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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 65. An act giving further time to Assessors.

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

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

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

Chapter 69. An act concerning marks and brands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 97. An act amending the criminal law.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 105. An act to transfer the books and papers, &c. of the office of Agent of the town of Indianapolis, and the books, papers, &c. of the Michigan Road Commissioner to the office of State Auditor.

Chapter 106. An act to amend a certain act therein named.

Chapter 107. An act for the relief of justices of the peace.

Chapter 108. An act to restrict the session of the grand jury to three days at each term of the Hancock circuit court.

Chapter 109. An act to provide for the appointment of township assessors in certain counties therein named, and defining their duties.

Chapter 110. An act to reduce the prices paid for ferriages in Lawrence county.

Chapter 111. An act in relation to tavern licenses in Hancock and Carroll counties.

Chapter 112. An act relating to proof of title to state lands.

Chapter 113. An act amending the ninetieth section of the twelfth chapter, article seven, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as the same relates to certain counties therein named.

Chapter 114. An act to restrict the assessment of a poll tax within the county of Spencer.

Chapter 115. An act to amend an act entitled “An act providing for the summoning and empaneling jurors in the counties of Delaware, Grant, Franklin, Scott, Floyd, and Union,” approved January 23, 1843.

Chapter 116. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in and for the county of Blackford.

Chapter 117. An act to postpone the sale of lands forfeited to the common school and saline funds.

Chapter 118. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the county of Hamilton.

Chapter 119. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in the county of Lawrence, and for other purposes.

Chapter 120. An act repealing all laws now in force providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in Miami county.

Chapter 121. An act extending the provisions of a certain act therein named to the county of Spencer.

Chapter 122. An act extending certain laws therein named to the county of Randolph.

Chapter 123. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Martin.

Chapter 124. An act to provide for summoning petit jurors in the Lagrange circuit and probate courts.

Chapter 125. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, A. D. 1838, approved February 11, A. D. 1843, to the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 126. An act to provide for summoning grand and petit jurors in Decatur and Warren counties.

Chapter 127. An act repealing so much of an act entitled “An act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, 1838, so much as relates to the county of Clay.

Chapter 128. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Dubois county.

Chapter 129. An act to require the superintendents on the lines of public works to furnish the auditor of state with a list of tolls.

Chapter 130. An act declaring a misprint in the revised statutes of 1843.

Chapter 131. An act continuing the means for the instruction of the deaf and dumb in this state.

Chapter 132. An act to suspend the further issue of five dollar treasury notes in lieu of fifties.

Chapter 133. An act regulating the selecting grand jurors in the county of Randolph.

Chapter 134. An act to provide for changing the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Vanderburgh.

Chapter 135. An act to repeal the militia law.

Chapter 136. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in Dearborn county.

 

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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Dowling & Cole, 1843. Google Books

Chapter 1. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17th, A. D. 1838.

Chapter 2. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the First Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 3. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and in the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 4. An act supplemental to “An act fixing the time of holding circuit courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and in the Fifth Judicial Circuit,” approved February 3d, 1843.

Chapter 5. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 6. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 7. An act to authorize a special session of the Johnson circuit court.

Chapter 8. An act to prescribe the times and manner of holding the circuit court in Allen county, and to provide for a special term thereof.

Chapter 9. An act to authorize a special session of the Floyd circuit court.

Chapter 10. An act providing for a special term of the Montgomery circuit court, and for other purposes.

Chapter 11. An act to amend an act entitled “an act supplemental to an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved January 8, 1842.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘an act to organize the militia of Indiana,’ approved February 10th, 1831,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 13. An act to amend an act entitled an act to organize the militia of the State of Indiana, approved February 10th, 1831, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 14. An act for the encouragement of the growth, and manufacture of silk.

Chapter 15. An act to provide for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys by the people.

Chapter 16. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act for the relief of the borrowers of the Sinking Fund, Surplus Revenue Fun, and other Funds, and for the better securing the payment thereof,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 17. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act amendatory of an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties,” approved February 17th, 1838, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 18. An act to amend the act entitled “an act concerning proceedings in ejectment, and for the relief of occupying claimants of land,” approved January 13th, 1831.

Chapter 19. An act in relation to canal land patents.

Chapter 20. An act to provide for the assessment of damages on the Wabash and Erie canal, west of the Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 21. An act in relation to the letting of water power by the State of Indiana.

Chapter 22. An act to provide for paying claims and purchasing land at sites for water power on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 23. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to authorize the building of the towing path bridge across the Wabash river at Carrollton, in Carroll county,” and for other purposes, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 24. An act to provide for the reception of certain Treasury Notes in payment of county Revenue, and for other purposes.

Chapter 25. An act regulating the rate of tolls on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 26. An act amendatory of an act for the completion of the Wabash and Erie canal from the mouth of Tippecanoe river to Terre Haute, approved January 1st, 1842.

Chapter 27. An act to extend the provisions of an act entitled, “An act for the relief of the settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands,” approved February 24th, 1840, and supplemental to an act on the same subject, approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the leasing of water power at the town of Pittsburgh, Carroll county, and for other purposes,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 29. An act authorizing the commissioners of the Wabash and Erie canal east and west of Tippecanoe to sell canal lands in tracts of forty acres, or quarter quarter sections.

Chapter 30. An act providing for numbering, signing, and registering the Wabash and Erie canal scrip east and west of Tippecanoe river, and for other purposes.

Chapter 31. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 32. An act prescribing certain duties to the commissioners and agents on the public works.

Chapter 33. An act relative to suits against Miami Indians.

Chapter 34. An act to divide the State into Congressional Districts.

Chapter 35. An act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred for the protection of the School Funds, and for other purposes.

Chapter 36. An act to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace and of Constables in certain cases therein named.

Chapter 37. An act making general appropriations for the year 1843.

Chapter 38. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1843.

Chapter 39. An act to compel supervisors to expend money in their hands.

Chapter 40. An act in relation to the printing and the distribution of the Revised Statutes.

Chapter 41. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the inspection of Salt, Beef, Flour, Pork, and Tobacco,” approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 42. An act amending an act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved January 31st, 1842.

Chapter 43. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue fund, saline fund, college fund, and common school fund.

Chapter 44. An act in relation to enrolling the acts of the General Assembly.

Chapter 45. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the preservation of sheep,” approved January 25th, 1841.

Chapter 46. An act to regulate the sale of real estate by executors, administrators, and guardians.

Chapter 47. An act to require the Bank to continue specie payments, and to enable it to maintain them.

Chapter 48. An act to provide for the reduction of the state and individual stock in the State Bank, and for other purposes.

Chapter 49. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to provide for the reduction of State and Individual Stock in the State Bank and for other purposes,” approved February 2d, 1843.

Chapter 50. An act concerning the eligibility and qualifications of Directors of the State Bank and Branches thereof.

Chapter 51. An act to repeal the thirtieth section of the second amendment of the Bank Charter, and to act to create a seventeenth Branch Bank District.

Chapter 52. An act to amend an act relative to granting license.

Chapter 53. An act to amend the several acts for the regulation of the State Prison.

Chapter 54. An act fixing a premium on wolf scalps.

Chapter 55. An act to authorize a special term of the Probate Court in Allen county.

Chapter 56. An act to change the time of holding Probate Courts in Jay county.

Chapter 57. An act to change the time of holding Probate Court in the county of Vigo.

Chapter 58. An act providing for the alteration of the time of holding Probate Court in the county of Allen when the present terms shall conflict with the terms of the Circuit Courts of said county.

Chapter 59. An act relating to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Crawford, St. Joseph, Franklin, and Laporte counties.

Chapter 60. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Union, Johnson, and Martin.

Chapter 61. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the counties of Warrick and Dubois.

Chapter 62. An act to amend an act approved January 29th, 1842, entitled “an act to provide the mode of doing township business in Miami county,” approved December 24th, 1840.

Chapter 63. An act in relation to the Jeffersonville and Crawfordsville turnpike road.

Chapter 64. An act to repeal certain parts of an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17th, 1838, so far as the same relates to the county of Clay.

Chapter 65. An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes road, and to provide for the completion of the grade from Paoli to Mount Pleasant.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the act in relation to descents, distribution, and dower.

Chapter 67. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of summoning and empaneling Grand and Petit Jurors, approved, February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 68. An act abolishing docket fees, and dispensing with final records in certain cases.

Chapter 69. An act abolishing a complete record in certain criminal cases.

Chapter 70. An act to provide for summoning Grand and Petit Jurors in the county of Madison.

Chapter 71. An act relative to summoning petit jurors in the counties of Sullivan, Madison, Owen, and Vermillion.

Chapter 72. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Jackson and Bartholomew counties, and for other purposes,” approved December 29th, 1841, and continuing the laws in reference to the manner of selecting jurors in Bartholomew, Jackson, and Hancock counties.

Chapter 73. An act fixing a certain annual compensation to the auditors of Hancock and Boone counties.

Chapter 74. An act to amend the 12th section of an act entitled “An act prescribing the duties of county treasurers,” approved February the 12th, A. D. 1841.

Chapter 75. An act reducing the fees of the auditors in the counties of Morgan, Owen, Monroe, Knox, Gibson, and Fountain.

Chapter 76. An act to provide for the collection of township tax, by the County Treasurers, in certain counties.

Chapter 77. An act remitting the penalties for the non-payment of taxes in certain cases.

Chapter 78. An act relating to taxation for State purposes, and the redemption of Treasury Notes.

Chapter 79. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the duties of Clerks of the Circuit Courts and County Auditors, approved, January 31, 1842.

Chapter 80. An act to provide means to support a Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 81. An act further to amend an act entitled “an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes,” approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 82. An act relative to the collection of delinquent taxes.

Chapter 83. An act to authorize the commissioners of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and Whitley counties to equalize the appraisement of real estate in said counties.

Chapter 84. An act to amend an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of county auditor,” approved February 12th, A.D. 1841.

Chapter 85. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the election of the county assessor,” approved February 10th, 1841.

Chapter 86. An act to extend the time of the treasurer of Clinton county to distrain property for the non-payment of taxes.

Chapter 87. An act to repeal so much of the fifty-second section of an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of county auditor,” approved February 12th, 1841, as allows certain fees to be paid out of the county treasury, so far as the same relates to the county of Switzerland, and for other purposes.

Chapter 88. An act to repeal the sixteenth section of an act entitled “an act prescribing the duties of county treasurers,” approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 89. An act to postpone the sale of delinquent lands and lots.

Chapter 90. An act to amend an act entitled “An act repealing the 18th, 21st, and 23d sections of the act prescribing the duties of county treasurers, approved February 12th, 1841,” approved December 24th, 1841.

Chapter 91. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crime and punishment,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 92. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Greenville township, Floyd county.

Chapter 93. An act to reduce the expense of Putnam county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 94. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to reverse and amend ‘an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein,’ approved February 17th, 1838,” approved February 15th, 1841.

Chapter 95. An act reducing the expenses of the county of Porter, and for selecting petit Jurors therein.

Chapter 96. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the apportionment of the Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,” approved, February 16, 1841.

Chapter 97. An act to extend in part the provisions of the act entitled “an act to compel speculators to pay a road tax, equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved, January 31, 1842, to the counties of Elkhart, Jay, Adams, Blackford, Hamilton, Miami and Wabash.

Chapter 98. An act for the relief of the purchasers of the saline lands in the counties of Orange, Washington, and Brown.

Chapter 99. An act providing for the summoning and empaneling jurors in the counties of Delaware, Grant, Scott, Franklin, Floyd, and Union.

Chapter 100. An act to appoint an inspector of salt in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 101. An act to amend an act approved January 31st, 1842, entitled “an act to amend an act entitled ‘an act to organize the militia of Indiana” approved, February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 102. An act in relation to the docketing of causes in the Lake Circuit Court.

Chapter 103. An act fixing the time of holding the terms of the Board of Commissioners in the county of Porter.

Chapter 104. An act to extend an act entitled “an act for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, approved, February 17, A. D. 1838, to Kosciusko county.

Chapter 105. An act to prevent fraudulent conveyances.

Chapter 106. An act to assist and make Common Schools more effective.

Chapter 107. An act to restrict the county commissioners in the counties of Allen, Laporte, Wells, Huntington, Adams, and Jay.

Chapter 108. An act defining the duties of sheriffs in the counties of Owen and Hancock.

Chapter 109. An act for the relief of the people of Noble, Lagrange, Steuben, and DeKalb counties.

Chapter 110. An act to appropriate a certain sum for the procurement of books for the use of the prisoners in the state prison.

Chapter 111. An act to authorize the printing of two thousand copies of the Revised Code in the German language.

Chapter 112. An act providing additional means for the improvement of public roads and highways in the county of Carroll.

Chapter 113. An act relating to voting in Laporte county.

Chapter 114. An act to repeal an act therein named so far as the same relates to the counties of Switzerland and Montgomery.

Chapter 115. An act to repeal all acts or parts of acts declaring the White Water rivers navigable streams, except in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 116. An act to provide for opening and repairing roads and highways in Posey county.

Chapter 117. An act relative to the three per cent fund and for other purposes.

Chapter 118. An act to amend all the acts heretofore passed on the subject of electing an additional justice of the peace and constable in and for Morgan township, in the county of Harrison.

Chapter 119. An act regulating the granting of licenses in the counties of Rush, Shelby, Spencer, Harrison, Warrick, Greene, Delaware, Union, Dubois, Floyd, Switzerland, Marshall, Cass, and Gibson.

Chapter 120. An act providing for the opening and repairing roads, and highways, and streams in the counties of Bartholomew, Putnam, Owen, Henry, and Perry.

Chapter 121. An act to encourage agricultural improvements in Allen, Wells, Huntington, Blackford, Adams, Jay, Kosciusko, Whitley, St. Joseph, Delaware, and Elkhart counties.

Chapter 122. An act to confine the voters of Tippecanoe, Cass, Porter, Lake, and Franklin counties to their respective townships, and for other purposes.

Chapter 123. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Reserve township, in the county of Parke.

Chapter 124. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 125. An act in relation to granting license in the counties of Jennings, Bartholomew, and Scott.

Chapter 126. An act regulating the compensation of Road Supervisors in the counties of Rush and Hancock.

Chapter 127. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the fees and salaries of the several officers and persons therein named,” approved February 7th, 1831, so far as the same relates to the counties of Ripley and Switzerland.

Chapter 128. An act regulating elections in the county of Shelby.

Chapter 129. An act relative to the mode of doing township business in the county of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 130. An act to repeal a certain act therein named.

Chapter 131. An act to amend an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved December 30th, 1840.

Chapter 132. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to the counties of Huntington and Wells.

Chapter 133. An act declaring Sugar creek a public highway, and for other purposes.

Chapter 134. An act to repeal certain acts therein named.

Chapter 135. An act in relation to the three per cent fund in Monroe county.

Chapter 136. A joint resolution in relation to the valuation of Mills and Manufactories propelled by water power.

Chapter 137. A joint resolution relative to the Wabash and Erie Canal towing path bridge.

Chapter 138. A joint resolution declaring certain provisions of the Revised Statutes to be in force.

 

 

 

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Chapter 1. An act to provide for the continuance of the construction of all or any part of the public works of this State, by private Companies, and for abolishing the Board of Internal Improvements and the offices of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution requiring the State Agent to give an official bond and to take an oath of office.

Chapter 3. An act relative to the duties of the State Agent.

Chapter 4. An act to prevent the further sale, or hypothecation of Indiana State Bonds, by any Fund Commissioner or other agent of the State.

Chapter 5. An act for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal, from the mouth of Tippecanoe river to Terre Haute.

Chapter 6. An act to provide for the election of a Commissioner on the Wabash and Erie canal, west of the Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 7. An act to provide for the preservation of the southern end of the southern division of the Central Canal.

Chapter 8. An act to authorize the leasing the water power at the town of Pittsburgh, Carroll county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 9. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act providing for the selecting, rating, and selling lands yet due on the Wabash and Erie canal east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river, and for other purposes,” approved, Feb. 24, 1840.

Chapter 10. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled “an act for the relief of the settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands, approved, February 24, 1840.

Chapter 11. An act authorizing the sale of the sixth chain reservation of land bordering on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the Tippecanoe river,” approved, February 15, 1841.

Chapter 13. An act for the relief of the owners of Wabash and Erie canal lands.

Chapter 14. An act providing for classing and selecting the lands not yet offered for sale belonging to the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 15. An act relative to water power at the town of Delphi, Carroll county.

Chapter 16. An act to change the time of holding courts in Jay county.

Chapter 17. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the first judicial circuit.

Chapter 18. An act to amend an act regulating the times of holding the circuit courts in the second Judicial circuit of this State, approved, Feb. 10th, 1841.

Chapter 19. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the fourth Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 20. An act to fix the time of holding the Marion Circuit Court.

Chapter 21. An act amending an act entitled “an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river,” approved, February 15, 1841.

Chapter 22. An act to change the time of holding the circuit court in Madison county.

Chapter 23. A joint resolution to suspend the operation of a certain law therein named.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to fix the times of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit,” approved, January 30, 1841.

Chapter 25. An act to authorize a special session of the Marion Circuit Court.

Chapter 26. An act to provide for the return of process, &c., in the Shelby Circuit Court for March term, 1842.

Chapter 27. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts, in the ninth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 28. An act to re-organize the eighth, and to create the twelfth Judicial Circuits.

Chapter 29. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act organizing circuit courts and defining their powers and duties, approved, February 15, 1838.

Chapter 30. An act to limit the time of holding the circuit court in Vigo county.

Chapter 31. An act to authorize the President Judge of the 3d judicial circuit to hold an extra term in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 32. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled ‘an act dividing the State into judicial circuits, and fixing the times for holding courts therein, and for other purposes, approved, Feb. 10, 1831,’ approved Jan. 28th, 1839.”

Chapter 33. An act changing the time of holding probate courts in Clay county.

Chapter 34. An act extending the time for holding the probate courts in Knox county.

Chapter 35. An act to provide for changing the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Orange.

Chapter 36. An act authorizing the Associate Judges of the county of Ripley to sit and perform the duties of probate judge in certain cases therein prescribed.

Chapter 37. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Greene county.

Chapter 38. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in the counties of Jefferson and Washington.

Chapter 39. An act to exempt Probate Judges from arrest.

Chapter 40. An act amendatory to an act to organize probate courts, and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians, approved, Feb. 17, 1838.

Chapter 41. A Bill to change the mode of selecting jurors in Lawrence county and for other purposes.

Chapter 42. An act for reducing the expenses of the counties of Monroe and Brown, and for selecting petit jurors therein.

Chapter 43. An act to regulate the duties of clerks of the circuit courts and county Recorders.

Chapter 44. An act amendatory to an act, entitled “an act concerning clerks,” approved January 20, 1831.

Chapter 45. An act entitled an act regulating the duties of clerks of the circuit Courts, and county auditors.

Chapter 46. An act concerning Petit Jurors in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 47. An act to provide for selecting petit jurors in Laporte county.

Chapter 48. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Jackson and Bartholomew counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 49. An act to provide for the summoning and empaneling Grand and Petit Jurors in the counties of Allen, Hamilton, Vigo, Delaware, Grant, Marion, Clark, Switzerland, Spencer, Greene, Putnam, Morgan, Fulton, Jennings, Marshall and Orange.

Chapter 50. An act to regulate the summoning of petit jurors in Dearborn county.

Chapter 51. An act to provide for selecting petit jurors in Hendricks county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 52. An act supplemental to “an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved, February 4th, 1841.

Chapter 53. An act giving additional stay of execution, where specie is demanded.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the taking up of animals going astray, and water crafts, and other articles of value adrift,” approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 55. An act to abolish imprisonment for debts.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing aliens and foreigners to hold real estate within the State of Indiana,” approved, January 14, 1818.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish seats of Justice in new counties,” approved, January 14, 1824.

Chapter 58. An act supplementary to an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States, as the State of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of Congress, approved June 23, 1836, approved, February 6, 1837.

Chapter 59. An act levying a tax for state purposes and for the gradual redemption of Treasury Notes.

Chapter 60. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers.

Chapter 61. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 62. A joint resolution respecting sales of personal property on execution.

Chapter 63. An act taxing individual stock in the several Branches of the State Bank of Indiana, and for other purposes.

Chapter 64. An act to create the seventeenth branch bank district.

Chapter 65. An act amendatory of the acts now in force on the subject of notaries public.

Chapter 66. A joint resolution on the subject of bank directors.

Chapter 67. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States, as the State of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of Congress, approved 23d of June, 1836,” approved, February 6th, 1837.

Chapter 68. A joint resolution on the subject of a resumption of specie payments, and for other purposes.

Chapter 69. An act to repeal part of “an act converting the sinking fund, saline fund, college fund, surplus revenue fund, and State Bank school fund into Bank stock,” approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 70. An act to repeal so much of a law passed February 15, 1841, as provides for converting the college fund into bank stock, and other matters therein contained.

Chapter 71. An act to authorize agents of the surplus revenue and others to dispose of lands by them bid off on behalf of the State.

Chapter 72. An act to provide for increasing the stock of the present stockholders in the South Bend branch of the State Bank.

Chapter 73. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue and other funds, and for the better securing the payment thereof.

Chapter 74. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue fund and other funds, and for the better securing of payment thereof.

Chapter 75. An act prescribing the duties of the quarter-master general and fixing his rank and compensation.

Chapter 76. An act to amend an act entitled an act to organize the militia of Indiana, approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 77. An act to amend the several acts for the regulation of the State Prison.

Chapter 78. An act to define more particularly the duties of the commissioner of the three per cent fund in Daviess county.

Chapter 79. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to provide for the settlement of accounts of commissioners of the three per cent fund in the several counties,” approved February 4, 1837.

Chapter 80. An act for the further relief of purchasers of the seminary lands in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.

Chapter 81. An act to prevent the forfeiture of school lands and for other purposes.

Chapter 82. An act providing for the sale of certain school lands in Fayette county.

Chapter 83. An act to regulate the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace in Lawrence county, and amendatory of the act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 84. An act for the relief of the purchasers of 16th sections of congressional townships, and for the better securing the payment thereof.

Chapter 85. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

Chapter 86. An act to attach an additional school district to congressional township number five, south of range number eight west, in Warrick county.

Chapter 87. An act to amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein, approved February 17, 1838, approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled an act to revise and amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein, approved February 17, 1838, approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 89. An act relating to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in actions by and against corporations.

Chapter 90. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Knox and Vigo.

Chapter 91. An act relative to exchange brokers.

Chapter 92. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Jay.

Chapter 93. An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to crime and punishment.

Chapter 94. An act to amend an act for the relief of the poor, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 95. An act to amend the several acts in relation to the surplus revenue.

Chapter 96. An act authorizing the State Treasurer to collect and pay over to the counties of De Kalb, Welss and Lake that portion of the surplus revenue to which the same are entitled.

Chapter 97. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Madison county.

Chapter 98. An act concerning criminal practice.

Chapter 99. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Dubois.

Chapter 100. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Spencer county.

Chapter 101. An act to amend an act entitled an act relative to the surplus revenue of the United States allotted to Carroll county, approved February 10, 1841.

Chapter 102. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act to provide for a keeper of the State House and Library,” approved February 2, 1841.

Chapter 103. An act to establish a tobacco inspection in the town of Point Commerce, in Greene county.

Chapter 104. An act relative to the duties of Auditor and Treasurer of State.

Chapter 105. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Hamilton county.

Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17th, 1838, and to secure the observance of the 103d section of said act.

Chapter 107. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Greene county.

Chapter 108. An act amendatory of an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 109. An act to amend an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838, and for other purposes.

Chapter 110. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 111. A joint resolution to provide for distributing the acts of Congress, deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

Chapter 112. An act to provide for the distribution of the laws of Congress to the several counties in this state.

Chapter 113. An act to repeal the state board of equalization.

Chapter 114. An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the duties of county auditor, approved February 12, 1841.

Chapter 115. An act to amend an act in relation to county auditor.

Chapter 116. An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the duties of county auditors, approved February 12, 1841.

Chapter 117. An act repealing the 18th, 21st and 23d sections of the act prescribing the duties of county treasurers, approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 118. An act giving further time to assessors.

Chapter 119. An act applying certain funds to purposes of education.

Chapter 120. An act to authorize the collection of State revenue in those counties which have failed to assess and collect the same for the year 1841.

Chapter 121. An act to amend an act relating to county seminaries, approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 122. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named, approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 123. An act making general appropriations for the year 1842.

Chapter 124. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1842.

Chapter 125. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Washington.

Chapter 126. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the mode of doing township business in Miami county, approved December 24, 1840.

Chapter 127. An act prescribing the mode of levying and collecting township taxes in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 128. An act to amend the act entitled an act to amend and revise the act entitled an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn, approved February 7th, 1825, and for other purposes.

Chapter 129. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the promotion of schools and education in Clark’s Grant, approved February 15th, 1838.

Chapter 130. An act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.

Chapter 131. An act to allow each county in this State to send two students to the State University.

Chapter 132. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State, approved Feb. 15, 1840.

Chapter 133. An act to keep in repair the Cumberland and Michigan roads.

Chapter 134. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement of the Michigan road, approved February 13, 1841.

Chapter 135. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the preservation of sheep, approved January 25th, 1841.

Chapter 136. An act to amend an act entitled “an act concerning ejectments, and for the relief of occupying claimants of land,” approved January 13, 1831.

Chapter 137. An act to amend an act entitled an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties therein named.

Chapter 138. An act to provide for the appointment of a commissioner to make deeds, and for other purposes.

Chapter 139. An act to repeal the 13th section of an act therein named, so far as it relates to the counties of Porter and Lake.

Chapter 140. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to provide for the revision of the laws, approved February 4th, 1841.

Chapter 141. An act to amend an act entitled an act declaring Patoka a public highway and for other purposes.

Chapter 142. An act to amend an act entitled an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved February 12, 1841.

Chapter 143. An act to amend the act entitled an act supplemental to an act entitled an act for the appointment of trustees to receive deeds for lots or lands given or purchased for the use of schools, meeting-houses, or masonic lodges, approved February 10, 1831, approved February 16, 1839.

Chapter 144. An act to amend an act entitled an act more effectually to secure the purity of elections, approved Feb. 15, 1841.

Chapter 145. An act to amend an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved February 12th, 1841.

Chapter 146. An act to amend an act entitled an act declaring Patoka a public highway and for other purposes, approved January 27th, 1841.

Chapter 147. An act for the attachment of a part of Stark county to the county of Laporte.

Chapter 148. An act authorizing the issue of five dollar treasury notes, for the redemption of the fifty dollar treasury notes now in circulation.

Chapter 149. An act to amend certain acts therein named.

Chapter 150. An act to repeal a portion of a joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan road lands, approved February 15, 1841.

Chapter 151. An act to extend the provisions of an act for the preservation of sheep, approved January 25th, 1841, to the county of Delaware.

Chapter 152. An act relative to licensing groceries in the counties of Carroll and Cass.

Chapter 153. An act to confine the voters of Hamilton, Steuben, De Kalb, Union, Franklin, St. Joseph, and Cass to their respective townships, and for other purposes.

Chapter 154. An act to exempt the lands of revolutionary soldiers from taxation.

Chapter 155. An act to amend an act allowing and regulating the writ of ad quod damnum, approved December 20, 1823.

Chapter 156. An act for the better security of the college and seminary funds arising from the lands in Gibson and Monroe counties.

Chapter 157. An act to change the mode of doing county business in Daviess county.

Chapter 158. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Owen, Lawrence and Greene, approved February 1, 1834.

Chapter 159. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 160. An act appointing commissioners to locate and re-locate State roads therein named.

Chapter 161. An act further to amend an act entitled an act relating to public roads and highways, approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 162. An act to fix the fees of sheriffs in certain cases.

Chapter 163. An act changing the mode of doing county business in the county of Clay.

Chapter 164. An act to amend an act relating to public roads and highways, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 165. An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Gibson and Pike.

Chapter 166. An act to authorize the distribution of the road laws.

Chapter 167. An act to amend an act concerning insane persons, approved January 22, 1818.

Chapter 168. An act amendatory of the several acts regulating foreign and domestic attachment.

Chapter 169. A joint resolution on the subject of lands mortgaged to the sinking fund.

Chapter 170. A joint resolution appointing an agent to examine the state and condition of the State Bank and each and every branch thereof.

Chapter 171. A joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Indiana in relation to Indiana University.

Chapter 171 [sic]. An act further to amend an act entitled an act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries, approved January 24th, 1831.

 

 

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Chapter 1. An act to value the property of this State.

Chapter 2. An act prescribing the duties of County Auditor.

Chapter 3. An act for the election of county assessor.

Chapter 4. An act prescribing the duties of county treasurers.

Chapter 5. An act pointing out the mode of Levying Taxes.

Chapter 6. An act supplemental to an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes.

Chapter 7. A joint resolution on the subject of the state board of equalization.

Chapter 8. An act to tax individual stock in the several branches of the State Bank of Indiana.

Chapter 9. An act levying a tax for state and internal improvement purposes.

Chapter 10. An act for the apportionment of Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 11. An act to revise and amend “an act incorporating congressional townships, and providing for public schools therein,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 12. An act regulating the time of holding courts in the first judicial circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 13. An act regulating the times of holding circuit courts in the several counties of the second judicial circuit within the state of Indiana.

Chapter 14. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the fourth judicial circuit.

Chapter 15. An act to fix the times of holding the courts in the sixth judicial circuit.

Chapter 16. An act to amend an act attaching Decatur county to the sixth judicial circuit, and for other purposes, approved February 14, 1840.

Chapter 17. An act fixing the times of holding courts in the eighth judicial district.

Chapter 18. An act supplemental to an act fixing the times of holding circuit courts in the eighth judicial circuit.

Chapter 19. An act to regulate the times of holding courts in the several counties in the ninth judicial circuits.

Chapter 20. An act regulating the time of holding courts in the county of Madison, in the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 21. An act repealing so much of an act, regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved Feb. 17, 1838, so much as relates to Madison county.

Chapter 22. An act to further amend an act entitled “an act dividing the State into Judicial Circuits, and fixing the time of holding Courts therein, and for other purposes,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 23. An act authorizing a special term of the Putnam circuit court.

Chapter 24. An act providing for an additional term of the Delaware circuit court.

Chapter 25. An act to equalize the judicial circuits of the state of Indiana, and for other purposes.

Chapter 26. A joint resolution relative to the judicial circuits.

Chapter 27. An act to provide for a better regulation of the Indiana University.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relating to county seminaries.”

Chapter 29. An act to extend to the settlers of the Wabash and Erie canal lands, the benefits of an act for the relief of settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands, approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 30. An act more effectually to secure the purity of elections.

Chapter 31. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state.”

Chapter 32. An act to provide for keeper of the State House and Library.

Chapter 33. An act fixing the times of holding the probate courts in Marion county and for other purposes.

Chapter 34. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved, February 4th, 1831.

Chapter 35. An act to prohibit the making, issuing, or circulating small notes or bills.

Chapter 36. An act supplemental to an act making specific appropriations for the year 1841.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act “incorporating congressional townships, and providing for public schools therein,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 38. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Brown and Martin counties.

Chapter 39. An act to prevent speculation by collectors in treasury notes, and other moneys.

Chapter 40. An act relative to officers of state.

Chapter 41. An act to extend the time of final payment to purchasers of the sixteenth sections.

Chapter 42. An act to amend an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution.

Chapter 43. An act to revive certain acts relative to a stay of execution.

Chapter 44. An act to provide for the selection of grand and petit jurors.

Chapter 45. An act to amend the act, authorizing the seizure of boats and other vessels for debt, approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled an act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.

Chapter 47. An act to authorize probate judges to issue writs of habeas corpus, and proceed to trial thereon.

Chapter 48. An act to repeal “an act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Jackson county,” approved, January 25, 1840.

Chapter 49. An act supplemental to “an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved February 4, 1831.

Chapter 50. An act regulating the salaries of auditor, secretary, and treasurer of state.

Chapter 51. An act for the relief of the Miami and other Indians.

Chapter 52. A joint resolution suspending the fifth section of an act passed the present session of the general assembly, entitled “an act for the relief of the Miami and other Indians.”

Chapter 53. An act to attach certain territory therein named to Jasper county.

Chapter 54. An act to authorize the board doing county business in Spencer county to increase the number of places of holding elections in said county.

Chapter 55. An act to amend “an act for the regulation of the state prison,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to provide for public printing, and for the distribution of the laws and journals, approved Feb. 16, 1839.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act, amendatory to an act entitled an act concerning the seminary townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties, approved January 25, 1837, approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 58. An act to authorize the state of Michigan to make certain improvements on the St. Joseph river, and for other purposes.

Chapter 59. An act to amend an act entitled, an act for the encouragement of agriculture, approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 60. An act to authorize the governor of this state to order a special election for representatives in congress.

Chapter 61. An act for the preservation of sheep.

Chapter 62. An act to prevent the spreading of the disease, commonly called the glanders, among horses.

Chapter 63. An act in relation to school moneys deposited with the superintendent of the loan office.

Chapter 64. An act to define the boundary line between the counties of Clark and Floyd.

Chapter 65. An act defining the duties of petitioners for re-locating seats of justice, and for other purposes.

Chapter 66. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties of this state.”

Chapter 67. An act to provide for the revision of the laws.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of the poor,” approved, February 17, 1838, so far as the same relates to Marion county.

Chapter 69. An act to amend “an act to provide for the distribution of the laws and journals,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 70. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 71. An act to protect lands mortgaged to the state from forfeiture for the non-payment of corporation taxes.

Chapter 72. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to incorporate county libraries,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 73. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crime and punishment,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 74. An act to authorize school commissioners to refund money in certain cases therein mentioned.

Chapter 75. An act concerning petit jurors in certain counties therein named.

Chapter 76. An act to amend an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved February 4, 1831.

Chapter 77. An act to regulate the practice in suits at law.

Chapter 78. An act to amend an act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved, February 4, 1831.

Chapter 79. An act entitled an act to amend an act, entitled an act to amend and revise “an act entitled an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn,” approved February 1, 1834.

Chapter 80. An act for the relief of owners of Indian reservations.

Chapter 81. An act to enable the treasury to meet the current demands, for the civil list for 1841, growing out of the deficit of 1840.

Chapter 82. An act to make general appropriations for the year 1841.

Chapter 83. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1841.

Chapter 84. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating grist mills and millers,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 85. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crimes and punishments,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 86. An act to stop the per diem compensation of members of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, in certain cases therein mentioned.

Chapter 87. An act to provide for the improvement of the Michigan road.

Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act authorizing the appointment of pilots at the falls of the Ohio, in this state,” approved February 7, 1825.

Chapter 89. An act providing the opening and repairing public roads and highways, in the county of Monroe.

Chapter 90. An act to amend an act entitled an act concerning enclosures, and trespassing animals, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

Chapter 91. An act regulating the taking of animals going astray and water craft, and other articles of value adrift.

Chapter 92. An act to distribute the school funds and for other purposes, in Perry county.

Chapter 93. An act to repeal certain acts therein named, so far as they relate to the county of Carroll.

Chapter 94. An act legalizing the acts of William G. Thomas, school commissioner of Spencer county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 95. An act to fix the time of holding probate courts in Fayette county.

Chapter 96. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the county of Elkhart.

Chapter 97. An act to repeal an act, entitled “an act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township boundaries in the county of Randolph,” approved January 21, 1839.

Chapter 98. An act to provide for the assessment and collection of the state revenue in the county of Spencer, due for the year 1837; and also to provide for the assessment and collection of the state revenue in the county of Cass, due for the year 1839.

Chapter 99. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to repeal a certain act in Dearborn county, therein named,” approved February 5, 1839.

Chapter 100. An act to authorize the board of commissioners, and the probate judge of Jackson county to hold the sessions of their respective courts in the clerk’s office of said county.

Chapter 101. An act regulating the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in Fountain county.

Chapter 102. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the counties of Lagrange, Steuben, Dekalb, and Noble.

Chapter 103. An act to authorize the commissioners of Dubois to levy a tax ad valorem, for certain purposes therein named.

Chapter 104. An act to amend an act relative to crime and punishment, approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 104 [sic]. An act to repeal so much of an act approved February 24, 1840, as relates to the county of Union.

Chapter 105. An act to provide for the mode of doing township business in Miami county.

Chapter 106. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Posey county.

Chapter 107. An act to extend the provisions of certain acts therein named, to the county of Grant.

Chapter 108. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Daviess county.

Chapter 109. An act to authorize the removal of the obstructions to the free passage of the water down Mud creek and the Mill fork of Eel river, in Morgan county.

Chapter 110. An act to authorize the collection of the state of county revenue for the year 1839 for the county of Dubois.

Chapter 111. An act defining the manner of selecting petit jurors in Hancock county.

Chapter 112. An act to amend an act approved February 6, 1837, entitled an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States as the state of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of congress, approved June 23, 1836.

Chapter 113. An act declaring Patoka a public highway, and for other purposes.

Chapter 114. An act to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in the county of Hamilton, approved, February 18, 1840.

Chapter 115. An act legalizing the election of a probate judge in Kosciusko county.

Chapter 116. An act to amend an act entitled, an act authorizing the sale of certain school lands therein named, and for other purposes, approved January 1, 1838.

Chapter 117. An act providing for the payment of the bank debt.

Chapter 118. An act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 119. An act to provide for the payment of the interest on the public debt of the state of Indiana, and for the redemption of the treasury notes of the state.

Chapter 120. An act to secure the safety of the public funds by requiring bonds of certain officers.

Chapter 121. An act to provide in part for the payment of the interest on the public debt, and to increase the stock of the state, in the state bank, and to authorize said bank to issue notes of a less denomination than five dollars.

Chapter 122. An act authorizing purchasers of the Wabash and Erie canal lands to pay interest thereon.

Chapter 123. An act to repeal part of an act entitled, an act relative to the New Albany and Vincennes McAdamized road, and for the better regulation thereof, and for other purposes, approved February 22, 1840.

Chapter 125 [sic]. An act to secure to the owners of land upon which the public works have been suspended, the use of the same.

Chapter 125. An act to provide for the settlement of suspended claims for labor on the public works.

Chapter 126. An act to classify the public works, and for other purposes.

Chapter 126 [sic]. An act to provide for the further construction of the Madison and Indianapolis rail road.

Chapter 127. An act to regulate the receipt and distribution of the internal improvement fund.

Chapter 128. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to allow further time to the Lawrencburgh and Indianapolis rail road company, to settle up and close their affairs,” approved, February 18, 1840.

Chapter 129. An act to provide for the appointment of a fund commissioner, to collect the suspended debt of the state.

Chapter 130. An act in relation to tolls upon the public works.

Chapter 131. An act repealing all laws now in force authorizing the sale of state bonds for internal improvements.

Chapter 132. An act to legalize and give effect to certain official acts of the late clerk of the Floyd circuit court.

Chapter 133. An act to enforce the payment of tolls on the public works in Indiana.

Chapter 134. An act to provide for the completion of that portion of the Cross-cut canal which lies between the feeder dam and Terre Haute.

Chapter 135. An act supplementary to an act entitled “an act to provide for the completion of that portion of the Cross-cut canal, which lies between the feeder dam and Terre Haute,” approved January 30, 1841.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 1. A joint resolution on the subject of Michigan road lands.

Chapter 2. A joint resolution in relation to the affairs of the town of Indianapolis.

Chapter 3. A joint resolution relative to the auditor of public accounts.

Chapter 4. A joint resolution on the subject of the State Bank of Indiana.

 

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Chapter 1. An act making general appropriations for the year 1840.

Chapter 2. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1840.

Chapter 3. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this state,” approved February 8, 1836.

Chapter 4. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relating to public roads and highways,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 5. An act appointing Surplus Revenue Agents for the year 1840.

Chapter 6. An act for the immediate relief of contractors and others engaged on the public works.

Chapter 7. An act to authorize the qualified voters of this State to vote for or against a convention for a revision of the constitution of this State.

Chapter 8. An act for the better regulation of the militia of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 9. 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 10. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the protection of the Madison and Indianapolis rail road,” approved February 14, 1839.

Chapter 11. An act to prohibit the issuing or circulating of small notes, communing called “shin plasters.”

Chapter 12. An act providing for selecting, rating and selling lands yet due, on the Wabash and Erie Canal, east of the mouth of the Tippecanoe River, and for other purposes.

Chapter 13. An act for the relief of settlers on the Wabash and Erie Canal lands.

Chapter 14. An act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.

Chapter 15. An act to provide for taking the enumeration of the white male inhabitants, above the age of twenty-one years, in this State.

Chapter 16. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act incorporating congressional townships, and providing for common schools therein,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 17. An act to relocate the county seat of Scott county.

Chapter 18. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 19. An act entitled an act amendatory to an act entitled “an act relative to practice in circuit courts.”

Chapter 20. An act to amend an act “defining the duties of county treasurers, collectors, &c.,” approved February 18, 1839.

Chapter 21. An act supplemental to an act to provide for the inspection of salt, beef, flour, pork, and tobacco.

Chapter 22. An act for the relocation of the seat of justice of Blackford county.

Chapter 23. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to organize probate courts, and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 25. An act for attaching Carroll county to the eighth judicial circuit, and for other purposes.

Chapter 26. An act to relocate the seat of justice in the county of La Grange.

Chapter 27. An act to amend an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution, approved February 4, 1838.

Chapter 28. An act to dissolve the present board of internal improvement, the board of fund commissioners and the engineer department.

Chapter 29. An act in relation to the State House, and for other purposes.

Chapter 30. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business, in the several counties in this State,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 31. An act to amend an act entitled “an act dividing the State into judicial circuits and fixing the times of holding courts therein, and for other purposes.”

Chapter 32. An act to repeal so much of the fourth section of an act entitled “an act for the formation of the second and third judicial circuits, and providing for holding courts therein,” approved February 17, 1838, as relates to the June term of the Jefferson circuit court.

Chapter 33. An act to extend the time of payment to the purchasers of saline and school lands.

Chapter 34. An act relative to the collectors of the revenue.

Chapter 35. An act to regulate vending merchandise at auction in this State.

Chapter 36. An act relative to the counties in the fifth judicial circuit.

Chapter 37. An act amendatory of an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17, 1838, and for other purposes.

Chapter 38. An act to encourage the raising of sheep and hogs, and to increase the revenue of the State, and the wealth of the people.

Chapter 39. An act to amend the several acts of this State, relative to the taking up of animals going astray, and water craft and other articles of value adrift.

Chapter 40. An act creating the county of Benton, and for other purposes.

Chapter 41. An act in relation to the commissioners of the college funds, in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.

Chapter 42. An act to amend the act regulating the summoning and empaneling grand and petit jurors.

Chapter 43. An act to change the time of holding courts in the several counties of the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 44. An act to amend “an act to amend the several acts for the collection of the revenue, and to repeal ‘an act to provide a fund to encourage common schools, approved February 2, 1832,’ and ‘an act in furtherance thereof, approved February 7, 1835,’ approved February 18, 1839.”

Chapter 45. An act to authorize Osborn and Chamberlain, late printers to the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, or either of them, to sue the State.

Chapter 46. An act for the relocation of the seat of justice in the county of Lake.

Chapter 47. An act to amend the act to regulate general elections, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 48. An act to amend the several acts regulating the practice at law.

Chapter 49. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to amend the law concerning domestic attachment,” passed at the present session, and for other purposes.

Chapter 50. An act to amend an act for the incorporation of county libraries, approved 17th February 1838.

Chapter 51. An act to provide for the support of the indigent blind of this State.

Chapter 52. An act to amend an act concerning insane persons, approved February 22, 1818.

Chapter 53. An act to provide for the sale of the Michigan road lands remaining unsold, and for other purposes.

Chapter 54. An act to fix the times of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit.

Chapter 55. An act to amend the several acts for the promotion of schools and education in Clarke’s Grant, and in reference to the school fund in Clarke county.

Chapter 56. An act fixing the time of holding the courts in the sixth judicial circuit.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act organizing the supreme court and defining its powers and duties, approved February 17, 1838.”

Chapter 58. An act to amend an act entitled “an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, and fixing the per centum for State purposes.”

Chapter 59. An act in relation to county surveyors.

Chapter 60. An act defining the boundaries of Jay county.

Chapter 61. An act to amend the law concerning domestic attachments.

Chapter 62. An act to amend act entitled “an act fixing the time of holding the courts in the fourth judicial circuit.”

A joint resolution in relation to contractors and others engaged on the public works.

Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein name, approved February 17, 1838.”

Chapter 64. An act to declare the meaning of the 29th section of an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State, approved Feb. 17, 1838.”

Chapter 65. An joint resolution supplemental to a joint resolution approved December 21, 1839, entitled “a joint resolution in relation to contractors and others on the public works.”

Chapter 65 [sic]. A joint resolution in relation to contractors.

Chapter 66. A joint resolution in relation to money due in the eastern cities and States, for State bonds disposed of.

Chapter 67. A joint resolution in relation to the expenditures attendant upon the issue of treasury notes, and for other purposes.

Chapter 68. Of the mode of surveying the public lands. From Gordon’s Digest of the Laws of the United States, published under the provisions of an act entitled “an act in relation to county surveyors, approved February 12, 1840.”

Chapter 69. An act to recover the value of sheep killed by dogs.

Chapter 70. An act to amend an act entitled “an act concerning the seminary townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties, approved January 25, 1837.”

Chapter 71. An act to amend so much of an act entitled “an act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, as relates to the counties of Clinton, Delaware and Hancock.”

 

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Chapter 1. An act to modify the plan of carrying on the public works, and to secure their ultimate completion, and amendatory of an act, entitled “an act to provide for a general system of internal improvement,” approved January 27, 1836.

Chapter 2. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act dividing the State into judicial circuits, and fixing the times for holding courts therein, and for other purposes,” approved 10th February 1831.

Chapter 3. An act supplemental to an act, to amend an act entitled, “an act dividing the state into judicial circuits and fixing the times for holding courts therein,” approved January 28th, 1837.

Chapter 4. An act amendatory of an act entitled, “an act to amend an act entitled, ‘an act to provide for a general system of internal improvement,’” approved, January 27th, 1836, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 5. A joint resolution in relation to the ninth judicial circuit.

Chapter 6. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries,” approved, January 24, 1831.

Chapter 7. An act providing for the increase of the stock in the State Bank.

Chapter 8. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act organizing circuit courts, and defining their powers and duties,” approved, January 24, 1831.

Chapter 9. An act to provide for empaneling jurors in certain cases in the eleventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 10. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to regulate the mode of summoning and empaneling grand and petit jurors,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 11. An act amendatory to an act entitled, “an act organizing probate courts and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians.

Chapter 12. An act supplemental to an act, entitled, “an act dividing the state into judicial circuits, and fixing the times of holding courts therein,” approved, Jan. 28, 1839.

Chapter 13. An act supplemental to an act, to amend an act, entitled, “an act dividing the state into judicial circuits and fixing the times for holding courts therein, and for other purposes,” approved, February 10, 1831, approved, January 29, 1839.

Chapter 14. An act pointing out the mode of levying taxes and fixing the per centum for state purposes.

Chapter 15. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state,” approved, Feb. 17, 1839.

Chapter 16. An act to reduce the Board of Fund Commissioners.

Chapter 17. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to amend an act, entitled, ‘an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States as the state of Indiana may be entitled to, and receive, by virtue of an act of Congress, approved June 23d, 1836,’” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 18. An act to authorize the refunding of moneys in certain cases.

Chapter 19. An act to organize the county of Pulaski, and to locate the seat of justice of said county.

Chapter 20. An act extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to fifty dollars in action of trespass.

Chapter 21. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to subject real and personal estate to execution,” approved, February 4, 1831, together with an act, to amend the last mentioned, approved, February 1, 1834.

Chapter 22. An act relative to practice in circuit courts.

Chapter 23. An act to amend the several acts for the collection of the revenue, and to repeal an act to provide a fund to encourage common schools, approved, February 2, 1832, and an act in furtherance thereof, approved, February 7, 1835.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to organize probate courts and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 25. An act relative to the owners of forfeited lands in the state of Indiana.

Chapter 26. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act regulating the taking up of animals going estray, and water crafts and other articles of value adrift.”

Chapter 27. An act concerning Knox county.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to enable the school commissioners of the several counties of this state to correct the returns of the collectors,” approved February 1, 1836.

Chapter 29. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act relating to public roads and highways,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 30. An act for the relief of purchasers at sheriffs’ sales.

Chapter 31. An act to provide for public printing, and for the distribution of the laws and journals.

Chapter 32. An act authorizing the several boards doing county business in this state to sell and convey real estate.

Chapter 33. An act to amend an act providing for commissioning sheriffs and coroners, and to regulate their duties: approved, January 7, 1834.

Chapter 34. An act granting to the state of Illinois, the right of way within this state, to connect the Northern Cross Rail Road, with the Wabash and Erie Canal, at Perrysville, Indiana.

Chapter 35. An act to provide for an examination and report of the mineral resources of the state, and for other purposes.

Chapter 36. An act relative to the duty of officers of state.

Chapter 37. An act granting the right of way to Illinois to connect the Northern rail road to the Wabash canal near the town of Williamsport.

Chapter 38. An act to provide for a re-location of the seat of justice of Scott county.

Chapter 39. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state:” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 40. An act to provide for the selection of lands accruing to the state of Indiana under the act of Congress of the second of March, 1827, and applicable to the construction of the Wabash and Erie canal west of Tippecanoe river.

Chapter 41. An act to provide for ascertaining the number of deaf mutes in the state.

Chapter 42. An act to amend the several acts now in force relative to the Wabash and Erie canal lands.

Chapter 43. An act relative to burying grounds.

Chapter 44. An act fixing the salaries of the members of the board of internal improvements.

Chapter 45. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state:” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 46. An act for the protection of the Madison and Indianapolis rail road, and the collection of tolls thereon.

Chapter 47. An act to amend “an act for the relief of the poor:” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 48. An act to authorize the fund commissioners to make titles and execute releases to property held by the state out of the state of Indiana.

Chapter 49. An act amendatory of an act, entitled, “an act for the formation of the county of Blackford,” approved, February 15, 1838.

Chapter 50. An act to authorize persons to remove fences made by mistake on the lands of other persons.

Chapter 51. An act to authorize the purchase of a suitable residence for the Executive of the state of Indiana.

Chapter 52. An act supplemental to an act, entitled, “an act for the appointment of trustees to receive deeds for lots or lands, given or purchased for the use of schools, meeting houses or masonic lodges:” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 53. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act relative to county boundaries:” approved, February 17, 1838, so far as the same concerns the counties of Porter, Lake and Newton.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties of this state,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 55. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act for the incorporation of county libraries.”

Chapter 56. An act to define the boundaries of the counties of St. Joseph, Marshall, Laporte, Starke, Porter and Lake.

Chapter 57. A joint resolution on the subject of locating the northern end of the Central Canal.

Chapter 58. An act to establish the several school commissioners to distribute certain school funds derived from the surplus revenue, lands forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, and the sum heretofore set apart for poll tax for common school purposes.

Chapter 59. An act for the relief of persons owning canal lands.

Chapter 60. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to extend the Erie and Michigan canal,” approved, February 4, 1837.

Chapter 61. An act to provide for the selection and summoning of grand and petit jurors for the counties of Carroll and Clinton, at the April term of the Carroll and Clinton circuit courts, 1839.

Chapter 62. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Posey, and for other purposes.

Chapter 63. An act attaching certain territory to the counties therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 64. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Bartholomew.

Chapter 65. An act providing for the further construction of the Madison and Lafayette rail road.

Chapter 66. An act to amend an act incorporating congressional townships, and providing for public schools therein, approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 67. An act granting the state of Illinois the right of way within this state, to connect the Northern Cross rail road with the Wabash and Erie canal at Covington, Indiana.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act relative to county boundaries,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 69. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act authorizing the appointment of pilots at the falls of the river Ohio in this state,” approved, February 7, 1825.

Chapter 70. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Hendricks.

Chapter 71. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to establish and regulate ferries,” approved, February 10, 1831.

Chapter 72. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 73. An act to change the mode of doing county business in Bartholomew county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 74. An act relative to the location of the county seat of Jasper, and for other purposes.

Chapter 75. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to authorize the loaning of the college funds,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 76. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein,” approved, February 17, 1838.

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

Chapter 78. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act relative to county seminaries,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 79. An act amendatory of an act relative to county boundaries.

Chapter 80. An act amendatory of an act, entitled, “an act relative to county boundaries.”

Chapter 81. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Cass.

Chapter 82. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act regulating marriages,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 83. An act to amend the act, entitled, “an act to provide for electing county and township officers,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 84. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act relating to public roads and highways,” approved, February 17, 1838.

Chapter 85. An act for the benefit of the grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana.

Chapter 86. An act to amend an act relative to county boundaries.

Chapter 87. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Allen county.

Chapter 88. An act changing the time of holding the Probate court in Vigo county.

Chapter 89. An act to repeal a part of 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 90. An act to regulate the holding of Probate courts in Posey county.

Chapter 91. An act directing the leasing of the water power at the Wabash dam near Delphi.

Chapter 92. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the county of Randolph.

Chapter 93. An act to create the office of private secretary to the Governor.

Chapter 94. An act supplemental to the act to reduce the board of fund commissioners.

Chapter 95. An act to alter the boundary line of the counties of Carroll and White.

Chapter 96. An act amendatory of an act, entitled, “an act relative to evidence,” approved, February 17, 1838.

 

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Chapter 1. An act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States, as the state of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of Congress, approved 23d June, 1836.

Chapter 2. An act incorporating Congressional Townships, and providing for Public Schools therein.

Chapter 3. An act to organize Lake County.

Chapter 4. An act to organize the County of Steuben.

Chapter 5. An act to organize the County of De Kalb, and to locate the seat of justice thereof.

Chapter 6. An act to organize the County of Wells.

Chapter 7. An act to change the time of holding the Courts in the third Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 8. An act providing for the division of the eighth and formation of the ninth Judicial Circuit and for other purposes.

Chapter 9. An act to change the time of holding the courts in the fifth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 10. An act authorizing the Commissioner of the Michigan road to correspond with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in order to have the title perfected to the state of Indiana to the Michigan road grant, and for other purposes.

Chapter 11. An act amendatory of an act entitled “An act to provide for a general system of Internal Improvement,” approved Jan. 27, 1836.

Chapter 12. An act to repeal the 20th section of the act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state,” approved Jan. 19th, 1831.

Chapter 13. An act to amend the several acts for the promotion of schools in Clark’s Grant.

Chapter 14. An act to amend the ninth session of an act entitled “an act relative to crimes and punishments,” approved February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 15. An act to fix the pay of the Fund Commissioners.

Chapter 16. An act for the relief of J. B. Richardsville and Francis Godfroy.

Chapter 17. An act supplemental to an act providing for the division of the eighth and formation of the ninth Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes, approved December 9th, 1836.

Chapter 18. An act to extend the Erie and Michigan Canal.

Chapter 19. An act repealing a certain act therein named and for other purposes.

Chapter 20. An act to amend an act organizing Circuit Courts, and defining their powers and duties.

Chapter 21. An act to provide for the survey of the East Fork Canal.

Chapter 22. An act to increase the compensation of the Governor of the State and other officers.

Chapter 23. An act to prevent disasters on Steam Boats.

Chapter 24. An act amendatory of an act entitled an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State; approved January 19th, 1831.

Chapter 25. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the commissioning of Sheriffs and Coroners, and to regulate their duties,” approved Jan. 7th, 1824.

Chapter 26. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Tippecanoe, Orange, and Warren.

Chapter 27. An act to amend the 34th section of an act relative to crime and punishment, approved Feb. 10, 1831.

Chapter 28. An act providing for the election of United States Senator, and other officers by a viva voce vote of the Legislature.

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

Chapter 30. An act to amend the act subjecting real and personal estate to execution, approved Feb. 4, 1831.

Chapter 31. An act repealing certain acts regulating the mode of doing county business in the county of Greene.

Chapter 32. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the fees and salaries of the several officers and persons therein named, approved February 7, 1831.

Chapter 33. An act supplemental to an act to enable the School Commissioners of the several counties of this state to correct the returns of the Collectors, approved February 1, 1836.

Chapter 34. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Boone.

Chapter 35. An act for the equal distribution of the Three per cent Fund.

Chapter 36. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to provide for a general system of internal improvement, approved January 27, 1836.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in this state, approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 38. An act to authorize the board of internal improvements to sell certain reserved lands.

Chapter 39. An act to amend the several acts regulating the mode of doing county business in the county of Martin.

Chapter 40. An act to change the times of holding circuit courts in the seventh judicial circuit.

Chapter 41. An act amendatory of the several acts regulating foreign and domestic writs of attachments.

Chapter 42. An act to amend the act entitled “an act for the regulation of the state prison.”

Chapter 43. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for a general system of internal improvement, approved January 27, 1836.

Chapter 44. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Vigo.

Chapter 45. AN act relative to evidence.

Chapter 46. An act to provide for the sale of tools belonging to the Michigan road fund.

Chapter 47. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of Public Libraries,” approved December 17, 1816.

Chapter 48. An act to regulate the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace in the county of Hancock.

Chapter 49. An act to provide for the improvement of the Michigan Road north of Indianapolis, and for other purposes.

Chapter 50. An act relative to the Tippecanoe Battle Ground.

Chapter 51. An act to authorize the Treasurer of the State of the State to receive from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States the amount of surplus revenue of the United States, proposed to be deposited with this State, by the 13th section of an act of Congress entitled “an act to regulate the deposites of the public money.”

Chapter 52. An act permanently fixing the line between the counties of Jefferson and Clark.

Chapter 53. An act to repeal a part of an act entitled “an act to amend the several acts regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace in the several counties therein named,” approved Feb. 7, 1835.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to organize Probate Courts, and defining the powers and duties of Executors, Administrators, and Guardians,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 55. An act to provide for the settlement of accounts of Commissioners of the three per cent fund in the several counties.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act for the formation of the county of Brown, approved February 4th, 1836.

Chapter 57. An act to amend the 2d section of an act entitled “an act to provide for an equitable mode of levying taxes in this state,” approved February 8, 1836.

Chapter 58. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state,” approved February, 1837.

Chapter 59. An act for the preservation of the State House, and for other purposes.

Chapter 60. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this state,” approved February 8, 1836.

Chapter 61. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish a State Library,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 62. An act authorizing the school commissioners to draw from the State Treasury certain money therein named.

Chapter 63. An act to regulate the disbursements of the three per cent fund in the unorganized counties.

Chapter 64. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Gibson.

Chapter 65. An act to provide for a Geological Survey of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 66. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this state,” approved February 8, 1836.

Chapter 67. An act to re-locate the seat of Justice in the county of Noble.

 

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Chapter 1. An act for the apportionment of Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly of this State.

Chapter 2. An act to provide for a general system of Internal Improvements.

Chapter 3. An act amendatory of an act entitled “An act establishing a State Bank,” approved January 28, 1834.

Chapter 4. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to amend the act entitled ‘An act establishing a State Bank,’” approved January, 1836, providing for a branch of the State Bank, east of the Lafayette Branch and west of Fort Wayne Branch.

Chapter 5. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to change the time of holding the courts in the first circuit.”

Chapter 6. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act relative to County Seminaries,” approved February 4th, 1831.

Chapter 7. An act to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this State.

Chapter 8. An act providing for the holding of the terms of the Circuit Courts [in] the eighth judicial Circuit for the year 1836.

Chapter 9. An act to change the time of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit.

Chapter 10. An act to extend the time returning to the clerks of the several counties, and the Auditor of State, assessments of property under the revenue law of 1835.

Chapter 11. An act to repeal in part, the act entitled “an act for assessing and collecting the revenue,” approved Feb. 10, 1831, and for other purposes.

Chapter 12. An act to enable the School Commissioners of the several counties of this State to correct the returns of the collectors.

Chapter 13. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act for the appointment of Trustees to receive deeds for lots or lands, given or purchased for the use of Schools, Meeting Houses or Masonic Lodges.”

Chapter 14. An act to organize the county of Adams.

Chapter 15. An act to organize the county of Jay.

Chapter 16. An act to organize the county of Fulton.

Chapter 17. An act to organize the county of Marshall.

Chapter 18. An act to organize the county of Porter, and for other purposes.

Chapter 19. An act for the formation of the county of Brown.

Chapter 20. An act to organize the county of Noble.

Chapter 21. An act to organize Kosciusko county.

Chapter 22. An act authorizing the sale of the residue of one of the reserved sections of land in the reserved township of land, in Monroe county.

Chapter 23. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act regulating the practice in chancery,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 24. An act to amend the act entitled “an act defining the duties of Recorders,” approved January 19, 1831.

Chapter 25. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate general elections,” approved January 30, 1831.

Chapter 26. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of the poor,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 27. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of the poor,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 28. An act concerning the reserved township of Seminary lands in Monroe county.

Chapter 29. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to regulate the practice in suits at law,” approved January 29, 1831.

Chapter 30. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to crime and punishment,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 31. An act to provide for cancelling and entering satisfaction of mortgages.

Chapter 32. An act to amend the act entitled “an act regulating the taking up of animals going astray, and water craft and other articles of value going adrift,” approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 33. An act concerning Guardians.

Chapter 34. An act authorizing the appointment of testamentary guardians.

Chapter 35. An act to authorize the appointment of a special county agent.

Chapter 36. An act to amend an act entitled “an act directing the mode of suing out writs of habeas corpus,” approved January 12, 1828.

Chapter 37. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating divorces,” approved January 17, 1831.

Chapter 38. An act to facilitate the apprehension of fugitives from justice.

Chapter 39. An act dispensing with unnecessary oaths now required of executors, administrators and appraisers.

Chapter 40. An act to amend the several laws relative to Domestic and Foreign Attachment.

Chapter 41. An act to authorize the service of subpoenas by copy.

Chapter 42. An act to appropriate to the several counties in this State a part of the three per cent fund.

Chapter 43. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for opening and repairing public roads and highways,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 44. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in this State,” approved February 7, 1835.

Chapter 45. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to prevent the sale of ardent spirits to the Indians,” approved February 3, 1832.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State.

Chapter 47. An act to amend an act entitled “an act incorporating Congressional townships and providing for public schools therein,” approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 48. An act to change the line dividing the counties of Jefferson and Clark.

Chapter 49. An act regulating the jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace in the counties of Bartholomew and Delaware.

Chapter 50. An act to repeal so much of an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to regulate county business in this State,” approved January 19, 1831, as relates to the county of Allen.

Chapter 51. An act to authorize the boards doing county business in the several counties in this State, to exempt certain persons from payment of a poll and road tax.

Chapter 52. An act to repeal the act entitled “an act to amend the several acts regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace in the several counties herein named,” approved February 7, 1835; so far the provisions thereof extend to the county of Washington.

Chapter 53. An act relative to the commissioners of the canal fund.

Chapter 54. An act to change the time of holding commissioners court in the county of Delaware.

Chapter 55. An act attaching the counties of Whitley and Lake to organized counties for judicial purposes.

Chapter 56. An act to amend the act of opening and repairing public roads and highways, approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 57. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Washington, and for other purposes.

Chapter 58. An act to authorize the loaning of moneys belonging to congressional townships, which may be paid into the State Treasury.

Chapter 59. An act to change the time of holding Probate courts in Daviess county.

Chapter 60. An act to provide for empaneling Grand and Petit Jurors in the county of Orange.

Chapter 61. An act to provide for the appointment of a keeper of the State House.

Chapter 62. An act regulating the mode of doing county business, in the counties of Daviess and Martin.

Chapter 63. An act declaring Big Racoon, in the counties of Parke and Putnam, a public highway.

Chapter 64. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to Bartholomew county.

Chapter 65. An act to revive and amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named,” approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 66. An act to attach the county of Morgan to the fifteenth Brigade of Indiana militia.

Chapter 66 [sic]. LAW OF CONGRESS. An act concerning the mode of surveying the public lands of the United States.

 

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Chapter 1. An act to amend an act regulating the practice in chancery, (approved Feb. 10, 1831.)

Chapter 2. An act to provide for the furnishing and preservation of the State House.

Chapter 3. An act to amend “an act to regulate trials of the right of property” approved February 1, 1834.

Chapter 4. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the inspection of salt, beef and flour,” approved January 24, 1829.

Chapter 5. An act legalizing the election of Probate Judges.

Chapter 6. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act legalizing the election of Probate Judges.”

Chapter 7. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business,” approved January 19th, 1831.

Chapter 8. An act relative to School Commissioners’ Deeds.

Chapter 9. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the taking up of Animals going astray, and water craft and other articles of value going adrift, approved February 9, 1831.

Chapter 10. An act to provide for taking the enumeration of the white male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, in this state.

Chapter 11. An act to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this state.

Chapter 12. An act supplemental to an act, passed during the present session of the General Assembly, to provide for an equitable mode of levying the taxes of this state.

Chapter 13. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act regulating the practice in suits at law,” approved January 29, 1831.

Chapter 14. An act in relation to the taking of depositions.

Chapter 15. An act in amendment to an act entitled “an act concerning clerks,” approved February 1st, 1834.

Chapter 16. An act to provide for the further prosecution of the Wabash and Erie Canal and for other purposes.

Chapter 17. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act for the further prosecution of the Wabash and Erie canal, and for other purposes,” which passed the present session of the Legislature.

Chapter 18. An act to amend the act to regulate general elections.

Chapter 19. An act in amendment of the act approved January 22d, 1824, entitled “an act authorizing the seizure of boats and other vessels for debt,” and the act in amendment of the same, approved February 1st, 1834.

Chapter 20. An act to amend “an act to regulate marriages,” approved February 4, 1831.

Chapter 21. An act to amend the act entitled an act incorporating Congressional Townships and providing for public schools therein, approved, February 2d, 1833.

Chapter 22. An act in furtherance of “an act to provide a fund to encourage common schools,” approved February 2d, 1832.

Chapter 23. An act to organize the county of Wabash.

Chapter 24. An act for the formation of the county of Noble.

Chapter 25. An act laying out all the unorganized territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished in this State, into a suitable number of counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 26. An act providing against trespassing animals.

Chapter 27. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of the securities of certain officers,” approved Feb. 1, 1835.

Chapter 28. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 29. An act further regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace.

Chapter 30. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the duties of Justices of the Peace,” approved February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 31. An act to amend the several acts regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace, in the several counties herein named.

Chapter 32. An act to amend the several acts regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace in the county of Perry.

Chapter 33. An act relative to the jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace in Clay county.

Chapter 34. An act to change the times of holding the Circuit Courts in the several counties in the sixth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 35. An act providing for the holding of the terms of the Circuit Courts in the eighth judicial Circuit.

Chapter 36. An act to change the time of holding the Circuit Court in the counties of Vermillion and Parke.

Chapter 37. An act to change the time of holding the Probate Court of Perry county.

Chapter 38. An act changing the times of holding the Probate Court in Pike county.

Chapter 39. An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in case of females.

Chapter 40. An act to amend “an act to organize Probate Courts, and defining the powers and duties of Executors, Administrators, and Guardians,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 41. An act to change the time of holding the Probate court in the county of Delaware.

Chapter 42. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating grist mills and millers,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 43. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the election of county and township officers,” approved January 30th, 1831.

Chapter 44. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to establish a College in the State of Indiana.”

Chapter 45. An act concerning the Wabash and Erie Canal Lands.

Chapter 46. An act to amend “an act for the relief of the poor,” approved February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 47. An act to amend “an act relative to crime and punishment,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 48. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to Gibson and Decatur counties.

Chapter 49. An act supplemental to an act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to Marion county.

Chapter 50. An act to amend “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties of this state,” approved January 19th, 1831.

Chapter 51. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in this state,” approved January 19, 1831.

Chapter 52. An act to change the mode of electing commissioners in the county of Fountain.

Chapter 53. An act to authorize the purchase of lands at sites for dams at the falls or rapids of the Wabash river and for other purposes.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the inspection of flour, beef and salt,” approved January 24, 1829.

Chapter 55. An act to abolish the office of Agent of the three per cent fund.

Chapter 56. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to provide for the distribution of the laws and journals, and for other purposes,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 57. An act to attach certain territory therein named.

Chapter 58. An act entitled an act to attach a part of township No. 19, N. R. 4 E. to township No. 19. N. R. 5 E. and for other purposes.

Chapter 59. An act attaching the northeast quarter of section four, township four, north of range eight east, to the county of Jennings.

Chapter 60. An act for the relief of purchasers of Michigan road and canal lands.

Chapter 61. An act explanatory of “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund,” approved January 31, 1833.

Chapter 62. An act to amend an act entitled “an act declaring certain streams therein named public highways, and for other purposes,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 64 [sic]. An act to improve the navigation of the Mississinewa river.

Chapter 64. An act authorizing the redemption of lands returned to the school commissioner for non-payment of taxes in Jefferson county and for other purposes.

Chapter 65. An act extending the time of final payment of the Seminary lands and for other purposes.

Chapter 66. An act further to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named,” approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 67. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named,” approved February 2, 1833; approved January 8, 1835.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled “an act incorporating Congressional Townships, and providing for public schools therein, approved February 2, 1833,” so far as relates to the county of Harrison.

Chapter 69. An act to attach certain territory to the county of Warren, and for other purposes.

Chapter 70. An act for the encouragement of Agriculture.

 

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AD QUOD DAMNUM.

Chapter 1. An act authorizing Miles McDaniel to apply for a writ of ad quod damnum, to establish a mill on Big Creek in Posey county.

APPORTIONMENT.

Chapter 2. An act for the appropriation of a Senator and Representatives in the counties and territory therein named.

APPROPRIATIONS, GENERAL.

Chapter 3. An act making general Appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

APPROPRIATIONS, SPECIFIC.

Chapter 4. An act making Specific Appropriations for the year 1834.

ASYLUM.

Chapter 5. An act to authorize an Asylum for the poor of the counties of Franklin, Fayette, and Union.

Chapter 6. An act to amend the act entitled “an act for the relief of the poor,” approved February the 10th, 1831.

BANK.

Chapter 7. An act establishing a State Bank.

Chapter 8. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act establishing a State Bank,” approved January 28, 1834.

BOATS.

Chapter 9. An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the seizure of boats and other vessels for debt.”

BRIDGES.

Chapter 10. An act to authorize John M. Lemon, John Brown, David Dinwiddie and Andrew Burnsides to build a toll bridge across the Kankakee River.

Chapter 11. An act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and St. Mary’s Bridge Company.

Chapter 12. An act to incorporate the Eel River Bridge Company.

Chapter 13. An act to incorporate the Millport Bridge Company.

CANAL.

Chapter 14. An act providing means for the Wabash and Erie Canal.

CLARK COUNTY.

Chapter 15. An act to authorize the trustees of Charlestown in the county of Clark to lay off a certain street therein named.

CLERKS.

Chapter 16. An act in amendment to an act entitled “An act concerning clerks,” approved January 20th, 1831.

COLLEGE.

Chapter 17. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish a College in the state of Indiana,” approved January 24, 1828.

Chapter 18. An act for incorporating the Wabash Manual Labor College and Teacher’s Seminary.

CONGRESSIONAL TOWNSHIPS.

Chapter 19. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act incorporating Congressional Townships, and providing for public schools therein,” approved February 2, 1833.

Chapter 20. An act to legalize the proceedings of the School Trustees of Congressional Township No. 12 north, of range one east, in Morgan county.

Chapter 21. An act to legalize the election and proceedings of the Trustees of the Twelfth Congressional Township of Range One West.

CONTRACTS.

Chapter 22. An act giving validity to certain contracts.

COUNTY BUSINESS.

Chapter 23. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state,” approved Jan. 19th, 1831.

Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state,” approved January 19, 1831.

Chapter 25. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this state,” approved January 19, 1831.

Chapter 26. An act to legalize the proceedings of the county commissioners in Bartholomew county, at their January term, 1832.

Chapter 27. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Marion county to hold a special session.

COUNTIES NEW.

Chapter 28. An act to organize the county of Miami.

Chapter 29. An act authorizing the location of the seat of justice of Huntington county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 30. An act for the formation of White County.

COURTS, CIRCUIT.

Chapter 31. An act changing the time of holding the Circuit Courts in certain Counties therein named, and the Probate Court of Posey County.

Chapter 32. An act changing the time of holding Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.

Chapter 33. An act to change the time of holding the Courts in the First Circuit.

Chapter 34. An act to authorize the Shelby Circuit Court to hold a special session.

Chapter 35. An act to authorize the Sheriff of Spencer county to summon a Grand and Petit Jury for the April term of the Spencer Circuit Court.

Chapter 36. An act to amend an act entitled “An act organizing Circuit Courts and defining their powers and duties,” and for other purposes.

Chapter 37. An act attaching the county of Carroll to the first Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes.

COURTS, PROBATE.

Chapter 38. An act to amend the act entitled “An act to organize Probate Courts, and defining the powers and duties of Executors, Administrators, and Guardians,” approved February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 39. An act to amend “An act to organize Probate Courts, and defining the powers and duties of Executors, Administrators, and Guardians,” approved February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 40. An act to amend an act entitled “An act amendatory to an act entitled an act to organize Probate Courts, and defining the powers and duties of Executors, Administrators, and Guardians,” approved February 3, 1832.

DEPOSITIONS.

Chapter 41. An act to provide for the taking of depositions in certain cases therein named.

DIVORCES.

Chapter 42. An act to divorce Peter Graffort from his wife Cassander Graffort.

Chapter 43. An act for the relief of Polly Vannoy.

Chapter 44. An act for the relief of Powell Deans.

Chapter 45. An act for the relief of Richard L. Dickson.

Chapter 46. An act to divorce Lyman Leslie and his wife Lavinia.

Chapter 47. An act for the relief of Rebecca McKowan.

ELECTIONS.

Chapter 48. An act providing for an additional place of holding elections in the several Counties of this state.

Chapter 49. An act to legalize the election of Trustees for the Patoka Baptist Church in the County of Gibson.

EVIDENCE.

Chapter 50. An act declaring what shall be evidence in certain cases.

EXECUTION.

Chapter 51. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to subject real and personal estate to execution,” approved February 4, 1831.

FEES.

Chapter 52. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act regulating the fees and salaries of the several officers and persons therein named,” approved February 7th, 1831.

Chapter 53. An act concerning costs and fees in criminal cases.

GAMING.

Chapter 54. An act for the suppression of gaming.

GOVERNOR’S CIRCLE.

Chapter 55. An act for the preservation of the public property on the Governor’s Circle.

GRANT COUNTY.

Chapter 56. An act to regulate the fees of the Commissioners of Grant County.

INCORPORATION OF COMPANIES.

Chapter 57. An act to incorporate the Corydon Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 58. An act to incorporate the Jeffersonville Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 59. An act to incorporate the Vincennes Steam Paper Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 60. An act to incorporate the Kankakee Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 61. An act to incorporate the Levenworth Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 62. An act to incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Terre Haute.

Chapter 63. An act to incorporate the Jeffersonville Insurance Company.

Chapter 64. An act to incorporate the Rising Sun Insurance Company.

INCORPORATION OF TOWNS.

Chapter 65. An act to alter and re-establish the charter of the town of Richmond.

Chapter 66. An act to incorporate the town of Centreville, Wayne County, Indiana.

Chapter 67. An act to incorporate the town of Lafayette.

Chapter 68. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act to incorporate the town of Madison,” approved February 4, 1831.

Chapter 69. An act in addition to an act entitled, “an act to incorporate the town of New-Albany,” approved February 3d, 1832.

Chapter 70. An act supplemental to an act or acts, incorporating the borough of Vincennes.

Chapter 71. An act to amend and revise the act entitled, “an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn,” approved February 7th, 1825, and for other purposes.

INSPECTION.

Chapter 72. An act for the Inspection of certain articles therein enumerated.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chapter 73. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 74. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved 10th February 1831.

Chapter 75. An act extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to fifty dollars in the actions of trespass and replevin.

Chapter 76. An act declaring the true intent and meaning of the law giving justices of the peace jurisdiction in cases where executors, administrators, and guardians are plaintiffs.

Chapter 77. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,” approved Feb. 10, 1831.

Chapter 78. An act to provide for election of a justice of the peace in the town of Pendleton.

Chapter 79. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in the town of Jentryville.

Chapter 80. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in the town of Gosport in Owen county, and Posey township in Franklin county.

LAWS.

Chapter 81. An act to provide for the printing of the laws of the present session of the General Assembly.

LEGISLATURE.

Chapter 82. An act to facilitate the business of the Legislature.

LIBRARIES COUNTY.

Chapter 83. An act to incorporate the Franklin County Library Company.

Chapter 84. An act to legalize the proceedings of the Trustees of the Decatur County Library.

Chapter 85. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the incorporation of County Libraries,” approved February 9th, 1831.

Chapter 86. An act to authorize and require the loaning of the library moneys of the county of Dubois, to the board of commissioners of said county.

LIEN.

Chapter 87. An act giving to mechanics a lien upon buildings.

MILL DAM.

Chapter 88. An act authorizing Moses and Job Matthews and company to erect a dam across Little Pigeon creek, and for other purposes.

MOUNT VERNON.

Chapter 89. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to quiet certain titles in Mount Vernon, and for the benefit of Thomas Givens,” approved February 2d, 1833.

NE EXEAT.

Chapter 90. An act to authorize writs of Ne Exeat.

PRACTICE AT LAW.

Chapter 91. An act to amend “an act regulating the practice in suits at law,” approved January 29, 1831.

PROSECUTOR CIRCUIT.

Chapter 92. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of a circuit prosecutor, and defining his duty,” approved January the 20th 1831.

PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

Chapter 93. An act amendatory of an act entitled, “an act declaring Busserow creek, a public highway,” approved January 21st, 1826.

Chapter 94. An act to declare White Creek navigable.

RECORDS.

Chapter 95. An act to authorize the transfer and conveyance of certain real estate therein named.

Chapter 96. An act to authorize the recorder of Sullivan county, to record a town plat therein named.

Chapter 97. An act to amend 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.

Chapter 98. An act for the benefit of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Spencer county.

RELIEF.

Chapter 99. An act for the relief of William Clark, of Monroe County.

Chapter 100. An act for the relief of James W. Cowan and others.

Chapter 101. An act for the relief of Robert W. Todd.

Chapter 102. An act for the relief of James McCoy of Marion county.

Chapter 103. An act for the benefit of William D. Rooker of the county of Marion.

Chapter 104. An act for the relief of John Hollowell Sr.

Chapter 105. An act for the relief of Abram Osburn.

Chapter 106. An act changing the name of David Miller.

Chapter 107. An act for the relief of Joseph Raney and Philip Davis.

Chapter 108. An act for the relief of sundry citizens of Monroe county.

Chapter 109. An act for the relief of Samuel Darnell.

Chapter 110. An act for the relief of Elias Murray and Edmund B. Goodrich.

Chapter 111. An act for the relief of John H. Scott, and the infant heirs of Ann M. Scott, deceased.

Chapter 112. An act for the relief of Thomas Neely of Putnam county, Indiana.

Chapter 113. An act for the relief of the heirs of John Horlock, late of the county of Rush, deceased.

Chapter 114. An act for the relief of Alexander Massey.

Chapter 115. An act for the relief of Robert Patterson.

Chapter 116. An act for the relief of Nathan Padgett.

Chapter 117. An act for the relief of Balsor Fox, and others.

Chapter 118. An act for the relief of Jonathan Rogers and William Waugh.

Chapter 119. An act for the relief of William C. Bramwell.

REVENUE.

Chapter 120. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for assessing and collecting the revenue,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 121. An act to authorize James Alexander former collector of Monroe county, yet to collect any taxes remaining due and unpaid in said county, for the year or years for which said Alexander was collector, and for other purposes.

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.

Chapter 122. An act for the benefit of Revolutionary Soldiers.

RIGHT OF PROPERTY.

Chapter 123. An act to regulate trials of the right of property.

ROAD MICHIGAN.

Chapter 124. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to improve Lost river, Whitewater river, &c.,” approved January 18, 1830.

Chapter 125. An act for the further improvement of the Michigan Road.

ROADS RAIL.

Chapter 126. An act to incorporate the Evansville and Lafayette Rail Road Company.

Chapter 127. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Evansville and Lafayette Rail Road company,” approved December 24th, 1833.

Chapter 128. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Lafayette Rail Road company.

Chapter 129. An act to incorporate the Levenworth and Bloomington Rail Road Company.

Chapter 130. An act to incorporate the Indiana North West Rail Road Company.

Chapter 131. An act to incorporate the New-Albany and Jeffersonville Rail Road Company.

Chapter 132. An act to amend “an act to incorporate the Madison, Indianapolis, and Lafayette Rail Road company,” approved February 2, 1832.

Chapter 133. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Lafayette Rail Road company,” approved February 2, 1832.

ROADS STATE.

Chapter 134. An act to locate a State Road from Mill’s mill, in Wayne county, to the falls of Fall creek, in Madison county.

Chapter 135. An act to locate a state road from Fort Wayne in Allen county, up and along the west side of the Little St. Joseph River, to the state line on its eastern boundary.

Chapter 136. An act to locate the Connersville and Brookville State Road.

Chapter 137. An act to locate a State Road from the Michigan Road to Vernon.

Chapter 138. An act to establish and locate a State Road from the east bank of the Wabash River opposite Perryville, to the narrows of Sugar Creek, in Parke county.

Chapter 139. An act to locate a State Road from Danville in Hendricks county, via Jamestown and Thorntown in Boone county, to intersect the Indianapolis and Lafayette State Road, at or near Prairieville in Clinton county.

Chapter 140. An act to locate a State Road from Milton in Wayne county, to Muncietown in Delaware county.

Chapter 141. An act to locate a State Road from Greencastle in Putnam county, via New-Maysville and Jamestown, to Lebanon in Boone county.

Chapter 142. An act to locate a State Road from Michigan City in Laporte county, to the western boundary of the state, and for other purposes.

Chapter 143 [sic]. An act to locate a State Road from the county seat of Lagrange county, to the county seat of Elkhart county.

Chapter 144. An act to locate a State Road in Dearborn and Ripley counties.

Chapter 145. An act to locate a State Road from Jamestown in Boone county, by way of Russelville in Putnam county, to intersect the state road leading from Crawfordsville to Rockville.

Chapter 146. An act to locate a State Road from Morgantown in Morgan county, to Indianapolis.

Chapter 147. An act to locate a State Road in Dearborn county.

Chapter 148. An act to locate a State Road from Greenfield in Hancock county, to Middletown in Henry county.

Chapter 149. An act to locate a State Road from Joab Woodruff’s, to Franklin in Johnson county.

Chapter 150. An act to locate a State Road from South Bend in Saint Joseph county, to the western boundary of the state.

Chapter 151. An act to locate a State Road from Rising Sun in Dearborn county, to intersect the State Road leading from Vevay in Switzerland county to Versailles in Ripley county, at or near Cross Plains in Ripley county.

Chapter 152. An act to locate a State Road from Carlisle via intermediate points to Terre Haute.

Chapter 153. An act to locate a State Road in the county of Switzerland.

Chapter 154. An act to locate and establish a State Road from Greensburgh, to the Falls of the Ohio river.

Chapter 155. An act to locate and establish a State Road from Shelbyville in Shelby county, via Hartsville in Bartholomew county, to Adam Kellar’s mill in Jennings county.

Chapter 156. An act to locate and establish a State Road from Robert Hankins’ to David Gunnings’ in Shelby county.

Chapter 157. An act to locate and establish a State Road from Madison by Paris and Brownstown to Bloomington.

Chapter 158. An act to locate and open a State Road from Strawtown in Hamilton county, to Miamisport in the county of Miami.

Chapter 159. An act to establish a State Road from Rockville in Parke county, to Bowlinggreen in Clay county.

Chapter 160. An act to establish a State Road from Bloomington in Monroe county, to Morgantown in Morgan county.

Chapter 161. An act to establish a State Road from Liberty in Union county, to the state line in the direction to Germantown, Ohio.

Chapter 162. An act to establish a State Road from Bloomington in Monroe county, to Spencer in Owen county.

Chapter 163. An act to establish a State Road therein named.

Chapter 164. An act to establish a State Road from Dayton in Tippecanoe county, to the Michigan road in Clinton county.

Chapter 165. An act to establish a State Road from Spencer in Owen county, via Pleasant Garden in Putnam county, to Dixon’s mill in Parke county.

Chapter 166. An act to establish points in certain State Roads in Vigo county, and for other purposes.

Chapter 167. 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.

Chapter 168. An act to establish a State Road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.

Chapter 169. An act to establish a State Road from Lexington to the thirteen mile stake on the Michigan Road in Jefferson county.

Chapter 170. An act to provide for establishing a State Road from Lyon’s mill in Morgan county, to Morgantown in Morgan county.

Chapter 171. An act to establish a State Road from Morristown in Shelby county, to Vernon in Jennings county.

Chapter 172. An act to establish a State Road from Roam to Perry county, to Paoli in Orange county.

Chapter 173. An act to establish a State Road from Jasper to Troy.

Chapter 174. An act to establish a State Road from Hill’s Mill in Rush county, to Rezin Davis’ in Shelby county.

Chapter 175. An act to establish a State Road from Conwell’s Mills in Franklin county, through Columbia in Fayette county, in the direction of Louisville in Henry county, to intersect the Connersville and Rushville State Road.

Chapter 176. An act to relocate a part of the State Road leadig from Williamsport in Warren county, to the state line in the direction of Danville, Illinois.

Chapter 177. An act to re-locate part of the State Road from Madison to Indianapolis.

Chapter 178. An act to provide for the location of the Huntington and New Cumberland State Road.

Chapter 179. An act to provide for the re-location of the State Road leading from Martinsville in Morgan county to Edinburg in Johnson county.

Chapter 180. An act to provide for the location of a State Road from Knightstown in Henry county via Hill’s Mills, to Freeport in Shelby county.

Chapter 181. An act to provide for the location of a Muncietown and Fort Wayne State Road.

Chapter 182. An act to provide for the location of certain State Roads therein named.

Chapter 183. An act to authorize the location of a State Road from Marion county to Sparks’ ferry in Jackson county.

Chapter 184. An act to authorize the location of a State Road from Fort Wayne in Allen county, to Yellow river, where the Michigan Road crosses the same.

Chapter 185. An act to authorize Daniel Bales of Morgan county, to pay over to James T. Hadley the sum of fifteen dollars out of a road fund in his hands.

Chapter 186. An act to authorize the survey of roads in the county of Switzerland.

Chapter 187. An act to authorize John Hardin of Washington county, to pay over to Nathan Maudlain of said county, all sums of money in his hands as road commissioner of said county.

Chapter 188. An act to declare a certain Road therein named, a State Road.

Chapter 189. An act declaring a certain road therein named, a state road, and to provide for the continuation of said road.

Chapter 190. An act to declare certain roads therein named, state roads.

Chapter 191. An act to vacate a part of a State Road therein named.

Chapter 192. An act to appoint commissioners on the State Road from Fredonia, to the mouth of the Wabash, and for other purposes.

Chapter 193. An act to declare a certain county road therein named, to be a State Road.

Chapter 194. An act to declare a certain road therein named, to be a State Road.

Chapter 195. An act declaring the county road leading from Connersville to Milton a State Road.

Chapter 196. An act for the location of a State Road from a point on the Ohio line near Fort Recovery, to the town of Goshen in Elkhart county.

Chapter 197. An act to legalize the proceedings of the commissioners of the State Road from Shelbyville to the intersection of the Indianapolis and Madison State Road near Klapp’s mills.

Chapter 198. An act declaring a certain road therein named, a State Road.

Chapter 199. An Act to amend an act entitled “an act to re-locate a part of the Martinsville, Danville, and Frankfort State Road, and for other purposes,” approved February 2nd, 1833.

Chapter 200. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to locate a State Road from Delphi in Carroll county, to Crawfordsville in Montgomery county,” approved February 1st, 1833.

Chapter 201. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the location of a certain State Road therein named,” approved January 24, 1832.

Chapter 202. An act to change a part of the Shelbyville and Greenfield State Road.

Chapter 203. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to locate and establish a State Road from Orleans in Orange county, via Livonia in Washington county, to intersect the state road leading from New-Albany to Vincennes, in the direction of Greenville in Floyd county,” approved February 2d, 1833.

Chapter 204. An act to change a part of the State Road leading from New-York in Switzerland county, to intersect the State Road leading from Vevay in said county, to Versailles in Ripley county.

Chapter 205. An act to relocate a part of the Martinsville, Bellville, Danville, and Frankfort State Road.

Chapter 206. An act establishing the route of a part of the Indianapolis and Madison State Road.

Chapter 207. An act to change a part of the State Road leading from Cumberland to the Lafayette road at Burke’s run.

Chapter 208. An act entitled an act to amend an act to locate a State Road from Delphi to Muncietown, approved February 1, 1831.

Chapter 209. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish a State Road from Fairplay in Greene county, to intersect the Vincennes State Road at or near Benjamin Stafford’s in said county,” approved Feb. 1st, 1833.

Chapter 210. An act to relocate a part of the Mooresville, Danville, and Crawfordsville State Road.

Chapter 211. An act to change part of a State Road therein named.

Chapter 212. An act to change a part of the State Road from Richmond in Wayne county, to Fort Wayne in Allen county.

Chapter 213. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to locate a state road from Andersontown in Madison county, to Logansport in Cass county,” approved February 2d, 1833.

Chapter 214. An act to re-locate a part of the State Road from Levenworth to Paoli.

ROAD COMMISSIONERS.

Chapter 215. An act defining the duties of Commissioners to locate state roads, and for other purposes.

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.

Chapter 216. An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Owen, Lawrence, and Greene.

Chapter 217. An act subjecting certain articles to sale for repairs after a certain period.

Chapter 218. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named,” approved February 2d, 1833.

SALINE LANDS.

Chapter 219. An act in relation to the moneys arising from leases of saline reservations, and for other purposes.

SCHOOLS.

Chapter 220. An act to amend an act entitled “an act incorporating Congressional Townships, and providing for Public Schools therein,” approved February 2d, 1833.

SCHOOL SECTIONS.

Chapter 221. An act to provide for the sale of section sixteen, in township twenty-one, north of range nine west, in Warren county.

Chapter 222. An act to legalize the sale of the School Lands in Vermillion county.

Chapter 223. An act to authorize the sale of a certain school section in Marion county.

Chapter 224. An act authorizing the appointment of commissioners to divide certain school lands.

SECURITIES.

Chapter 221 [sic]. An act for the relief of the securities of certain officers.

SEMINARIES.

Chapter 225. An act to incorporate the Indiana Teachers’ Seminary.

Chapter 227. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Monroe county Female Seminary,” approved January 29, 1833.

Chapter 228. An act to incorporate the Switzerland county Seminary.

Chapter 229. An act to incorporate the Perry county Seminary.

SEMINARY TOWNSHIPS.

Chapter 230. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act concerning the Seminary townships of land in Gibson and Monroe counties,” approved January 25, 1827.

SHERIFFS AND CORONERS.

Chapter 231. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to provide for the commissioning of Sheriffs and Coroners, and regulating their duties,” approved Feb. 7th, 1824.

SOCIETIES LITERARY.

Chapter 232. An act for the benefit of Literary Societies.

DEBTORS.

Chapter 233. An act to continue the provisions of a “Joint Resolution of the General Assembly, for the benefit of State Debtors,” approved, February 2d, 1833.

PRISONERS.

Chapter 234. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act for the safe keeping of Prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, into any of the jails of this state, and for other purposes,” approved, January 26th, 1818.

TERRITORY ATTACHED.

Chapter 235. An act attaching certain territory therein named, for judicial and representative purposes.

THREE PER CENT FUND.

Chapter 236. An act to provide for the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash river.

Chapter 237. An act in amendment of an act entitled “an act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund,” approved January 31, 1833.

Chapter 238. An act to authorize the expenditure of the three per cent fund, heretofore appropriated to the county of Adams.

Chapter 239. An act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund in Monroe county.

Chapter 240. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund,” approved January 31, 1833.

Chapter 241. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund, and for other purposes,” approved, Feb. 10, 1831.

Chapter 242. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund, and for other purposes,” approved February 10, 1831.

Chapter 243. An act authorizing the commissioners of Vermillion county to appropriate money in the county of Parke.

TOWNS VACATED.

Chapter 244. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the vacation of towns,” approved, February 10th, 1831.

Chapter 245. An act to vacate the town of Union in Boone county, in the state of Indiana.

Chapter 246. An act to vacate the town of Sarah in the county of Fountain.

Chapter 247. An act to vacate the town of Millville in Fountain county.

Chapter 248. An act to vacate the town of Darlington in Grant county.

TOWNS, NAMES OF CHANGED.

Chapter 249. An act to change the name of Williamsburgh, in Clay county.

Chapter 250. An act authorizing the county board of Madison county, to change the name of the town of West Union in said county.

TOWN LOTS.

Chapter 251. An act to legalize the sale of the town lots in the town of Newcastle, and for other purposes.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 252. A Joint Resolution relative to the cession of the Wabash and Erie Canal lands which lie in the State of Ohio.

Chapter 253. A Joint Resolution of the General Assembly authorizing the agent of state for the town of Indianapolis to convey certain land.

Chapter 254. A Joint Resolution relative to Insurance companies.

Chapter 255. A Joint Resolution in relation to the acts and journals of the Indiana Territory and of the state of Indiana.

Chapter 256. A Joint Resolution providing for the survey of the lands along the Wabash and Erie canal, ceded by the Miami Indians, for the use of the canal, and for other purposes.

Chapter 257. A Joint Resolution for the benefit of Randolph, Spencer, and Laporte counties, and for other purposes.

Chapter 258. A Joint Resolution in relation to a reduction of the price of public lands.

Chapter 259. A Joint Resolution relative to the distribution of copies of the act establishing a State Bank, and for other purposes.

Chapter 260. A Preamble and Joint Resolution in relation to horses lost by the rangers, raised under an act of Congress, approved June 15th, 1832, for the defense and protection of the north-western frontier of the United States.

Chapter 261. A Preamble and Joint Resolution in relation to horses lost by the rangers and volunteer militia of Indiana.

Chapter 262. A Joint Resolution of the State of Indiana, relative to the Whitewater Canal.

Chapter 263. A Joint Resolution concerning the State Library.

Chapter 264. A Joint Resolution directing the Secretary of State to furnish the county of Parke with eight copies of the Revised Laws of 1831.

Chapter 265. A Joint Resolution on the subject of improving the navigation of the Ohio River at the Falls.

Chapter 266. A Joint Resolution relative to the Tippecanoe Battle Ground.

Chapter 267. A Joint Resolution to extend the time for completing Blackford’s Reports.

Chapter 268. A Joint Resolution relative to the three per cent fund heretofore appropriated to Fayette county.

Chapter 269. A Joint Resolution relative to the three per cent fund.

Chapter 270. A Joint Resolution relative to the agent of the three per cent fund.

Chapter 271. A Joint Resolution relative to the three per cent fund.

Chapter 272. A Memorial on the subject of the National Road.

Chapter 273. A Memorial and Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to the Congress of the United States, concerning the Wabash and Erie Canal Lands.

Chapter 274. A Memorial of the Congress of the United States on the subject of the establishment of a National Hospital on the Ohio River.

Chapter 275. A Memorial and Joint Resolutions relative to the improvement of a harbour at the mouth of Trail Creek on Lake Michigan, in the state of Indiana.

Chapter 276. A Memorial and Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the Louisville and St. Louis mail route.

Chapter 277. A Joint Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, to the President of the United States, on the subject of the extinguishment of the title of the Miami tribe of Indians, to land within the said state.

Chapter 278. A Memorial and Joint Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, praying relief for William Bilsland.

Chapter 279. A Memorial and Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to procure appropriation in land or money, to improve the navigation of the Wabash, Big St. Josephs, and White rivers.

Chapter 280. A Joint Memorial and Resolution to the Congress of the United States.