Bark Ridge Route of road. Pleasant Grove SEO. 33. Be it further enacted, That Joseph Cowper, Josephus Walker, W. L. Clemmons, Archibald Carver, Jesse A. Grigg, Henry Jackson, citizens of the county of Wilson, be, and the same are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Bank Ridge Turnpike Company, with all the powers and privileges conferred by this act on the Alexandria and Smith's Fork Turnpike Company, so far as applicable to the Bank Ridge Turnpike Company. SEC. 34. Be it further enacted, That said road shall commence on the Lebanon and Tucker's Hill Turnpike Company Road, at, or near the residence of Wm. Eddings, in the county of Wilson; thence near the residence of Jos. Cowper; thence to Josephus Walker's blacksmith shop, intersecting the Davidson and Wilson Central Turnpike Company Road. SEC. 35. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act incorporating the Lebanon and Tucker's Hill Turnpike Company shall be applicable to the Bank Ridge Turnpike Company, so far as the building, obtaining stock, meetings, grade and toll-gates, are restricted and declared in said act. SEC. 36. Be it further enacted, That John Kelley, Dr. J. II. McFarland, J. A. Horn, W. R. Winter, Asa Jackson, citizens of the county of Wilson, be incorporated under the name and style of Pleasant Grove Turnpike Company, with all the powers and privileges conferred by this act on the Alexandria and Smith's Fork Turnpike Company, so far as applicable to the Pleasant Grove Turnpike Company Road. SEC. 37. Be it further enacted, That said road shall commence at the western terminus of the Lebanon and Tucker's Hill Turnpike Company's Road; passing Pleas ant Grove Church, intersecting the Nashville and Lebanon Turnpike Company's Road, at, or near Ralph Martin's, or at any point on which the Directors may agree. SEC. 38. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act, incorporating the Lebanon and Tucker's Hill Turnpike Company, shall be applicable to the Pleasant Grove Turnpike Company, so far as the grade, obtaining stock, meetings, buildings and toll-gates of the same are expressed and declared. SEC. 39. Be it further enacted, That the charter of the Lebanon and Lowe's Ferry Turnpike Company, be so amended, as that said Company shall not be required to metal their road more than fifteen feet, instead of sixteen feet, as declared; and that said road shall be built to with in five degrees of a level instead of four degrees, as heretofore expressed. Turnpike Co. SEC. 40. Be it further enacted, That J. F. Davis, J. B. Virerate, J. F. Wallace, A. G. Hashreacher, Thompson Easterly, and J. A. Curd, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Silver Silver Springs Springs Turnpike Company; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and make all necessary rules and regulations for the successful operations of said Company, with full power to construct a Turnpike Road in Wilson county, beginning at, or near Silver Springs, running in a southerly direction, between Mrs. Brown's and Cador Bass', crossing W. Bradshaw's lot, via Jonathan Easterly, J. F. Davis, James A. Curd's, intersecting the old Lebanon and Nashville Road, and with said road to the terminus at Pleasant Grove, with the privilege of erecting one gate at any point they may think best. SEC. 41. Be it further enacted, That said Company shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and subject to the same rules and restrictions, as is the Statesville and Cainsville Turnpike Company, so far as may be applicable to and not conflicting with the expressed provisions of this act. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 1, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 111. AN ACT to incorporate the Franklin Typographical Union, and to amend the act of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the act passed February 25, 1856, enacting that J. B. Moseley and others, associated Commissioners. with him, shall be a body corporate, under the name and style of the Franklin Typographical Union, with all the rights, powers and privileges conferred by the foregoing sections of this act, and that J. B. Moseley be appointed a Commissioner to open books and receive subscriptions thereto be amended as follows: SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That a Company is hereby cre Election of officers ated, with the title of the Franklin Typographical Union, in the city of Memphis, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars; and that the stock of said Company be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and that books which have been opened by J. B. Moseley or John P. Pryor, as Commissioners, are legal and binding upon the stockholders who subscribed to the capital stock thereto, the same as though both had been specially named as Commissioners in said act. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the subscribers to said stock, their heirs and assigns, are hereby created a body politic, by the name and style above mentioned, and in and by said style and name have power to contract and be contracted with; to sue and be sued; to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter or destroy at pleasure; to borrow money upon their bonds for such amounts, conditions, times, and rates of interest as may be agreed on by the parties; shall have power to elect all officers which the Board of Directors may deem necessary to carry on the purposes of the organization; to establish all by-laws, rules or regulations that may be deemed proper by the Directors; to purchase, hold, sell or exchange any amount of real or personal property, necessary or proper for the legitimate uses of said Franklin Typographical Union. SEC 4. Be it enacted, That the books already opened; the subscriptions received to the capital stock of said Franklin Typographical Union, and the elections of officers and Directors, are valid and binding upon the stockholders ; that the Directors shall elect a President of the Board from their own number, and have power to fill vacancies in the Board. The election of said Board shall be held each year, or at longer periods of time if the Board of Directors shall prefer, and the Directors and officers shall hold their offices until their successors shall be elected. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That every stockholder shall be liable for the full amount of stock by him subscribed, and the payment of the same in full, to the authorized agent of said Company, or in such amounts as may be deemed necessary by the Board of Directors. And when such amount of stock shall have been fully paid, the subscriber so having fully paid, shall be released from any further liability. SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That the stock may be transferred by assignment, and the original stockholder and assignee shall be bound until the stock be fully paid in; and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him, which may be given in person or by proxy. SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That this Company, hereby in corporated, shall have existence for the term of fifty years from the 25th February, 1856. SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That the object and business of said Company, shall be to carry on and conduct a general printing and publishing establishment. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 6, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 112. AN ACT to supply the Circuit Court Clerks' offices, of Sevier and McMinn counties, with the State Reports. WHEREAS, a fire occurred in Sevierville, Sevier county, Tennessee, which burnt the Court House in said town, and destroyed many valuable papers, and among other things, the Reports of the State, furnished to the Circuit Court Clerk's office. And whereas, the Clerk has since purchased a full set of said Reports, which he is willing to furnish for the use of said office at the price which he paid for them. Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the Comptroller of the Trea- McCown. sury issue his warrant in favor M. W. McCown, for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to pay for the Reports mentioned in the preamble of this bill, and that said Reports be, and they are hereby declared the property of the Circuit Court Clerk's office of the county of Sevier. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Comptroller iss warrant on the Treasurer for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars for the benefit of McMinn county, to supply the Reports which were burned by the burning of the Clerk's office in Athens, in 1853 or '4, said warrant to issue to John F. Slover, who is hereby directed to purchase slover. such of the Reports, as were destroyed by said burning, for the use of the Circuit Clerk's office, of McMinn county. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 6, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. Turner M. Lawrence College. CHAPTER 113. AN ACT to incorporate Turner M. Lawrence College, at Alexandria, in DeKalb county, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, Turner M. Lawrence, of the county of Wilson, has erected a large and commodious College building, at Alexandria, in DeKalb county, and having completed said building, now desires to donate it to the public for the purpose of educating the youth of the country, Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That John F. Moore, William Floyd, Lewis Pendleton, Jesse Sewell, William B. Lawrence, John F. Goodner, O. D. Williams and J. L. Goodall, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to be known as the Trustees of Turner M. Lawrence College; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts of law or equity in this State. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Trustees and their successors by the name and style aforesaid, shall and may be competent in law, to havé and to hold, to receive and enjoy, lands, tenements and hereditaments, of any kind or value, in fee simple, and personal estate of any kind or description whatever, or any sums of money which may be donated, granted or bequeathed to them, for the purposes of additional building, or enclosing, or in any other manner supporting the said Turner M. Lawrence College, or any of the branches therein taught. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Trustees shall have full power and authority to elect a President, who shall be, ex-officio, President of the Board of Trustees; also to elect such other professors, teachers and officers of said College, as they may deem necessary; and the President and professors, when so elected, shall be constituted a Faculty, which shall have full power and authority to cultivate and teach the arts and sciences, general literature and philosophy, and all other various branches; also, to confer the Degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, or any other degree of literary or scientific distinction known or conferred in the United States, upon any student or person: Provided, such student or person shall have attained to such standard of moral and intellectual culture, as shall hereafter be required by said College. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That a majority of said |