A. L. Davis. Rates of ferriage and toll. Lebanon and road, extending from the top of Snow's Hill, in DeKalb county, crossing Caney Fork river at Sligo, and to the county line of White county, east of said place, be renewed unto Ammon L. Davis, his heirs and assigns, for the full space of thirty years, from and after the expiration of the present charter, granted to Jesse Lincoln and William Ussery, on the 11th of October, 1832. SEO. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Ammon L. Davis, his heirs or assigns, shall be subject to all the rules, regulations and penalties, set forth in said original charter and amendment thereto, and shall be entitled to all the tolls and ferriages, as specified in said charter, and the amendments thereto-that is: The gate fees for each horseman, 15 cents; each loose horse, mule or head of cattle, not in a drove, 5 cents; each loose horse, head of cattle or hog, in a drove, 3 cents: each sheep in a drove, 2 cents; each cart, 25 cents; each two-wheel pleasure carriage, 40 cents; each wagon, 50 cents; each four-wheel carriage, 75 cents; and when the Caney Fork has to be ferried, the proprietor or proprietors of said road and ferry, shall be entitled in addition to the foregoing fees, to an equal amount from each person, or article of property ferried, as ferriage fees, and also five cents for each footman ferried. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall forcibly or clandestinely pass said gate or ferry, for the purpose of evading the payment of toll or ferriage, such person shall be liable to pay said proprietor or proprietors, twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace, by action of debt. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Lebanon and Sparta Turnpike Company, be allowed to charge and reSparta Turapike. ceive in addition to the twenty-five cents now allowed for loaded four-horse wagons, five cents for each additional horse attached to said wagon. empt. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the following perWho shall be ex- sons shall be exempt from paying pikeage, to wit: Ministers of the Gospel; persons going to and returning from preaching; all persons going to or returning from mill or the blacksmith shop; and all persons residing in the county where said road is located, shall pay but twenty-five cents pikeage, and the same amount of ferriage on carriages. Unionville Turnpike. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the Turnpike road Shelbyville and from the town of Shelbyville to the town of Unionville, (both in Bedford county,) as at present built, be and they are hereby vested with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, given to and imposed upon the Shelbyville, Unionville and Eagleville Turnpike road, by their charter of incorporation and amendments thereto, heretofore granted to said road, by an act of the Legislature of this State. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 2, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 101. AN ACT for the relief of Benj. Wright and Robt. L. Smith. Circuit Court SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of Shelby, is authorized, and it is Clerk-duty. hereby made his duty, to enter a credit or remittance for one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents, on a judgment in the said Circuit Court, in favor of the State of Tennessee, against Benj. Wright and securities, for thirty-one hundred and ninety-nine dollars, and forty-one cents, it being one-half the excess of interest over six per cent, on a judgment in the Supreme Court, at Jackson, against said Wright and Robert L. Smith, as securities of W. L. Dewoody, Clerk of the County Court of Shelby county. Comptroller's SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Comptroller of the Treasury of this State issue his warrant on the Treasury, in favor of Robert L. Smith, for the sum of one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents, being duty. the excess of interest over six per cent., paid into the Treasury by him, on a judgment in the Supreme Court, at Jackson, against said Smith and Benj. Wright, as securities of W. L. Dewoody, Clerk of the County Court of said Shelby county. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed March 3, 1858. CHAPTER 102. AN ACT for the benefit of Henry C. Angel, and Securities. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Henry C. Angel, and his securities in his official bond, as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lawrence county, be and the same are hereby released from the State tax, on the suits heretofore instituted and determined against them, under the acts of 1851 and '52, chapter 256, section 12, in the Circuit Court of Lawrence county: Provided, nothing contained in this act shall release said Henry C. Angel and his sureties from any of the costs incurred in said causes, except the State tax aforesaid. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Speaker of the Senate. Passed March 5, 1858. Pulaski and Pisgah Turnpike CHAPTER 103. AN ACT to incorporate the Pulaski and Pisgah Turnpike Company, and the Richland SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Charles Leatherman, Adolphus Hopkins, Colston Abernathy, Sterling Abernathy, William Oliver, Wm. Ballentine, and all persons who may become stockholders in said road be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Pulaski and Pisgah Turnpike Company, for the purpose of constructing a turnpike road from Pulaski, by the farm of William Ballentine, to Pisgah; and said Company shall, by their corporate name have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of the country whatsoever; and they shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges, powers and franchises, and be subject so far as the same are, to all the restrictions and liabilities, prescribed in the Columbia, Mooresville, Cornersville and Lewisburg Turnpike Company, passed December the 18th, 1849. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said Company shall be ten thousand dollars, or such amount as may be necessary to build the road, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; and such stock may consist either in money subscriptions, or in work. Stock. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That Charles Leatherman, Adolphus Hopkins, Colston Abernathy, Sterling Abernathy, William Oliver and William Ballentine, are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners, who may, at such times. and places as they think proper, open books for the subscription of stock to said road, and when, in their judgment, a sufficient amount to build said road has been Commissionsrs. subscribed, it shall be the duty of the aforesaid Commissioners, to call a meeting of all the stockholders, at some convenient place, and elect five or more Directors, each of whom shall be a stockholder; and Directors shall have the same powers and perform the same duties prescribed for the Commissioners and Directors of the Columbia, Mooresville, Lewisburg and Cornersville Turnpike Company. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That said Company have two years in which to commence their road, and five years after the expiration thereof, in which to complete the same. Cornersville and SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That all persons who shall bebecome stockholders in this road, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, under the Richland Valley, name and style of the Richland Valley, Cornersville and Lynnville TurnLynnville Turnpike Company, and by that name and pike Company. style may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and enjoy all the rights, privileges and powers, appertaining to bodies corporate and politic by law, and have succession for ninety-nine years. SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said Company, shall be ten thousand dollars, or such amount as may be necessary to build said road, to be divided into Capital stock. shares of twenty-five dollars, payable either in money or work. SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That R. Daugherty, H. Walker, D. G. Ussery, E. R. Davis, Milton McClure, Z. Baird, Thos. J. Kennedy, James T. Harris, Hampton Philips, H. N. Cowden, Morgan Clayton, G. W. McBride and Peter Scales, shall be Commissioners to open books for the subscription of stock to said road; and whenever the amount of five thousand dollars is subscribed, said Commissioners. shall call together the stockholders, and proceed to organize the Company, in the manner prescribed in section 3d of an act to incorporate the Cornersville and Lewisburg Turnpike Company, passed December the 18th, 1849. SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That the President, Directors and officers of said Company, shall have all the powers, Line of route. Lewisburgh and and perform all the duties, and be subject to all the conditions, liabilities and restrictions, granted and imposed upon similar officers in the Cornersville and Lewisburg Turnpike Company, and that all the provisions of that act of incorporation, not conflicting with anything herein contained, so far as the same are locally applicable, be made a part of the charter of this Company. SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That the said Company shall be allowed six years, from the passage of this act, in which to build their road, and that said road when built shall run along the following route, or as near thereto as may be practicable or convenient, viz: Beginning at the town of Lynnville, in Giles county, running thence to Daugherty Depot, on the Southern Central Railroad, thence eastwardly to a point near Elisha Davis', in said county, and at this point to divide into two branches, one of which shall run along the main branch of Robinson's creek, so as to intersect the turnpike leading from Shelbyville to Pulaski, at a point north of Cornersville, the other line to run so as to cross the Shelbyville and Pulaski Turnpike, at a point near the southern portion of the town of Cornersville, extending said road up the valley of Richland, to G. W. McBride's store. Said Company shall not be bound to build this branch of their road further than the county line between the counties of Giles and Marshall, unless the citizens of Marshall shall subscribe a sufficient amount of stock to build said road from the county line to McBride's store, which stock shall be used in building said road within Marshall county. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the Lewisburg and Cornersville Turnpike Company shall have power to extend their road to Pulaski, Giles county, or to any intermediate point between the present terminus of said road and Pulaski; for this purpose the President and Directors of said Lewisburg and Cornersville Turnpike Company, shall have power to open books for the subscription of stock, to extend said road, in such manner as they may designate, with all the privileges by law now, or hereafter, belonging to said Company, as to erecting gates, right of way, and for materials to construct said road, with every restriction, and all the rights heretofore given to said original Company; said Company shall have five years to complete said road. This act to take effect from its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Speaker of the Senate. Passed March 5, 1858. |