing the time of holding the Courts in Porter and Laporte counties.

COURT—COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 45. An act creating the Marion Court of Common Pleas.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “An act creating the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas, and defining its jurisdiction,” approved January 8, 1848.

COURT—PROBATE.

Chapter 47. An act to amend an act in relation to the sale of real estate by executors and administrators, approved 13th January, 1845.

Chapter 48. An act to amend the 209th section of chapter 30 of the revised statutes of 1843.

Chapter 49. An act defining the duties of administrators de bonis non in certain cases.

Chapter 50. An act to amend the laws relating to the execution of deeds by order of the Probate Court.

Chapter 51. An act for the Relief of Widows.

Chapter 52. An act to authorize the transfer of cases pending in the Probate to the Circuit Court, as far as relates to Putnam county.

Chapter 53. An act relative to the Probate Court of Morgan county.

Chapter 54. An act to authorize the probate court in Bartholomew county to sit two weeks at its February term.

Chapter 55. An act in reference to the appointment of probate judge of Wayne county.

Chapter 56. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in the county of Monroe.

Chapter 57. An act fixing the time of holding the February and August terms of Hancock probate court.

Chapter 58. An act relative to the practice in Probate Courts.

DEAF AND DUMB.

Chapter 59. An act making the education of Deaf and Dumb persons in Indiana free.

Chapter 60. An act to provide for the manner of letting the work of the Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

DEPUTY CLERKS.

Chapter 61. An act to amend section one hundred and one, of chapter thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

DIVORCES.

Chapter 62. An act to amend the statute regulating the granting of divorces.

ELECTIONS.

Chapter 63. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Delaware township, in the county of Hamilton.

EXECUTIONS.

Chapter 64. An act to amend the thirteenth article of the fortieth chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

FEES AND SALARIES.

Chapter 65. An act to increase the salary of probate judge of Wayne county.

Chapter 66. An act relative to the probate judge of Laporte county.

Chapter 67. An act relative to the pay of the Probate Judge in the county of Grant.

Chapter 68. An act to regulate Clerk’s Fees in the Probate Court of Parke county.

Chapter 69. An act regulating the Fees of Justices of the Peace, Mayors and Constables, and for other purposes.

Chapter 70. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of the county of Monroe, to make additional compensation to the Probate Judge of said county.

Chapter 71. An act establishing the salaries of the Auditor and Treasurer of Jay County, and the Recorder of Steuben County.

Chapter 72. An act to regulate the fees and emoluments of the Auditors and Treasurers of the counties of Lagrange and Steuben.

Chapter 73. An act to increase the pay of the Probate Judge of certain Counties therein named.

FUNDED DEBT.

Chapter 74. An act to authorize the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer of State, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars to pay the interest due on the funded debt, on the first day of January, 1849.

HABEAS CORPUS.

Chapter 75. An act to authorize the Judge of the Probate Court of St. Joseph county to grant and try writs of habeas corpus, and for other purposes.

INDIANS—CONTRACTS WITH.

Chapter 76. An act in relation to the law prohibiting the Indians from selling lands in this State.

Chapter 77. An act to repeal section 3, chapter 28, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, relative to sales by Indians, relative to contracts with Indians.

INSANE HOSPITAL.

Chapter 78. An act to amend “An act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane,” approved February 15, 1848.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

Chapter 79. An act to exempt the county of Washington from the force and operation of the 61st section of the act entitled “An act to provide for the continuation of the construction of all or any part of the public works of this State by private companies, and for abolishing the board of Internal Improvements, and the offices of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer,” approved January 28, 1842.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chapter 80. An act authorizing Justices of the Peace in Harrison county to perform the duties of Coroner in certain cases.

Chapter 81. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Wayne county.

Chapter 82. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to repeal the fourth section of the forty-seventh chapter of the Revised Statutes, so far as relates to Elkhart county.”

Chapter 83. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Jefferson, Rush, Union, and Jennings counties.

Chapter 84. An act to define the jurisdiction of the peace in the several counties therein named.

Chapter 85. An act to amend an act extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in certain criminal cases, approved Feb. 16, 1848.

Chapter 86. An act relative to the jurisdiction of the peace in criminal cases.

LAWS DISTRIBUTED.

Chapter 87. An act to equally distribute the local and general laws of this State.

Chapter 88. An act to authorize the Secretary of State to send an additional number of copies of the laws of the State to the county of Jay.

LEVEE.

Chapter 89. An act amendatory of an act, entitled “An act to establish a Levee from the town of Vincennes through the lower Prairie near the Wabash River to the Grand Coulee,” approved Feb. 2, 1833.

LIENS.

Chapter 90. An act to amend article 2 of chapter 42 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

LIQUORS—TO PROHIBIT SALE OF.

Chapter 91. An act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in Dalton township, Wayne county.

Chapter 92. An act more effectually to prevent the retailing of Spirituous Liquors in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 93. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the people of the several townships of the several counties to prohibit the retailing of Spirituous Liquors,” approved January 28, 1847,” so as far relates to the county of Wabash.

Chapter 94. An act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in Posey township, in the county of Rush.

PATENTS.

Chapter 95. An act directing the Secretary of State to make patents for certain Michigan Road lands.

PAUPERS.

Chapter 96. An act in relation to Paupers in the county of Dearborn.

PLANK ROADS.

Chapter 97. An act authorizing the construction of Plank Roads.

Chapter 98. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the construction of plank or coal roads,” approved 16th February, 1848.

POISONING FISH.

Chapter 99. An act to prevent the poisoning of fish in the county of Green.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.

Chapter 100. An act defining the duties and fixing the compensation of the prosecuting attorney of Hancock county.

Chapter 101. An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys in the 4th and 8th Judicial Circuits.

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

Chapter 102. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to require certain statutes to be published in some newspaper at Indianapolis, and for other purposes,” approved January 20, 1846.

RAILROADS.

Chapter 103. An act explanatory of the act prescribing the manner of assessing and paying the taxes due upon the stock of individuals, in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company, approved February 16th, 1848.

Chapter 104. An act relative to Railroads.

RECORDER.

Chapter 105. An act to repeal an act, entitled “an act reducing the fee for recording deeds in Delaware county,” approved February 14, 1848.

REVENUE.

Chapter 106. An act to exempt the property of invalids from taxation.

Chapter 107. An act repealing the several acts exempting soldiers of the Mexican War from the payment of taxes.

Chapter 108. An act to raise a Revenue for State purposes for 1849.

ROADS.

Chapter 109. An act to revise and consolidate the several acts of the General Assembly relative to laying out, opening, repairing, changing, and vacating public highways, and to the erection and repair of bridges, and to amend the same.

Chapter 110. An act declaratory of the meaning of a certain act therein named.

Chapter 111. An act in relation to the highway tax of the county of Lagrange.

Chapter 112. An act in relation to road taxes in Adams county.

Chapter 113. An act to revive the law authorizing the assessment of a tax on real estate in the county of Morgan for road purposes.

Chapter 114. An act to authorize the County Commissioners of the county of Cass to increase the highway tax in said county.

Chapter 115. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers, and for other purposes, in the county of Tipton.

SCHOOLS—COMMON.

Chapter 116. An act to increase and extend the benefits of Common Schools.

Chapter 117. An act more effectually to provide for the security of the school fund.

SCHOOL LANDS.

Chapter 118. An act in relation to school lands in Floyd county.

Chapter 119. An act authorizing the re-appraisement of certain school lands in Clinton county.

Chapter 120. An act relative to the sale of School Lands in certain Counties therein named, and to amend article 13, chapter 13, of Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 121. An act in relation to the powers and duties of the Trustees of Congressional Townships in Daviess County.

Chapter 122. An act legalizing the sale of the school section in Township 20th North of Range 10 East, in Delaware County.

SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

Chapter 123. An act in relation to School-houses in Dearborn County.

Chapter 124. An act authorizing the trustees of school district number thirteen, (13) in township thirty-six, (36) north of range three (3) west, in Laporte county, to levy a tax to build a school house.

SECURITIES—SINKING FUND.

Chapter 125. An act for the relief of securities of Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Commissioners to sell real estate.

SEMINARY FUND.

Chapter 126. An act relative to the seminary fund in Cass county.

SINKING FUNDS.

Chapter 127. An act to authorize the president of the sinking fund commissioners to execute patents or deeds in certain cases.

Chapter 128. An act authorizing the sale of certain sinking fund lands.

STATE PRISON.

Chapter 129. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to lease the Indiana State Prison, and for other purposes, approved January 16, 1846.

STATE PROPERTY.

Chapter 130. An act authorizing David Moss to sell certain stone in Hamilton county.

SURPLUS REVENUE.

Chapter 131. An act for the better security of the Surplus Revenue Fund in Boone county.

Chapter 132. An act in relation to the Agent of State for loaning the Surplus Revenue in Clark county.

SURVEYORS—COUNTY.

Chapter 133. An act to amend the 10th chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843, in relation to the duties of county Surveyors.

TENANTS HOLDING OVER.

Chapter 134. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to amend article 5, of chapter 45, of the Revised Code of 1843,” approved February 16, 1848.

TREASURERS.

Chapter 135. An act to prevent Treasurers and other officers in the counties of Steuben, De Kalb, and Noble from receiving constructive per centage.

Chapter 136. An act defining the duties of county Treasurers in several counties therein named.

Chapter 137. An act to amend the first article, of chapter seven, of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

VENUE—CHANGE OF.

Chapter 138. An act to amend the Statute providing for the taking a change of venue in criminal cases.

WABASH AND ERIE CANAL.

Chapter 139. An act declaring certain acts therein named in full force.

Chapter 140. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the Superintendent of the Wabash and Erie Canal to pay such equitable claims as counties and individuals may have for surveying and locating the canal from Tippecanoe to Terre Haute,” approved January 25, 1847.

WOLF SCALPS.

Chapter 141. An act to repeal so much of an act entitled “an act to encourage the raising of sheep and hogs, and to increase the revenue of the State, and the wealth of the people,” as relates to Jasper county.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1.  A Joint Resolution instructing our Senators in Congress, and requesting our Representatives, to use their influence to procure a donation by Congress of four thousand acres of land in the Miami Reserve, for the use of the Indiana University, in lieu of four thousand acres conferred by Congress to the President and Trustees of the Vincennes University, out of the two sections of land previously granted by Congress to the State of Indiana, for the use of the Indiana Seminary, in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution in relation to the navigation of the Kankakee and Iroquois Rivers in the States of Indiana and Illinois.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution relative to the Harbor at Michigan City.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution in relation to Soldiers of the War with Great Britain.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution in relation to certain Official Documents connected with the conduct of the Second Indiana Regiment.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution relative to the right of way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road in the State of Illinois.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution relative to the right of way for a Rail-way in Illinois.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution relative to the scrip account between the State of Indiana and the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 9. Joint resolution on the independence of Liberia.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution to authorize the purchase of a picture of the Tippecanoe Battle Ground, now in the State Library.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution in relation to State instruments.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution on the subject of donating lands by the General Government.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution on the subject of publishing the General Laws of the present session.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution in relation to the time of payment of the semi-annual interest due to the bondholders of this State.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution in relation to the contract between the State and her Bond-holders.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution authorizing an additional subscription by the State in the stock of the Indianapolis and Madison Railroad company, and for the sale of the same.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution in relation to the Indianapolis and Peru Rail Road.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution in relation to the postage on Newspapers and Public Documents.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution in relation to the Second and Third Regiments of Indiana Volunteers.

Chapter 20. A joint resolution in relation to the Seat of Government of the United States.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution relative to Land selected by the State of Indiana for Canal purposes.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution on the subject of the Three Per Cent Fund.

Chapter 23. A joint resolution relative to the reduction of the price of Public Lands in the Great Miami National Reserve.

Chapter 24. A joint resolution in relation to the existing Post Office Laws.

Chapter 25. A joint resolution authorizing the Governor or Agent of State to make sale of all or any real estate owned by the State of Indiana in the State of Georgia.

 

 

1848 General Laws of Indiana

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Chapter 1. An act in relation to the New Albany and Vincennes Turnpike Road.

Chapter 2. An act explanatory of an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act for the benefit of the volunteers of the Mexican war, and for the relief of county treasurers,” approved January 13, 1848.

Chapter 3. An act authorizing the repair of the building on the Governor’s Circle.

Chapter 4. An act relative to the Marion circuit court.

Chapter 5. An act fixing the time of holding courts in Hancock county.

Chapter 6. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Shelby.

Chapter 7. An act to authorize the treasurer of state to draw the state’s dividends on here stock in the Madison and Indianapolis railroad, and for other purposes.

Chapter 8. An act to amend the ninth article of chapter 30 of the Revised Laws of 1843.

Chapter 9. An act relative to the suit of the Vincennes University against the State of Indiana.

Chapter 10. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes Road, and for other purposes.”

Chapter 11. An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys by the people in the several counties,” approved January 27, 1847.

Chapter 12. An act to regulate clerk’s fees in the probate court of Jackson county.

Chapter 13. An act to authorize the inspection of hay in the several counties in this state.

Chapter 14. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the people of the several townships of the several counties to prohibit the retailing of spirituous liquors,” approved January 28, 1847.

Chapter 15. An act concerning the State Library.

Chapter 16. An act to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in certain criminal cases.

Chapter 17. An act to extend the February term of the probate court of Bartholomew county.

Chapter 18. An act prescribing the manner of assessing and paying the taxes due upon the stock of individuals in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad company.

Chapter 19. An act to regulate the practice of law in the Lagrange circuit court.

Chapter 20. An act in relation to mortgages due to the Treasury Fund and the Indianapolis Fund.

Chapter 21. An act for the relief of replevy bail.

Chapter 22. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the formation of voluntary associations,” approved January 27, 1847.

Chapter 23. An act to authorize the construction of plank or coal roads.

Chapter 24. An act to provide for the taxing of estates in dower.

Chapter 25. An act to repeal so much of an act fixing the time of holding the Probate Courts of Ripley county, approved January 7, 1847, as relates to the compensation of the Probate Judge.

Chapter 26. An act providing for a special term of the Probate Court of Washington County, Indiana.

Chapter 27. An act relative to the practice in the Laporte Circuit Court.

Chapter 28. An act relative to the time of making reports to the Legislature.

Chapter 29. An act to extend the time for appraising certain lands belonging to the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 30. An act relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United States.

Chapter 31. An act to regulate the signing of bills of exceptions in the circuit courts.

Chapter 32. An act to amend the 14th section of article 1st of chapter 14 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 33. An act for the relief of widows and orphans.

Chapter 34. An act creating the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas, and defining its jurisdiction.

Chapter 35. An act to amend the second article of the 30th chapter of the Revised Statutes of A. D. 1843, concerning the probate of wills and testaments.

Chapter 36. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in Franklin county.

Chapter 37. An act to allow parties to take depositions in actions at law after injunction granted.

Chapter 38. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in Dearborn county.

Chapter 39. An act releasing the right of the State to certain land in Hancock county, which was acquired by escheat.

Chapter 40. An act to change the time of holding the probate court in the county of Allen, and to repeal certain acts therein named.

Chapter 41. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Clark county.

Chapter 42. An act authorizing the sale of the “Old Indiana State Prison.”

Chapter 43. An act in relation to the organization of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Chapter 44. An act declaring certain words in section 43, chapter 16, of the Revised Statutes of 1843 a misprint.

Chapter 45. An act to amend article five of chapter forty-five of the Revised Code of 1843.

Chapter 46. An act to amend chapter one of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 47. An act to require the trustees of the Indiana University to report to the General Assembly.

Chapter 48. An act for the speedy completion of a portion of the Indiana Hospital of the Insane.

Chapter 49. An act to authorize the people to vote for or against a tax for the support of Free Schools.

Chapter 50. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the formation of voluntary associations,” approved January 27, 1847.

Chapter 51. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1848.

Chapter 52. An act to regulate agencies of Foreign Insurance Companies.

Chapter 53. An act to amend the 25th section of article 2, of chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1843.

Chapter 54. An act to amend “an act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorney by the people,” approved January 27th, 1847.

Chapter 55. An act regulating special elections ordered by the Governor.

Chapter 56. An act to change the time of holding Probate Court in the county of Daviess.

Chapter 57. An act declaring a misprint in “an act to amend the practice in the Probate Court,” approved January 28, 1847.

Chapter 58. An act in regard to Bonds of County Officers.

Chapter 59. An act authorizing county auditors to take acknowledgements of deeds in certain cases.

Chapter 60. An act to extend the February term of the Probate court in the county of Washington.

Chapter 61. An act repealing so much of section 233 of chapter 30 of the Revised Statutes of 1843 as requires the probate court to set the time of sales of real estate by executors and administrators.

Chapter 62. An act relative to the probate court of Monroe County.

Chapter 63. An act authorizing the boards doing county business to continue in session ten days at their March and June session, in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 64. An act to repeal a part of an act entitled “an act to change the time of holding the probate court in Ripley county.”

Chapter 65. An act making general appropriations for the year 1848.

Chapter 66. An act concerning the duties of clerks of circuit courts of this state.

Chapter 67. An act for the relief of tax payers of this state.

Chapter 68. An act to encourage the organization of fire companies.

Chapter 69. An act in relation to the saline lands in this state.

Chapter 70. An act in relation to the duties of auditor of state and commissioner of the sinking fund in certain cases herein named.

Chapter 71. An act changing the time of holding the Probate Courts in the Counties of Jefferson, Switzerland and Ohio.

Chapter 72. An act to authorize the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer of State to borrow a sum of money not exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars to pay the interest due on the funded debt on the 1st day of January, 1848.

Chapter 73. An act changing the time of holding courts in the county of Knox.

Chapter 74. An act to raise a revenue for state purposes for the year 1848.

Chapter 75. An act authorizing the State Librarian to procure a suitable book in which to record the names of volunteers from the State of Indiana.

Chapter 76. An act exempting the property of the blind and deaf and dumb persons from taxation.

Chapter 77. An act to amend sections 134 and 137 of chapter 37 of the Revised Statutes.

Chapter 78. An act to amend the 22d section of an act of the Revised Statutes entitled “an act for the relief of the poor.”

Chapter 79. An act extending the time for holding the several terms of the probate court of Madison county.

Chapter 80. An act to fix the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Putnam.

Chapter 81. An act to amend the charter of the Indiana Medical College.

Chapter 82. An act fixing the time of holding circuit courts in the county of Marion, and for other purposes.

Chapter 83. An act authorizing county auditors to make deeds in certain cases.

Chapter 84. An act for the benefit of Widows.

Chapter 85. An act amendatory to the laws in regard to writs of ad quod damnum.

Chapter 86. An act for the government of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

Chapter 87. An act to amend an act compelling speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers.

Chapter 88. An act amending section four hundred and fifty-three, chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes of 1843, and for other purposes.

Chapter 89. An act to fix the time of holding courts in the eighth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 90. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts in the third Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 91. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the benefit of the volunteers for the Mexican war, and for the relief of county treasurers.”

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution to postpone the public sales of the lands in the Miami Reserves.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution on the subject of locating land warrants.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution in relation to increasing the clothing pay of Volunteer non-commissioned officers and privates to our armies in Mexico.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution for the reduction of the price of public lands in the Great Miami Reserve to one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to actual settlers.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution in relation to a mail route from Belleville, in Hendricks County, to Lebanon, in Boone County, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 6. A joint resolution relative to a mail route from Salem to Bloomington.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution in relation to the improvement of the Iroquois and Kankakee rivers, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 8. A joint resolution relative to the National Road.

Chapter 9. A joint resolution in relation to volunteers who have settled on government lands in the great Miami reserve.

Chapter 10. A joint resolution relating to the Miami Indians.

Chapter 11. A joint resolution in relation to making compensation to the Adjutant General of the State.

Chapter 12. A joint resolution relative to a marsh and wet tract of land in the counties of Jay and Adams.

Chapter 13. A joint resolution asking the aid of the General Government for the American Colonization Society.

Chapter 14. A joint resolution relative to bound land warrants.

Chapter 15. A joint resolution for the purpose of procuring a mail route from Brownstown, in Jackson county, Indiana, to David Bowman’s, in Salt Creek township, in said county, and from thence to Nashville, in Brown county.

Chapter 16. A joint resolution relative to the reduction of postage on newspapers and periodicals.

Chapter 17. A joint resolution of thanks to Captain Simonson and Captain Ford.

Chapter 18. A joint resolution of thanks to Elhanan Moberly.

Chapter 19. A joint resolution accepting the colors of the Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers.

Chapter 20. A preamble and joint resolution in relation to the Flag of the second Indiana Regiment.

Chapter 21. A joint resolution in relation to the claims of the State of Indiana upon the United States for expenses incurred in raising troops for the Mexican war, upon the requisitions of the Secretary of War.

Chapter 22. A joint resolution of sympathy with Pope Pius the Ninth for his efforts in behalf of liberal reform in his dominions.

Chapter 23. A joint resolution relative to the Indiana State Historical Society.

Chapter 24. A joint resolution in relation to the Education Society of Indiana.

Chapter 25. A joint resolution relative to International Literary Exchanges.

Chapter 26. A joint resolution on the subject of the laws of the Indiana Territory for the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804.

Chapter 27. A joint resolution in relation to certain Canal Funds.

Chapter 28. A joint resolution relative to the claim of Col. Francis Vigo, late a citizen of Knox county, Indiana.

Chapter 29. A joint resolution in relation to the contract entered into between the State of Indiana and her bondholders.

Chapter 30. A joint resolution on the subject of reducing the price of our public lands.

 

1847 General Laws of Indiana

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 9. An act relative to loaning school funds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 19. An act to regulate chancery practice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 42. An act in relation to Brokers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 77. An act relative to allowances to Guardians.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 102. An act relative to executions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

1846 General Laws of Indiana

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

 

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

Chapter 2. An act in relation to County Treasurers.

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

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

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

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

Chapter 7. An act in relation to County Auditors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 18. An act to protect certain Private Rights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 68. An act relative to Tax Titles.

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

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

Chapter 71. An act relative to Apprentices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1845 General Laws of Indiana

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 7. An act in relation to School Commissioners.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 24. An act concerning certain Conveyances therein named.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 48. An act exempting personal property from execution.

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

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

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

Chapter 52. An act to amend an act, entitled, “An act to provide for the continuance of the construction of all or any part of the Public Works of this State, by private companies, and for abolishing the Board of Internal Improvements and the offices of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer,” approved January 28, 1842.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 59. An act relative to Official Bonds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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

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

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