CHAPTER 157. AN ACT for the benefit of the Mechanics' Institute and Library Association of the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That section ten, of the act of 1855-6, chap. 95, making an appropriation to each of these Grand Divisions of the State, for the purpose of locating Division Fairs, under which said Fairs have been located in East and West Tennessee, be so amended, that the amount appropriated for Middle Tennessee, be divested for the benefit of the Mechanics of the State, for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a Hall in the city of Nashville, in which to hold their State Fairs, under the direction of the President and Board of Directors of the Mechanics' Institute and Library Association of the State of Tennessee. Comptroller. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever it shall be satisfactorily shown to the Comptroller, that thirty thousand dollars have been subscribed, bona fide, by the citizens of the State, for the erection of said Hall, he shall pay over the said amount, appropriated to locate the Middle Division Fair, to the Board of Directors of said Mechanics' Institute and Library Association of the Association. State, taking the bond of said Board of Directors, in donble the amount, that the said money is properly appropri ated as hereinbefore provided. Mechanics' Intitute and Library SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Governor is hereby authorized to appoint Directors in the management Directors. of this fund, in the proportion of the amount hereby appropriated to the whole cost of the Hall to be erected: Provided, that said transfer shall not take place without the consent of the delegate members to the Bureau of Middle Tennessee. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed March 20, 1858. In Secretary's to discharge cer tain duties. CHAPTER 158. AN ACT to authorize the Register of the Land Office at Nashville, to perform certain duties of the Secretary of State, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennssee, That hereafter, in the absence of absence, Register the Secretary of State, the Register of the Land Office in Nashville, be, and he is hereby authorized to do and perform all acts necessary to enable landholders to obtain titles and copies of the record of the same; and that the acts of said Register shall be as good and valid as if done by the Secretary of State. And said Register, for such services, shall receive the fees allowed the Secretary therefor: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed, as to include the recording of grants as issued by the several Land Offices of the State, together with the fees thereon: And provided also, that this act does not confer the power of using the great seal of the State in any case, upon said Register, but the acts of the Register, as herein directed, shall be as valid in law, as if the same were done by the Secretary of State under the great seal of the State. Secretary of SEC. 2. The Secretary of State is authorized, and he is hereby directed to countersign, when presented to him for that purpose, any grants that may have been issued by the Registers of the Land Office of the State, and signed by William Carroll, late Governor of Tennessee, and which were not countersigned by the then Secretary of State, and to affix to his signature the proper date, and the same shall be as good and valid in law or equity as if signed at the proper time. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed March 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 159. AN ACT to establish the Chattanooga Normal Academy of Music; to incorporate t'e SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Dr. Neil Smith, J. J. Bryan, George E. Freeman, J. N. Bradshaw, H. P. Phillips, J. Saunders, E. T. Sevier, II. W. Messingale, Robert Cravens, David Sulliers and Charles Hess, and their associates and successors, be, and the same are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Board of Trustees of the Chattanooga Normal Academy of Music, for the purpose of promoting the same. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Board of Trustees shall have the right, and be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity; have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at pleasure. The said Board of Trustees shall be able and capable in law, to hold personal property by purchase, gift, grant or devise, or in any other medium, and to hold real estate to the extent that may be required for the use of the same. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Trustees shall have power to adopt such Constitution and bylaws as they may think proper and necessary for the government thereof, and in order to effect the purposes and object for which it is founded, provided the same be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, and of the State of Tennessee. matic Society. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That J. R. Buddeke, C. C. Giers, A. Jonard, H. Mitz and F. W. Colbert, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name and style of the Harmonia DraHarmonia Dramatic Society, with power to continue its organization, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, the same to alter at pleasure, and to make all by-laws, rules and regulations for the gov ernment of said Society, as shall not be repugnant to or in violation of any established laws. SEC. 5. The said Dramatic Society shall have a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Stage Manager and Property Man, who shall be elected for the term of six months, and shall not be entitled to any compensation for their services. SEC. 6. The object of this Society shall be social and charitable; it may have any number of members, any person of good moral character, who speaks the German language, can become a member, and the Society may continue so long as there is five members. SEC. 7. Should this Society be dissolved, and all liabilities be paid, the remaining property or assets shall be handed over to appointed persons for safe keeping the time of six German Society months. Should another German Society organize within that time, having the same objects, then that Society, so organized, shall be entitled to all the assets of this; if not, said assets shall be disposed of, and the proceeds be applied to charitable purposes. rical Society. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the individual property of each and every member of this Society be liable for the debts of the same. SEC. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That J. L. Bell, B. T. Davis, C. P. Crawford, J. S. McCorkle and James Scott, and such other persons as are Bascomb Rheto associated with them and their successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Bascomb Rhetorical Society of Andrew College, at Trenton, and shall have perpetual succession; may use a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in any court of law or equity in this State or elsewhere; and shall be capable in law or otherwise, to purchase, receive and hold to themselves and their successors, any books, maps, goods, chattels, lands and tenements, which may be given, granted, purchased or devised to them, for the use and benefit of said Society, and may appropriate, use and dispose of the same in such manner as to them may seem proper for the good of said Society. emy. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to elect from their body, all necessary officers, elect to membership, and confer honorary membership, on all such persons as they may deem calculated to promote the interests of said Society. SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to make all such rules, regulations and by-laws for their government as they may deem proper, provided the same be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of Tennessee. SEC. 12. Be it enacted, That the Trustees of Lawrence Lawrence Acad Academy, of the town of Woodbury, be, and they are hereby authorized to appropriate the money belonging, or that may hereafter belong, to said Lawrence Academy, (which has been destroyed by fire,) the school taught in the school house now owned by W. W. McKnight, according to the existing laws applicable to said Lawrence Academy. SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That neither W. W. McKnight, the Trustees for Lawrence Academy, nor any person, shall be required to refund or pay any money which has heretofore been appropriated by said Trustees to said school, taught in said school house, owned by W. W. McKnight as aforesaid. SEC. 14. Be it enacted, That this act take effect from from and after its passage. SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, That James Williams, David Sharp, James Cooper, Jonathan S. Linsley, William Carey, John Phillips and Alois Kincaid, be, and they are Franklin Acade hereby appointed a permanent Board of Trustees for my. Franklin Academy, at Jacksboro', in the county of Campbell, and the said Trustees, and their successors, shall have and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges heretofore conferred on trustees of similar academies, shall have succession perpetual, authority to fill by ballot, all vacancies occuring by death, removal, resignation or otherwise in said Board of Trustees; they shall also have the power to make by-laws, rules and regulations for their own government and the proper government of said Academy; such laws, &c., not to conflict with the laws governing similar institutions, and that this section take effect from and after its passage. SEC. 16. Be it enacted, That William E. Camp, William Anderson, Joseph Gist, James H. Doyle, G. W. Anderson, W. Gooch Smith and J. A. Hill, be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of Cave Seminary, by which name and style they may have succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal, and change the same at will, with power and authority to purchase, receive in donation, enjoy and possess estate, real, personal and mixed, and to lease, rent, sell, alienate and convey, or otherwise dispose of the same, with all rights, powers and privileges necessary and proper for them as an incorporated body. Said Seminary shall be located in the county of White, for the instruction of males and females, in the various branches of English and Modern general literature, the Classics and Mathematics. SEC. 17. Be it enacted, That any property whatever, acquired by said corporation of Cave Seminary, shall be exclusively devoted to the purposes of education and the diffusion of knowledge among men, and to none other. Snc. 18. Be it enacted, The persons above named and their successors, be, and they are hereby constituted, exofficio, a Board of Trustees for said Cave Seminary, and Cave Seminary |