The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1875-02-13
LEGISLATIVE.

reading, ayes %, nays O.. The fol-
lowing is the bin in full:
SECTION /. BE IL enacted by the
Generm AsSembly Of the State of
Tennessee, That the County Trustee
of each comfy of the State OF Tennes
see shall be &c o6icio collectors of the
State and County taxes in their re-
spective counties, with all the privi-
leges, rights and duties, that are now
conferred by law on Revenue Collect
ors, and subject to all the liabilities,
pains and penalties that now attach
to them.
SEC. 2. BE itfwther enacted, That
the Trustee shall euter into bond,
with good and approved security,
with the Chairman of the County
Court or Judge, to be approved by
said Court, and also by the Judge OF
the Circuit Court of the judicial dis
tIict in which the county is embraced,
for the faithful collection and pays
ment of all taxes as now by law re-
quired of the Revenue Collector, and
settle with the Comptroller of the
State and Chairman of the County
Court or Judge, as is now required
by law of the Tax Collector.
SEC. 3 BE il. further enacted, That
the County Trustee Of each county
shall receive for his services as com
pensation for the collection of and
paying cut the funds of both State
and county, the sum of six dollars on
every hundred dollars collected for
the first FIVE thousand dollars or I'M
der, and five dollars per hundred Oh
sums over five thousand dollars and
MP to ten thousand dollars.
and three dollars pei hundred on all
sums over ten thousand dollars and
up to twenty thousand dollars, and
two dollars per hundred on all sums
over twenty thousand dollars and no
more, and shall make settlement as
now required of Revenue Collectors
4, pr0Uiaed. that nothing contained i'll
| this act shall be construed as in any
way to interfere with Revenue Col.
lectors or County Trustees for the
tins they may have been elected I'M
der existing laws.
SEC. 4. BE IL further enacted, That
all laws in conhics with the provis
ions of this act be and the same are
hereby repealed.
In the House, on the 9th inst, the
Chair announced the following com.
mittee on q Constitutional Conven
ton 9
Messrs. Shackelford, Orr and Nor
gan from the Middle Division Har
ris, Nealand Burnett from Eastern
Division Cunmins, McGlothlin and
Cole from Western Division, and Mr.
Hurt from the State at large.
In the House, ON the 9Th inst, the
bill to regulate trials by jury in civil
cases passed on third reading, after 9
lengthy discussion. This bill pro-
vides that
When any civil suit is brought in
any of the courts of record in this
State, having common law iurisdic-
ton, whether the same comes to sucl
court by summons, appeal. certiorari
or otherwise, and which is now tria-
bic by jury, either party desiring a
| jury, shall, in case of original suits
demand jury in his first pleadings.
and in case Of all other suits, shall
demand a jury within the first three
days of the trial term, aud if no such
demand is made, the Clerk shall place
such case on a docket to be styled
the "non-jury docket; and q failure
to so call for a jury shall be deemed
and held conclusively, an agreement
of the parties to submit all issue OF
fact to the decision of the Judge, and
if such demand is made as aforesaid.
then the Clerk shall place the same
upon docket to be styled the Jury
docket; provided, that at any time
after the time for making up, the
pleadings, any cause on either OF
said dockets may, by consent of both
parties, be transferred from one OF
those dockets to the other. 1t shall
be the duty of the Clerks of the
courts aforesaid, under the direction
of the Judges thereof, to keep two
trial dockets, styled respectively
'non-jnry docket and ''jurydocket,
upon which he shall place the cases
respectively designated in the first
section of this act. In the trial OF
civil cases, as provided for in this act,
the Judges of the courts aforesaid,
shall have the option to try mon jury
causes, either before or after Jury
causes; provided, that while the
mon jury causes are being tried, no
jury shall be in attendance on the
court.
| In the House on the 9Th inst. Mr..