the State aid heretofore appropriated to aid said company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee river, where the line of said road crosses the river, whenever said company shall show their ability in accordance with the General Improvement law of this State and the laws amendatory thereof, to prepare their road bed to the river at the site of said bridge: Provided, however, That they shall not be allowed to draw more than the amount heretofore appropriated and in accordance with the act appropriating the same, except as above provided. Central Southern SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Central Southern Railroad Company be, and they are hereby authorized to demand and receive of the Governor of the State of Tennessee, the bonds of the State of Tennessee at the rate of ten thousand dollars per mile upon their road finished and completed, or to be finished and completed, whenever it shall appear to the Governor of the State of Tennessee, from the report of the Commissioner of Roads, that said Railroad. company have finished, completed, ironed, and equipped thirty-five and three-fourth miles of their road, and that the whole of the remaining eleven and three-fourth miles of their road are finished or under contract for completion, and that the company have solvent stock sufficient and are able beyond doubt to complete the said remaining eleven and three-fourth miles of their road, the intent and meaning of this act being that upon said report of the Commissioner, said company shall be authorized to receive ten thousand dollars per mile State aid, in addition to bridge aid, and no more, to be used and employed by them as other roads are now authorized by law to do under act of March 17th, 1858, and that all laws in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. Charleston Rail SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the first section of an act passed February 11th, 1852, entitled An Act to establish a system of Internal Improvements in this State, Cincinnati,Cumand subsequent acts extending the provisions of said act berland Gap and to the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad road Company. Company, be so amended that whenever said railroad company shall have graded, and shall have ready to put down the necessary timbers for the reception of rails as is contemplated in said acts, from Morristown to the French Broad river, and whenever stock is subscribed sufficient to grade the whole line of said road from Morristown to Paint Rock, at the North Carolina line, it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue bonds of the State to the company as required in said acts: Provided, Nothing in this act shall in any event be construed as extending any additional State aid to said company further than has been extended to it by previous acts of the General Assembly of the State. SEC 4. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. W. C. WHITTHORNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, December 3, 1859. CHAPTER 22. AN ACT to incorporate the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. WHEREAS, Certain citizens of the United States, formerly in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, under constraint by convictions of duty to themselves, to the Church of Chirst, and to their entire country, withdrew from said General Assembly, because of the action of said General Assembly on the subject of slavery; and whereas, the representatives of certain Presbyteries, withdrawn from all connection with said General Assembly as aforesaid, having convened at Knoxville in the State of Tennessee. on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1858, and then and there formed an ecclesiastical judicatory, by the name of the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That W. R. Caswell, P. Dickinson, of Knoxville, Wm. Wallace, of Maryville, Wm. M. Stokely, of Madisonville, and John A. McKinney, of Rogersville, Trustees of said United Synod, and their successors, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the "United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," and shall have perpetual succession; said United Synod shall consist of commissioners, delegates, or representatives, appointed from time to time by the several Presbyteries now in connection with said United Synod, and which may hereafter become connected with said United Synod, and of the officers of said United Synod; said United Synod may sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; have a common seal; make, ordain, execute, amend, add to, alter, repeal or annul laws and regulations for their government; may receive and hold by purchase, gift, devise or bequest, and sell and convey real and personal estate; said United Synod shall have and may exercise all the rights, powers, authority, privileges and immunities possessed, exercised or enjoyed by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States," and said United Synod shall have and may exercise all the rights, powers, authority, privileges and immunities recognized by the constitution in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, including the Westminster Confession of Faith, adopted by said United Synod as the system of faith taught in the Holy Scriptures, and including the form of government, the directory for the worship of God, and general rules for judicatories, adopted by said United Synod; said United Synod may remove said Trustees, or either of them, and when a vacancy occurs by death, removal or resignation of said Trustees, or either of them, such vacancy may be filled by said United Synod at any session thereof; but a failure to fill such vacancy shall not operate as a forfeiture, of any of the rights, powers, privileges, &c., herein granted. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the amendment passed at the present session to the second section of the Stewart College. act incorporating Stewart College, shall take effect from and after this date. W. C. WHITTHORNE, Passed, December 3, 1859. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 23. AN ACT to charter the Eagleville and Chapel Hill Turnpike Company; to amend the charter of the Nashville, Murfreesboro' and Shelbyville Turnpike Company; to amend the charter of the Shelbyville, Farmington and Lewisburg Turnpike Company; to incorporate the Elkton Branch Turnpike Company; to incorporate the Hartsville Turnpike Company; to incorporate the Pinewood Turnpike Company, and to amend the charter of the Pulaski and Pisgah Turnpike Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That E. B. Kelly, John H. Floyd, Joseph McPeak, Chesley Williams, of Williamson county, William A. McCord, Allen N. McCord, H. B. Terry, M. R. Hughes, P. D. Whitaker, Presley Jones, Ralph Stegall, Whitmil Ranson, Jason B. Shuffield, J. A. Shuffield, J. W. Shuffield, J. D. Ezell, C. McCord, E. T. Williams, D. V. Chrismon, J. B. Fulton, J. H. Robinson, J. T. Street, Jas. Patterson, Jas. M. Wilson, Jas. A. Wilson, W. Mullikin, T. J. May, W. Braden, John Wilhoit, Robinson, P. C. H. Miller, of Marshall county, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to open books at any time and place they may choose for the subscription of stock to be used in constructing a McAdamized turnpike road, commencing on the Eagleville, Unionville and Shelbyville turnpike, near E. B. Kelley's, in Williamson county, and running to Chapel Hill, or to the bridge at the Fishingford on Duck river, and may be extended to Farmington, in Marshall county, Tennessee. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars; each share shall entitle the holder to one vote; and as soon as twelve thousand dollars of stock in said road is subscribed for in cash or labor, any five or more of said Commissioners shall call a meeting of the stockholders of said company at Chapel Hill, in Marshall county, by giving twenty days' written notice at the most public places of the time and place of said meeting; and at such meeting the stockholders shall elect five Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to mark out and survey said road; and shall elect five Directors, one of whom shall be President, another Secretary, and another Treasurer, three of whom may constitute a quorum. The Directors shall hold their office for two years, and until others are elected in their place, and it shall be the duty of the President of said road to give ten days' notice in writing of the time and place of said election. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the president and directors of said company, and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate; may sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded, by the name and style of the Eagleville and Chapel Hill Turnpike Company; and said company may demand and collect at each gate the same tolls as the Eagleville and Salem Turnpike Company, and shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of the Eagleville and Salem Turnpike Company. SEO. 4. Be it enacted, That said McAdamized turnpike road shall be bedded twenty-four feet wide, with sufficient ditches, calverts and bridges; the first coat of stone sixteen feet wide and six inches thick, nine feet in the centre of which may be made with fine sprawled stone; the second coat of stone or gravel, nine feet wide and six inches thick; the stones of the last coat to be broken of the size not exceeding one-half pound in weight, and the grade of the road shall not exceed five degrees with the horizon. If sufficient stock is subscribed, the directors may have the first coat of stone eighteen feet wide, and finished as above. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That as soon as five miles of said road is completed, one gate may be erected, and for every additional five miles of the road when completed, an additional gate may be erected; the directors may place the gates at the places they may think most suitable, not nearer than four miles of each other. SEC. 6. Be is enacted, That for the purpose of making and keeping said road in repair, the directors may cut, dig and quarry, and take from the lands of any person within one mile of said road, such and so much rock, earth or gravel as may be necessary for said purposes; and if any person or persons from whose lands such materials may be taken shall desire compensation therefor, he, she or they may apply to any Justice of the Peace in the county, who shall appoint three disinterested freeholders for the purpose of valuing such stone or gravel, and they shall grant a certificate upon oath to the injured party or parties, and the amount or amounts may be collected from said company before any tribunal having cognizance thereof. SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That the president and directors shall have power to make contracts for building and constructing said road, and may from time to time require such advances upon the stock subscribed as the wants of the company may require: Provided, No call shall be made for more than five dollars on the share at any one time, and not oftener than once in six months. Gates. Salem Turnpike. SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That the branch road from the Eagleville and Salem Turnpike to Versailles may be bedded Eagleville and and graded twenty-four feet wide; first coat of stone sixteen feet wide, and six inches thick; second coat of stone or gravel to be nine feet wide and six inches thick, with four inches of earth, and to be made in the same manner and style as the main road, except the width. Nashville, Mur Shelbyville SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That the Nashville, Murfreesboro' and Shelbyville Turnpike Company shall have power to remove the tenth gate on their road to such point freesboro' and as the president and directors may agree upon, south of the Turnpike Co. place where it now is, and to sell the lands where it is now located and purchase other lands suitable for its location: Provided, It shall be located at such distance in regard to other gates as is prescribed in the original charter. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the charter of the Shelbyville, Farmington and Lewisburg Turnpike Company Farmington and be so amended that the board of directors shall be five in- Lewisburg Turn pike Company. Shelbyville, |