suppress all disorderly houses and baudy houses. Nineteenth, to provide for the extinguishment of fires, to organize and establish fire companies, to regulate, restrain, or prohibit the erection of wooden buildings in any part of the town; to regulate and prevent the carrying on manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires. Twentieth, to regulate the storage of gun-powder, tar, rosin, pitch, salt-petre, gun-cotton, and all other combustible material, and the use of lights, candles, and stove-pipes, in stables and other places. Twenty-first, to provide for the inspection and weighing, or measuring stone-coal, wood and all other fuel, hay, corn, and other grain; to regulate the inspection of butter, lard, and other provisions, to regulate the vending of meats, poultry, fish and vegetables, to restrain and punish the forestalling of provisions, and to suppress hucksters. Twenty-second, to regulate the police. or patrol of the town, to impose fines, forfeitures, and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and to provide for their recovery and appropriation, and to imprison any offender or offenders, for refusal or failure to discharge or secure according to ordinance, fines imposed upon them, either in the county jail or calaboose, for a period not exceeding ten days. Twenty-third, to provide for the arrest and confinement in jail or calaboose of all disorderly persons in the town by day, or by night; to authorize the arrest and detention of all free negroes, slaves, or suspicious persons, found violating any ordinance; to regulate times and circumstances, at and under which free negroes and slaves may be absent from their respective places of abode, and direct the punishment of such regulations. Twenty-fourth, to present and punish, by pecuniary penalties and imprisonment, all breaches of the peace, noises, disturbance, or disorderly assemblies, in any street, house or place, in the town, by day or night; and all offences, whether civil or criminal, arising under the by-laws and ordinances, shall be cognizable before the Mayor, or any justice of the peace, who, upon application shall issue his warrant, directed to the High Constable, whose duty it shall be to serve the same, which warrant may be served by the said officer on the offender or offenders any where within the limits of the county of Coffee; and upon the return of said warrant, it shall be the duty of the Mayor, or justice of the peace, to hear and determine the case, and give judgment accordingly, except in cases as mentioned in section eleven, when he shall proceed as there directed, from which judgment in all civil cases, an appeal lies to the Circuit Court for Coffee county. SEC. 17. Be it enacted, That the boundaries of the corporation of the town of Manchester shall be as follows: Beginning at a place where there was a spring at the base of the hill north of Manchester, the same being the beginning corner of the tract of land conveyed by Andrew Erwin to the Commissioners to locate and lay off Manchester; thence due east to the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad; thence south with said Railroad to the center of the Hickory Creek road where it crosses the Railroad; thence east with said Road to the east fork of Duck River, thence up said river to Wiley Hickerson's north-west corner; thence south with his line to the road leading from Manchester to Hillsboro'; thence west with said road to David Callyhan's north-east corner; thence with his south boundary line to the Railroad, thence south to the southeast corner of said town tract conveyed by Andrew Erwin as aforesaid; thence west with said line to the south-west corner of said tract; thence north to the north-west corner of said tract; thence with said line east to the beginning, so as to include what is now called the town Spring. SEC. 18. Be it enacted, That all ordinances and resolutions heretofore enacted by the Mayor and Aldermen of Manchester, and not repealed or rescinded by them, shall remain in full force until altered, repealed, or modified, under this act, and that all laws and parts of laws conflicting with, or coming within the purview and meaning of this act, be and they are hereby repealed; Provided, the Mayor and Aldermen and officers of said Corporation now in office under a former act, incorporating Manchester, shall hold their respective offices, and have and exercise all the power granted by said former act of incorporation until their successors are elected and qualified under this act. bonds. SEC. 19. Be it enacted, That the City Recorder of the Memphis city City of Memphis, in the county of Shelby, shall have concurrent jurisdiction, with the justices of the peace, within the corporate limits, in civil as well as criminal cases; and shall be entitled to the same fees as justices of the peace are allowed for similar services; and the Governor shall issue a commission to each Recorder, as justice of the peace, during his term of office, and attest and certify all his official acts, as a justice of the peace, when required. SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, That the corporate authorities of the town of McMinnville are hereby invested with all the powers, and privileges granted to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Chattanooga, by the act of 1851, chapter 13, entitled, "An act to incorporate the City of Chattanooga, and for other purposes," and subsequent acts amendatory of said act of 1851. SEC. 21. Be it further enacted, That the second sec McMinnvillet Flynn's Lick. tion of an act passed February 28, 1856, chapter 133, entitled, "An act to provide for the election of a justice of the peace in the town of Rome, to elect an additional justice of the peace in the town of Flynn's Lick," &c., be so amended that hereafter said justice shall be elected by the qualified voters of the Civil District in which said. town of Flynn's Lick is located, instead of the qualified voters of said town as now provided by law. SEC. 22. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take, effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 6, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 51. AN ACT granting relief against Escheats, in certain cases. WHEREAS, many years ago an association, partnership, or company of individuals, part of whom were foreigners, never naturalized or resident citizens, was formed, having in view the settlement, purchase and re-sale of a large tract or tracts of land in Morgan county, and said enterprise has been so far prosecuted, that about one hundred and seventy thousand acres of land have been bought, and much the larger part thereof has been re-sold and conveyed, and the same is now occupied by several hundred persons, resident thereon, whose titles in some of the conveyances, may be claimed to be subject to forfeiture or escheat to the State: now, therefore, to quiet said titles, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the titles to all the lands held in the name of G. F. Gerding, a resident citizen of the State of Tennessee, or heretofore held by him, and conveyed by him, being part and parcel of the estate of the "Tennessee Colonization Company," be, and the same are hereby released from any claim of escheat or forfeiture, by reason of the same having been, or being alleged to have been conveyed to a non-resident alien, and any claim of such escheat or forfeiture is hereby waived and released. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 6, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 52. AN ACT to amend the third section of an act passed February 11, 1456, entitled an act to purchase the Hermitage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the third section of an act passed February 11, 1856, entitled An act to purchase the Hermitage, be so amended, that the Federal Government be allowed the further time of two years from the passage of this act, to accept the proposition contained in said act. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Governor of this State be required to see that the said property be properly taken care of until the Federal Government shall determine what they will do. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCHI, Passed February 6, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 53. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Nashville, Murfreesboro' and Shelbyville Turnpike Company, and to extend the time of completion of the Fayetteville, Mulberry and Lynchburg Turnpike Road, and to amend the Charter of the Blountsville, Middletown and Elizabethtown Turnpike Company, granting further time to the McMinnville and Sparta Turnpike Company to begin their work, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the charter of the Nashville, Murfreesboro' and Shelbyville Turnpike Company, be so Fayetteville, and amended as to exempt said Company from the obligation and duty of keeping up and repairing those portions of the turnpike road which lie within the corporate limits of the towns of Nashville, Murfreesboro' and of Shelbyville, and that said exemption shall not interfere with or take away any of the chartered rights of said Company. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Company be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to alter the presert location of the first gate on said road nearest the town of Shelbyville, Bedford county, to any point upon the land belonging to said Company never said town: Provided, they shall not locate it nearer than one mile of said town of Shelbyville. Sec. 3. Be it enacted, That the further time of two years be given for the completion of the Fayetteville, Mulberry and Lynchburg Turnpike Road. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That so soon as seven miles of said road is graded, beginning at the Tullahoma Depot, and one mile of the same graveled, that the Company be authorized to put up one gate, and collect toll, as provided for by the charter of the same. SEO. 5. Be it further enacted, That said Nashville, Murfreesboro' and Shelbyville Company be allowed to reMay cemore gate. move the gate nearest the city of Nashville, two miles from the corporate limits of said city. the Blountville, SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Blountsville, Midletown and Elizabethtown Turnpike Company, and for other purposes,' Amend charter of passed March 1st, 1854, chapter 802, be amended as folMiddletown and lows: That "Middletown" be stricken out and “Union" Com- be inserted, and that so much of the 5th section of said act as precedes the clause providing that said Company shall have ten years to open and complete said road, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Elizabethtown paxy SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the act of 1st March, 1854, chapter 302. be, and the same is hereby continued as part and parcel of the charter of the said Turnpike Company. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the said Turnpike Company may demand and receive the same rates of toll as are now charged on the Lebenon and Nashville Turnpike Road. .SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation may extend their road, under the same provisions and restrictions, to such point on the North Carolina line as they may choose. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the sad Turnpike Company may construct a branch of said road under the |