Acts of 1903 Chapter 1

COMPILER’S NOTE:  Acts of 1903, Chapter 1 should be read in conjunction with Acts of 1907, Chapter 282 which follows this act.

SECTION 1.  That the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Civil Districts of Hawkins County, be and the same are hereby abolished.

SEC. 2.  That the territory heretofore embraced in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Civil Districts of said County be and the same is hereby attached to the First Civil District of said County; that the territory heretofore embraced in the Eleventh Civil District of said County be and the same is hereby attached to the Twelfth Civil District of said County, and said District as herein constituted shall hereafter be known and nominated as the Second Civil District of said County; that the territory heretofore embraced in the Second, Thirteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Civil Districts of said County be and the same is hereby attached to the Third Civil Districts of said County; that the territory heretofore contained in the boundaries of said Tenth Civil District of said county be and the same is hereby attached to the Twentieth Civil District of said County, and the District as herein constituted shall hereafter be known, numbered and nominated as the Fourth Civil District of said County; that the territory heretofore embraced in the Fourth and Eighteenth Civil Districts of said County be and the same is hereby attached to the Eighth Civil District of said county, and the District as herein constituted shall hereafter be known, numbered and nominated the Fifth Civil District of said County; that the territory heretofore contained in the boundaries of the Fifth and Sixteenth Civil Districts of said County be and the same is hereby attached to the Sixth Civil District of said County; that the territory heretofore embraced in the Ninth Civil District of said County be and the same is hereby attached to the Seventh Civil District of said County.

SEC. 3.  That the wards or voting places of said County remain as they now are or as the County Court of said County may hereafter fix the same, except the voting places of the former Thirteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Civil Districts of said County, which are hereby abolished; and the voters in the territory formerly known as the Twentieth Civil District of said County shall hereafter cast their votes at the Court House in Rogersville, heretofore known as the voting place of the Tenth Civil District; and the voters in the territory heretofore composing the Thirteenth and Nineteenth Civil Districts of said County shall cast their votes at the voting place in what was formerly the Second Civil District of said County; but no Civil Districts in excess of the seven Districts hereby established shall be created out of any of the territory of said County, unless authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee.

SEC. 4.  That from and after the passage of this Act the offices of the Justices of the Peace and all other Civil District officers in the Districts abolished by this Act shall cease to exist, and the Justices and other officers in the Districts herein abolished shall turn over and deliver to the Justices of the Peace and other officers not affected by this Act, all books, papers and documents pertaining to their respective offices; and that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  January 27, 1903.