Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-25

To abolish the Quorum Courts, and de-
yOlve the duties and jurisdiction and pow
ers thereof on the Chairman Of the County
Court.
To prevent pulling and leaving fences
down, and Of opening and leaving open
gates, without permission Of owner.
To amend chapter So, section ., Of an
act passed February I'd, 1870.
To regulate the business Of life insur-
ance in the State Of Tennessee.
To regulate and organize municipal cor
pOratiOns of certain populations, and for
the increase and diminutiOn Of their pow
ers.
To amend the criminal laws ofthe State.
To repeal section 3 Of an act passed
March "A, 1873.
To enlarge the remedy by motion in Ger
tain cases.
To regulate contracts between employee
and employer, and to impose a penalty for
the violation thereof.
To protect farmers and prevent injury to
crops.
To define the rights and duties and reg
ulate the liabilities Of warehousemen and
factors.
For the benefit of A. C. NOryell, of Da-
wilson county.
To repeal an act for the benefit Of agri-
| cultural and mechanical societies passed On
the Sth Of December, 1871.
To lessen the number Of challenges in
criminal cases, and to amend section 4OI4
Of the Code.
For the relief Of Abel Rushing, of Can
non county.
To amend all laws for the assessment
and collection Of revenue.
To require persons convicted of misde-
meanOrs to work out the costs Of the con-
victiOn.
To repeal part of section 2 ofchapter 1O2,
Of acts Of 1873, which requires purchasers
to give bonds.
To create new county of Of Madison
Henderson and McNaiIy and Hardeman
counties, in the State Of Tennessee.
To change the time Of electing the Board
/ of Mayor and Aldermen Of the town Of
| GAINESVILLE, to make the term Of their Office
| two instead Of one year as by the present
/ charter. To amend the charter Of the said
town, the same being the act Of 1S59-6O,
| so as to change the provisions Of an act
/ with reference thereto passed 1856,
chapter 80, limiting the taxation for five
years, and applying the tax to a specific
| purpose, so as 10 take Off said limitation
| and said restriction and 10 authorize the
| leVying Of one fifth of one per cent for
school purposes, and further to amend said
/ charter 50 as to strike out all provision
thereof, having reference to "negrO
traders and "negrO yards and 10 free
negroes or slaves.
| Declaring the mode aid manner Of valu-
ing the property Of arailrOad company.
To authorize the appointment Of inspec-
/ tors of Illuminating oils and fluids.
| To make uniform the fees Of the Regis
tiers Of the Land Offices Of the State of
| Tennessee.
To provide for redesming lands Sold for
| taxes.
To amend the charter Of the town of
/ Wartrace.
To release certain parties from liability.
To provide for the Management and
lease Of the penitentiaTy.
To amend an act entitled Gan act 10
create a Bureau Of Immigration
To repeal an act entitled, 'sAn act to es-
tablish additional Hospitals for the In
sane"
Relative to tax collectors.
To prevent intrusion by hunters on en-
closed lands, fields and pastures.
To invest the Superintendent Of the Cap
itol with police powers.
To authorize and regulate the issuance
of State warrants.
To encourage the building Of macadam-
lied roads.
To relieve taxpayers and tax-collectors
of the penalties provided for in the 57th
section Of the revenue act passed March 2,
1873.
To amend the law in regard to the prop
erty Of married women.
Authorizing the city Of Memphis to grant
to the United States a site for a custom
house.
To more cheaply collect the State, eoun-
ty and municipal revenue.
To protect private fisheries.
To amend the charter Of the Franklin
and LewisbUrg Turnpike Company.
To regulate the business Of fire and all
other, except life, insurance companies.
To dfene the rights, duties and liabili-
ties Of inn keepers, common carriers and
prOprietors OF places Of public amusement.
To define what property is, by the Con
stitUtiOn, exempt from taxation, and what
the Legislature, under the power conferred
upon it, does exempt, and what is taxable.
Divesting County Courts Of the right TO
change county lines.
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For the benefit Of Emily l.. Heron.
For the preservation Of game and birds.
To amend an act fixing the time for
holding the Law Court at DucktOWn, and
to change the time Of holding courts in the
9Th Chancery Division, and 5th and 18th
Judicial Circuits.
To provide for bills of exception and te
regulate the practice where new trials are
granted or refused.
To prevent vagTancy.
To amend the charter Of the University
of Nashville.
To amend and repeal certain sections Of
the Code and b define lawful fences.
To repeal section 1856 Of the Code Of
Tennessee in relation to private corpora
tions for manufacturing, quaTyiUg and
mining.
To amend act granting furnishers Of sup
plies lien on crop.
To secure uncOllected revenue for the
year 1872, and for the relief Of certain tax
collectors.
Providing for registration Of copies Of
deeds Of conFeyances in certain cases.
To authorize Quarterly County Courts Of
the State to appoint a Back Tax Collector.
An act to locate a toll gate nearer than
one mile Of Woodbury..
To establish normal schools in c0nnec-
ton with the public school system Of Ten
nessee.
For the benefit of Franklin Academy at
Jackson.
To change the county lines between
ROane and Loudon.
To amend the public school laEs.
To extend the time of completion Of the
North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky
railroad.
To contract the corporate limits Of Hum
bOldt and Trenton.
To authorize the sale Of common school
| land in the county Of Hardin.
To change the line between Maury and
Marshall counties.