Law Enforcement - Historical Notes

Those acts once affecting Campbell County, which related to the militia and to other law enforcement agencies other than the sheriff, are mentioned below in chronological order.  Also referenced below are acts which repeal prior law without providing new substantive provisions.

1. Acts of 1807, Chapter 47, assigned Campbell County as the thirty-third regiment of the militia of the state which would make it also a part of the third brigade.
2. Acts of 1809, First Session Chapter 19, declared that the regiment of infantry of Campbell County shall hold a regimental muster at the town of Jacksborough in said county on the third Thursday in November, in each and every year.  Furthermore, regimental courts martial were held on the same day.
3. Acts of 1809, First Session, Chapter 89, amended the militia laws of the state.  The militia of Campbell county composed the thirty-third regiment and held regimental musters at the place of holding court.
4. Acts of 1815, Chapter 119, was a very lengthy act containing the whole military code for the State of Tennessee.  The act also cited the different organizational units of the state militia.  Campbell County was again assigned as the thirty-third regiment in the third brigade.
5. Public Acts of 1819, Chapter 68, revised and amended the militia law of the state.  The militia of Campbell County composed the thirty-third regiment and held a regimental muster on the fourth Saturday of October.
6. Public Acts of 1825, Chapter 69, was another military law for the state, giving the organizational structure of the militia.  Campbell County remained as the thirty-third regiment and would hold their regimental muster on the first Saturday of October every year until changed.
7. Public Acts of 1833, Chapter 63, Section 5, exempted the two companies commanded by captains Jefreys and Dunkin, in the second battalion of the thirty third regiment of infantry in the county of Campbell, from attending regimental musters.
8. Public Acts of 1835-36, Chapter 21, divided the militia of the state into companies, battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, and prescribed the times and modes of electing officers.  Campbell County was composed of the twenty-fifth regiment.
9. Acts of 1837-38, Chapter 157, Section 3, stated as a part of an amendment to the militia law that the fourth brigade in Campbell County shall have the county muster on the Tuesday and Wednesday following the first Friday and Saturday in September of each year.
10. Acts of 1839-40, Chapter 56, divided the militia of the state into companies, battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, and prescribed the times and modes of electing officers.  Campbell County composed the twenty-fifth regiment and placed in the fourth brigade.  The regimental musters for Campbell County were held on the second Thursday in October.
11. Public Acts of 1861, Chapter 1, was an overall militia law which divided the militia of the state into regiments and brigades.  The milita of Campbell County was placed in the twenty-fifth regiment which was in the sixth brigade.  The time of holding regimental musters was on the second Thursday in October.

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