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PUBLIC ACTS

OF THE

STATE OF TENNESSEE,

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT NASHVILLE, ON MONDAY THE
SIXTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, IN THE YEAR ONE THOU-
SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE.

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WILLIAM CARROLL, Governor; SAM G. SMITH, Secretary of State; DAVID BURFORD, Speaker of the Senate; F. W. HULING, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAPTER I.

An Act changing the time of holding the Supreme Court at Sparta, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Repealing State of Tennessee, That the 7th section of an act of eigh- clause. teen hundred and thirty-two, chapter 21, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and that the next term of the Supreme Court at Sparta, be held on the first Monday in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and that said court be holden on the first Monday in August, in each succeeding year.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That all process, records and pro- Returns. ceedings, shall be filed accordingly, without prejudice to the parties.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That all appeals from any court of of appeals from Smith county to the Supreme Court, shall be taken to the Smith county. court held at Sparta, and that this act be in full force from

the day of its passage.

F. W. HULING,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
D. BURFORD,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed September 24, 1833.

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CHAPTER II.

An Act to amend the act of 1827, chapter 20, entitled an act more amply to provide for the poor.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That where any person or persons shall hereafter die, leaving a wife, or a wife and children, or absconds and leaves his family, that then, and in that case, the articles and property now exempt, or which may hereafter be exempt by law from execution sale, shall and may be set apart for the use of the widow, or wife, in the same manner, and to the same extent, that said property is now exempt from execution where the husband is living.

F. W. HULING,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
D. BURFORD,

Passed September 25, 1833.

Speaker of the Senate.

Clerk to give certificate of

freedom.

CHAPTER III.

An Act more effectually to prevent the owners of steam boats and stages from carrying off slaves, without the knowledge or consent of the

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter, no stage contractor or driver, or owner, or captain of any steam boat or other water craft, shall receive and carry from any place in this State, to any other place, either in or out of the State, any black or coloured person, unless said coloured person shall produce the certificate of the clerk of the court of the county from which said stage or steam boat is about to depart; which certificate shall be under the seal of said court, stating that the said clerk has known said coloured person, and that he or she is free, or has generally been reputed to be free, or that it has been proved to him by Authority of respectable witnesses known to him, (whom he is hereby authorised to swear,) that said coloured person is free, or generally reputed so; or if said coloured person be actually a slave, then and in that case a verbal or written authority from the owner or owners, shall be sufficient.

slave owner.

Penalty

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any stage contractor or driver, or owner or captain of any steam boat or other water craft, or any other person or persons, shall violate the provisions of the first section of this act, then, and in that case, they, or either of them, shall be subject to indictment or presentment, without a prosecutor thereto, in the county or the circuit court of the county in which

said colored person was so received in any of said stages or
steam boats; and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in
a sum not less than two nor more than five hundred dollars,
and be imprisoned not less than three nor more than six
months; and moreover, shall be liable to an action of tro-
ver at the suit of the owner or owners of any slave or
slaves so received and carried without the aforesaid pre-
mission.

F. W. HULING,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
D. BURFORD,

Passed September 25, 1833.

Speaker of the Senate.

CHAPTER IV.

An Act to establish a precinct election at the house of Robert Huddleston, in Grainger county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That a precinct election be established at the house of Robert Huddleston, in Grainger county, to vote for Governor, members to Congress, members to the State Legislature, for Convention, and Electors to vote for county.

President and Vice President of the United States.

Grainger

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That in the county of Williamson there shall be and is hereby established a precinct election for Governor, members to Congress, members to the State Legislature and for Convention, at the dwelling house of Ephraim Brown, on the plantation upon which he now Wilson county. lives and that the sheriff of the county of Williamson, shall hold elections at the said place in the same way and manner and under the same rules and regulations that elections are and have been holden in said county, at other precinct elections.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That an additional precinct elec- Davidson tion or place for holding the general State elections, county. and for President and Vice President of the United States,

be and the same is hereby established at the house of Den-
nis Dozier, in Davidson county.

F. W. HULING,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Ď. BURFORD,

Speaker of the Senate.

Passed October 1, 1833.

CHAPTER II.

An Act to amend the act of 1827, chapter 20, entitled an act more amply to provide for the poor.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That where any person or persons shall hereafter die, leaving a wife, or a wife and children, or absconds and leaves his family, that then, and in that case, the articles and property now exempt, or which may hereafter be exempt by law from execution sale, shall and may be set apart for the use of the widow, or wife, in the same manner, and to the same extent, that said property is now exempt from execution where the husband is living.

F. W. HULING,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
D. BURFORD,

Passed September 25, 1833.

Speaker of the Senate.

Clerk to give certificate of

freedom.

CHAPTER III.

An Act more effectually to prevent the owners of steam boats and stages from carrying off slaves, without the knowledge or consent of the

owners.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter, no stage contractor or driver, or owner, or captain of any steam boat or other water craft, shall receive and carry from any place in this State, to any other place, either in or out of the State, any black or coloured unless said coloured person person, shall produce the certificate of the clerk of the court of the county from which said stage or steam boat is about to depart; which certificate shall be under the seal of said court, stating that the said clerk has known said coloured person, and that he or she is free, or has generally been reputed to be free, or that it has been proved to him by Authority of respectable witnesses known to him, (whom he is hereby authorised to swear,) that said coloured person is free, or generally reputed so; or if said coloured person be actually a slave, then and in that case a verbal or written authority from the owner or owners, shall be sufficient.

slave owner.

Penalty

SEC. 2. Be it cnacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any stage contractor or driver, or owner or captain of any steam boat or other water craft, or any other person or persons, shall violate the provisions of the first section of this act, then, and in that case, they, or either of them, shall be subject to indictment or presentment, without a prosecutor thereto, in the county or the circuit court of the county in which

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