List of Laws Passed by the Indiana Legislature during the Special Session of 1858.
I, James H. Vawter, Secretary of the Senate, herebby certify that the following bills originating in the Senate were enacted by the General Assembly, at the Extra Session commencing November 20, and ending December 5, 1858.
No. 3. An Act to provide for the appraisement of a estate, and prescribing the duties of officers in relation there to.
No. 6. An Act to cure defects in the execution 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 a 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 assessors, and prescribing the duties of assessors, and appraisers of real Property, county treasurers and auditor of State, approved June 21, 1859.
No. 11. An Act in relation to ventilating, repaiaring and warming county prisons.
No. 15. An Act to authorize and empower the county commissioners or board doing county business in any county, to take possession of and control any and all plank, gravel and McAdamized roads in their respective counties which may have been abandoned by the corporations.
No. 20. An Act to authorize the incorporation of associations formed for building towns within this State; and for the transfer to such corporation of real estate, the titles to which have been taken in the name of trustees.
No. 28. An Act to prescribe the time, place and manner of electing United States Senators, and to fix the penalty upon officers failing to certify said election.
No. 31. An Act to fix the time of holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the County of Bartholomew.
No.59. An Act to amend the 3d section of an act entitled "An Act regulating the licensing of pilots at the Falls of the Ohio.
No. 60. An Act to amend an act entitled, "An Act authorizing County Agricultural Societies to purchase and hold real estate," approved February 7, 1855.
No. 86. An Act to enable the holders of unauthorized paper currency to collect the amount thereof from any person, company or corporation heretofore or hereafter issuing or aiding in the issue thereof.
No. 102. An Act to continue the present Board of Sinking Funds Commissionarrs, consisting of a President and four Commissioners and one Clerk, from the 1st of January, A.D. 1859, to the first Monday of April, 1859, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
No. 110. A bill to vest in the assignees of the Branches of the State Bank of Indiana the right to enforce in their own names, either before or after the expiration of the charter of said Bank, the possession, collection and enjoyment of the a sets so assigned, and to have legal process, and to acquittances in their own names, and to secure to them their rights.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED
No. 19. An Act to secure the service of process in actions against corporations, created 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. 22. An Act providing for the reappraisement of the unsold school lands in this State.
No. 23. 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 waters 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 Calumet riser in the State of Indiana.
No. 36. An act to amend the first section of an act entitled "an act providing for extending 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 late hour of night was not discovered until after its approval.
No. 38 An Act legalizing the acknowledgment 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. 39. An Act to regulate the collection, of judgments and the sale of property on 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 of them.
No. 43. An Act to authorize churches to form a union, assume a new name, appoint trustees, and enable them to recieve conveyance of lands 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, designating the site and a house to be used as a court-house, and where a deed has been executed and to provide for the limitation of actions growing out of such re-location, and for the donation of the former county property.
No. 101. An Act to secure to the Sinking Fund a debt which the State owes to the said fund, to provide for the payment of interest on said debt.
No. 104. An Act to make specific appropriations for the year 1858.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
House Joint Resolution No. 4. A Joint resolution directing the Treasurer of State to appropriate all 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 111 bills were introduced in the Senate, all of which were read a second time; many of which were referred and reported upon, but not passed for want of time.
JAMES H. VAWTER Principal Secretary of Senate.
