CHAPTER LIX. An Act to fix the fee for serving a warrant or summons, and to amend the act of 1835, chap. 27, sec. 1. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Fee for war State of Tennessee, That the fee of the constable, or other officer, serving a warrant, or summons, shall be fifty cents for each defendant on whom the process shall be served. whom taken. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the act of 1835, chap. 27, Bond of Trea- sec. 1, be so amended, that the Treasurer elect, and his surer-before securities, may acknowledge the execution of the bond, now required by law, before any one of the Circuit Judges, or Chancellors of the State of Tennessee, which Judge or Chancellor may also administer the oath now required, to said Treasurer, in the same manner as the same is now done by Judges of the Supreme Court; and it shall be the duty of such Judge or Chancellor, to endorse upon the bond, in the same manner as is now the duty of Judges of the Supreme Court, which bond and certificate, shall be deposited as now required by law. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, January 17, 1848. Speaker of the Senate. creased. CHAPTER LX. An Act to amend an act, passed the 19th January 1846, incorporating the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That an act passed 19th January, Capital in- 1846, incorporating the Grand Lodge of the Independdent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby, so amended, that the sum of twenty thousand dollars worth of property be increased to fifty thousand under the same conditions prescribed by the aforesaid act. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That whenever said Grand Powers of sub- Lodge shall establish or charter a subordinate Lodge, the ordinate Lodg- said subordinate Lodge is hereby invested with the separate right to an amount of real and personal property, BS. not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, to the same extent and under the guards and restrictions of the aforesaid act of the 19th January, 1846. to pay debta SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That whenever the authority, Trustee or establishing said subordinate Lodge shall be withdrawn, ceive property and the separate existence of said subordinate Lodge be destroyed, the property of said Lodge shall be placed in the hands of a trustee appointed by the Grand Lodge from the members of said subordinate Lodge, to pay the debts and liabilities of said subordinate Lodge; and the residue of the real estate, if there be any to be applied by the trustee, as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said subordinate Lodge, Provided, the benefits of this act shall extend to Lodges already established, as well as to those yet to be created. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the order of Free Free Masons Masons shall be entitled to the privileges and benefits of same privilege. this act, to the same extent, and upon the same conditions contained in the aforesaid act of the 19th January, 1846. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. M. ANDERSON, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, December 20, 1847. CHAPTER LXI. An Act to amend an act, entitled “an act to incorporate the Memphis Insurance Company." Increase of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the Memphis Insurance Company, be, and they are hereby authorized to increase stock. their capital stock to the amount of three hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That C. Bias, J. D. Williams, Open books. T. W. Wilkerson, Sam. Mosby, and A. O. Harris, or any three of them, after giving twenty days notice of the fact, in one or more of the daily newspapers of the city of Memphis, be, and they are hereby authorized to open books on the first Monday in April next, to receive subscriptions for the additional amount of capital stock in the said Company, and keep them open for twenty successive days from the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M., unless the whole stock shall be sooner taken. secured. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the said additional stock, Stock-how authorized to be subscribed for by this act, shall be secured to the President and Directors in the same manner as provided for in the fourth section of the act incorporating said Company. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That said Company shall pay Bonus-in- to the State, an additional bonus of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, making a total bonus to the State, to be paid by said Company, of five hundred dollars creased. per annum. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That Fire Company No. Fire Co. No. 1. 1, in the city of Memphis, shall be hereafter entitled to the same privileges and exemptions which Fire Company No. 2, of the same city, are now entitled to by law. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed, January 19, 1848. CHAPTER LXII. An act to authorize the courts of record to render judgments for costs, on motion. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That whenever any plaintiff, in a Costs against plaintiff and se- court of record, fails to prosecute his suit with effect, and costs are adjudged against him, the judgment shall be rendered jointly against him and his security for the prosecution. curity. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That whenever a plaintiff, in Plaintiff, when a court of record, obtains a judgment or decree against to pay his own the defendant, and it appears from the return of the ex costs. ecution, that the plaintiff's costs cannot be made out of the defendant, the officers and witnesses who rendered services in the suit to the plaintiff, may move for and have judgment against him for such costs, but the plaintiff may, nevertheless, collect the same from the defendant. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed, January 17, 1848. CHAPTER LXIII. An Act to authorize and require the County Trustee, of Hardin county, to distribute certain School monies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the County Trustee, of Hardin county, is hereby directed to distribute all the School monies in his hands, arising under an act passed, January 26, 1844, chapter 159, sec. 1, making a pro rata distribution among all the School Districts in said county, according to the scholastic population of the same, in the same manner as the Superintendent of Public Instruction is now bound by law to do. Trustee-how to pay monies. Trustee. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the District Commission- Commissioners shall draw upon the County Trustee in the same ers to draw on manner that they now do, for their respective shares of the regular yearly dividends to Common Schools, and that their orders shall be good vouchers in the hands of the County Trustee on his settlement. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, January 1, 1848. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER LXIV. An Act to incorporate the Tellico Manufacturing Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Elisha Johnson and Ebene- Incorporation. zer Johnson, and such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them, in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated by the name and style of "the Tellico Manufacturing Company," and by that name shall have succession for ninety-nine years, and shall be able to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any of the courts of law or equity in the State of Tennessee; to make and use a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure; and to make such by-laws and regulations as are necessary and useful in their business, not inconsistent with existing laws. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock Capital Stock. of said company shall consist of one hundred shares, Officers. property. of one thousand dollars each; that the stock and property, real and personal, (with the exception of household goods) water power, and minerals, of the said Elisha Johnson and Ebenezer Johnson, now invested in the Tellico Iron Works, coaling grounds, and plantation, embracing about thirty thousand acres of land, reference had to the records of the Register's office in the county of Monroe, grants from the State of Tennessee, entries in the Entry-taker's office for the Hiwassee District, and agreements now existing; that the value of the same be estimated at the amount invested, in cash or its equivalent, as entered in the stock book of said Tellico Manufacturing Company, or that shall be invested, from time to time, before a further organization is hereinafter provided. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That one of the said owners may act as President, and the chief clerk or manager, as Secretary, in all official acts of said company, and until a further organization as hereinafter provided; that the furnace, forge, mills, workshops, improved lands, coaling grounds, mines, store-house, warehouse, dwelling-houses, and other buildings, and implements of various descriptions, used in this connexion, and in the manufacture of cast and wrought iron, in all its various forms-axes, cutlery, machinery, and farming implements, in the form their business is now conducted, and with power and privileges of erecting works for the manufacture of steel, rolling-mills, nail factories, pudling furnaces, mills and shops for the manufacture of rail-road iron, machinery, cotton and woollen facto ries, tannery for the manufacture of leather and morocco, common and fire brick, and all articles connected with said manufactories, or consumed by citizens, laborers, or servants employed; and that it shall be lawful for said company to purchase such additional lands for coaling grounds, ore banks, roads, location for dwellings, as well as beds of stone or mineral coal, fire stone or fire clay, wheresoever the same may be found to exist, as shall and may be necessary fer the successful carrying on and conducting of the business or of the Branches of the said company. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the stock and proStock, personal perty of the said company so incorporated, of whatever nature or kind the same may be, shall be deemed personal property; that the scrip held for shares may be transferred on the books of the company, in such manner as the by-laws shall prescribe. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That for the ready transportation of the products of such mines and man |