of the other members of the Commission shall be three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, and the salary of the Secretary shall be two thousand ($2,000) per annum, payable quarterly out of the State treasury on the warrant of the Comptroller" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "That salary of the Chairman of the Railroad Commission shall be four thousand and six hundred dollars ($4,600) per annum, and the salaries of each of the other members of the Commission shall be four thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum, and the salary of the Secretary shall be two thousand ($2,000) per annum, payable monthly out of the State treasury on a warrant of the Comptroller."
SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
ANDREW L. TODD, Speaker of the Senate.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved February 17, 1919.
AN ACT to repeal an Act entitled "A Bill to be entitled an Act to abolish the death penalty, except in case of rape and convicts serving life terms in State penitentiary as punishment for crime and to substitute therefor the punishment of imprisonment for life," being Chapter 181 of the Public Acts of the General Assembly of 1915, commonly called the Bowers Law.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Chapter 181 of the Public Acts of 1915 entitled "A Bill to be entitled