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General Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Twenty-Sixth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Dowling and Cole, 1842. Google Books
Chapter 1. An act to provide for the continuance of the construction of all or any part of the public works of this State, by private Companies, and for abolishing the Board of Internal Improvements and the offices of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer.
Chapter 2. A joint resolution requiring the State Agent to give an official bond and to take an oath of office.
Chapter 3. An act relative to the duties of the State Agent.
Chapter 4. An act to prevent the further sale, or hypothecation of Indiana State Bonds, by any Fund Commissioner or other agent of the State.
Chapter 5. An act for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal, from the mouth of Tippecanoe river to Terre Haute.
Chapter 6. An act to provide for the election of a Commissioner on the Wabash and Erie canal, west of the Tippecanoe river.
Chapter 7. An act to provide for the preservation of the southern end of the southern division of the Central Canal.
Chapter 8. An act to authorize the leasing the water power at the town of Pittsburgh, Carroll county, and for other purposes.
Chapter 9. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act providing for the selecting, rating, and selling lands yet due on the Wabash and Erie canal east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river, and for other purposes,” approved, Feb. 24, 1840.
Chapter 10. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled “an act for the relief of the settlers on the Wabash and Erie canal lands, approved, February 24, 1840.
Chapter 11. An act authorizing the sale of the sixth chain reservation of land bordering on the Wabash and Erie canal.
Chapter 12. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the Tippecanoe river,” approved, February 15, 1841.
Chapter 13. An act for the relief of the owners of Wabash and Erie canal lands.
Chapter 14. An act providing for classing and selecting the lands not yet offered for sale belonging to the Wabash and Erie canal, east of the Tippecanoe river.
Chapter 15. An act relative to water power at the town of Delphi, Carroll county.
Chapter 16. An act to change the time of holding courts in Jay county.
Chapter 17. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the first judicial circuit.
Chapter 18. An act to amend an act regulating the times of holding the circuit courts in the second Judicial circuit of this State, approved, Feb. 10th, 1841.
Chapter 19. An act fixing the time of holding Courts in the fourth Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes.
Chapter 20. An act to fix the time of holding the Marion Circuit Court.
Chapter 21. An act amending an act entitled “an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river,” approved, February 15, 1841.
Chapter 22. An act to change the time of holding the circuit court in Madison county.
Chapter 23. A joint resolution to suspend the operation of a certain law therein named.
Chapter 24. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to fix the times of holding courts in the fifth judicial circuit,” approved, January 30, 1841.
Chapter 25. An act to authorize a special session of the Marion Circuit Court.
Chapter 26. An act to provide for the return of process, &c., in the Shelby Circuit Court for March term, 1842.
Chapter 27. An act fixing the times of holding Circuit Courts, in the ninth Judicial Circuit.
Chapter 28. An act to re-organize the eighth, and to create the twelfth Judicial Circuits.
Chapter 29. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act organizing circuit courts and defining their powers and duties, approved, February 15, 1838.
Chapter 30. An act to limit the time of holding the circuit court in Vigo county.
Chapter 31. An act to authorize the President Judge of the 3d judicial circuit to hold an extra term in the county of Dearborn.
Chapter 32. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled ‘an act dividing the State into judicial circuits, and fixing the times for holding courts therein, and for other purposes, approved, Feb. 10, 1831,’ approved Jan. 28th, 1839.”
Chapter 33. An act changing the time of holding probate courts in Clay county.
Chapter 34. An act extending the time for holding the probate courts in Knox county.
Chapter 35. An act to provide for changing the time of holding the probate courts in the county of Orange.
Chapter 36. An act authorizing the Associate Judges of the county of Ripley to sit and perform the duties of probate judge in certain cases therein prescribed.
Chapter 37. An act to change the time of holding probate courts in Greene county.
Chapter 38. An act to extend the time of holding probate courts in the counties of Jefferson and Washington.
Chapter 39. An act to exempt Probate Judges from arrest.
Chapter 40. An act amendatory to an act to organize probate courts, and defining the powers and duties of executors, administrators, and guardians, approved, Feb. 17, 1838.
Chapter 41. A Bill to change the mode of selecting jurors in Lawrence county and for other purposes.
Chapter 42. An act for reducing the expenses of the counties of Monroe and Brown, and for selecting petit jurors therein.
Chapter 43. An act to regulate the duties of clerks of the circuit courts and county Recorders.
Chapter 44. An act amendatory to an act, entitled “an act concerning clerks,” approved January 20, 1831.
Chapter 45. An act entitled an act regulating the duties of clerks of the circuit Courts, and county auditors.
Chapter 46. An act concerning Petit Jurors in certain counties therein named.
Chapter 47. An act to provide for selecting petit jurors in Laporte county.
Chapter 48. An act to change the mode of selecting petit jurors in Jackson and Bartholomew counties, and for other purposes.
Chapter 49. An act to provide for the summoning and empaneling Grand and Petit Jurors in the counties of Allen, Hamilton, Vigo, Delaware, Grant, Marion, Clark, Switzerland, Spencer, Greene, Putnam, Morgan, Fulton, Jennings, Marshall and Orange.
Chapter 50. An act to regulate the summoning of petit jurors in Dearborn county.
Chapter 51. An act to provide for selecting petit jurors in Hendricks county, and for other purposes.
Chapter 52. An act supplemental to “an act subjecting real and personal property to execution,” approved, February 4th, 1841.
Chapter 53. An act giving additional stay of execution, where specie is demanded.
Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to regulate the taking up of animals going astray, and water crafts, and other articles of value adrift,” approved February 15, 1841.
Chapter 55. An act to abolish imprisonment for debts.
Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled “an act authorizing aliens and foreigners to hold real estate within the State of Indiana,” approved, January 14, 1818.
Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish seats of Justice in new counties,” approved, January 14, 1824.
Chapter 58. An act supplementary to 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, approved, February 6, 1837.
Chapter 59. An act levying a tax for state purposes and for the gradual redemption of Treasury Notes.
Chapter 60. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers.
Chapter 61. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.
Chapter 62. A joint resolution respecting sales of personal property on execution.
Chapter 63. An act taxing individual stock in the several Branches of the State Bank of Indiana, and for other purposes.
Chapter 64. An act to create the seventeenth branch bank district.
Chapter 65. An act amendatory of the acts now in force on the subject of notaries public.
Chapter 66. A joint resolution on the subject of bank directors.
Chapter 67. An act to amend an act, 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 23d of June, 1836,” approved, February 6th, 1837.
Chapter 68. A joint resolution on the subject of a resumption of specie payments, and for other purposes.
Chapter 69. An act to repeal part of “an act converting the sinking fund, saline fund, college fund, surplus revenue fund, and State Bank school fund into Bank stock,” approved February 15, 1841.
Chapter 70. An act to repeal so much of a law passed February 15, 1841, as provides for converting the college fund into bank stock, and other matters therein contained.
Chapter 71. An act to authorize agents of the surplus revenue and others to dispose of lands by them bid off on behalf of the State.
Chapter 72. An act to provide for increasing the stock of the present stockholders in the South Bend branch of the State Bank.
Chapter 73. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue and other funds, and for the better securing the payment thereof.
Chapter 74. An act for the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue fund and other funds, and for the better securing of payment thereof.
Chapter 75. An act prescribing the duties of the quarter-master general and fixing his rank and compensation.
Chapter 76. An act to amend an act entitled an act to organize the militia of Indiana, approved February 10, 1831.
Chapter 77. An act to amend the several acts for the regulation of the State Prison.
Chapter 78. An act to define more particularly the duties of the commissioner of the three per cent fund in Daviess county.
Chapter 79. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to provide for the settlement of accounts of commissioners of the three per cent fund in the several counties,” approved February 4, 1837.
Chapter 80. An act for the further relief of purchasers of the seminary lands in the counties of Gibson and Monroe.
Chapter 81. An act to prevent the forfeiture of school lands and for other purposes.
Chapter 82. An act providing for the sale of certain school lands in Fayette county.
Chapter 83. An act to regulate the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace in Lawrence county, and amendatory of the act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 84. An act for the relief of the purchasers of 16th sections of congressional townships, and for the better securing the payment thereof.
Chapter 85. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named.
Chapter 86. An act to attach an additional school district to congressional township number five, south of range number eight west, in Warrick county.
Chapter 87. An act to amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein, approved February 17, 1838, approved February 15, 1841.
Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled an act to revise and amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein, approved February 17, 1838, approved February 15, 1841.
Chapter 89. An act relating to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in actions by and against corporations.
Chapter 90. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Knox and Vigo.
Chapter 91. An act relative to exchange brokers.
Chapter 92. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Jay.
Chapter 93. An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to crime and punishment.
Chapter 94. An act to amend an act for the relief of the poor, approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 95. An act to amend the several acts in relation to the surplus revenue.
Chapter 96. An act authorizing the State Treasurer to collect and pay over to the counties of De Kalb, Welss and Lake that portion of the surplus revenue to which the same are entitled.
Chapter 97. An act in relation to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Madison county.
Chapter 98. An act concerning criminal practice.
Chapter 99. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Dubois.
Chapter 100. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Spencer county.
Chapter 101. An act to amend an act entitled an act relative to the surplus revenue of the United States allotted to Carroll county, approved February 10, 1841.
Chapter 102. An act supplemental to the act entitled “an act to provide for a keeper of the State House and Library,” approved February 2, 1841.
Chapter 103. An act to establish a tobacco inspection in the town of Point Commerce, in Greene county.
Chapter 104. An act relative to the duties of Auditor and Treasurer of State.
Chapter 105. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Hamilton county.
Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved February 17th, 1838, and to secure the observance of the 103d section of said act.
Chapter 107. An act to regulate the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Greene county.
Chapter 108. An act amendatory of an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 109. An act to amend an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838, and for other purposes.
Chapter 110. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables and defining their duties, approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 111. A joint resolution to provide for distributing the acts of Congress, deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.
Chapter 112. An act to provide for the distribution of the laws of Congress to the several counties in this state.
Chapter 113. An act to repeal the state board of equalization.
Chapter 114. An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the duties of county auditor, approved February 12, 1841.
Chapter 115. An act to amend an act in relation to county auditor.
Chapter 116. An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the duties of county auditors, approved February 12, 1841.
Chapter 117. An act repealing the 18th, 21st and 23d sections of the act prescribing the duties of county treasurers, approved February 12th, 1841.
Chapter 118. An act giving further time to assessors.
Chapter 119. An act applying certain funds to purposes of education.
Chapter 120. An act to authorize the collection of State revenue in those counties which have failed to assess and collect the same for the year 1841.
Chapter 121. An act to amend an act relating to county seminaries, approved February 17th, 1838.
Chapter 122. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named, approved February 2, 1833.
Chapter 123. An act making general appropriations for the year 1842.
Chapter 124. An act making specific appropriations for the year 1842.
Chapter 125. An act to change the mode of doing county business in the county of Washington.
Chapter 126. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the mode of doing township business in Miami county, approved December 24, 1840.
Chapter 127. An act prescribing the mode of levying and collecting township taxes in the county of Dearborn.
Chapter 128. An act to amend the act entitled an act to amend and revise the act entitled an act to incorporate the several townships in the county of Dearborn, approved February 7th, 1825, and for other purposes.
Chapter 129. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the promotion of schools and education in Clark’s Grant, approved February 15th, 1838.
Chapter 130. An act to prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.
Chapter 131. An act to allow each county in this State to send two students to the State University.
Chapter 132. An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State, approved Feb. 15, 1840.
Chapter 133. An act to keep in repair the Cumberland and Michigan roads.
Chapter 134. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement of the Michigan road, approved February 13, 1841.
Chapter 135. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the preservation of sheep, approved January 25th, 1841.
Chapter 136. An act to amend an act entitled “an act concerning ejectments, and for the relief of occupying claimants of land,” approved January 13, 1831.
Chapter 137. An act to amend an act entitled an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties therein named.
Chapter 138. An act to provide for the appointment of a commissioner to make deeds, and for other purposes.
Chapter 139. An act to repeal the 13th section of an act therein named, so far as it relates to the counties of Porter and Lake.
Chapter 140. An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to provide for the revision of the laws, approved February 4th, 1841.
Chapter 141. An act to amend an act entitled an act declaring Patoka a public highway and for other purposes.
Chapter 142. An act to amend an act entitled an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved February 12, 1841.
Chapter 143. An act to amend the act entitled an act supplemental to 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, approved February 10, 1831, approved February 16, 1839.
Chapter 144. An act to amend an act entitled an act more effectually to secure the purity of elections, approved Feb. 15, 1841.
Chapter 145. An act to amend an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved February 12th, 1841.
Chapter 146. An act to amend an act entitled an act declaring Patoka a public highway and for other purposes, approved January 27th, 1841.
Chapter 147. An act for the attachment of a part of Stark county to the county of Laporte.
Chapter 148. An act authorizing the issue of five dollar treasury notes, for the redemption of the fifty dollar treasury notes now in circulation.
Chapter 149. An act to amend certain acts therein named.
Chapter 150. An act to repeal a portion of a joint resolution on the subject of the Michigan road lands, approved February 15, 1841.
Chapter 151. An act to extend the provisions of an act for the preservation of sheep, approved January 25th, 1841, to the county of Delaware.
Chapter 152. An act relative to licensing groceries in the counties of Carroll and Cass.
Chapter 153. An act to confine the voters of Hamilton, Steuben, De Kalb, Union, Franklin, St. Joseph, and Cass to their respective townships, and for other purposes.
Chapter 154. An act to exempt the lands of revolutionary soldiers from taxation.
Chapter 155. An act to amend an act allowing and regulating the writ of ad quod damnum, approved December 20, 1823.
Chapter 156. An act for the better security of the college and seminary funds arising from the lands in Gibson and Monroe counties.
Chapter 157. An act to change the mode of doing county business in Daviess county.
Chapter 158. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Owen, Lawrence and Greene, approved February 1, 1834.
Chapter 159. 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, 1838.
Chapter 160. An act appointing commissioners to locate and re-locate State roads therein named.
Chapter 161. An act further to amend an act entitled an act relating to public roads and highways, approved February 17th, 1838.
Chapter 162. An act to fix the fees of sheriffs in certain cases.
Chapter 163. An act changing the mode of doing county business in the county of Clay.
Chapter 164. An act to amend an act relating to public roads and highways, approved February 17, 1838.
Chapter 165. An act to provide for opening and repairing public roads and highways in the counties of Gibson and Pike.
Chapter 166. An act to authorize the distribution of the road laws.
Chapter 167. An act to amend an act concerning insane persons, approved January 22, 1818.
Chapter 168. An act amendatory of the several acts regulating foreign and domestic attachment.
Chapter 169. A joint resolution on the subject of lands mortgaged to the sinking fund.
Chapter 170. A joint resolution appointing an agent to examine the state and condition of the State Bank and each and every branch thereof.
Chapter 171. A joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of Indiana in relation to Indiana University.
Chapter 171 [sic]. An act further to amend an act entitled an act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries, approved January 24th, 1831.