An act respecting dollars and cents, and contracts, and the manner of keeping accounts, so far as respects the currency in which contracts shall be made and accounts kept. Passed January 5th, 1799.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all judgments and verdicts in courts of record, and by justices of peace out of court, shall be rendered in dollars and cents, or such parts thereof as the nature of the case may require; and all executions thereon and all bills of costs shall issue accordingly.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That from and after the first day of January, One thousand eight hundred, all accounts shall be kept, and contracts made where money is stipulated for, in dollars and cents, or such parts thereof as the nature of the case may require; and all accounts kept or contracts entered into, where money is stipulated for, other than is by this act directed, shall be void and not recoverable by law.
By an act passed October 23, 1799, the second section of the foregoing act was suspended “until the next stated General Assembly.” At the next general assembly, November 10, 1801, this second section was again suspended “until the next stated General Assembly.” At the next succeeding general assembly, October 25, 1803, the following act was passed:
Chap. 60. An Act to repeal part [italics mine] of the second section of an Act entitled An Act respecting dollars and cents, contracts and the manner of keeping accounts, passed January the fifth, 1799.
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That so much of the second section of the above recited Act that requires all accounts kept or contracts entered into, where money is stipulated for, other than are by said Act directed, shall be void and not recoverable by law, is hereby repealed, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, except as respects accounts kept by merchants, physicians and innkeepers [italics mine].
2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall be in force after the first day of September next.
October 3, 1805, another act, of one section only, was passed, as follows:
An Act to repeal the second section of an Act respecting dollars and cents, accounts, contracts, &c.
Be it enacted, That the second section of the before recited Act, passed on the fifth day of January, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, be and the same is hereby repealed, anything to the contrary notwithstanding.