1836 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twentieth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Bolton and Emmons, 1836.

Page 68
Chapter X.
AN ACT to incorporate the town of New York in Switzerland county.
(Approved February 8, 1836.)

  • That Daniel Kelso, Samuel Howard, George Land, and Erastus Moore they and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the trustees of the town of New York.

 

Page 69
Chapter XII.
AN ACT to incorporate the town of Vevay.
(Approved January 30, 1836.)

  • The qualified voters of said town, shall on the first Monday in June A. D. 1836, proceed to elect seven trustees of said town…. That said election shall be held at the court house in said town, and Robert Drummon and Perret Dufour of said town, are hereby appointed inspectors of said election.

 

Page 299
Chapter LXXIV.
AN ACT to incorporate the Vevay and Napoleon and other Turnpike Companies.
(Approved February 8, 1836.)

  • That Francis G. Sheets, Joseph Malin, Edward Patton, John F. Dufour, Elisha Golay, William Moss and Lyman W. Mix of Switzerland county and James Cravens and Miles Mendenhall of the county of Ripley and their successors in office duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of the president and directors of the Vevay and Napoleon Turnpike Company.
  • That Pinkney James, William Lanius, Robert Conaway, Cornelius Miller and William Gerard, of the county of Dearborn and John Hunter, John Bell, and Beverly Blair, of the county of Ripley, and their successors in office appointed or elected, as hereafter provided be and the same are hereby created a body politic and corporate who shall by the name and style of the Rising Sun, Versailles and Napoleon Turnpike Company.
  • That George P. Buell, Elias Conwell, William Israel, Stephen Wood, Stephen Hardin, Aaron Foulk and Robert Moor, of Dearborn county, and their successors in office, duly elected and qualified in the same way and manner provided for in the act, incorporating the president and directors of Vevay and Napoleon Turnpike Company, be and are hereby constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “the president and directors of the Aurora and Napoleon Turnpike Company.”

 

Page 333
Chapter CXVI.
AN ACT appropriating certain portions of the three per cent fund in Dearborn county.
(Approved February 8, 1836.)

  • That of the three per cent fund now due to the county of Dearborn, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the building of a bridge across Arnold’s creek where the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Madison crosses the same, the same to be expended under the direction of Col. Pinckney James of said county.
  • Two hundred dollars, on the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Rising-sun in said county, to be appropriated under the direction of John J. French of said county, and one hundred and fifty dollars on the state road between Aurora and the town of Manchester, under the direction of William Dils.

 

Page 359
Chapter CLI.
(Approved, January 30, 1836.)
AN ACT appointing commissioners to review and extend a state road in Switzerland county.

  • That Samuel Howard and Joseph Wilson, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, for the purposes hereinafter named.

 

Chapter 363
Chapter CLVIII.
AN ACT to lay out a state road in the counties of Ripley and Dearborn.
(Approved February 4, 1836.)

  • That Oliver H. Heustis of Dearborn county and William Skeen and Reuben Sutton of Ripley county, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road from the town of Versailes in the county of Ripley, on the route that shall in their judgment, best comport with the public interest, to intersect the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Indianapolis to Manchester in Dearborn county at the corner of sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine and thirty-two and thirty-three, township six, range two west.

 

Page 374
Chapter CLXXVII.
AN ACT to locate a state road in Dearborn county, from the town of Dillsborough to Aurora.(Approved January 2, 1836.)

  • That Johnson Watts, Martin Trester, and Thomas Folbree, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road from the town of Dillsborough in Dearborn county, to the town of Aurora in said county of Dearborn.