The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-12-07
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to abolish the Chancery Court at Mad
isonville, Monroe County, Tennessee,
and to r~e-establish said court.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Tennessee,
That an act entitled, Gan act to abolish
the Chancery Court OF Madisonville,
Monroe county, Tennessee, , passed Jan
uary q, 1871, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
Sec. 2. Be il further enacted, That the
Chancery Court at jacksonville, Monroe
county, be and the same is hereby re-
established, and said county shall here
after be a separate chancery district, and
be and the same is hereby attached to
the third chancery division.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That
said Chancery Court shall be held on the
third Mondays Of April and October, and
all writs, process and precepts hereto
fore, issued from the Chancery Court at
Athen , Tennessee, in causes within the
jurisdiction Of the court hereby estab-
lished, shall be and are hereby made re-
turnable to the next regular term of the
Chancery Court at M~adisonville.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all
causes within the jurisdiction of the
court established by the act, which are
now pending in the Chancery Court OF
Athens, Tennessee shall be and the same
are hereby transferred to the Chancery
Court at Madisonyille, and shall stand in
said court in the same plight and condi-
ton, and be proceeded With in the same
manner as they do and would be in said
Chancery Court at Athens.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all
property, papers, records and books, in
Guiding the book containing the record
Of SO much Of the proceedings of the
May term, 1871, of the Chancery Court
at Athens, as were had in causes within
the jurisdiction Of the court established
by this act, which belonged to the former
Chancery Court at Madisonville, and al
30 those which pertain TO causes origina-
ting within the jurisdiction of said court
since its establishment shall be transfer
red to the Chancery Court at Madison
vile; but such transfer shall not be made
until after the Chancellor of said Third
Chancery Division shall have appointed
a Clerk and Master for said Chancery
Court at Madisonville, nor until said APP
poin.oe shall have been duly qualified
by giving a bond as Clerk and Master
OF said court in the manner and form as
required by law, with good and sufficient
security, to he approved by said Chan
cellor. Upon the execution and appro-
val of said bond, the Chancellor shall
direct the Clerk and Master of the Chan
Gerry Court at Athens to turn over and
transfer to said appointee, all the said
property, papers and records, etc, as re-
CURED by the first part of this section.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, Thatun-
til a Clerk and Master of the Chancery
Court at Madisonville shall be appoint
ed and qualified in the manner as re-
qpired in the fifth section of this act, the
Clerk and Master Of the Chancery Court
at Athens shall continue to perform the
duties Of Clerk and Master necessary in
all causes belonging to the court hereby
established.
Sec. T.. Be it further enacted, That
this act take effect from and after it's
passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed November %, 1871.
JAMES D. RICHARDSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN G. VAUGHN,
Speaker of the Senate.
Received at the Executive office No
vember %, 1871, and approved.
JOHN G. Brown, Governor.
I certify that the above is n true copy
Of the original now on file in my Office.
7. H. BUTLER,
Secretary OF State.