Act of 1806

An ACT TO INCORPORATE THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF NASHVILLE IN THE COUNTY OF DAVIDSON.

ACTS

Passed at the

Second Session

of the

Sixth General Assembly

of the

State of Tennessee

Began and held at Knoxville on Monday the twenty-

eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred

and six.

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Knoxville

Printed for

Elizabeth Roulstone

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1806

[J. B. Hood, Printer]

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C H A P. XXX111.

An ACT TO INCORPORATE THE INHABITANTS OF THE
TOWN OF NASHVILLE IN THE COUNTY OF DAVIDSON.

Whereas it is found by experience the	Preamble.
good order, health, peace and safety of
growing towns cannot be preserved, nor the
evils and accidents to which they are sub-
ject, avoided or remedied, without an internal
power competent to establish a police and
regulation fitted to their particular cir-
cumstances, wants and exigencies, Therefore:

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEM-	Incorporated,
BLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, That	&c.
the town of Nashville, in the county of David-
son, and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, by
the name of the Mayor and Alderman of the town
of Nashville, and shall have perpetual success-
ion, and by their corporate name may sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive,
purchase and hold, real, personal and mixed
property, or dispose of the same for the bene-
fit of said town, and may have and use a town
seal.

Sec. 2. BE IT ENACTED, That the corporation	To pass laws
aforesaid, shall have full power and authority	&c.
to enact and pass such laws and ordinances nec-
essary to preserve the health of the town, pre-
vent and remove nuisances, to establish night
watches or patroles, to ascertain, when necess-
ary, the boundary and location of streets, lots,
and alleys, to establish new streets, lanes
and alleys, with the consent of the proprieters
of the lots or houses adjoining such streets,
lanes and alleys; to provide for licensing and
regulating auctions; to restrain and prohibit
gaming, and to provide for licensing, regulat-
ing, or restraining theatrical or other public

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amusements within the town; to pave and keep
in repair the streets, and to pass all regu-
lations necessary for the same; to establish
necessary inspections within the town, to	To keep
erect and regulate markets, to appoint a	streets in
recorder and high constable, to provide for	repair.
the licensing and regulation a fire company,
the sweeping of chimnies, by the neglect of
which the safety of the town may be endangered;
to establish and regulate fire wards, and fire	To establish
companies; to erect and regulate pumps on the	a fire com-
public square, streets, lanes, alleys, or	pany.
convey water from the vicinity into the town,
to impose and appropriate fines, penalties
and forfeitures for the breach of their bye
laws or ordinances; to lay and collect taxes
for carrying the necessary measures into opera-
tion for the benefit of the said town; to regul-
ate and restrain tipling houses, and pass all
laws and ordinances, necessary to carry the
intent and meaning of this act in effect;
PROVIDED, They are not incompatible with
the constitution and laws of this state.

Sec. 3 BE IT ENACTED, That the laws and	On whom the
Ordinances of said corporation shall be in	laws shall be
no wise obligatory upon the persons or prop-	binding
erty of non-residents of said town, being
citizens of this state, unless in case of
intentional violation of bye laws or ordin-
ances, previously promualgated.

Sec. 4 BE IT ENACTED, That all fines, pen-	How fines
alties, and forfeitures imposed by the laws and	&c. recover-
ordinances of said corporation , if not exceed-	able.
ing fifty dollars, shall be recovered before
a single magistrate; and if exceeding that sum,
then to be recovered by action of debt, in the
county court of Davidson, in the name of the
Corporation, and for the use of the town.

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Sec. 5. BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the	Mayor and
duty of the sheriff of Davidson county, to hold	alderman
an election at the court house in said town,	to be elected.
on the first day of October in each and every
year, for the purpose of electing a mayor and
six aldermen for said town, who shall continue
as such for one year, and no longer, unless they
be re-elected; and no person shall be eligible
to the appointment of mayor and alderman, un-
less he be a citizen and free-holder of said
town; nor shall any person be entitled to vote
at said election, but the citizens of said town,
and such as possess real property within the
same.

Sec. 6 BE IT ENACTED, That all laws and	Laws appoint-
parts of laws appointing commissioners for the	ing commiss-
regulations of the town of Nashville, be, and	ioners re-
the same are hereby repealed, and that this	pealed.
act shall commence and be in feree form and
after the passage thereof.

ROBERT C. FOSTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOSEPH M'MINN
Speaker of the Senate

September 11th, 1806.

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Public Chapter XXXIII of the 1806 Public Acts.
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Published February 11, 2006

NOTICE: This page transcribed and formatted by Debie Cox from a photocopy from Public Chapter XXXIII of the 1806 Public Acts, obtained from the Tennessee State Library and Archives.