last will and testament is hereby created a body politic Incorporation. and corporate by the name of the Isaac Franklin Insti tute. 2. Said Corporation shall have succession for five Power, &c. hundred years, a seal, authority to make statutes for its regulation, the same power of conferring degrees as is possessed by any literary institution in the State, the faculty of sueing and being sued in any judicature in the country, and the power of acquiring and holding for the purposes of its creation, property real and per sonal. 3. All the powers hereby granted shall, during the Trustee. life of the said William Franklin, the surviving trustee of the testator, be vested in said surviving trustee; and after his death, in three trustees to be named in his will, or by deed executed in his life time and their successors to be appointed by the Magistrates of the County Court of Sumner county, which magistrates are created in the said last will and testament of the said Isaac Franklin, Perpetual Superintendents of said Seminary or Academy. And in case said William Franklin shall omit to nominate trustees to succeed him, or those nominated by him, or any of them, should refuse to act, the said Magistrates are hereby empowered to fill such vacancy or supply such omission. Power of 4. Said trustee and his successors may make with the executors, with the widow, and with the surviving Trustee. child of said testator, and with all other persons having or claiming any interest in the property given to said Şeminary or Academy, any agreement, contract, compromise or arrangement, which may be legal and practicable, or which may be authorized by legal adjudication, under the advice of a family meeting in Louisiana or elsewhere, in order to extinguish all the charges upon the same, or claims, rights, or titles thereto of whatever nature or degree which, by said last will and testament, and the law of the State where the property may be situated, must be satisfied before the revenues of the said property can be devoted to the uses of said Seminary or Academy. And for the same purpose, said trustee and his successors may institute and prosecute any suit or suits in law or equity, which may be deemed necessary or proper, to enable him and them to perform the trusts committed to said trustee by said. testator. 5. And said Trustee and his successors may appropriate any sum or sums of money, which the executors of said testator may pay him or them as part of the said Academy or Seminary fund, to the extinquish Extinguishment of claims. property. ment and satisfaction of all the aforesaid claims, interests, rights and titles, or any other claims, interests, rights and titles, in, to and upon the property so given to said Academy or Seminary, in order that the same may go into immediate operation. 6. Said Trustee, and his successors, may, with the Conversion of consent of the Perpetual Superintendents of said Academy or Seminary, apply to the Court of Chancery, or other court having jurisdiction of trusts, for leave and authority to convert the real and personal property so given to said Institution, or any part of it, into cash, and for direction as to the manner in which the proceeds thereof, after such conversion, shall be re-invested. 7. The property given in and by said last will to said Free from Literary Institution, and all property real and personal, which said corporation may acquire and devote to said Institution, shall be free from taxation forever.. taxation. 8. The faculty and students of said Institution shall Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Passed, 1st December, 1847. CHAPTER VII. An Act to incorporate the town of Camden, in the county of Benton, and the inhabitants thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Incorporation. State of Tennessee, That the town of Camden, in the county of Benton, and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby incorporated, by the name and style of the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Camden, and shall have perpetual succession, and by their corporate name, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive, purchase and hold real, personal, and mixed property, or dispose of the same for the benefit of said town, and may have and use a town seal. limits. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the corporate limits of the Corporate town of Camden shall include the original plan of said town, as laid off in the years 1836 and 7, and the same is hereby extended so as to include three lots situated on the east boundary line of said town, beginning on the south-east corner and running fifteen poles east, thence north forty-five poles, thence west fifteen poles to the original boundary line of said town. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the corporation aforesaid Power, &c. shall have power and authority to enact such laws and ordinances necessary and proper to preserve the health of the town-prevent and remove nuisances-to establish night-watches and patrols-to ascertain, when necessary, the boundary and location of streets, lots, and alleys to establish new streets, lanes, and alleys, with the consent of the proprietors of the lots and houses adjoining such streets, lanes, and alleys-to provide for licensing and regulating auctions-to restrain and prohibit gaming-to provide for licensing, taxing, regulating or restraining theatrical or other public amusements and shows, within the corporate limits of the town-to pave, and keep in repair the streets, and to pass all laws necessary for the same-to erect and regulate marketsto appoint a Recorder, Treasurer, and Town Constable -to provide for the organization and regulation of Fire Companies, and the sweeping of chimneys-to procure water by digging wells, or otherwise-to erect and regulate pumps in the streets-to restrain tippling houses, and to pass all laws necessary for the regulation of the same-to impose and appropriate fines, penalties, and forfeitures, for the breach of the by-laws, and ordinances— to lay and collect taxes, for the purpose of carrying the necessary measures and powers herein granted into operation, for the benefit of said town, and to pass all laws and ordinances, necessary and proper to carry the intent and meaning of this act into effect, provided they are not incompatible with the constitution and laws of this State. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the laws and ordinances Non-residents. of said corporation shall be, in no wise, obligatory upon the persons or property of non-residents of said town, being citizens of this State, unless in case of intentional violation of by-laws or ordinances previously promulgated; Provided, nevertheless, that the property of such non-residents shall be taxed as other property in said town. SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That all fines, penalties, and Fines, Penforfeitures, imposed by the by-laws and ordinances of alties, &c. said corporation, shall be sued for and recovered, as other monies are, under the existing laws of the State, by the Mayor and Aldermen of said corporation, and for the use of said town. SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That the Sheriff of Benton county, by himself or deputy, shall hold an election on the second Thursday in January, 1848, in the town of Election of Aldermen. Mayor. Treasurer and 10 Camden, and on the second Thursday of January in each and every year thereafter, for the purpose of electing seven persons to serve as Aldermen for the corporation of said town, for one year commencing on the Monday next succeeding the day of election; and all persons owning a freehold in said town, who would be qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote for Aldermen, and no person shall be eligible to the appointment of Alderman, unless he is a freeholder and citizen of said town. SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That the seven persons, qualified as aforesaid, having the highest number of votes, at an election held as aforesaid, shall be taken to be duly elected; and the Sheriff of said county of Benton, shall, within two days thereafter, give each of the seven Aldermen elected, a certificate of his election; and it shall be the duty of the persons so elected, to meet on the next succeeding Monday in said town, any number not less than five shall be a quorum, and they shall then proceed to elect by ballot, one of their own number, to be Mayor of said Corporation, for the time for which the Aldermen were elected as aforesaid; and when any Mayor of said Corporation shall die, remove out of said town, or resign, another election shall be made by the Aldermen, in the manner aforesaid, of another person, for the time then unexpired, and until the next general election of Aldermen, and when any Alderman shall die, remove, or resign, such vacancy may be filled by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, at any regular meeting, and the person or persons so appointed, shall serve until the next election. SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That the Recorder, Treasurer, and Constable, appointed by said Corporation, shall conRecorder, tinue in office during the term of service of the Mayor Constable. and Aldermen, by whom they are appointed, but may be removed from office by a majority of the Mayor and Aldermen, at any regular meeting; and they shall, on entering on the duties of their respective offices, give such bonds and security, as may be required of them, to the Mayor of the Corporation, for the faithful discharge of the duties of their appointment, and accounting for all monies by them collected or received, for the use of the Corporation, and their compensation shall be regulated by the Mayor and Aldermen. Oath. SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall, before entering on the duties of their office, take an oath before some Justice of the Peace of said county, to faithfully, uprightly, and honestly demean themselves as Mayor and Aldermen of said Corporation, during their continuance in office. SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That when any tax or duty Tax. shall be imposed upon any property, lying within the bounds of said Corporation, and shall not be paid by the owner or occupier of the same, and there should not be any personal property of the owner or occupier of the same within the limits of said Corporation, upon which the same could be levied, then it shall be the duty of the Recorder to certify the same to the Circuit Court of Benton county, at the term to which the Sheriff of said county is required to report lands in his county, on which the State and county tax has not been paid; and upon said report, at said term, it shall be the duty of the Circuit Court to enter up judgment for the tax due said Corporation, in the same manner judgments are required ⚫ to be entered for the nonpayment of the tax due the county and State upon lands lying in said county; and the same shall be sold at the same time and in the same manner, and be subject to the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, that are by law required for the sale of lands lying within said county, on which the State and county tax is not paid; which tax when collected by the Sheriff as provided for in this section, shall be paid by him into the hands of the town Treasurer, for the use of said Corporation; which sale, when made in manner aforesaid, shall vest the same right and title in the purchaser, as if the sale had been made for taxes due the State. SEC. 11. Be it enacted, That the Constable of said town shall have the same fees, as are allowed by law to other Constables of the State for similar services; and said Constable before he enters upon the discharge of his duties, shall take the oath prescribed by law for other Constables of this State. It shall be the duty of the town Constable to execute all warrants and other process growing out of the Corporation laws from Justices of the Peace. fees. Constable's estate. SEC. 12. Be it enacted, That when any real estate in Levy said town may be levied upon for any Corporation dues, the same proceedings shall be had thereon as is prescribed by law in other cases of precepts issued by Justices of the Peace. effect. on real SEC. 13. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect, When to take and be in force from and after the passage thereof; and all laws heretofore passed contrary to the true intent and |