above the principal sum for which the bill was drawn, and the charges of protest, together with interest on the principal sum, damages, and charges of protest, from the time at which notice of the protest was given and payment demanded,' at the following rate; if the bill is drawn upon any person in the United States, three per cent. on the principal sum; if upon any person in any other state or place in North America bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, or in the West Indies, fifteen per cent.; if upon a person in any other part of the world, twenty per cent.; these damages are 'in lieu of interest and all other charges, except the charges of protest, to the time' of notice of the protest and demand of payment.

Ch. 23.-Crimes. This act is a revision of the penal laws of the state; and it also defines the several crimes for which the punishments are inflicted.

Ch. 38. This act prescribes the mode of conveying criminals to the jail and penitentiary house, and provides for their government therein. When a convict is to be so conveyed, the judge or clerk of the court, by his warrant, may empower the sheriff to impress on the best terms he can, so many men, horses, &c. as shall be necessary for the safe conveyance of the convict.

Ch. 55. In the trial of indictments for offences under the grade of petit larceny, where no peremptory challenges of jurors are allowed by the existing laws, the state and the defendant are each to be entitled to challenge peremptorily five jurors.

Ch. 54.-Schools and Academies. In sales of land for taxes, if no person bid the amount of the tax, costs, and charges, the sheriff or collector is to 'cry the same off to the trustees for the common schools,' and if the land is not redeemed, he is to make a deed to the trustees, who are to have all the 'rights that other purchasers at tax sales could have in the title.'

Ch. 67. This act relates to the distribution of the academy fund. Ch. 107. This is an act establishing a system of common schools and appropriating the school funds.

Ch. 56.-Officers. If an officer, by virtue of an execution, levy on any perishable property, which he is bound to keep till the day of sale, he shall be allowed in the bill of costs at the following rates: 'for each head of horses, mules, or jacks, per day, twelve and a half cents; for each head of cattle, three cents; for each head of hogs or sheep, one cent.

Ch. 60.-Courts In all cases determined in the Court of Appeals the court are required to give their opinions in writing, and the clerk of the court' shall deposite the same with the record in the cause, and keep the same on file in his office.'

Ch. 96. The judges of the Supreme Court are to certify to the

governor all causes which two of the judges are disqualified to determine, and all causes which two of the judges are competent to determine, but upon a previous hearing have disagreed; and the governor thereupon is required to appoint two special judges who are to assist in deciding such causes; 'one special judge, with the qualified judge, or two disagreeing judges, shall form a competent court.' If all the judges of the Supreme Court are disqualified to determine any cause, three special judges are to be appointed to decide it. The governor in such cases is required to appoint such lawyers as he shall consider free from bias or some of the circuit judges.

Ch. 62.-Pedlers. Every person who may wish to peddle in the article of clocks, is to apply to the clerk of each county court, wherein he may wish to sell the same, who is required to issue to the applicant a license authorizing him to sell the article for twelve months; the applicant is to pay to the clerk $25 75. In case of neglect, such person forfeits $100.

Ch. 63.-Gaming. All citizens disqualified from holding office in consequence of conviction under any of the laws to prevent gaming, are reinstated in all their rights.

Ch. 69.-Children. Where the wife of any man has had or may have three or more children at one birth, he may lay down, on any one of the general plans,' in certain surveyors' offices, any quantity of land, not exceeding 200 acres for each one of his children; and the same shall be considered as an occupant claim.

Ch. 73.—Lotteries. If any person sell any tickets in a lottery not authorized by the laws of the state or of the United States, he is subjected for every selling,' to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500. Conviction of one offence is not a bar to a prosecution for previous or subsequent offences.

Ch. 74.-Slaves. If a negro slave sell any spirituous liquors, without the permission of his master, he is liable to receive not less than five, nor more than ten lashes. If any slave have in his possession spirituous liquors at any other place than his own house, which liquor is owned by such slave, or some other slave, he is also liable to be whipped. If any merchant, tavern keeper, distiller, or other person, sell any spirituous liquor to a slave without a permit in writing from the master, he is subject to a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50.

Ch. 75.—Internal Improvement. By this act a board of interternal improvement is established, of which the Governor is to be ex officio president, and $150,000 are appropriated to this object.

Ch. 78.-Paper Manufactories. This act is for the encouragement of paper manufactories; and exempts the owners and work

men from attending company and battalion musters, and all the workmen are excused from working on the roads; provided the owner furnish two hands, or pay the overseer of the road one dollar for each day that he may be summoned to work on the road. This act is for the incorporation of

Ch. 80.-Medical Society.

a medical society.

Ch. 101.—Public Funds.

This act relates to the public funds. Among the private acts, we observe the following.

Several divorce acts, and acts authorizing courts to divorce certain persons; acts authorizing certain persons to 'hawk and peddle' in the state, without obtaining license or paying tax therefor. A number of acts relating to the militia; several acts reinstating certain married women in the rights and privileges of femes sole; six acts for the incorporation of academies; twentyseven acts authorizing the constructing or extending of turnpike roads, &c; an act establishing a hospital in the town of Memphis ; an act authorizing the drawing of a lottery for the benefit of the heirs of a person deceased; acts authorizing lotteries for the benefit of academies; acts to compensate the officers and witnesses on behalf of the state, on the trial of Judges Haskell and Williams, before the court of impeachment; acts for the legitimating certain persons; an act to relieve a person from the penalties and disabilities arising from a violation of the act against duelling; an act to restore certain persons to the rights of which they were deprived in consequence of a conviction of an infamous crime; an act providing that a 'free woman of color in the third degree,' and who has been emancipated, shall be 'entitled to all the privileges of a free born white citizen of her sex,' but that she'shall not, by virtue of the act, be a legal witness against any white person in any court whatever.'

Ch. 307.-General Assembly. This act is for the payment of the members, &c. of the General Assembly, and provides that, the speakers of the Senate and House of Representatives shall each be allowed the sum of $5 per day, and $4 for every 25 miles of travel; members of the General Assembly, $4 per day, and $4 for each 25 miles of travel.

Of the private acts one hundred and thirty-two are for the relief of particular individuals.

Among the resolutions are the following.

A resolution that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be detailed from the engineer department, an officer to examine into the most practicable mode of removing the obstructions to navigation at the Harpeth Shoals, and that the senators

and representatives of the state be instructed and requested, 'to use all proper means to procure an appropriation sufficient to secure an object so important to the future military operations of the country, and so desirable to the Western States.'

A resolution relating to the opening of a communication by a canal or railroad, between the waters of the Tennessee River and those falling into Mobile Bay. In a 'memorial' to Congress prefixed to this resolution, it is stated that 'the legislature believe that it should be the policy of Congress to appropriate such portion of the unappropriated funds of the nation, from time to time, as can be conveniently spared from the treasury, upon roads and canals, of a purely national character, where the same can be done without an infraction of the constitution.' The legislature, therefore, are desirous that assistance may be afforded by the general government, in effecting this communication, by a canal or railroad.

A resolution relating to the United States Bank. The senators in Congress are instructed, and the representatives requested to vote against re-chartering the bank, if any attempt is made for that purpose before the next session of the General Assembly.

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A resolution relative to the state turnpike road. The state of Tennessee has it in contemplation to make a state turnpike road on the McAdam plan, from the Virginia line to the Mississippi river, provided she can obtain the adequate funds. The General Assembly believe that if the United States will take stock or make a donation to turnpike companies formed by the states, a national road can be made. They believe that this is the only manner by which a national road can be made, where aid is to be given by the general government, consistent with the sovereignty of the states and the legitimate powers of the United States.' The sen

ators and representatives in Congress are therefore 'requested to obtain half a million of dollars, to be vested in the state turnpike company, from the United States.' It is also resolved that the state of Virginia be invited to meet the views of the state of Tennessee as aforesaid, and to make a road, national in its character, through the state of Virginia.'

INDIANA.

Acts passed by the General Assembly of Indiana, at the session held at Indianapolis, commencing on the first Monday in December,

1829.

Appropriations.

Executive department, $2000; Judiciary,

$11,000; Military, $150; contingent, $800; wolf scalps, $600; penitentiary, $600; specific allowances, $2000; appropriations to the Wabash and Miami Canal, $4000.1

Ch. 27, s. 3.—Misprint. The words "appealed from to the Circuit Court," in the ninth section of the act aforesaid, [for organizing Probate Courts] are declared a misprint, and the appeal there mentioned, to have been intended, and shall be, to the Supreme Court.'

The judges of probate are elected by a vote of the inhabitants of the county.

Ch. 32.-Divorce. The laws concerning divorce shall extend only to citizens who have resided within the state twelve months. Ch. 33.-Constables are elected by the inhabitants.

Ch. 35.-Mortgages. If the debt is not paid when due, 'it shall be lawful for the mortgagee to file his bill in the Circuit Court, according to the course of the common law, praying to foreclose; and the premises, if ordered to be sold by said court, shall be sold as lands are sold on execution, at public vendue.'

Ch. 41.-Soldiers of the Revolution are exempted from imprisonment for debt.

Ch. 45.—Jurisdiction on Navigable Rivers, or other waters bounding the state or any of the counties; the courts of the two counties have concurrent jurisdiction over the whole breadth of such navigable waters, and concurrent jurisdiction is given also to the adjoining states.

Ch. 46.-Justices of the Peace. It is made the duty of justices of the peace to arrest persons committing an assault in their presence, without requiring the testimony of any other witness, and commit them, or put them on trial, or, if the party chooses to be tried by any other justice of the peace having jurisdiction, to take recognizance for his appearance before such other justice. s. 12. Justices may fine any person not exceeding three dollars for any act of contempt while he is sitting in his official capacity. s. 11. Ch. 48.-State Library. One hundred dollars per year are appropriated for increasing the state library.

Ch. 49.-Medical Societies are legalized, and persons not established in practice in Indiana at the time of the passing of this act, or licensed in Indiana or some other state, cannot recover by law for medicines or professional services.

1 A grant of land for this canal was made to the state of Indiana by an act of Congress, March 2, 1827.