CHAPTER 83. AN ACT requiring survey to be made before any change shall hereafter be made in any county line, and for other purposes. made. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter no change shall be made in any county line or lines unless the person or persons desiring such change shall, prior to the first day of June preceding the meeting of the Legislature to which application is made for such change, cause to be made, by one or both of the county surveyors of the counties interested in the proposed change, an accurate survey and plot of the line or lines proposed to be estab- Survey to be lished, giving the course and distance of each line, and such other landmarks and natural boundaries as may be necessary to a correct understanding of the same after survey shall have been made as aforesaid; and before the first day of June as aforesaid, the parties desiring such change shall give notice of such proposed change, in writing, posted at three of the most public places in the vicinity of the purposed change. Provided, Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to effect the laying off new counties in this State. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the county line between the counties of Monroe and Roane, be so changed as to include James Sewel, William Carter, William Elkins, John Billingsly, and David II. Dickey, in said county of Monroe, that the change in said line commence on the top of the Black Oak Ridge, near the town of Philadelphia, running west with the center line of the first and second sections of township 2d, range first, east of the meridian line, so as to include the residence of James Sewell, thence with the said line to the Pond Creek road, thence with said road passing the dwelling of David H. Dickey, and across Pond Creek at the ford near said Dickey's house, thence with the road leading to the town of Philadelphia, to the original county line. Monroe and SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the 10th section of an act passed the 4th of March, 1858, entitled, An act to change the line between the counties of Grundy, Jefferson, Grainger, Anderson, and Roane, be, and the same is hereby repealed. And be it further enacted, That a line be established between the counties of Rhea and Bledsoe, to be- Rhea and Bledgin at the Pole Bridge Creek and run a southwest direction so as to include B. F. Bridgeman's farm, and to intersect the established line at a white oak, black oak, and Cumberland and Marion hickory known at the old corner of Rhea, Hamilton and SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the line between trict in Warren county. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That a new civil district be formed in the county of Warren, consisting of fractions of the 8th, 10th, and 16th civil districts, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the Coffee county line where the Short Mountain and Hillsborough road crosses the same, New civil dis- thence east to the old McMinnville stage road, thence north with the same to John Telford's, thence north-westwardly to Simpson McAfee's, thence northwardly to Abraham Moncey's near the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad, thence westwardly to L. D. Dowdys', thence northwardly to the widow Nancy Brown's, thence southwardly to the Coffee county line, thence eastwardly with the said line to the beginning; to be denominated the 17th civil district in Warren county, and shall hold its elections at Morristown Depot in said district. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the Sheriff of said county be required to give the required notice and hold an election in said district for the election of two magistrates and one constable, and shall certify the same. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the line running from Simpson McAfee's northwardly to L. D. Dowdy's, crossing the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad, thence southwardly to William Swart's, thence southwardly to the Coffee county line, thence east with said line to the beginning, so as to include Jesse Hulet in said civil district, and in said county, and leaving out Moncey and the widow Brown. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the line between the counties of Wilson and DeKalb be changed to run as follows: Beginning at Pallace Laurence's south corner, which is on the Wilson and DeKalb county line, running Wilson and De thence with the said Pallace Laurence's southern boundary to Thomas J. Kidwell's farm, thence with said Kidwell's southern and western lines, and the said Pallace Laurence's Boundary to the Wilson county line, including alone into DeKalb county the farms of the said Laurence and Kidwell. Kalb. Smith. SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That the line between the counties of DeKalb and Smith be changed to run as DeKalb and follows: Beginning on a birch tree on the line of Smith and DeKalb counties, on the western corner of Louisa D. Dowell's tract of land, and running thence north with the said Louisa D. Dowell's western boundary to the north-western corner of a tract of land owned by J. F. and James Goodner, thence with their north-eastern boundary to Hickman's creek, thence up said creek to William Floyd's eastern boundary, thence with said boundary to the lands of Jacob Measels, and with his eastern boundary to the lands of William Grindstaff, thence with the said Grindstaff's eastern boundary to the lands of Martin Foutches' eastern boundary to the present county line between DeKalb and Smith. The line so changed will take the entire lands of J. F. and James Goodner, Louisia D. Dowell, William Floyd, Lucy Preston, Jacob Measles, William Grindstaff and Martin Foutche into DeKalb county. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the citizens whose dwellings were in Smith county prior to the passage of this act, and are by said act attached to DeKalb county, shall belong to the first civil district of DeKalb county. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 84. AN ACT declaring it a felony to carry concealed about the person false or skeleton keys, &c. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it is hereby declared a felony for any person to carry concealed about the person, any false or skeleton keys, jinnies, or any article of the kind, intended for effecting secret entrance into houses, for the purpose of committing theft, or other violations of the laws; and any person shall, upon indictment or presentment and conviction in any court having jurisdiction, be sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the jail and pen itentiary of the State of Tennessee, for a period of not less than one, nor more than ten years. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 85. AN ACT to protect stock from milk sick. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That where persons in this State, have built fences to protect stock from milk sick, any person or persons who may wil.fully leave the bars or fences down or the gates open, for each and every such offence, shall be fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, and the informer shall have onehalf of the fine so collected, and the remainder shall go into the county treasury. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 86. AN ACT to amend the law in relation to the punishment of slaves. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That when any slave or free negro shall be convicted of being engaged in, or aidiug, abetting, or advising, any insurrection of slaves, or of feloniously killing his, her or their master or mistress, he, she or they shall be punished with death; and it shall be the duty of every judge of the circuit or criminal courts, at any time when an application is made to him in writing, certified by the oath of at least five creditable persons, setting forth that they have cause to believe, and do verily believe, that a certain slave or slaves, free negroe or negroes, within their circuit or district, are engaged in or advising, aiding, and abetting an insurrectionary movement, or have feloniously killed his, her or their mistress or master, forthwith to open court, empannel a grand jury, and proceed regularly to the trial of such slave or slaves, free negro or negros, and if the regular Attorney General is not or cannot be present, to appoint one pro tem. And all such proceedings shall be as valid as though done at a regular term of the court. SEC. 2. All proceedings under the foregoing section, shall be by indictment or presentment, and the trial shall be by a jury of twelve men. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 20, 2858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 87. AN ACT relative to unclaimed dividends of insurance companies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That every insurance company, now or hereafter to be incorporated, doing business in the State, on or before the first day of may next, and annually thereafter, shall cause to be published for thirty days, in one public newspaper, printed in the city of Nashville, a true and precise statement, verified by the affidavit of the presiding officer, of all dividends and profits declared and payable upon any of the stocks, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness remaining unclaimed by any person whatever, authorized to receive the same. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Speaker of the Senate. Passed March, 1858. |