Private Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the General Assembly, Part 1

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Page 311 - One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of...
Page 574 - If by the clerk's certificate the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended within ten days from the date of said certificate. The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same, without prejudice, however, to the filing of a new petition to übe same effect.
Page 704 - ... cost of suit, and a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court...
Page 11 - An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish taxing districts in this State and to provide the means of local self-government for the same," the same being chapter 11 of the Acts of 1879, and all acts amendatory thereof, constituting the charter of the city of Memphis,' so as to provide a uniform rate of city taxation on real and personal property.
Page 202 - To appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the town. 4. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, and to declare, prevent and remove nuisances.
Page 574 - The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number. One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true...
Page 326 - Constitution, one of whom shall hold his office for one year, one for two years, and one for three years.
Page 678 - ... railroad right of way, track, grade, fill or cut, in or out of said district; to remove or change the location of any fence, building, railroad, canal, or other improvements in or out of said district; and shall have the right to hold, encumber, control, to acquire by donation, purchase or condemnation, to construct, own, lease, use and sell real and personal property, and any easement, riparian right, railroad right of way, canal, cemetery...
Page 674 - ... a secretary who may or may not be a member of the board, and a health officer who shall not be a member of the board.
Page 697 - Tennessee, be full authority for the issuance and sale of the bonds in this Act authorized, which bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable paper under the law merchant...

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