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An Act to amend the laws regulating the fees of Justices of the Peace and Constables, and for other purposes. 1851-1852 427 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0165 and id is 1 raw text is: 427 CHAPTER CCLX. AN ACT to amend the act, ppsed 10th January, 1848, entitled $,an act for the pun. ishment of s all ottenevs and for other rurposes. SECTION 1. Be it Cnacted by the General Assenbly of the State qf Tennessee, That the eighth section of an act, passed the 10th January, 1848, chapter 55, entitled an act for the punishment of small offences, be so amend- ed, that wherever it shall so happen, that the county trustee is an acting justice of the peace, that he shall execute his bond, as directed in said section, to the clerk of the county court of his county. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, 'That the first section of P.eanly 1be the act of 1838, chapter 167, be so amended, as that I' ' each of the justices, of any county in this State, where ce... he has good reason to believe, that any person has c'op mitted the offence specified in said act, or when'he' is informed, by the affidavit of any person, be authoized to issue the process mentioned in that section, and upoi the return, before him or any other justice, of such process, served upon the offender, it shall be the duty of the justice, before whom the same is returned, to hear and determine the case, and if he shall find th6 person guilty of having hawked and peddled withoutli'- cense, it shall be his duty to render judgment against the offender, for double the amount of the State and county tax, as provided in said section, and' to issue execution therefor. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of the House of Regirescntatives. M. R. HILL, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, February 27, 1852. CHAPTER CCLXI. AN ACT to amend the laws regnlating the fees of Justices of the Peace and Con- stables, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. BC it enacted by [lie General AssCbly of the State of Tennessee, That from and after the passage of this act, the following fees shall be allowedjustices of the peace and constables for the services named below, to J*t*** *es**. wit: In criminal cases a justice of the peace shall be allowed for each warrant issued, twenty-five cents; for Digitized from Best Copy Available

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