Direct visual evidence for the start date of Tennessee’s manufacture prohibition. Use with the Motlow opinion to distinguish bill-stage amendment from final enacted law.
The typed effective-date wording was altered by hand. The final visible date is January 1, 1910. The 1911 Motlow opinion independently reproduces the same effective date in the enacted statute.
“This act shall take effect from and after January 1, 1910, the public welfare requiring it.”
Section IV; lower third of the one-sheet image
Section IV
Transcribed from the complete full-resolution archival image on 2026-09-01. The substituted date is handwritten; surrounding printed wording is legible.
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