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An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of this State. 1859-1860 108 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0212 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER 118. AN ACT to amend the Criminal Laws of this State. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That if any slave or slaves, or free person of color, wilfully and maliciously puts upon the track of any railroad in this State, any kind of obstruction, or loosens or removes any of the railroad timbers, or loosens, destroys Capital offence in . slave or free per. or injures any of the machinery, gear or apparatus of the son of color to locomotive or cars, or removes or changes any signal, so as obstruct rail- road to endanger the safe running of the locomotive and cars, or either or any of them, shall be guilty of a capital felony, and upon conviction of any such offence, shall suffer death * by hanging, as in other capital offences, under the laws of the State. W. C. WHITTHORNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TAZ. W. NEWMAN, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, March 23, 1860. CHAPTER 119. AN ACT to provide for enumerating the free white male inhabitants of the State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly or the State of Tennessee, That the several County Courts of this State shall, at the January term of said courts, in the year 1861, a majority of the Justices of the county being County Court to present, elect a Commissioner whose duty it shall be to take Cioner. and make out in writing an accurate and complete list of the number of freo white male inhabitants of their respec- tive counties, who are twenty-one years of age and upwards, who shall be resident citizens of their counties on the 1st day of January, 1861, and it shall be the duty of each of said Commissioners to return such list of free white male inhabitants so taken by them, as aforesaid, certified to the Clerk of the County Court, on the first Monday in July, 1861. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Clerks of the County Courts to make out an aggregate number of the free white

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