ize themselves and proceed to elect one of their body as Mayor for the current year, and shall hold his office for twelve months, and until his successor is elected and qualified; when upon application to some justice of the peace for said county, it shall be his duty to administer to the person so elected Mayor as aforesaid, an oath of office, to the effect that he shall faithfully demean himself as such Mayor during his continuance in office; which oath said Mayor shall take before entering upon the duties of his office. Said board shall then proceed to elect a Recorder, who shall also be . Treasurer for said corporation, and a Town Constable, each of whom, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall enter into bond payable to said board of Mayor and Aldermen, with good and sufficient security to be approved of by the Mayor of said board, in an amount to be determined by said board, conditioned that they shall faithfully demean themselves in the performance of the duties of their respective offices, during their continuance in office, and that they shall faithfully collect and pay over as required by said board of Mayor and Aldermen, all taxes, fines, forfeitures &c., which may be due and owing said corporation; and upon application to some Justice of the Peace for said county, it shall be his duty to administer to them respectively an oath of office, to the effect that they shall faithfully demean themselves as such during their continuance in office, which oath of office they shall take before entering upon the duties of their office. They shall hold their offices respectively for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That all vacancies for Alder- Vacancies. men and other officers of said corporation, which shall be occasioned by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, shall be filled for the residue of the term, by the Mayor and Aldermen or Alderman in office; and the persons so appointed by them shall possess the same qualifications for office as required in the second and fourth sections of this act; and shall in like manner be qualified before entering upon the discharge of their respective offices.

SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of Constable said Constable, faithfully to collect and pay over to the Treasurer of said corporation, on the first Monday in January and July annually, all taxes, duties, fines and forfeitures due and owing said corporation, except such as the collection of which are herein otherwise provid

ed for, and on failure to do so, he and his securities Taxes, how colshall be liable by motion before the Circuit Court of looted.

said county, for the amount of his said delinquency, with costs, and he shall also be liable to be removed from office for any misconduct in office at the pleasure of the Mayor and Aldermen of said corporation.

SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That said corporation shall General powers. have full power and authority to make such by-laws and ordinances as may be necessary and proper to preserve the health, quiet and good order of said Town, to prevent or remove nuisances, to establish night watches or patrols, to punish breaches of such by-laws and ordinances committed within the limits of said corporation, by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. To ascertain and declare when necessary, the boundary, streets and alleys of said Town; to sell and convey to the purchasers, when deemed expedient or necessary, any of the alleys of said Town, with the consent of all persons owning lots on said alleys; to provide for the licensing, regulating and taxing auctions, theatrical, and other shows within said Town; to restrain and prohibit gaming; to prohibit the exhibition of stallions and jacks, within the corporate limits of said Town; to pass all by-laws, and ordinances, necessary and proper for the paving of streets, alleys and side walks, and keeping them in repair; to establish and regulate markets and inspections; to provide for the establishment and regulation of fire companies, and the sweeping of chimneys; to dig wells and erect cisterns; to erect pumps on the streets or public grounds; to impose and collect fines and forfeitures for breaches or violations of the by-laws and ordinances of said corporation; to lay and collect taxes upon all property and privileges within said corporation, which are or may hereafter be made taxable by the laws of this State; to tax ball, nine-pin and ten-pin alleys, and to pass all by-laws and ordinances necessary and proper to enforce the powers granted in this act, which are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of the State of Tennessee.

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SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That the Mayor of said corProcess-how is poration or any justice of the peace for said county, shall have full power and authority to issue any and all process necessary and proper for the arrest of any person or persons, charged of violating any of the criminal by-laws of said corporation, which may be enacted by said board of Mayor and Aldermen, under the pow ers granted in the eighth section of this act to preserve the health, quiet and good order of said town; and which by said by-laws may be made punishable by fine upon the application of said Town Constable, or

upon the application of any other person, upon such other person making oath, that he believes or has just cause to believe, that such person or persons, has or have been guilty of a violation of the by-laws of said corporation, so made as aforesaid, and stating specially the offence with which such person or persons are charged, which process shall in all cases be directed to said Town Constable, and shall be returnable before the Mayor of said corporation, at his office at any time except on Sundays.

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SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That the Mayor of said cor- Mayor's jurisdioporation shall have full power and authority to try and punish all persons for offences against the by-laws of said corporation, and punishable by fine by said board of Mayor and Aldermen, under the power granted in the eighth section of this act. And he shall have full power and authority in case any person or persons shall be convicted before him of any of the offences of which this act gives him jurisdiction; and such person or persons shall be by him fined, and such person or persons shall not immediately pay said fine and costs or secure the same to be paid, to order such person or persons to be confined in the jail of said county until said fine and costs are paid or secured to be paid. And it shall be the duty of the Mayor of said corporation, to keep a docket upon which he shall write out his judgments in the same manner that justices of the peace in this State are now required by law to do; and it shall be lawful for him at any time to take security for the fines assessed by him, together with the costs of suit, and in the same manner that stays of executions may now by the laws of this State be taken by justices of the peace, and the same shall be valid and binding upon said surety or sureties, and it shall be the duty of said Mayor, when any person or persons shall be convicted before him of any of said offences and shall be by him fined, immediately to enter a judgment for said fine and the costs of suit, and if the same shall not be paid before the expiration of the day succeeding the date of said judgment, it shall then be his duty to issue an execution for the same which may be directed to said Town Constable, the Sheriff or any Constable of said county, and said execution shall have the same validity and effect, and be subject to the same rules and regulations, that executions issued by Justices of the Peace, have and are subject to now by the laws of this State; and if any of said officers to whose hands. an execution, issued by said Mayor as aforesaid shall come, shall fail to make due and proper return of the

same to the office of said Mayor within thirty days from the date of its issuance; or if he should collect the money or any part thereof on the same, and fail to pay over the same upon demand to the Treasurer of said corporation, he and his securities may in like manner be subject to the same penalties that constables and their securities are now by the laws of this State subject to, for failing to return executions issued by Justices of the Peace, or for failing to pay over money collected on the same, by motion before any Justice of the Peace for said county.

SEC. 11. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of Duties of Jailor. the Jailor of said county, to receive and keep in jail any person who may be committed by said Mayor to his charge, under the power granted in this act, and all disorderly and riotous persons committed to his charge in the night time by said Town Constable, until they be released, for which he shall receive the same fees as in other cases of imprisonment.

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SEC. 12. Be it enacted, That any person who may Prisoners-how under the provisions of this act be committed to jail by said Mayor, until his fine and costs are paid or secured to be paid, shall after giving said Mayor two days notice, and making an affidavit, which shall be filed in the office of said Mayor, setting forth a true schedule of all his or her property, and that he or she is unable to pay cr secure to be paid said fine and costs, be discharged from Jail.

Fees of office.

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SEC. 13. Be it enacted, That the Mayor, the Town Constable, the Treasurer and Recorder, elected under the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to and receive such fees and salaries as may be allowed to them, by the Mayor and Aldermen of said corporation.

SEC. 14. Be it enacted, That when any tax or duty Taxes how col- shall be levied or imposed by said board of Mayor and Aldermen upon any real estate being within the corporate limits of said Town, and the owner or owners thereof shall not pay said tax or duty, but fail or refuse to pay the same within the year for which said tax or duty was levied, it shall be the duty of the Recorder of said corporation upon the fact being reported to him by said Town Constable that the owner or owners thereof have no personal property upon which he can distrain for said taxes or duties, and that the same remains due and unpaid, to report said real estate to the Circuit Court of said county at the first or second term of the year next succeeding, and it shall be the duty of said court, when such report shall be made, to enter up judgment against said real estate for the

taxes or duties thereon remaining due and unpaid, and said real estate shall be sold by the Sheriff or Tax Collector for said county at the same time and place and in the same manner and under the same conditions, as if the taxes had been and were due the State and county, which sale shall vest the title in the purchaser, as in other tax sales, and said sheriff or tax collector shall pay over to the Treasurer of said corporation any taxes so by him received for said corporation, and upon his failure to do so shall be liable on motion for the amount due as in other cases.

SEC. 15. Be it enacted, That all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by the by-laws of said corporation, the recovery of which has not already been provided for in this act, if not exceeding fifty dollars, shall be recoverable before any Justice of the Peace for said county, and if exceeding fifty dollars, then in the Circuit Court of said county by action of debt in the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Huntingdon, which shall be for the use and benefit of said town.

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SEC. 16. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of By-laws to be the Recorder of said corporation, to post on the court house door in said town, as soon as practicable after their enactment, copies of all such by-laws and ordihances as may be enacted by said board of Mayor and Aldermen.

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SEC. 17. Be it enacted, That all laws and parts of Former laws re laws conflicting with or coming within the perview and meaning of this act, be and they are hereby repealed. Provided, the Mayor and Aldermen and the officers of said corporation now in office, under a former, act of incorporation shall hold their respective of fices, and have and exercise all the power granted by said former act of incorporation until their successors are elected and qualified under this act.

Paris.

SEC. 18. Be it enacted, That the charter incorporat-Corporation ing the town of Paris, Henry county, Tennessee, be amended so that the qualified voters of said corporation shall elect the Mayor, Town Constable, Recorder and Treasurer in the same way and at the same time that the Aldermen are now elected.

SEC. 19. Be it enacted, That the Mayor shall be clothed with all the powers of a Justice of the peace within the limits of the corporation, so far as to carry out and enforce the ordinances of the same, and to examine and commit runaway slaves; and that he shall keep an office and docket, for the transaction of such