The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-16
THE LEGISLATURE'S
WORK.
Complete List of the More I'M
portaDt Bills.

The 44th General Assembly
passed 167 bills. A large number
of them were to change county lines
and other minor matters. We col
late all that areSof any interest to
the CITIZEN readers:
To amend the act fixing the compensation
ofjudges.
To prevent baseball playing on Sunday
To amend section 108 of the code.
To amend an act fixing compensation o.
chancellors.
To encourage the raising Of blooded stock
For the relief of J. J. Phillips.
To amend the act estabhs hing taxing dis
triets of the first class.
Authorizing counties to establish health
boards.
To establish Referee Courtfor Middle Ten
nessee.
Appropriating $4,000 to finish the Eas'
Tennessee Insane Asylum.
To buy the new code.
To pay Post-notes.
To repeal the railroad commission.
To punish polygamy.
To authorize municipal corporations to is
sue bonds.
To amend the charter of Pulaski.
To provide for the descent of estates of IL
legitimate children.
Continuing hens of DEGREES of Chancery
Courts.
To punish the killing of another's stock.
To amend section l and to repeal section
2 of san act sof 1879, ssdXing the compensa-
ton of judges of the Supreme Court.
To erect hospitals at $500 per Rnnum.
To prohibit the playing Of baseball,
cricket. OF any other game of ball, bat or
club on Sunday
To provide recorders court in Pulaski.
To MI h.
meat ofpeddling taxes.
To prohibit the sale of Intoxicating bitters
within four miles of institutions of learning,
except within incorporated towns and cities.
To provide for the payment to the holders
eff the Mineral Home Railroad bonds.
To enable County Courts to build bridges
over streams or MYERS.
To apportion the state into insane Hospital
districts and to provide for the trusteeship
and management of the Eastern Asylum, to
amend the laws of admission and commit
ment to such hospital and to fla uniform
rate for the support of patients.
To empower corporations, upon q vote of q
majority of the whole apithl stock issued, to
issue or dispose of bonds for any corporate
purpose, and to make q mortgage upon it's
property or franchise, and providing that the
pure hasers thereof shall be and are consti-
tuted the corporation with all Its powers, ex-
cept railroad and turnpike companies.
To provide for the Incorporation of agri-
cult raj, horticultural, fruit growers and
fruit canning establishments.
To furnish the Code to Justices, Clerks,
Judges and ChanoelloTs.
To continue the lien of judgments and de-
crees of ChanceTy Courts when appealed to
the Supreme Court.
40 PROVIDE for the establishment of hos
pitfalls in towns and cities.
To provide for system of public schools
in Pulaski.
To provide for the erection of an insane
asylum in West Tennessee.
An act to provide for the assessment of
property for taxation and the assessment and
collection of taxes for privilege.
To almond the road laws passed at the reg
ular session of 1881 and amended st the first
extra session of 1882, and amended in 1883
in regular session,
To bar the collection of back taxes now
due the state, counties or municipalities for
the collection of which no suits have been
commenced, and all liens for said taxes IN
less the same are collected or suits instituted,
first in the case of taxes for the year
ISIS and previous thereto, within one year
from the passage of this act, AMI, second, in
the cases of taxes for the years 1879 and up
to and inclusive of the year 1884, within six
years from the time they fell due.
To change the law bearing upon the or
ganizatiop of corporations so as to read; The
maintenGnc of clubs for social enjoyment.
gym nRstics and gymnasium clubs, base ball,
polo clubs AND. other clubs tor the promotion
of athletic sport, either for profit or pleasure.
To limit the time of peTiecting appeal to
thirty days from the Judgment or decree, if
tho court hold so long; otherwise before the
of the court.
To amend the fsh law, and allow any per
son to catch fsh by means of any trap, box,
basket OF bsit net, any of whose meshes or
openings are not less than one and one-hslf
-A.a.aa IN -
state as far as nayigabe.
To extend the statute of Limitation on
realty and to quiet titles to ten years from
the maturity Of the debt.
To perfect the mechanic lien law and to
secure to the mechanic his just reward.
That tho law of Notaries Public, as found
in chap. 4, art. 8, sections 2463 and 2464 of
Ailliken q Vertrees' Code, as contained in
sections 1901 and 1902 of T. & S. Code, be
amended by adding NotGries Public, duly
and lawfully commissioned by the proper
authorities of other ssa'es than Tennessee,
AXE dispositions, are hereby authorized TO
AXE dispositions to be used in. tho courts of
his state upon the same terms that are pro-
ii ded for the taking OF dispositions by other
'tfciRls N such states.
To establish the Randall Cole Industrial
chool.
For the relief Of the Pulaski & Elkton
Turnpike Company, etc.
To prevent passing over any bridge faster
han q walk.
To permit Masonic Lodges to issue bonds !
o the limit OF $4,000
Appropriating $4,000 to the New Orleans
* position.
An act to authorize and incorporate an in
dependent militia.
a bill to be entitled an act to increase the |
ees of Sheritfs and Constables.
An act to limit the assessment of taxes, |
there the assessments have been omitted
An act to be entitled an act to enable the
own of Pulaski, Giles County, to provide |
Dr. water-works within said town.