Compensation of officers. Election shall be held. finances, and police government generally, take care that all the ordinances are duly respected and observed within the City, and perform such other duties as may by ordinance of the City Council be required of him, take an oath of office before entering upon the duties of the same. Should a vacancy occur in the oflice of Mayor, the same shall be filled by a joint vote of the two houses. SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, The said City Council shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to provide for the appointment or election in such manner as they may see fit, all necessary officers for the good government of said City, they shall also fix the compensation of such officers, before their election, which shall not be increased, or diminished during their term of office, they shall also have full power, two-thirds of both branches of the City Council concurring, to dismiss from office any person that has been or may hereafter be elected to fill any office, created by the ordinances of the Mayor and Aldermen heretofore, or that may be by the City Council hereafter. And they shall have and possess full power to abolish any office as above, that has been or may hereafter be created. SEC. 16. Be it further enacted, That an election for Mayor and Aldermen, and Common Council, shall be held in each ward of said City, on the last Saturday in September in each and every year. The voters shall vote by ballot; every white male of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being entitled to vote by the laws of this State, who shall have resided within the city six months next preceding the election at which he may offer to vote, shall be entitled to vote, but only in the ward where he resides. Non-residents owning a freehold in said City, being qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, shall be entitled to vote in the ward where their freehold is situated. And such person owning real estate in more wards than one, he or they may elect in which of said wards to vote, but shall not be allowed to vote in more than one. Judges of election for each ward shall be appointed by the existing Board of Aldermen, who shall take an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties. They shall open the polls at 9 o'clock in the forenoon and close them at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall forthwith proceed to ascertain and transmit to the existing Mayor the result of such election, certified, and authenticated by the clerks and a majority of the judges of elections for each ward. The Mayor shall deliver to the City Recorder the returns as they may be received by him, who shall forthwith enter the same as they are successively received in a book to be kept for that purpose. In cases where two or more persons have received an equal number of votes for Alderman or Councilman, the election shall be referred back by the Mayor to the voters of the ward, and held as before, within the next succeeding ten days, and all persons chosen in each ward as a member of either branch of the City Council, shall within two days after his election, be furnished by the City Recorder with a certificate thereof, which certificate shall be presumptive evidence of the title of such person to a seat, but each branch of the City Council, however, shall have authority to decide ultimately upon all questions relative to the qualifications, election, and returns of its members. fix grade of SEC. 17. Be it further enacted, That the power is hereby expressly and fully given to the said City Council, to Have power to establish by ordinance a uniform system of street grades streets. and improvements, which shall extend to all alleys, lanes, and public thoroughfares. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 18, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 70. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Lewisburg and Mooresville, the Lewisburg, Conersville, and Pulaski, and the Gallatin Turnpike Companies; to incorporate the Charlotte and Harpeth Turnpike Company, and for other purposes. panies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That John R. Hill, DeWitt C. Orr, Morgan Fitzpatrick and John L. Reading, of Marshall county, and S. W. Fitzpatrick, William H. Wilkes, Claiborne Taylor, Thomas Cheatham and W. Holt, of Maury county, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to extend the Lewisburg and Mooresville Turnpike road, at or near Pleasant Grove, in Maury county, and that said Turnpike ComCommissioners and their successors in office are hereby appointed a body politic and corporate by the name of the Commissioners of the Lewisburg, Mooresville and Pleasant Grove Turnpike Company, and by that name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, with the right to contract and be contracted with, and to hold for the use of said Company real and mixed property sufficient to build and keep up said road. Further time to extend road. Further time to the Lewisburg, SEC. 2. That said Commissioners may, at such time and place as they may designate, open books for stock to build said road, and as soon as five thousand stock shall be subscribed for the building of said road, then the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall proceed to locate said road from Mooresville to the railroad near Pleasant Grove, and may, at such time as they deem advisable, proceed to let out the construction of said road, in whole or in part, and do all other other things necessary for the completion and keeping up said road, and they shall have power to receive subscriptions for the building of said road, to be paid in money or work as they may see proper to make their contracts. SEC. 3. That all the rights, privileges and immunities now given to the Shelbyville, Farmington and Lewisburg Turnpike Company, are given to the Company thus created in relation to right of way, stone and timber, for the construction of said road, and the same fees as now allowed by law to said Shelbyville, Farmington and Lewisburg Turnpike Company. Said new road shall be graded and McAdamized according to the requirements of said last named charter. And the Commissioners herein appointed may make such arrangement as to the consolidation of the old and new road herein provided as they deem desirable. They shall have power to erect one toll-gate for every five miles of said road, at such places as the interest of the Company may demand. SEC. 4. That the Lewisburg and Mooresville Turnpike Company, shall have the further time of three years to extend their road to the railroad in the vicinity of Lynnville, in Giles county, instead of Lynnville. SEC. 5. That the Lewisburg, Cornersville and Pulaski Cornersville and Turnpike Company, shall have the further time of three years to complete their said road. Palaski Turn Gallatin Turn pike Company SEC. 6. That the Directors of the Gallatin Turnpike Company, are hereby permitted to remove gate No. 4, on their road, to some place near where it is now located, so may remove ite. as to enable the Company to obtain ground upon which to erect their gate-houses; but the same is not to be so removed as to affect the rights of the community or those who travel on said pike. Further time to Walnut Moun1 Turnpike. SEC. 7. That the Washington county and Walnut Mountain Turnpike Company, shall have the further time of four years to complete their road. SEC. 8. That the Stone's river and Statesville Turnpike Company, shall have the further time of four years to complete their road. Harpeth Turn SEC. 9. That the subscribers of stock for building a road from Charlotte, Dickson county, Tennesse, to or near the mouth of Harpeth, on Cumberland river, shall constitute a body corporate and politic, by the name and style To incorporate of the Charlotte and Harpeth Turnpike Company, and as the Charlotte and such may have succession for a period of ninety-nine years; pike Company. and shall possess, have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the limitations and restrictions mentioned and recited in the act passed by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, February 7, 1850, (and the acts amendatory thereto,) entitled An act to authorize the formation of Turnpike Companies. SEC. 10. That L. L. Leech, W. B. Ross, W. J. McClel land, J. J. Hinton, B. C. Robertson, J. M. Larkins, are hereby appointed Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said Company, which said capital stock shall be eight thousand dollars, and may be increased to any amount necessary to build said road. Said Company may, however, be organized whenever the sum of four thousand dollars is subscribed. Said Company, when organized by the election of a President and such other officers as they may deem necessary, shall have power to build a road from Charlotte to a point at or near the mouth of Harpeth, on the Cumberland river, of such grade as may be convenient for hauling, and shall have six years to complete their road. Said Company shall not establish more than two gates on said road, one of which shall be in the vicinity of Charlotte, and the second to be located at any point beyond six miles of the first, where the Directors may see proper. Shares in the capital stock of said Company shall be twenty-five dollars each. The Board of Directors shall have power to adopt by-laws, &c. the Millcreek SEC. 11. That the Millcreek Valley Turnpike Company To extend time to be allowed the further time of three years, from the first valley Turnpike. of January, 1858, to complete their road. SEC. 12. That the White's Creek Turnpike Company, be, and they are hereby authorized to make a sale of their Turnpike Con - road, and to convey and transfer the same to the purchaser, White's Creek with all the rights and privileges of receiving toll thereon, pany may set that now belong to said Company, and the other rights and their road. privileges now appertaining to said Company in regard to said road; said purchaser to be liable in the management of said road to all the restrictions and penalties now binding on said Company, or to which said Company would be subject. Suc. 13. That before said sale, the assent of a majority of the stockholders of said Company, owning a majority of the stock thereof shall be given to such sale, and To amend charter such sale may be made after such assent, upon such terms, and in such manner as to the President and Directors shall seem expedient. SEC. 14. That so much of an act passed February 24, 1851, chartering the Lagardo Turnpike Company, be so amended that the style of said Company be the Lagardo of Lagardo Tura and Bull's Branch Turnpike Company, and said road may be extended so as to intersect the Gallatin and Cumberland Turnpike at such point as the said Company may see fit, and the said Company shall have the time of two years to build their road. pike. SEC. 15. That the Gallatin and Cole's Ferry Turnpike Purther time to Company, have the further time of four years to complete their road, and that A. II. Halbert be and is hereby made one of the Commissioners of said road. Cole's Ferry Turnpike. To incorporate Clarksburg and To incorporate Clarksville Turnpike SEC. 16. That James B. Halvard, Alex. Wood, S. Philpott, M. Pollard, Alex. Price, be and they are hereby incorporated a body politic, for the purpose of building a turnpike road from the county line of Stewart, to Clarksville, in Montgomery county, on or near the line of the Dover road, to be called the Dover and Clarksville Turnpike Company, with all the privileges, benefits and rights conferred upon the Lewisburg Turnpike Company, which this is intended to amend. SEC. 17. That William II. Drane, Henry Trice, James Brentz, Juo. Long, Peter Buck, Smily Kendrick, II. Conthe Lafayette and nell, Jno. Gould and B. Moss, and their successors, be and they are hereby incorporated a body politic, for the purpose of building a turnpike road from La Fayette to Clarksville, (on or near the line where the present road runs,) to be called the Lafayette and Clarksville Turnpike Company, with all the rights, powers, privileges and benefits conferred upon the Lewisburg Turnpike Company, and the Clarksville and Hopkinsville Turnpike Company-the first of Carter's Creek which this act is intended to amend. SEC. 18. That Henry G. W. Mayberry, Thomas F. Perkins, Thomas W. Sparkman, Seth Sparkman, Wm. S. Kelly, Aaron Vestal, Miles H. Mayes, Martin Irwin, John W. To incorporate Irwin, Lycurgus Collins, J. H. Jones, be and they are hereby incorporated a body politic for the purpose of building a turnpike from the Carter's Creek Turnpike, near Samuel S. Martin's in Williamson county, by way of Boston, Santa Fe, and to Williamsport, in Maury county, to be called the Boston and Williamsport Turnpike Company, with all the rights, privileges and benefits, and subject to all the regulations and restrictions of the Franklin and Lewisburg Turnpike Company. |