SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That this charter may at any time, by any future Legislature, be repealed, or modified: May be repealed. Provided, that if said corporation should be dissolved, all its property, real and personal, shall remain and vest in the several members of said Association. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 15, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 63. AN ACT to amend the acts incorporating the City of Knoxville; establishing a voting SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the acts incorporating the City of Knoxville be so amended as that all taxes accruing from property within the corporate limits of said city north and east of a line to be thus defined, viz: Commencing at the centre of the Bridge of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad Company, over Second Creek, thence with the centre of the central tracks of E. T. and Ga. Railroad Company, and E. T. and Va. Railroad Company, to the point where the track of the latter enters the ground conveyed to the Knoxville and Charleston R. R. Company, for depot purposes, by Wm. II. Sneed; thence a southerly direction with the western boundary line of said tract so conveyed, to First Creek, be and the same are hereby directed to be set apart by the Mayor and Aldermen of Knoxville to be used exclusively in the improvement of streets and ways within the territory incorporated lying north and east of the above described line, and not otherwise. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen to appoint annually a Committee of three of the inhabitants of said Territory, whose powers and duties it shall be to see that the taxes so levied and collected, are set apart and faithfully applied as herein before directed: Provided, that nothing contained in this act, shall be construed as releasing said property from liability for taxes to the same extent as other property in said City, not lying north or east of said line. A voting place in SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That a voting place be and is hereby established in East Knoxville, and in all national, State, and county elections, in which the citizens of the said town are qualified to vote, polls shall be East Knoxville. opened and elections held at the callaboose in said Corporation in conformity to existing laws in relation to elections. May elect a SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the qualified voters of East Knoxville are hereby authorized to elect a Constable, who shall exercise all the rights and powers, and be subject to all the liabilities of other constables in the State: Provided, that nothing contained in this act shall on. be so construed as releasing the citizens and property north and east of the line designated in this act from the payment of their proportionate part of any liability incurred by the City of Knoxville in consequence of any issuance of the bonds of said City for railroad purposes, made since the extension of the corporate limits of Knoxville so as to embrace the said Territory. Be it further enacted, That the section of this act which provides for passage. the creation of a voting place in East Knoxville, and huthorizes them to elect a Constable, shall take effect from the passage of this act. Take effect from ration of Mary SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That the corporate limits of the Extending corpotown of Maryville, in Blount county, be enlarged and ex-io. tended as follows, to wit: Beginning near the creek on the line between W. J. Toole, Jr., and John Coffin's, thence to run over the hill with the Miller's Cove Road, to where the ditch crosses it from Toole's to Coffin's meadows, thence an east course to the centre of the Tercaleecher Road near the east corner of James Carnes' lot, thence with that road to the road on the top of the ridge, in cast Maryville, thence a west course to the old barn on said road, thence a north course, so as to include in the corporation the property owned by Abner Farr, thence straight to the creek, thence up the meanders of the creek to the line of the old town, and that the jurisdiction of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town of Maryville, and all existing ordinances, rules and regulations thereof, be, and the same are hereby extended over the territory embraced within the boundaries aforesaid, as fully, and to the same extent as the same are now over the territory now incorporated. SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That all the powers, and privileges, rights and disabilities, pertaining to said Corporation, and the Mayor and Aldermen and all other officers thereof, ting place at Pearce's Mill. under the existing Statutes and laws of the State of Ten- SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That there shall be a voting place established at the mill house of Isaac M. Pearce, in To establish a vo- the corporation of Rheatown, in the county of Greene, at which place all Federal, State, and county elections shall be opened and held, at the same time and under the same rules, regulations, and restrictions that elections are held at other places in said county. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 15, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. To revive A. CHAPTER 64. AN ACT giving John G. Simpson, L. D. Simpson and Daniel Simpson, the further time of two years to complete their Turnpike; and to revive the Act of the 16th of January, 1844, granting a Charter of a 1 urnpike Road to Abuer Phillips, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That John G. Simpson, L. D. Simpson, and David Simpson, of the county of Fentress, have the additional time of two years, within which to complete their Turnpike road. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That Wm. Piles, Jr., W. C. Wood and W. A. Gilbreath, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners in said Turnpike Company, in the room and stead of Wm. Travis, David Travis and Caleb Harman; and that this act shall take effect from and after its passage. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the charter of a Turnpike road granted by the General Assembly of the State of Phillips' Turn Tennessee, to Abner Phillips, passed 16th January, 1844, chapter 106, section 12, be and the same is hereby revived, pike. and that Thomas Wood be associated with said Abner Phillips as joint owner and proprietor in said road. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said Turnpike road shall commence at a point a little north of the residence of R. P. Herendon on the Richardson road in Fentress county, running thence the most practicable route, so as to intersect Scott road at or near the bridge on the Clear Fork of Cumberland river. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all the provisions of the charter granted to A. Phillips and John R. McGhee, on the 23d January, 1852, be and the same are hereby made to apply, with equal force in all its provision, to this Turnpike road herein specified. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That William II. MeGhee and R. P. Herendon, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of said Turnkike road, with the same power and duties of the Commissioners of Phillips, and McGhee's, road mentioned in this act, chartered January, 23, 1852. SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That said Phillips and Miat have the further time of five years, in which to complete their road. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 16, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 65. AN ACT to promote Common School Education in the City of Clarksville. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Clarksville be, and they are hereby empowered to levy a tax on all property and polls within the corporation of Clarksville, now taxable by law, not exceeding one- May levy a tax. tenth of one per cent. on property, and twenty-five cents on polls for common school purposes, to be levied and collected, at such times and in such manner, as the other revenue of said corporation is now by law levied and collected. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the fund hereby authorized to be raised, shall, when collected, be disbursed in the following manner, to wit: Whenever the Common School Commissioners of the 12th Civil District for Montgomery county shall draw their order on the Treasurer of How disbursed. the corporation aforesaid, accompanied by the certificate of the County Trustee, that the Common School Fund for said 12th District is exhausted, and that he has no funds in his hands for said District, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer aforesaid, to pay said order of the Common School Commissioners; which order shall, in all cases, be drawn for the amount actually needed to defray the expenses of the Common School for the 12th Civil District, after the exhaustion of the Common School Fund, now by law, annually accruing to said 12th Civil District, and for no greater sum. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That, if at the close of each year, there shall be remaining in the hands of the Treasurer aforesaid, any portion of the fund hereby authorized to be raised, and the Common School Commissioners shall demand no portion thereof for Common School purposes, the said Mayor and Aldermen shall appropriate such balance as other ordinary revenue. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be and remain in force so long as the Common School for the 12th Civil District of Montgomery county, shall be located in the town of Clarksville, and no longer. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the 8th section of an act passed December 20th, 1855, entitled, "An Act to amend and reduce into one, the acts relating to the charter of the town of Clarksville," be so amended as to authorize the corporate authorities of said town to levy a tax charter of Clarks- of one per cent. on each one hundred dollars of the value of the property within the corporate limits, instead of onehalf per cent. as mentioned in said act. Amending the Red river not SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, declaring Red river, emptying into Cumberland river near Clarksville, to be navigable, be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Speaker of the Senate. Passed February 16, 1858. |