Public Acts of 1977 Chapter 311

COMPILER'S NOTE:  The following act is a public act of special application and is not codified in Tennessee Code Annotated.

SECTION 1.  The boundary between McNairy County and Chester County is changed by detaching from the 10th Civil District of McNairy County and attaching to the 3rd Civil District of Chester County certain lands belonging to R. A. Talley, Jr., Dossie Talley, and Eugene Morris so that these lands will be located entirely within Chester County.  The lands to be included within Chester County consist of three (3) tracts described as follows:

FIRST TRACT:  BEGINNING at a stake, the northwest corner of the A. G. Bishop land in the east boundary line of Davis; run thence east with said Bishop north line 96 poles to a stake; thence north 5° east 84 poles to a stake in the west boundary line of Bishop, the southeast corner of Howell; thence west with Howell and Plunk 102 poles to a stake; thence south with Plunk and Davis 84 poles to the beginning, containing 51 acres, more or less.

SECOND TRACT:  BEGINNING about 28 rods north of the northeast corner of tract number 1 and the northwest corner of the Bishop land; run thence south 87° east with Bishop's north line 193 poles to a stake in the west boundary line of Kelley, large black oak pointer; thence north 16 rods to a stake, the southeast corner of Shelton; thence north 87° west with Shelton's south line 63 ½ rods to a stake in the east margin of the Talley Store Road, large post oak pointer; thence north 85° west with Shelton, 40 rods to a stake and red oak pointer, this particular point is the southeast corner of Robertson place, as agreed by Robertson and Shelton; then north 78° west with Robertson 26 ½ rods, red oak and maple pointers, thence north 44° west 33 rods to a stake, black gum pointer; thence north 30° east 21 rods to a stake in the south margin of Talley Store Road; thence in a western direction with said road as follows:  thence north 75° west 8 rods; thence north 61° west 40 rods to a stake in the west margin at the intersection of the Sanford-Talley Store Road; thence south 10° west with the west margin of said Sanford Road 56 rods to a stake; thence south 25 rods to the beginning, containing 37 acres more or less.  Surveyed by Lester Cox, County Surveyor of McNairy County, Tennessee on December 8, 1952.

These are the identical two tracts of land coveyed [sic] to Dr. Ralph R. Braund and wife, Nancy Butler Braund by Ike A. Stone and wife, Grace Stone, on December 8, 1952, by Deed of General Warranty recorded in the Register's Office of Chester County, Tennessee, in Deed Book 47, Page 456.

THIRD TRACT:  BEGINNING at an iron stake with post oak pointer, the most northern northwest corner of Scott; thence south 47 rods to an iron stake; thence west 56 rods to an iron stake; thence south 14 rods to a stake; thence west 26 rods to a stake; thence south 15° west 49 rods to a ditch; thence north 76° west 8 rods; thence on west 30 rods with ditch to center of Tar Creek Canal; thence down said canal north 38° west 71 rods to the mouth of the Hutcherson ditch; thence south 58° west 12 rods with said ditch to a stake, a southeast corner of Davis; thence north 5° and 30' west 51 rods with Davis to a stake, maple pointer; thence west 5.3 rods to a stake on top of a bluff, Spanish oak pointer; thence north 54 rods to a stake, the southwest corner of the Stone land; thence east 96 rods to a stake, a southeast corner of Stone; thence north 5° east 86 rods with Stone in all 114 rods to the Sanford Road and the east boundary line of Howell, the southwest corner of tract number 2 of the Stone land; thence south 87° east 193 rods with the south boundary line of Stone to a stake in the west boundary line of Kelley, large black oak pointer; thence south 4° east 110 rods to a stake, thence south 43 rods to a stake, a northeast corner of Scott; thence west with Scott's north line 111.5 rods to the beginning, containing by estimation 313 acres, more or less.  A county public road runs east and west through the farm.

This is the identical tract of real estate conveyed to R. R. Braund and wife, Nancy Butler Braund, by Minnie Tedford Bishop and husband, A. G. Bishop, on December 16, 1952, by Deed of General Warranty recorded in the Register's Office of Chester County, Tennessee, in Deed Book 47, Page 458.

There is included in the first and second tracts above described and excluded from this conveyance 1.25 acres conveyed to W. Fred Chafin by R. R. Braund and wife, Evelyn Braund, on or about June 21, 1973, by Deed of General Warranty recorded in the Register's Office of Chester County, Tennessee, in Deed Book 61, Page 375, being more particularly bounded and described as follows, to-wit:

EXCLUSION:  BEGINNING on an iron stake in the east boundary line of Dr. Braund's Ike Stone tract number 1 and being 31 feet south of the northeast corner of the Stone tract; run thence with old fence and the east boundary line of Stone tract south 1° and 35' east 455 feet to a stake in the corner of old fence; run thence with a new line and garden fence south 89° and 14' west, 121 feet to a stake in the garden fence; run thence north 1° and 35' west 455 feet to an iron stake; run thence north 89° and 14' east 121 feet to the point of beginning, containing 1.25 acres, be the same, more or less.  This description was taken from a survey made by Charles W. Stumph, Sr., R.L.S., No. 128, dated April 9, 1973.

SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  May 11, 1977.