ecution.

ferent courts having jurisdiction of cases arising under this act, shall hereafter give bond for the faithful application of the funds hereby ordered to be paid into their hands, Bond. and they shall require the individual chosen as master to enter into bond with approved security, in such penalty as the court may prescribe, conditioned, that said free person of color shall not become changeable to any county in this State. Such execution of bond, with the names of the petitioner and master, shall be entered of record, and the property in said negro or free person of color, as a slave, shall from the time of such entry vest in the person so chosen as master, and his rights and liabilities, and the condition of the petitioner shall in all respects be the same as though such negro had been born a slave.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Exempt from ex- said negro or free person of color conveying him or herself into slavery by the provisions of this act, shall be exempt from execution or attachment in the hands of the person whom they may have chosen as master or mistress.

Clerks' fees.

SEO. 6. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the children of any free person of color conveying himself under the provisions of this act, who may have been born prior to the filing of said petition and decree of the court thereon, shall not be deemed to be reduced to slavery by such proceedings.

SEC. 7. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the costs of the proceedings shall be paid by the master. The clerks shall be allowed ten dollars for the services required of them by the provisions of this act.

SEC. 8. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall hereafter be the duty of the constables in every civil district in the different counties of this State, to see that the present laws in regard to free negroes are duly exTuty of Consta ecuted; and if any Constable shall fail to perform the duties required of him by this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt before any court having jurisdiction, one half to the county, and the other half to the informer.

les.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed March 3, 1858.

CHAPTER 46.

AN ACT to amend and construe the redemption laws of this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the redemption laws of this State be so amended and construed as not to extend to any sale, under and by virtue of a power contained in any deed of trust, mortgage, or other instruments, whereby the terms of the same, the right of redemption is waived or surrendered by such mortgage or conveyor.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the preceding section of this act shall only apply to contracts which may be hereafter made.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN C. BURCH,

Passed March 4, 1858.

Speaker of the Senate.

CHAPTER 47.

AN ACT to change the line between the counties of Grundy and Sequatchie, Jefferson and Grainger, Van Buren and White, DeKalb and Smith, Polk and Bradley, Wilson and Cannon, Rutherford and Coffee, Haywood and Madison, and the counties of Anderson and Roane.

Jefferson and

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the county line between Jefferson and Grainger be so changed as to include the Grainger. farms of William Taylor and Jesse Hunt in the county of Jefferson.

Grundy

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the line between the counties of Grundy and Sequatchie be changed as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stake in the line between said counties at a point south of the Brener place, at the head of the east prong of Collins river, running thence a direct line to said Brener place, including the same in said Sequatchie. county of Sequatchie; thence down with the said east prong of said river to James W. Tate's place, including the same in said county of Sequatchie; thence with the base of the ridge west of said river northwardly around to the widow Wright's residence; thence a direct line to the little Jake Cagle old place, now occupied by James Cagle, including the same in Sequatchie county; thence a direct line to Bassel Bess place on the Hill's trace old

and

road, including the same in Sequatchie county; thence with said road in the direction of Hill's creek to where the Grundy and Warren county lines cross the same; thence with the Grundy line eastwardly to the Grundy and Sequatchie county corner.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the line between the counVan Buren and ties of Van Buren and White be changed so as to include the residence of William S. Mitchell in the county of White.

White.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That section the twenty-first of an act passed the 11th day of February, 1854, entitled, "An act to establish the county of Putnam," be and the same is hereby so amended that the lines between the Putnam. counties of DeKalb and Smith shall hereafter run as follows, to wit: Beginning on the DeKalb county line on the extreme height of the ridge above J. Robison's, running thence with the meanders of said ridge to the Cany Fork river at Thompson's Bluff, intersecting the DeKalb county line on the opposite bank of said river at Bird Sexton's, so as to include F. Starnes, B. Crassel, C. Starns, J. Williams, and J. Kerloy, in DeKalb county.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the line between the counties of Polk and Bradley be so changed as to include Dr. W. B. Wright's farm in Polk county.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the county line between the counties of Wilson and Cannon be so changed as to include the lands of James King in the county of Cannon.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the line between. the counties of Rutherford and Coffee be so changed as to run with the old line between said counties, running on the summit of the main dividing ridge between the waters of Stone and Duck rivers, including Smith Carney's dwelling house in Rutherford county, and that the citizens hereby attached to Rutherford county are endowed with all the rights and privileges of other citizens of said county of Rutherford.

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the county line between the counties of Haywood and Madison be so changed as to include the residence and out houses of John W. McKissack in the county of Madison.

SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That the foregoing sections of this act, shall take effect from and after its passage.

SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That the dividing line between the counties of Anderson and Roane, be changed as follows: Beginning on a beach in the Roane county line, near M. C. Winter's, running south thirty-nine east, and crossing Poplar creek at two hundred and ninety-two chains, the

same course continued; in all three hundred and twentyeight chains, to a Walnut in William C. Griffith's line, thence south forty-five east, eighty chains to a black oak sapling on the top of the Black Oak Ridge, thence north sixty-two east thirteen chains, to a large black oak, thence south fifty east, crossing the Kingston road at one hundred chains, the same course continued in all one hundred and ninety-eight chains, to a stake on the top of the East Fork Ridge, thence with the top of said ridge, south forty west, to the Roane county line, including in the county of Roane the residences and farms of D. L. Bradley, John R. Galbreath, Samuel Tunnell, Wm. Rite, W. C. Griffith, and J. C. Roberts.

SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That the tenth section of this act, shall not take effect until the first day of May next, and nothing in this act shall be so construed, as to prevent the citizens living within the above boundary from voting at the next March election in the county of Anderson for county officers, nor to prevent the revenue collector for the county of Anderson, from collecting the taxes assessed against them in the county of Anderson for the present year, 1858.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN C. BURCH,

Passed March 4, 1858.

Speaker of the Senate.

CHAPTER 48.

AN ACT directory to railroads as to the time of stopping at the intersection of any other road.

The first 34 sections of this act are local.

Trains to

SEC. 35. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all trains, on each and every railroad in this State, when they arrive at the point of intersection with any 15 minutes. other road, to stop their respective trains at least fifteen minutes, for the purpose of enabling passengers, baggage, and freight to be transferred from one train to another. SEC. 36. Any railroad company failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be liable to pay to any person aggrieved thereby, a sum not exceeding Penalty. one hundred dollars for each and every offence, to be re

stop

covered by action of debt before any tribunal having jurisdiction thereof.

SEC. 37. This act shall take effect from and after its pas

sage.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN C. BURCH,

Passed January 29, 1858.

Speaker of the Senate.

CHAPTER 49.

AN ACT to authorize the erection of mill-dams across Duck river at any point below the town of Columbia; and to give direction to Soam Waddle and Moses Moore, how to build their mill-dam across Nollachucky river.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all laws and parts of laws now in force in this State, prohibiting the erection of milldams across Duck river below the town of Columbia and Dams not to im the Hickman county line be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, said dams hereby authorized to be erected, do not impede the navigation of said river so far as rafting, flatboats, and other small crafts are concerned.

pede navigation.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That hereafter it shall be lawful for any person or persons to erect a mill-dam or mill-dams across said river, at any point between the said town of Columbia and the Hickman county line, in the same manner that mill-dams may now be erected across said river above the said town.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the act passed November 6, 1857, allowing Soam Waddle and Moses Moore to build a mill-dam across Chucky river, shall be amended by the following proviso: That said dam shall be so constructed as not to obstruct the navigation of said river.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed March 5, 1858.