Special school tax. collected by the Collector of Taxes in said town, going to the school fund, shall be paid over on the order of the Board of Education. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town are hereby authorized to levy and collect a special tax for school as other taxes are levied and collected, which shall not exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of property, and as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Town of Cookeville is hereby created a special school district, and that the County Trustee of Putnam County, or any other Tax Collector of Putnam County, shall pay over to the Recorder of the Town of Cookeville quarterly on the first Mondays in January, April, July, and October of each year all moneys collected by them for school purposes from property lying within the limits of this corporation or otherwise, and take his receipt for the same, to be used by them in making their settlements. This shall include all school moneys collected on property, both real and personal, polls, ad valorem, privilege taxes, from the State of Tennessee and otherwise. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the general laws of the State in regard to common schools shall apply to the Town of Cookeville, so far as the same are not modified herein, and the said district shall be entitled to all sums of money from the public school fund that it would be entitled to receive if the district was organized under the general laws of the State. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed April 7, 1905. Speaker of the Approved April 11, 1905. E. RICE, W. K. ABERNATHY, JOHN I. COX, Governor. CHAPTER 269. HOUSE BILL No. 748. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to fix the time for holding the Circuit Courts of the various counties composing the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Tennessee," passed April 1, 1903, as to time for holding of courts in the Counties of DeKalb and Rhea. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That an Act passed April 1, 1903, regulating the times of holding the Circuit Courts in the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Tennessee, be amended so as to provide that the Circuit Courts for the counties of DeKalb and Rhea be, and are, as follows: DeKalb First Tuesdays after second Mondays in April, August, and November. Rhea-First Tuesdays after second Mondays in March, July, and December. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after May 1, 1905, the public welfare requir-· ing it. CHAPTER 270. HOUSE BILL No. 712. AN ACT to create and establish an independent School District in the Fifth Civil District of White County, Tennessee, known as the Fifteenth School District. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That there be, and is hereby, created and established an independent School District in the Fifth Civil District of White County, to be known as the Fifteenth School District of said county, and bounded as follows: Beginning in the Sixth District line at Rock House; running south, including lands of B. Arnold and E. H. Johnson; thence east to Carthage Road, near Darkey Springs; thence south with said road to Knowles' and Dabbs' store and K. Y. Roads; thence east with the old This paragraph sub-district line, including the lands of Joe Swindell, Fred is correctly printed. Helton, and John Scroggins, to Third District line on the mountain; thence north to Ninth District lines to Sixth District line; thence west with Sixth District line to the beginning corner. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said independent School District shall have all rights and privileges and endowments as other School Districts of White County, and shall be controlled by three Directors, appointed by the County Superintendent, to serve until the next regular election, when the three Directors shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said School District, as the other School Directors are elected and for the same time. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed April 6, 1905. W. K. ABERNATHY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. E. RICE, Approved April 11, 1905. JOHN I. COX, Governor. CHAPTER 271. HOUSE BILL No. 116. AN ACT to exempt Hickman County from the provisions of an Act, approved May 10, 1895, Chapter 127, entitled "An Act for the protection of fish in the State of Tennessee," and to repeal Chapter 328 of the Acts of 1901, approved April 20, 1901, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to exempt Hickman County from the general fish law,'" and to repeal Chapter 96 of the Acts of 1903, approved March 11, 1903, entitled "An Act to prohibit fishing in Hickman County during spawning season." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be lawful for any resident of Hickman County to catch fish for use on his own table in barrel or hoop, nets or to kill them with gigs in any of the streams of running water within the limits. of the county; Provided, that fish shall not be caught or killed in the interval of time from April 20 to June 20 each year in any of the streams within the limits of said. County of Hickman, except Duck River. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the people residing and living in said county shall have the right to catch fish in said Duck River during any and all seasons of the year, and by any means except by the use of dynamite or other explosives, poisons, traps, or brush drag nets, and shall have the right to sell or give away same to be used in said county, but not to be sold or exported out of the county. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That Chapter 328 of the Acts of 1901, approved April 20, 1901, entitled “An Act to amend an Act, entitled 'An Act to exempt Hickman County from the general fish law,'" and also Chapter 96 of the Acts of 1903, approved March 11, 1903, entitled "An Act to prohibit fishing in Hickman County during spawning season," be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and are hereby, repealed, in so far as they apply to the people residing in Hickman County. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed April 7, 1905. W. K. ABERNATHY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to be entitled "An Act to create and establish an independent School District in Moore County, Tennessee, out of parts of the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Civil Districts of said county, to be known as the Fourteenth School District of Moore County, Tennessee, and to provide a Board of Directors for same." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That an independent School District be, and the same is hereby, created and established cut of portions of the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Civil Districts of Moore County, Tennessee, included within the following boundaries-to-wit: Beginning at the Moore and Lincoln County line at the top of ridge between Louse Creek and Tucker's Creek, running with said ridge in a northerly direction to the Widow Patton's farm; thence crossing the head of the west prong of Farris Creek, a southern course, so as to include the farms of James Hensley and Mack Smith; thence east, crossing the head of the cast end of Farris Creek, so as to include the farms of the Widow Wagner and J. M. Grammar; thence to the top of ridge, northeast between Short Creek and Farris Creek; thence east to Short Creek so as to include the farm of T. D. Allen; thence to top of ridge between Short Creek and Coffee Creek; thence north with the meanderings of said ridge so as to include the farms of C. S. Bobo, L. T. Davis, W. T. Wiseman, and C. M. Matlock; thence north |