the advantage and interest of said Academy, and make full and complete title in fee simple to the same, and dispose of the proceeds of the sale of the same, in purchasing other lots, building other academies or whatever else they may think best for the advancement of education in the town of Huntingdon, and they are further instructed and Funds to be in empowered to place the funds arising from the proceeds of the sales as aforesaid, in any other Female School or Academy that may be constructed in the town aforesaid. vested. Athens Female Trustees. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That there shall be established in the town of Athens, Tennessee, an institution of learning for young ladies, and the same shall be known and designated by the style of the "Athens Female College." SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That John F. Slover, William M. Sehorn, R. M. Fisher, William H. Ballew, Alexander H. Keith, R. C. Jackson, Geo. W. Bridges, M. L. Phelps, T. Sullins, Thomas L. Hoyle, W. E. Halls, S. K. Reider, Willie Lowry, Andrew Hutsell, John L. Bridges, and Samuel P. Ivins, Trustees of said College, appointed and confirmed by the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, with perpetual succession, by the name and style of the "Athens Female College," by which name and style, they, the said Trustees, and their successors in office, shall be capable, in law and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors, for the use and benefit of said College, any estate in lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, or other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise or bequest of any person or persons, or bodies politic and corporate, and the same lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, or other effects, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, devise, or place out at interest, or otherwise dispose of, for the use of said College, in such manner as they may deem most beneficial, and by the same name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, in all manner of suits or actions whatever; and by and in the same manner may do and transact all and every, the business touching and concerning the premises, not hereinafter provided for, as fully and effectually as any natural person or body corporate in this State, have power to manage their own concerns or business. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That said " Athens Female College," and Trustees herein named, and their successors in office shall be under the control and patronage of ton Conference. the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and that said Conference shall have power to ap Shall be under control of Hols Professors. point the President and Professors of said College, and the Board of Trustees shall confirm the same by ballot; and shall appoint that all vacancies in the Board of Trustees, or in the faculty, shall be filled by said Conference, but if any vacancy shall occur before the annual meeting of said Conference, said Board of Trustees may fill such vacancy until the annual meeting of the next conference thereafter. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That no misnomer of said Corporation shall defeat any gift, grant or bequest to or from said Corporation, nor shall any misuser or non-user of the rights, liberties or privileges hereby granted to said Corporation, create or cause a forfeiture of the same, and the lands, lots and grounds belonging to said College buildings, together with the buildings, school fixtures and appurtenances of said Corporation shall be exempt from taxa- Exempt from tax. tion for State or county purposes, and all and every taxation whatever. grees. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Trustecs, by the recommendation of the Professors and Teach- May grant deers of said College, shall grant to such students, as they may deem worthy of the same, all and every, the mark of distinction usual in other Colleges; and all and every literary degree or degrees, usual in any college or institution of learning in this State, that of graduate or other degrees, and full power is here given and granted to said Board of Trustees to make such needful rules and regulations in the conferring such honorary degrees and honors as they may think most advisable and most to the interest of said College, that the certificates, honorary cards and diplomas granted, shall be signed by the President of the College and Professors and Secretary of the Board of Trustees, with the seal of the Corporation affixed, and when so signed and sealed, shall have all the authority and rights, influence and respectability, which is secured by law, to the certificate, diploma, &c., of any other institution of learning in this State. SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Trustees shall cause to be made for their use, one common seal, with such device and inscription as they may think May have a seak proper to engrave thereon, under and by which, all deeds, diplomas, certificates, honorary cards and acts of said Corporation shall pass and be authenticated, and that a copy of this charter, granted by the Legislature of Tennessee, be copied on parchment, and filed in the archives of said College, with the signatures of the Board of Trustees thereon. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the lot of ground and buildings thereon, belonging to the Flat Creek Male Flat Creek Malo Academy, in the county of Bedford, and now used as a Academy. Female College at Jonesboro'. school house, be, and the same are hereby exempted from public taxes as long as the same may be used for the purposes of a school. SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That section second of an act passed February 16, 1854, entitled "An act to charter the Odd Fellows' Female High School, at Jonesboro', and for other purposes," be so amended as to strike out the words "High School," and insert the word "College" in lieu thereof. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 1, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. With Circuit. CHAPTER 93. AN ACT to change the time of holding the Chancery Court at Shelbyville, in the county of Bedford; to change the time of holding the Circuit Court in the ninth Judicial Circuit; to establish a Chancery Court at Ashland, in the county of Cheatham; to establish a Chancery Court at the town of Crossville; to change the time of holding the Chancery Court in the town of Centreville, in the county of Hickman; and to change the time of holding the Chancery Court at Bolivar. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That from and after the passage of this act, the Chancery Court at Shelbyville shall be holdden on the Mondays after the fourth Monday in February and August in each year. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of an act passed January 25, 1858, as fixes the time of holding the Circuit Court in the ninth Judicial Circuit be, and the same is hereby repealed; and from and after the passage of this act, the Circuit Court shall commence and be holden in the county of Carroll on the first Monday of January, fourth Monday of April, and fourth Monday of August; in the county of Benton, on the second Monday of January, second Monday of May, and second Monday of Septemher; in the county of Henry, on the third Monday of January, third Monday of May and third Monday of September; in the county of Weakley, on the second Monday of February, the second Monday of June, and second Monday of October; and in the county of Humphreys, on the first Monday of March, first Monday of July and first Monday of November; and all process hereafter issuing from any of said courts shall conform hereto. trict. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the county o Cheatham is declared to be a Chancery district, and a Chancery Court shall be held for said district in the town of Ashland. The judge of the Circuit Court of the 7th Judi- cheatham courty cial Circuit, or any Judge specially appointed, or by inter- a Chancery dis change with the Judge of the 7th circuit, shall hold said Court, and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction exercised by the several Chancellors in this State: The said Court shall be held at the same time with the Circuit Court, and the business of the two Courts shall be disposed of in the order which said Judge in his discretion may direct. The clerk of the Circuit Court of said county shall be Clerk and Master of said Chancery Court, and shall execute the bonds required by law of the several clerks and masters of the chancery courts in this State. County a Chan SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the county of Cumberland shall constitute a separate chancery district, and that the courts of the same shall be held by the Chancel- Cumberland lor of the fifth chancery division of the State of Tennessee, cery district. at the court house in the town of Crossville, in the county of Cumberland, on Friday after the third Monday of March and September in each and every year; that it shall be the duty of said Chancellor to appoint a clerk and master of said county, who shall give bond and security, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities now by law imposed on said office; that it shall be lawful for the Chancellor, upon application of complainants, and with the consent of defendants, to order that the causes now pending in the chancery courts at Washington, Pikeville, Sparta, Jamestown, and Montgomery, Tennessee, which originated in the said county of Cumberland, be transferred to the Chancery Court hereafter to be held in the town of Crossville; that upon any order of transfer being made, as provided for in this act, it shall be the duty of the clerks and masters of the chancery courts at Washington, Pikeville, Sparta, Jamestown and Montgomery, within forty days after the order of transfer shall have been made, to make a complete and perfect transcript of all rules in relation to the same, either the record books of said courts or upon the rule docket, and transmit the same, together with the original papers, to the Clerk and Master of the court at Crossville, and the Clerk and Master shall receive the usual fees, to be taxed in the bill of costs. upon Chancery Court SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That hereafter the Chancery Court at Centreville, in the county of Hickman, in this State, shall be held on the fourth Monday in April at Centreville. and the first Monday in November, in each and every year. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That hereafter the Chan cery Court at Bolivar, for the county of Hardeman, shall be held on the second Mondays in May and November of each year; and the Chancery Court at Somerville, in the Chancery Court County of Fayette, shall be held on the third Monday in May and November of each year; and that the Chancery Court at Covington, for the county of Tipton, shall be held on the fourth Mondays of May and November of each year; and at Ripley, for the county of Lauderdale, on the first Thursdays after the fourth Mondays in May and November of each year. at Bolivar, at SEC. 7. 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, Passed March 1, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 94. AN ACT to incorporate the Thompson and Bethesda Turnpike Company, and to incorporate the Franklin and Triune Turnpike Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all persons who shall become stockholders, in the way and manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name and style of the "Thompson and Bethesda Turnpike Company," and, by that name, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and powers appertaining to bodies politic and corporate by law, and shall have perpetual succession. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said Company shall be not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, Amount of stock said capital stock to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the following persons shall be Commissioners, for the purpose of opening books for subscription of stock in said Company, to wit: Commissioners. Elijah Thompson, Samuel A. Painter, James McLaughlin, Alexander Steele, Matthew Irvine, and Moses Steele, at Thompson and Bethesda, in the county of Williamson. Any two of said persons shall be competent to open books |