The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-04-20
WORK OF THE SESSION.
One Hundred and SIxty-Nlne BlIIa Passed
by the General Assembly.
A Complete and Correct List of the New
Laws.

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Authorizing the city of Memphis to gran
lot to the United States for a custom
house.
For the relief of counties wherein record
and court houses have been burned, and es
pecially for the relief of Cooke county,
Extending the time for the collection o
the tax of 1876. Became a law without the
governors approval.
Changing the session of the supreme
court.
Declaring the duties of the attorney gen
eral for the state.
To provide for the Reorganization of deed:
and wills, when court houses and records
have been burned.
Fixing the terms of the court of Duck
town.
Repeating the dog law. Became a law
March 5, without the governors approval
Repeating the law giving county judge
to Cannon county.
Authorizing municipal corporations to
compromise or settle their Indebtedness.
To set back toll gates on the Whites Greek
turnpike.
Allowing purchasers of railroads sold
under mortgage to incorporate, etc.
For the benefit of the Shelby county turn
pike company.
Creating the new county of Haines out oi
portions of Benton, Carroll, Henderson and
Decatur.
Abolishing the Office of county judge Sum
ner county.
Declaring the mode and manner of valu'
ing the property of telegram companies fol
taxation, and of taxing sleeping cars.
To extend the time for the completion OF
the unfinished railroads in the state.
Amending section &C of an act passed
March 20, 1875, applying to municipal cor
pOrations having more than $500 inhab-
itants.
| To amend an act entitled "An Act declar-
ing the mode and manner of valuing the
property of railroad company for taxation,
passed March 26, 1875" and to adjust the
rights of the state and railroads, etc.
| Authoring railroad corporations to pur-
chase other railroads. in adjoining states.
Repeating the ten per cent. interest law.
| To prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
near institutions of learning.
| Relating to the operations of the United
States coast survey in the state of Tennes.
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Robertson. Montgomery, Maury, Gibson,
Madison, Stewart, Franklin, LoudOn, Monroe,
! Hawkins, Henry and Crockett
To change the time of holding the circuit
court of Trousdale county.
To change the time of holding the circuit
court of Macon county.
To extend the jurisdiction of boards of
health.
To reduce the boundaries of the cOrpor-
ations of the towns of Lebanon and Man.
chester.
Granting to the town OF Mitchellsville an
additional justice of the peace.
To declare the terms on which foreign cor
pOrations organized for mining and manufac-
turing purposes may carry on their business
and purchase, hold and convey real aud per-
sonal property in this state.
To provide for the removal and reinter-
ment of the remains of ex-Gov. Willie
Blount.
For the more efficient collection of munich
pal taxes in corporations having more than
$4,000 inhabitants.
To repeal section 2 of an act entitled An
Act to amend the charter of the Whites
Creek turnpike road and for other purposes"
passed may "a, 1866.
To amend and declare the law in relation
to lawful fences.
To repeal section II of an act passed
March II, 1872, entitled &C. An Act to fund
the past due bonds aud coupons of the state,
and to sustain the credit thereof"
To repeal an act entitled 'An Act to pro-
tect private fisheries, passed March "a"
(chaPter 114(.
To repeal an act entitled can Act for the |
protection and preservation of game in Lake |
county," passed March IL, 1875.
To repeal section 81 of an act incorpora-
ting the Winan high school, at Knoxville, and |
for other purposes.
To fix the time of holding the chancery
and ci cult courts at Vanderbilt for the
county of Unicoi.
Authorizing insurance companies to re-
duce their capital stock; and to amend an
act passed March 10, 1875, entitled I" An Act
to provide for the organization of corpora
TONS"
To repeal an act entitled. &" An Act to es-
tablish the law court of Nashville" and the
act entitled, can Act to amend an act en-
titled an act to establish the law court OF
Nashville"
To cbanUe the line hetween the counties of
Dyer and 1auderdale.
To establish the line between Jefferson
md Hamblen counties, and to appoint COM
nissioners to run and mark said county
inc.
To amend the rules of chancery practice,
md diminish the costs of litigation in all
he courts of Tennessee having equitable or
hancery jurisdiction, and in the supreme
ourt. ,
To repeal certain portions of an act passed
darch 10, 1875, relating to the Bean station
nd Cumberland Gap turnpike.
To change the time of holding the chan>
cry courts in the 9th division of Ten
lessee,
To establish the lines between Washington
nd Unicoi counties.
To amend an act entitled, "An Act for the !
eneft of the pauper deaf and dumb and
lind children of the state" passed Jan. 80, 7
$780, and to amend an act entitled, An Act
o repeal section 1892 of the code in refer
nee to the admission of pupils to the Ten /
lessee deaf and dumb school," passed March '
2, 1860.
TO amend an act approved March 13, 1875, t
chapter 36) to punish executors, administra-
ors, guardians and trustees fo- converting
rust funds to their own use and benefit, and
ailing to paY over trust funds.
To provide for an arbitration commission o
It Nashville.
TO amend section 1907 of the code of Ten a
lessee.
Amendatory of an act to incorporate the
henderson male and female insti ution {
,assed March 90, 1869.
For the relief of Montpelier academy, in |
Jackson county, and to empower the trustees g
o rebuild the same.
To provide for the appointment of trustees
or the hospital for the insane, and to amend a
ection 1922 of the code.
To deprive the state of Tennessee of the
,ower to borrow money, and to repeal Sec I
ion 81 of an act, passed March 1, 1869, en- {
tiled, An Act to amend the revenue laws {
# the state"
To repeal chapter ia of the acts of 1875
% far as it effects the county of Wayne.
To change the county line between the
counties CT Benton and Decatur. s
To amend an act to incorporate the town
# Pulaski, passed Feb. 2, 1850.
To amend an act entitled, "An Act to
.hange the line between the counties of &
Polk, McMinn, Hawkins, Hamblen, Cheat 7
lam and Dickson" passed March q, 1873,
md approved March "a 1873.
To change the line between the counties
# Montgomery and Cheatham.
To change the line between the counties OF
lawrence and Wayne.
To amend an act passed June II, 1870, en-
tiled, An Act to regulate the elective fran {
,hise in accordance with act 4, sec. 1, of 1
he constitution of the state"
Giving the chancellors of this state con-
current Jurisdiction with the circuit court t
Judges in granting writs of eeTtiOrGyi and
1persededS, removing causes from Justices 7
courts to the circuit court. I
To repeal an act entitled "Au Act to
mend the criminal laws of the state !
,assed March 2s, 1875, in regard to grand
nd petit larceny and other crimes. C
To amend an act entitled, can Actto char
er the Easleville, Uniouville and Shelby I
lille turnpike company" passed Feb. Z,
$50.
To repeal so much of the act entitled An
Aet to more cheaply collect the state, county i
nd municipal revenue" passed March %,
SIS, as relates to the collection of munici> '
,al revenue, and to provide for the collec-
ion Of municipal revenue.
To amend an act entitled " An Act to au-
horize the appointment of inspectors of
oils and fluids" '
To provide a special commission of aibi>
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