the State of Tennessee, besides the bridge at Nashville across Cumberland river, the sum of $

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work on the first thirty miles of said road has so far progressed as to give satisfactory evidence that on the 10th day of January, 1858, there will not remain more than fractional parts of three miles unfinished for track, and those parts completed by the first day of March, 1858, and said Company have finished, ready for the iron rails a number of miles though not consecutive, equal to thirty, and have worked one tunnel through, and another half through; therefore,

SECTION 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That upon the report of the Railroad Commissioner to the Governor, that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad have graded and bridged ready for the track thirty miles of road, though not consecutive, and that said Company have done work on that part of the road beyond the thirty miles equal in value to five times the amount of the work then to be done on the first thirty miles, not counting work on any mile, above the said first thirty, which has been calculated in the aforesaid thirty miles, then the Governor shall issue, on the demand of the President of said road, coupon bonds of the State of Tennessee to the amount of ten thousand dollars per mile.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the benefits and provisions of an act passed February 11, 1852, entitled, An act to establish a system of Internal Improvements in this State, and the acts amendatory thereto, be extended to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, until the first day of June, 1858.

SEO. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said road is hereby allowed until the first day of June, 1859, to comply with the provisions of said act of February 11, 1852, and the act amendatory thereto, on that part of said road lying from the end of the first thirty miles to the Kentucky

line.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company be and they are hereby vested with the power to elect one or more Vice Presidents, one of whom shall reside in the State of Tennessee, who, together with the Directors residing in the State of Tennessee, may be constituted a local Board, and to whose management may be submitted the construction of that part of the road which lies in the State of Tennessee, subject to the control of the President and Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and exercise such other and further power as the Board may from time to time confer. The

Board of Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company shall prescribe the duties and define the powers of the Vice President. The Board of Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company shall have power to fix the salary of the Vice President in Tennes- ties. see, and the Vice President in Tennessee may be elected from or outside of the local Board.

SEC. 6. Be i further enacted, That the iron for said two roads shall be shipped to the order of the Railroad Commissioner, who shall deliver it to them as above provided for.

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,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed December 15, 1857.

CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT directory to the Comptroller of the Treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the Comptroller issue his warrant to Morgan & Co., for eleven hundred and twentyseven dollars and forty-three cents, the cost of new carpets purchased for the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives; and to the Secretary of State for eighty-four dollars, paid for making and putting down the same.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to issue his warrant for two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty cents, in favor of the Secretary of State, being the amount expended for coal furnished for the Legislature by James Hughes.

SEC. 3. 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 December 1, 1857.

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to establish the Fourteenth Civil District in Hickman County, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That there is hereby established the Fourteenth Civil District in the county of Hickman, which shall have the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning one quarter of a mile from Stanfill's Mills, on the Williamsport road, running to the nearest point of Swan Creek, leaving Mrs. Stanfill and John McGill in District No. 1, thence up said Creek, with its meanders, and on to the dividing ridge between Short and Fall Branch, thence with said ridge to the old Natchez road, east with the same to the Old Well, thence on a line to what is called the Robert Totty road, where the same intersects the Williamsport and Centreville road, thence with the same to the beginning.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That said District shall have the same number of officers, that the other districts in said county how have, with the same powers and privileges.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the first election in said District shall be held at Wheat's Shop, at the time the other elections in said county take place, in March next, and after which time a majority of the voters of said District may move the place of election, wherever they may designate in said District.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That those living in each fraction in said District shall remain and be considered in the District from which they were taken, until the election aforesaid; and that the officers in said District, when elected, shall be supplied with the books, &c., to which other districts are entitled.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Governor of the State of Tennessee, be and he is hereby authorized and requested to appoint some suitable person to act as County Court Judge of Giles county, during the December term of said Court, and that said County Judge so appointed shall be invested with all the rights, powers and privileges appertaining to the said officers under the act, creating said office, passed February 22, 1856.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

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

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed December 2, 1857.

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT to incorporate Linwood Landing Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That John D. Moris, C. E. Meriwither, M. D. Davie, Andrew Long, A. D. Fletcher, R. G. Hopkins, Isaac Mosby, J. M. Williams, Thomas J. Munford, George Massie, S. G. Keats, J. H. Kindrick, John W. Woodson, W. G. Moore, Ben. Berry, E. S. Edmunds, W. W. Mills, A. L. Jones, Peter B. Stones, J. C. Metcalf, John J. Thomas, D. W. Quarles, James M. Hunt, J. B. White, Wm. Griffey, William Moss, Geo. King, John Flemming, James A. Hutchison, P. B. White, James F. Buckner, L. L. Leavell, Jesse Giles, Jr., Jesse Giles, Sr., Geo. Wells, Sr., John T. Edmonds, Lewis L. Leavell, James M. Hardy, S. A. Holland, R. W. Henry, James M. Campbell, A. J. Faulkner, W. II. Greenwood, H. P. Jones, Wm. Faulkner, Brener Rues, James M. Radford, W. H. Allenworth, P. W. M. Garrien, W. P. Settle, W. B. Radford, James Brunty, Porter & Riggins, James L. Killebun, J. H. Evans, C. H. Keaver, Henry Bollinger, Wm. Payne, John Chilton, George Lackey, Thomas B. D. Reese, Robert E. Hacker, Richard Durritt, P. Peacher, F. W. Buckner, H. G. Green, Peter Anderson, J. W. Edmonds, John C. Ferguson, H. L. Smith, P. C. Wootin, W. A. Mayfield, W. H. Mason, John R. Whitlock, James U. Smith, A. Seay, J. T. Harris, W. A. Harris, Davis & Weaver, Richard Stone, Charles Brantley, W. L. Nibbet, Simeon Philpot, Walker Mauson, James G. Stewart, Winston J. Davie, Ambrose Davie, James Branaugh, Charles Necker, Darwin Bell, G. M. Quarles, Samuel G. Buckner, Benjamin G. Radford, Geo. Leavell, James B. Wood, W. B. Mason, Wood & Brother, James M. Ogburn, William Radford, and William Overton, and their successors, are hereby declared a body corporate, under the name and style of the Linwood Landing Company, and by which said name may have succession for a period of twenty years, by which said name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; and they may have a common seal, and may purchase and hold property, both real and personal, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars in valne, and sell and convey the saine, under their said corporate name, and in their said corporate capacity.

Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That it shall be competent for said Company to elect, at such times as they may deem most Election of offiexpedient, five Directors, three of whom may constitute a legal Board to transact business; said Directors to elect

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from their Board a President; and in voting, each stockholder shall cast one vote and no more.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That said Board of Directory shall take and have control and management of said Landing for the term for which they are elected. But on no account are said Directory authorized to bind said Company by bill, note, bond, or any other obligation sold or traded to any bank, corporation or individual.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That said Directory shall not, in the name of said Company, buy any kind or sort of produce or property for speculation, but shall confine themselves to a legitimate warehousing business; Provided, nothing in this section shall prevent said Directory from keeping on hand for their customers, lumber, shingles, boards, staves, and salt.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That said Board of Directory may at their option employ an agent to carry on said business for said Company, or rent the same from year to year, or lease it for a term of years.

SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That said Directory shall, at the next meeting after their election, submit to the shareholders such by-laws as they may think proper, for the government of said Company, to be ratified, altered or amended, by a majority of said shareholders.

SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That the stock of said Company may be sold and transferred on the books of Company, at the option of each shareholder owning stock therein.

SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That said Company hereby incorporated, is authorized to do a legitimate warehousing business, and none other, at their Landing on Cumberland River, in Montgomery county.

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That the individual property of the stockholders shall be liable for the debts of the Company for building said warehouse, in proportion to the stock held by each stockholder.

DANIEL S. DONELSON,

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

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed December 5, 1857.