Acts of 1803 Chapter 74

Whereas at the last general assembly of this State, a considerable part of Wilson County was annexed to Davidson County; in consequence thereof, the said county of Wilson was deprived of its constitutional limits; for remedy whereof  

SECTION 1. That the bounds of Wilson county in future shall be as follows to wit:

Beginning one mile due south of the now south west corner of Wilson County; thence south sixty one and an half degrees east to the Indian boundary line; thence north east along the said Indian boundary line, to a point, from which north twenty three degrees west will intersect the Cumberland river, opposite the southeast corner of Sumner county; thence down the middle of the channel of said river to a point on the south bank of said river; from which a line running south twenty five degrees east will leave Thomas Watson's dwelling house sixty poles west of said line; continuing the same line south twenty five degrees east to a point that a line running south sixty one and a half degrees east will strike the beginning.  

SECTION 2. That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the sheriffs of Davidson and Smith counties from collecting all taxes or arrearages which may be due within the limits so added to Wilson county, in as full and ample a manner as if this act had not been passed.  

SECTION 3. That William Minor Quesenbury, be and he is hereby appointed commissioner to run and mark the lines which divides Wilson county from Davidson county, Rutherford county and Smith county; and he shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for each and every day he may be necessarily engaged in running said lines, and he is hereby authorized to employ two chain carriers and one marker who shall receive one dollar for each and every day they may be necessarily engaged in said business, to be paid by the treasurer of the county of Wilson out of any county money; whose receipts shall be good in the settlement of the accounts of said treasurer.  

SECTION 4. That all laws coming with the purview of this act be and they are hereby repealed.

Passed: October 25, 1803.