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TN-1855 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
Descriptors: Appropriations; Arrest; Clarksville,
TN; Columbia, TN; Courts; Davidson County,
TN; Emancipation; Fees; Free Negroes; Free
persons of color; Gallatin, TN; Hickman County
Iron Co.; Hiring of slaves; Importation of slaves;
Imprisonment; Incorporation of cities and towns;
Incorporation of companies; Inheritance; Iron
industry; Jefferson County, TN; Montgomery
County, TN; Nashville, TN; Negroes; Patrols;
Peddlers; Robertson County, TN; Sales of slaves;
Stewart County, TN; Sumner County, TN;
Taxation; Town charters; Carter, James (free
person of color); Children, Miles (free person of
color); Crouse, Alexander (free person of color);
Crouse, Bob (free person of color); Crouse, Jacob
(free person of color); Crouse, Lizzy (free person
of color); Crouse, Reynolds (free person of
color); Crouse, Susan (free person of color);
Crouse, Violet (free person of color); Elias
(slave); George (colored boy); Gillespie, Mrs.;
Isham (slave); Johnson, William (free person of
color); Mitchell, James; Morrison, C. H.; Woods,
David (free person of color); Woods, Dewit (free
person of color); Woods, Plummer (free person
of color); Woods, Rachel (free person of color)
TN-1857
Contains:
18• An Act to punish burning by slaves, [pp.
18-19]
41• An Act in relation to the assessment and
taxes on hired slaves, [pp. 50-51]
45• An Act providing for the voluntary
enslavement of free persons of color in this
State, [pp. 55-56]
67• An Act to secure medical fees under
certain circumstances, [pp. 78-79]
86• An Act to amend the law in relation to
the punishment of slaves, [pp. 94-95]
94• An Act to amend an act requiring the sale
of land and slaves to be advertised in a
newspaper, [pp. 105-106]
50• An Act to amend the charter of the city
of Knoxville, and to incorporate the town of
Manchester, in Coffee county; to amend the
charter of the city of Memphis; to amend the
charter of the town of McMinnville, and to
amend the second section of an act passed
February 28,1856, chapter 133, entitled, An
act to provide for the election of a justice of
the peace in the town of Rome. [pp. 103,
109-110, 112]
306 State Slavery Statutes
80• An Act to establish a Mayor's Court in
the towns of Shelbyville, Lebanon, and
Fayette ville, and to amend the charter of the
city of Memphis; and to give the Mayor and
aldermen of the town of Jonesboro certain
powers, [pp. 183-185]
85• An Act to incorporate the town of
Goodletsville, the town of Smithville, the
town of Bellbuckle, the town of Wartrace,
and for other purposes, [pp. 191, 193-194,
197]
131• An Act to keep up Public Roads by
taxation, in Lauderdale county, and for
other purposes, [pp. 328, 331-332]
151• An Act to defray the expenses of the
General Assembly of the State of Tennes-
see, with the Report of the Committee on
Finance, [pp. 360-361, 363]
6• Joint Resolution passed by the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee,
Adopted February 10, 1858. [pp. 423-425]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Arrest; Arson;
Capital punishment; Coffee County, TN; Courts;
Davidson County, TN; Free Negroes; Free
persons of color; Goodletsville, TN; Highways
and roads; Hiring of slaves; Incorporation of
cities and towns; Insurrection; Kansas-Nebraska
Act; Lauderdale County, TN; Manchester, TN;
Drugs and medicine; Missouri Compromise;
Murder; Negroes; Patrols; Sales of slaves;
Shelbyville, TN; Taxation; Voluntary enslave-
ment; George (colored boy)
TN-1859
Contains:
29• An Act to amend Sec. 563, paragraph 3
of the Code of Tennessee, [p. 26]
39• An Act to amend the Road Law. [pp.
30-31]
60• An Act to amend Section 2145, of the
Code. [p. 46]
61• An Act to amend Section 3338 of the
Code. [p. 47]
70• An Act to amend Sections 567, 568, 569
and 570 of the Code. [pp. 53-54]
118• An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of
this State, [p. 108]
126• An Act to regulate Tippling and
Tippling Houses, [p. 116]