Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the General Assembly

Indebtedness

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First Board.

SEC. 17. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Watertown shall have no power or authority to incur any indebtedness in excess of the revenues derived from ad valorem, poll, and privileges taxes for current year.

SEC. 18. Be it further enacted, That first Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Watertown under this charter shall be the following named persons-to-wit: Caesar Thomas, Mayor; Aldermen: L. A. Phillips, J. A. Boyd, W. P. Phillips, E. B. Johnson, J. C. McAdoo, J. R. Smith. And they shall hold their office and exercise all the power conferred and perform all the duties imposed by this act until their successors have been duly elected and qualified.

SEC. 19. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

A BILL to be entitled "An Act making it unlawful to sell or give to minors, under seventeen years of age, tobacco, smoking tobacco, leaf tobacco, or tobacco manufactured in any form, without the permission of the parents, guardian, or other person having legal control of such minors, and fixing the penalties for violations of the same."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, their employees, agents, or servants, or any one for them knowingly to sell, to give, furnish to, or procure for any person under the

age of seventeen years, tobacco, smoking tobacco, leaf tobacco, or tobacco manufactured in any form, without permission first obtained from the parents, guardian, or other person having legal custody and control over such minors under the age of seventeen.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That any person, firm, or corporation violating Section 1 of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the several judges in this State having criminal jurisdiction, shall give this Act in charge to the grand juries of their counties.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That grand juries are hereby given inquisitorial powers over all offenses committed under this Act.

Src. 5. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed February 2, 1905.

AN ACT to redistrict Hamilton County so as to divide the same into six civil districts in lieu of the twenty civil districts as therein now existing, to renumber the same, to regulate the manner of increasing the districts hereafter, and to provide that the twenty school districts shall remain unchanged.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Hamilton County be and the same is hereby redistricted and the districts renumbered so as to divide said county into six civil districts, num

bered from one to six inclusive, instead of the twenty civil districts as heretofore, and up to this time laid out and existing as follows:

1. That the territory of said county heretofore and up First District. to this time embraced in the Fourteenth Civil District shall be hereafter known and denominated and shall constitute the First Civil District.

2. That part of the territory of said county heretofore and up to this time embraced in Second, Third, and SixSecond District teenth Civil Districts, and that part of the First Civil District which lies east of the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway and south of the south land lines of the Hazard Powder Company, H. J. Springfield, Mrs. A. J. Stephens, Frank Hixon, the Church Hill lands, Wm. Hensley's south and east lines to where the same intersects the Harrison Ferry road; thence eastward along the Harrison Ferry road to the Dallas spring branch; thence eastwardly along the Dallas spring branch to the Tennessee River, shall constitute and be hereafter known and denominated as the Second Civil District of Hamilton County.

Third District.

3. That part of the territory of said county heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Eighth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Civil Districts and all the First Civil District, except that part of said First Civil District attached by the preceding paragraph of this Act to the Second Civil District, shall constitute and be hereafter known and denominated as the Third Civil District of Hamilton County.

4. That part of the territory of said county heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Fourth, Seventeenth, Fourth District Nineteenth and Twentieth Civil Districts of said county shall constitute and be hereafter known and denominated as the Fourth Civil District of Hamilton County.

Fifth District.

5. That part of the territory of said county heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Fifth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Civil Districts shall constitute and be hereafter known and denominated as the Fifth Civil District of Hamilton County.

6. That part of the territory of said county heretofore and up to this time embraced in thte Sixth, Seventh, Sixth District. Tenth and Eighteenth Civil Districts shall hereafter constitute and be known and denominated as the Sixth Civil District of Hamilton County.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That no civil districts in excess of the number herein and hereby created and es

tablished shall be created out of any of the territory of said county unless authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee.

Districts.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the twenty school School districts in said county shall be and remain as heretofore and up to this time constituted and established, and that nothing in this Act shall be construed as changing either the number or lines of said twenty school districts as now existing.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect on the first Thursday in August, 1906, at the general election for Justices of the Peace and other district officers, but nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any officer elected from the civil districts from serving out his term of office.

AN ACT to amend Chapter 438, Acts of 1901, being "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to divide the State of Tennessee into Judicial Circuits and Chancery Divisions, and to provide for the administration of justice and equity in the Circuit and Chancery and other inferior courts of this State, and to fix the time for holding the terms of said Chancery, Circuit, and other courts,' passed April 21, 1899, and approved April 22, 1899, so as to provide for a different arrangement of the counties in the First and Second Chancery Divisions therein created, and to provide the times for the holding of the same," so as to change the time of holding the Chancery Court of Scott County in the Second Chancery Division.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Section 2 of said Chapter 438, of the Acts of 1901, be amended so as to provide that the Chancery Court of Scott County, in the Second Chancery Division, shall be held on the second Mondays in

February and August, instead of the third Mondays in
January and July.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect

from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed January 30, 1905.

J. I. COX,