1841 General Laws of Indiana

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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass & Noel, 1841. Google Books

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.