place as said company and said city or county authorities may agree upon, and delivering the same to said company instead of money, the same to be received by said company without any discount; and whenever any such bonds shall be issued in the name and upon the faith and credit of any such city or county it shall be the duty of said president and select council and of said board of commissioners to provide for the payment of the interest upon the same and cause the same to be paid from time to time thereafter, whenever due, according to the terms of said bonds, in the same manner that other debts and expenses of said county are or may be provided for, and any bonds heretofore issued by said city or county to said company in payment of any such subscription of stock shall be valid and binding on said city and county the same as if issued after the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. This act shall be in full force from and after its passage. [The foregoing bill was presented to me on the 23d of January, 1851, for my approval. It has not been approved, nor returned to the House of Representatives with my objections to the 28th day of January, 1851, and has therefore become a law.]

JOSEPH A. WRIGHT.

CHAPTER XV.

An Act to enable the inhabitants of School District No. 8, in Congressional Township No. 36 north of range No. 3 west, in the county of Laporte, to levy a tax sufficient to build a school house.

[APPROVED JANUARY 25, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it shall be lawful for the qualified voters of school district No. 8, in township No. 36, north of range No. 3 west, in the county of Laporte, to hold a meeting at such time and place as shall be appointed by the trustees of said district and to determine by vote whether a tax shall be levied upon the property in said district for the purpose of building a school house therein.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said district trustee to give notice of the time, place and object of such meeting, by posting up at least three notices thereof in the most publie places in said district at least ten days prior to the time of holding said meeting.

SEC. 3. If a majority of all the qualified voters of said district shall at such meeting decide in favor of levying such tax, they shall also at the same time and place determine the amount thereof, which shall not exceed the sum of one per centum on the valuation of the

real and personal property in said district, and shall be a valid lien upon the property in said district.

SEC. 4. The said meeting shall be conduc'ed and the amount of such tax collected according to the provisions of the 10th, 15th and 16th sections of the act entitled "An Act to increase and extend the benefits of Common Schools," approved January 17th, 1849, and in case such tax shall be insufficient to finish and complete said school house the said qualified voters shall annually thereafter, in like manner and under like restrictions levy and collect a similar tax until a sufficient amount shall be raised to finish and complete the same. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER XVI.

An Act for the relief of the inhabitants of Congressional Township No. 25, north of range 2 east, in Cass county.

[APPROVED JANUARY 10, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the trustees of Congressional township No. 25, north of range No. 2 east, in Cass county, be, and they hereby are required to re-appraise all that part of section sixteen in said township remaining unsold, and to certify such re-appraisement to the auditor of Cass county; and it shall be lawful for the board of commissioners of said county, after such re-appraisement shall be so certified, to order and direct the sale of the same, which sale shall be conducted according to the laws in force regulating sales of unsold school lands.

SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage, and shall be deemed supplementary to an act entitled, "An act relative to the sale of school lands in certain counties therein named, and to amend article 13, chapter 13, of revised statutes of 1843," approved January 5th, 1849.

CHAPTER XVII.

An Act relative to the Jeffersonville Association.

[APPROVED JANUARY 28, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be i' enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the corporate powers heretofore granted to the Jeffersonville Association be, and the same are hereby continued in force, so far as may be necessary or proper to enable them to close up their business, collect their debts, dispose of their property, and prosecute and defend suits until the first day of January, 1855.

SEC. 2. Process may be served on said corporation by publication of notice of the pendency of any suit, for three weeks, thirty days before the first day of any term of the court in which such suit may be commenced.

SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act in relation to the assessment and collection of a specific road tax in Deer creek township, Cass county.

[APPROVED JANUARY 10, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the board of commissioners of the county of Cass shall, at their March session, in the year 1851, and annually thereafter, assess a specific tax for road purposes on each acre of land subject to taxation within Deer creek township, in said county, of two cents per acre, which shall be in lieu of other road taxes on the lands in said township.

SEC. 2. Such road tax may be worked out on the highways of the different road districts in said township under the direction of the respective supervisors, at the rate of seventy-five cents per day, prior to the first day of October in each year; and if not so worked out, shall be collected by the county treasurer as other taxes are collected, and paid over to the supervisors of the different districts in such proportion that each district shall receive the tax collected on the lands lying in the same, and no more.

SEC. 3. Should such board at any time fail to assess the tax as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the auditor of Cass county to enter the tax upon the duplicate in the same manner as if the same had been assessed by the board, and the col ection of the same shall be enforced and the taxes distributed in like manner as if assessed as provided in the first section.

SEC. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the foregoing provisions, be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as said township is concerned.

CHAPTER XIX.

An Act to revive a certain Act therein named.

[APPROVED JANUARY 16, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That an act entitled "An Act to provide for the opening and repairing roads and highways and streams, in the counties of Bartholemew, Putnam, Owen, Henry and Perry," approved January 31st, 1843, and repealed by an act entitled "An Act to repeal a certain act therein named, so far as relates to the county of Perry," approved Jan. 19th, 1850, be and the same is hereby revived so far as relates to the county of Perry.

SEC. 2. This to take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and publication in the Indiana Sentinel and Indiana State Journal.

CHAPTER XX.

An Act to amend the charter of the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad Company.

[APPROVED JANUARY 28, 1851.]

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it shall be lawful for the aforesaid company to sell, under the provisions of the charter, any real estate that may be

hereafter subscribed to the company and appropriate the proceeds to the construction and equipment of the road.

SEC. 2. That hereafter every stockholder of said company shall be authorized to vote for directors at any election, whether the stock shall have been held by such persons six months prior to the election, as required by the present charter, or not; Provided, That the stock shall have been extended on the books of the company in the name of such person prior to the day of the election.

SEC. 3. Whenever said road has been or shall hereafter be located upon or along side of any state or county road, or where any state or county road has been or shall hereafter be located upon or along side of said railroad, with the assent of said company, said company may or may not, as they shall deem expedient and proper, protect said railroad by fencing between the track and such state or county road, leaving sufficient width of such state or county road unobstructed by such fence for the free and convenient passage of the public.

SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act and contravening its provisions, are hereby repealed. This act and the several sections thereof shall be in force from and after its acceptance by said railroad company.

CHAPTER XXI.

An Act to locate a State Road on the line dividing Bartholomew and Decatur Counties.

[APPROVED JANUARY 30, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That Joseph Hiner, of Bartholomew county, John Turner, of Decatur county, and J. F. Draper, of Jennings county, are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road on the line dividing Bartholomew and Decatur counties, to commence three-quarters of a mile south of the north-east corner of section one in township No. ten, north of range No. seven east, thence running south on said line to intersect the Greensburgh and Scipio road in Jennings county.

SEC. 2. Said commissioners may proceed to locate said road at any time previous to the first day of May next, and shall be governed in all things by the general law now in force relative to laying out state roads.

SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage.