The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-04-18

Capitol at Nashville, they have b1sied them
selves in passing all kinds Of measures for
the purpose Of robbing the people Of their
political and personal rights and nine-tenths |
Of them to-day would not hesitate to fa II
their depleted pockets from the Golfers of a /
gentleman at the dead hour Of night You
shall know the tree by the fruit thereof
says the good book Surely, the productions
Of the Tennessee Legislature tells al too
plainly Of the meanness, ignorance aud. de /
pravity which has banded together for the
purpose of crushing outtrnth and justice in !
this radieai-ridden State The last Blow
struck BY the miserable stiak-pots could only
have eminated from the deprayed and an-
conscious leaders Of a set of thieges and
plunderers ltwas a stab at the life-blood
of the weekly Conseryative papers published
throughout the State, and which we're doing
service in the cause Of Right and Justice by
circulating Wholesome documents and ex-
posing the baseness, treachery aud tyranny
Of tie radical or Dominant party. The
reader, by perusing the following lawf2)
which was passed on the 18th Of February,
1865 Will see at glance that great Injustice
has been done, aud chat instead Of seeking
to enact law for Tire benefit Of tho public,
the Leeislature has enacted measure for
Che sole purpose OF keeping alive few mis-
cradle dishrags that promulgate ideas Of
negro-equaiity and migcegenetion Here is
the Infamous measure
An Act to regulate the publication Of legal
sEcmoN Il BE IL enacted by the Gsneral
Assembly Of the State OF Tennessee, That
It shall Be the duty of the Governor, upon
newspapers in each and every Congressional
district in the State, as IN his Judgment the
public interests may require IN which oil
legal advertisements required by law 80 be
made in a newspaper shall be published for
every county in such Congressional district
as required BY law-orders Of publication,
attachment and nonresident notices, sales
Of land BY decreea. execution mortgage, and
for taxes, BY sheriHs, clerks and all other
eficers. together with all other advertise
Inents required b. law to be made and pub
lished ia a newspaper of whatever nature,
which newspapels shall be printed and pub
lished ia the Congressional district In and
for which they shall be so designated.e Pro
videdi that no such paper so. designated shall
become An official newspaper for the publ
cation of the legal advertising of any county
Or district for which It may be 50 designated
unless such appointment shall be confirmed
by the Senate aud provided further, that
net more than one newspaper be so desig-
mated IN any one county. Provided, that
in any district where q German paper is
published and when TIE number of the popu-
iasion may Justify it, such German paper
may be designated additionally.
SIC g Be It further enacted, That all
newspapers 50 designated shall be the Off
cial newspapers for the county and tae Com
gressional district in and for which such
newspapers may be 80 designated, and in
which all the legal advertising of such
county and district shall be made. as re-
quired by law and it shall be the duty Of
tho editor or publisher ofsuch newspaper,
upon the payment Of the printers fee, to
file IN the clerks Office of the court having
jurisdiction his alidavitswith printed copy
of such advertisement appended, togsther
with his receipt for the payment of the
printers fee, paid by the party at whose in
stance or for whose benefit such advertise
ment shall have been made, to be collected
as other costs, which affidavit shall give the
dates OF the paper IN which the advertise
ment appeared and be fled and recorded by
tlle clerk as Sic legal evidence of the publ
cation % tie same. to be read, or certified
copy thereof in all courts Of law andequity;
aud any such publication made contrary to
the provisions Of this act in districts where
newspapers arc SO designated shall be null
and Of no effect.
SIC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
compensation 10 tire publishers of the news.
papers In thiS act be the same as now pro
vided BY law for similar service; and all
laws and parts Of laws in conflict with this
act be, and the same are hereby repealed
r. I
there is no paper designated in a county,
thenand In that case the legal notices shall
be published in the most convenient and
widely circulated paper by and In said
county designated by the Governor for the
Publication Of legal notices
f. S. RICHARDS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
ID. W. G SETTER,
Speaker Of the Senate
Passed February il, 1865.
certify that the above is a true copy of
the original now on Ale in my Office.
A. }. FLEroHER, Sec'y Of State.
So, wo are to lose all the legal printing Of
this county, and the Memphis Post, that
black advocate of diabolism, is to get the
benefit of what the Legislature of Tennessee
has actually robbed us Of We call upon
the opponents Of radicalism, Brownlowism
and hellism to stand by as and give Us their
support, and we'll continue to print the
Bolivar Bulletin and never fail to lash the
knaves who have crept in upon US like
thieves at night, and who are bent upon
placing their cloven feet upon our neeks,
while, with their long, bony fingers, they
flch every cent that honest labor can pro-
cure. We frankly acknowledge that by the
lar above printed we have been robbed out
of one-thiFd of our income, and We would
ask our friends TO stand by Us in this the
hour Of trial, and would ask the business
asd professional men Of Bolivar to hll up
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