Acts of 1853 - 54 Chapter 130

COMPILER’S NOTE: Sections 3 and 4 of this act are the only sections which affect Hawkins County.

SEC. 3.  That the dividing line between the counties of Jefferson and Hawkins be changed as follows:  Beginning at or near George Lynch’s on the line between said counties of Jefferson and Hawkins; running with said line to the Walnut gap; from thence a direct line to the north-east boundary line of Pleasant Kirkpatrick’s plantation, and with said line till it strikes the road leading from Russellville to Bull’s Gap; and with said road till it strikes the county line of Greene and Hawkins, below Bull’s Gap.

SEC. 4.  That the persons and property included in the fraction of Jefferson, lying north-east of said line, as described in the first section of this act, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of the citizens of Hawkins, and subject to all the duties thereof; and the act passed February 7, 16, 1852, entitled “an act to change the line between the counties of Jefferson and Hawkins, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed:  January 31, 1854.