14. To erect Market houses, establish markets and regulate the same. 15. To provide for the erection of all buildings necessary for the use of the city. 16. To provide for the inclosing, improving and lating all public grounds, belonging to the city. regu 17. To improve and preserve the navigation of the Mississippi river within the city. 18. To erect, repair and regulate public wharves, docks, and landings, to fix the rate of wharfage thereat, and to regulate ferries. 19. To regulate the stationing, anchoring and moving of vessels within the city. 20. To license, tax and regulate Auctioneers, Grocers, Merchants, Brokers, Coffee houses, Confectionaries, Retailers of liquors, hawkers, pedlers, negro traders, and livery stables. 21. To license, tax and regulate hackney carriages, carts, omnibusses, drays and wagons and to fix the rates for transporting persons and property. 22. To license and regulate porters and to fix the rate of porterage. 23. To license, tax, regulate or suppress theatrical and other exhibitions and amusements. 24. To regulate, prohibit or suppress all disorderly houses and bawdy houses. 25. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, to organize and establish fire companies, to regulate, restrain or prohibit the erection of wooden buildings in any part of the city, or their removal from one part to another, to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires, to regulate the keeping and storage of gun-powder, guncotton, tar, pitch, rosin, saltpetre, and the use of lights, stovepipes and chimneys or flues, in all stables, shops and other places. 26. To establish standard weights and measures, and regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city, when not provided for by law. 27. To provide for the inspection and measuring of lumber and other building materials; and for the inspection and weighing or measuring of hay, stoue coal, wood and all other fuel. 28. To provide for and regulate the inspection of beef, pork, flour, meal, oils, whisky and other spirits, in barrels and other vessels; also, of butter, lard and other provisions; to regulate the vending of meat, poultry and vegetables; to restrain and punish the forestalling of provisions, and to suppress hucksters. -- 29. To regulate the police of the city; to impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and to provide for their recovery and appropriation. 30. To provide for the arrest and confinement, until trial, of all riotous and disorderly persons, within the city, by day or night. To authorize the arrest and detention of all free negroes, slaves or suspicious persons, found violating any ordinance of the city. 31. To regulate the time and circumstances at and under which slaves and free negroes may be absent from their respective places of abode, and direct the punishment by fine and imprisonment, or either, for the breach of such regulations. 32. To prevent and punish, by pecuniary penalties, all breaches of the peace, noise, disturbances or disorderly assemblies in any place in the city by day or night. 33. To fix, from time to time, the number and boundaries of the city wards. 34. To pass all ordinances that may be necessary to carry out the full intent and meaning of this act, and to accomplish the object of their incorporation; Provided, the same be not contrary to the laws and constitution of this State. SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That two thirds of the revenue Revenue collected in each ward, shall be expended for public how appropriapurposes within the ward where it is collected, unles it be otherwise appropriated by the consent of the Alderman of such ward. ted. nances to main in force. SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That all ordinances and resoFormer ordi-lutions heretofore enacted and adopted by the Mayor re- and Aldermen of said city, and not repealed, or rescinded by them shall be and remain in full force, as if passed under the charter until altered or repealed hereafter. SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That the General Assembly Declared a may at any time, alter, amend or repeal this charter, that the same is hereby declared to be a public act, and may be read in evidence in all courts, without proof or any special pleading. public act. er. SEC. 11. Be it enacted, That the standard keeper now Standard keep- and hereafter to be appointed by the county court of Shelby county, shall be standard keeper and inspector for the city of Memphis, and shall keep his office and give his attendance at all times in said city, by himself or a competent number of deputies. dinances. SEC. 12. Be it enacted, That there shall be prepared Digest of or- and published by the city council, a digest of all the ordinances and resolutions of a public nature, now in force, within six months after the passage of this act, and a like digest once in every three years thereafter. SEC. 13. Be it enacted, That all acts and parts of Other acts reacts contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of pealed. this act or within the provisions thereof, be and are here by repealed. SEC. 14. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Collector's SEC. 15. Be it enacted, That the collector of the city taxes shall also collect the city tax on tippling houses, duties. now required to be collected by the clerk of the county court of Shelby county, and that all laws directing said clerk to collect the same be and are hereby repealed. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed, January 21, 1848. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER LXXV. An Act to divide and equally apportion the Academy fund of Shelby, Lawrence, Hardeman, Wayne and Montgomery counties between the educa tion of Girls and Boys. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the rence divided two State of Tennessee, That the county Academy of Shelby Academies of county and the Jackson Academy in Lawrence county, Shelby & Lawbe divided into two branches so as to constitute the Ra- into leigh Female Academy and the Lawrenceburg Female branches. Academy, branches of said county academies, for the education of the Girls; and that the present trustees of said Female Academies shall be additional trustees of said county academies, to be separately organized, and to share equally with the male branch of said academies, in any monies hereafter to be drawn from the Treasury of the State for the use of the county academies of said counties, said fund to be drawn from the Treasury as heretofore, and apportioned by the trustees of said academies, as herein directed. fund divided. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the unexpended fund Unexpended heretofore drawn from the Treasury, shall be equally divided between the two branches of said academies. man divided. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the county academy of County AcadHardeman county be divided into two branches, so as to emy of Hardeconstitute the Bolivar Female Academy for the education of Girls, and that the present Trustees of said Female Academy shall be additional trustees of said county academy, to be separately organized, and to share equally with the male branch of said academy, in any monies now on hand and unappropriated; and in any monies hereafter to be drawn from the Treasury of the State for the use of said county academy; said fund to be drawn from the Treasury, as heretofore, and appropriated by the trustees of said academies, as herein directed. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the Ashland Academy in Ashland Acad- the county of Wayne be divided into two branches, one emy divided. for the education of Boys, and the other for the educa emy of Montgomery divided tion of Girls; to be separately organized and to share equally in the fund now appropriated, or in any monies hereafter to be drawn from the Treasury of the State, for the use of said Ashland Academy; said fund to be drawn as heretofore from the Treasury, and appropriated as herein directed. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That R. A. Hill, A. T. Hassell, A. P. Cook, L. L. Mack, Jno. McDougal and A. J. McDougal be appointed additional trustees for said academy. SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That the county academy of County Acad Montgomery be divided into two branches, so as to constitute the Clarksville Female Academy a branch of said county academy, for the education of Girls; and that the trustees of said Female Academy shall be additional trustees of said county academy; to be separately organized, and to share equally, with the male branch of said academy, in any monies now on hand and unappropriated, and in any monies hereafter to be drawn from the Treasury of the State for the use of said county academy; said fund to be drawn from the Treasury as heretofore, and appropriated by the trustees of said county academy, as herein directed. F. BUCHANAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed, December 19, 1847. CHAPTER LXXVI. An Act to give the county of Morgan a Director in the Branch of the Bank of Tennessee, at Sparta. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That there shall be a Director for the Morgan coun county of Morgan, in the Bank at Sparta, who shall ty a director. be chosen as other Directors in said Bank, and who shall have all the powers, privileges, and immunities of the other Directors in said Bank, and hold his appointment for the same space of time. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the county of Marion be Marion county attached to the Sparta Bank District, and shall have a a director. Director in said Branch Bank, to be appointed as other An Act appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars annually, to the Institution for the Education of the Blind at Nashville, and also the sum of five thousand dollars annually, to the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb at Knoxville. priated to the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the sum of five thousand $5000 appro dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated annu- Blind Institu ally, for the term of two years, from the passage of this tion. act, out of the Treasury of this State, for the use and benefit of the Institution for the Education of the Blind, at Nashville, and the Comptroller shall issue his warrant for said sum, and the same shall be deposited with the Bank of Tennessee, who is hereby made the Treasurer of said institution, and who shall pay over said sum of money to the order of said Institution, by its Board of Trustees, or their Chairman, as the same may be called for; and the said Treasurer shall keep an account thereof, and report the same to the Board of Trustees annually. $5000 appropriated to Deaf SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That a like sum of five thousand dollars, be, and is hereby annually appropriated & Dumb Ins. |