Acts of 1875 Chapter 140

SECTION 1.  That the county line between the counties of Hamblen and Jefferson be changed as follows, to wit:  Beginning at a point in the center of the Dandridge and Greeneville dirt road, eleven miles, by measurement, along the same from the Jefferson County Court House; then running south-eastwardly as nearly parallel with the present county line between said two (2) counties as practicable, so as not to approach nearer than eleven miles of the Jefferson County Court House, until it strikes the Cocke county line; then beginning again at said point first mentioned and running a direct line so as to never come within less than eleven miles of the said Jefferson County Court House, until said line strikes the C.C.G. & C.R.R.; then running a north-westwardly course along the southwest side of said railroad, thirty feet from the center of same, until the line strikes the present line between the counties of Jefferson and Hamblen; also, provided, that if there be any expense incurred in changing said county line between Jefferson and Hamblen, the citizens living in that part of the county so attached to Hamblen county, shall be required to pay the same, and in default thereof the county of Hamblen shall pay the expenses of same.

Passed:  March 24, 1875.