Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-25
THE SESSIONS WORK.
A Complete List Of the Acts Passed
by the General Assembly.
One Hundred and Four Of Them,
in All.

The following is a complete list Of the
acts passed by the General Assembly dur
ing The session which closed yesterday:
To amend an act passed March 10, 1875,
known as the Funding act.
To enable aliens to acquire, hold and
dispose Of property, real and personal, as
native citizens.
To change the times of the sessions Of
the Supreme Court, and to provide for an
arbitration commission at Jackson, Ten
nessee.
TO regulate trial by jury in civil cases.
To authorize the sale of fraction Of the
Bolivar Male Academy To- in the town of
Bolivar, Tenn.
To amend section SOS Of the Code of
Tennessee, in regard to cOntinuances be-
cause of too great excitement.
To tax the losing party with the jury
fees in all civil suits, and to repeal sections
4O36 and 403T Of the Code.
To authorize the appointment Of an ad-
ditiOnal number of Justices Of the Peace in
certain incorporated cities.
To authorize the sale Of academy prop
erty under certain circumstances.
To repeal sections 246, 453l and 1882 Of
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the Acts Of 1S59-'6O.
To increase the jurisdiction Of Justices Of
the Peace.
To change the times of holding the
Chancery Court at Columbia and at Frank
lin.
To repeal an act passed the 18th Of De-
cember, 1871, known as an act to establish
a Bureau Of Agriculture, and to repeal an
act passed the 18th Of March, 1873, amend
atOry thereof, and to create Bureau Of
Agriculture, Statistics and Mines.
To amend an act entitled tan act to
change the time Of the sessions Of the Su-
preme Court, and to provide for an arbitra-
ton commission at Jackson.
To provide for an additional Notary
Public each in certain counties.
To change the time Of holding the Grim
inal Court in the county Of Knox.
For the protection and preservation Of
game in Lake county, Tennessee.
To change the time of holding the Cir
cult Courts Of the Eleventh Judicial Cir
cult.
Toprovide for cases in the Supreme
Court where the Judges are equally, divided.
To amend an act entitled an act for the
benefit Of persons who have lost their
grants, or deeds Of conveyance, TO their
lands in the OcOee District, passed Jan.
II, 1871.
To authorize the Governor Of the State
to appoint commissioners to treat with the
State of Kentucky, for the purchase Of that
portion Of Kentucky known as Madrid
Bend.
To authorize the revival Of judments.
To abolish the Second Circuit Court and
the Second Chanoery Court Of Shelby
county.
To allow an additional Justice Of the
Peace in the 5th civil district Of McNairy
county.
To authorize the Trustees Of the Morgan
County Academy to sell and relocate.
Authorizing the county of Hardeman to
build Jail.
To declare how suits for the benefit of
counties shall be brought.
To change the time of holding the
ChauceTy and Circuit Courts Of Cannon
county, and time Of holding the Chancery
Court of Rutherford county, and to repeal
so much Of an act approved March "A, 1873,
entitled an act to change the time Of
holding the Circuit Court at Lebanon and
Woodbury..
To regulate the number Of guards in GER
tain cases.
To authorize the foremen Of grand juries
to swear witnesses brought before them to
testify.
To prohibit the bringing of stolen prop
erty into the State.
To change and fix the time of holding
the Chancery Court Of Crockett.
To amend section 2990 and 1891 of the
Code Of Tennessee, prescribing the mode
of setting aside satisfaction and substitu-
ton.
To psohibit the buying and selling Of
offices.
To increase the number Of nOtaries pub
lie for the county Of Knox.
To punish executors, administrators,
guardians or trustees for converting to their
own use and benefit and falling to pay over
trust funds.
To regulate the practice in civil cases.
To amend an act passed the LIST March,
1873, and approved March s, 1873, entitled
San act defining the rights, privileges, re-
strictiOns and liabilities Of gas-light COM
panies, hereafter to be incorporated" so as
to reduce the minimum Of capital in cities
and towns of populations of 5000 inhabi-
tants or less, to $4,000 instead Of $4,000.
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Male and Female Academies.
To repeal chapter II Of the acts Of 1873,
being San act to authorize parties to sever
in criminal causes"
To change the time of holding the Chan
Gerry and Circuit Courts in the counties Of
Cumberland and Morgan, State Of Ten
nessee.
To amend an act entitled ian act to
compensate Justices Of the Peace and
Jurors" passed Nov. p, 1866, and to
amend an act entitled San act to amend an
act passed Nov. p, 1866" passed Dec. 4,
1867.
To amend jailers' fees, and to repeal an
act passed Feb. 10, 1866, entitled an act to
increase jailers' fees.
To amend the various acts in reference
10 the Beams Station and Cumberland Gap
Turnpike road, and consolidate the same
into one act.
To repeal section Of an act entitled
San act creating the Office Of jailer of Da-
wilson county" passed Jan. %, 1868.
More edectually to secure the revenue re-
ceived by the clerks and justices.
To repeal section 4 of an act entitled San
act to prevent the killing Of deer in Lewis,
Lawrence, Wayne and Franklin" ap-
proved March p, 1873.
For the benefit of Fayette and other
counties.
For the reorganization Of Agricultural
Associations.
To authorize the Comptroller to settle
with George G. Dibbrell late President and
Receiver Of the Southwestern Railroad.
Relating to the consolidation Of railroad
companies, supplementary to the act ap-