Private Acts of 1822 Chapter 109

SECTION 1. That all that part of the county of Lincoln be, and the same is hereby attached to the county of Bedford, (to wit) Beginning at the eastern height of the main ridge, west of Samuel Mc'Cullock's the present county line; thence running eastwardly along a road on the extreme height of a ridge dividing two small branches of the east fork of Mulberry creek, which line to continue until it will include the plantation of Jonathan Floyd; then running east of north until it will strike the present county line between the plantation of John Adkins and Lewis Martin.

SECTION 2. That the persons who are stricken off from Lincoln county and attached to Bedford county, shall be at an equal expense of running of said line.

SECTION 3. That the county courts of Bedford and Lincoln shall, at their first courts after the first of January next, or some other term thereafter appoint some competent person as a commissioner and surveyor to run and mark said line between said counties; and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the sheriff or any officer of Lincoln county from collecting any arrearages of tax or other dues which may be necessary for them to collect and now in suit.

Passed: August 20, 1822.