Acts of 1903 Chapter 94

SECTION 1.  That the First Civil District, the Fourth Civil District, the Fifth Civil District, the Seventh Civil District, the Tenth Civil District, the Twelfth Civil District, the Thirteenth Civil District and the Sixteenth Civil District of Claiborne County, as the same have heretofore and up to this time been constituted and existed, be and are hereby abolished.

SEC. 2.  That the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the First Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Fifteenth Civil District of said county, and that the said combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Ninth Civil District of said county; that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Thirteenth Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Second Civil District of said county, and that the said combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Seventh Civil District of said county; that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Fourth Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Third Civil District of said county, and that the said combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Sixth Civil District of said county; that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Fifth Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Sixth Civil District of said county, and that the said combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Fifth Civil District of said county; that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Seventh Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Ninth Civil District of said county, and that the said combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Fourth Civil District of said county; that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Tenth Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Eleventh Civil District of said county, and that the combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Third Civil District of said county; that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Twelfth Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Fourteenth Civil District of said county, and that the combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the Second Civil District of said county; and that the territory heretofore and up to this time embraced in the Sixteenth Civil District of said county, be and the same is hereby attached to what has heretofore and up to this time been the Ninth Civil District of said county, and that the combined territory be hereafter known and nominated the First Civil District of said county.

SEC. 3.  That no civil district in excess of the number of eight hereby created and 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 this date the offices of Justices of the Peace and of all other civil district officers in the districts hereby abolished, shall cease to exist; that all the officers in the districts hereby abolished shall turn over to the officers of the new districts all the books, papers and records appertaining to their offices in the abolished districts, and that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  February 6, 1903.