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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Dowling and Cole, 1844. Google Books
Chapter 1. An act to reduce the tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes Road, and for other purposes.
Chapter 2. An act to organize a new County out of the County of Dearborn, and re-locate the county seat thereof.
Chapter 3. An act to organize the counties of Tipton and Richardville.
Chapter 4. An act to reduce the salaries of Governor of State and other officers.
Chapter 5. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts in the several counties in the fifth judicial circuit.
Chapter 6. An act fixing the time of holding the courts in the ninth judicial circuit.
Chapter 7. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to organize the militia of Indiana,” approved February 10, 1831; and to revise and amend the laws authorizing the formation of companies of independent militia by voluntary enlistment.
Chapter 8. An act to regulate the practice of law in the Allen Circuit Court, and for other purposes.
Chapter 9. An act relative to practice in Circuit Courts.
Chapter 10. An act to extend the time of holding the Circuit Court in the county of Ripley, and to change the times of holding the same in the counties of Jennings, Jefferson, Switzerland, and Dearborn.
Chapter 11. An act to provide for a special session of the Circuit Court of the county of Jefferson.
Chapter 12. An act to authorize a special session of the Switzerland Circuit Court.
Chapter 13. An act providing for a special term of the Vigo Circuit Court.
Chapter 14. An act regulating the time of holding courts in the county of Tippecanoe.
Chapter 15. An act for the relief of the boatmen on the Wabash and Erie Canal, and for the establishment of a Medical Informary.
Chapter 16. An act to establish an Asylum for the education of deaf and dumb persons in the State of Indiana.
Chapter 17. An act to enable Forwarding and Commission Merchants to enforce liens.
Chapter 18. An act making general appropriations for the year 1844.
Chapter 19. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1844.
Chapter 20. An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the issue of five dollar treasury notes for the redemption of the fifty dollar treasury notes now in circulation,” approved February 31, 1842.
Chapter 21. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Florida township, in Parke county.
Chapter 22. An act abolishing the office of County Auditor in certain counties therein named.
Chapter 23. An act relative to Overseers of the Poor.
Chapter 24. An act to reduce the expenditures of the county of Carroll.
Chapter 24 [sic]. An act regulating the licensing of Auctioneers in the city of Fort Wayne.
Chapter 25. An act to raise a revenue for state purposes, and to redeem treasury notes.
Chapter 26. An act establishing an additional place of holding elections in Perry county.
Chapter 27. An act to revive and amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of settlers on the Wabash and Erie Canal lands,” approved February 24, 1840.
Chapter 28. An act to provide for the establishment of an additional place of holding elections in Vermillion county.
Chapter 29. An act to establish an additional place of holding elections in Jackson township, in the county of Washington.
Chapter 30. An act for the relief of Delaware and Grant counties.
Chapter 31. An act providing for opening and repairing roads and highways in Hancock county.
Chapter 32. An act in relation to road tax in Elkhart county.
Chapter 33. An act authorizing and directing supervisors of public roads and highways to make their returns to the boards of commissioners of their respective counties at the June term thereof.
Chapter 34. An act to provide for electing supervisors of roads in Boone county.
Chapter 35. An act in relation to the auditor of the county of Knox.
Chapter 36. An act to extend an act entitled “An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved January 31, 1842.
Chapter 37. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Gibson and Pike,” approved January 31, 1842.
Chapter 38. An act to change the mode of selecting Seminary trustees in the county of Lawrence, and for other purposes.
Chapter 39. An act for the encouragement of domestic manufactures.
Chapter 40. An act to amend an act to authorize the commissioners of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and Whitley counties to equalize the appraisement of real estate in said counties; approved February 13, 1843.
Chapter 41. An act defining the duties of the State Agent.
Chapter 42. An act to provide for the election of Agent of State, State Printer, Commissioner or Superintendent on the Wabash and Erie canal, and other officers by viva voce.
Chapter 43. An act regulating the granting of licenses in the counties of Adams, Allen, Huntington, and Wells.
Chapter 44. An act abolishing the fee for issuing patents to purchasers of Wabash and Erie Canal lands.
Chapter 45. An act to improve the breed of sheep.
Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish and regulate ferries,” approved February 10, 1831.
Chapter 47. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled “An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers,” approved January 31, 1842, to the counties of Jay and Adams.
Chapter 48. An act providing for the loaning of the school funds of Vigo county.
Chapter 49. An act vesting the duties of school commissioner in the county treasurer in certain counties.
Chapter 50. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands.
Chapter 51. An act to apply the saline funds to common school purposes.
Chapter 52. An act to reduce the compensation of county auditor in the county of Ripley.
Chapter 53. An act to further reduce the expenses of Brown and Owen counties.
Chapter 54. An act for the better regulation of the county board in the county of Warrick.
Chapter 55. An act to repeal an act therein named.
Chapter 56. An act to extend the provisions of an act therein named to Delaware county.
Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to confine the voters of Tippecanoe, Cass, Porter, Lake, and Franklin counties to their respective townships, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1843.
Chapter 58. An act to repeal an act therein named so far as the same relates to Delaware county.
Chapter 59. An act regulating elections in the counties of Adams and Jay.
Chapter 60. An act to give effect to an act entitled “An act to restrict the county commissioners in the counties of Allen, Laporte, Wells, Huntington, Adams, and Jay,” approved February 13, 1843.
Chapter 61. An act to detach certain territory from the county of Miami and attach the same to the county of Fulton.
Chapter 62. An act to repeal in part a certain law therein named.
Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred for the protection of the school funds, and for other purposes,” approved February 11, 1843.
Chapter 64. An act to declare the Mississinewa river a public highway.
Chapter 65. An act giving further time to Assessors.
Chapter 66. An act giving authority to take acknowledgements or proofs of deeds and conveyances as therein named.
Chapter 67. An act to revive the first section of an act entitled “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 8, 1841.
Chapter 68. An act for the relief of the purchasers of school lands in Delaware, Randolph, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and De Kalb counties.
Chapter 69. An act concerning marks and brands.
Chapter 70. An act regulating the fees of auditor in the counties of Randolph and Grant.
Chapter 71. An act for the better improvement of the important state roads in the counties of Allen, De Kalb, Noble, Huntington, and Wells.
Chapter 72. An act for the protection of wild fruit growing on public lands in the counties of Lake, Porter, Laporte, St. Joseph, Marshall, Fulton, and Kosciusko.
Chapter 73. An act to provide for a transfer of the management of the Saline lands and funds in the county of Orange.
Chapter 74. An act to provide for a more efficient mode of expending the road tax in the several counties therein named.
Chapter 75. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands in Monroe county.
Chapter 76. An act making the road tax on land in the counties of Fulton, Marshall, White, Pulaski, Jasper, Benton, and Starke uniform, and for other purposes.
Chapter 77. An act to appoint the board of county commissioners of Carroll county the only board of seminary trustees for the county seminary of said county.
Chapter 78. An act regulating the salary of the county auditor in the county of Fountain.
Chapter 79. An act converting the moneys arising from the sale of estrays and property taken up adrift into the common school fund.
Chapter 80. An act in relation to the boundary line between the counties of Clark and Floyd.
Chapter 81. An act regulating the boundaries of the counties of Warrick and Gibson.
Chapter 82. An act in relation to road tax in the town of Laporte.
Chapter 83. An act regulating the road law in the county of Warrick.
Chapter 84. An act providing for the election of one school commissioner in Russel township, Putnam county.
Chapter 85. An act to authorize the auditor of Hendricks county to become the purchaser of real estate in certain cases therein named.
Chapter 86. An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors in the town of Greensboro, in the county of Henry.
Chapter 87. An act correcting a discrepancy in the estray law.
Chapter 88. An act to transfer books, papers, and vouchers of Michigan Road Commissioner’s office to the office of Auditor of State.
Chapter 89. An act the better to secure the payment of the revenue into the State Treasury in such funds as are collected by the County Treasurers.
Chapter 90. An act changing the sessions of the county boards.
Chapter 91. An act relative to the assessment of canal lands.
Chapter 92. An act in relation to the sale of lands and town lots for delinquent taxes.
Chapter 93. An act to amend the fourth article of the sixteenth chapter of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as the same relates to the counties of Washington and Jackson.
Chapter 94. An act extending the benefit of the valuation laws to judgment debtors to the surplus revenue, and giving additional time to such persons for the payment of the same.
Chapter 95. An act to reduce the salary of the clerk of the state prison.
Chapter 96. An act to abolish the office of county auditor in the county of Warrick.
Chapter 97. An act amending the criminal law.
Chapter 98. An act to amend the fifteenth chapter of the revised statutes of Indiana, and repeal the eighty-third and ninety-eighth sections of the same.
Chapter 99. An act to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
Chapter 100. An act to amend an act entitled an act providing for the incorporation of towns.
Chapter 101. An act relative to the establishment of ferries.
Chapter 102. An act changing the time for the payment of taxes.
Chapter 103. An act supplemental to the twelfth article of the fortieth chapter of the revised code of 1843.
Chapter 104. An act defining the duties of Justices of the Peace in Owen county.
Chapter 105. An act to transfer the books and papers, &c. of the office of Agent of the town of Indianapolis, and the books, papers, &c. of the Michigan Road Commissioner to the office of State Auditor.
Chapter 106. An act to amend a certain act therein named.
Chapter 107. An act for the relief of justices of the peace.
Chapter 108. An act to restrict the session of the grand jury to three days at each term of the Hancock circuit court.
Chapter 109. An act to provide for the appointment of township assessors in certain counties therein named, and defining their duties.
Chapter 110. An act to reduce the prices paid for ferriages in Lawrence county.
Chapter 111. An act in relation to tavern licenses in Hancock and Carroll counties.
Chapter 112. An act relating to proof of title to state lands.
Chapter 113. An act amending the ninetieth section of the twelfth chapter, article seven, of the revised statutes of 1843, so far as the same relates to certain counties therein named.
Chapter 114. An act to restrict the assessment of a poll tax within the county of Spencer.
Chapter 115. An act to amend an act entitled “An act providing for the summoning and empaneling jurors in the counties of Delaware, Grant, Franklin, Scott, Floyd, and Union,” approved January 23, 1843.
Chapter 116. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in and for the county of Blackford.
Chapter 117. An act to postpone the sale of lands forfeited to the common school and saline funds.
Chapter 118. An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the county of Hamilton.
Chapter 119. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in the county of Lawrence, and for other purposes.
Chapter 120. An act repealing all laws now in force providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in Miami county.
Chapter 121. An act extending the provisions of a certain act therein named to the county of Spencer.
Chapter 122. An act extending certain laws therein named to the county of Randolph.
Chapter 123. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in the county of Martin.
Chapter 124. An act to provide for summoning petit jurors in the Lagrange circuit and probate courts.
Chapter 125. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, A. D. 1838, approved February 11, A. D. 1843, to the county of Kosciusko.
Chapter 126. An act to provide for summoning grand and petit jurors in Decatur and Warren counties.
Chapter 127. An act repealing so much of an act entitled “An act providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named,” approved February 17, 1838, so much as relates to the county of Clay.
Chapter 128. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Dubois county.
Chapter 129. An act to require the superintendents on the lines of public works to furnish the auditor of state with a list of tolls.
Chapter 130. An act declaring a misprint in the revised statutes of 1843.
Chapter 131. An act continuing the means for the instruction of the deaf and dumb in this state.
Chapter 132. An act to suspend the further issue of five dollar treasury notes in lieu of fifties.
Chapter 133. An act regulating the selecting grand jurors in the county of Randolph.
Chapter 134. An act to provide for changing the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Vanderburgh.
Chapter 135. An act to repeal the militia law.
Chapter 136. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in Dearborn county.