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An Act to prescribe the mode for the trial of slaves. 1825 20 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0053 and id is 1 raw text is: OHAPTER XXIII. 4.N ACT, providin for cases where justices of the peace have did,; renoved, or resigned. S actIoN 1. Be it enacted by the General As- Clerks (0 is- seiibly of the State of Tennessee, That from and toe ther after the passage of this' act, when itshall appear when neces that judgments renlered by justices of the peace ary. in this state, who have died, removel, or resign- ed, are unsatislied ; on application of the agent or attorney, it shall be lawful for the clerk of the county court in whose office such papers may be- filed, under the acts of Assembly now in force, to. issue execution on said judgments, to any county in this state, frorn which execution the plaintiff shall receive the same benefit and the officer into whose hands the same may come, shall have the same aul- thority to proceed, as if the -execution had issued from a justice of the peace on a judgment render- ed by him in the county to which. the same may be directed. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That, it shall, be the dd. ty of the ofilicer to whose hands such execution shall come, to retlrn the same to the clerk by whom it was issued in forty days from the tinie he may have received such execution, and shall be lialle for neglect of duty in such case, in the same manner as oficers are liable in failures to return executions and pay over money in other cases. SEc. 3. Best enacted, That the officers execut- ing the foregoing process, shall be entitled to the flicers fees same compensation as they now are in similar ca- es, and the clerk issuing tie same, shall be entitled to fifty cents therefor to be taxed as costs on the writ. WM. BRADY, Speaker of the House of Representitives, R. (. FOSTER. Speaker of the Senate. Passed November 7, 1825. CHAPTER XXIV. 4N ACT, to prescribe the mode for the trial of slaves. SECTION 1. Beit 6eacted by the General As. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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