The Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana: Passed at the Twenty-seventh Session of the General Assembly; Also Sundry Acts, Ordinances, and Public Documents Directed to be Printed with the Said Statutes: to which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Indiana, Part 1

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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES	1

Act of Virginia for the cession of the Northwestern territory	16

PART I	20

Act of congress for the government of the Northwestern territory	26

Ordinance of the convention of the Indiana territory on the same subject	36

AN ACT CONCERNING THE BOUNDARIES JURISDICTION DIVI	65

Of the townships	91

Of the state county and township officers except officers in the militia	95

Of guardians and wards	607

Of masters and apprentices	615

Of docketing causes of filing the declaration of the pleadings	670

Of the amendment of the pleadings and proceedings before	713

Of the trial and its incidents	731

Of executions and the duties and liabilities of officers thereon	740

Miscellaneous provisions	758

Of the proceedings in foreign attachment	772

Of the officers appointed by the governor and the tenure of their	102

Of compelling certain officers to give additional bond and surety	111

Of supplying vacancies in office	118

Of the election of township officers except justices of the peace	121

Of the qualifications and disabilities of electors	124

Of the duties of clerks of the circuit courts after the election	131

and supplying vacancies therein	134

Of contesting elections for members of the general assembly	143

Of the compensation of certain officers and persons in relation	150

Of the secretary of state	156

Of the treasurer of state	165

Of the state librarian and state library	173

CHAPTER 7	188

CHAPTER 8	196

Of pilots at the falls of the Ohio	205

Of the assessment and collection of taxes	207

Of the manner of assessing taxes	215

Of the proceedings relating to delinquent taxes sales and convey	222

Regulations concerning the assessment of taxes on incorporated	229

Of certain specific taxes for county purposes	235

Of the university fund	243

REPEALING ACT CHAPTER 59	244

Of the county seminary fund	249

Of the three per cent fund	255

Of the lands belonging to common schools	261

Regulations concerning the protection of the public lands	269

Of the preservation of the canals of this state of the collection	276

CHAPTER 14	299

Of congressional townships their officers election duties	305

CHAPTER 53	309

Of the powers and duties of district trustees clerk and treasurer	312

Miscellaneous provisions	322

Of the erection of bridges	333

Of the persons liable to work on highways the making assess	339

Of establishing seats of justice and carrying the laws into effect in new counties	348

Of the relief of the poor	354

Of providing for the support of illegitimate children	363

CHAPTER 22	374

Of the sale of the personal property of the testator or intestate	484

cluding executory contracts	517

Of the settlement and payment of debts and legacies by the execu tor or administrator	520

Of the sale of lands for the payment of the debts and liabilities of any deceased person by executors and administrators	526

Of the settlement of insolvent estates	535

Of the disposition of the estates of persons dying without heirs devisees or legatees	541

Of compelling executors or administrators whose authorityhas ceased to account	544

Of executors and administrators rendering their accounts and making final settlement	545

Of making distribution of the surplus of the estate of the deceased and the payment of legacies	552

Of the rights and liabilities of executors and adminitrators	556

Of the liabilities of heirs devisees legatees and distributees for the debts of the testator or intestate and proceedings against them therefor by creditors	565

Miscellaneous provisions	568

CHAPTER 31	575

Of promissory notes and bills of exchange and the assignment of judgments and decrees	576

Of the interest of money	580

CHAPTER 32	583

General provisions respecting corporations	586

CHAPTER 33	588

CHAPTER 34	593

CHAPTER 35	594

Of divorce	598

Some general provisions respecting parents and children	606

Of liens of artizans mechanics tradesmen and bailees in certain	781

CHAPTER 45	794

Of the assignment of dower	803

Of the partition of lands owned by several persons	811

Of forcible entry and detainer	822

CHAPTER 46	831

issues hearing feigned issues trial exceptions and depositions	835

Of references to masters in chancery	842

General provisions respecting decrees conveyances and final pro cess	845

Of exhibiting interrogatories to the complainant of making new parties by the answer and some general provisions respecting cross bills and bills of d...	847

Of bills of revivor and of review	849

Of injunctions	851

Of the execution of conveyances by commissioners in case of de ceased vendors of real estate	855

Of the care and custody of idiots lunatics and insane persons	857

CHAPTER 47	861

and change of venue	865

Of the appearance of the parties	868

Of the pleadings	869

Of continuances	873

Of witnesses and depositions	875

Of the trial of issues of fact and the incidents thereto	879

Of judgments and of transcripts thereof to bind real estate	883

Of appeals	889

Of removal of causes to the circuit court by writ of certiorari	893

Of the action of replevin	896

Of executions and sales thereon of delivery bonds of process against the body of the execution debtor	899

Of constables and their duties	909

Miscellaneous provisions	913

Forms for justices of the peace	919

CHAPTER 48	927

Of informations in the nature of a quo warranto	935

Of the writs of mandamus and prohibition	939

Of scire facias	942

Of the writ of ad quod damnum	944

CHAPTER 49	949

CHAPTER 50	951

Of special remedies by sureties against their principals	954

CHAPTER 52	957

Of crimes and punishment	959

Of petty offences punishable by fine only before a justice of	985

Of witnesses	992

General provisions	998

Of coroners inquests	1017

Of the repeal of statutes and some general provisions concerning the Revised Statutes	1022

STATUTES NOT REVISED BUT WHICH ARE CONTINUED IN FORCE CHAPTER 60 An act declaring what acts are in force	1030

An act relating to fugitives from labor	1032

Act of congress respecting fugitives and slaves	1034

An act regulating weights and measures	1036

An act concerning the election of United States senator	1037

An act respecting actions against the Miama Indians	1038

An act applying certain funds to purposes of education	1039

An act to keep in repair the Cumberland and Michigan roads	1041

An act regulating the mode of keeping stallions and jacks	1042

ACTS PASSED AT THE SAME SESSION AT WHICH THE REVISED STATUTES WERE PASSED CONTRAVENING CERTAIN PROVI SIONS ...	1044

An act to provide for the election of prosecuting attorneys by the people	1048

An act concerning the jurisdiction of justices of the peace c	1049

An act abolishing docket fees and records in civil cases	1050

An act authorizing deputy assessors to value lands c	1051

A joint resolution in relation to the valuation of mills c	1052

An act concerning representatives from Monroe and Brown counties	1053

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Title	The Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana: Passed at the Twenty-seventh Session of the General Assembly; Also Sundry Acts, Ordinances, and Public Documents Directed to be Printed with the Said Statutes: to which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of ..., Part 1 Hein's superseded state statutes & codes The Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana: Passed at the Twenty-seventh Session of the General Assembly; Also Sundry Acts, Ordinances, and Public Documents Directed to be Printed with the Said Statutes: to which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Indiana, Indiana
Author	Indiana
Compiled by	Samuel Bigger, George H. Dunn
Publisher	J. Dowling and R. Cole, state printers, 1843
Length	1114 pages

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