Category Archives: Indiana Laws

1817 Laws of Indiana

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

List of Indiana laws from:
Vincennes Western Sun – 18 Jan 1817 – Page 1

A list of Acts and Resolutions, passed at the first session of the first General Assembly of the State of Indiana.

An act prescribing the manner of conducting the special election in Orange county.

Authorizing a loan for the benefit of the state.

Concerning the secretary of state.

Providing for a public seal and press.

Concerning the auditor of public accounts and the treasurer of state.

Establishing a board of county commissioners.

For the incorporation of public libraries.

To regulate the inspection of tobacco.

Providing for the commissioning of Coroners and Sheriffs.

Providing for the public printing and other purposes.

To remove the seat of justice from the town of Salisbury, in the county of Wayne, to the town of Centerville, in said county.

Organizing Circuit courts, and for other purposes.

For the formation of a new county out of the counties of Knox, Gibson & Perry.

Organizing the Supreme court, and regulating the practice therein.

Incorporating the Walnut Ridge Library company.

Providing for the election of county and township officers.

Dissolving the marriage of Mary Catt, with her husband John Catt.

To vacate the town of Edenburg.

Legalizing the proceedings of the circuit court of Gibson, at their term of October last.

To regulate the practice of Physic and Surgery.

For the formation of a new county out of the county of Knox.

To provide for the appointment of a collector of county and territorial taxes, for the county of Perry.

To amend the act entitled an act to encourage the killing of wolves.

Authorizing replevin bonds in certain cases.

Authorizing R. M. Heth, & Jonathan Wright, guardians of the infant heirs of Richard M’Mahan, decd. to lay out certain monies belonging to said heirs, in the purchase of lands.

To prevent waste on lands reserved for the use of schools.

To amend the act, entitled an act for the regulation of the town of Vevay.

For the relief of Adam Conrad, adm. of George Conrad, decd.

To amend the several acts respecting Ferries.

Fixing the salaries of certain officers, and for other purposes.

For the formation of a new county out of the counties of Jackson & Jefferson.

Supplementary to the act, regulating grist-mills and millers.

For the prevention of gaming.

To prevent man-stealing.

For the formation of a new county out of the county of Knox.

Authorizing Rebecca Heth & Fielding M. Bradford, admrs of Harvey Heth, decd. to sell and convey certain lots.

Attaching part of the county of Gibson, to the county of Posey, and for other purposes.

Providing for the incorporating of towns in the state of Indiana.

To prevent forgery & counterfeiting.

To establish a county treasurer.

Providing for the collection of certain debts due the state.

To provide for running the line between the counties of Jefferson & Clark.

Regulating proceedings in suits at law and in chancery.

To dissolve the marriage contract entered between Maria H. Wardell and Thomas Wardell.

For the relief of James Vawter, late sheriff of Jefferson county.

Respecting the appropriation of certain fines.

To amend the act now in force for the partition of land.

Authorizing the printing and distribution of the acts and journals of the present session of the General Assembly.

Authorizing Wm. Hurst guardian of the minor heirs of John Morgan, dec. to purchase lands for said minors.

To regulate descents.

Incorporating a county library for the county of Pike, and for other purposes.

To regulate elections.

Making certain specific appropriations.

To add the lots lately laid out by gen. Harrison to the borough of Vincennes.

Supplementary to the act entitled an act organizing & regulating the militia.

To prevent certain immoral practices.

To provide for the election of senators and representatives from this state to the Congress of the United States.

To dissolve the bands of matrimony between D. Woodfeil & Anna his wife.

More effectually to prevent dueling.

Supplementary to the act, entitled an act respecting crimes and punishments.

Providing for the payment of certain claims.

Providing for the printing 600 copies of the militia law.

To change the plan of the town of Jeffersonville.

Giving certain powers to the Supreme and Circuit courts.

To authorize the county commissioners to appoint certain officers.

Providing for the assessing and collecting the revenue.

Incorporating the Ohio Canal Company.

Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace.

Respecting the opening and keeping in repair public roads and highways.

A joint resolution to remove the Circuit court of Harrison county, from the court house to the seminary in Corydon.

A joint resolution fixing the time, place and manner of conducting and holding the election of senators of this state to the senate of the United States.

A joint resolution respecting the immediate printing of certain acts passed at the present session of the general assembly.

A joint resolution respecting the public printing.

A joint resolution respecting the collecting from the citizens of Harrison county $1000.

1852 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1853. Google Books

 

Page 115
Chapter 96.
An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act for the relief of certain persons therein named,” approved February 16, 1848, which act reads in the words and figures following: “An act for the relief of certain persons therein named,” approved February 16, 1858.
(Approved March 2, 1853.)

  • It has been represented to this General Assembly, that John Wilkie of Edinburgh, in Scotland, between the years 1821 and 1825, was the purchaser of two-thirds of the east half of section thirty-four, in township five, of range twelve, and the south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-two, in township five, of range twelve, of lands sold at Jeffersonville, all situate in Switzerland county, and State of Indiana; that said John Wilkie caused valuable improvements to be made thereon, and greatly enhanced the value of said lands; that said John Wilkie, in January, 1846, by duly authenticated power of attorney at Edinburgh, in Scotland, constituted William Wilkie, of Boone county, Kentucky, and Alexander Allen, of Switzerland county, Indiana, his attorneys in fact, jointly or separately, to sell and convey said tract of land, or any part thereof, to give bonds, execute and deliver deeds, receive mortgages, &c. Whereas, the said William Wilkie, as such attorney in fact, has sold portions of said land to the following persons, to-wit: James Furgerson, John Ashurty, William M. Weaver, John A. Weaver, and James A. Weaver, who are citizens of the United States, and residents of Switzerland County, Indiana, and executed and delivered deeds and bonds to said purchasers, and received part payment of the purchasers, and received mortgages to secure the payment of the residue, the said William Wilkie and the said purchasers being under the erroneous impression that he had a right to sell and convey.
  • That all the acts and doings of the said William Wilkie as such attorney in fact…are hereby declared to be as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if the said John Wilkie had been a citizen of the United States at the time of the executing of said power of attorney.

1851 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Local Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1851. Google Books

 

Page 49
Chapter LV
An act to consolidate and publish in one act the several acts incorporating the city of Lawrenceburgh, and to revise and amend the same.
(Approved February 14, 1851.)

  • That so much of Dearborn county as is contained within the following boundaries to-wit: Beginning on the Ohio River at low water mark, at a point where a straight line would terminate, drawn from the eastern side of the tumble of the White Water Valley Canal thence following the eastern bank of the waste-way of said canal to its junction with the main canal, thence along the eastern bank of said canal to the centre of the Trough Pond, (as it is called) thence in a straight line to the west bank of Tanner’s creek, where the northern line of the old grave yard would terminate, thence following the meanderings of said creek to a point on the line between the lands formerly owned by A. P. Hubbs and David Nevitt, thence on a direct line to the Ohio River at low water mark to the eastern line of Norval Sparks’ lands, thence following the meanderings of the Ohio River at low water mark to the place of beginning, shall be and hereby is declared to be a city, and the inhabitants thereof arc created a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession by the name and style of “the City of Lawrcnceburgh.”

 

Page 303
Chapter CLXVI
An act to incorporate the Rising Sun Hotel Company.
(Approved February 13, 1851.)

  • That Shadrach Hathawav, Washington H. Hall, Hazlet E. Dodd, Maxfield Huston, Abel C. fepper, James M. Reister, Joshua Haines, Archibald Moore, Thos. W. Pate, Bradley B. Loring, Almond Scranton, Henry Brown, Samuel Seward, Pinkney James, John H. Jones, Thomas Summons, Robert G. Youge, Alexander Jamison, and Hugh T. Williams, and their associates and successors be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Rising Sun Hotel Company.

 

Page 305
Chapter CLXVII
An act for the relief of the heirs of Elizabeth Blatner, late of Dearborn county, Indiana, but now deceased.
(Approved February 11, 1851.)

  • Whereas, one Elizabeth Blatner, of the county of Dearborn, State of Indiana, departed this life on or about the 7th day of August, 1850, intestate, the owner of real estate situate in said county, and…was not a naturalized citizen of the United States at the time of her death,
  • That all deeds or conveyances of land within the State of Indiana made to the said Elizabeth Blatner before her death, shall be deemed and taken to be as good and effectual in law and equity to vest in her the title of the land thus attempted to be conveyed, as if said Elizabeth Blatner had at the time of the said deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances were made been a naturalized citizen of the United States.

 

Page 400
Chapter CCXII
An act to incorporate the Patriot and Allensville Turnpike Company.
(Approved February 13, 1851.)

  • That Eliphalet Case, Jacob R. Harris, A. R. Wells, and Stephen Humphrey, of the county of Switzerland, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby constituted, a body corporate and politic, under the name of “the Patriot and Allensville Turnpike Company.”

 

Page 418
Chapter CCXXXIII
An act to incorporate the Aurora Hotel Company.
(Approved February 13, 1851.)

  • That Thomas Graff, Peter B. Vail, Oliver P. Cobb and Samuel I. Hoald, be appointed commissioners under this act.

 

Page 464
Chapter CCLXXIV
An act for the relief of Andrew Morgan, of Dearborn county.
(Approved February 12, 1851.)

  • Whereas, Andrew Morgan, of Dearborn county, obtained a judgment against the State of Indiana, on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1841, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars; therefore,
  • That the auditor of state be instructed to audit, and the treasurer of state to pay out of the moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the said judgment and interest.

 

Page 478
Chapter CCLXXXIII
An act to authorize the building of a Bridge across Laughery creek by Andrew Morgan.
(Approved February 13, 1851.)

  • That Andrew Morgan, his agent, heirs or assigns, be and they are hereby authorized to erect and build, at his or their own expense, a toll bridge across Laughery creek at or near the place where the Lawrenceburgh and Rising Sun State road crosses said creek.
  • That unless the said Andrew Morgan shall, within three months from the 1st day of March, 1851, begin the construction of said bridge, and proceed with the same with all reasonable dispatch, so as to have the said bridge completed in a good, safe, durable, convenient and substantial manner, by the 1st day [of] March, 1852, then and in that case all rights conferred upon the said Andrew Morgan by this act, shall cease and be forfeited ; in that case William S. Speakman, Thomas W. Pate, Levi E. Harris, George W. Law, John S. French, Jona. Chambers, and Benjamin Sylvester and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name of the “Laughery Bridge Company,”

1850 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Local Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fourth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : John D. Defrees, 1850. Google Books

Page 174
Chapter CXXVII
An act for the relief of William Nothern.
(Approved January 14, 1850.)

  • It is represented to the General Assembly that a fine of forty-eight dollars was assessed against William Nothern by the Dearborn Circuit Court, and afterwards remitted by Gov. Dunning of the State of Indiana.

 

Page 185
Chapter CXXXVIII
An act to incorporate the Evangelical Lutheran St. John’s Church in Dearborn county.
(Approved January 16, 1850.)

  • That Frederick Brinkerman, William Schuttee, Henry Borman, and their successors I office, are hereby constituted a body politic or corporate, and shall be known by the name and style of the “Trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John’s Church.”

 

Page 354
Chapter CCXXXII
An act to incorporate the Rising Sun and Versailles Turnpike Company.
(Approved January 17, 1850.)

  • That Shadrach Hathaway, Ethan A. Brown, Hazelett E. Dodd, Henry Brown, Abel C. Pepper, James Stirrat, Alexander C. Downey, John B. Craft, Andrew Douglass, James T. Smith, William C. Kittle, and Moses Turner, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name of the “Rising Sun and Versailles Turnpike Company.”

 

Page 372
Chapter CCXXXVIII
An act to improve Laughery Creek in the State of Indiana.
(Approved January 19, 1850.)

  • That Nathaniel L. Squib and Benjamin Hale of Ohio county, together with James McGuire of the county of Dearborn, be and they are hereby constituted commissioners to make such improvements on Laughery creek as they may deem necessary and proper.

 

Page 398
Chapter CCLXV
An act to incorporate the Trustees of St. Paul’s Church and of St. Joseph’s School Society of New Alsace in Dearborn County.
(Approved January 15, 1850.)

  • That Jacob Hettinger, Michael Philips, John M. Sturm, Landelin Herman, and Florrence Reil, and their successors in office forever, are constituted a body politic and corporate, byt the name of “The Trustees of St. Paul’s Church of New Alsace.”
  • That Martin Stahl, John Heinberger, Charles Jacger, Joseph Ege, Anthony Walliser, Jacob Hittinger, and Casper Maus and their successors in office forever, are constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of “The Trustees of St. Joseph School Society of New Alsace.”

 

Page 400
Chapter CCLXVI
An act to authorize a Company to construct the King’s Ridge and Moore’s Hill Turnpike
(Approved January 14, 1850.)

  • That John C. Moore, Ranna C. Stephens, William S. Eversale, William Olcott, Thomas Reccord, William Wheeler, and George W. Lane, of the county of Dearborn, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby constituted, a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of “The King’s Ridge and Moore’s Hill Turnpike Company.”

 

Page 433
Chapter CCXCVIII
An act for the relief of Mary Huffman.
(Approved January 19, 1850.)

  • That it may be lawful for Mary Huffman, of Dearborn county, to file her bill in the Dearborn circuit court against her husband, John Huffman, for divorce.

 

Page 470
Chapter CCCXXII
An act to incorporate the Vevay, Mount Sterling, and Versailles Turnpike Road Company.(Approved January 4, 1850.)

  • That David Lee, John S. Olmstead, John S. Roberts, Jonathan M. Froman, Perret Dufour, John Clark, Ulysses P. Schenck, Isaac Nash, George Hotchkiss, Lewis A. Clark, and Frederick L. Grisar, of Switzerland county, and Thomas Smith, Thomas Curry, A. W. Gordon, and Luther Shook, of Ripley county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books at suitable places for subscription to the capital stock of a company, for the construction of a turnpike road from Vevay, by the way of Mount Sterling, in Switzerland county, to Versailles, in Ripley county.

1847 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Local Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-First Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis: J. P. Chapman, 1847. Google Books

Page 54
Chapter XVII
An Act to secure to Ohio county a share of the common school and surplus revenue funds, and for other purposes.
(Approved January 6, 1847.)

  • That George W. Lane, of Dearborn county, be and he is hereby appointed to make a fair and equitable distribution of the common school fund and the surplus revenue fund, heretofore managed and controlled by the county of Dearborn, between the said county of Dearborn and Ohio.

 

Page 92
Chapter XXXVIII
An act for the relief of persons therein named.
(Approved January 26, 1847.)

  • That the agent for loaning the surplus revenue in the county of Switzerland be and he is hereby authorized to take and receive of and from Stephen G. Peabody, and the administrator of the estate of James Dalmazzo, late of the said county, deceased, or from the heirs of said James Dalmazzo (the said Stephen G. Peabody and Dalmazzo being the securities of Causby M. Lewis) the sum of four hundred dollars in full satisfaction of a certain judgment rendered against them in favor of the State of Indiana at the April term, 1839, of the Switzerland circuit court (costs exempted).

 

Page 280
Chapter CC.
An Act to establish a State road in the county of Dearborn.
(Approved January 18, 1847.)

  • That John Maston, George Cornelius, and Samuel P. Johnson, of the county of Dearborn be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioner to view, mark, and locate a State road, commencing at the town of Aurora, in said county, and running on or near the route formerly surveyed by the Aurora and Napoleon Turnpike Company, until it strikes the line dividing Dearborn and Ripley counties.

 

Page 362
Chapter CCXCVI
An Act to incorporate a Public Seminary in the town of Aurora, in the county of Dearborn
(Approved January 23, 1847.)

  • That George W. Lane, Lewis C. Hurlbert, Thomas Gaff, William T. Harris, and William S. Holman, and their successors be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, as the successors of the trustees aforesaid, by the name of “The Trustees of the Aurora Seminary.”

 

Page 390
Chapter CCCXXXV
An Act to provide for the opening of a State Road in the counties of Dearborn and Ripley.(Approved January 26, 1847.)

  • That David A. Brooks of Dearborn county, and Joshua Brown of Ripley county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open the State road laid out in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled “An act to locate a State road in Dearborn and Ripley counties,” approved December 31st, 1846.

1846 Laws relating to Indiana’s Gore

Part of the Historic Indiana Law Project.

Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Local Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirtieth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1846. Google Books

Page 12
Chapter VII
An Act declaring a certain Road in the county of Dearborn a State Road.
(Approved January 12, 1846.)

  • That so much of the route formerly surveyed and marked by the Napoleon and Aurora Turnpike company, as lays in the county of Dearborn, be and the same is hereby declared to be a State road.
  • It shall be the duty of Nathaniel Squibb, the surveyor for said company, on or before the first Monday of March next, to file in the auditor’s office of Dearborn county, a plot of so much of said road as lays (lies) in the county of Dearborn.

 

Page 38
Chapter XLI
An act to locate a State road in Dearborn and Ripley counties.
(Approved December 31, 1845.)

  • That D. A. Brooks of the county of Dearborn and John M. Stockwell and James Earley of the county of Ripley, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a State road, commencing at the town of Moore’s Hill in Dearborn county, and running thence on the nearest and best ground until it intersects the State Road leading from Milan to Napoleon in Ripley county, at or near where said road passes the Redlin school house in said Ripley county.

 

Page 52
Chapter LXVII
An Act to correct a misprint in an act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Administrators of John Coce, late of Dearborn county, deceased.
(Approved December 31, 1845.)

  • That the name “John Coce,” wherever it occurs in the above named act, be and the same hereby is declared to be a misprint, and to mean and have been intended for John P. Case, to whose administrators all the provisions of said act are hereby extended and applied.

 

Page 60
Chapter LXXVIII
An Act to incorporate the Rising Sun Manufacturing Company.
(Approved January 15, 1846.)

  • That James Stirrat, Shadrach Hathaway, Thomas Kempton, Archibald Moore and William P. Lambdin, together with such other persons as may associate for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and wollen goods, to be established at Rising Sun in Ohio county, be, and the same are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate to all intents and purposes, to be known and designated by the name of the “Rising Sun Manufacturing Company.”

 

Page 108
Chapter CXXVIII
An Act for the relief of Nancy Pickett, of Switzerland county.
(Approved January 19, 1846.)

  • That Nancy Pickett, of the county of Switzerland, be and she is hereby authorized to file a bill in the Switzerland circuit court for a divorce from her husband, William Pickett; and that said court shall pass upon the same.

 

Page 109
Chapter CXXIX
An Act granting the citizens of Lawrenceburgh a City Charter, and for revising and repealing all laws and parts of laws heretofore enacted on that subject.
(Approved January 20, 1846.

  • That so much of Dearborn county as is contained within the following boundaries, to-wit, beginning on the Ohio river at low water mark, at a point where a straight line would terminate, drawn from the eastern side of the tumble of the White Water Valley Canal; thence following the eastern bank of the waste-way of said canal, to its junction with the main canal; thence along the eastern bank of said canal to the centre of the Trough Pond; (as it is called;) thence in a straight line to the west bank of Tanner’s creek, where the northern line of the grave yard would terminate; thence following the meanderings of said creek to a point on the line between the lands formerly owned by A. P. Hubbs and David Nevitt; thence on a direct line to the Ohio river at low water mark to the eastern line of Norval Sparks’s lands; thence, following the meanderings of the Ohio river at low water mark, to the place of beginning; shall be, and hereby is declared to be a city; and the inhabitants thereof are created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name and style of “the City of Lawrenceburgh.”

 

Page 281
Chapter CCLXXII
An Act to locate a State road in the counties of Ohio and Switzerland.
(Approved January 15, 1846.)

  • That Edward Ricketts of the county of Ohio, and Daniel Kelso and Hiram Robinson of the county of Switzerland, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and lay out a State road from Rising Sun, in Ohio county, to Garrison’s Mills, in Switzerland county.

1845 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 Twenty-Ninth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1845. Google Books

Page 126
Chapter XCII
An Act for the relief of Joseph Proctor and others.
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

  • Whereas, It is made known to the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that William Shepherd and Mary his wife, formerly of Dearborn county, in said State, sold and conveyed certain lands in said county, to divers persons for valuable considerations; and among others sold and conveyed to Joseph Proctor, the south east quarter of section ten, and the north east quarter of section fifteen, both in town six, range two west, in said county; and that the said William Shepherd, at the time of making the said conveyance was an alien, and that he has since died; whereby the said lands are escheated and forfeited to the State of Indiana.
  • That any and all deeds or conveyances made by the said William Shepherd and Mary his wife, of any lands in the said county of Dearborn be confirmed.

 

Page 135
Chapter CVI
An Act to change the name of Susannah Poe to Susannah Cundale.
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

  • That the name of Susannah Poe, of the county of Dearborn, in this State, and daughter of Jane Cundale of the same place, wife of John Cundale, be and the same is hereby changed to Susannah Cundale, by which name she shall hereafter be known and called.

 

Page 171
Chapter CL.
An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Lawrenceburgh Cemetery.
(Approved January 8, 1845.)

  • That from the time this act shall take effect, Stephen Ludlow, Isaac Dunn, George P. Buell, William Tate, William McCullough, William Craft, George Tousey, and William Brown, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of the Lawrenceburgh Cemetery.

 

Page 192
Chapter CLXXXVII
An Act for the relief of the Administrators of John Coce, late of Dearborn county, deceased
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

  • That the Agent of State be authorized to pay to John P. Coce and Abraham Hyter, administrators of the estate of John Coce, late of Dearborn county, deceased, out of the suspended debt, the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars, as a full compensation for ten thousand cubic feet of oak and other timber taken off the lands of John Coce, and applied to the construction of the White Water Canal, by order of the resident engineer, for which he has never received compensation.

 

Page 192
Chapter CLXXXVIII
An Act for the relief of Joana Mahoney.
(Approved January 13, 1845.)

  • That whenever satisfactory proof shall be produced to the Dearborn probate court, that James Mahoney, late of the county of Dearborn, deceased, hath left him surviving no heirs within the United States, and that all demands presented against his estate have been paid, the said court shall be authorized to order and direct the administrator of said estate, to pay over to said Joana Mahoney, the residue of the personal estate of said decedent in his hands, not exceeding in amount one hundred dollars.

 

Page 232
Chapter CCXXXIX
An Act to locate a State Road in the county of Switzerland.
(Approved December 27, 1844.)

  • That Stephen Humphrey, William Howe, and William McNutt, of the county of Switzerland , be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road from Henry McMakin’s, in Egypt bottom, on the Ohio river; thence a north-westerly direction until it intersects the State road leading from the town of Patriot to Querace’s Grove, at or near Supply Walker’s.

 

Page 263
Chapter CCLXXXII
An Act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh Seminary of Learning in the County of Dearborn
(Approved January 8, 1845.)

  • That C. G. W. Comyges, J. H. Brower, Owen Tousey, George Tousey, Wm. E. Craft, Wm. Tate, Wm. Brown, J. H. Lane, John Calihan, Josiah Beldem, A. B. Adams, Wm. McCullough, Abraham Roland, Geo. H. Dunn, E. Morgan, Stephen Ludlow, B. S. Ferris, B. Stockman, B. Mahew and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of “The Lawenceburgh Seminary of Learning.”

 

Page 266
Chapter CCLXXXVII
An Act for the relief of Priscilla Lazenby, and others.
(Approved January 10, 1845.)

  • That the judgment, order, decree, and proceedings of the Dearborn circuit court of the term of March, 1833, in the case of Robert Huddleston vs. the residue of the heirs of Thomas Huddleston, deceased, on petition for partition; and the judgment, order, decree and proceedings of the probate court of the said county of Dearborn, of the term of November, 1837, relative to the partition of the real estate which was of one William Huddleston, deceased, be, and the same are hereby declared to be valid and good, and sufficient in law to vest in the several persons therein mentioned, and the person or persons holding or claiming by, through, or under them, the several tracts of land therein set apart to them respectively.
  • That the State of Indiana doth hereby grant, release, and forever quit claim unto the several persons respectively, now claiming or holding said lands, by, through, or under the persons to whom the same were, by the proceedings aforesaid set apart, all her right and title to the several tracts or parcels of land in said proceedings mentioned, acquired by escheat thereof, for alienage.

1844 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 Twenty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Dowling and Cole, 1844. Google Books

 

Page 56
Chapter XXIX.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Vevay and Napolean and other Turnpike Companies,” approved Feb. 8, 1836.

  • That the thirteenth section of said act, be so amended as to allow Joel DeCoursey, William Lanius, and Abijah North, of the county of Ohio, and John Hunter, 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.”

 

Page 87
Chapter LXXI.
An Act to vacate a part of the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to the mouth of the Great Miami river.

  • That so much of the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to the mouth of the Great Miami river as lies between the recorded town plan and the lands of William Tate, be and the same are hereby vacated.

 

Page 101
Chapter XCIV.
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Melchoir Sooder and James Hayes, late of the county of Dearborn, deceased.

  • That all the estate and interest of the State of Indiana, in and to any lands situate in the county of Dearborn, of which Melchoir Sooder, late of said county, died seized, acquired by escheat of the same, is hereby released to, and vested in, such person or persons as would take the same by devise, descent, or in right of dower, if the said deceased, and the person or persons hereby authorized to take, had been native born citizens of the United States.
  • That the sale of lands of which James Hayes, late of the county of Dearborn and State of Indiana, died seized, situate in said county, made since the death of said Hayes, by his administrators, by order of the Dearborn probate court, be and the same is hereby declared to be as valid, and to vest in the purchaser or purchasers, the same title as if the said James Hayes had been a citizen of the United States, and had died without known heirs in the same; and that all right that the said State of Indiana may have acquired in said land by escheat, be and the same is hereby released to, and vested in such purchaser or purchasers respectively.
  • That all moneys which have been realized or which may be realized from the sale of said lands, or from goods and chattels of which said James Hayes died seized or possessed, be and the same is hereby released to, and vested in, such person or persons as would have taken the said land and the said goods and chattels, by devise, descent, or in right of dower, if the said James Hayes, and the persons hereby authorized to take, had been native born citizens of the United States; and that they shall have the same remedy for recovering the same, as if they and the said James had been native born citizens of the United States.

1843 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 Twenty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Dowling & Cole, 1843. Google Books

Page 15
Chapter VII.
An Act to incorporate the Vevay Band of Musicians.

  • That William Patton, John K. Brooks, Isaac Stevens, Selden Golay, William W. Morrow, Franklin Dufour, John Lewis Thieband, Victor Kessler, Thomas Armstrong Jr., and Henry H. Humber, of the county of Switzerland, State of Indiana, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, and shall be known by the name and style of the “Vevay Band.”

 

Page 26
Chapter XI.
An act to incorporate the Dearborn County Cotton Manufacturing Company and for other purposes.

  • That Pinkney James, C. G. W. Comegeys, David Macy, Omer Tousey and Daniel S. Major, together with such other persons as may associate for the purpose of prosecuting a general business, but the more especially the manufacturing and spinning of cotton, to be established and located at or near the town of Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn county, be, and the same are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, to all intents and purposes, to be known and designated by the name of the “Lawrenceburgh Trading and Manufacturing Company.”

 

Page 66.
Chapter XLIII.
An Act concerning State Roads.

  • That Peter Harper, William Lee and Benjamin Pecket of the county of Switzerland are appointed commissioners to mark, locate and establish a State road, beginning where the Ross township road intersects the road leading from Madison to Lawrenceburgh, thence a northwesterly course by way of Willey’s chapel to the State road leading from New York in said county of Switzerland to Versailles in Ripley county, at or near the farm of Lemuel Wiley.

 

Page 111
Chapter CV
An Act for the relief of William McCulloch, deputy collector of the state and county revenue of Cotton township, Switzerland county, State of Indiana, for the year 1841.

  • That the treasurer of Switzerland county, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to William McCulloch, deputy collector of Cotton township, Switzerland county, for the year 1841, or to his legal representative, the sum of twenty dollars out of the revenue of the State in his hands, and that he take a receipt therefor from the said William McCulloch, or his legal representative, which shall be a sufficient voucher for said treasurer in making settlement with the Auditor of Public Accounts, and for which said Auditor is required to allow a credit to the said treasurer.

 

Chapter 118
Chapter CXX.
An Act for the relief of certain persons therein named.

  • That the agent for loaning the surplus revenue in the county of Switzerland, be, and he is hereby authorized to take and receive of and from, Stephen G. Peabody and James Dalmazzo, (the securities of Causby M. Lewis) the sum of four hundred dollars in full satisfaction of a certain judgment rendered against them, in favor of the State of Indiana, at the April term, 1839, of the Switzerland circuit court.

 

Page 137
Chapter CXXXVIII.
An Act declaring certain names a misprint, and for other purposes.

  • That the names of Ladig Rons and Benjamin Detruz, in the first section of an act entitled, “an act relating to the trustees of Vevay Seminary,” approved January 18th, 1842, are hereby declared to be misprints, and that the names of Ladig Rons and Benjamin Detruz were intended to be Zadig Rons and Benjamin Detraz.

 

Page 143
Chapter CLI.
An Act declaring a certain name a misprint, and for other purposes.

  • That the name of Simon Slawson in the first section of an act entitled “an act respecting a county seminary, and the seminary funds of the county of Switzerland,” approved, January 19th, 1828, is hereby declared a misprint, and that the name of Simon Slawson was intended to be Simeon Slawson.

1839 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 Twenty-Third Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Douglass & Noel, 1839.

 

Page 119
Chapter XXVII.
An Act incorporating the Dearborn county Seminary.

  • That Daniel Conaway Jr., Robert Moore, Spencer Davis, Benjamin Vail, Nathaniel L. Squibb, Benjamin Walker, John Tait, William S. Durbin, John B. Clark, Aaron B. Henry, Jacob W. Egelston, Jeremiah H. Brewer, Ebenezer Dumont, William V. Cheek, George W. Lane, William Perry, and Henry Walker, and their successors in office, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for be, and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the “Board of Trustees of the Dearborn county Seminary.”

 

Page 204
Chapter LXXII.
An Act to incorporate the Vevay Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company.

  • Joseph C. Eggleston, Edward Patton, Philip Schinck, Abner Clarkson, Perret Dufour, Francis G. Sheets, William Shaw, John F. Dufour, Elisha Golary, and their associates, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Vevay steam mill and manufacturing company.

 

Page 230
Chapter C.
An Act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes.

  • That Garrett Swallan, Oliver H. Hustus, and John Hansel, of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are appointed commissioners, to view, mark, and locate a state road, commencing at the town of Aurora, in Dearborn county, thence westerly to the town of Dillsborough, in said county.

 

Page 247
Chapter CVI.
An Act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner.

  • That all the right, title, and interest, which the state of Indiana has in, and to the personal or real estate of Patrick Donohue, deceased, who departed this life on or about the 6th day of February, 1838, in Switzerland county, intestate, and without any known heir or heirs, is hereby relinquished to Catharine Falkner, to have and to hold, to her and her heirs forever.

 

Page 249
Chapter CIX.
An Act locating a state road in the county of Dearborn.

  • That Hugh M’Clure, Z. A. Bonham, and S. Hallowell, of Dearborn county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to re-locate a state road as hereinafter provided.
  • To re-locate said road, commencing at the elbow of the old road, north of the town of Harrison, on the land of George Arnold, at the state line; thence north-west, or nearly so, to a large elm tree near the house of George Arnold; thence to Cooper’s run where the old road crosses the same; thence on the same ground on which the old road ran, to an old blacksmith shop on the land belonging to the heirs of J. Case, deceased, on the present road, and said commissioners are authorized to make such other changes or alterations as they may deem necessary, to the line dividing the counties of Franklin and Dearborn.

 

Page 264
Chapter CXXXV.
An Act providing for the distribution of the three per cent fund of Dearborn county.

  • That of the three per cent fund now due to, and unappropriated in Dearborn county, the sum of five hundred and sixty-five dollars is hereby appropriated, as follows, to wit: on a road leading from Aurora up south Hogan creek, by John Columbier’s, Phineas L. King’s and Samuel Ewan’s, to where it intersects the Aurora and Napoleon state road at John Dashiell’s house, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and John Columbier, Esq. and Samuel Ewan, are hereby appointed to expend the same; on the Lawrenceburgh and Madison state road, between Wilmington and Hartford, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and George Nichols, is hereby appointed to expend the same; from the elbow of the road, north of Harrison, where a change, authorized by the present Legislature, takes place, to where said change or new way intersects the old road, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and Elisha Metler and George Arnold are hereby appointed to expend the same; on a road leading from the bridge across Hogan creek, on the road between Wilmington and Aurora and running from thence by W. V. Cheek’s, Milburn’s mills and Daniel Hathaway’s, to north Hogan school house, said road hereafter to be laid out, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and Elisha Chisman and Thomas H. Milburn, are hereby appointed to expend the same; on a road hereafter to be laid out from Dillsborough to Aurora, the sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars is hereby appropriated, and Philip Wymond is hereby appointed to expend the same.

 

Page 270
Chapter CXLV.
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.

  • That James T. Brown, William R. Cole, and Richard H. Holman, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners under the provisions of the act hereby revived and continued in force.

 

Page 284
Chapter CLXXIII.
An Act to legalize the name of Nathan Walden.

  • Whereas, Elizabeth Myers, previous to her intermarriage with James Walden, had a son, who has ever since the said marriage of his mother, assumed to himself the name of Nathan Walden, and by that name has been known and contracted with, and whereas the said Nathan Walden, who is now a resident of the township of Jefferson in the county of Switzerland in this state, is apprehensive that his acts under the name of Nathan Walden may not be valid; therefore,
  • That the son of Elizabeth Myers shall hereafter be known by the name of Nathan Walden.

 

Page 319
Chapter CCXLIII.
An Act to relocate a part of the state road from Lawrenceburgh to Harrison in Dearborn county.

  • That Stephen Ludlow, Ezra Guard and Isaac Dunn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to relocate that part of the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Harrison, commencing on the south-west side of the White-water canal, where said road now crosses the White-water canal near Andrew Morgan’s house to the Ohio state line near the residence of Isaac Hayes.

 

Page 321
Chapter CCXLV.
An Act to locate a state road in the county of Dearborn.

  • That Lemuel G. Elder, Walter Kerr, and William Williams of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and re-locate a state road, commencing at the South Hogan creek bridge, between the towns of Aurora and Wilmington, in Dearborn county; thence up North Hogan creek, passing the farm of William V. Cheek, Amor Bruce, and Millburn’s mill; thence to the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis state road, near the North Hogan school house.

 

Page 326
Chapter CCLVI.
An Act supplemental to an act for the benefit of Catharine Falkner, approved, February 6th, 1839.

  • That so much of the act to which this is supplemental, as vests more than one half of the estate of Patrick Donohue, deceased, named in said act, in the said Catharine Falkner, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
  • One half of the estate aforesaid, shall be, and the same is hereby vested, in the children of the said Catharine, who are now living.
  • The administrator of the estate aforesaid, shall pay over one half of said estate to Catharine Falkner, in the same manner as is prescribed for him to pay over the whole of said estate to the said Catharine, in the act to which this act is supplemental. The receipt of said Catharine Falkner, aforesaid, shall be a full and sufficient voucher for said administrator, on his final settlement of said estate with the probate court of the county of Switzerland, aforesaid.

 

Page 329
Chapter CCLXI.
An Act for the relief of the heirs of William Huddleston, Thomas Huddleston, and Robert Huddleston.

  • That all the estate and interest of the state of Indiana, in any lands, situated in any county in said state, of which the said William, Thomas, and Robert Huddleston, late of Dearborn county, deceased, died seized, acquired by escheat of the same, is hereby released to, and vested in such persons, being inhabitants of the United States, as would take the same, by devise, descent, or in right of dower, if the said deceased persons, and the persons hereby authorized to take, had been native citizens of this state.