1836 General Laws of Indiana

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Laws of a General Nature Passed and Published at the Twentieth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Bolton and Emmons, 1836. Google Books

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.