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An Act to amend sections 2682, 2683, 2684, and 4765 of the Code, and for other purposes. 1861 38 (1861.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0231 and id is 1 raw text is: 38 CHAPTER 10. AN ACT to amend sections 0682, 2683, 2684, and 4765 of the Code, and forother purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That section 2638 of the Code of Tennessee be, and the same is hereby amended, to read as follows: On application of five credible persons, verified by their oath, and setting forth that they have cause to Insurrections. believe that a certain free white man, slave, or free negro, is engaged in, or advising, or aiding and abetting an in- surrectionary movement, or where any slave or free negro has been guilty of feloniously killing any free white per- son, the judge in the circuit or district in which such de- fendant is, shall forthwith open a court, empannel a grand jury, and proceed regularly to the trial of such person by indictment or presentment, as at a regular term of the court. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That the provision of the section hereinbefore amended, be, and the same is hereby extended to sections 2682, 2683, 2684, and also section 4765 of the Code of Tennessee, 'and that this act take effect from and after its passage. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That there may be at- tached to each regiment which now is, or may hereafter be in the service of the State, one chaplain, elected by the Caplains., regiment, and shall be entitled to such compensation as is now allowed by the laws of the United States. SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That section 11 of the act to raise, organize and equip a provisional force, and ArmyActamend- for other purposes, passed May 6th, 1861, be so amended ed. as to embrace the word banks after word individuals, in the last clause of said section. W. C. WHITTHORNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. L. STOVALL, Speaker of the Senate. Passed May 9, 1861.

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