Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-26

companies, battalliOns, regiments, brig
AIDES and divisions, under such rules ant
regulations as the Legislature may, from
time to time, direct and establish.
Sec. 2. The Governor shall appoint tn,
Adjutant- General and his other staff Off
GERS; the Major-Generals, Brigadier-G Gen
erals, and commanding officers of regi
ments, shall respectively appoint theil
staff officers.
Sec. 3. The Legislature shall pass law,
exempting citizens belonging to any sec
or determination of religion, the tenets O
which are known to be opposed to bearing
arms, from attending private and genera
musters.
ARTICLE TX.
DISQUALIFICATION.
Section l. WHEREAS, Ministers of the
| Gospel are, by their profession, dedicated
to God and the care Of souls, and ought
not to be diverted from the great duties o.
their functions; therefore, no Minister o.
the Gospel, or priest of any denomination
whatever, shall be eligible to seat in
either House of the Legislature.
Sec. 2. No person who denies the being
of God, or a future state of rewards and
punishment, shall hold any Office in the
civil department of this State.
Sec. 3. Any person who shall, after the
adoption ofthis Constitution, fight duel
or knowingly be the bearer of a challenge
TO fight duel, or send or accept a chal-
lenge for that purpose, or be an alder OF
abettor in fighting duel, shah be de-
priVed of the right to hold any Office OF
honor or profit in this State. and shall be
punished otherwise, in such manner as the
Legislature may prescribe.
ARTICLE X.
oArHs, BRIBERY OF ELECTORS, NEW
COUNTIES.
Section l. Every person who shall be
chosen or appointed to any Office of trust
or profit under this Constitution, or any
law made in pursuance thereof, shall, be-
fore entering upon the duties thereof,
take an oath to support the Constitution
of this State, and of the United States,
and an oath Of Office.
Sec 2. Eeach member of the Senate
and House of Representatives shall, be-
fore they proceed to business, take an
oath or affirmation to support the Consti-
tuition of this State, and of the United
States, and also the following oath: "I
--, do solemnly swear Tor affirm
that, as a member of this General Assem-
bly,, l will, in all appointments, vote
without favor, affection, partiality, or
prejudice; and that 1 will not propose or
assent to any bill, vote or resolution,
which shall appear to me injurious to the
people, or consent to any act or thing
whatever, that shall have a tendency to
lessen or abridge their rights and privi-
leges, as declared by the Constitution Of
this State"
Sec. 3. ANY elector who shall receive
any gift or reward for his vote, in meat,
drink, money or otherwise, shall suffer
such punishment as the laws shall direct.
And any person who shall directly or in
directly give, promise or bestow any sEeh
reward to be elected, shall thereby be rem
dered incapable, for six years, to serve in
the office for which he was elected, and be
subject to such further punishment as the
Legislature shall direct.
Sec. t. New counties may be estab-
lished by the Legislature, to consist of not
less than two hundred and seventy-five
square miles, and which shall contain a
population of seven hundred qualified vo-
ters. No line of such county shall ap-
proach the court house of any old county,
from which it may be taken, nearer than
eleven miles, nor shall said old county be
reduced to less than five hundred square
miles. But the following exceptions are
made to the foregoing provisions, viz:
New counties may be established by the
present or any succeeding Legislature out
OF the following territory, to wit: Out of
that portion of ObiOn county which lies
west of low water mark of Reel Foot
Lake. Out of fractions of Sumner, Ma
con and Smith counties, but no line of
such new county shall approach the court
house of Sumner or Smith counties near
er than ten miles, nor include any
part of Macon county lying within
nine and a half miles of the court
house of said county, nor shall more
than twenty square miles of Macon
county, nor any part of Sumner county
lying due west of the western boundary
OF Macon county, be taken in the forma-
tion of said new county. Out of fractions
of Granger and Jefferson counties, but
no line of such new county shall include
any part of Granger county north of Hols-
ton river, nor shall any line thereof ap-
proach the court house Of Jefferson county
nearer than eleven miles such new
county may include any other territory
which is not excluded by any general
provisions of this Constitution out of
fractions ofJackson and Overton counties,
but no line of such new county shall ap-
proach the court house of Jackson or
Overton counties nearer than ten miles,
nor shall such county contain less than
four hundred qualified voters, nor shall
the area Of either of the old counties be
reduced below four hundred and fifty
square miles. Out of fractions of Roane
Monroe and BlOunt counties, around the
town of LOudOn, but no line of such new
county shall ever approach the towns
Of Maryville, Kingston or jacksonville, |
nearer than eleven miles, except that on
the south side of the Tennessee river,
said lines may approach as near as ten
miles to the court house of Bosne county. |
The counties of Lewis, Gheatham and |
Sequatchie, as now established, by legis- |
latfve enactments, are hereby declared to |
be constitutional counties. No part of |
Bledsoe county shall be taken to form 6 |
new county, or part thereof, or attached |
10 any adjoining county.
L4N
within the following boundaries, to-wit: |
on the Grundy and Marion |
county line, at the Nick-a-iack Trace, and |
running about six hundred yards west of |
Ben Bosey's, to where the Tenpestea Coal /
Railroad crosses the line, running thence /
southeast through the Pocket, near VIM.
summers, crossing the Battle Greek Gulf
1t the corner of Thomas Wooten's field,
hence running across the Little Gizzard
Iulf at Raven Point, thence in direct
ine to the bridge crossing the Big Fiery
5iZzard, thence in a dIrct line to the
mouth of Holy Water Creek, thence up
said creek to the Grundy county line, and
hence with said line to the beginning, is
hereby detached from Marion county and
attached to the county of Grundy.
No part of a county shall be taken off |
% form a new county, or q part thereof,
without the consent OF two-thirds of the |
And where an old county is reduced
or the purpose of forming a new
me, the seat of justice in said
I'D county shall not be removed
without the concurrence Of two-thirds of
both branches of the Legislature, nor
hall the seat of justice of any county be
,emoved without the concurrence of two
birds of the qualified voters of the coun-
y. But the foregoing provision requir-
q tTyn irfiG " of 10 Of
county to remove its county seat shall
lot apply to the counties of Obion and
locke.
The fractions taken from old counties
o form hew counties, or taken from one
county and added to another, shall con-
inue liable for their pro rata of all debts
contracted by their respective counties
,rior to the separation, and be entitled to
heir proportion OF any stocks or credits
belonging to such old counties,
Sec. 5. The oitizens who may be in
luded in any new county shall vote with
he county or counties from which they
nay have been stricken off, for members
4 Congress, for Governor, and for mem
,ers of the General Assembly until the
lext apportionment of members to the
ieneral Assembly after the establishment
# such new county.
ARTICLE II.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Section |. All laws and ordinances now
u force and use in this State, not incon-
istent with this Constitution, shall con-
inue in force and use until they shall ex-
lire or be altered or repealed by the Leg
stature. But ordinances contained in
my former Constitution, or schedule
hereto, are hereby abrogated.
Sec q Nothing contained in this Con-