SEC. 2. All the rights, privileges, powers and restrictions contained in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, Powers, to seventh. eighth, ninth, eleventh and twelfth sections of an act incorporating the Nashville Gas Light Company, passed November 21st, 1849, not inconsistent with the first section of this act, shall apply to the Memphis Gas Light Company as fully and completely as though the same were herein fully set forth and incorporated. SEC. 3. The fifteenth section of an act, entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Elizabethton, and for other purposes," passed December 31st, 1849, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. Robert C. Brinkley, John Trigg, Henry C. Walker, Samuel P. Walker, and Wiley B. Miller, are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of opening books of subscription; they shall give ten days. notice of the time and place of opening books in the different newspapers published in Memphis, and after fifty-one thousand dollars in stock shall have been subscribed, the commissioners shall give ten days notice, and proceed to elect officers in the manner required in the act incorporating the Nashville Gas Light Company. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, November 20, 1851. Speaker of the Senate. Elizabethton. CHAPTER XLIII. AN ACT to amend an act, passed the 9th day of February. 1850, chap. 56, to char ter the Winchester and Alabama Railroad Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the sixth section of an act, passed the 9th day of February, 1850, chapter 56, entitled "an act to charter a Railroad from Nashville to the Alabama line," be and the same is hereby so amended, as that the railroad incorporated by virtue of the provisions of the above recited act, called the Winchester and Alabama Railroad Company, shall extend from the town of Winchester to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad cressed. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the seventh section of apital in- said act of incorporation, be and the same is amended, so as to increase the capital stock of said company to seven hundred thousand dollars; and that to entitle any stockholder to act as a director in said company he shall only be required to own stock to the amount of five hundred dollars. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed, December 5th, 1851. May levy tax Location. Tolls. CHAPTER XLIV. AN ACT to authorize the county court of Haywood county to levy a tax and build a Turnpike Road and Ferry across Big Hatchie river. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the county court of Haywood county is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect a tax upon the taxable property and polls in said county, and to apply the same to the building of a good substantial and lasting turnpike or plank road across the bottom and low lands of Big Hatchie river, and to establish and keep up a ferry in connection with the same at such point on said river, in said county, as shall be deemed by said court the most convenient and advantageous to all the citizens of said county. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That should the said county court deem it more to the advantage of said county to construct said turnpike and establish said ferry at any of the places now used as a crossing for said river, that in that event they have power and authority to buy said ferry and turnpike from the owner or owners, and to repair and add to the same, so as to make a good turnpike, such as is contemplated in the first section of this act. SEC. 3. Bc it enacted, That said county court shall have the power and authority to regulate the tolls on said ferry so established, and to charge toll or not, as they may deem proper. Provided, That should the tolls in any one year exceed the amount necessary for keeping up said ferry and keeping said turnpike in repair, then in that case the surplus shall be paid into the county treasury for county purposes. Provided further, That no higher rates of toll or ferriage shall be required of non-residents of said county of Haywood than the citizens of said county are charged. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That said county court shall have power to appoint a special collector of said taxes Special collector. so levied under the provisions of this act, who shall, when appointed, be liable in the same manner as the tax collectors of the State revenue now are, and whose compensation shall not exceed four per cent on the amount collected. Provided, That if the county court should fail to elect such special collector, then it shall be the duty of the sheriff or revenue collector of said county to collect said taxes as in other cases. And provided further, That a majority of all the justices of the peace of said county shall vote in the affirmative in making any order, or levying any tax in regard to said turnpike and ferry, as in this act authorized. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That said court shall be authorized to elect a superintendent or superintendents to superintend and direct the building of said turnpike, and to let out contracts and do any other act, under the direction and approbation of said court, that may be necessary for the erection, establishment and keeping up said turnpike and ferry, who shall hold his or their office for twelve months, and until their successor or successors are elected. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, November 3, 1851. CHAPTER XLV. AN ACT to incorporate the Tennessee Agricultural Society, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That John Shelby, Frank McGavock, J. W. McCombs, Mark R. Cockrill, M. Monohan, Andrew Anderson, J. J. B. Southall, Talbert Fanning, W. R. Elliston, Jesse Maxwell, W. G. Harding, Willo. Williams, Geoge W. Polk, Gideon J. Pillow, A. R. Cartwright, Charles Ready, Edmund Dillahunty and R. L. Caruthers, their associates and successors, are Incorporation. Directors. Powers. Fairs, &c. Location, By-laws. Auxiliaries. hereby made a corporation by the name of "The Tennessee Agricultural Society" for the encouragement of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, by premiums and such other means as said corporation may deem proper. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the affairs of said corporation shall be managed by a board of directors, who may choose a president, and by such other agents as they may appoint. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to do and perform, in said corporate name, all such acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do, for the purposes aforesaid; and shall have perpetual succession, and hold, own and manage real and personal estate to an amount sufficient to effect. the purposes for which said society is incorporated. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to hold, manage and control fairs and exhibitions, and offer such premiums, and at such times and places, as said corporation may deem necessary, for the encouragement or improvement of agriculture and manufactures. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the domicil of said corporation shall be in the city of Nashville, in the State of Tennessee, where its business shall be conducted. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may make its own by-laws for its government, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States; provide for the election of its officers, and the length of time for holding the offices, and to do all things necessary for effecting the objects of this act. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That two auxiliary societies of like character and powers, for like purposes, and subject to like disabilities and obligations, are hereby incorporated; one to be domiciled at Knoxville, in East Tennessee, by the name of "The East Tennessee Agricultural Society," and the other at Jackson, in West Tennessee, by the name of "The West Tennessee Agricultural Society," with power to act in conjunction, when necessary, with the company incorporated by the first section of this act. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, December 18, 1851. CHAPTER XLVI. AN ACT to establish a High School at the town of Gallatin, in the county of Sumner. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That a High School be estab- Incorporation. Ilshed at the town of Gallatin in the county of Sumner, to be known by the name and style of the Tennessee High School, and to be under the supervision of the synod of West Tennessee. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That Alfred H. Dashiell, Absalom Thompson, Robert C. Garrison, William O. Trustees. Perkins, Edward McMillan, J. W. Baldridge, Frederick A. Thompson, Benjamin F. Mitchell, Alexander N. Cunningham, John M. Bright, Robert Hardin, Robert Fearn, and John H. Turley, and their successors, be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate to be known by the name and style of the Trustees of Tennessee High School, and by that name shall have perpetual succession; sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; make and receive titles to property both real and personal; and do such other things as bodies corporate by law may do, and perform; and they may have and use a corporate seal; provided that in making titles to property the same shall under order of the Board of Trustees, be signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the power to fill vacaneies in the Board of Trustees occurring by death, vacancier. resignation, refusal to act, or removal from the bounds. of the synod of West Tennessee, shall be in the board itself subject to the approval of the said synod: but any Trustee so appointed by the Board shall con tinue in office until rejected by the synod and another is appointed in his place by that judicatory. Provided, That all appointments by the board shall be void, unless notice thereof be given to the synod at their next annual meeting after the same is made. Election of Sec. 4. Be it enact d, That at the next annual meeting of the synod of West Tennessee, the four trustees first named in the list herein before appointed, shall go Trustees. out of office, and their places shall be filled by election of said synod; and thus from year to year in the order of the names as they stand in this list, four shall go out of office annually whose places shall be filled as aforesaid; but should the synod in any year fail to elect four in the place of the four whose terin of service expired in that year, then the same shall continue in office as before the expiration of their term of service |