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Dyer County Court Clerk Minutes Dyer Co., TN Transcribed from microfilm, Vol. 1, Mar 1848-Apr 1856 Monday July 1st 1849 Be it Remembered that a County Court was begun and held for the County of Dyer State of Tennessee at the Court House in the Town of Dyersburg on the First Monday (it being the first day) of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty & in the Seventy-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America Present and holding said Court the Worshipfull THOMAS J. CONNELL Esquire Chairman, SAMUEL McDAVID, A. B. STALCUP, JOHN WYNNE, WILLIAM MILLER, ASA GRIFFIN, JOHN F. PETTIJOHN, JOSEPH N. PIERCE, BENJAMIN W. PERRY, JOHN B. PITTS, JOHN G. H. WILSON, HENRY P. STRAWN, SAMUEL WALKER & SILAS FERRELL, THOMAS NASH & HENRY WYNNE Esquires Justices of said Court WILLIAM A. DAWSON Sheriff of said County & JAMES H. DOYLE Clerk of said Court when the court proceeded to Business
This day a Petition from the citizens of the Town of Dyersburg praying that said Town be incorporated under the provisions of the Act of Assembly of 7th January 1850 (chapter 17) was presented to the court which is in the words and figures following, towit:
Your Petitioners, citizens of the Town of Dyersburg and owners of property in said Town, aware of the beneficial results of corporate bodies, and fearful that the peace and quiet of their Town cannot be effectually preserved without the aid of a corporation, pray your worshipful Court to grant to them, and their successors, the privilege of forming themselves into a body corporate and politic, which shall have perpetual succession under the name and style of the "Board of Aldermen of the Town of Dyersburg" (agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee passed on the 7th day of January A.D. 1850, entitled "An Act for the incorporation of the citizens of any town, city or village in the State of Tennessee who may desire it") and to have corporate powers, towit: [Lengthy description of Dyersburg here]... And your petitioners further pray that all such orders herein be made by your worshipful Court, as may be necessary to effect their object in conformity with the before-recited Statue, and make said corporation effectual and permanent, and they as in duty bound will ever pray &c Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee, July 1st Anno Domini 1850
Whereupon it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that these Petitioners are a large majority of the citizens and property holders in said Town of Dyersburg, which is in the County seat of Dyer County, and that both the desire and the welfare of the citizens of said Town and owners of property in the same imperatively demand that said Town should be incorporated by metes and bounds as set forth in their Petition. It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by this Court, (More than twelve Justices, legally commissioned and qualified and acting in and for the County of Dyer, being present and concurring herein) that the citizens within the limits set forth in the foregoing Petition, owners of property within those limits and their successors, be and they are hereby incorporated as a Town Corporate under the name and style of the "Board of Aldermen of the Town of Dyersburg" with all the powers and privileges enumerated in the Act of Assembly passed at the first Session of the Twenty-Eighth General Assembly of the State of Tennessee at Nashville on the 7th day of January 1850, authorizing the several County Court of the State to grant charters of incorporation &c. It is further ordered by this court that this order be certified in proper form by the Clerk of this Court to the Register for registration, and that a writ of Election be issued commanding the Sheriff of Dyer County to open and hold an Election in said Town, first giving five days notice as the Act requires, for seven Aldermen for said Town who shall be qualified as required by the aforesaid Act, and deliver to the seven candidates having the highest number of votes cirtificates of election.
Issued 3rd July 1850
Ordered by the Court that the Sheriff summon the following good and lawful men of the body of Dyer County to be and appear at the next Term of the Circuit Court of said County... on the First Monday in October then and there to serve as a venire at said Court, towit
This day HENRY P. STRAWN Administrator of HENRY REED JR. deceased returned into Court here an Account of sales of said Estate which was received by the Court and ordered to be recorded.
Ordered by the court that MANUEL TURNAGE be overseer of a Road have WILLIS REDDICK, CALVIN WILLIAMS, JOURDAN PERRY, in addition to the hands he already has...
Issued 3 July 1850 Ordered by the Court that GEORGE W. BETTIS, overseer of a Road have ROBERT JOHNSON's hands, JOHN M. PARKER, JOHN H. MOSS, ISAAC A. NUNN, WILLIAM B. FIELDS, JOHN ROBERTSON JR., JAMES T. VAIL, FRANCIS NUNN & JAMES FARMER, and that they be released from all other roads.
This day JOHN WYNNE was appointed Administrator of the Estate of MARY JANE ALSOBROOKS deceased . Whereupon said WYNNE came into open Court here together with WILLIAM A. DAWSON and GEORGE R. MULHERIN his securities...
Ordered by the Court that JAMES LEGGETT be Released from working on the Turnpike Road and work on the Jackson Road under DAVID KLUTTS.
Issued 3 July 1850 Ordered by the Court that JESSE CLARK be appointed overseer of the Michell Road ...
Ordered by the Court that WILLIAM M. BAILEY and ARCHIBALD HARRIS work hereafter on the Jackson Road under JOEL PEEL...
Ordered by the Court that HENRY BAILEY, JOHN T. MOORE and JAMES MOORE work hereafter on the [Blank] Road...
Issued 3rd July 1850 On a Motion to allow STEVENS, NORMENT & Co. Ten Dollars for lumber furnished to GEORGE W. HINKLE to repair Dyersburg Bridge...
Issued 3rd July 1850 On a motion to allow GEORGE W. HINKLE Eight dollars for repairing Dyersburg Bridge...
Issued 3rd July 1850 On a motion to allow JOSEPH N. PIERCE Twenty Dollars for Painting the County Court Clerk's Office...
Issued 3rd July 1850 This day ISAAC SAWYER, SAMUEL WALKER, and GEORGE R. HULHEREN was appointed Commissioners, to Superentend the improvement of the Trenton Road, west of Frost Old Mills...
Issued 3rd July 1850 On a Motion to allow JAMES H. DOYLE fifty one dollars & fifty cents for making out the Record Tax & Book Sheriff Tax Book and furnishing Blank Book for Shff Tax Book for the year 1850...
Issued 3rd July 1850 Ordered the by the Court that THOMAS J. CONNELL & SAMUEL McDAVID be appointed commissioners, to set out & superentend the repairing the Dyersburg Bridge &c.
Issued 3rd July 1850 Ordered by the Court that ALBERT G. FERGUSON, JAMES H. DOYLE and WILLIAM A. DAWSON, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to let out and superentend the Repairing of the Roof of the Court House...
Whereas, ISAAC SAWYER Administrator of the Estate of WILLIS FERRELL deceased, has suggested the Insolvency of his Intestated estate in writing under Oath...
Whereas ISAAC B. ALLEN has heretofore been appointed Guardian of the minor heirs of AQUILLA ALEXANDER, deceased, and whereas R. H. McGAUGHEY & CHARLES P. CLARK the securities on said ALLENs Guardian Bond did file their petition at the last May Term of this Court Praying to be released as the securities of said ALLEN and whereas there were an Order made by this Court on said ALLEN to appear here at the present Term of this Court & gave a new Bond or Show cause If any he had why he should not be removed as Guardian aforesaid and whereas said ALLEN has Refused & failed to appear as aforesaid It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed by this Court that the appointment of said ALLEN as Guardian of aforesaid be revoked and in all things set aside.
This day a settlement made by ISAAC SAWYER Administrator of WILLIAM B. WOMACK deceased with JAMES H. DOYLE Clerk of this court was produced in open Court & in all things confirmed by the Court and Ordered of Record.
This day JOHN WYNNE, STEPHEN KING and JOHN A. PHILLIPS, who were appointed at the last Term of this Court to lay off & set apart a years provisions for the widow & children of WILLIAM L. BRITTE, deceased, made their report which was received by the court & ordered of Record.
This day Z. B. PHILLIPS, who was duly and constitutionally elected Tax Collector, for the County of Dyer for the year 1850 at the last January term of this Court, came into court and entered into and acknowledged bond..., with J. H. DOYLE, D. J. WILLIAMSON & THOS. J. CONNELL his securities...
Ordered that Court adjourn till Court in course.
THOS. J. CONNELL, J.P.
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