LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA. CHAPTER I. An Act to amend the act entitled "An act authorizing domestic attachments and regulating proceedings thereon," approved, January 19th, 1831. [APPROVED, JANUARY 8, 1833.] of Circuit is situate in different Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indi- Jurisdiction ana, That when the estate, property or interest to be at Court, where tached, exists or is situate in different counties, or where the property the debtors or bailees of such absconding debtor reside in to be attached different counties, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court shall extend to such counties, and sundry writs of attachment counties. and process against garnishees may be issued and executed in such counties. But no judgment shall be given against the estate, property or interest of the absconding debtor, or No judgment against such garnishees, unless the writ of attachment shall given unless have been executed on some property, either real or per- the writ be sonal, belonging to the absconding debtor, situate in the the county county where the suit was commenced, or unless process where suit was shall have been served upon some garnishee therein residing, commemoed. or found by the officer executing the same. executed in CHAPTER II. An act to provide for dividing the State into seven Congressional Districts. [APPROVED JANUARY 8, 1833.] Counties com Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the counties of Posey Vanderburg, War- posing the lat rick, Spencer, Perry, Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Gibson, district. 2d district. 3d district. 4th district. 5th district. 6th district. 7th district. Pike, and Dubois, shall form the first congressional district, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. SEC. 2. The counties of Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Owen, Green, Sullivan, Vigo, Clay, and Putnam, shall form the second congressional district, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. SEC. 3. The counties [of] Washington, Floyd. Clark, Scott, Jackson, Jennings, and Jefferson, shall form the third congressional district, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. SEC. 4. The counties of Decatur, Franklin, Ripley, Switzerland, Dearborn, and Rush, shall form the fourth Congressional district, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. SEC. 5. The counties of Union, Fayette, Wayne, Randolph, Henry, Delaware, Allen, Grant, Huntington, and Lagrange, shall form the fifth Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. SEC. 6. The counties of Bartholomew, Johnson, Shelby, Hancock, Hamilton, Marion, Morgan, Boon, Hendricks, Monroe, Madison, Cass, Miami, and Wabash, shall form the sixth Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. SEC. 7. The counties of Vermillion, Parke, Montgomery, Fountain, Warren, Tippecanoe, Clinton, Carroll, St. Joseph, Elkhart, and Laporte, shall form the seventh Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States. What counties shall constitute. CHAPTER III. An Act organizing the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and fixing the times of holding Courts therein. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the counties of Carroll, Cass, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Allen, Lagrange, Elkhart, St. Joseph, and Laporte, shall form and constitute the eighth Judicial Timesof hold- Circuit. in, courts in the several counties. SEC. 2. The Circuit Courts within the eighth Judicial Circuit shall be held annually on the days and times follow ing, to wit: In the county of Carroll, on the third Mondays of April and October; in the county of Cass on the fourth Mondays of April and October; in the county of Allen on the Moudays next succeeding the courts in Cass; in the county of Lagrange on the Mondays next succeeding the courts in the county of Allen; in the county of Elkhart, on the Mondays next succeeding the courts in the county of Lagrange; in the county of St. Joseph, on the Mondays next succeeding the courts in the county of Elkhart; and in the county of Laporte, on the Mondays next succeeding the courts in the Length of sescounty of St. Joseph. The Circuit Courts to be holden as sions. above, in the eighth Judicial Circuit shall sit one week in each of said counties, if the business thereof requires it, except in the counties of Allen and Elkhart, where it shall sit two weeks, if the business thereof requires it. Grant county 6th circuit. SEC. 3. The county of Grant shall be attached to the attached to sixth Judicial Circuit, and the Circuit Court to be holden therein, shall sit on the Mondays succeeding the court in Time of holdDelaware county, annually, and shall sit one week, if the ing Court business thereof requires it. SEC. 4. AH acts and parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. therein, &c. Repeal. CHAPTER IV. An Act to legalize the proceedings of the School Commissioner of Sullivan county. [APPROVED JANUARY 1, 1833.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Acts of the of Indiana, That the acts of Andrew Wilkins, school com commissioner missioner in Sullivan county, so far as said acts are con- legalized. nected with the sale of the school lands belonging to Town Six, in said couuty, bc, and the same are hereby legalized: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to legalize any collusion or mal-conduct of the commissioner or the purchaser in the sale and purchase of said lands. Proviso. SEC. 2. The commissioner aforesaid may, if thought expedient, appoint an agent who shall reside on the land re- Agent may be appointed. ferred to in the first section of this act, who shall perform all the duties of said commissioner, so far as the same be connected with the aforesaid land: Provided, The board Proviso. Proviso. doing county business, in the said county of Sullivan, shall sanction the appointment of such agent: And Provided, also, That the aforesaid commissioner, and his securities, shall, in all respects, be responsible for the official acts of such agent. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Indiana Democrat. Power grant the capital CHAPTER V. An Act to extend the privileges granted to the Harrison and Whitewater Bridge Company. [APPROVED JANUARY 1, 1833.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State ed to increase of Indiana, That the president and directors of the Harrison and Whitewater Bridge Company may, if they shall find the same necessary, increase the capital stock of said company to Ten Thousand Dollars, to be divided into shares as prescribed by the act of incorporation, approved January 3d, 1832. Limitation of charter ex tended. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the privileges granted to said Company by the act aforesaid, be and the same are hereby extended and secured to said company, for and during the term of fifty years, from and after the third of February, 1832: any law to the contrary notwithstanding: CHAPTER VI. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate Hanover [APPROVED JANUARY 1, 1833.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Name chang- of Indiana, That the name of the institution created by ed to Hanover the act to which this is an amendment shall be changed to College. Hanover College, and the same shall hereafter be known by the name and style of Hanover College; and the faculty of said college, consisting of the president, professors and tutors thereof, shall have the power of granting and conferring, by and with the approbation of the board of trusand grant dip trustees, such degrees in the liberal arts and sciences as are usually granted and conferred in other colleges in the Power to con fer degrees lomas. |