Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1858 — List of Laws Passed by the Indiana Legislature during the Speial session of 1838. [ARTICLE]

List of Laws Passed by the Indiana Legislature during the Speial session of 1838.

SENATE BILLS PASSED. I, Ja - es 11. Vawter, Secretary of the Senate, hereby certif th.it the following bills ■ origmating in the Senate ere enacted by ■ the General Assembly, at the Extra Sessb/ commencing November 20. and ending December 25, 1858. No. 3. Ah Act 'o provide for the appraisement of real estate, and prescribing the duties ot officers in relation thereto No. 6*. An Act to cure defects in the exe--5 cution of deeds, or in the ce tifica e of acknowledgements (conveyance frealestate j er any interest therein :n the cases therein ; named, and doing away with a seal or ink 1 scr 11 in th case therein nathed. am) to repeal conflicting laws. No. 5. An Act to amend the 32d section i of an act to provide for the valuation- and assessment of real and personal pioperty, and the co ection ol taxes in the State of Indiana; for tie elections >f towns ip as, ! sessors, an prescribing he duties of assessor .an ap. raisers of real propert ,county trea urers and udit.or of State, appr v d j J n 21,1859. No. 11. An Act in relation to ventilating, ! repairing an arming co nty prisons No. 15. An Act to authorize and empowier th county c nimissioners or board doing i c unty bus ne.vs in any count , to ta e posi session of a d chntrol any and all plank, gravel and McAdarnize roads in thei respective counties w ich may haze been abandoned by the corporati ns. N . 20. An Act t authorize ’he incorporation of associations form d lor build m r own 3 within this Sta e; and for the tr nsler to such corporation of real estate, the I titles to which have been taken in the name of trus ees. i No. 28. An Act to prescribe the time, place ! and man ier of electing United States Sena- ! t rs, ai d to fix the penalty upon officers fail- ; ing to . e tify said election. No. 1. An Act to fix the time for holding. the Court s ol Common Pleas in the counIty < f Bartholomew. . , • N 59. An Act to amend the third section ! o' i.n a t entitled. “An Act regulating the licvm-,1 ng of pilots at the Falls of the Ohio. No. 60. An Act to amend an ; ct entitled, “An Act authorizing County Agricultural Societies to purchase an hold real estate,” approved Febuary 7, 1855. No. 86. An Act to enable the holders of 1 unauthorized paper c irrency to collect the amount thereof from any person, company or corporation heretofore or hereafter issuing or aiding in issuing or circulating thereof. N ;. 102. An Act to continue the present Board oi Sinking Fund Commissioners, conI sist.tng of a President an 1 four Commissionj ers and oi.e Clerk, from the Ist of January, I A. D. 1839, to the first Monday of April, j 1859, and until their successors are elected i and qu.i lifted. i No. 110. A bill to vest in the assignees of tiie Branches of the State Bank of Indiana the right to enforce in theirown name,either before or alter the expiration of the charter of said Bank, the possession, collection and enjoyment ot the assets so assigned, and to have legal process, and to acquittances in their own name, and to'secure*to them their rights. HOUSE BILLS PASSED. No. 19. An Act to secure the service of ; process in act ion* against corporal ions, creI ated by the General Assembly ol this State, . which have no officers or persons doing bus- : iness in the county where they have been located and have exercised corporate powers. No. 22. An Act providing for the re ppraiserm nt of the unsold school lands in this State. No. 13. An Act to repeal an act entitled “an act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, except in the cases therein named, and to repeal all former acts inconsistent therewith, and for the suppression of intemperance. Approved February 16, 1855. No. 32. An Act to repeal an act authorizing the State of Illinois to maintain the feeder dam, and securing the use of the w £ter of the Calumet river; and providing the manner of the assessment of damages sustained by the citizens of Indiana, by the erection thereof; and regulating the draining of swamp lands adjacent to the Celinnet river in the State of Indiana. No. 36. An Act to amend the first section of an act entitled “an act providing for ex'ending the terms of Circuit Courts by adjournment when the business shall be unfinished,” approved February 12, 1855; to authorize the Court or Judge to call and hold special terms, and to fix the compensation of the Judges for such adjourned and special terms, and of Prosecuting Attorneys while in attendance upon the same. [This bill never passed, though approved by the Governor. Owing to a disagreement between the Houses, the bill never was finally enacted, but through the hurry of business was enrolled by the Clerks of the House, and the enrolling being finished at a latd hour of night was not discovered until after its approval.] ~

No. 38. An Act legalizing the acknowledgement of all deeds, mortgages and other instruments required to be recorded, taken and certified by the Clerk of the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts of this State, after the reception of the Revised Statutes oi 1852, in their re -pective counties. N >. 39. An Act to regulate the collection of judgments, and the sale of property <>n execution against any Sheriff’, constable, or other public officer, administrator, guardian, executor, or any other person or corporation, receiving or holding money in a fiduciary capacity, or the surities of either ot them. No. 43. An Act to authorize churches to form a union, assume a new name, appoint trustees, and enable them to receive conveyance ol land and donations of personal property. No: 62. An Act for the punishment of officers of elections for refusing or neglecting to receive votes of legal voters. No. 73. An Act to raise a revenue for State purposes for the years 1859 and 1860. No. 79. An Act to provide for the relocation of county seats, and for county buildings, when two-thirds of the voters of any county have petitioned for re-location,desig-nating the site and a house to be used as a c >urt-house, and where a deed has been executed, and to provide for the limitations of actions growing out. of such re-location, and for the donation of the former countv property. No. 101. An Act to secure to the Sinking Fund a debt which tiie State owes to the said fund, to provide fur the payment of in-tre-t on said debt. No. 104. An Act to make specific appropriations tor the year 1858. JOINT RESOLUTION. House Joint Resolution No. 4. A Joint Resolution directing the Treasurer of State to appropriate al the public money in his hands as therein provided, and directing the Governor, Treasurer and Auditor to borrow money of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, or elsewhere, giving the preference to said fund. I also certify that 11 1 bills were introduced in the Senate, all of which were read a second time; many of whi h were referred and reported upon, but not passed for want of

time.

JAMES H. VAWTER,

Principal Secretary of Senate.