county of Wayne ;
No. 238. An act for the extension of the time of holding the pro-
bate courts in the county of Allen, and for other purposes ;
No. 180. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the fifth judi-
cial circuit ;
No. 76. An act to change the name of Susannah Poe to Susannah
Cundale ;
No. 64. An act to authorize the sale of school sections in town 4,
range 10, in .lefferson county;
An act to locate a State road thereni named ;
No. 323. An act to incorporate the town of Bloomington, in the
county of Monroe ;
No. 318. An act to change a certain State road therein named, in
the county of Elkhart ;
No. 390. A joint resolution on the subject of the Wabash and
Erie canal ;
No. 388. An act for the relief of tax collectors of the county of
Greene ;
No. 158. An act to extend the time of holding the probate courts
of Montgomery county ;
No. 389. An act to establish a State road in the counties of Tip-
pecanoe and Warren ;
An act providing for the location of a vState road in the counties
of Marshall and Kosciusko;
No. 53. An act for the relief of Joseph Proctor and others;
No. 393. An act reviving and amending a certain act, entitled, an
act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by
actual settlers, approved January 2, 1842 ;
No. 39 1. An act to change the name of Faithsville to Parkers-
burgh, in Montgomery county ;
No. 136. An act extending the provisions of an act entitled, "an
act to provide for the appointment of township assessors in certain
counties therein named, and defining their duties, approved January
15, 1844, to the county of Clay ;
No. 61. An act exempting personal property from execution;
No. 335. An act legalizing the proceedings of the board doing
county business in Martin county, and also, of James Dilley, as
treasurer and collector ;
No. 326. An act changing the mode of doing county business in
the county of Putnam ;
No. 122. An act to locate a State road therein named, and for
other purposes ;
No. 3S4. An act to provide for the binding of the laws and
journals ;
No. 141. An act to provide for a uniform mode of doing township
business in Clay county ;
No. 41. An act limiting the fees of sheriff for extra services in the
county of Marshall ;
No. 43. An act declaring Black creek, in the county of Greene, a
navigable stream ;
No. 257. An act changing the mode of doing county business in
the county of Brown ;
No. 107. An act to more properly define the boundaries of Dear-
born county ;
No. 54. An act to authox'ize David C. Shannon to erect a mill
dam across the Mississinewa river;
No. 320. An act for the relief of Alexander Beard.
No. 321. An act for the relief of Alexander McClelland;
No. 117. An act for the relief of William G. Pomeroy;
No. 305. An act for the relief of George French of the county of
Adams ;
No. 197. An act to amend an act entitled, "An act to reduce the
tolls on the New Albany and Vincennes road, and for other purposes,
approved January 13, 1844;"
No. 209. An act regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the
peace in Lake and Porter counties;
No. 276. An act to regulate judicial notices in the county of Da-
viess ;
No. 85. An act to repeal an act entitled "An act to lay out a
State road in the counties of Dearborn and Ripley, approved Febru-
ary 1st, 1834;
No. 189. An act to amend article 4, chapter 45, of the Revised
Statutes of 1843;
No. 345. An act to amend an act to incorporate the College Cor-
ner and Liberty turnpike company, and the Liberty and Abbington
turnpike company, approved January 15, 1844;
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No. 354. All act to authorize William Conner and John L. Ste-
phenson to erect a mill dam across White river in Hamilton comity;
No. 3S6. An act to authorize the county commissioner of White
county to grant license to clock pedlers ;
No. 324. An act vacating part of a State road therein named ;
No. 396. An act to improve the breed of horses in Jay county ;
No. 139. An act changing the election of school trustees in the
counties of De Kalb and Steuben ;
No. 137. An act to restrict the grand jury in Franklin county to
a limited time in their sessions ;
No. 16. An act to amend the several acts now in force relative to
the discharge of the duties of school commissioners in the counties
of Perry, Fulton, and Marshall ;
No. 128. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Warren county canal company, approved January 15, 1S44;
No. 355. An act for the incorporation of the town of Lafayette
in Tippecanoe county ;
No. 308. An act for the benefit of John Yount and Philip Weaver;
All of which originated in the House of Representatives.
Mr. Grubbs made the following report : ■■•. ,■ ■. ";.
Mr. Speaker: • . . . " ■■
The committee on enrolled bills report that they have examined,
by titles, the following enrolled bills of the House :
No. 357. An act defining the duties of petitioners for the forma-
tion of new counties ;
No. 171. An act in relation to justices and other officers in La-
porte county ;
No. 151. An act declaring Deer creek, from its junction with the
Ohio river to Shubal C. Little's mill, a public highway ; also the west
fork of the same stream from its junction with Deer creek to Shubal
C. Little's mill seat on the same, all in Perry county;
No. 178. An act fixing a certain annual compensation to the au-
ditor of Hamilton county ;
No. 185. An act to allow a bounty on wolf scalps ;
No. 379. An act making general appropriations for the year 1845;
No. 40. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the 8th judi-
cial circuit, and for other purposes ;
No. 370. An act to amend an act entitled an act for the relief of
David D. Weddle of Brown county, approved January 13, 1844;
No. 193. An act to authorize a settlement with Cornelius Ferree,
and for other purposes ;
No. 202. An act to legalize the selecting, drawing, &c., of the
grand and petit jurors for the county of Daviess ;
No. 412. An act relative to the school fund of township No. 10,
north of range No. 1 west, in Monroe county ;
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No. 4*24. An act authorizing copies of Stale documents to be
furnished to the New York Historical Society ;
No. 397. An act to do justice to the people of Martin county;
No. 409. An act to incorporate the New Castle and Anderson-
town turnpike company;
No. 279. An act to regulate the mode of doing township business
in the county of Elkhart ;
No. 211. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to provide for
the collection of debts due from the Lawa'cnceburgh and Indianapo-
lis railroad company ;"
No. 194. An act to provide for the locating a State road in the
counties of Randolph and Jay;
No. 204. An act incorporating the Kosciusko and Allen turnpike
company ;
No. 206. An act correcting the boundary line of Richardville
county ;
No. 190. An act to locate a State road therein named;
No. 131. An act repealing section 76, article 4th, chapter I5th, of
the school laws of the Revised Code, in the counties of I)e Kalb and
Steuben.
The following message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Otto,
their secretary :
Mr. Speaker: -.-•.■- ' ''.....■,. '.'■': ■;- " '•: ■•.■;■■.■'." ' " ■
The Senate have passed, with one amendment, an engrossed bill of
the House of Representatives entitled as follows: ■. ; ■ . ., - ,,
No. 307. An act in relation to the public debt ; ■•" . . " .
In which I am directed to ask, respectfully, the concurrence of this
House.
The House disagreed to the amendment of the Senate, in said mes-
sage, to bill No. 307.
Mr. Tingley made the following report: ...-.•
Mr. Speaker: .■ ■ . ■ -^ '■'. ',■ '-, -■'/
The committee of free conference appointed on the part of the
House to act with a similar committee on the part of the Senate on
bill of the Senate No. — , entitled " an act extending the further
privilege of issuing notes of a less denomination than five dollars by
the State Bank of Indiana," have performed that duty, and report
that they could not agree on the difference existing between the two
Houses in reference to said bill, and ask to be discharged from the
' further consideration of that subject. ■ _ ■..''.'. >
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Whereupon the committee was discharged.
A message from the Senate by Mr. Otto, their Secretary :
]Mr. Speaker:
The Senate have discharged the second committee of free confer-
ence, on their part, appointed to act with a similar committee on
the part of this House, to take into consideration the disagreeing
votes of the two Houses relative to an engrossed amendment of the
House of Representatives to an engrossed bill of the Senate, entitled,
No. 121. An act to further extend to the State Bank of Indiana
the privilege of issuing notes of a less denomination than five dollars.
The following message was received from the Senate by Mr. Otto,
their Secretary :
Mr. Speaker: ' [ ;''';''■■■■''■■..'.•'.
I am directed by the Senate to inform this House that they have
concurred in the amendment of the House of Representatives to an
engrossed bill of the Senate entitled as follows :
No. 6. An act for the relief of Pierre, alias, Peter Poncin of Knox
county.
The following message was received from his Excellency, the
Governor, by Mr. Ivinder, his Private Secretary: , ^ . _ ,^ , ^. .
Mr. Speaker: .... . .., ^•., • ... ..■, ,''v ..'■ '• ■■■•.'.,•
I am instructed by his Excellency, the Governor, to inform the
House of Representatives that he has this day approved and signed
the following acts :
No. 150. An act to improve the navigation of Lost river ;
No. 160. An act to authorize the county treasurer of Dekalb
county to apply certain State revenue in his hands;
No. 403. An act providing for the fees of Auditor of Hancock
county;
No. 134. An act authorizing the boards of countj^ commissioners
of the counties therein named to appoint examiners of common
school teachers ;
No. 186. An act requiring an enumeration of the white male in-
habitants of this State.
No. 380. All act to raise a revenue for State purposes ;
No. 301. An act for the relief of the creditors of John Graves
late of Clay county, deceased;
No. 192. An act to locate a State road therein named;
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No. 1S7. An act to authorize pirogues and canoes to navigate the
Wabash and Erie canal;
No. 172. An act authorizing of a county auditor in Clay county;
A^o. 236. An act providing ibr the better collection of the water
rents due the State ;
ISlo. 193. An act to authorize a settlement with Cornelius Ferree,
and for other purposes ;
No. 39. An act authorizing the State treasurer to receive certain
treasury notes, and for other purposes ;
No. 397. An act to do justice to the peo])le of jMartin county;
No. 412. An act relative to the school fund of township No. 10^
north of range No. 1 west, in Monroe county ;
No. 202. An act to legalize the selecting, drawing, &c., of the
grand and petit jurors for the county of Daviess;
, No. 190. An act to locate a State road therein named;
No. 379. An act making general appropriations for the year 1S45;
No. 175. An act fixing a certain annual compensation to the au-
ditor of Hamilton county;
No. 211. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to provide for
the collection of debts due from the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapo-
lis railroad company;
No. 206. An act correcting the boundary line of Richardville
county;
No. 40. An act fixing the time of holding courts in the eighth
judicial circuit, and for other purposes;
No. 357. An act defining the duties of petitioners for the forma-
tion of new counties ;
No. 194. An act providing for the locating a State road in the
covuaties of Randolph and Jay;
No. 185. An act to allow a bounty on Wolf scalps;
No. 171. An act in relation to justices and other officers in La-
porte county;
No. 131. An act repealing section 76, article 4, chapter 16, of the
school laws of the Revised Code, in the counties of Dekalb and
Steuben ;
No. 3.70.. An act to- amend an act entitled, an act for the relief of
David G. Weddle of Brown county, approved January 13, 1844;
No. 151. An act declaring Deer creek from its junction with the
Ohio river to Shubal C. Little's mill a public highway, also, the west
fork of the same stream from its junction with Deer creek to Shubal
C. Little's mill seat on the same, all in Perry county. .. -
All of which originated in the House of Representatives. ; . ■ r
Mr. Grubbs made the following report : ; , •,.■
Mr. Speaker: , • ^ ■ • .
:• ■ ♦ '''.'-' '■' ■■ ■ .::''■■ '
The committee on enrolled bills report that they have compared
the following enrolled bills by their tilles:
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No. 346, An act to incorporate the Lagrange Phalanx ;
No. 353.' An act to amend the fifth article of the twelfth chapter
of the Revised Statutes of 1843;
No. 221. An act in relation to proceedings upon writs of ad quod
damnum ;
No. 356. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to
that paid by actual settlers ;
N^o. 391. An act to correct an error in an act entitled, an act to
authorize the board doing county business in the county of Clay to
transcribe a certain record therein named, and for other purposes,
approved February 9, 1843;
No. 378. An act in relation to the fees of auditor and recorder of
Wabash county;.
No. 72. An act to confine voters to their respective townships ;
No. 92. An act to authorize special sessions of the boards of
county commissioners;
No. 181. An act authorizing the board of directors of the Indiana
Baptist Education Society, and the board of trustees of Franklin
College to sell certain property without license;
No. 401. An act in relation to proceedings in the probate courts;
No. 292. An act establishing a State road in the counties of Put-
nam and Clay ;
No. 375. An act to amend an act entitled, an act changing the
mode of doing county business in the county of Clay, approved Jan-
uary 17, 1842;
No. 286. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Randolph
and Delaware;
No. 414. An act to amend an act entitled, an act to detach cer-
tain territory from the county of Miami and attach the same to the
county of Fulton, approved January 15, 1844;
No. 411. An act for the relief of the county seminary of Tippe-
canoe county;
No. 233. An act to relocate a part of a State road therein named ;
No. 368. An act allowing additional compensation to the auditor
of Monroe county;
No. 365. An act hmiting the fees of auditor in the county of
Marshal] ;
No. 358. An act for the relief of Ebenezer A. Goddard of Adams
county.
Mr. Grubbs made the following report: ■, . ••;;■
Mr. Speaker: ■__ . ;•' ■'■'.■■'•
The committee on enrolled bills report that they have compared
the following enrolled with the engrossed bills of the House, and find
the enrollment correctly made:
No. 192. An act to locate a State road therein mentioned;
No. 308. An act for the relief of John Yount and Philip Weaver;
No. 403. An act providing for the fees of auditor of Hancock
county ;
No. 3S0. An act to raise a revenue for State purposes;
No. 236. An act providing for the better collection of the water f
rents due the State.
Mr. Colms, from the committee on enrolled bills, made the follow-
ing report: , '^, ■:/•.:■ '■■' ■■ : • ■ .. ." ■■,'"".;:"■
Mr. Speaker: ''.'■■ \''\'^' ' ■'.'.■.■"'■:■■. ■ :■' ■ '■ '' ...•'"'''■■■ -
The committee on enrolled bills have examined the following en- ■
rolled with the engrossed bills and joint resolutions, and find them
correctly enrolled, to-wit :
No. 367. An act to incorporate the Milltown bridge company;
No. 267. An act to change the time of holding probate court in
the county of Martin ;
No. 40S. A joint resolution on the subject of the Oregon Terri-
tory ;
No. 167. An act for the relief of Robert Harbison, of Monroe
county, Indiana ;
No. 369. An act to repeal an act entitled, an act to change the
mode of doing county business in the county of Scott;
No. 329. An act to change a part of a State road in Tippecanoe
county ;
No. 244. An act to carry into effect an act therein named ;
No. 213. An act to legalize the official acts of Mark Manlove,
road commissioner ;
No. 225. An act to amend section 342, chapter 30, of the Revised ■
Statutes, as relates to fees and services of executors and adminis-
trators ;
No. 91. An act to amend an act entitled, an act relative to licens-
incT groceries in the counties of Carroll and Cass, approved January
l,lS42;
No. 218. An act declaring Lick creek, in Owen county, a public
highway ;
"No 239. An act to regulate the attendance of grand jurors in the
fifth judicial circuit ;
No. 214. An act relative to official bonds;
N'o. 179. An act to legalize certain proceedings in the probate
court of Carroll county; . -
No 313. An act to incorporate the Logansport brass band ; '
No. 189. An act to extend the time to the collectors of Bartholo-
mew and Delaware counties, to settle the county and State revenue
of said counties, for the year 1844 ;
No. G6. An act for the relief of Abigail C. Hovey and Lorenzo
D. Hovey, of Carroll county ;
No. 366. An act to legalize certain acts of masters in chancery in
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the comities of Fulton, Marshall, Tippecanoe, St. Joseph, and La-
porte, and for other purposes ;
No. 417. An act for the relief of the administrators of John Coce,
of Dearborn county, deceased ;
No. 360. An act to amend an act, entitled, " an act abolishing the
fee for issuing patents to purchasers of Wabash and Erie canal
lands," approved January 13, 1844 ;
No. 349. An act to revive an act therein named ;
No. 410. An act for the extension of a State road in Laporte
county, to Winnamac, in Pulaski county;
No. 336. A bill to change the name of the tov^'n of New Market,
in the county of Miami, to Chili ;
No. 3S7. A joint resolution to loan a theodolite to Asbury Uni-
versity ;
No. 342. A joint resolution for the relief of the heirs of Henry
Martin ;
No. 243. An act to establish a certain State road therein named ;
No. 363. An act to amend an act, entitled, an act to establish an
asylum for the education of deaf and dumb persons in the State of
Indiana, approved January 15th, 1844;
No. 165. An act to amend the law relative to licenses upon
clocks ;
No. 337. An act to locate a State road in Sullivan county ;
No. 372. An act for the relief of the purchasers of lands in the
seminary township in Monroe county;
No. 229. An act to fix the time of holding courts in the tenth ju-
dicial circuit ;
No. 362. An act for the relief of purchasers of school lands in the
counties of Randolph and Delaware;
No. 234. An act to locate a State road therein named ;
No. 338. An act to repeal part of an act, entitled, an act vesting
the duties of school commissioner in the county treasurer in certain
counties, appi'oved January 15, 1844 ;
No. 241. An act to prevent the election of public defaulters.
A message from his Excellency, the Governor, by Mr. Kinder, his
private secretary :
Mn. Speaker: , . ' ' ■ , .'• . >.;,■■•■ '. . . -i. ■',..'■•.■
I am instructed by his Excellency, the Governor, to inform the
House, that he has tins day approved and signed the following acts:
No. 222. An act to amend an act entitled, 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, approved January 28, 1842 ;
No. 409. An act to incorporate the Newcastle and Andersontown
turnpike company ;
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No. 279. An act to regulate the mode of doing township business
in the county of Elkhart ;
No. 72. An act to confine voters to their respective townships ;
All of which originated in the House of Representatives.
The following message was received from his Excellency, the
Governor, by Blr. Kinder, his private secretary : .•■,';•.'•
Mr. Speaker: ,V' .. •,. • . ' ' _",',' .', ,.. _. ,
I am instructed by his Excellency, the Governor, to inform the
House of Representatives, that he has this day approved and signed
the following acts :
No. 204. An act incorporating the Kosciusko and Allen turnpike
company ;
No. 92. An act to authorize special sessions of the boards of coun-
ty commissioners ;
No. 368. An act allowing additional compensation to the auditor
of Monroe county ;
No. 35S, An act for the relief of Ebenezer A. Goddard, of Adams
county ;
No. 392. An act establishing State roads in the counties of Clay
and Putnam ;
No. 182. An act authorizing the board of directors of the Indiana
Baptist Educational Society, and the board of trustees of Franklin
College, to sell certain property without license ;
No. 401. An act in relation to proceedings in the probate court;
No. 391. An act to correct an error in an act, entitled, " an act
to authorize the board doing county business in the county of Clay,
to transcribe a certain record therein named, and for other purposes,
approved February 9, 1843 ;
No. 3.52. An act to amend the fifth article of the twelfth chapter
of the Revised Statues of 1843 ;
No. 221. An act in relation to proceedings upon writs of arZ quod
damnum ; . ,
No. 365. An act limiting the fees of auditor in the county of Mar-
shall ;
No. 378. An act in relation to the fees of recorder and auditor in
the county of Wabash. ;
No. 411. An act for the relief of the county seminary of Tippeca-
noe county ;
No. 378. An act to amend an act, entitled, an act changing the
mode of doing county business in the county of Clay ;
No. 356. An act to compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to
that paid by actual settlers ;
All of which originated in the House of Representatives, • •;•
Mr. Barclay made the following report : . ■, '. ' ■■••',[
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Mr. speaker: >:.;:■./..•..;>■ v.. .^ -: .^■..,..; •■
The committee on enrolled bills report, that they have compared
the following enrolled with the engrossed bills, and find the enroll-
ment correctly made :
No. 264. An act to incorporate the Michigan road company ;
No. 347. An act to revise an act, entitled, an act to incorporate
the city of Logansport, approved February 17, 183S.
Mr. Barclay also made the following report :
Mr. Speaker:
The committee on enrolled bills report, that all the enrolled bills
reported on this day as enrolled, have since been presented to the
Governor, for his approval. - ,
The following message was received from his excellency, the Gov-
ernor, by Mr. Kinder, his Private Secretary :
Mr. Speaker :
I am instructed by his excellency, the Governor, to inform the
House of Representatives that he has this day signed and approved
the following acts:
No. 329. An act to change part of a State road in Tippecanoe
county ;
No. 225. An act to amend section 342, chapter 30, of the Revised
Statutes, as relates to fees and services of executors and adminis-
trators ;
No. 336. A bill to change the name of New j\Iarket, in the coun-
ty of Miami, to Chili ;
No. 33S. An act to repeal part of an act entitled an act vesting
the duties of school commissioners in the county treasurer, to certain
counties, approved January 1.5, 1S44;
No. 347. An act to revive an act entitled an act to incorporate
the city of Logansport, approved February 17, 1S3S ;
■■ No. 264. An act to incorporate the Michigan road company;
No. 3S7. A joint resolution to loan a theodolite to Asbury Uni-
versity ;
No. 189. An act to extend the time to the collector of Bartholo-
mew and Delaware counties to settle the county and State revenue
of said counties for the year 1844;
No. 313. An act to incorporate the Logansport brass band ;
No. 66. An act for the relief of Abigail C. Hovey and Lorenzo D.
Hovey, of Carroll county ;
No. 214. An act relative to official bonds; , .■ ■■.,
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No. 244. An act to carry into effect the provisions of an act
therein named ;
No. 243. An act to establish a certain State road therein named;
No. 363. An act to ameifd an act entitled an act to establish an
asylum for the education of deaf and dumb persons in the State of