An Act for the formation of a new County out of the Counties of Washington, Gibson and Knox, 1815


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Chapter XII.

Approved December 26, 1815.

§ 1. BE it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of February next, all that part of the counties of Washington, Gibson and Knox, which is included within the following boundaries, shall form and constitute a new county, which shall be known and designated, by the name and style of the County of Orange; that is to say. Beginning on the Indian boundary line, where the range line dividing ranges two and three west of the second principal meridian intersects said boundary line; thence south with said range line until it intersects the line dividing the counties of Perry and Gibson; thence east with said line until it intersects the western boundary line of Harrison county; thence north with said line to the south-west corner of Washington county, and north-west comer of Harrison county; thence east with the line dividing Harrison and Washington counties, until it intersects the line dividing sections sixteen and seventeen in range two east, town one south ; thence north with said line dividing sections sixteen and seventeen to the Indian boundary line ; thence westwardly with the said Indian boundary line to the place of beginning.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, That the said county hereby formed and established, shall enjoy and exercise all the rights, privileges and jurisdictions which to separate counties of this Territory do or may properly appertain or belong : Provided always, That all suits, pleas, plaints, actions and proceedings, which may before the first day of February next have been commenced, instituted or depending within the present counties of Washington, Gibson and Knox, shall be prosecuted to final judgment and execution, in the same manner as if this act had never been passed, and that the Territorial and county taxes, which are now due within the boundaries of the new county hereby established, shall be collected in the same manner, and by the same officers as they would have been if this act had not passed.

§ 3. Be it further enacted, That until a court house shall be erected for the accommodation of the court, the courts for the said county of Orange, shall be held at the house of William Lindly, junior, in said Orange county.

§ 4. Be it further enacted, That Peter M'Intosh, Ignatius Able, Hiram Boon, Marston G. Clark and Samuel Jack, all of the counties of Washington and Harrison, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to fix the seat of justice in said Orange county, who shall meet at the said William Lindly junior's, on the second Monday of February next, and proceed to fix the seat of justice for the said Orange county, agreeably to the provisions of an act for the fixing the seats of justice in all new counties hereafter to be laid off.

§ 5. Be it further enacted, That the said courts authorized to transact county business in the aforesaid new county, shall as soon as convenient after the seat of justice is fixed, cause the public buildings of said new county to be erected thereon, and shall adjourn the court thereto, so soon as the court house is in the estimation of the court sufficiently completed for the accommodation of the court.

§ 6. Be it further enacted, That the said Orange county is hereby declared to be and remain a part of the district for the election of counsellors composed of the counties of Washington and Knox, and in case of a vacancy for a counsellor, the associate judges of said county of Orange, shall have power to carry into effect the law regulating elections.

 

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