the provisions of this act, as before in this act provided for, shall, with such acceptance, file a statement of their then condition, and continue thereafter to make quarterly statements as herein provided.

tion its capital

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the Bank of Tennessee shall, by the first of January, 1859, re-apportion and divide the capital stock among her several branches, so as to make equal the amount of capital received by said branches respectively, according to the provisions of her Bank of Tennes charter. Provided, The amount lost of the capital stock see to re appor of the parent or any branch bank, shall be discounted out stock. of the sum they would be entitled to receive under this section, if no such loss had accrued to such parent bank, or branch bank: Provided further, That whenever the stock of the State in the Union and Planters' Banks is Stock of Union and Planters' sold, or the proceeds thereof in any manner realized by Banks when sold the Bank of Tennessee, the same shall be divided and apportioned among the branches of said bank, according to the proportion directed to be observed by said bank in dividing her original capital.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That no bank, or branch bank in Tennessee, shall issue, emit, or pay out, any bank note, not on its face payable, upon demand, at the counter where issued, emitted, or paid out. But no such bank, or branch bank, in this State, shall be under the legal obligation to comply with the foregoing provisions of this section, until the first day of September, 1859, from and after which time they shall strictly conform thereto: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any parent bank from signing, filling up, and registering notes intended for circulation and payable at their branches, to whom said notes may be remitted for circulation.

Counter notes.

holders not af

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Rights of depos act shall repeal, or is intended to repeal, or affect the itors and note rights of the note-holders, or depositing creditors of banks, fected. as they now are by existing laws.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN C. BURCH,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed January 28, 1858.

CHAPTER 26.

AN ACT to appoint Commissioners to re-mark the State line between Tennessee and
Kentucky, east of the Mississippi River.

WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the line of boundary between this State and the State of Kentucky on the line east of the Mississippi River; for remedy whereof,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That two persons be appointed by the Governor of the State to meet such Commissioners as may be appointed by the State of Kentucky to run and re-mark the line established by the compact between the State of Tennessee and Kentucky. Beginning on the east bank of the Mississippi River, running thence to the Eastern boundary of the State of Kentucky, putting up a large stone every five miles, provided when rock or stone cannot be conveniently had, posts of some durable wood be substituted. That said Commissioners shall have full power and authority, and it is hereby made their duty, to employ a Field Party, to consist of one Engineer, one Surveyor, one Backsightman, and one Axman, and such others as may be necessary. The Engineer and Surveyor, to be well qualified to make said survey upon scientific principles; said Commissioners to superintend the work.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That a copy of this act shall be transmitted by the Governor to the Legislature of Kentucky at its present session, with a request that said Legislature will take such action upon it as may be necessary to effect its object. And so soon as action thereon shall be taken by the Legislature of the State of Kentucky, and the Governor of this State and of the State of Kentucky shall have appointed Commissioners as provided in the 1st section of this act, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to proceed as soon as practicable to the performance of the duties required of them, and to have or cause the Survey to be completed at as early a date as may be practicable.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Commission ers shall by joint report communicate to the Governor of their respective States what they may do in the premises, and that the Governor of Tennessee shall communicate the same to the succeeding Legislature of this State; said Commissioners shall accompany their said report with a map of their Survey, showing the relative position of former lines to the line of Survey made by them, and such other information as may be necessary.

SEC. 4. That the Comptroller of the Treasury of this

State whenever directed by the Governor, shall issue to the
Commissioners appointed by him his warrant upon the

Treasurer of this State for the sum of three thousand Purchase of indollars to be by them appropriated to the purchase of ne- strument. cessary instruments and the cost of making said Survey.

SEC. 5. That said Commissioners shall also in their report show the time that each of them, and each of the field party was necessarily engaged in the performance of their respective duties in making said Survey, the amount paid to each for his services and also what future amount, if any, is necessary to pay the costs of the same.

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Map to be filed in

SEC. 6. That said Commissioners shall cause to be pared and filed in the office of the Secretary of State a careful and full topographical map of the Survey thus Secretary of made, exhibiting the positions of the country and embodying all that geographical information that can be incidentally obtained in making such Surveys.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN C. BURCH,

State's office

Passed January 29, 1858.

Speaker of the Senate.

CHAPTER 27.

AN ACT to establish a Chancery Court in the town of Sneedville.

in Sneedville.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That a Chancery Court be and is hereby established in the town of Sneedville, in the coun- Chancery Court ty of Hancock, to be held on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in June and December, by the Chancellor of the first Chancery District in the State of Tennessee, an 1 that it shall be the duty of the said Chancellor to appoint a clerk and master of said court, who shall give bond with good and approved security, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and who shall be subject to all the liabilities, and receive all the remunerations and rewards for his services, now by law attached to such office.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Chancellor, on application of the complainant or complainants, by and with the consent of the defendant or defendants, to order all causes now pending in the Chan

cery Court of either Claiborne or Hawkins counties, that from Claiborne may have originated in the said county of Hancock, to be removed to the Chancery Court hereby established in the town of Sneedville.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That on application to remove any cause or causes from the Chancery Court of either Claiborne or Hawkins counties, according to the provisions of this act, the Clerk and Master of said courts shall, within forty days after said application, make out a full and perfect transcript of all rules relating to the same, and transmit it to the Clerk and Master of the Court at Sneedville, for which he shall receive the usual compensation in such cases.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all the causes now pending in the Chancery Court at Jamestown, Montgomery and Jacksborough, where the subject matter in litigation is real estate lying within the county of Scott, or where the defendants or any one of them reside in the county of Scott, shall, by consent of the parties, be transferred to the Chancery Court at Huntsville, in Scott county, and the Clerks and Masters of the Chancery Courts at Jamestown, Montgomery, and Jacksborough, are hereby required in all such cases as specified in this act, to make out correct copies of all the orders, decrees, and rules of said. Courts in such causes, and transfer the same, together with the original papers in said causes to the Chancery Court at Huntsville, there to be tried and determined.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That from and after Change of time the next term of the Circuit Court of Van Buren county, the Circuit Courts in said county shall be held on the third Monday in April, August, and December, and that from and after the next term of the Circuit Court of Coffee county, the Circuit Courts in said county shall be holden on the first Mondays in January, May, and September; that all laws coming within the purview and meaning of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect from and after its passage.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN C. BURCH,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed January 29, 1858.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT to authorize municipal corporations to hold real estate, to amend the Corporation laws of the town of Altamont, and to amend the corporation laws of the town of Murfreesboro'.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all municipal corporations in this State shall be authorized to hold real estate beyond their corporate limits that is conveyed or devised to them for the benefit of said corporations.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the town of Altamont, in the county of Grundy, and for other purposes," passed March 2, 1854, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: That hereafter the corporate limits of said town shall be as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the ford of Perry Creek where the road crosses the same, in the direction of Northcutt's Grove, running thence with the north bank up the said creek opposite the mouth of Rocky Branch; thence up said branch to the mouth of William A. Given's spring branch; thence up said branch to the Chattanooga road; thence in a direct line east to D. H. Franklin's spring Corporate Imirs branch; thence down said branch to Perry Creek; thence up said creek to where the east boundary line of a one hundred acre tract of land, on which said town is located, crossing said creek; thence north with the line of said tract of land to its north-east corner; thence a direct line to the south-east corner of a lot of land deeded by Stephen M. Griswold for academic and burial purposes; thence around with the line of said lot to its south-west corner; thence a direct line to the beginning.

Ten days' notice

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth sections of an act entitled, An Act for the incorporation of the citizens of any town, city, or village in the State of Tennessee who may desire it, passed January 7th, 1850, be and the same are hereby embraced so far as the same is applicable thereto, as a part of the to his. charter of said town of Altamont; provided the notice to be given by the Sheriff of the time and place of holding the election, specified in the fourth section of said act, shall be ten days instead of two. And provided further, that if from any cause, the aldermen elected as aforesaid shall not meet, qualify, and organize themselves as a Board of Mayor and Aldermen as is provided in the fifth section of