Records of the states of the United States of America [electronic resource] : reel 4. A microfilm compilation / prepared by the Library of Congress in Association with the University of North Carolina ; collected and edited under the direction of…

Abstract: Includes Public and Private Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee from 1835 to 1836. Includes acts incorporating the towns of Clinton, Dover, Dyersburg, Lexington, Rogersville, and others. For example, Chapter CV, the act incorporating Trenton, states, "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the town of Trenton in the county of Gibson, and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the style and name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Trenton, and shall have perpetual succession, and by their corporate name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive, purchase and hold real, personal and mixed estate, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said town and for that purpose alone, and may have a town seal... Passed December 4, 1835."