report of said reviewers, or any two of them, that the road has been finished and completed for the distance aforesaid, according to the true intent of this act, the Toll gates. County Court shall issue a certificate authorizing the Company to erect two toll-gates, one at a distance not less than one, nor more than two miles from the city of. Memphis, and the other at the distance of seven miles from the city of Memphis; and to appoint toll-gatherers to collect the allowed tolls, namely:-For every twenty Rates of toll. head of sheep or hogs, five cents; for every twenty head of cattle, ten, cents; for every three loose horses or mules, five cents; and so on in proportion for a larger number of said animals-a less number free; for every pleasure carriage, drawn by one horse or other animal, ten cents; for every pleasure carriage, drawn by two horses or other animals, twenty-five cents; for every pleasure carriage, drawn by four or more horses or other animals, thirty cents; for every loaded wagon, drawn by one or two horses or other animals, ten cents; for every loaded or empty dray or cart, ten cents; for every man and horse or mule, five cents; for every empty wagon, drawn by one or, two horses or other animals, five cents; for every loaded wagon, drawn by three or four horses or other animals, twenty cents; for every loaded wagon, drawn by five or more horses or other animals, twenty-five cents; and for every empty wagon drawn by three or more horses or other animals, ten cents at each gate; and so soon as said road shall be completed five miles further, as herein-before directed, a similar application shall be made to the Court of the County in which such completed part is situated, upon which, proceedings shall be had as before directed; and so on for every five miles, until said road shall be Dividends. finished and completed, according to the true intent and.. meaning of this act. A majority of the Stockholders may order the nett profits from the tolls hereby granted, to be divided half-yearly among the proprietors of said Alternate gate Company, in proportion to their respective: hares. SEC. 27. Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for said Company, after said road is made accor. ng to the true intent and meaning of, this act, to throw-open and free every alternate gate, and charge and collect double tolls at the remaining gates for such persons, animals, wagons, carts, carriages, &c., as have, or intend directly to pass the next adjoining free gate. SEC. 28. Be it enacted, That, should any person refuse to pay the tolls hereby granted at the time of offering to pass, the toll-gatherer may refuse to such person passage, and if any article or thing liable to toll, free. Enforcement toll. in repair. shall by any means pass without payment thereof, or go around the gate to avoid the payment of toll, the tollgatherer may by warrant, before a Justice of the Peace, in the name of the Company, recover from the person liable to such toll, the sum of five dollars for the use of said Company, besides the whole cost of such proceeding. SEC. 29. Be it enacted, That if said Company fail to keep said road in repair for the space of ten days, they Keeping road shall not be permitted to collect any toll at the gate .nearest to where said road is out of order until the same is put in repair; and upon information given to any Justice of the Peace in the County where the defective road is situated, he shall issue a warrant to some Constable, commanding him to summons three freeholders to meet at a certain time and place specified in said warrant, ten days' notice having been given to the person charged with the repair of that part of the said road; and if, by said freeholders or any two of them in the presence of the Justice who shall also attend, the said road shall be found out of repair, the person entrusted with the repair thereof shall forfeit ten dollars to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, besides the whole cost of such proceeding. When to be completed. SEC. 30. Be it enacted, That if said Company shall not begin said road within two years after said Comcommenced and pany shall have been formed, or shall not have completed the said road within ten years thereafter, in the manner herein directed; or should permit the same or any part thereof to become and remain for the space of three months ruinous and out of repair; then this charter shall be forfeited, and all the privileges acquired under it shall forever cease. SEC. 31. Be it enacted, That the Commissioners, when Grage, bridges, they view, and mark out said road, shall determine &c. what elevation shall be allowed in making said road in the different uneven parts thereof; and in no part shall more than five degrees be permitted. They shall designate the places where bridges and aqueducts shall be erected, and the kind and material thereof. They shall also decide upon the depth of cutting and filling up, and the width of grading, &c. They shall also make a written statement of the foregoing matters and things, one copy of which they shall file with the Clerk of Shelby County, and deliver another to the said Company; the said road shall be made to conform to the .requisitions of said Commissioners in the foregoing particulars: Provided, a road be constructed and kept for public transportation and travel, in a good, sub 4 stantial and turnpike-road like manner, and in good order. Claiborne Coun SEC. 32. Be it enacted, That so much of the fourth section of an act passed March 1, 1854, chapter 213, Tazewell Feentitled "An act to incorporate the Tazewell Fernale male Academy, Academy, in the County of Claiborne, and for other ty-Charter purposes," as provided that in the event either of said mended. orders become extinct, then the surviving order shall have control and management of said institution, with all the powers and privileges of this act, be, and the same is herehy repealed. SEC. 33. Be it enacted, That in the event the said Tazewell Division Sons of Temperance shall become extinct, then all the right, title, and interest of said order, with all the powers and privileges conferred by said act, passed March 1, 1854, upon said order, shall vest in the Trustees of the Speedwell (otherwise the Tazewell) Academy, in the said County of Claiborne, and by them held in trust for the use of any other organization that may be set on foot in said town of Tazewell, having for its object the promotion of the cause of Temperance. Clarksville and P. Co. amended SEC. 34. Be it enacted, That the charter of the Clarksville and Russellville Turnpike Company be so amended Russellville T. that said Company shall have the privilege of retaining the second gate on said road, on the site and at the point where said gate is at present located, and shall have all the rights, privileges, and immunities, in the management of said road, and the collection of tolls, as heretofore granted them in the original charter, provided, that all persons living on said road or intersecting the same, at any point within five miles or under of the first gate on said road, shall be exempted from paying tolls at said second gate. SEC. 35. Be it further enacted, That that the charter of said road shall be so construed as not to locate the First gate. first gate on said road, at a point less than two miles from the corporate limits of the town of Clarksville. Hopkinsville T. SEC. 36. Be it further enacted, That the Clarksville and Hopkinsville Turnpike Company may remove their Clarksville and first toll-gate from its present position, and place it at or P. Company a near the intersection of the Dover road with the Hop- mended. kinsville road, in such manner and of such form as to enable said Company to take toll from those who travel on their road to the new warehouse erected on the Cumberland River by Joseph M. Jones and Joseph Jenkins, as well as from those who travel on thier road to Trice's. Landing and Clarksville. SEC. 37. Be it further enacted, That the said Turnpike + Company may collect the same tolls at their second gate Tolls at 2d gate. as at the first gate, anything in the existing acts of Assembly to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 38. Be it further enacted, That said Turnpike Company shall have authority to place the second gate Location of 2d as near the bridge over the West Fork at Davie's Mill, gate: termination. as may enable the keeper to protect said bridge, any thing in the existing acts of Assembly to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 39. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Board of Directors of said Turnpike Company to continue in office, provided the Stockholders should fail at any time to hold an annual election. SEC. 40. Be it further enacted, That said Turnpike May change Company (having filed their "memorandum in writing,' in accordance with the provisions of an act passed the 17th of February, 1850, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of Turnpike Companies,") may change the Southern point of termination, and have the beginning of said road on the western bank of Red River, at the western end of the Lower Red River bridge. Rates of toll. SEC. 41. Be it further enacted, That hereafter, any one intersecting or coming on the Clarksville and Hopkinsville Turnpike road, from the Old Forge road, the Dover road and the Lafayette and Garrettsburg road, shall pay toll only in proportion to the distance traveled on said Turnpike road, and that said Turnpike Company hall not have power to charge, any tolls from persons going to or from church-any thing in the existing acts of Assembly to the contrary notwithstanding.. SEC. 42. Be it further enacted, That this act take ef fect from and after its passage. 'NEILL S. BROWN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passsed February 26th, 1855. CHAPTER 205. AN ACT to incorporate the Tennessee Female College and the Buchanan College at Winchester; to incorporate the Flynn's Lick Institute; to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Female Institute at Cornersville; to charter the Masonic Educational Association of Chattanooga; to amend the act of 25th February, 1852, relating to the Metropoli'an Hotel Company; to incorporate the Madison Building and Loan Association; to incorporate the Mount Juliet High School in Wilson County; to incorporate the Trustees of Clifton College, in the town of Clifton, Wayne County; to incorporate Union Hill Academy, in Rutherford County; to incorporate the Trustees of Mortimer Institute, at Alexandria. Tennessee Fe SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all and every person, or persons, or their personal representatives, who are, or shall hereafter become members of an association formed at Franklin, in Wiliamson County, for the purpose of establishing a Female College in that town, and their assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Tennessee Female College, male College. and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and common seal, and be capable of suing, and be liable to be sued, and be enabled to purchase, receive and hold forever, or for any less estate, any lands, tenements, goods, and chattels, which may be given, granted, or devised thereto, or purchased thereby, for the use of the Institution, and to use and dispose of the same as shall be deemed by the President and Trustees, thereof most advantageous for female education, or for the stockholders; and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, rules, and regulations as shall appear necessary and proper, to the President and Trustees, for transacting the business and affairs of said 'Institution, and conducting and governing the same as a college for the education of females. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the following shall con- Rules of organstitute the principle upon which said Institution is ization, &c. founded, and the rules for its organization and govern ment: ARTICLE 1. Each individual who has subscribed for stock in said Institution, or his personal representative and each individual who shall hereafter subscribe for stock in the same shall be a joint proprietor with all other stockholders in said Institution, of all the property appertaining to the same, so long as he or she shall con-" form to the rules of the Institution for the government of stockholders. ART. 2. The capital stock of the Institution shall be one hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. ART. 3. The affairs of said Institution shall be managed by ten Trustees, who shall elect one of their own body President. The Trustees shall be stockholders, Stockholde's Joint proprietors Capital stock. |