1802 Laws of Northwest Territory

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to the Northwest Territory from:
Laws of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio Including The Laws of the Governor and Judges, The Maxwell Code, and the Laws of the Three Sessions of the Territorial Legislature, 1791-1802. Cincinnati : n.p., 1833. Google Books

Acts of the Second General Assembly. First Session.

November 23, 1801 – January 23, 1802.

Chapter 144. An act allowing and regulating writs of attachment.

Chapter 145. An act regulating executions.

Chapter 146. An act regulating the fees of civil officers and for other purposes.

Chapter 147. An act levying a tax on land for the year one thousand eight hundred and two, and for other purposes.

Chapter 148. An act requiring public officers to give bond in certain cases.

Chapter 149. An act providing for the execution of real contracts in certain cases.

Chapter 150. An act for the partition of real estate.

Chapter 151. An act providing for the inspection of certain articles of exportation therein enumerated.

Chapter 152. An act to encourage the killing of wolves and panthers.

Chapter 153. An act for the assignment of bail bonds.

Chapter 154. An act to remove the seat of government and fix the same at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton.

Chapter 155. An act to amend the act entitled, “An act establishing and regulating the militia.”

Chapter 156. An act for the distribution of insolvent estates.

Chapter 157. An act to amend the act, entitled “An act for opening and regulating public roads and highways.”

Chapter 158. An act providing for the appointment of guardians to lunatics and others.

Chapter 159. An act concerning testimony.

Chapter 160. An act declaring the assent of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to an alteration in the ordinance for the government thereof.

Chapter 161. An act providing for the acknowledgement and recording of deeds in certain cases.

Chapter 162. An act providing for the acknowledgement and recording of deeds in certain cases.

Chapter 163. An act to establish and regulate township meetings.

Chapter 164. An act providing for the recovery of money secured by mortgage.

Chapter 165. An act allowing compensation to the members of the legislative council and house of representatives, and to the officers of both houses, together with the treasurer and the auditor of the territory.

Chapter 166. An act to repeal, in part, the act, entitled, “An act to ascertain and defray the travelling expenses of the judges of the general court, and for disposing of the fees heretofore allowed them by law.

Chapter 167. An act supplementary to the act, entitled, “An act to amend the act, entitled, “an act for allowing compensation to the attorney general of the territory, and to the persons prosecuting the pleas in behalf of the territory in the several counties.”

Chapter 168. An act defining the duties of the secretary of the territory.

Chapter 169. An act appropriating moneys for the payment of the debts due from this territory, and making appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and two.