Acts of 1903 Chapter 599

SECTION 1.  That there are hereby created and established for the county of Cumberland four civil districts in lieu of the thirteen civil districts now existing therein.

SECTION 2.  That the boundaries of said new civil districts shall be as follows:

First--The territory now embraced within the boundaries of the second and fifth civil districts shall be consolidated and shall hereafter be known as the first civil district.

Second--That the territory now embraced within the boundaries of the first, sixth, and thirteenth civil districts shall be consolidated and shall hereafter be known as the second civil district.

Third--That the territory now embraced within the boundaries of the third, fourth, eighth, and eleventh civil districts shall be consolidated and shall hereafter be known as the third civil district.

Fourth--That the territory now embraced in the seventh, ninth, tenth, and twelfth civil districts shall be combined and shall hereafter be known as the fourth civil district.

SECTION 3.  That all the various district officers, to wit:  Justices of the Peace, Constables, and Tax Assessors now holding offices in said county are hereby abolished, and the County Board of Election Commissioners shall call an election to be held according to law for the election of two Justices of the Peace, one Constable, and one Tax Assessor in all the new districts created, except in the first, wherein shall be elected three Justices of the Peace.  Said election shall be opened and held at the various voting precincts in said county on the 7th day of May 1903, and the present district officers in said county shall hold their offices until the officers herein provided for have been elected and qualified.

SECTION 4.  That the voting precincts in the various civil districts in said county shall remain as they now stand.

SECTION 5.  That this Act take effect from and after the 7th day of May, 1903, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  April 1, 1903.

COMPILER'S NOTE:  See State v. Hamby, 114 Tenn. 361, 84 S.W. 622 (1904), in which this Act was challenged.