Acts of 1843-44 Chapter 173

SECTION 1. That the following alteration is hereby made in the lines between the counties of Wilson and Cannon, that is to say: Beginning where the line between Wilson and Cannon counties passes through John Richardson's field, running north one half mile including the house where Joseph Moore now lives; thence north eighty degrees east parallel with the county line four miles; thence south fifty degrees east until it strikes the county line including Joseph H. Boyle; thence with the present county line to the beginning; and the line so run is hereby established as the true line between said counties; Provided, said alteration of the foregoing line, shall not reduce the county of Wilson below the constitutional limits in regard to territory; provided further, that a majority of the voters stricken off from the county of Wilson, shall be in favor of said alteration.  

SECTION 2. That the citizens living in the territory stricken from the county of Wilson by the first section of this act, if they desire said alteration, employ a competent surveyor to run and mark said alteration at their own expense; and it shall be the duty of said surveyor to make two plain plats of the same, and return one to the county court of Wilson, and the other to the county court of Cannon county, to be filed with the clerks of said county courts; said surveyor shall also report to the county court of Wilson county, whether said alteration will reduce Wilson county below her constitutional limits.

Passed: January 27, 1844.