the commissioner or commissioners of said road in his county, a list of all the taxes belonging to the road aforesaid as is now done to supervisors of roads and highways.

SEC. 7. Said taxes may be worked out on said road under the directions of the commissioners of said road as taxes for road purposes are now worked out under the supervisors of roads and high

ways

SEC. 8. Said commissioners shall annually settle with the board doing county business in the respective counties, as supervisors are now required, and they shall be liable for all mal-feasance, misfeasance, or non-feasance, as supervisors are by the laws now in force, and the board aforesaid shall allow them all reasonable expenses while in performing their duty as such commissioners, out of any funds belonging to said road; and when any vacancy shall happen from any cause whatever in the office of road commissioner aforesaid, the board doing county business in the county where said vacancy has occurred shall fill the same by appointing some suitable person to fill said vacancy. SEC. 9. This act to take effect and be in force as soon as a copy thereof shall be filed in the auditors' offices of the several counties aforesaid.

SEC. 10. And it is hereby made the duty of the secretary of state to forthwith forward a copy of this act to the auditor of the respective counties aforesaid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That Shadrach Hathaway, Washington H. Hall, Hazlet E. Dodd, Maxfield Huston, Abel C. Pepper, James M. Reister, Joshua Haines, Archibald Moore, Thos. W. Pate, Bradley B. Loring, Almond Scranton, Henry Brown, Samuel Seward, Pinkney James, John H. Jones, Thomas Summons, Robert G. Youge, Alexander Jamison, and Hugh T. Williams, and their associates and successors be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Rising Sun Hotel Company, and by that name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts having jurisdiction, and do and per

form all other acts and things necessary and proper to carry into full effect the business of said association.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall consist of such sum, not more than fifty thousand dollars, as may be necessary to carry out the objects of its incorporation, and said stock shall be considered personal property, and shall be transferable in such manner as may be directed by the company.

SEC. 3. Said stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and may be taken by any individual, corporation, or company, to be paid in cash, labor, materials, or any kind of property, real or personal, that may be agreed upon, and in such way and manner, and at such times and places as shall be prescribed by the company.

SEC. 4. Any three of the persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute a quorum for doing business, and they may immediately proceed to open books for subscription to the stock of said company, and to do and perform all other acts necessary for the complete organization of said company.

SEC. 5. As soon as may be deemed expedient, after two thousand dollars of the capital stock shall have been subscribed, said commissioners shall, by giving at least ten days' notice thereof, appoint some convenient time and place for holding an election for five directors, each of whom shall be a stockholder in said company. Said commissioners shall regulate and manage such first election in all things, and give certificates to the persons elected, each stockholder at such first, and at all subsequent elections being entitled to cast one vote for each share of stock he may own, which may be done in person or by proxy, and the president and directors of said company shall be individually liable for all debts by them contracted beyond the amount of solvent stock subscribed at the time.

SEC. 6. All subsequent elections shall be held at such time and place, and in such manner as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the company, and as near as annually as may be practicable.

SEC. 7. As soon as the first board of directors shall have been elected, and shall have received their certificates of election, the said commissioners shall hand over to them the books, papers, and all other property of said company, and said board shall elect one of their number as president, and shall also elect a treasurer and secretary, either from their own number, or otherwise, as may be deemed expedient, and this mode of organization shall be observed by each subsequent board.

SEC. 8. A majority of said directors shall constitute a quorum, and shall have power to fill, by appointment, any vacancy in the board, or any of the other offices. To adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations as may be expedient and necessary to carry out the powers and effect the objects herein contained.

SEC. 9. To appoint all needful officers, agents, and operatives. and to require bond and security from them.

SEC. 10. To enforce the payment of stock either by suit or forfeiture of stock with any amount already paid on the same.

SEC. 11. To acquire, lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of such real estate as may be necessary for the purpose of the company. SEC. 12. To make and declare dividends of the profits to the holders of the stock of the company.

SEC. 13. The said company, or its lessee, are authorized to have a bar in connection with said house, and to retail spirituous liquors, subject to all the limitations, restrictions, and provisions of law in relation to the retailing of spirituous liquors, and to all the pains and penalties provided by law against persons keeping disorderly houses, selling or giving away liquors to minors, or to persons in a state of intoxication, or on the sabbath day, except to travelers, or cases of sickness.

SEC. 14. Said company shall have power to purchase or otherwise legally acquire the necessary ground therefor, and to erect the necessary buildings and appurtenances for a hotel in the city of Rising Sun, and to keep the same in repair; and should said company decide to do so they may lease or rent, and put in proper condition and repair, any building or buildings in said city to be occupied for the purpose aforesaid until a suitable building may be erected. SEC. 15. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER CLXVII.

An act for the relief of the heirs of Elizabeth Blatner, late of Dearborn county, Indiana, but now deceased.

[APPROVED FEBRUARY 11, 1851.]

WHEREAS, One Elizabeth Blatner, of the county of Dearborn, State of Indiana, departed this life on or about the 7th day of August, 1850,intestate, the owner of real estate situate in said county, and, whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly that said Elizabeth Blatner was not a naturalized citizen of the United States at the time of her death, and had not made her declaration of intention to be come one, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That all deeds or conveyances for land within the State of Indiana made to the said Elizabeth Blatner before her death, shall be deemed and taken to be as good and effectual in law and equity

to vest in her the title of the land thus attempted to be conveyed, as if said Elizabeth Blatner had at the time the said deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances were made been a naturalized citizen of the United States.

SEC. 2. That any real estate of which the said Elizabeth Blatner died seized, or of which she would have been seized but for the disability of alienage, shall go to the persons that would have been entitled to the same if the said Elizabeth and the persons hereby authorized to take had been naturalized citizens of the United States, and the said persons are hereby vested with the same estate that the said Elizabeth would have had by the conveyances made to her if she had been a citizen, and that they would have had by descent from her if they had been citizens, and the State doth hereby relinquish to said last named persons all rights of, in, to, or over said land that may have accrued to her by escheat..

SEC. 3. And it is hereby declared to be the meaning of this act that the same persons shall take the property, real and personal, left by said Elizabeth by devise or descent, as the law may be, that would have taken the same if she and her kindred had been natural born citizens of the United States.

SEC. 4. This act to be in force from and after its publication in Indiana Statesman, and all laws conflicting with this act as to the persons embraced by this act are repealed.

CHAPTER CLXVIII.

An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Cass and Howard.

[APPROVED FEBRUARY 10, 1851.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That William Wilson and John McGrew, of Cass county, and Joseph Heaton, of Howard county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate and establish a state road, commencing at the town of Circleville, on the south side of the Wabash river, and running thence to the state road leading from Logansport to Marion, striking said last named road at the school house on the land of Franklin Bowyer, in Tipton township, Cass county, and running thence west along said road to the east line of what is commonly called "the seven mile strip," on or near

the same on the best and nearest route to the town of New London, in Howard county.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority of them, to assemble on or before the 1st day of July next, and after taking an oath before some officer qualified to administer oaths, to faithfully discharge their duties respectively as such commissioners, to proceed to lay out, mark, locate and establish said road; and said commissioners shall have power to employ such surveyor, chainmen, and axemen as they may deem proper for the purpose aforesaid; and the said commissioners, surveyor, chainmen and axemen shall each be allowed by the board doing county business in the counties of Cass and Howard, such sum or sums as they shall deem just and proper in proportion to the distance such road may run through said counties respectively.

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

CHAPTER CLXIX.

An act to incorporate the Central Michigan Plank Road Company.

[APPROVED FEBRUARY 12, 1851.]

WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, the Michigan Road Company has leave granted to it to convey to any other company incorporated under the provisions of the general plank road law of said State, or thereafter to be incorporated by act of the General Assembly, the right to construct a plank road from Indianapolis to a point 35 miles north of that city on the Michigan road; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That William Sullivan, Charles Parry, Alexander F. Morrison, Douglass Maguire, George E. West, Edward Lander, and Samuel Hood, of Marion county; John Hardin, Jacob Jones, of Boone county; and Holcroft, and their successors, and all the stockholders by this act constituted, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic, by the name of the Central Michigan Plank Road Company, with all the powers, immunities, rights, and privileges (not in this act otherwise provided,) granted and pertaining to the Michigan