{"id":113,"date":"2011-10-29T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:03:45","slug":"rhea-county-tn-private-acts-1815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/rhea-county-tn-private-acts-1815\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhea County, TN Private Acts: 1815"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Compiled by the County Technical Assistance Service<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NOTE: The CTAS compilation includes many acts which are not necessarily of interest to the family history researcher. Therefore, this page will list only those acts which involve county boundaries, boundary changes and acts which pertain to individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACTS OF 1815<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chapter 75, Page 77, stated that all that part of Rhea County lying north and east of the following described line, that is, beginning at White&#8217;s Creek near Matthew English&#8217;s saw mill, at the mouth of Crab Orchard Creek, thence running up said creek to the mouth of Burke&#8217;s Creek, thence a direct course to the new corner of Roane County, at the line of Overton County, is hereby declared to be and made a part of Roane County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chapter 31, Page 33, organized Tennessee into eight Presidential Electoral Districts, all composed of the same counties allocated to the Districts by the 1812, Act above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chapter 119, Page 127, was an entirely new militia law for the State saying that the militia shall be composed of free men and indentured servants between 18 and 45 years of age. There is a table of organization complete with the duties of each rank and a re-enactment of all rules and regulations pertinent to the orderly discharge of the functions of the units of the State and County militia including police work. The militia of Rhea County would compose the 30th Regiment. Each regiment consisted of two battalions, made up of companies of not less than 40 privates, 2 musicians, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, one captain, one lieutenant, and one ensign.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by the County Technical Assistance Service NOTE: The CTAS compilation includes many acts which are not necessarily of interest to the family history researcher. Therefore, this page will list only those acts which involve county boundaries, boundary changes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/rhea-county-tn-private-acts-1815\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}