1. Acts of 1801, chapter 5, page 34, provided for the inspection of certain commodities held out for public sale by inspectors who were to be employed and trained for that purpose. Among the commodities to bear inspection before sale were pork, beef, lard, butter, hemp, and host of others. Inspection points and warehouses for storage were named in each county. In Anderson County, the warehouse would be located at the mouth of Powell's River at Grantsborough.

2. Acts of 1801, chapter 80, page 180, appointed James Grant, William Hancock, Sr., Edward Scott, Jenkins Whiteside, Charles Lee Bird, Walter Evans, and Shadrach Reedy, as commissioners for the town of Grantsborough in Anderson County. The commissioners were to assume the regulation and management of the town, and they were declared to be trustees and directors for designing, building, and improving the city. The commissioners were required to file a plan of the layout of the town, to keep the streets in good order and repair, and to do all other acts calculated to improve the locale.

3. Acts of 1805, chapter 73, page 79, designated and appointed Hugh Helton, Benjamin C Parker, John Lieb, and John Lynch as commissioners for the town of Burrville in Anderson County who would act in concert with former commissioners of that city, who were still residents thereof, to regulate and manage the town and its affairs. The remaining commissioners would fill any vacancy occurring.

4. Acts of 1806, chapter 44, page 163, named Arthur Crozier, Benjamin C Parker, Hugh Barton, John Lieb, John Lynch, Lewis Harmon, and Stephen Heard, as commissioners for the city of Burrville in addition to all others previously named, all of whom would have the same power and authority as the others.

5. Acts of 1807, chapter 65, page 111, recited in the preamble that it appeared that the surveyor who was appointed by the commissioners to lay out the city of Burrville had made a mistake in running and laying out the town as the same had appeared from an experiment, inasmuch as several buildings would be located on the streets if this course were to be run, this act provided that the streets, alleys, and lots would stand and remain as they were all originally plotted and described.

6. Acts of 1809, chapter 46, page 61, changed the name of the town of Burrville to Clinton which would hereafter be known by that name any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.

7. Acts of 1813, chapter 11, page 15, authorized the acting commissioners of the city of Clinton to execute deeds to purchasers, who had not received them, of lots in the said town of Clinton which deeds would be good and valid in law as if the former commissioners had made the conveyances, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

8. Acts of 1817, chapter 24, page 26, was the legal authority for the commissioners appointed to build the courthouse in Clinton to demand from the commissioners of the town all the money in their hands obtained from the sale of lots in the town. If the commissioners of the town failed, or refused, to comply, a suit at law could be filed against them. The courthouse commissioners were required to use the money only for that purpose. The courthouse commissioners could, upon advertising, sell the logs and other materials contained in the old courthouse to the highest bidder for cash which was also directed to the construction cost of the new courthouse.

9. Acts of 1819, chapter 145, page 172, made it lawful for the Quarterly Court of Anderson County, a mojority of the Justices being present, to order and direct that any county monies, not otherwise appropriated, to be applied to the payment of whatever expense would be necessary to finish and complete the new courthouse.

10. Acts of 1824, chapter 99, page 97, repealed the former act which allowed the county court to levy a tax to build a courthouse, prison, and stocks in the county.

11. Acts of 1826, chapter 56, page 52, allowed the county court of Anderson county to lay a tax, not to exceed the amount of the state tax, to secure the necessary land and erect the essential building to accomodate the poor people of the county. The court could appoint three commissioners to supervise the program and the operation of the facilities once they were completed. The commissioners must be sworn in office and bonded and the court was authorized to expend whatever funds were available for the benefit of the indigent poor.

12. Acts of 1826, chapter 130, page 112, was the legal authority for Charles McCormick, of Anderson county, to hawk and peddle goods, wares, and merchandise in Anderson county without having to obtain a license to do so.

13. Acts of 1827, chapter 90, page 69, allowed Isaac Miller and Lewis Miller to build a mill on the Clinch River in Anderson County on the south side of the river immediately below Cloud's Ford and near the place where William Nelson now lives. If the mill did interfere with the navigation of the river, a civil suit for remedy would lie.

14. Acts of 1827, chapter 112, page 88, revived and restored the act which authorized the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Anderson County to build a house for the accomodation of the poor and to levy a tax for that purpose to the same active status as if it had never been out and the provisions of the act were made permanent. It was the duty of the court to appoint a commsiion of three people to supervise the building and the operations. Vacancies on the commission would be filled by the court, and the commission was empowered to change the regulations as need might arise. The superintendent of the facility could draw from the treasury such monies as had been appropriated for that purpose as the need for them occurred.

15. Acts of 1831, chapter 191, page 147, released and dischrged Larkin H Bowling of Anderson County, from the payment of $125.00 which was the amount of a judgement rendered against him as an appearance bondsmen for a certain Edward Williams. The jusgement was rendered against him by the cirucit court of Anderson County, provided, however, that Bowling made oath he had not received anything of value from Williams for making the bond.

16. Acts of 1831, chapter 233, page 193, declared that it had been represented to the general assembly that Thomas Butler, William Butler, James Gilreath, and Merriman Rector were dredging for salt in Morgan County, therefore, to encourage such activities, the above named people were given the authority to enter upon lands in the vicinity of the salt wells in the three counties of Morgan, Roane, and Anderson. Land thus entered and used was exempted from taxation for the next fifteen years.

17. Acts of 1833, chapter 208, page 113, was the authority for John O'Neal, of Anderson County, to hawk and peddle goods in Anderson County without a license provided he made oath that the goods sold were his own and that they were being sold for the benefit of himself and his family.

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