Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-04-13

An act to amend the mechanics
lien law giving every workman a
lien upon the building, provided
that within thirty days after the COM
pletion of his house, the expiration of
his contract or his discharge, he
notifies the owner Of his claims.
An act allowing any corporation
created by the laws Of Tennessee to
increase the value its shares.
An act to allow the next friend Of
infants to prosecute suit in forma
pauperis.
An act making it unlawful for any
explosive or poisonous substances to
be used in taking fish.
An act to provide a remedy for
purchaser and seller in conditional
sales of personal property, such sales
to be made publicly within ten days
after revertal of the property to the
seller.
An act to grant the United States
the right OF way over the public high
way leading from the steamboat
landing at Dover, in Stewart County,
to the Fort Donelson National Gene.
terry, and to allow the General
Government to macadamize the
same.
An act to render liable for the
faithful performance of their trust
executors, administrators and all the
securities on their bonds.
An act to create a new judicial
circuit out of parts of the Third and
Fourth Judicial Districts. (The new
| Seventeenth Judicial Circuit.) y
An act 70 amend section 5G71 Of
Milligan d Vertrees' Code 50 as to
prohibit the sale on Sunday Of any
malt, vinous, fermented or other in
toXicating liquors or to keep open
any place where such liquors are sold
; or dispensed. This act shall not
apply to druggists and physicians.
An act to regulate the working of
public roads and to compile the road
, law and include all laws on this sub
) iect in one act. All roads now law
: fully laid out shall be public roads
= and civil districts shall be road
5 districts.
An act to create the county Judge
= ship of Morgan County.
An act to allow street railroad
companies to operate cars by
electricity with the assent of the city
An act to amend section 3, chapter
5, acts of the call session of 1872, SO as
to read: "The Governor, Secretary
: = of State and Attorney General for the
State be, and they are hereby consti.
tuted a Board of Inspectors, whose
: duty it shall be to compare the vote
for Senators and joint Representative
in the several senatorial and fioteria
districts of the State and declare TIT
result.
An act to fix legal holidays. Sucl
days are Jan. l, Feb. %, July 4, Dec
9 %. Good Friday, decoration day
E memorial day, days of fasting anC
= thanksgiving and election days
Negotiable papers due on such day
= are payable the day before.
An act to provide the manner 0
:, hanging criminals, such hangings t.
. be removed from public gaze.
An act to require SheritlS, cOnsta
bles and all officers to make thei
- return upon all legal processes witt
y pen and ink or some other nonerasa
bic fluid.
II An act to give consent to the pur
o chase and ownership of such lands a
a may be required for building ant
grounds for the erection of an arsena
J.. of the United States at Columbia an,
,s to cede jurisdiction over said lands
# An act to amend the act pasSe,
!. March 10, 'S7, entitled an act to in
10 crease the jurisdiction of the Count
" Court to enforce vendors liens o
v real estate on all sums under $50, an
re to regulate the principal so rs t
provide for the foreclosure @
y mortgages where the amour
Of due is under $50, andalsO the enforce
70 ment of all liens on all sums undo
ii $50 in such cases as the CHANGER
n Court alone would have jurisdictio
in if the.amount is more than $50.
f. An act to prevent certain corpor;
Of tons from consolidating and forbiC
ID ding one ofsuch corporations from al
o. curing by contract or otherwise tn
franchises or property of any like co
Al poration, except with the consent I
Il. the municipal government of I'll
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