settlement with the Chairman of the County Court, or the County Judge, have credit therefor on account of said sinking fund tax; and after they have been entered on the Chairman's, or County Judge's, books as aforesaid, said bond shall be defaced by stamping or by writing across the face of same the day when they were accounted for on the settlement, and the same filed with the coupons thereon as a part of the records of the Chairman of the County Court, or County Judge's, office.

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed March 26, 1913.

Senate Bill No. 605, having been held by the Governor for more than five days and returned by him without his signature, becomes a law without his approval, as prescribed by the Constitution.

April 8, 1913.

J. M. FULTON, Chief Clerk of Senate.

CHAPTER 37.

HOUSE BILL No. 759.

(By Mr. Todd.)

A BILL to be entitled An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create a State Board of Elections; to provide for the manner of their appointment, their terms of office, their compensation, and to define their duties and powers," the Act hereby amended being Chapter 435 of the printed Acts of 1907, passed April 9, 1907, and approved by the Governor April 12, 1907.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Chapter 435 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee for thé year 1907, the same being an Act whose title is set out in the caption of this Act, as amended by Chapter 103 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee for the year 1909, be, and the same is, hereby amended so as to read and provide as follows:

"That there shall be a State Board of Elections which shall consist of five members, to wit: The three members now constituting said Board, and two additional members to be elected or appointed by a joint vote of both Houses of the General Assembly of Tennessee; not more than three of the five members of the said State Board of Elections shall be of the same political party, and any three members of said Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business. The two new members of said Board shall be elected by the joint vote of the present General Assembly of Tennessee upon a date to be fixed by a resolution of said General Assembly; and after the year 1913, during each biennual session of the General Assembly, members of the Board shall be elected to succeed those whose terms expire the following April at the time provided by Chapter 435 of the Acts of 1907, as amended by Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1909. The terms of office of the two new members of the said State Board of Elections shall be as follows: One for six years, one for four years, from and after their election by the present General Assembly of Tennessee, and the terms of each member shall be fixed by the joint vote of the

General Assembly of Tennessee at the time of his election as a member of said Board; and thereafter the terms of the members elected at each biennual session of the General Assembly of Tennessee shall be for six years from the second Monday in April succeeding his election. The majority and minority political parties of Tennessee shall be entitled to bona fide representation on the State Board of Election."

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the representatives of the majority party in the State Board of Elections shall have the right and power, and it shall be their duty, to designate and appoint the representatives of such majority party on the various County Boards of Commissioners of Elections without the consent of the representatives of the minority party on the State Board of Elections; and the Representatives of the minority party on the State Board of Elections shall have the right and power, and it shall be their duty, to designate and appoint the representatives of the minority party on the various County Boards of Commissioners of Elections without the consent of the representatives of the majority party on the State Board of Elections.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the compensation of the five members of the said State Board of Elections from and after their elections by the joint vote of the General Assembly of Tennessee shall be three hundred dollars each per annum, payable quarterly; and the expenses of each and every member of the Board-namely, his traveling expenses, hotel bills-in attending duly called meetings of the State Board of Elections, shall be paid out of the treasury of the State upon the warrant of the Comptroller, and no such expenses shall be allowed or paid out of the State treasury except such as are incurred and actually paid by such member of the State Board of Elections, and the warrant of the Comptroller shall have attached thereto a duly verified and itemized statement of each member of the State Board of Elections, that the items therein set out were legitimately incurred by him in attending to his duties as a member of the State Board of Elections.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, By "minority par

ties," within the meaning of this Act, is meant "the political party polling in the State of Tennessee the second highest number of votes for presidential electors at any presidential election immediately preceding the appointment and election of members of the State Board of Elections under the terms and provisions of this Act;" and within the meaning of this section the first presidential election to be regarded shall be the presidential election which was held in November of the year 1912.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That except as is herein otherwise provided for, Chapter 435 of the Acts of 1907, as amended by Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1909, shall be, and remain, in full force and effect.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed the House, the objections or veto of the Executive to the contrary notwithstanding, on April 3, 1913, as appears on House Journal of that date.

W. M. STANTON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAS. CASON,

Chief Clerk of the House.

Passed the Senate, the objections or veto of the Executive to the contrary notwithstanding, on April 3, 1913, as appears on Senate Journal of that date.

NEWTON H. WHITE, Speaker of the Senate.

J. M. FULTON,

Chief Clerk of the Senate.

CHAPTER 38.

HOUSE BILL No. 751.

(By Mr. Todd.)

A BILL to be entitled An Act to make it a crime for any mem. ber of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee to will. fully obstruct the transaction of the business of said General Assembly by absenting himself from its sessions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any member of any General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, at either a general or special session, willfully to absent himself from the sessions of said General Assembly for the purpose of impeding or obstructing the transaction of the business of the General Assembly, or of breaking a quorum thereof whereby the transaction of the business of the General Assembly will be rendered impossible.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That every member of the General Assembly of Tennessee violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than five years in the State penitentiary and fined not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Judges of the Circuit and Criminal Courts of the State to give this Act in charge to the respective grand juries, and said grand juries are hereby given inquisitorial power over all the violations of the terms and provisions of this Act.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act take