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JOHN W. STEVENSON.
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furnish material for such ship or vessel, file in the office of the register of mesne conveyances of the county within which was the ship or vessel when the debt was contracted, a statement, sworn to, giving a true account of the demands claimed as due to him with all just credits, the name of the person who made the contract, and the name of the owner of the ship or vessel, and the same shall be recorded in a book for that purpose in the mesne conveyance office.


TENNESSEE.

The criminal law of Tennessee makes the person, breaking or entering into any freight or passenger car, barn or stable, by day or night, with intent to steal or commit a felony of any kind, guilty of burglary, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for from three to ten years.

All estates, real and personal, of illegitimates who are intestates, having no relative entitled to the same under existing laws, shall go to such persons on his or her mother's side, as would have been his or her heirs, had the intestates been legitimate, in such way and proportions, and under the same rules as is provided by existing laws of descent of real or personal property in Tennessee among legitimates who have no kin on the father's side.

Any private corporation, except railroad or turnpike companies, may mortgage its property and franchises, and a purchaser of the same under foreclosure sale, shall become the corporation invested with all its rights, powers, immunities, and obligations.

Process can be executed on Sunday, when it shall appear to the officer, that the parties to be sued are about leaving the county or state.

It shall be illegal for telegraph or telephone companies in Tennessee, to discriminate in the transmission of messages, or in the accommodations and facilities given to their patrons.

The act of 1883, providing for a railroad commission to regulate the operations of railroads is repealed.