The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-02

or sale of real estate for unpaid taxes,
State, county, municipal or railroad.
Where taxes are not paid by the 10Th of
next November the tax collectors are to
distrain and sell personal property as
now required by law If the tax on real
estate remains unpaid it Is to be adver
tised for sale on the first Monday in
January, 1876. Within thirty days af~
ter that date, the tax collector must cer~
| tify the sales to the Circuit Court, where
proceedings will be taken as now pros
vided by law. Six per cent interest Is to
! be collected from the time the taxes are
| due.
NORMAL SCHOOL.
The act for the establishment of a
| State Normal school authorizes the APP
| pOintment by the governor Of a board of
| education, consisting of six members, Of
which the governor shall be er,oficio
! president The board are required to
| give preference to a locality accessible
| from all parts Of the State, which offers
| the most suitable building and grounds
| No money from the State treasury or
school fund is to be expended for that
purpose
IT VILE PAY TO PAY Up.
All persons owing taxes levied during
! the years 1854, are relieved Of the
penalties fixed and prescribed in the
revenue act of March %, 1878, upon
payment of all taxes now due, provided
the same shall be paid on or before the
first OF next October.
MARRIED woNEN's PROPERTY.
All personal property belonging to
any married woman, whether acquired
before or after marriage, Is made exempt
from the debt, contracts or other liabili-
ties Of her husband, made or incurred by
him before their marriage but the act IS
not to be Sc construed as to effect or i'm
pair the marital rights of the husband in
the wife's property, other than is above
provided.
LOST DEEDS.
1t is now permitted by law to register
the copy of lost deed, which has not
been the case heretofore.
REDEEAING LANDS.
The time for redeemins IanIs sold
for taxes Is extended from one to two
years.
SCHOOL MONEY.
The poll tax of enc dollar, collected for
school purposes, is hereafter to be dis
tributed in the county where collected,
instead 81 being paid into the State
Treasury.
DIsPEysI WITH JURIEs II CIVIL SUITS.
Juries in civil cases are dispensed
with, unless demanded IN a case OF origi-
nal suit in the first pleading rendered and
in alIrother cases within the first three
days Of the trial term. The law does
not 90 into effect until forty days from
March y.
JURISDICTION OF MAGISTRATES IN CIVIL
CASES.
Tie iusrisdiction Of Justices of the
peace has been extended in civil cases 70
81 600, upon all notes Of hand indiscr.m
nateIy, whether calling for dollars and
cents, or for an amount to be discharged
IL any other means than money and
upon Endorsement of negotiable paper
where demand and notice are expressly
waive in the Endorsement; also to $500
upon all unsettled accounts, obligations,
contracts or other evidences Of debt not
enumerated above, and in cases for the
recovery Of property or Of damages, eX~
cept libel and SANDER. The act does
nU5 provide that it shall take effect from
and after its passage, and, therefore,
goes into operation forty days from
March 24.
NO CHANGE ~ THE REVENUE LAW
The Legislature passed no revenue
law An effort was made to reduce the
tax on merchants, but when the House
bill went to the SeRat2 all but one Sec
ton, which taxed sleeping cars $500
each, was stricken out The emascuat~
ed bill failed to pass yesterday for want
of time, and the rolling palaces still 90
untaxed.
TIE ASSESSMENT LAW.
Five hundred copies Of the assessment
law were ordered printed to be distribut-
ed among members of the General As
sembIv, it being important that its pro-
visions should be understood by the
people at an early Il day as possible, in
view of the fact that the assessors must
be elected at the April term OF the
County Courts. One assessor Is to be
elected for each county, aud he will hold
Office for four years.
TAXATIoy OF RAILROADS.
Railroads are to be taxed one and one
half per cent on their gross earnings
1t seems to be understood that the law
will not be resisted in the conrts
AVTI~CIVIL RIGHTS.
The new law in regard to hotels, res
tlurunts and places Of public amusement,
simply abrogates the c0mmOn law and
allows persons who engage in such bus