Capital stock, and shares. Directors, Quorum. plead and be impleaded, to have a succession; to hold by purchase or otherwise, and dispose of the same, any real estate or personal property, which may be convenient or necessary for carrying on its operations. SEC. 13. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said Company shall be divided into shares of one hundred dolls each; shall not consist of less than three hundred shares, and the same may be increased at any time to five Lundred shares, by a vote of two-thirds of the stockholders. The stock shall be transferred only on the books of the Company, and then only with the consent of the Board of Directors. SEC. 14. Be it enacted, That whenever three hundred shares are subscribed and paid for, the said Company shall proceed to elect six Directors, who, with a President to be elected from their own body, shall manage the affairs of said Company, and may hold their office for one year, or until their successors shall be elected. SEC. 15. Be it enacted, That there is hereby incorporated a Company, whose capital shall consist of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, for the purpose of manufacturing oil from stone coal, taken from the coal mines near Bon Air, in the county of White. SEC. 16. Be it enacted, That when the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be subscribed, the Company may organize, by the election of five Directors, to be chosen by the stockholders, each share holder being entitled to one vote; said Directors may elect one of their own body President of said Board and Company, and shall also elect from their own body or from the stockholders of said Company, one Secretary and Treasurer, who shall take an oath and execute such bonds as shall be required by the President and Directors of said Company, for the faithful performance of such duties as shall be required of them. SEC. 17. Be it enacted, That three Directors shall constitute a quorum, and shall be known by the name of the Bon Air Kerosine Oil Company; and if the Directors of said Company shall esteem it expedient and necessary, they may open books for the subscription of additional stock in said Company, and may establish their own rules and bylaws, not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the State of Tennessee. SEC. 18. Be it enacted, That when any stockholder shall pay up his stock, he shall be entitled to a stock certifi cate, signed and countersigned by the President and Secre tary of said Company, for so much thereof as shall be paid for; the holder of said stock certificate shall be the owner of said stock, so represented by said certificate. SEC. 19. Be it enacted, &c., That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOIN C. BURCH, Passed March 12, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 126. AN ACT to consolidate the offices of Surveyor and Entrytaker, in the counties of Lawrence, DeKalb, White, Macon, Grundy, Decatur, Humphreys and Wilson. taker abolished. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That from and after the passage of this act, the office of Entry taker in the counties office of Entry. Lawrence, DeKalb, White, Macon, Decatur, Grundy, Humphreys and Wilson, be, and the same are hereby abolished. Entrytakers. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That hereafter the Surveyors in the counties of Lawrence, DeKalb, White, Ma- Surveyors act as con, Decatur, Grundy, Humphreys and Wilson, shall do and perform all the duties that now belong to the Entrytakers of their respective counties, and receive all the pay and emoluments arising from the performance of said duties; being responsible in like manner as Entrytakers are now by law for the performance of the duties of said office. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 15, 1858. 22 Speaker & the Senate. Bruce. Bullard. Pusell. CHAPTER 127. AN ACT for the relief of Doctor William C. Bruce, late Trustee of Haywood county, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the Clerk of the County Court of Haywood county, be, and is hereby authorized to make settlement with Doctor William C. Bruce, late Trustee of Haywood county, and receive from him all legal vouchers of monies paid out to Teachers, by order of School Commissioners, from April, 1852, to July, ; said Wm. C. Bruce having paid out the amount of $330 00, or near that sum. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That D. C. Bullard be allowed the further time of two years, from the first day of January, 1858, to collect the taxes of Claiborne county. SEC. 3. Whereas, the tax Assessor for Jackson county, whose duty it was to make out a list in a book, setting forth opposite each tax payers name, the amount of his taxes,-did in said list or books, so made out by him and delivered to the Tax Collector for said county for the year 1857, omit to include in said statement the amount of State tax for Common Schools and Lunatic Asylum purposes, amounting to four per cent.: by reason whereof the amount so collected, by said Tax Collector, is less by the amount of four per cent. upon all the taxable property of said county for said year 1857, and consequently the alount of taxes upon his list is less by the amount of the four per cent. upon all the property assessed in said county for the year 1857: Therefore, Be it enacted, That the Clerk of the County Court for the county of Jackson, be, and he is hereby directed to add to the amount of taxes assessed, against the tax payers for said county of Jackson, for the year 1858, the amount of four per cent.; and that the Tax Collector for said county, for the year 1858, collect the same, and pay over to the Treasurer of the State of Tennessee, when he pays the taxes for 1858; and that William C. Pusell, Tax Collector for Jackson county, for the year 1857, be released from any further liability than the amount of taxes upon his tax lists for the year 1857. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Tax Collector. for said county, for the year 1858, and his securities, shall be liable to said amount of four per cent. upon the taxable School Commis property for the year 1857, in said county, in like manner SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect. from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 15, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 128. AN ACT for the relief of citizens of Sevier county, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all bills of sale, deeds for land, deeds in trust, bonds, mortgages, wills, and all other instruments in writing required by the act of 1831, to be registered, or by any other act requiring registration, and where the same has been duly registered in the county of Sevier, upon the production of a certified copy of such deed, bond, will, or other such instrument, and satisfactory proof that the same have been burned in Sevierville, in the late fire in March, 1856, that in all such cases, it shall and may be lawful to admit the same to registration, and when so registered, the copy of any such deed, bond, will, mortgage, or other such instrument, shall be received in evidence in the courts in this State where the original would have been competent testimony, and in all things of the same valid force as the original would have been. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed March 15, 1858. CHAPTER 129. AN ACT to change the line between the counties of Morgan and Scott; to change the line between Monroe and McMinn; to change the line between the counties of Wayne, Decatur and Hardin; to change the line between the counties of Roane, Anderson and Morgan; Maury and Hickman; Van Buren and Bledsoe; and to change the line between DeKalb and Putnam. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the line between the counties Monroe & Scott. of Morgan and Scott be so amended as to include William Young and Elisha Chaney, and their farms, in the county of Morgan. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the county line beMonroe & Polk. tween Monroe and Polk be so changed as to include the first section of first township, range east, of the basis line, Ocoee district, commencing at C. H. Parr's northwestern corner, and running so as to include the lands of C. H. Parr, Michael Read and Caleb Johnson, in Monroe county. Minn. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the dividing line Monroe and Me. between the counties of Monroe and McMinn be changed, as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point on the present line near Jessee Elliott's; thence through the centre sections 5, 8, 17, 20, 29 and 32, in township 4; thence on a direct line to the White Bluff on Starr's Mountain. din. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the line dividing Wayne and Har- the counties of Wayne and Hardin, be so changed that the lands and residence of Soloman H. Baker shall be included in the said county of Wayne, in the following manner, to wit: Beginning at a rock quarry on the said line, dividing the aforesaid counties about three-quarters (1) of a mile from Tennessee river; thence westwardly so as to strike the south-west corner of the lands of said Solomon H. Baker, on the branch on which the Marion furnace now stands; thence north with said Baker's line to the Tennessee river. That the county lines, changed as aforesaid, shall be run out and marked by a competent surveyor, the expenses of which to be paid by the aforesaid parties. and Morgan. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the county lines Roane, Anderson between the counties of Roane, Anderson and Morgan, be changed as follows: To be continued between Roane and Anderson, with the extreme heighth of the Pine Ridge, a northeasterly direction, to the Mountain Fork of Poplar creek; thence up with the meanders of said creek to the north side of Walden's Ridge; thence with the foot of said Ridge, a westerly direction, to the West Fork of the In |