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Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Seventeenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1833. Google Books
Chapter 1. An act to amend the act entitled “An act authorizing domestic attachments and regulating proceedings thereon,” approved, January 19th, 1831.
Chapter 2. An act to provide for dividing the State into seven Congressional Districts.
Chapter 3. An act organizing the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and fixing the times of holding Courts therein.
Chapter 4. An act to legalize the proceedings of the School Commissioner of Sullivan county.
Chapter 5. An act to extend the privileges granted to the Harrison and Whitewater Bridge Company.
Chapter 6. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate Hanover Academy.”
Chapter 7. An act to authorize the proprietor of Thorntown, Boon[e] county, to exchange certain lots therein.
Chapter 8. An act for the relief of John F. Jones, collector of Bartholomew County.
Chapter 9. An act for the benefit of persons who are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Parke County.
Chapter 10. An act to more permanently establish the boundary line between the counties of Vermillion and Warren.
Chapter 11. An act for the relief of William Richards, Road Commissioner, and for other purposes.
Chapter 12. An act for the relief of John Conner.
Chapter 13. An act to authorize the expenditure of the three per cent fund heretofore appropriated for the counties of Huntington and Wabash.
Chapter 14. An act appropriating three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eighty-six and three quarter cents for the payment of the subscribers to the building of the State Prison.
Chapter 15. An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to raise additional revenue for the county of Ripley,” approved January 24th, 1831.
Chapter 16. An act for the relief of James Tiller.
Chapter 17. An act to provide for a special session of the Switzerland Circuit Court.
Chapter 18. An act for the relief of Vincent Dufour, heir of John James Dufour, deceased.
Chapter 19. An act to provide for summoning grand and petit jurors for the next March term of the Parke Circuit Court.
Chapter 20. An act to establish the county line between the counties of Madison, Hancock and Henry.
Chapter 21. An act legalizing the election of certain Probate Judges therein named.
Chapter 22. An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Green county Seminary,” approved January 24, 1832.
Chapter 23. An act to amend an act providing for the erection of a bridge across Rattlesnake creek in Owen county.
Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of John Boner, of Jennings County,” approved January 26, 1832.
Chapter 25. An act for the relief of James Chess.
Chapter 26. An act for the relief of Thomas Speed.
Chapter 27. An act to provide for building school houses in Congressional township No. seventeen, north of range No. nine west, in the county of Vermillion.
Chapter 28. An act for the relief of Henry Sherly.
Chapter 29. An act to provide for the indemnification of persons through whose lands roads are or may be located.
Chapter 30. An act to declare the post road passing Allensville in Switzerland county a state road.
Chapter 31. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Knox county to provide for the support of the paupers of said county.
Chapter 32. An act to incorporate the Monroe County Female Seminary.
Chapter 33. An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act regulating divorces,” approved January 17th, 1831.
Chapter 34. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to provide for selling the Michigan road lands, to open that part of the Michigan road between Logansport and Lake Michigan and for other purposes,” approved February 2, 1832.
Chapter 35. An act to amend the act entitled “an act directing the mode of suing out and prosecuting writs of habeas corpus,” approved January 12th, 1828.
Chapter 36. An act to repeal an act entitled, “an act to vacate the town of Owensville,” approved January 3d, 1829.
Chapter 37. An act changing the name of John Meek and others.
Chapter 38. An act to incorporate the Christian College, at New-Albany in Floyd county, Indiana.
Chapter 39. An act to define and establish the boundaries of the counties of Wabash and Miami.
Chapter 40. An act to repeal a part of the “act regulating the fees and salaries of the several officers and persons therein named,” approved February 7th, 1831.
Chapter 41. An act to repeal all special acts and parts of special acts allowing the County Commissioners of Dearborn county to lay an additional tax on said county.
Chapter 42. An act to provide for the Election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of St. Omer.
Chapter 43. An act in relation to the Secretary and Treasurer of State, and for other purposes.
Chapter 44. An act supplemental to “an act to authorize the Agent of State for the town of Indianapolis, to lay off the land belonging to the State, and offer the same for sale,” approved February 9, 1831.
Chapter 45. An act amendatory of “an act to incorporate the town of Lawrenceburgh.”
Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relating to County Seminaries.”
Chapter 47. An act to amend an act entitled “an act regulating the Interest of Money in the State of Indiana,” approved, February 1st, 1831.
Chapter 48. An act declaratory of the powers of Notaries Public.
Chapter 49. An act to legalize the proceedings of the Seminary Trustees of Union county.
Chapter 50. An act for the relief of Ann M. Smith.
Chapter 51. An act to reduce the salary of the Agent of the three per cent fund.
Chapter 52. An act to encourage the apprehension of horse thieves.
Chapter 53. An act for the relief of Mary Lane, widow of Daniel C. Lane, late Treasurer of State.
Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate descents, distribution, and dower,” approved January 29, 1831.
Chapter 55. An act to provide an Executive Officer of the Supreme Court.
Chapter 56. An act to amend the existing laws providing for the election of Representatives in Congress.
Chapter 57. An act to amend the laws now in force relative to the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Chapter 58. An act to appropriate part of the Three per Cent Fund.
Chapter 59. An act concerning Legal Process.
Chapter 60. An act to amend the act entitled “an act subjecting real and personal estate to execution,” approved February 4th, 1832.
Chapter 61. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to foreign attachments,” approved January 20th, 1831.
Chapter 62. An act for the relief of Zachariah Ferguson, Stanhope Royster, and John Perin.
Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for the relief of purchasers of lots in the town of Indianapolis, which have been forfeited to the State,” approved January 21st, 1828.
Chapter 65 [sic]. An act to vacate the Town called Dunkintown, in Sullivan county.
Chapter 65. An act for the relief of Thomas Pogue, and others.
Chapter 66. An act for the relief of James McFarland.
Chapter 67. An act changing the time for holding the Circuit Courts in the first, second, fourth, fifth, and sixth Judicial Circuits.
Chapter 68. An act to establish certain state roads therein named.
Chapter 69. An act to establish the St. Joseph Orphan Asylum.
Chapter 70. An act incorporating Congressional Townships, and providing for Public Schools therein.
Chapter 71. An act for the encouragement of Education.
Chapter 72. An act to quiet certain titles in Mount Vernon and for the benefit of Thomas Givens.
Chapter 73. An act to permit Jacob Studybaker and Thomas Thomas to keep their mills in operation on the Elkhart River.
Chapter 74. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act for the appointment of County Surveyors and their deputies,” approved Feb. 4, 1831.
Chapter 75. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace,” approved Feb. 10. 1831.
Chapter 76. An act to authorize the Vigo Circuit Court to change the venue in a certain case therein named.
Chapter 77. An act to legalize the appraisement and sale of a part of the South East quarter of Section Sixteen, Town Twelve, of Range Six East, in Shelby county.
Chapter 78. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Madison,” approved, February 6, 1831.
Chapter 79. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act regulating the practice in Suits at Law,” approved, January 29, 1831.
Chapter 80. An act supplemental to “an act for the regulation of the State Prison,” approved, February 10, 1831.
Chapter 81. An act supplemental to “an act to provide for the erection of a State House.”
Chapter 82. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act to incorporate the town of Terre Haute,” approved January 26, 1832.
Chapter 83. An act for the relief of the heirs of Arthur Major.
Chapter 84. An act for the relief of Richard Palmer.
Chapter 85. An act to authorize Joseph Morgan, former collector of Pike, yet to collect any taxes remaining due and unpaid in said county, for the year or years for which Morgan was collector.
Chapter 86. An act for the benefit of Mary Ann Hamilton.
Chapter 87. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to organize and regulate the Militia of the State of Indiana,” approved Feb. 10, 1831.
Chapter 88. An act to incorporate the Western Union Seminary.
Chapter 89. An act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named.
Chapter 90. An act to incorporate the County Seminary of Posey, and for other purposes.
Chapter 91. An act to incorporate the Liberty School Society.
Chapter 92. An act concerning a school section in Tippecanoe county.
Chapter 93. An act to establish a Levee from the town of Vincennes, through the lower prairie near the Wabash River, to the Grande Conlee.
Chapter 94. An act to authorize and require the Seminary Trustee of the county of Scott, and the Treasurer of the Library of said county, to loan certain Moneys, within their control.
Chapter 95. An act making General Appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Chapter 96. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1833.
Chapter 97. An act to incorporate the South Bend Bridge Company.
Chapter 98. An act to amend the act, entitled “an act to incorporate the Richmond, Eaton, and Miami Rail Road Company,” approved February 3, 1832.
Chapter 99. An act to amend “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund, and for other purposes,” approved February 10, 1832.
Chapter 100. An act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company.
Chapter 101. An act to incorporate the Charlestown and Ohio Turnpike Company.
Chapter 102. An act to amend the act, entitled “an act for opening and repairing public roads and highways,” approved February 10, 1831, and for other purposes.
Chapter 103. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for opening and repairing public roads and highways,” approved February 10, 1831.
Chapter 104. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to authorize the building of bridges across Lick Creek and Salt Creek,” approved January 29, 1830.
Chapter 105. An act providing for the construction of a bridge over Mill Creek in Owen county.
Chapter 106. An act to authorize the location of a state road leading from Lafayette in Tippecanoe county to intersect a state road leading from Delphi in Carroll county to Lake Michigan.
Chapter 107. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to prevent useless and expensive applications to the General Assembly relating to state roads,” approved February 3d, 1832.
Chapter 108. An act to locate a state road from Martinsville in Morgan county to intersect the state road leading from Madison to Indianapolis, at Edinburgh in Johnson county, by the way of Morgantown in said Morgan county.
Chapter 109. An act to repeal “an act to locate a state road from New-Albany to Lexington,” approved Feb. 2, 1832.
Chapter 110. An act to provide for establishing a state road from Covington to Russellville.
Chapter 111. An act to establish a certain State Road therein named.
Chapter 112. An act to establish a State Road from John R. Crook’s in Lawrence county, to intersect the Rockport State Road at Mark Trueblood’s in said county.
Chapter 113. An act to locate a State Road from Montezuma to intersect the State Road leading from Danville to Montezuma.
Chapter 114. An act to locate a State Road from Martinsville, in the county of Morgan, by the way of Cox’s Mill and Solomon Dunagan’s, in said Morgan county, to Stilesville, in the county of Hendricks.
Chapter 115. An act supplement to an act entitled, “an act for the location of a State Road from Wood’s ferry, on the East branch of White River in Lawrence county, to Bloomfield in Greene county,” approved January 24, 1832.
Chapter 116. An act for the location of a State Road from Chambersburg, in Fountain county, to Williamsport, in Warren county.
Chapter 117. An act to establish a State Road from the Tobacco landing in Harrison county, by the way of Laconia to Corydon in said county, and for other purposes.
Chapter 118. An act changing the direction of a road from Judge Lowrie’s farm to Paris, Illinois.
Chapter 119. An act to establish a State Road from Napoleon in Ripley county viz Camden, Newbern, and Columbus in Bartholomew county to Bloomington in Monroe county.
Chapter 120. An act to locate a State Road from where the Michigan Road crosses Yellow River, by the way of the county seat of Laporte county, to the mouth of Trail Creek.
Chapter 121. An act to locate a State Road from Williamsport in Warren county, by the way of Lebanon and Chesapeak, to the state line.
Chapter 122. An act to locate a State Road from Stilesville, by the way of New-Maysville, to Crawfordsville.
Chapter 123. An act to establish a State Road from Greencastle in the county of Putnam to the county line of Parke.
Chapter 124. An act to re-locate a part of the State Road leading from Rockport to Boonville.
Chapter 125. An act to establish a State Road from the Ohio line to Dalton, near the west boundary of Wayne county.
Chapter 126. An act to establish a State Road from Salem in Washington county to Leesville in Lawrence county.
Chapter 127. An act supplemental to an act entitled, “an act to locate a State Road from Merom in Sullivan county to a point on the Terre Haute and Bono State Road,” approved January 20, 1832.
Chapter 128. An act to legalize the Proceedings of the Commissioner appointed to locate a State Road from the town of Lagrange, in Tippecanoe county, to Logansport in the county of Cass, by an act approved, February 3d, 1832.
Chapter 129. An act to establish a State Road in Vigo county.
Chapter 130. An act authorizing John Newby, of Jackson county, to expend certain moneys appropriated out of the three per cent fund, on the Madison and Brownstown State Road.
Chapter 131. An act to re-locate part of the State Road leading from Spencer in Owen county, to Danville in Hendricks county.
Chapter 132. An act to change a part of the State Road from Levenworth’s mill, to Orleans in Orange county.
Chapter 133. An act to locate a State Road from the Ohio line near Hillsborough, Wayne County, to intersect the Winchester and Newcastle State Road in Henry county.
Chapter 134. An act to locate a State Road from Greencastle in Putnam county, to Carlisle in Sullivan county, by the way of Manhattan in Putnam county, and Bowlinggreen and New Brunswick, in Clay county.
Chapter 135. An act to establish a state road from Shelbyville in Shelby county, by the way of Goshen and Newbern in Bartholomew county, to intersect the Indianapolis and Madison state road near Klapp’s mills in Jennings county.
Chapter 136. An act to re-locate a part of the Terre Haute State Road.
Chapter 137. An act to establish a certain State Road.
Chapter 138. An act to vacate a certain State Road therein named.
Chapter 139. An act to establish a State Road from Fairfield in Franklin county to West Union in Fayette county.
Chapter 140. An act supplemental to an act entitled, “an act to amend the act entitled, “an act to establish a State Road from William Connelly’s in Lawrence county to Greencastle in Putnam county,” approved February 3, 1832.
Chapter 141. An act to establish a State Road therein named.
Chapter 142. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act for the location and opening of a State Road from Logansport, via Turkey Creek and Elkhart Prairies, to the northern line of the State, in the direction of Pigeon Prairie in Michigan Territory,” approved December 29th, 1830.
Chapter 143. An act authorizing a change in a part of the Munceytown and Logansport State Road.
Chapter 144. An act relative to a certain State Road in Rush county.
Chapter 145. An act to re-locate part of the State Road leading from Martinsville in Morgan county to Danville in Hendricks county.
Chapter 146. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act to establish a State Road from the county seat of Grant to the county seat of Elkhart,” approved January 24, 1832.
Chapter 147. An act to re-locate part of the Mauk’s Ferry State Road.
Chapter 148. An act to locate a State Road from Lagrange in Tippecanoe county, to the State Road leading from Williamsport in Warren county, to Chicago in the State of Illinois.
Chapter 149. An act to establish a State Road from Salisbury in Harrison county, to Providence in Clark county, by the way of Greenville in Floyd county.
Chapter 150. An act to appropriate part of the Three per cent Fund in the county of Morgan.
Chapter 151. An act to establish a State Road from Bloomington, in Monroe county, to the Great Falls on Eel River.
Chapter 152. An act to establish a State Road from Madison to Jefferson county, to Paoli in Orange county.
Chapter 153. An act to locate a State Road from the South Bend in St. Joseph county, via mouth of Elkhart and seat of justice in Lagrange county, to the East line of this State, in the direction of Vistula on Maumee bay in the State of Ohio.
Chapter 154. An act to establish a State Road from Rockville in Parke county via the Narrows of Sugar Creek in said county, to Lafayette in Tippecanoe county, and for other purposes.
Chapter 155. An act to establish a State Road from Mountpleasant in Martin county, to Springville in Lawrence county.
Chapter 156. An act to establish a State Road from the Ohio line in Union county, to Richmond in Wayne county.
Chapter 157. An act to locate a State Road from Frenchtown in Warren county to Lusk’s mill in Parke county.
Chapter 158. An act to establish a State Road from Bloomington in Monroe county, by the way of Bale’s ferry, to Leesville in Lawrence county.
Chapter 159. An act to alter a part of the Mooresville and Crawfordsville State Road lying between Mooresville and Danville.
Chapter 160. An act providing the mode of opening and repairing Public Roads and Highways in the county of Monroe.
Chapter 161. An act to locate a State Road from Greencastle, by the way of Putnamville, to Thomas Evans’ farm.
Chapter 162. An act to locate and establish a State Road from the Fort Wayne road near Stephen Stutman’s, by the way of the mouth of Elkhart River, to the state line in the direction of Edwardsburgh in Michigan Territory.
Chapter 163. An act to establish a State Road from Frankfort to a point on the Michigan Road and for other purposes.
Chapter 164. An act to re-locate so much of the Knightstown State Road as lies between Pendleton in Madison county and Strawtown in Hamilton county.
Chapter 165. An act to locate a State Road from Delphi in Carroll county, to Crawfordsville in Montgomery county.
Chapter 166. 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.
Chapter 167. An act supplemental to an act authorizing the location of a State Road from Lafayette to Lake Michigan.
Chapter 168. An act to locate the Alquina State Road.
Chapter 169. An act for the location of a State Road.
Chapter 170. An act to provide for the location of a State Road from Newport in Vermillion county, by the way of Springfield, Eugene and Perrysville to the north boundary of said county.
Chapter 171. An act appointing a Commissioner on Roads number ten and number twenty-six, and to authorize the expenditure by him of the balance due said roads, and for other purposes.
Chapter 172. An act to establish a State Road from the town of Michigan to the town of Jefferson, by the way of Frankfort in the county of Clinton, Indiana.
Chapter 173. An act to locate a State Road from Delphi to Munceytown.
Chapter 174. An act to locate a State Road from James Marr’s in Bartholomew county, to Joab Woodruff’s in Johnson county.
Chapter 175. An act to locate a State Road from Greensburg by way of Hartsville to Columbus.
Chapter 176. An act to locate a State Road from Newcastle in Henry county, to Munceytown in Delaware county.
Chapter 177. An act to authorize the expenditure of the Three per cent Fund, heretofore appropriated for the county of Adams.
Chapter 178. 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.
Chapter 179. An act to locate a State Road from Andersontown in Madison county, to Logansport in Cass county.
Chapter 180. An act to locate a State Road from Salem, via Middletown, to Orleans in Orange county.
Chapter 181. An act to re-locate a part of the Martinsville, Danville, and Frankfort State Road, and for other purposes.
Chapter 182. An act to locate a State Road from Centreville in Wayne county to a certain point in Henry county.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Chapter 183. A joint resolution of the General Assembly authorizing the Secretary of State to purchase a complete set of Niles’ Register for the use of the State Library.
Chapter 184. A joint resolution to procure appropriations to construct a safe Harbour and erect a Light House at the mouth of Des Chemins on Lake Michigan.
Chapter 185. A joint resolution requesting the Governor of Indiana to communicate with the Governor of Ohio relative to the extension of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Chapter 186. A joint resolution of the General Assembly relative to the Public Lands.
Chapter 187. A joint resolution authorizing the suspension of a suit vs. Julius Johnson and others.
Chapter 188. A joint resolution relative to the Public Ferry at Indianapolis.
Chapter 189. A joint resolution of the General Assembly for the benefit of State Debtors.
Chapter 190. A joint resolution authorizing a subscription for the second volume of Blackford’s Reports.
Chapter 191. A memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, soliciting Congress to appropriate land or money sufficient to improve the navigation of the Wabash and White Rivers.
Chapter 192. A joint resolution to provide for binding and distributing the acts of Congress, deposited in the office of the secretary of state.
Chapter 193. A joint resolution relative to the Public Printing.
Chapter 194. A joint resolution relative to the Indiana College.
Chapter 195. A memorial on the subject of the National Road.
Chapter 196. A preamble and joint resolutions, relative to the proceedings of a late Convention of South Carolina, and to the President’s Proclamation in relation thereto.
Chapter 197. A joint resolution concerning the State Library.
Chapter 198. A memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to the Congress of the United States, on the subject of unproductive sixteenth sections.
Chapter 199. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to urge the speedy survey and sale of lands recently obtained by treaty concluded with the Pottawattamie Indians, and the establishment of a new Land District and Office, to dispose of said lands, north of the Wabash River.
Chapter 200. A memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly, relative to fractional congressional townships.
Chapter 201. A preamble and joint resolution, in relation to Horses lost by rangers and volunteer militia of Indiana.
Chapter 202. A joint memorial on the subject of a Treaty with the Miami nation.
Chapter 203. A memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, soliciting aid to improve the great western thoroughfare leading through this State from Louisville, Kentucky, to St. Louis, Missouri, via Mount Pleasant, Washington, and Vincennes.
Chapter 204. A memorial asking relief to William Warren.
Chapter 205. A joint resolution of the General Assembly relative to procuring tract books and maps of the purchase of 1828.
Chapter 206. A memorial to the Congress of the United States on the subject of relinquished lands.
Chapter 207. A joint resolution on the subject of a Rail Road from the Mississippi River to the city of Washington.