Acts of 1805 Chapter 67

SECTION 1. That the county of Smith shall be reduced to constitutional limits, viz. six hundred and twenty-five square miles, and bounded as follows: by Sumner and Wilson counties on the west; by the northern boundary of the state on the north; by a parallel with the upper boundary of Sumner county, to Cumberland river, and from thence a parallel line with the upper boundary line of Wilson county, to the Indian boundary line, and with the same south, forty-five degrees west to the south east corner of Wilson county.

SECTION 2. That Willis Jones, and Lee Sullivan, are hereby appointed with power, both or either of them, to ascertain by actual survey the eastern boundary of said county, to the Indian boundary, and that said surveyors shall have power to employ two chain-carriers, and two markers, and shall cause the upper boundary of Smith county to be well marked, and shall cause the upper boundary of Smith county to be well marked, and all that part of the county of Smith, after being reduced as aforesaid, lying east of the upper boundary of said county, ascertained as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby annexed to the county of Jackson.

SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the sheriff of Smith county to collect the taxes in all that part of the county of Smith now annexed to the county of Jackson, for the present year, together with all arrearages of taxes due the county of Smith, in the same manner, and under the same rules and restrictions as if this act had never been passed, and that all expenses incurred in ascertaining and marking said lines, shall be paid by the said counties of Smith and Jackson, that is to say, each county to pay one half the expenses: And that said surveyors shall each be allowed two dollars for each day they may be necessarily employees in running said lines as aforesaid, and each chain carrier and marker shall be allowed one dollar for each day they may be employed as aforesaid; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Passed: October 28th, 1805.