License. or persons vending or retailing as aforesaid, or against the owner or owners of said boat or water-craft on which said vending or retailing shall occur, said judgment shall have a lien upon said boat or water-craft for the payment of the same. And the Attorney General is required to prosecute said suit or suits, and to have the same fee that is allowed. for prosecuting under the act, that this is intended to amend. And should the persons vending and retailing as aforesaid, and the owner or owners of said boat and craft, abscond and escape beyond the limits of the county, so that process cannot be served upon them, upon the return of that fact by the sheriff, the court shall issue an attachment against the boat or craft on which the vending occurred, which attachment may be issued to the sheriff in any county in the State, and upon the return of said attachment executed, the court shall proceed to try said cause, and enter judgment against the parties sued, and shall order said boat attached to be sold to pay said forfeiture and costs of suit. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That hereafter the owners or masters of any steam, keel or flat boat trading on any of the streams in this State may take out license from the clerks of the county court of the counties in which they may wish to trade, for three, six or nine months, and pay for the same in proportion to the amount required of them per annum by the existing revenue laws. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. M. WATTERSON, Passed February 2, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CLXII. An Act to incorporate the Abbe Institute. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Abbe Institute. State of Tennessee, That the female branch of Campbell officers. Academy at Lebanon, be separated from the male branch, and have a distinct corporate existence under the name and style of the Trustees of the Abbe Institute. SEC. 2. The said institution shall be governed by seven Trustees and trustees, who, and their successors, shall constitute a body politic and corporate, a majority of whom shall make a quorum for the transaction of business. The first board shall consist of Dr. F. R. Cossett, James H. Britton, David Cook, James H. Fisher, John Fakes, John S. Brien and J. B. Rutland. All vacancies that may occur in their body, shall be filled by the board, and entered upon the minutes. They may elect from their own body a president, secretary and treasurer. SEC. 3. The said board shall have power to employ all Powers, necessary teachers and lecturers; fix the rate of tuition; prescribe the course of study; make all necessary rules and regulations; hold real and personal estate by purchase, gift or devise, and sell or exchange the same; to sue and be sued; to confer, in conjunction with the teachers, such literary degrees and diplomas as are usual in female academies; and have and enjoy all other powers and privileges that are incident to corporations of this description. SEC. 4. The charter of Campbell Academy is hereby so Campbell Acaa mended, as that the number of trustees shall consist ofdemy. seven, so soon as by the occurrence of vacancies the board shall be reduced to that number, a majority of whom shall have power to transact business; and the board shall have the privilege of filling all vacancies that may occur below that number. The said board may elect a president, secretary and treasurer. SEC. 5. In the conveyance of real estate or the transfer of claims, the name of the president of either board shall be sufficient, by an order of the board, in each case. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the number of trus- Geneva Acadetees to the Geneva Academy, in the town of Carthage, be my. reduced to five, and that one be added to the number to the female academy in said town. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Passed February 2, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CLXIII. An Act to amend the revenue laws of this State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the 3rd section of an act passed the 29th day of January 1844, chapter 88, be and the same is hereby repealed. Repeal. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the 15th section of an act Bond bofore passed January 23rd, 1846, entitled an act to tax and regu- giving license. late tippling and tippling houses and to increase the revenue shall not be so construed as to authorize clerk of any county court in this State to issue any license to any applicant or applicants until such applicant or applicants shall have first entered into bond and security as directed in said act. any Repeal. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That so much of the 15th section of the above recited act as directs and requires clerks of the county courts to make semi-annual payments to the treasury, of State revenue received under the provisions of said act be and the same is hereby repealed, and the State revenue shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury as contemplated in the 9th section of said act. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. M. WATTERSON, Passed February 2d, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CLXIV. An Act for the benefit of witnesses in certain cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Take probate. State of Tennessee, That the several clerks of the circuit courts of this State shall have full power and authority to take probate of all evidences on witness tickets as well in vacation as term time, and the same may be done in all civil cases, and of witnesses summoned at the instance of the defendant in criminal cases at any time between the coumencement and the decision of the cause.. Repeal. Circuit court SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That all laws and parts of laws contrary to this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That there shall be holden at the town of Paris in the county of Henry a special term of the of Henry co. circuit court for said county on the third Monday in March next, 1846; which term shall continue until all the business on the docket of said court is disposed of, unless it shall become necessary to adjourn said court sooner to hold some other in said ninth judicial circuit. Trial of causes changed. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That all causes both civil and criminal, which would stand regularly for trial at the next regular term of said court, to wit: the term which is to be holden on the third Monday in May next, shall stand for trial at the term herein provided for, and all writs and other process made returnable to said 3rd Monday in May, shall be returned at the term herein provided for, and all recognizances, bail bonds and bail process of every description taken for the appearance of persons to the term which is to commence on the 3rd Monday in May next, shall bind them to appear at the term herein provided for. Provided, that should they fail to appear, their bonds, re cognizances &c, shall remain in full force and bind them to appear at the day specified in said bonds, recognizances, &c. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, January 31, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CLXV. An Act to compensate Donald Cameron for making an Index to the statute laws of 1843-4. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the comptroller of the treasury issue his warrant in favor of Donald Cameron for the sum of seventyfive dollars as a compensation for making an index to the statute laws of the state of Tennessee, passed in the years 1843-4. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. M. WATTERSON, Passed February 2d, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CLXVI. An Act to amend the 4th section of an act passed 1777, chapter 4 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the 4th section of an act, 1777, chap. 4, in relation to oath be so amended as to authorize all persons who have conscientious scruples on the subject of taking oaths, to testify on solemn affirmation; and if any person on such solemn affirmation shall testify falsely, wilfully and corruptly, it shall be prejury and punishable as such by the present laws of this State. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 2d, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. cers. CHAPTER CLXVII. An Act to amend the act incorporating the town of Springfield in Robertson county, passed the present session, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Bonds of offi- State of Tennessee, That the bond of the town constable and Treasurer of the corporation of said town of Springfield shall be made payable to the mayor of said corporation and his successors in office, and for any breach or neglect of duty said constable shall be liable on his bond as other constables are by law. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the treasurer of said corpoTreasurer. ration shall be liable on his bond before any justice of the peace or court having jurisdiction thereof, and that the bonds of said officers be filed with the clerk of the county court for safe keeping. Repeal. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That so much of the before recited act as comes in conflict with the provisions of this, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the town constable of the corMur:reesboro' poration of Murfreesboro' shall have the same power to collect all taxes and dues owing to said corporation, that the town constable of Columbia has. BROOKINS CAMPBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. M. WATTERSON, Passed February 2, 1846. Speaker of the Senate. Middle division CHAPTER CLXVIII. An Act to equalize the labors of the Chancellors of this State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter the Chancellor for the Middle Division shall hold the courts at Charlotte and Fourth division Clarksville and the Chancellor of the fourth Division shall hold the courts at Gallatin and Springfield. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That hereafter the chancery court When held, at Charlotte shall be held on the third Mondays in April and October, and the chancery court at Clarksville shall be held on the last Thursday before the fourth Mondays in April and October, and the chancery court at Franklin shall hereafter be holden on the first Mondays in April and October. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That in case it shall happen from Special term. sickness or any other cause that either of the Chancellors |