Acts of 1879 Chapter 119

SECTION 1. That the County line between Blount and Sevier Counties be changed
as follows:
Beginning on the Blount and Sevier County line, near Millstone Gap in Bluff
Mountain; thence a direct line to Shook's Gap, in Bay's Mountain; thence with the top of said
Mountain, to the Sevier County line.
SECTION 2. That the County Surveyors of the Counties of Blount and Sevier,
together with J. R. Chandler and E. S. Thompson, of Sevier County, and Hugh Cox and
Andrew McTeer, of Blount County, are hereby appointed Commissioners to run and mark
said County line.
SECTION 3. That said Commissioners shall take an oath, before some Justice of the
Peace, that they will faithfully, honestly and impartially perform the duties of said
Commission; and they shall perform the duties above designated within six months after the
passage of this Act.
SECTION 4. That said Commissioner shall make two plats of the survey, and shall
accompany them with such report as may be necessary to explain said survey; and said plats
of survey shall be signed by the Commissioners, and one copy filed in the Register's office of
each County of Blount and Sevier, which shall be registered by the respective Registers
thereof.
SECTION 5. That the Commissioners shall mark the line on such standing timber,
with such fore and aft marks an side lines as they may deem necessary to make said line
plainly known; and said County Surveyors shall be paid the sum of three dollars per day--
while they are employed at said service, to be paid by their respective Counties.
SECTION 6. That the fractions of either of the above named Counties that may be
added to the other County by the change of the County line as above provided for, shall
continue to be liable for their pro rata of all debts contracted by their respective counties prior
to said change, and shall be entitled to their proportion of any stock or credits belonging to
the county from which said fractions are taken.
Passed: March 14, 1879.