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An Act to incorporate the Literary Institution founded by Isaac Franklin. 1847-1848 24 (1847)

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Relinquish-the State, of the Clarksville and Russellville Turnpike
ert oare.'road, be, and they are hereby authorized to transfer and
relinquish forever to the corporation of the town of
Clarksville, in Montgomery county, Tennessee, all the
right, title, and interest which the said State of Tennes-
see may have in and to the Bridge, and the site of said
Bridge across Red river, where the said Turnpike road
crosses said river, upon condition that said corporation of
the town of Clarksville build or cause to be built, upon
said site, a new aid substantial free bridge, and keep the
same or cause it to be kept in good repair.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said commis-
therero.  sioners, if they shall deem it just, and due to the interests
of the State, to require further and additional consid-
eration for such transfer and relinquihment of the said
Bridge and Bridge site above mentioned, shall be au-
thorized to exact and receive 'on behalf of the State,
such additional consideration, as justice to the interest
of the State, may, intheir good judgment and discre-
tion require.           .
F. BUCHANAN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. M. ANDERSON,
Speaker of the Senate.
Passed, November 16, 1847.
CHAPTER VI.
An Act to incorporate the Literary Institution  founded by  Isaac Franklin.
Whereas, Thelate Isaac Franklin, of Suoner county,
reovisions of in his last will and testament, made and published on
Will.    the twenty-fourth of May, in the year eighteen hundred
and forty-one, gave and bequeathed all hisproperty, real
and personal, of whatever kind or nature, situated in the
States of Tennessee and Mississippi, or any other
common law state, where trust estates can be created,
together with his bank stock, and effects and credits;
and an undivided one third part of all his property,
moveable and immoveable, slaves, &c., situated in. the
State of Louisiana, and also, all the rest and residue of
his estate, wherever situated-in trust to his brothers,
James Franklin and William Franklin, of Sumner coun-
ty, to lay out the revenues and dividends thence arising,
in building proper and suitable edifices on his Fairvue
plantation in the county of Sumner, for an Academy or

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