The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-30
List OF Laws passed by the Indiana
Legislature during the Special Ses-
sion 0f

ment of real estate, and prescribing the du-
ties of officers in relation thereto.
No. 6. An Act to cure defects in the ex-
ecution of deeds, or in the certificates OF
Acknowledgements of conveyances of real
estate, or any interest therein in the cases
therein named, and doing away with seal
or ink scroll in the cases therein named,
and to repeal conflicting laws.
No. 5. An Act to amend the 32d section
of an act to provide for the valuation and
assessment of real and personal property,
and the collection of taxes IN the State OF
Indiana; for the election of township as
SCISSORS, and prescribing the duties Of assess
ors, and appraisers of real property county
treasurer, and auditor of State, approval
June 81, 1859.
No. IL. An Act in relation to ventilating,
repairing and warming county prisons.
No. 10. An Act to authorize and empow-
er the county commissioners, or board do
ing county business, in any county, to take
possession of and control any, s.and all plank,
gravel, and macadamized roads, in theirres-
pective counties, which may have been
abandoned by the corporations.
No. 20. An Act to authorize the incorpo-
ration of associations formed for building
towns within this State and for the trans
fer to such corporation CT real estate, the
titles to which have been taken in the name
of trustees.
No. %. An Act to prescribe the time,
place and manner of electing U. S. Sena-
ators, and to fix the penalty upon officers
failing TO certify said election.
No. 81. An Act to fix the time of hold
ing the Courts of Common Pleas in the
County of Bartholomew.
No. SO. An Act to amend the Sd section
Of an act entitled "An act regulating the
licensing of police at the Falls of the Ohio"
No. co. An Act to amend an act entitled
An act authorizing County Agricultural
Societies to purchase and hold real estate"
approved February Z, 1855.
No. SO. An Act to enable the holders of
unauthorized paper currency to collect the
amount thereof from any person, company,
or corporation heretofore or hereafter is
suing or aiding in the Issue or circulation
thereof.
No. l02. An Act to continue the present
Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, con-
sisting of a President and four Commits
sioners and one Clerk, from the LIST of jan
uary, A. D. 1859, to the LIST Monday of
April, 1859, and until their successors are
elected and qualified.
No. ITO. A bill to invest in the assignees
of the Branches of the State Rank of In
diana, tho right to enforce in their own
names, either before or after the expiration
of the charter of the Bank, the possession,
collection, and enjoyment of the assets so
assigned, and to have legal process, and to
acquittance in their own names, and to Sc
cure to them their rights.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
No. 10. An Act to secure the service of
process in actions against corporations Great
ed by the General Assembly of this State,
which have no officers or persons doing
business in the county where they have
been located and have exercised corporate
powers.
No. %. An Act providing for the reap
praisement OF unsold school lands in this
State.
No. 30. 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 there
with, and for the suppression of intempe-
rance" Approved February l6, 1855.
No. 80. An Act to repeal an act author
izing the State of Illinois to maintain the
Feeder dam, and securing the use of the wa
tiers of the Calumet river and providing the
manner of the assessment of damages sus-
tanned by the citizens of Indiana, bv the
erection thereof; and regulating the draining
of the swamp lands adjacent to the Calumet
river in the State of Indiana.
No. sc. An Act to amend the first section
Iol II
tending the terms of Circuit Courts by adj
journment when the business shall be unfin-
ished;" approved February Il, 1855; to
authorize the Court or Judge to call and
hold special terms and TO fix the compensa-
ton of the Judges for such adjourned and
special terms, and of Prosecuting Attorneys
while in attendance upon the same.
4" The bill never passed, though approved
by the Governor. Owing to disagreement
between the Houses, the bill never was f.
nally enacted, but through the hurry of bus
mess was enrolled by the Clerks of the
House. and the enrolling being finished at a
late hour of the night was not discovered
until after its approval.
No. 38. An Act legaiizing the acknowl-
edgment 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 of
1852 in their respective counties.
No. 30. An Act to regulate the collection
of judgments, and the sale of property on
execution against any sheriff, constable, or
other person or corporation, receiving or
holding money in a tiduciary capacity, or
the sureties OF either of them.
No. 43. An Act to authorize churches to
form union, assume a new name, appoint
trustees, and enable them to receive convey
ance of lands and donations OF personal pro-
perty.
No. g. An Act for the punishment of
officers of elections for refusing or neglecting
to receive votes of legal voters.
No 10. An Act to raise revenue for
State purposes, for the years of 1859 and
1860.
No. 70. An Act to provide for the re-loca-
ton of county seats, ana for county build
ines, wher. two-thirds Of the voters Of any
county have petitioned for the relocation,
designating the site and a house to be used
as a court house, and where deed has been
executed, and to provide for the limitation of
actions growing out of such relocation, and
for the donation of the former county pro-
perty.
No. lOl. An Act to secure to the Sinking
Fnnd n debt which the State owes to the