Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04
Recorders Court.

at fayetteVllle,I III WHICH the uuties
of the Recorder, Town Constable
and Policemen are defined:
AN ACT entitled an act to estab-
lish Recorders Court in the
towns of Shelbyville, Murfrees-
boro, Franklin, Tullahoma, Fay,
etteville, Winchester and Man.
chester.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By the
General assembly Of the State of
Tennessee:
That the Recorder OF the town
of Shelbyville, in Bedford county,
be and he is, hereby invested with
concurrent jurisdiction with JUS
tees of the Peace in all cases of
violation of the criminal laws of
the State, and also with full power
and authority, to try and punish
all persons guilty of a violation of
the Ordinances of the Mayor and
Aldermen of said town Prorided,
said violations take place within
the corporate limits of said town
of Shelbyville.
SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted,
That the Mayor and Aldermen of
said town of Shelbyville, shall
have power to regulate the Police
of the town, to impose fines, and
forfeitures and penalties for the
breach of any ordinance, and to
provide for their recovery before
the Recorder of said town, to pro-
vide for the arrest and contine-
ment until trial, of all rioters and
disorderly persons within said town
by day or by night, to prevent and
punish by pecuniary penalties, all
breaches of the peace, noise, or
disturbances, or disorderly assem-
blies in any street, house or place
in said town, by day or by night.
They shall have power also to
erect and use as they may choose,
a work house, Jail or calaboose in
or near said town. And any per-
son who shall fail or neglect to pay,
or secure to be paid, any fine and
costs, or fine or cost imposed upon
him by the Recorder of said town,
setting as a Court as by this Act
he is fully authorized to do, shall
be by said Recorder committed to
said work house, Jail or calaboose
for such time as said Recorder may
determine. The person so COM
mitted may and shall have the
privilege to work for said town, at
such labor as his health and
strength will permit, not exceed
ing ten hours each day, and for
such work and labor the person SO
employed, shall be allowed, exclu-
sive of his board, a credit upon
such fine and costs of one dollar
and fifty cents per day until the
whole is discharged, when he shall
! be released; Pouided, That no per-
son shall be compelled to work lon.
ger than three months for any one
offense.
| Sec. 8. Be 1t further enacted,
That the Town Constable of said
town, shall have the power to ex-
ecute State Warrants, and other
process which Constables generally
have the power to execute, within
the corporate limits of said town.
Sec. 4. Be 1t further enacted,
That the Town Constable of said
town, shall in all respects after
his election to office, be subject to
the bye laws, orders, rules and
regulations of the Mayor and AL
dermen of said town, and for any
violation, neglect or disregard of
such bye laws, orders, rules and
regulations, he shall, at the will,
and in the discretion of said May
or and Aldermen, be removed from
office. And should a vacancy oc-
cur in said office of Town Consta-
BILE by such removal, or from any
other cause, the said Mayor and
Aldermen shall proceed to elect
another individual qualified to fill
said Office, who shall serve for the
residue of the time of said Town
Constable.
Sec. 5. Be at tivther enacted,
That the fees of said Town Con-
stable and Recorder be the same as
Justices of the Peace and ether
Constables.
Passed December 18th, 1865.