of; the total length of main lines of all the railroads over which said cars are run, the total length of so much of the main lines of the railroad over which the same are run as is outside of the State of Tennessee, the length of lines of said railroad companies over which said cars are run within each of the counties and municipalities within the State, the number and class and value thereof, the average mileage of each class of car during the preceding year, and such other information as may be required by the Railroad Commission)". Provided, this Act and the Act amended by this Act shall not apply to corporations, organized under the laws of Tennessee whose principal business is the manufacture of products of the soil of Tennessee and who for the transportation alone of such products furnish their own cars. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed April 12, 1919. ANDREW L. TODD, Speaker of the Senate. SETH M. WALKER, of Representatives. Speaker of the House Approved April 16, 1919. A. H. ROBERTS, CHAPTER NO. 188. SENATE BILL No. 1118. (By Mr. Stockard.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide revenue for use in road building in this State by the State Highway Department, acting in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, and in conformity to an Act of the Sixty-fourth Congress, approved July 11, 1916, entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes; to provide for the expenditure of all funds raised by the State of Tennessee to supplement said Federal appropriation and other funds raised under this Act; to confer upon the State Highway Department certain powers with respect to the distribution and expenditure of said entire fund, and to impose certain duties and place certain restriction upon said State Highway Department with respect thereto and to provide the means and instrumentalities for laying out and carrying on the work of road building in the State, as contemplated by said Federal Statute; and to penalize violations of this Act, being Chapter 74 of the Public Acts of 1917, approved by the Governor April 3, 1917. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the first sentence of the second paragraph of Section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide revenue for use in road building in this State by the State Highway Department, acting in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States and in conformity to an Act of the Sixty-fourth Congress, approved July 11, 1916, entitled 'An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes;' to provide for the expenditure of all funds raised by the State of Tennessee to supplement said Federal appropriation and other funds raised under this Act; to confer upon the State Highway Department certain powers with respect to the distribution and expenditure of said entire fund, and to impose certain duties and place certain restrictions upon said State Highway Department with respect thereto, and to provide the means and instrumentalities for laying out and carrying on the work of road building in this State, as contemplated by said Federal Statute; and to penalize violations of this Act," approved by the Governor April 3, 1917, be amended so as to read as follows: "Said funds shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds and no part shall be diverted to any other branch of the State Government and shall only be drawn out of the treasury on vouchers signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the State Highway Commission." SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act be further amended by striking out the last sentence of Section 4 thereof. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. CHATER NO. 189. SENATE BILL No. 1142. (By Messrs. Matthews, Candler, Cameron, Stockard, Bradley and Miller.) AN ACT to amend an Act, being Chapter 24 of the Public Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee for the year 1915, entitled "An Act to establish an institution to be known as the Tennessee Vocational Reformatory for Girls; to provide the funds necessary for the purpose of a site therefor, the erection, remodeling and furnishing of buildings and the payment of operation expenses; to provide for the appointment of a Board of Managers for said institution, to fix their term of office and prescribe their powers and duties; to authorize the Judges of the Juvenile, City, County, Criminal and Circuit Courts to commit girls of certain classes to said institutions, and for other purposes, so as to provide the class and character of girls to be committed to said institution and for the transportation from the counties to the institution." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Chapter 24, of the Public Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1915, the caption thereof is set forth in the caption of this Act, be and the same is hereby amended so as to strike from the Bill the whole of Section 8 and insert in lieu thereof the following: "Be it further enacted, That the procedure for trial and commitment of girls to the Tennessee Vocational Reformatory for Girls shall be the same as that for the commitment or sentence of boys to the State Training and Agricultural School for Boys; that all girls under the age of eighteen years who have been convicted of an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary shall be sentenced to and confined in the said Tennessee Vocational Reformatory for Girls under the provisions of this Act. All girls convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary shall be transported to and from said reformatory at the expense of the State. Fees that are allowed by law for carrying prisoners to the penitentiary shall be allowed to the Sheriffs of the several counties of this State for the services of taking such girls as may be sent to the said reformatory. Provided, if found practicable to do so, the Sheriff shall deputize a woman of good moral character to convey the girls from the counties in which they were committed or sentenced to the said reformatory. The expense of said woman so deputized or appointed, to be paid from the allowance above provided for the Sheriff of the different counties." SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the governing authorities of said Tennessee Vocational Reformatory for Girls are authorized and empowered to employ the inmates thereof in some useful and remunerative occupation so as to teach some trade or pursuit to the said girls as well as to partially reimburse the State in maintaining said institution. Provided, that said employment shall not interfere with the carrying on of proper schooling and training and education of said girls. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. |