Public Acts of 1873 Chapter 70

SECTION 1. That the County line between the Counties of Union and Grainger, be so changed, that all citizens of Grainger County, designated by the following boundary, be and they are hereby attached to Union County, to-wit: Beginning on the corner between Union and Grainger Counties, thence east so as to include Pryor Dyer's farm in Union County; thence with the lines of Union County to a white oak corner between James Dyer and E. W. Popejoy and J. J. Sellers; thence east 89 poles to a rock corner between J. J. Sellers and E. W. Popejoy; thence due north to Clinch river.

SEC. 2. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to include any livers in Union County except J. W. Sellers, Pryor Dyer, James Vitetoe and E. D. Hill, the petitioners for the change mentioned in the preceding section, nor to reduce Grainger County below its constitutional limit, nor bring the line thus designated nearer the Court House of Grainger County than eleven miles.

SEC. 3. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed March 21, 1873.