An Act for the formation of two new counties out of the county of Knox, 1813


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Chapter XXIII.

§ 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 any after the passage hereof all that part of Knox county which is included in the following boundaries shall form and constitute two new counties, that is to say : beginning at the mouth of the Wabash, thence up the same with the meanders thereof to the mouth of White river, thence up White river with the meanders thereof to the forks of White river, thence up the East fork of White river to where the line between sections number twenty and twenty nine, in township number one, north, of range number four, west, strikes the same, thence with said line to the line of Harrison county, thence with the said line dividing the counties of Knox and Harrison to the Ohio river, thence down to the Ohio river to the beginning.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, That the tract of country included within the aforesaid boundaries be, and the same is hereby divided into two separate and distinct counties by a line beginning on the Wabash river and known and designated by the name of Rector's base line, and with said line East until it intersects the line of Harrison county, and that from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the tract of country falling within the southern division thereof shall be known and designated by the name and style of the county of Warrick. And the northern division thereof shall be known and designated by the name and style of the county of Gibson — That the said counties shall severally enjoy all the rights, privileges and jurisdictions which to separate counties of this territory do or may properly appertain and belong : Provided always, That all suits, pleas, plaints, actions and proceedings which may before the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, have been commenced, instituted and depending within the present county of Knox, shall be prosecuted to final judgment and effect in the same manner as if this act had never been passed: And provided also, That the territorial and county levies which are now due within the bounds of the said new counties shall be collected and paid in the same manner and by the same officers as they would have been if the creation of the said new counties had not have taken place.

§ 3. Be it further enacted, That so soon as the place for holding the courts in the said county of Warrick be established, the Judges of the courts of Common Pleas in the said county shall within six months thereafter, proceed to erect the necessary public buildings for the same in such place, in the same manner as is required by law in respect to other counties, and after the public buildings are so erected the courts of said county shall adjourn to the said place at their next term after the same shall have been completed, which shall be, and the same is hereby declared the seat of justice for the county of Warrick.

§ 4. Be it further enacted, That so soon as the place for holding the courts for the said county of Gibson established, the Judges of the courts of Common Pleas in the said county, shall, within six months thereafter, proceed to erect the necessary public buildings for the same, in such place, in the same manner as is required by law in respect to other counties, and after the public buildings are so erected, the courts of the said county shall adjourn to the said place at their next term after the same shall have been completed, which shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be the seat of justice for the county of Gibson.

§ 5. Be it further enacted, That until the public buildings in the said new counties be completed, the courts of Common Pleas for the county of Warrick shall be held at the house of Baily Anderson, in said county — and the courts of Common Pleas for the county of Gibson, shall be held at the house of William Harrington, in said county: — Provided also, That all officers, both civil and military, in the bounds of the said new counties shall continue to exercise the functions of their respective offices as officers of the said new counties until some other legal organization of officers shall take place, in the same manner as if the formation of the said new counties had not have taken place.

JAMES DILL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAs BEGGS,
President of the Legislative Council.

APPROVED — March 9, 1813.

JOHN GIBSON.

 

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