Misnomer not poration herein created in any will, deed, gift or other to vitiate deed. instrument of contract or conveyance shall vitiate or de feat the same, but such instrument shall take effect as if said corporation was correctly named, provided the intention of the parties be sufficiently explained. SEC. 7. The Board of Trustees herein corporated, Power to shall have full power and authority to organize said Semichange Seminary to College inary into a College by the name of Bethel College, having all the powers, immunities and privileges usually granted other Colleges in the State or any of the United States, so soon as its friends shall raise for said Institution and cause to become productive the sum of fifty thousand dollars as an endowment, the income alone of which shall go to the support of the Institution. Pleasant Grove SEC. 8. Pleasant Grove Academy, in Maury county, (incorporated 31st December, 1835,) be, and the same is hereby constituted the Academy of said county, and that it shall have its due proportion of the Academy fund after the first day of January, 1848. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, December 1, 1847. CHAPTER LXXII. An Act to incorporate the East Tennessee Historical and Antiquarian Society. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the "East Tennessee Historical and Antiquarian Society," be, and hereby is incorporated under the name and style aforesaid, shall have succession, and the right to make and use a common seal. SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have power to appoint all officers necessary for the succession of the society for ninety-nine years, and for the transaction of business, who, as such, shall have and enjoy the rights and powers ncident to corporate succession, may sue and defend in any court of law or equity, may purchase, hold and convey such personal property, as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and objects of said association, may hold real estate not exceeding in value five thousand dollars, shall annually choose their officers, and out of their funds, may make them such compensation as they may think reasonable; and may make all necessary by-laws in conformity with the existing laws of the State. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, January 19, 1848. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER LXXIII. An Act to declare Paint Rock Creek, in Roane county, navigable. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Paint Rock creek, in Roane county, be, and the same is hereby declared navigable from the mouth of said creek to Col. Byrd's mills in said county. nav navigable. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That Cypress creek, in Cypress creek the county of McNairy, be, and it is hereby declared igable from its mouth up to Moore, Jones & Phelps mill. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the 2d section of the act Line between passed 1st December, 1847, defining the line between Henderson and Decatur counties, be so changed that ties. the beginning point be on the same line, further south, so as to be twelve miles from Lexington, and run as described in said act. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Decatur coun Passed, January 19, 1848. CHAPTER LXXIV. An Act to reduce the several acts, incorporating the Town of Memphis, into one act, and to amend the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all that district of, country, conBoundaries. tained within the following limits, to wit: Beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river, opposite to the centre of Union street, thence eastwardly, with a line passing through the centre of Union street, to the western bank of Bayou Gayoso, thence down said Bayou, with the western bank of the same to the point of its intersection with Wolf river; thence down Wolf river with its north western bank, to its intersection with the Mississippi river; thence down the Mississippi river, to a point opposite the north side of Market street, thence to a point in the main channel of said river, opposite the said north side of Market street, thence down the main channel of said river to the beginning, is hereby erected into a City, by the name of the City of Memphis. and powers. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the Incorporation said City of Memphis, as the same extends and is laid out above, are hereby constituted a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Memphis, and by the same name, shall have succession for ninety-nine years, shall sue and be sued in all courts of law and equity and in all actions whatsoever; may purchase,receive and hold property, real and personal, within said City, and may sell, lease, or dispose of the same for the benefit of the said City; and may purchase, receive, and hold property, real and personal, beyond the limits of the City, to be used for the burial of the dead, for the erection of water-works, for the establishment of a hospital, for a poor house, work house or house of correction; and may sell, lease, and dispose of such property for the benefit of the City, and do all other acts touching the same as natural persons, they shall have and use a common seal and may change it at pleasure. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That there shall be a city council Board of May to consist of a Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The Board or and Alder of Aldermen shall consist of two members from each of maen. the wards, as at present organized chosen by the qualified voters of each ward respectively for one year; no person shall be an Alderman, unless he be a citizen of the State of Tennessee and a bona fide resident and freeholder in the ward for which he is elected. Any Alder man, after his election, removing from or ceasing to be a free-holder in his ward, shall thereby vacate his said office. Each Alderman shall, before entering upon the duties of his office take an oath that he will faithfully and impartially demean himself in said office. All vacancies in the Board of Aldermen shall be filled by the vote of a majority of the remaining members. ties. Election of SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the Mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city, and shall hold his Mayor-his duoffice for one year and until a successor shall be elected. No person shall be elected Mayor, who is not at the time of his election, a citizen of the State of Tennessee, and a bona fide resident and free-holder of said City. Where two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes for the office of Mayor, the election shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the council elect. A vacancy whether temporary from absence or otherwise, shall be supplied in said office in the same manner. The Mayor may fill all vacancies occuring in any office except that of Alderman until the same be filled by election. It shall be the duty of the Mayor, to preside at all meetings of the council, to take care that all ordinances of the city are duly enforced, observed and respected, to take an oath of office before he enters upon the duties of the same, and to call special sessions of the council when he may deem it expedient. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That the city council shall have Power of city full power and authority to appoint such officers, servants council. and agents of the corporation as they may deem necessary and shall provide for by ordinances. They shall also fix the compensation of such officers, before their election, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. They shall also have power to dismiss any officer, servant, or agent, by them appointed, two thirds of said council concurring in such dismission. Each member of the council shall have all the powers of a Justice of the Peace within the city, so far as may be necessary for enforcing the ordinances of the same. Elections SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That an election for Mayor and Aldermen shall be held in each ward of said city, by how and when the Sheriff of Shelby county, on the first Saturday of held. March in each year. The voters shall vote by ballot and only in the wards in which they may reside; nonresident freeholders may vote in any one ward where their freehold is situated. Judges of elections shall be appointed by the council, for each ward, who shall take an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties. They shall open the polls at ten o'clock in the forenoon and close them at four o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall forthwith proceed to ascertain and certify to the existing Mayor the result of such election. All persons owning a freehold in said city, and all persons resident citizens therein, shall be qualified to vote at such elections. In all cases of a tie in the election of an Alderman, the election shall be referred back to the voters of the ward and held as before, within ten days after the said tie may be ascertained. This second election shall be ordered by the Mayor. SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen Special powers shall have power within the City: 1. To levy and collect taxes, not exceeding three quarters of one per cent. upon all property, taxable by law for State purposes. 2. To borrow money on the credit of the city, to the amount of its annual revenue and no more in any one year, the revenue of the year next preceding the contracting for such loan, to be taken as the standard in determining the amount which may be so borrowed; Provided, that a loan of any amount whatever may be contracted for by the unanimous vote of the council. 3. To levy and collect taxes upon all privileges and polls by the laws of the land. 4. To appropriate money and to provide for the payment of the debt and expenses of the city. 5. To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws for that purpose and enforce the same within ten miles of the city. 6. To establish Hospitals and make regulations for their government. 7. To establish a system of free schools and regulate the same so as to avoid sectarian influences, to levy a tax, to create an annual fund not exceeding one eighth part of the annual revenue of the city to be appropriated support of the same. in 8. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants and to prevent and remove nuisances. 9. To provide the city with water, by wells, cisterns or water-works, within or beyond the boundaries of the city. 10. To open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave or otherwise improve, clean and keep in repair streets, alleys and side walks. 11. To erect, establish and keep in repair bridges, culverts and sewers. 12. To provide for lighting the streets. 13. To establish, support and regulate a night watch and patrol. |