The Sheriff may appoint a Constable to hold any election he is required to hold under this act, the result of which shall be certified by such Constable, as required to be done by the Sheriff. SEC. 46. Be it further enacted, That the Aldermen, Mayor, Recorder and Treasurer, elected or chosen, as before provided for, shall hold until their successors are elected or chosen, and qualified. SEC. 47. Be it further enacted, That the said act of third March, 1854, incorporating the town of Blountville, be revived and of full effect, except as amended or altered by this act; and that this act take effect from and after its passage. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 75. AN ACT to amend an act regulating the qualification of School Teachers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the first section of an act passed on the 16th of February, 1856, chapter 114, to prevent incompetent persons from teaching the free schools of this State, be so amended as to read as follows: That the County Courts of each county, at the January term of each and every year, shall elect one or more Commissioner or Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to examine all applicants to teach the free schools; and if, upon examination, the applicant if found competent to teach orthography, reading, writing and arithmetic, the County Commissioner or Commissioners shall give him or her a certificate of such competency, and for every additional branch he or she may be found competent to teach, the Commissioner or Commissioners shall add said branch to his or her certificate, and if upon presenting such certificate to the Common School Commissioners, in the district in which he or she may purpose to teach a free school, and if the Common School Commissioners shall, upon examining such certificate, consider the applicant's qualification such as will suit the neighborhood, they may employ him or her to teach such school or schools. But in no case shall the Commissioners employ any persons to teach the free schools, unless they first produce a certificate of their competency, according to the above provision of this act. Commissioner to SEO. 2. Be it further enacted, That said County School Commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take an oath, (before the County Court Clerk,) faithfully to perform the duties of said office; and further, take oath. that he will not give any certificate of competency to any applicant, unless, in his opinion, he or she is qualified, as required by the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the Common School Commissioners, of the 1st Civil District, in Robertson county, school in Mitch to school fund. be and they are hereby anthorized to draw an order on the Children of RobCounty Trustee, or to pay over the money for the tuition ertson going to of said children of Robertson, as go to school in Mitchel- elville entitled ville, in Sumner county, in proportion to the amount such children would be entitled to, of the common school money, if going to school in Robertson: Provided, that the said children do not go to any common school in Robertson county. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 76. AN ACT to construe the law in regard to the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charles ton Railroad Company; and to change the name of the South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky Kailroad Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That an act passed November 18th, 1853, to charter the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad Company; an act passed February 8th, 1854, providing State aid to said Railroad Company, to the amount of ten thousand dollars per mile, for the ironing and equipping said road, and two hundred thousand dollars to construct the Clinch and Holston river bridges; and an act passed December 17th, 1855, grant ing the said Railroad Company the privilege of drawing and expending the surplus of the two hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of building the bridges across French Broad and Pigeon rivers, and any other bridges on the line of said road, shall be so construed or amended that the said Company shall have two competent engineers to estimate the cost of said bridges, (Clinch and Holston,) on oath, and report the same to the Governor of the State, and the estimates made by said engineers shall be approved by the Railroad Commissioner, before said Company shall be entitled to draw and expend said surplus or remainder of said two hundred thousand dollars; in which case the Governor of the State shall issue the bonds of the State, for the amount of the surplus, upon the same terms and conditions that the bonds of the State are now provided by law to be issued to said Company for bridge purposes. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the first thirty miles graded by said Railroad Company, shall have a connection E. T. & Va. R. with the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, to entitle the same to the aid of the State, for ironing and equipping, as now provided by law. Shall connect R. Further time to complete thirty miles. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the further time of two years, to complete the grading of the first section of thirty miles, be extended to said Company: Provided, that nothing in this act contained, shall, upon any contingency, be construed to grant other or further State aid than has heretofore been granted by law. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the name of the South Carolina Tennessee and Kentucky Railroad Company shall be changed. to the name of the North Carolina, Tennessee and Kenof S. C. and Ten. tucky Railroad Company; and by that name shall have, possess and enjoy, all the rights, privileges, immunities, conferred on the South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky Railroad Company. To change name and Ky. R. R. Co. May unite with other roads. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the 2d section of the charter of the South Carolina, Tennesse and Kentucky Railroad Company, passed February 13th 1854, be so amended as to authorize the Company to unite with any other company that may be formed in those States, so as to form one Company, under one organization, to construct a railroad with one or more tracks, to be used with steam or other power, between the points designated in said charter, or on any other portion of the line, and with power to dispense with the construction of any portion of the road. SEO. 6. Be it further enacted, That said Railroad Company shall have the further time of six years to commence, time. and twelve years to complete said road: Provided, no Have further DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 77. AN ACT to charter the East Tennessee Telegraph Company, and the Paducah and Nash⚫ ville Telegraph Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Joseph Parsons, Francis B. Dean, Jr., William L. Morris, of Lynchburg, Va., be appointed Commissioners, to open books at such time and place as they may choose, to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of the East Tennessee Telegraph Company, chartered by this act, for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and using a line of Telegraph from Bristol to Chattanooga, with the privilege of branching to Dalton: Provided, that said Telegraph line shall run with the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. Said Company may have the power to erect a branch line from the town of Cleveland to Chattanooga. SEC 2. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said Company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, and so soon as ten thousand dollars of said capital stock shall have been subscribed, the subscribers shall become a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the East Tennessee Telegraph Company. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the said Company after acquiring the patent right from whomsoever it may rightfully belong, may proceed to erect a Telegraph line on the route aforesaid, and for this purpose shall be invested with all the powers, rights, privileges and protections, and be subject to all the liabilities, penalties, restrictions and provisions, conferred and imposed on the Knoxville and Dalton Telegraph Company, by the act passed January 31st, 1854, so far as the same may be applicable and not inconsistent with the objects and purposes of this act. Stock may be in creased. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said Company may be increased to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That the right of way, for the construction of a Telegraph line, from the line between the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, so as to connect the cities of Nashville and Paducah, by telegraphic communiTo amend charter cation, be and is hereby granted to the Paducah and Nashof Nashville and ville Telegraph Company, incorporated by the Legislature graph Company. of Kentucky, with all the rights, and powers, and privi Paducah Tele leges, and subject to all the restrictions and liabilities set forth and prescribed in a charter, granted to said Company by the Legislature of Kentucky, and approved March 8th, 1856. DANIEL S. DONELSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BURCH, Passed February 20, 1858. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER 78. AN ACT to authorize the State of Tennessee to pay John Blair, James Johnson and others, certain monies. WHEREAS, By an act of the Legislature of Tennessee, passed January 27, 1854, appointing Ebenezer Alexander, Wm. G. Swan, and Thomas L. Williams, Commissioners to examine into and report to the next General Assembly thereafter, their conclusion upon the claims of John Blair, James Johnson, and William Y. Huff, against the State of Tennessee, arising out of a litigation respecting a section of land claimed as against their title under a reservation alleged to have been made by Pathkiller; and whereas, the aforesaid Commissioners, after having had the same under consideration, report that in justice, honesty, and good faith, the State is bound to pay said claimants the sum of twenty-seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-three cents; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the State pay to John Blair, James Johnson, Wiley Blair, and William Y. Huff, the sum of twentyseven hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-three cents in full of all claims in the premises, against the State of |