Private Acts of 1821 Chapter 125

SECTION 1.  That David B. Carns, Joseph Ury, Hugh Ross, Dawsey R. Hudson and Benjamin Hudson, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners with full power and authority to employ a surveyor, out of their own body or any other person, as they or a majority of them may think proper, and employ two chain carriers, and have the lines of Humphreys county run out and marked agreeable to the before recited act, beginning at the north east corner of Humphreys county near David Wells', and runs west to the mouth of White Oak creek, crossing Tennessee river, and still running west four miles and a half, thence south forty-five degrees west ten miles and a half, thence south so far that an east course will give Humphreys county six hundred and twenty-five square miles; also to calculate and take into Humphreys county that part of the head of White Oak, that was taken off from Dickson County in the year 1809 and added to Humphreys county.

SECTION 2.  That said commissioners and chain carriers, before they enter upon the duties of their office, shall taken an oath before some justice of the peace in said county, to run and mark the lines of Humphreys county, agreeable to the before recited act to the best of their skill and judgment, and said commissioners shall proceed to the duties of their appointment as soon as convenient, and the county court of said county are hereby authorized to pay said commissioners, surveyor and chain carriers, such sums as said court may deem a sufficient compensation for their services required of them by this act, out of any monies belonging to said county, not otherwise appropriated.

Passed:  October 27, 1821.