Thomas v. Board of Commissioners

This was a bill in chancery. The facts presented by the bill are these:

On the 14th of March, 1853, there was filed in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Clay county, what purported to be an act of the general assembly of Indiana, passed February 3d, 1853, entitled, “ An act to authorize the re-location of the seat of justice of the county of Clay," &c. That act provides, inter alia, that Isaac W. Denman, *5William K. Edwards, Burr Me Grew, John Johnson and William D. Allen, be appointed commissioners to re-locate said seat of justice; that said commissioners should meet at the…