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CHAPTER XXIV.
An Act to exempt perions disabled by sickness or other cauesc from working on pub-
lie roads.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by. the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee, That from and after the first day of
January, 1840, no person or persons, who by sickness or,
other causes are disabled from performing common labor,
shall be compelled to work on public roads; Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to exempt
slaves or other persons, not disabled as aforesaid, or in the
employment of said disabled persons, from working on
said roads as heretofore provided by law.
JONAS E. TIHOMAS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
L. H. COE,
Passed December 3d, 1839.] Speaker of the Senate.
CHAPTER XXV.
An Act to incorporate the trustees of the Ashland Academy, in Wayne county, and
for otherpurposes.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Trustees.
State of Tennessee, That Thomas M. East, John M'Dugal,
Lemuel D. Mack, David Gallaher, Richard Kindle, Nathan-
iel Biffle, Jonathan Elliot, Abram Montague and Wm. B.
Ross be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and
corporate, by the name of the Trustees of the Ashland Acad-
emy, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
a common seal; and the said Trustees and their successors,
by the name aforesaid, shall be capable in law to purchase, TheaI power.
receive and hold themselves and their successors forever, or
for any less estate, any lands, tenements, goods or chattels
which shall be given, granted or devised to them for the use
of said Academy, and to use and dispose of the same in
such manner as to them shall seem most advantageous, for the
use of said Academy; and said Trustees and their succes-
sors, by the name aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, in any court of law or equity of this State
or elsewhere.
SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the said Trustees and their Mectings,
successors shall have power to hold a meeting, whenever
convrened by the president or any two of said Trustees, at
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