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Private Acts of 1955 Chapter 199

SECTION 1. That Chapter 86 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1870 entitled, "An Act to Establish the Probate Court of Shelby County," and all Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same is hereby amended to provide and include the following:

"The Probate Court of Shelby County shall not have jurisdiction of causes arising under the Tennessee Workmen's Compensation Law, except causes on which petitions have been filled [sic] in said Court prior to the effect date of this Act."

SECTION 2. That Chapter 180 of the Private Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1935 be and the same hereby is repealed.

SECTION 3. That this Act shall become effective when the same shall have been approved by the Quarterly County Court of any County Court of any County to which it may apply by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of said Court, such approval to be made by said Court within sixty (60) days after the sine die adjournment of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1955, the public welfare requiring its becoming effective at that time, and not before such approval. The approval or non-approval of this Act by said Quarterly County Court to the Secretary of State.

Passed: March 3, 1955.