Acts of 1823 Chapter 114

SECTION 1. That a new county, to be called and known by the name of Obion County, be, and is hereby, established, and shall be bounded as follows: beginning on the north-west corner of a county already laid off west of Henry County, running thence south with the west line of said bounds, to the fifth sectional line in the thirteenth district; thence west with said sectional line, to the middle of the Mississippi river; thence up the main channel of said river, to the northwest corner of the state; thence east with the north boundary line of the state, to the beginning.

SECTION 2. That for the due administration of justice, the courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, and circuit courts, for said county, shall be holden at the house of William M. Wilson.

Passed: October 24, 1823.