Public Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed at the General Assembly

An act to authorize municipal corporations to hold real estate, to amend the
corporation laws of the town of Altamont, and to amend the corpora-
tion laws of the town of Murfreesboro'................

COUNTIES AND COUNTY LINES.

An act to establish the county of Sequatchie in this State, and to change the

county lines between the counties of Grundy and Franklin, Marshall

and Lincoln, Hardeman and McNairy.

An act to amend an act, entitled, An act for the collection of debts against

counties, ch. 90, passed February 11, 1856. ....

An act to change the line between the counties of Campbell and Scott, Fen-

tress and Cumberland, DeKalb and Putnam...

An act to change the line between the counties of Grundy and Sequatchie,

Jefferson and Grainger, Van Buren and White, DeKalb and Smith, Polk

and Bradley, Wilson and Cannon, Rutherford and Coffee, Haywood and

Madison, and the counties of Anderson and Roane..............

An act for the benefit of Blount county; to authorize the County Court of

Knox to fix the compensation of railroad tax collectors; to amend the

first section of an act passed 8th of February, 1858, entitled, “An act

to produce uniformity in the reports of railroad companies," &c., and

to protect timber, &c., near railroad lines..........

An act requiring survey to be made before any change shall hereafter be

made in any county lines, and for other purposes...

CONSTITUTION.

An act to authorize the people to call a convention to revise, alter, or amend

the Constitution of the State of Tennessee......

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CIRCUIT COURTS.

An act to regulate the times of holding the circuit courts in Obion and other

counties........

An act to change the time of holding the circuit courts in the county of

Hardin..........

An act to systematize and prescribe the times of holding the circuit courts.

LAW COURT.

An act to establish a Law Court at Chattanooga

An act to authorize courts of law to afford relief to persons exposed to the
claims of two or more adverse parties, and for other purposes....

CRIMINAL COURTS.

An act for the benefit of the Criminal Courts of Tennessee.................................................................

An act to amend the criminal laws of this State......

An act to provide for keeping of criminal causes in court, and to pay the

costs thereon, and for other purposes...

An act to establish a Chancery Court in the town of Huntsville, in Scott

county, and for other purposes.

An act to establish a Chancery Court in the town of Sneedville........

An act to prevent circuity of action in the chancery courts................

An act to systematize and prescribe the times and places of holding the

chancery courts.....

COUNTY COURTS.

An act to amend the act of 1849-50, ch. 77, sec. 2, in the absence of a coun-

ty surveyor, to give the courts power to appoint one to lay off dower, &c.

CLERKS.

An act to regulate the fees and commissions of clerks, and other officers, and

for other purposes.........

An act directory to clerks and assessors...................................................................................................................................

CONSTABLES.

An act to authorize constables to serve subpoenas in certain cases.......

An act for the benefit of constables...

COUNSEL.

An act to provide counsel for the poor.

DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.

An act for the benefit of the deaf and dumb, and of the band...........

EXEMPTION.

An act to reduce into one all laws upon the subject of exempting property

from execution and attachment in this State......

ESTATES.

An act to provide for the distribution of decedents' estates in certain cases.

FELONY.

An act declaring it a felony to carry concealed about the person, false or

skeleton keys, &c.

FREE NEGROES.

An act to provide for the voluntary enslavement of free persons of color in

this State......

GENERAL GOVERNMENT.

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An act ceding to the United States of America exclusive jurisdiction over

certain lands, and their appurtenances, within the limits of the State of

Tennessee, and for other purposes therein mentioned.........

HOSPITALS.

An act to amend an act, entitled, An act for the benefit of the Tennessee
Hospital for the Insane, passed February 7, 1856.................................................................................

ILLEGITIMATES.

An act for the benefit of illegitimate children..........

INDIVIDUALS.

An act to amend the act of 1856, ch. 113, entitled, "An act to provide a

remedy in favor of private individuals against the State."..................

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

An act relative to unclaimed dividends of Insurance Companies.........

JAILORS.

An act for the relief of Spencer Henry, tax-collector for Blount county, and

for the benefit of Jailors in this State....................

JURORS.

An act to increase the pay of Jurors of this State.........

JUDICIAL.

An act to create the Fifteenth Judicial District......

An act to provide for the adjudication of causes in cases of incompetency of

Judges and Chancellors; to change the time of holding certain courts, and

to authorize the transfer of certain criminal causes for trial to the County

Court of Knox County....

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An act to establish the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit......

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An act to amend the general law in force in this State, authorizing judgments

by motion against collecting officers........

LAND TITLES.

n act giving further time to perfect land titles in this State.........

MECHANICS.

An act to give Mechanics' lien priority over mortgages in certain cases......

An act to amend the Mechanics' lien Law, and to extend its provisions to

Foundrymen and Machinists........

MEDICAL.

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An act to secure Medical Fees under certain circumstances....

MILLDAMS AND MILLS.

An act to authorize the erection of Milldams across Duck river, at any point
below the town of Columbia, and to give direction to Soam Waddle and
Moses Moore, how to build their Milldam across Nollecliucky river

An act to amend the laws in regard to Steam-Mills..........