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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0177 and id is 1 raw text is: 285
SEC. 21. Be it further enacted, That the Louisville
and Nashville IRailroad Company may, the better to en-
able them to dispose of the bonds of Sumner county,
authorized to be issued under this act, endorse on said Bonds, how
bonds, convertible into stock in said company, at any endorsed.
period within seven years after the date of their issue,
at the election of the bondholders. Provided, that no
stock shall be transferred at less than par value; and
said bonds shall be received in payment at their nominal
val te; and on all such transfers being made, the bonds
shal e cancelled and returned to the clerk of the county
court of Sumner county, State of Tennessee. All trans-
fers made [under this section shall be made] by the afore-
said trustee of the county of Sumner.
WM. H. WISENER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
EDWIN POLK,
Speaker of the Senate.
Passed, December 20, 1853.
CHAPTER CXCV.
AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Memphis.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Tennessee, That all that district of country
contained within the following limits, to-wit: Beginning
at a point in the middle of the Mississippi river, due
west of the point where Bayo Gayoso strikes Wolf riv-
er; thence due east to that point on Wolf river; thence
with the northern bank of the Bayo Gayoso to the point
where Auction street ettended crosses the same ; thence
with the Raleigh road to the avenue east of the Town
Reserve; thence south with the east line of said ave-
nue, until the same strikes the east line of the South
Memphis tract of land; thence with the east line of
said tract to its south-east corner; thence west withthe
south line of the South Memphis tract, to the east line
of the Butler tract; thence to its south-east corner;
thence west with the south line of said tract, to the cen-
tre of the Mississippi river; thence with the meanders
of said river to the beginning point, (the Navy Yard](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactstn0177&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)