Board, within the City of Memphis, toward paying the salaries of said police. Board of Es SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, the Judge of the County Court of Shelby County, and the Mayor of the City of timate to esMemphis, convened as a Board of estimate, on or be-timate exfore the first day of January in each year, shall make penses. up a financial estimate of the sums required to defray the expenses of the Metropolitan Police during the current year, other than provided for in the preceding section. They shall certify to the Board of Aldermen of the City of Memphis the sum required to pay the salaries provided for in this Act, for so much of the metropolitan police force as shall be employed within the said city, but the same shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars per month. And they shall certify to the County Court of Shelby County the sum required to defray all expenses of the force employed outside of the City of Memphis; but the same shall not exceed five thousand dollars per month. If the Board of Aldermen of the City of Memphis, or the County Court Objections to of Shelby County, shall object, by resolution, to such estimate. estimate, certified to them respectively, or to any portion thereof, and notify, or cause to be notified, the board of estimate, it shall be the duty of the latter to immediately and carefully revise the same, and consider the said objection. If the board of estimate shall adhere to its original estimate by a vote of four-fifths, or shall modify the same by a vote of the majority, then their final determination shall be binding upon the City of Memphis and the County of Shelby, respectively. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Memphis is empowered and directed, annually, to order, or cause to be raised and collected, by a special tax upon the es- Special Tax tates, real and personal, subject to taxation, within the on property in Memphis. said city, a sufficient sum of money to defray the sum certified by the board of estimate, to pertain to said city during the current year. The Board of Police Commissioners shall, each month, file, with the City Comptroller, a certified copy of the pay-roll of the police force employed within said city during the preceding month. Whereupon the said City Comptroller shall cause the amount so certified on said roll, to be paid over to the Finance Commissioner of the Metro County Court to levy special tax. Tennessee Bank to be politan Police District, provided; the same does not exceed the amount fixed by the board of estimate. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the County Court of Shelby County is empowered and directed to forthwith provide for the payment of the sum certified by the board of estimate, to pertain to said county, and is empowered to levy a special tax upon the estates, real and personal, subject to taxation within the said county, sufficient to raise the amount as aforesaid. The Board of Police Commissioners, shall, each month, file with the Judge of the County Court, a certified copy of the expenses incurred during the preceding month, and chargeable by law to said county; whereupon the said County Judge shall cause the amount so certified to be paid over to the Finance Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police District; provided, the same does not exceed the amount fixed by the board of estimate. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners shall take into consideration the claim for money furnished by the Tennessee National Bank to the Metropolitan Police Commissioners of Memphis, and should the fact be made to appear that said sum or sums of money was furnished, then said Commissioners shall take into consideration, and allow the same in their first estimate. And that this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. WM. HEISKELL, Passed December 11, 1866. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER XIX. AN ACT Directory to the Governor of Tennessee. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That His Excellency, Governor Brownlow, be, and he is hereby, authorized to order that the machinery referred to in the communication of Machinery. J. L. Orr, Governor of South Carolina, as belonging to the State of Tennessee, be brought to Nashville, Tennessee, and there to remain in his hands, subject to the future action of this Legislature. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Comp- Comptroller. troller of the State issue his warrant, on the certificate of the Governor, for all freights and charges, in the removal of the machinery referred to in the first section of this Act. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. JAMES MULLINS, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed January 25, 1867. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER XX. AN ACT to Amend An Act passed May 8, 1865, increasing the compensation of Judges. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That An Act passed the 8th of May, 1865, be so amended, that each of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State, hereafter appointed or elected, shall be entitled to a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, out of the State Treasury. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That each Chancellor, Circuit and Criminal Court Judges of this State, (except County Judges,) and Judges of Special Courts, hereafter appointed or elected, shall be entitled to a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. J. S. MULLOY, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed January 30, 1867. Preamble, CHAPTER XXI. AN ACT to Amend an Act passed the 24th of July, 1866, "Amendatory to An Act to Establish a Metropolitan Police District, etc.," passed the 14th of May, 1866, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, a slight clerical error occurs in the third section of An Act passed the 24th of July, 1866, amendatory to An Act to establith a Metropolitan Police District, etc., passed the 14th of May, 1866, which subjects the same to such misconstruction, as would work great detriment and injustice to the citizens of Hamilton County; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Sec. 3 amen'd the State of Tennessee, That the third line of section 3, of An Act passed the 24th of July, 1866, amendatory to an Act passed the 14th of May, 1866, to establish a Metropolitan Police District, etc., be so amended as to read, "Chattanooga, in Hamilton County," instead of "Chattanooga and Hamilton County," so as to conform to the wording of the original Bill, which original Bill shall only be construed as herein provided. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That section 42, of An Act to establish a Metropolitan Police District for the City of Memphis, County of Shelby, passed the Sec.42 amen'd 14th day of May, 1866, be, and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows, after the word, provided: "That there shall be but one Commissioner, whose pay shall be two thousand dollars per annum, and two sergeants, each at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, and thirteen policemen, whose pay shall be eight hundred dollars per annum; Provided further, that in all cases when it may be actually necessary to mantain summon cit- peace and good order in the city, as provided in the original charter, it shall be the duty of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner for the City of Chattanooga, to call to his assistance such number of the good citizens of the city or county, as may be required to execute the provisions of this Act, at a compensatin of three dollars per day; and such parts of section 42 of An Act passed the 14th of May, 1866, to establish a Metropolitan Police District, etc.; and such parts of An Act passed the 24th of July, 1866, amendatory thereto, as are in conflict with the letter and spirit of Comis'rs may izens. this Act, is hereby repealed; and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. J. S. MULLOY, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed February 8, 1867. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER XXII. AN ACT to Amend An Act passed November 23, 1866, entitled "An Act to amend An Act entitled 'An Act to establish a system of Internal Improvements in the State,' passed the 11th day of February, 1852" SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the year 1867, in sections 6 and 7, in An Act passed November 23, 1865, entitled, "An Act to amend An Act, entitled 'An Act to establish a system of Internal Improvements in the State,' passed the 11th day of February, 1852," be, and the same is hereby changed to eighteen hundred and seventy. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. J. S. MULLOY, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JOSHUA B. FRIERSON, Speaker of the Senate. Passed February 18, 1867. CHAPTER XXIII. AN ACT to Repeal the 11th Section, Chapter 80, of the Acts of 1849 and 1850. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the above named section |