1839 Local Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Laws of a Local Nature, Passed and Published at the Twenty-Third Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Douglass & Noel, 1839. Viewed at Allen County Public Library. Digital copies of specific laws available by request.

Chapter 1. An act making general appropriations for the year 1839.

Chapter 2. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1839.

Chapter 3. An act to incorporate the Rushville Steam Mill Company.

Chapter 4. An act to incorporate the Jeffersonville Association.

Chapter 5. An act to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the Eel river bridge company, approved Feb. 6, 1837.

Chapter 6. An act to incorporate the Marion Blues.

Chapter 7. An act to incorporate the Indiana Mechanics’ Institute.

Chapter 8. An act to incorporate the town of New Castle, in the county of Henry.

Chapter 8 [sic]. An act to incorporate the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the Wilmington and Aurora Insurance Company.

Chapter 10. An act to incorporate the town of Mount Vernon.

Chapter 11. An act to incorporate the town of Danville, in Hendricks county.

Chapter 12. An act to incorporate certain turnpike companies therein named.

Chapter 13. An act to incorporate the Bartholomew county Seminary.

Chapter 14. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis, Rushville, and Brookville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 15. An act to incorporate the Western Mutual Life Insurance and Trust Company.

Chapter 16. An act to incorporate the “Governor’s Guards” of Evansville.

Chapter 17. An act to incorporate the Andersontown and Greenfield turnpike and trust company.

Chapter 18. An act to incorporate the town of Columbus, the county of Bartholomew, Indiana.

Chapter 19. An act to incorporate the Indiana Medical Institute.

Chapter 20. An act to incorporate the New Albany and Georgetown Turnpike company.

Chapter 21. An act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Terre-Haute, approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 22. An act to incorporate the Dublin Academy.

Chapter 23. An act to incorporate Goulding’s Patent Bagging Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 23 [sic]. An act to incorporate the Greencastle Savings Institution and Manufacturing and Trading Company.

Chapter 25. An act to incorporate the city of New Albany, and to repeal all laws now in force incorporating the town of New Albany.

Chapter 26. An act to incorporate the Richmond and Boston Turnpike company.

Chapter 27. An act incorporating the Dearborn county Seminary.

Chapter 28. An act to incorporate the town of Pendleton, in Madison county.

Chapter 29. An act to incorporate the Noblesville Insurance Company.

Chapter 30. An act to incorporate the Glenhope Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 31. An act to incorporate the Steam Mill company in the town of Paris.

Chapter 32. An act to incorporate the Spencer and Terre Haute M’Adamized Company.

Chapter 33. An act to incorporate the Hancock Guards, and for other purposes.

Chapter 34. An act to incorporate the Young Mens’ Literary Association of Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana.

Chapter 35. An act to incorporate the Dalton Steam Mill, Manufacturing, and Trading Company.

Chapter 36. An act to amend the act, entitled, an act granting to the citizens of Madison and the town of Lawrenceburgh, a city charter.

Chapter 37. An act to incorporate the Laurel Trading and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 38. An act to incorporate the Wabash and Goshen turnpike company.

Chapter 39. An act to incorporate the Bloomington Band.

Chapter 40. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Richmond and Brookville canal company.”

Chapter 41. An act supplemental to an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Rushville Steam Mill Company, approved, January 27th, 1839.”

Chapter 42. An act to incorporate the New Harmony Working-man’s Institute for mutual instruction.

Chapter 43. An act to incorporate the Centreville Musical Institute.

Chapter 44. An act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Rising Sun, in Dearborn county.

Chapter 45. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the city of Logansport; approved February 17, 1838.”

Chapter 46. An act to incorporate the Bedford Band of Musicians.

Chapter 47. An act to incorporate the Citizens’ Basin in Milton, Wayne county, Indiana.

Chapter 48. An act to incorporate the Connersville Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 49. An act to incorporate the Rob Roy Manufacturing company.

Chapter 50. An act amendatory to an act incorporating the town of Indianapolis, in Marion county, approved, Feb. 17, 1838.

Chapter 51. An act to revive and amend an act to incorporate the town of Bethlehem, in Clark county, approved, February 6th, 1837.

Chapter 52. An act to incorporate the town of Laporte.

Chapter 53. An act to incorporate the Hagerstown and Winchester Turnpike Company, and for other purposes.

Chapter 54. An act to incorporate the Philomathean Society of Spencer County.

Chapter 55. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Mayor and Common Council of the Town of Lafayette,” approved, February 6, 1837.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to incorporate the Town of Princeton, approved, February 14, 1838.”

Chapter 57. An act to incorporate the Columbus and Drift Wood Bridge Company.

Chapter 58. An act supplemental to an act entitled, an act incorporating the Connersville and Fort Wayne Savings’ Institution and Insurance Company.

Chapter 59. An act to amend an act, entitled, an act to amend an act, to incorporate the Buffalo and Mississippi Rail Road company, approved, February 7, 1838.

Chapter 60. An act to amend the act entitled, “an act to incorporate the Perry county Seminary.”

Chapter 61. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate Michigan city, approved February 8, 1836.”

Chapter 62. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Liverpool Bridge company,” approved February 6, 1837.

Chapter 63. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mount Carmel and New Albany Rail Road company, approved February 4, 1837.

Chapter 64. An act to revise and amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Perrysville in Vermillion County, approved, January 29, 1831.

Chapter 65. An act to incorporate the Shelbyville and Blue River Rail Road Company.

Chapter 66. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Jeffersonville Savings Institution,” approved February the 17th, 1838.

Chapter 67. An act amendatory to an act, entitled, “an act incorporating the Warsaw Manufacturing company,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 68. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the Michigan City,” approved February 8, 1836.

Chapter 69. An act to incorporate the town of Aurora.

Chapter 70. An act to incorporate the Bedford Presbyterian Church.

Chapter 71. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the Baileytown and Chicago Turnpike company, approved Feb. 15, 1838.

Chapter 72. An act to incorporate the Vevay Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 73. An act to amend the act relative to the town of Evansville.

Chapter 74. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the Crawfordsville and Williamsport turnpike company.

Chapter 75. An act to amend an act, to incorporate the town of Vevay, approved, January 30, 1836.

Chapter 76. An act to incorporate the Orange Blues.

Chapter 77. An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Lebanon, in the county of Boone.

Chapter 78. An act to incorporate the Tippecanoe and Monticello Bridge Companies.

Chapter 79. An act to amend an act, entitled, “an act to incorporate the Lafayette and Danville Rail Road Company,” approved February 5, 1836.

Chapter 80. An act appointing and authorizing Isaac Coleman as commissioner to make deeds on behalf of George Hollingsworth’s heirs, to the purchasers of certain lots in the town of Attica.

Chapter 81. An act to provide for a re-survey of the enlargement to the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 82. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Paoli, in the county of Orange, approved February 15, 1838.

Chapter 83. An act relative to the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 84. An act to legalize certain acts of the Trustees of the town of Bloomington.

Chapter 85. An act for the relief of George D. Prentice, George W. Weissenger and J. B. Moulton, and for other purposes.

Chapter 86. An act to authorize Samuel Patterson to build a Toll Bridge.

Chapter 87. An act providing means for the completion of the White river Bridge, on the Michigan road.

Chapter 88. An act relative to roads in Parke county.

Chapter 89. An act authorizing the location of a state road leading from Allisonville, in the county of Marion, to Franklin, in the county of Johnson.

Chapter 90. An act to authorize a survey on Pattoka river, in Gibson, Pike, Dubois and Orange counties.

Chapter 91. An act relative to the Clay County Seminary.

Chapter 92. An act to extend the privileges granted to the Salem Savings Institution.

Chapter 93. An act to change the name of the town of Ceylon, to Andersonville.

Chapter 94. An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Princeton,” approved December the 20th, 1838.

Chapter 95. An act to locate a state road from New Albany in Floyd county, to Charlestown in Clark county.

Chapter 96. An act for the relief of John Miller and Lavinia Miller his wife.

Chapter 97. An act to locate a State road in Greene county.

Chapter 98. An act concerning a road in Porter and Lake counties.

Chapter 99. An act to re-locate a part of the Greenfield and Franklin state road.

Chapter 100. An act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 101. An act for the relief of John Rodolph Fischli.

Chapter 102. An act to change the name of certain persons therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 103. An act to provide for a special session of the Hendricks Circuit Court.

Chapter 104. An act declaring a certain name a mis-print.

Chapter 105. An act to locate a state road in Pike county.

Chapter 106. An act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner.

Chapter 107. An act for the relief of Aaron Rawlings, collector of Scott county, for the years 1834-35.

Chapter 108. An act to authorize the election of a Justice of the Peace and a Constable, in the town of Philomath, in the county of Union.

Chapter 109. An act locating a state road in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 110. An act vacating the Albany and Burlington state road in Delaware county.

Chapter 111. An act to legalize the proceedings of the Board doing county business in Jasper county.

Chapter 112. An act authorizing the probate court of Monroe county to sell certain real estate therein named, and for other purposes.

Chapter 113. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace, in the town of Moscow, in the county of Rush.

Chapter 114. An act to authorize the Board of Justices of Scott county to sell a part of the public square in the town of Lexington.

Chapter 115. An act for the relief of Abner McCarty and other purchasers of Michigan Road Lands.

Chapter 116. An act establishing a State Road therein named.

Chapter 117. An act to locate a State Road therein named.

Chapter 118. An act relative to the county boundary between the counites of Warrick and Spencer.

Chapter 119. An act to change the name of Isaac Smith, brother of John L. Smith, deceased, late of Crawford county.

Chapter 120. An act to authorize Louisa Jane Cossatt to make conveyance of real estate.

Chapter 121. An act relative to a side cut canal opposite the town of Clinton.

Chapter 122. An act to re-locate a State Road therein named.

Chapter 123. An act declaring main Flat Rock a public highway, and for other purposes.

Chapter 124. An act relative to a state road in the counties of Warrick and Spencer.

Chapter 125. An act correcting a mistake in the specific appropriation act.

Chapter 126. An act to locate a state road from the east line of Whitley county, to Fort Wayne.

Chapter 127. An act for the relief of the owners of certain forfeited lands and town lots in Clinton county.

Chapter 128. An act to repeal a certain act in Dearborn county, therein named.

Chapter 129. An act attaching the county of Newton to the county of White, and for other purposes.

Chapter 130. An act to authorize the sale of the county Seminary in the county of Union.

Chapter 131. An act for the relief of Franklin Winchill.

Chapter 132. An act authorizing the appointing of Assessors in the county of Orange.

Chapter 133. An act for the relief and benefit of Solomon Vanada, of Warrick county.

Chapter 134. An act for the election of an additional Justice of the Peace for the town of Russelsville, in Putnam county.

Chapter 135. An act providing for the distribution of the three per cent fund of Dearborn county.

Chapter 136. An act to establish a state road in the county of Morgan.

Chapter 137. An act to re-locate a part of the state road leading from Indianapolis, in the county of Marion, to where it intersects the state road leading from Strawtown, in the county of Hamilton, to Miamisport in the county of Miami, by the way of Shieldsville and Knightstown, (Kingston) in the county of Hamilton.

Chapter 138. An act for the improvement of Little Racoon creek, in Parke county.

Chapter 139. An act relating to the Trustees of the town of Paris, in Jennings county.

Chapter 140. An act to legalize the acts of Wesley Parke, and for other purposes.

Chapter 141. An act for the relief of John Busby.

Chapter 142. An act for the relief of William W. Wilson.

Chapter 143. An act to authorize John Davis to convey certain property therein named.

Chapter 144. An act for the relief of John Bowland.

Chapter 145. An act to revive “an act entitled an act to amend an act for the benefit of those persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed in the court house, in Lawrenceburgh, on the 6th of March, 1826,” approved January 11, 1827.

Chapter 146. An act relating to a Lunatic Asylum in Fayette county.

Chapter 147. An act to repeal an act entitled, an act specifically appropriating a certain amount of the Three per Cent Fund now due, or hereafter first to become due and payable to the county of Porter,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 148. An act relative to a state road in Laporte County.

Chapter 149. An act authorizing John Manning, Sen’r, to build a Mill Dam across the Little St. Joseph River.

Chapter 150. An act for the relief of Joseph Hendricks.

Chapter 151. An act to repeal an act, entitled “an act to vacate part of a street in the bounds of the donation near Indianapolis,” approved February 17th, 1838.

Chapter 152. An act for the relief of the securities of Norris U. Sexton, late collector of Laporte county.

Chapter 153. An act to change the name of Daniel Bully.

Chapter 154. An act for the benefit of certain owners of lots in the town of Jeffersonville.

Chapter 155. An act providing for the mode of electing county commissioners in Spencer county.

Chapter 156. An act authorizing the sale of lot number seven, in square forty-six, in the town of Indianapolis.

Chapter 157. An act declaring a certain road vacated.

Chapter 158. An act repealing the 117th section of an act for establishing certain state roads therein named.

Chapter 159. An act to establish a certain state road therein named.

Chapter 160. An act to extend the privileges granted to the Salem Savings’ Institution.

Chapter 161. An act to establish a state road in Lawrence county.

Chapter 162. An act concerning the Logansport and Chicago state road.

Chapter 163. An act to provide for the election of an additional justice of the peace in the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 164. An act authorizing the opening of a state road therein named.

Chapter 165. An act for the relief of Thomas Strong.

Chapter 166. An act for the relief of Joshua Wilson of Morgan county.

Chapter 167. An act to extend the time for the collection of the state revenue of St. Joseph county.

Chapter 168. An act declaring certain names misprint.

Chapter 169. An act to locate a state road from the Fort Wayne state road in Decatur county to Hartsville in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 170. An act authorizing the opening of a state road therein named.

Chapter 171. An act to appropriate three per cent fund in Fountain county.

Chapter 172. An act to legalize the election of the probate judge of Kosciusko county.

Chapter 173. An act to legalize the name of Nathan Walden.

Chapter 174. An act to change the name of the town of Clarkstown in the county of Boone.

Chapter 175. An act for the relief of Edward Gird, late collector of Shelby county.

Chapter 176. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes, approved, February 17, 1838.”

Chapter 177. An act to vacate a state road in Morgan county.

Chapter 178. An act to authorize the election of two additional justices of the peace in Shelby county.

Chapter 179. An act to legalize the acts of Jane Owens, executrix of the last will and testament of Samuel Owens, deceased.

Chapter 180. An act legalizing the report of James Holliday, late collector of Tippecanoe county, and extending the time for completing the collection of the revenue of said county, for the year 1838.

Chapter 181. An act to improve the navigation of the Muscatitack river.

Chapter 182. An act to legalize the acts of the board of Justices of the peace in Crawford county.

Chapter 183. An act to legalize the sale of the school section of congressional township number three, north of range number six east, in Scott county.

Chapter 184. An act relative to an additional Justice of the Peace in Plummer township, Greene county.

Chapter 185. An act declaring a certain word a misprint.

Chapter 186. An act for the formation of a school district in Monroe county.

Chapter 187. An act for the benefit of John Robinson.

Chapter 188. An act for the relief of the Collector of the state revenue of Porter county.

Chapter 189. An act for the relief of Matthew Griggs.

Chapter 190. An act authorizing an additional Justice of the Peace in Vermillion county.

Chapter 191. An act to extend the time for the collection of the revenue of Laporte county.

Chapter 192. An act for the relief of Gideon Conklin and Frederick Ellzroth.

Chapter 193. An act for the relief of J. H. M’Maken and Elias Murray.

Chapter 194. An act authorizing an additional Justice of the Peace in Clarke township, Montgomery county, and in Vigo township, in Knox county.

Chapter 195. An act providing for the clearing out of Pride’s Creek, in Pike county.

Chapter 196. An act to legalize the acts of Avery McGee, of Brown county.

Chapter 197. An act for the relief of Thomas Jones.

Chapter 198. An act for the relief of William Post.

Chapter 199. An act to authorize a special session of the Probate Court of Knox county.

Chapter 200. An act for the relief of Jonathan Legg.

Chapter 201. An act authorizing the sale of certain school lands in Sullivan county.

Chapter 202. An act to vacate the town of New Market.

Chapter 203. An act to provide for a justice of the peace in Eagle Village, Boone county.

Chapter 204. An act for the relief of Clinton C. Owens.

Chapter 205. An act to legalize the acts of the county commissioners of Dubois county.

Chapter 206. An act to authorize a state road from Spencer, in Owen county, to Anguilla, in the county of Clay.

Chapter 207. An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace and constable in the town of Millgrove, in Owen county.

Chapter 208. An act for the relief of Henrietta Ames and Charles Dewey.

Chapter 209. An act to authorize Samuel L. Olmstead to build a mill dam on Pigeon creek.

Chapter 210. An act for the relief of Mary Jane Peck.

Chapter 211. An act relating to the county seminary of Shelby county.

Chapter 212. An act for the formation of school district number one, in Morgan county.

Chapter 213. An act to provide for the location of the seat of justice of Lake county.

Chapter 214. An act to re-locate a part of the state road from Rockville to Covington.

Chapter 215. An act to repeal the 117th section of an act for establishing certain state roads therein named.

 

Chapter 216. An act to locate a state road therein named.

Chapter 217. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to attach a part of township No. 19, north of range No. 4 east, to township No. 19 north, of range No. 5 east, and for other purposes.”

Chapter 218. An act to provide for the repair of the roof of the house on the Governor’s Circle.

Chapter 219. An act to repeal an act entitled, “an act to appropriate a part of the three per cent fund of Jasper county,” approved February 17, 1838.

Chapter 220. An act to legalize certain proceedings of the board of commissioners of Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 221. An act to provide for the survey of a road from Charlottesville, in Hancock county, via Rushville, to the White-water canal.

Chapter 222. An act for the relief of Benoni P. Downes.

Chapter 223. An act to locate a state road in the county of Vigo.

Chapter 224. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to authorize a location of a state road from Salem, in Washington county, to Charlestown, in Clarke county,” approved February 1, 1838.

Chapter 225. An act to legalize the sale of certain school lands in Clinton county.

Chapter 226. An act to locate a state road from Angola to the state line, and from the state line to the county seat of De Kalb county.

Chapter 227. An act for the relief of John Shelby, collector of the county of Kosciusko, in the year 1836.

Chapter 228. An act to vacate and sell the Public Square, in the town of Edinburgh, county of Johnson.

Chapter 229. An act to legalize certain proceedings in Martin county.

Chapter 230. An act for the relief of the collector of the revenue of Spencer county.

Chapter 231. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of New Washington, in Clark county.

Chapter 232. An act legalizing the proceedings of the commissioners of Whitley county.

Chapter 233. An act to locate a state road from the centre of section seventeen, township thirty-seven north, of range six east, to the Goshen and Elkhart state road in Elkhart county.

Chapter 234. An act to authorize the re-location of a part of a state road therein named, approved, February 6, 1837.

Chapter 235. An act to locate a state road from Muncietown to Camden.

Chapter 236. An act for the relief of Thomas White.

Chapter 237. An act to change the mode of electing the members of the board doing county business in Perry county.

Chapter 238. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing the sale of certain seminary lands in Monroe county,” approved, February 4th, 1837.

Chapter 239. An act making allowances to John Course, for services in applying a part of the three per cent fund in Fountain county.

Chapter 240. An act for the relocation of the seat of justice of Whitley county.

Chapter 241. An act amendatory to an act entitled “an act authorizing a change of venue in certain cases therein named,” approved, January 20, 1838.

Chapter 242. An act relative to the Perry county seminary funds.

Chapter 243. An act to relocate a part of the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Harrison in Dearborn county.

Chapter 244. An act to locate a state road in Wayne county.

Chapter 245. An act to locate a state road in the county of Dearborn.

Chapter 246. An act to change the location of section number eighty-one, in the northern division of the Central canal.

Chapter 247. An act to legalize the sale of lots on a part of the reserved township adjoining Bloomington.

Chapter 248. An act to authorize an additional Justice of the Peace in Jackson township, Fountain county.

Chapter 249. An act more particularly defining the western and southern boundaries of the county of Scott.

Chapter 250. An act to legalize the proceedings of the board of commissioners of the county of St. Joseph.

Chapter 251. An act to vacate part of a state road in the county of Wayne.

Chapter 252. An act to vacate a part of the town of Milford, in the county of Kosciusko.

Chapter 253. An act to legalize the acts of the Clerk of Dubois county.

Chapter 254. An act to change the name of Parkersburg, in Montgomery county, to Faithville.

Chapter 255. A act to repeal an act, entitled, “an act to authorize the mutual transfer of certain school funds between the townships of Eel and Noble, in Cass county,” approved, February 6th, 1837.

Chapter 256. An act supplemental to an act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner, approved, February 6th, 1839.

Chapter 257. An act authorizing an additional Justice of the Peace in White River township, in Hamilton county.

Chapter 258. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of Lockport, in Vigo county.

Chapter 259. An act to vacate a part of Cayuga Alley, in that part of the town of Indianapolis laid out by John Wood.

Chapter 260. An act to authorize the Circuit Court of Hamilton county to change the venue in a certain case therein named.

Chapter 261. An act for the relief of the heirs of William Huddleston, Thomas Huddleston, and Robert Huddleston.

Chapter 262. An act to provide for the erection of a bridge over the Big Vermillion river.

Chapter 263. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to appropriate the three per cent fund in certain counties therein named,” approved February 4, 1837.

Chapter 264. An act concerning Lost creek.

Chapter 265. An act to change a part of the Knightstown and Bluntsville state road.

Chapter 266. An act for the benefit of George Harland.

Chapter 267. An act to locate a state road from the Ohio state line, to Newport in Wayne county.

Chapter 268. An act to locate a state road from South Bend to Lafayette.

Chapter 269. An act amendatory to 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.

Chapter 270. An act relative to an additional justice of the peace in Harrison township in Clay county.

Chapter 271. An act to legalize the proceedings of the president and trustees of the Morgan county seminary.

Chapter 272. An act to attach the quarter of township thirty, north of range four east, to Fulton county.

Chapter 273. An act to provide for an additional Justice of the Peace for the south-east township, in the county of Orange.

Chapter 274. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to authorize the sale of certain school lands therein named, and for other purposes,” approved January 1, 1838.

Chapter 275. An act to provide for the election of a Justice of the Peace in the town of Montezuma, in Parke county.

Chapter 276. An act to repeal an act entitled, “an act relative to taverns and tavern-keepers, in Vermillion county.

Chapter 277. An act relative to injury done the public works by the freshet of January, 1838.

Chapter 278. An act concerning a school district in Dearborn county.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Chapter 279. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of the Cumberland Road.

Chapter 280. A joint resolution relative to the early completion of that part of the Wabash and Erie canal lying within the state of Ohio.

Chapter 281. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of the New Albany and Mount Carmel Rail Road.

Chapter 282. A joint resolution to authorize a loan of the Sinking Fund.

Chapter 283. A joint resolution in relation to the Supreme Judges of this State.

Chapter 284. A joint resolution relative to a steam boat canal around the Falls of the Ohio.

Chapter 285. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the duties of Enrolling Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Chapter 286. A memorial and joint resolution of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 287. A joint resolution to correct an error in copying the general appropriation bill of last session.

Chapter 288. A joint resolution relative to the three per cent on lands in the state, sold at Cincinnati.

Chapter 289. A joint resolution relative to section No. 21, of the Wabash and Erie canal west of Tippecanoe.

Chapter 290. A joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of State to perform an act therein named.

Chapter 291. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana.

Chapter 292. A joint resolution relative to a mail stage route therein named.

Chapter 293. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of the refuse lands in the counties of Jackson, Scott, and Clark.

Chapter 294. A joint resolution for the benefit of John K. Welch, late collector of Clark county.

Chapter 295. A joint resolution concerning Standing Committees.

Chapter 296. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the State Seal.

Chapter 297. A memorial and joint resolution on the subject of a school for the education of the deaf and dumb.

Chapter 298. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, for the relief of William Perdue.

Chapter 299. A joint resolution concerning the state library.

Chapter 300. A joint resolution relative to the Great St. Josephs River.

Chapter 301. A joint resolution on the subject of a stage line.

Chapter 302. A joint resolution on the subject of the Southern States.

Chapter 303. A joint resolution relative to Blackford’s reports.

Chapter 304. A memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, on the subject of a mail stage route.

Chapter 305. A joint memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana in relation to a harbour at City-West.

Chapter 306. A joint resolution authorizing Patrick M’Ginley to sue the state.

Chapter 307. A joint resolution on the subject of the public printing done for the state for the year 1838.

Chapter 308. A memorial and joint resolution in relation to the navigation of Lake Michigan.

Chapter 309. A joint resolution relative to the Terre-Haute and Spencer M’Adamized road company.

Chapter 310. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana.

Chapter 311. A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, relative to the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis rail road.

Chapter 312. A joint resolution concerning the tax on Bank shares.

Chapter 313. A joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan and Erie canal.

Chapter 314. A joint resolution relative to the Governor.

Chapter 315. A joint resolution on the subject of the public printing.