INDEX.

SUMMARY OF ACTS.

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Agricultural Associations, act authorizing Boards of Commissioners to make allowance to...
Appropriation for expenses of Fiftieth Regular Session of General Assembly, 1877..............
Bastardy, Sec. 15 of act of May 6, 1852, regulating prosecutions in cases of, amended,
(relating to maintenance of child, release of defendant)...........
Benevolent Associations, benefits, claims, etc., of wives, children et al. of members of
Masonic, Odd Fellows et al. charitable associations, exempt from claims of creditors,
etc.....

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Building, Loan Fund and Savings Association, Sec. 7 of amendatory act of March 11, 1875,
amended, (relating to re-payment of loan)..

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Camp Meeting Associations, act providing for their organization.........

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Cities, supplementary act to act of March 14, 1867, providing for the incorporation of the
same, (cities of voting population of 15,000 voters, to be governed by Common Council
and Board of Alderm n)....

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Cities, Sec. 8 of act of March 14, 1867. providing for incorporation of, amended, (relating
to officers of, their terms of office, when to be elected, etc.)..

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Cities, act relating to funding of indebtedness of cities having voting population of over
16,000 voters..........

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Cities, act relating to fund ng of indebtedness of cities where such indebtedness is not less
than $30,000, and the voting population is less than 16,000.
Cities, act authorizing School Trustees of city or incorporated town to pay over to such city

or town surplus special school revenue for payment of indebtedness created for school
building purposes, etc...........

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Cities, Sec. 4 of act of March 9, 1875, relating to construction of harbors, etc., by cities,

19

Cities, act concerning powers of cities over harbors, channels, and other water thorough-
fares, docks and dock property..................

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Cities, act authorizing cities and incorporated towns to change boundaries, so as to exclude
suburban lots........

City of Bloomington, act legalizing incorporation of, and official acts of Common Council
and of the officers thereof..

City of Greencastle, act legalizing acts of Common Council thereof in the annexation of
certain additions thereto, etc...........

City of Logansport, act legalizing the issue, by Board of School Trustees, of certificates
of indebtedness, in payment of debts contracted in erection and furnishing of
school houses, etc........................

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County seats, act amending sections 1 and 3 of act providing for re-location of, as amended
by act of February 21, 1869, (relating to petition for conveyance of site for court house
and jail, assessment of damages by Commissioners, etc.).............
Courts, act providing for more speedy trial of causes, (adjourned terms, change of venue,
selection of Judge, etc., provided for,).............

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Courts Circuit, in Second, Third and Forty-second Judicial Circuits, Forty-second Circuit
created, and times of holding and length of terms in said Circuits fixed........................

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Courts Circuit, in Fourth Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms therein
fixed.......

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Courts Circuit, in Tenth Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms therein
fixed....

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Courts Circuit, in Eleventh Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms therein
fixed........

355

Couris Circuit, in Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms
therein fixed...

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Courts Circuit, in Thirtieth Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms therein
fixed.....

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Courts Circuit, in Thirty-first Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms
therein fixed.......

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Courts Circuit, in Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms
therein fixed.........

Court Superior, act establishing in Vanderburgh county............................................................................................................
Decedents' estates, Sec.'s 95, 96 and 97 of act of June 17, 1852, providing for settlement of,
(relating to foreign executors and administrators,) amended....

Courts Circuit, in Forty-first Judicial Circuit, times of holding and length of terms therein
fixed...

Courts Criminal, act abolishing Twenty seventh Judicial Circuit, and the Criminal Circuit
Courts therein, and transferring business therein to Civil Circuit Courts of Fourth
Judicial Circuit.

Courts Superior, Sectious 1 and 13 of act of February 15, 1871, establishing, amended,
(Superior Courts, of four judges, established in counties containing incorporated city of
not less than 20,000 inhabitants, holding of general and special terms, appeals, etc.,
provided for).............................

Court Superior, act establishing in Allen county..
Court Superior, act establishing in Cass county.

Court Superior, in Tippecanoe county, act fixing time of holding, and length of terms
therein...............

Elections general, Sec. 38 of act of June 7, 1852, regulating, (relating to certificates of, and
certifying elections,) amended........

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Elections township, act providing when to be held, what officers to be elected at same,
how to be conducted, certifying elections, etc...........

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Enumeration, act providing for taking of, of both white and colored male inhabitants
over the age of twenty-one years....

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Fees and salaries, Sec. 27 of act of March 12, 1875, fixing, etc., (fixing fees of witnesses,)
amended.

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Fees and Salaries, Sec. 48 of act of March 12, 1875, fixing, etc., (relating to taxing, etc.,
of fees, etc., not allowed,) amended

Felonies, Sec's 19 and 20 of act of June 10, 1852, defining, etc., (grand and petit larceny),
amended.......

Female Prison and Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, Sec. 2 of act of May,
1869, establishing, amended, and Sec. 39 thereof repealed, (relating to Board of Mana.
gers and Board of Audit)....

Foreign Insurance Companies, Sec. 1 of act of December 21, 1866, regulating, etc., (relating
to certificates, statements, etc., to be filed by agents, etc.,) amended...
Game, wild, act providing for the protection cf, and of certain other birds, etc.......
German Lutheran Concordia College at Fort Wayne, Allen county, Indiana, act legalizing
action of Board of Trustees thereof in the purchase and sale of real estate
Gravel, et al., Roads, act repealing act of March 13, 1875, which repealed acts of March 9,
1867, and of May 14, 1869, providing for construction of, repealed, and said act of May
14, 1869, revived, etc........

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Gravel, et al., Roads, act authorizing Board of County Commissiouers to construct, etc...... 82
Gravel and macadamized roads, act legalizing defective organizations of corporations where
the purchasers of such roads, at sheriffs' sales, have filed articles of association............ $9
Gravel et al. roads, Sec. 1 of act of February 23, 1859, authorizing consolida ion of, etc.,
(relating to joining of roads and consolidating stock thereof,) amended.
Indiana, State of, act giving consent of to the United States Government to purchase lands
on Ohio or Wabash rivers, on which to erect docks, dams, etc..............
Intoxicating liquors, act prohibiting the sale, barter or giving away of on Sunday, the
Fourth of July, first day of January, twenty-fifth day of December, and up. n Thanks.
giving or election days, and also by druggists on such days, except upon prescription... 92

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Judgments, act legalizing certain judgments and sales thereon, where such judgments were
rendered without formal service of process.......................................

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Marriages, Sec. 1 of act of March 5, 1852, regulating, etc., (who may enter into marriage
contract,) amended.......................................................... ..........................

Married women, act enabling married women, whose husbands are insane or of unsound
mind, to sell and convey real esta ́e belonging to such married women.....
Martin County, act legalizing official acts of Board of Commissioners and officers thereof,
in relation to the removal of records thereof from town of West Shoals to town of
Shoals...........

Michael John, act exonerating i.im from liability as surety on bond of Reuben Peters,
Township Trustee, etc..

Morgan County, act legalizing acts and orders of Board of Commissioners thereof, in rela-
tion to restoration of records thereof destroyed by fire, etc..............

Mortgages, Sec. 7 of act of May 4, 1852, concerning, etc., (relating to assignment, satisfac-
tion of, necessary parties in suits for foreclosure of, etc.,) amended..................... ........
Practice and Pleading, Sec. 120 of act of June 17, 1852, to revise, etc., (relating to bills
of exceptions in criminal cases,) amended..........

Practice and Pleading, Sec's 132 and 374 of act of June 18, 1852, to revise, etc., (relating to
the taking and delivery of personal property by Sheriff, etc., in replevin suits,) amended 101
Practice and Pleading, Sec's 207 and 208 of act of June 18, 1852, to revise, etc, as amended
by act of March 5, 1859, (relating to change of venue in civil actions,) amended............ 103
Practice and pleading, Sec. 250 of act of June 18, 1852, to revise, etc., (providing where and
in what actions depositions may be taken and used,) amended........

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Practice and pleading, Sec. 315 of act of June 18, 1852, to revise, etc., as amended by act of
March 9, 1861, (relating to process, and when action shall stand for issue and trial,)
amended..............

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Practice and pleading, act curing certain defective sheriffs' sales of lands, where the same
were advertised in newspaper other than the one published nearest to the lands sold..... 106
Practice and pleading, act amending first section of act of February 2, 1855, amending Sec.
467 of act of June 18, 1852, to revise, etc., (relating to notice of sale of real estate on
execution by sheriff,) amended....
107

Practice and pleading, Sec. 528 of act of June 18, 1852, to revise, etc., (relating to certified
copies of judgments, transcripts of Superior Courts, etc.,) amended....
Practice and pleading, act providing for continuance of causes ................................
Railroads, Sec's 1 and 2 of act of March 11, 1867, relating to abandoned and unfinished
railroads, amended.......................

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Railroads, act extending time for completion of, in cases where townships have made or
may hereafter make appropriation to

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Railroads, act to prevent conductors of freight trains from obstructing public highways or

streets.........................................................

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Railroads, act declaring unlawful for persons other than passengers or employes to get on
or off, etc., of engine or car while in mo.ion

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Railroads, Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, relating to voting of aid to in Mill and Fair-
mount townships, Grant county, Indiana, and orders made by Commissioners of said
county in relation thereto legalized......

Railroad, Evansville and Terre Haute, formerly Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company,
act in relation to changing of name, etc.............

Railroad, Union Railroad Transfer and Stock Yard Company, act legalizing ordinance of
Common Council of City of Indianapolis, in relation to and acceptance of said ordi-
nance by said company, etc.............

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Railroads, Wabash Railroad Company, act relating to the election of directors..........
Records, public land records, act providing for concentration of in office of Auditor of
State.................................................
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Records, act providing for the restoration and preservation of in various counties.............. 120
Rose Polytechnic Institute, (formerly Terre Haute School of Industrial Science,) act legal-
izing corporate name, organization of, etc.........

Schools common, act amending Sec. 8 of act of March 8, 1873, providing for general system
of, etc., (relating to County Boards of Education, and text books).......
Schools common, act supplemental to act of March 3, 1871, providing for general system of,
etc., in cities of 30,000 or more inhabitants, (relating to temporary loans for support of
schools)
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Schools common, act amending Sec. 3 of act of May 13, 1869, to render taxation for common
school purposes uniform, etc., (relating to education of colored children).............

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School houses, act providing for formation of new school district, and building of school
house at joint expense of adjacent counties or townships..................... ........................
School Houses, act authorizing Township Trustees to issue and sell bonds for the purpose
of providing funds to build same in unincorporated towns, (in case where a bequest has

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Short-hand Reporters, act authorizing appointment of in certain courts, in counties con-
taining population of 70,000 or more inhabitants................
Supervisors of Highways, act providing for election and appointment of, and prescribing
their duties, etc...............

Surviving partners, act requiring settlements of partnership affairs, in case of death of
partner

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Taxes, act declaring school lands taxable, after they have been sold and before deed is made,
and legalizing assessment, levy and collection of taxes thereon, etc..............
Taxes, act providing for levying of annual tax of twelve cents on the $100, and fifty cents
on each taxable poll, to raise revenue for State purposes................................................ ........
Taxes, act amending Sec. 60 and repealing Sec. 290 of act of December 21, 1872, providing
for a uniform assessment of property, etc., (relating to assessment of capital stock of
incorporated companies)..........

140

Taxes, act amending Sec. 180 of act of December 21, 1872, providing for a uniform assess.
ment of property, etc., (relating to settlement of County Treasurer with County
Auditor for taxes)

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Vincennes Drawbridge Company, act legalizing subscriptions of City of Vincennes to capital
stock of, etc..

Town of Waterloo, act legalizing incorporation of, and of additions thereto, and ordi-
nances, etc., thereof.......

Town of Shoals, act legalizing certain official acts of town of Shoals in relation to incor-
poration of, etc........

Taxes, act amending Sec's 208 and 210 of act of December 21, 1872, providing for uniform
assessment of property, etc., (relating to time within which lands sold for taxes may
be redeemed, and at what cost)...........
Towns, act amending first section of act of March 2, 1855, amending Sec. 22 of act of
June 11, 1852, providing for incorporation of towns, etc., (relating to powers of Boards
of Trustees of)..............................
Town of Gosport, act legalizing the election of Boards of Trustees and other officers
thereof, and their official acts for years 1874, 1875 and 1876.
Town of Kentland, act legalizing election of officers of on first Monday of May, 1876......... 148
Town of Loogootee, act legalizing incorporation of, etc............
Town of Marion, act legalizing certain acts, ordinances, etc., of Board of Trustees of......... 149
Towns of Noblesville and Fairland, act legalizing incorporation of, and of acts, ordinauces,
etc., of Boards of Trustees thereof...............

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Wet lands, act amending Sec's 4 and 7 of act of March 11, 1867, to enable owners thereof to
drain and reclaim the same, etc., (relating to assessment of benefits and injuries, and
outlets, etc.)...............

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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

In relation to reduction of legislative expenses

Proposing amendment to Sec. 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution. (relating to right of suf
frage)..

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Requesting Senators in Congress to use their influence for the passage of House Bill No. 511,
in relation to pensions......

Proposing amerdment to 14th clause of Sec. 22 of Article 4 of the Constitution, (relating
to fees and salaries)..........

Proposing amendment to Sec's 4 and 5 of Article 4 of the Constitution, (so as to strike out
the word "white").....

Proposing amendment to section 14 of Article 2 of the Constitution, (relating to general
elections)

Proposing amendment to Sec. 5 of Article 2 of the Constitution, (relating to right of suf-
frage)......

Court,)

Proposing amendment to Sec. 1 of Article 7 of the Constitution, (relating to courts)............
Proposing amendment to Sec. 2 of Article 7 of the Constitution, (relating to Supreme

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