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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed and Published at the Eighteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1834. Google Books

Page 115
Chapter LXIV.
An Act to incorporate the Rising Sun Insurance Company.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• The books for the subscription to the capital stock of said company shall be opened in the town of Rising Sun, by and under the direction of E. S. Bush, S. Hathaway, J. B. Craft, J. Haines, J. H. O’Neil, William Lanius, J. Decoursey, P. James, and A. C. Pepper, who are hereby appointed commissioners for that purpose.

Page 147
Chapter LXXI.
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.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

Page 182
Chapter CI.
An Act for the relief of Robert W. Todd.
(Approved December 27, 1833.)

• That the circuit court of the county of Ripley, be, and the same is hereby authorized and required to change the venue in a certain case now pending and undetermined in said court, wherein the state of Indiana is plaintiff, and Robert W. Todd defendant, on an indictment for malicious prosecution, to the county of Switzerland, or such other county as the president judge in vacation, or the court in term time may direct upon application of said Todd, upon said defendant by himself or counsel filing an application for such change.

Page 258
Chapter CXLIV.
An Act to locate a State Road in Dearborn and Ripley counties.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Mark McCracken and Oliver Heustis of the county of Dearborn, and Thomas W. Sunman of the county of Ripley, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road from the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis state road, at or near the fourteen mile stake from Lawrenceburgh, thence in a north direction to intersect the Lawrenceburgh and Rushville state road at or near a school house in the neighborhood of Sunman’s mill in Ripley county.

Page 260
Chapter CXLVII.
An Act to locate a State Road in Dearborn county.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Daniel Plumer, John Dawson, and Milton Gregg of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road commencing at the state line dividing Indiana and Ohio, at the state road leading from Cincinnati through Elizabethtown to the state line as above mentioned, thence running on the nearest and best ground near where John Fairfield now lives, thence up the hill at the easiest point raised, thence through Abiah Hayes’ land, doing the least damage where a good road can be had, near where Hiram Duskey now lives, thence in the best direction to the stone bridge across Salt fork on the state line road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Rushville, until it strikes the road leading to John Roasberry’s mill on Tanner’s creek, thence down either of said roads near the mill, thence up said creek to where the road now crosses said creek, running on the nearest and best ground to Thomas Darling’s, thence running on the nearest and best ground to Washington Wright’s in Manchester township in Dearborn county, intersecting the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Indianapolis.

Page 264
Chapter CLI.
An Act to locate a State Road from Rising Sun in Dearborn county, to intersect the State Road leading from Vevay in Switzerland county to Versailles in Ripley county, at or near Cross Plains in Ripley county.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Samuel Jelley and Nathaniel L. Squibb of the county of Dearborn, and George Richmonds of the county of Switzerland, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road, commencing at the centre of main street in the town of Rising Sun in Dearborn county, and running thence on the main street aforesaid, to where the same intersects the old county road leading from Lahew’s ferry, on the Ohio river, to intersect the road leading from Madison in Jefferson county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county, at or near Jacob Myres’ tavern, thence on or as near said old county road as conveniently can be to Jacob Myres’ tavern aforesaid, thence the nearest and best route (having due regard to private property) to intersect the state road leading from Vevay to Versailles as aforesaid.

Page 266
Chapter CLIII.
An Act to locate a State Road in the county of Switzerland.
(Approved, February 1, 1834.)

• That William B. Campbell, Abbott Goddard, and Martin R. Green of the county of Switzerland, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road, beginning at New York in the county of Switzerland, and running from thence northwardly via John R. Wiley’s in said county, on the nearest and best road (having due regard to private property,) to intersect the state road running from Vevay in Switzerland county, to Rising Sun in Dearborn county, at or near the house of the widow Green’s on said road.

Page 234
Chapter CLXVIII.
An Act to establish a State Road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

• That Joel Decoursey, John J. French, and John Callahan of the county of Dearborn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a state road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburgh in said county.

Page 303
Chapter CLXXXVI.
An Act to authorize the survey of roads in the county of Switzerland.
(Approved February 1, 1834.)

Page 313
Chapter CCIV.
An act to change a part of the State Road leading from New-York in Switzerland county, to intersect the State Road leading from Vevay in said county, to Versailles in Ripley county.
(Approved, January 15, 1834.)

• That Enos Littlefield Esq., of the county of Switzerland, be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner to relocate so much of the state road leading from New York in Switzerland county, to the state road leading from Vevay in said county, to Versailles in Ripley county, as lies between Loglick Creek of the Ohio River. Said commissioner shall, on or before the fifteenth day of June, 1834, attend at the house of Thomas Carter, in the said county of Switzerland, and after taking an oath, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of commissioner as aforesaid, proceed to relocate so much of said state road as above mentioned, by continuing said road down said Loglick creek, on the north-west side thereof, to where the range line dividing ranges one and two west, crosses said creek; thence the nearest and best rout (having due regard to private property,) to the centre of the main street of the town of New-York on the Ohio River in said county.

Page 336
Chapter CCXXVIII.
An Act to incorporate the Switzerland county Seminary.

• That James Rous of Craig township, Stephen C. Stevens, of Jefferson township, William McCorkhill, of York township, Thomas Cole of Cotton township, Aribert Gaslay of Posey township, and Cornelius A. Voorhees of Pleasant township, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted and appointed the trustees of the Switzerland county seminary.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Seventeenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1833. Google Books

Page 17
Chapter XVII.
An Act to provide for a special session of the Switzerland Circuit Court.
(Approved January 19, 1833.)

• That the associate judges of the Switzerland Circuit Court, are hereby authorized to hold a special session, for the trial of all prisoners now confined in the jail of said county.

Page 18
Chapter XVIII.
An Act for the relief of Vincent Dufour, heir of John James Dufour, deceased.
(Approved January 15, 1833.)

• Whereas, John Francis Siebenthal, collector of the revenue for the county of Switzerland for the year 1825, was a defaulter, to the amount of six hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-one cents, in said year 1825; and John James Dufour became his security, and a judgment has lately be rendered against John Francis Dufour, administrator of the estate of the said John James Dufour, in the Switzerland Circuit Court, for the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-two dollars and four cents, on account of John James Dufour having been security as aforesaid, which judgment includes interest, percentage, damage, cost, &c.; and being satisfied that said Siebenthal is insolvent, and that the money might have been made without having recourse on the security, had the auditor of public accounts pressed the collection in due season; and that Seibenthal’s landed estate, worth two thousand dollars, was sold for seven hundred dollars, to satisfy a later defalcation, by reason of which the estate of said John James Dufour became liabe to pay said debt, costs and damages—Therefore
• Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That if the said John Francis Dufour, administrator as aforesaid, or the said Vincent Dufour, heir as aforesaid, or either of their legal representatives, do well and truly pay the said sum of six hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-one cents, with interest at six per cent per annum from the passage of this act, and all costs that have accrued of may accrue on said judgment, such payment shall be a full satisfaction of the judgment aforesaid; and all officers are hereby directed to govern themselves accordingly.

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Chapter XXX.
An Act to declare the post road passing Allensville in Switzerland county a state road.
(Approved January 28, 1833.)

• That the road from Jacksonsville by Allensville in Switzerland county, intersecting the state road from Madison to Lawrenceburgh, near Myers’ tavern in Dearborn county, is hereby declared a state road.

Page 40
Chapter XLI.
An Act to repeal all special acts and parts of special acts allowing the County Commissioners of Dearborn county to lay an additional tax on said county.
(Approved, January 30, 1833.)

Page 42
Chapter XLV.
An Act amendatory of “an act to incorporate the town of Lawrenceburgh.”
(Approved, February 2, 1833.)

Page 51
Chapter LVIII.
An Act to appropriate part of the Three per Cent Fund.
(Approved, January 31, 1833.)

• That the sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of the fund commonly called the three per cent fund, to each of the counties in this state.
• That the sum herein appropriated to the county of Dearborn, shall be applied as follows: Fifty dollars thereof on the bridge over Laughery creek, on the road from Napoleon to Lawrenceburgh, to be expended by Luman Andrews, the present commissioner on said bridge. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars, on a bridge over Arnold’s creek at James’ saw mill, to be expended by Caleb A. Craft. Fifty dollars on the road leading from the state road at Boardman’s, to Harrison, to be expended within the county of Dearborn by Benjamin B. Bonham. One hundred dollars on the Tanners creek Hill, on the state road from Napoleon to Lawrenceburg, to be expended by Davis Woodward; also, twenty five dollars on that part of the same road lying between Micajah Dunn’s and Hogan creek, to be expended by Cyrus Mills. Twenty-five dollars on the hill near Wilmington, on the road leading from Wilmington to Lawrenceburg, to be expended by Robert Moore; and twenty-five dollars on Tanner’s creek Hill, on the road running up York ridge, to be expended by James T. Gedney; and that John P. Dunn, of Lawrenceburg, be, and is hereby appointed a commissioner to draw on the agent of the three per cent fund, for the whole amount due the county of Dearborn, and shall pay over the same as above directed.
• The five hundred dollars allowed for the county of Switzerland by this act, shall be appropriated as follows, to wit: Two hundred and fifty dollars to Edward Patton or his successor in office, to be applied towards building a bridge across Indian creek in said county in pursuance of the 31st section of “an act to appropriate part of the three per cent fund, and for other purposes,” approved February 10th, 1831, with full power to draw the money in the same manner as therein expressed; And two hundred and fifty dollars to Newton H. Tapp, or his successor in office, to be applied to the building of a bridge over Plumb creek in said county heretofore directed to be built by an act approved, January 25, 1830, and the act supplemental hereto, approved, December 20, 1831; but said commissioner or his successor shall draw the said money immediately on giving the security required by that act.

Page 147
Chapter C.
An Act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1833.)

• That William Pursell of Dearborn county, George Sutton, John Quick, Richard Tyner, David Mount, and Joseph Anderson of Franklin county, Joseph Nichols and William J. Brown of Rush county, Willis Atherton of Marion county, and David Tracy of Shelby county, and their successors in office duly elected, as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “The President and Directors of the Harrison and Indianapolis Turnpike Company.”

Page 168
Chapter CXI.
An Act to establish a certain State Road therein named.

• That George Waldroff, Merit Hubble, of county of Dearborn, and John Whitehead, of the county of Ripley, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road, beginning at Harrison in the county of Dearborn, and running thence on the nearest and best ground, via McKinsie’s Cross roads, to intersect the Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg state road at or near Amos Boardman’s, in Ripley county.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Sixteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1832. Google Books

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Chapter XX.
An Act declaring Hogan creek, in Dearborn county, a public highway.
(Approved, January 24, 1832.)

Page 92
Chapter XCVII.
An Act to amend an act entitled, “An act confirming to John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, certain rights,” approved, January 6th, 1831.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

• Whereas, it has been discovered that the act authorizing the trustees of school section in township six, of range number three west, of lands offered for sale at Cincinnati, situate in the county of Dearborn, Indiana, to sell and convey to John J. Akin and others, a certain tract of land therein named, is incorrectly stated, inasmuch as range number one west, is substituted for number three.

Page 104
Chapter CIX.
An Act to amend an act entitled, “An act to continue in force, an act for the benefit of persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire in the Court House at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the 6th of March, 1826,” approved, January 29th, 1831.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

• Sec 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the fees of the recorder of Dearborn county, as a compensation for services enjoined on him by the provisions of said act, shall hereafter be paid out of the county treasury of said county, instead of persons making application for such services, having to pay the same.
• Sec 2. That so much of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Page 173
Chapter CXLIV.
An Act to incorporate the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1832.)

• That David Guard, Thomas Shaw, George H. Dunn and John Test, of the said town of Lawrenceburg; Daniel Plummer, William Purcell and Pinkney James of the county of Dearborn; Robert M. Johnson and Henry A. Reid, of Ripley county; Martin Adkins, Nathan D. Gallion and James Freeman, of Decatur county; John Walker and John Hendricks of Shelby county; and Nicholas McCarty and Benjamin I. Blythe of the town of Indianapolis, and their successors in office, duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “the resident and Directors of the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.”

Page 205.
Chapter CXLVIII.
An Act to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Rail Road Company.
(Approved, February 2, 1832.)

• That John Godley and John D. Moore of Dearborn county, George Sutton, Richard Tyner, David Mount and John P. Case, of Franklin county, Reu Pugh, William B. Laughlin, and William S. Bussell, of Rush county, David Tracy of Shelby county, and Isaac N. Phipps, Harvey Bates and Alfred Harrison, of Marion county, and their successors in office, duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of “the President and Directors of the Harrison and Indianapolis rail road Company.”

Page 282
Chapter CLXLIX.
A Joint Resolution, relative to the Saline Reserve in the county of Dearborn.
(Approved, February 3, 1832.)

• On the fourth day of January, 1830, the Hon. Miles C. Eggleston, the president judge of the third judicial circuit, in which said saline reserve is situate, did by indenture in writing, lease the same to David Guard, for a term of three years from and after the date thereof, who took possession, and placed certain persons as tenants thereon, to-wit: Mary Muir, John Davis and Thoams Branan…. It also appears, that the above named agent and attorney in fact, of those persons, acting, or pretending to act, under the power so conferred on him by them, did also proceed to sell and convey the said land to one Levi Miller, who is also now claiming the same in virtue thereof.

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Special Acts Passed at the Fifteenth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis : Douglass and Maguire, 1831. Google Books

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Chapter XVIII.
An Act to dissolve the Bands of Matrimony between Daniel Bilderback and Abigail his wife.
(Approved, February 1, 1831.)

• That the bands of matrimony heretofore existing between Daniel Bilderback and Abigail his wife, are hereby dissolved, and the bands of matrimony now existing between James Leonard and Abigail his wife, of Dearborn county, are hereby legalized and confirmed to all intents and purposes.

Page 24
Chapter XIX.
An Act to provide for semi-annual Fairs in the counties of Floyd and Switzerland.
(Approved, January 8, 1831.)

• That there shall be two fairs in each year, in the county of Switzerland, for the sale and exchange of the various agricultural products of said county, to be holden at the county seat, on such days and times as the board doing county business for said county may direct.

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Chapter XX.
An Act to Incorporate the Lawrenceburgh Bridge Company.
(Approved, January 24, 1831.)

• Each person who has subscribed to aid in building the bridge over Tanner’s creek, near Lawrenceburgh, shall be entitled to as many shares of stock in said company, as the amount paid to the trustees heretofore appointed to contract with some person or persons to build said bridge, or to Phiney and Spooner or either of them, as undertakers to build said bridge…and Jeremiah Phiney shall be entitled to as many shares as the amount he has expended on said bridge.
• The affairs of said company shall be managed by seven trustees…. And until the first election to be held by said company, the following persons are hereby authorized to act as such viz: Oliver Heustis, Mark McCracken, Jeremiah Phiney, William S. Durbin, Amos Lane, Jabez Percival, and William Tate.

Page 44
Chapter XXIV
An Act concerning the Corporation of the Town of Lawrenceburgh.
(Approved, February 10, 1831.)

Page 101
Chapter LII
An Act confirming to John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, certain Rights.(Approved, January 6, 1831.)

• That the trustees of school section in township number six, of range number one west, of lands offered for sale at Cincinnati, situate in the county of Dearborn, state of Indiana, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, by a good and sufficient deed in fee simple, clear of all incumbrances, unto John J. Akin, Alexander Walker and John J. Livingston, severally, their heirs and assigns forever, fifty acres of land, each, out of the aforesaid school section, it being the same several fifty acres which they are now severally possessed of, under a certain illegal lease, from Robert Faulkner, Abraham Everson and Samuel Lawford, at a price not less than two dollars per acre, payable in four years, with interest from the date of such sale.

Page 108
Chapter LXIV.
An act to continue in force “An act for the benefit of persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire in the court-house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the 6th of March, 1826,” approved, January 11, 1827.
(Approved, January 29, 1831.)

• Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That the recorder of Dearborn county is hereby authorized to carry into effect, all the provisions of the above named act, (as fully as the commissioners therein named are authorized to do until the first day of January, 1835, except that said recorder shall be his own clerk, and may attend to business at any time when called on for that purpose, without being required to give notice, or holding any special session.
• Said recorder shall receive as a compensation for his services hereby required, for taking the necessary proof of each deed, and for recording the same, one dollar, to be paid by the person making application for such services.

Page 154
Chapter CXI.
An act to appropriate part of the Three Per Cent Fund, and for other purposes.
(Approved, February 10, 1831.)

• That the sum of four hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated, out of the fund commonly called the three per cent fund, to each of the counties in this state.
• Sec 28. That the sum of four hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the improvement of state roads, bridges and navigable streams, in the county of Dearborn, in the following manner, to wit: that the sum of two hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated toward finishing the Salt fork bridge, on the state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Rushville, and from Lawrenceburgh to Fort Wayne, where both cross the same; and that Jacob Blasdell of Lawrenceburgh township, be authorized to superintend the completion of the same; and that the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated to repairing the state road leading from Aurora to Napoleon, and that James Powell be appointed to superintend the same; and the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated to repairing the state road leading from Rising Sun to Napoleon, and that John Barricklow be appointed to superintend the same; and that the sum of sixty dollars be appropriated to the opening of the navigation of Laughery creek, between Robert Canaway’s ford and the western line of Dearborn county, and that James Rand be appointed to superintend the same; and that the sum of forty dollars be appropriated to the opening of the road from Madison to Lawrenceburgh, within the county of Dearborn, and that Reed Brandel be appointed to superintend the same; and John Barricklow, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, to draw on the agent of the three per cent fund for the whole amount, and who shall pay over to the several commissioners in the county of Dearborn, who are hereby appointed for this object in said county.
• Sec 31. That four hundred dollars be appropriated to Switzerland county, to the building of a bridge of Indian creek in said county, on or near the road leading from Vevay to Madison; and Edward Patton of Switzerland county, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, with authority to draw the money hereby appropriated to Switzerland county, and to apply it to the object aforesaid.

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Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed and Published at the Fourteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : Smith and Bolton, 1830. Google Books

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Chapter 3. An act authorizing Asylums for the Poor in the counties of Washington and Dearborn.
(Approved, January 29, 1830.)

• That the boards of justices of the counties of Washington and Dearborn, whenever they shall deem it advisable, shall purchase and hold a tract of land, in the name of the county, and erect building thereon for the accommodation of the poor, as to them may appear expedient and proper; and in order that the same may be effected, the board of justices shall have power, from time to time, to assess on property liable to the assessed for raising a county revenue, to an amount sufficient to carry this act into complete effect.

Page 55
Chapter 40. An act giving further powers to the President and Select council, of the town of Lawrenceburgh, in the county of Dearborn, Indiana.
(Approved, January 29, 1830.)

Page 199
Chapter 90. An act relative to the state road from Rushville in Rush county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.
(Approved January 29, 1830.)

• That Elias Poston of the county of Rush, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner on the road leading from Rushville to Lawrenceburgh; and that the agent of the three per cent fund, is hereby directed to pay over to the said commissioner all monies that may heretofore have been appropriated…on said road, between John Hopkins’ in Decatur county and John Simmons’ in Ripley county.

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Chapter 114. An act to Incorporate the Rising Sun Seminary Society.
(Approved, December 30, 1829.)

• That Pinkney James, Matthias Haines, Abel C. Pepper, James Jones, Samuel Jelley, William Lanius, Basil James and their associates, shall be and hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the president and trustees of the Rising Sun seminary society.

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Abstracts of laws relating to Indiana’s Gore from:
Laws of the State of Indiana Passed and Published at the Thirteenth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis: Smith and Bolton, 1829.

Page 84
Chapter LIII.
An act to revive the act, entitled “an act to amend the act entitled, 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 by fire in the court house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the sixth of March 1826;” approved, January 11, 1827.
(Approved, December 18, 1828.)

• Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That the act to amend the act, entitled “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 by fire, in the court house at Lawrenceburgh on the morning of the sixth of March, 1826,” approved January 11, 1827, adopted for one year, be and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the period of two years.
• Sec. 2. That the said commissioner therein named, shall meet on the first Monday in March, May, September, December and February, and continue in session one week if the business shall require it, during the period of two years.
• This act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its publication in the Indiana Palladium, a weekly newspaper printed and published in the town of Lawrenceburgh in said county of Dearborn.

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Chapter LXVI.
An act in addition to an act, entitled, “an act authorizing the laying off certain State Roads, and appropriating one hundred thousand dollars of the three per cent. fund, for opening the same;” and the several acts amendatory thereto.
(Approved, January 23, 1829.)

• Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That from and after the first day of July next, several acts, to which this is an addition, shall cease; and there shall be only one road commissioner, on each of the several roads in this state, in lieu of the board of commissioners now existing.
• That from and after said first day of July…that Simeon Slawson of the county of Switzerland, be appointed commissioner on road number sixteen; … that John Barricklow of Dearborn county, be appointed commissioner on road number twenty-three….

Page 102
Chapter LXVII.
An act to establish a State Road from Rushville in Rush county, to Lawrenceburgh in Dearborn county.
(Approved, January 17, 1829.)

• That William P. Rush of Rush county, James Ardery of Decatur county, and John M’Pike of Dearborn county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and mark a state road, from the town of Rushville in the county of Rush, to the town of Lawrenceburgh, in Dearborn county, commencing at Lawrenceburgh, thence on a way recently marked to Joseph Henderson’s tavern in Decatur county, thence to intersect a county road at William Hill’s in Rush county, thence with said road to Rushville.

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Chapter LXXVI.
An act to establish a state road from Madison in the county of Jefferson, to Lawrenceburgh in the county of Dearborn.
(Approved, January 14, 1829.)

• That Robert B. Mitchell of Jefferson county, David Finley of Ripley county and James Walker of Dearborn county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, and mark a state road from Madison in the county of Jefferson, to Lawrenceburgh in the county of Dearborn, on or as near the route of the present road, as the ground will admit, by the way of Riker’s ridge in the county of Jefferson, and by Demeree’s mills, and by Robert B. Mitchell’s in the same county, to the forks of the roads leading to Versailles and Laughery creek, in the county of Ripley; thence on the road leading to said creek, by the way of the Cross Plains in said county of Ripley, to the farm lately occupied by Erastus Lathrop; thence the nearest and best way to Parkers’ horse mill, in Dearborn county; thence the nearest and best way to Wilmington in said last named county, and thence to Lawrenceburgh aforesaid.

Page 137
Chapter XCI.
An act to amend the act entitled “an act respecting a county Seminary, and the Seminary funds of Switzerland county.”
(Approved, December 18, 1828.)

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Chapter IV.
An act making specific appropriations for the year 1828.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

• Page 8 – That John Spencer, Collector of Dearborn county be allowed fifty-three dollars and thirty-four cents for interest on Treasury notes.

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Chapter XLIII.
An act to improve the navigation of certain rivers in this state.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

• 1. That two hundred and fifty dollars are hereby appropriated for improving the navigation and clearing out obstructions from Laughery creek; and that James Rand of Dearborn county, is hereby appointed a commissioner for so much of Laughery creek as lies below where the line of Ripley county strikes the same; and David Findley of Ripley county, is hereby appointed a commissioner, for so much of Laughery creek, as lies between the last mentioned line, and the town of Versailles, in said county of Ripley, and that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, of said appropriation shall be subject to the draft of, and be applied by the said James Rand; and that one hundred dollars shall be subject to the draft of, and be applied by the said David Findley.
• 10. The commissioners of Laughery creek, one dollar each per day [for their services]; which they are authorized to retain out of the sums herein appropriated.

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Chapter LIX.
An act for the relief of John Spencer, collector of Dearborn county, and for other purposes.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

• 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That if the collectors of the state and county revenue for the counties of Dearborn, Switzerland and Wayne, shall severally pay into the State Treasury, on or before the first Monday in April next, all the state revenue due from the counties aforesaid, for the year 1827, then, and in that case, the Treasury officers be, and they are hereby directed to remit the damages, which, by the revenues laws have accrued thereon.
• 2. That each and every collector of the several counties in this state, who have settled or may settle up the full amount of the state revenue due from their respective counties with the Treasurer of State, on or before the 26th day of January, 1828, shall not be compelled to pay the forfeiture and per centum now imposed by law, for failing to pay their respective amounts, previous to the second Monday in December last.
• This act to take effect from and after its passage.

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Chapter LX.
An act for the benefit of the devises of Thomas Watts deceased.
(Approved, January 11, 1828.)

• WHERAS, it appears to the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, that Thomas Watts, in his life time, and John Watts, purchased by entry of the United States, factional section numbered twenty-nine, in township five, of range numbered three, west of the meridian, lying and being in Dearborn county, and that a division thereof was made, by and between the said Thomas and John Watts, he, the said Thomas, retaining the south end of said fraction; since which, and before the said division was perfected by conveyance, the said Thomas Watts departed this life, leaving said land to sundry devisees, in whose names, with the said John Watts, the said land is patented, constituting them tenants in common: THEREFORE:
• Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That all the right, title and claim, to which the devisees of Thomas Watts deceased, are entitled to the part of fractional section numbered twenty-nine, township five, range three, which lies north of a line drawn from the centre of the section, running east and west, be, and the same is hereby fully and absolutely vested in John Watts, in fee forever, and all the right and title of the said John Watts, to the part of said fractional section, lying south of said central line, be, and the same is hereby fully and absolutely vested in the devisees of the said Thomas Watts, in fee forever.
• Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all that part of said fractional section, so as above secured to the devisees aforesaid, of Thomas Watts, shall be sold at public vendue, for the best price it will bring, by Daniel Kelso, of Dearborn county, who is hereby appointed commissioner for that purpose, and who is required to give six weeks notice of such sale, in the Indiana Palladium, published at Lawrenceburgh. The said commissioner is directed to allow a credit of twelve months, at said sale, on bond with approved security being given, being freehold, for payment of the purchase money to John Watts, administrator of the estate of Thomas Watts, with the will annexed; and on production of the receipt therefor, of the said administrator, the said commissioner is authorized to convey the said tract last named, in fee simple to the purchasers, reserving however the lease of Polly Shepherd, which is to be and remain ensured on said tract, as originally given. The said commissioner shall be allowed one dollar and fifty cents per day, whilst engaged as above authorized; and the circuit court of Dearborn county is authorized to appoint a substitute for said commissioner if necessary.
• This act to take effect from and after its publication.

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Chapter LXII.
An act to amend an act, entitled an act for the benefit of persons who have, or are likely to suffer, by the destruction of the records of Dearborn county, which were consumed by fire, in the court house at Lawrenceburgh, on the morning of the sixth of March, 1826; approved, January 11, 1827.
(Approved, January 7, 1828)

• Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That John Porter of Lawrenceburgh, in the county of Dearborn, be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, with full power to carry all the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, into full effect, in the same manner the commissioners in said act were empowered to do, except as hereinafter mentioned.
• Sec. 2. That the said commissioner, hereby appointed, shall continue in office until the last Monday in January, 1829; and shall attend to the duties herein required, on the fourth Mondays of March, July and October, and continue one week, if the business require it.
• Sec. 3. That in case of the refusal, death or resignation of said commissioner, the circuit court of Dearborn county, shall, and are hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy.
• Sec. 4. That so much of the act above referred to, as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
• This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Indiana Palladium, a weekly newspaper printed and published in the town of Lawrenceburgh, in said county of Dearborn.

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Chapter LXXXII.
An act to establish a college in state of Indiana.
(Approved, January 24, 1828.)

• Page 117 – Sec. 11 – George H. Dunn, of the county of Dearborn [appointed one of trustees].
• Page 118 – Sec 13 – Jesse L. Holman, of the county of Dearborn [appointed to board of visitors].

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Chapter LXXXVI.
An act respecting a county Seminary, and the Seminary funds of the county of Switzerland.
(Approved, January 19, 1828.)

• That Israel R. Whitehead of Jefferson township, James Rouse of Craig township, Simon Slawson of Pleasant township, Aaron Chamberlain of Cotton township, and William R. Wiley of Posey township, in the said county of Switzerland, be, and they are hereby appointed Seminary trustees, for said county, for the special purposes hereinafter provided.