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Acts of the state of tennessee passed by the general assembly
Acts of the state of tennessee passed by the general assembly Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: purchasing the site for the county seat, and the costs of the public buildings ordered to be built by the county court, shall be paid over by said commissioners ... more »to the trustee of said county of Powell, to be held, applied and accounted for by him as other county funds. Sec. 14. The said commissioners shall also appoint five civil districts, suitable persons as commissioners, whose duty it shall be to divide and lay off said county of Powell into civil districts, designate the place for holding elections therein, and do and perform all the duties relative thereto which by the laws of this 8tate such commissioners are authorized or required to do. Sec. 15. The county of Powell shall form one regiment, Military. which shall be known and designated as the 148th regiment, and shall be attached to the third brigade. The militia officer or officers highest in command included within said county of Powell, shall, at such time and place as he or they may determine upon, call all the commissioned officers together, and such of them as shall attend are hereby authorized and empowered to lay off said county into battalions and companies, and provide for holding elections for the purpose of electing all officers in said regiment in the manner prescribed by law. Sec. 16. Should the boundary lines of Powell county, county lines, as designated in the second section of this act, approach nearer to the county seat of either of the old counties from which the territory constituting the county of Powell is taken than is prescribed by the constitution, it shall be the duty of the commissioners herein appointed to appoint some surveyor, who shall re-run and re-mark such line or lines so as not to violate the constitutional right of such old county, and said surveyor shall make a report to the ...« less