Private Acts of 1823 Chapter 108

SECTION 6.  That a new county, to be called and known by the name of Dyer County, be and the same is hereby established on the west side of the Tennessee River, and shall be bounded as follows, to wit:  beginning at the north-west corner of the first county west of Carroll county, running thence south with the first range line, to the south boundary of the thirteenth district; thence west with the district line, to the western boundary of this state; thence on said western boundary, to the fifth sectional line; thence east with the said line, to the beginning.

SECTION 7.  That for the due administration of justice, the courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions shall be held at the house of John Warrens, in said county, on the fourth Mondays in December, March, June, and September; the circuit courts shall be held at the same place, on the first Mondays of June and December, until otherwise provided for by law.

SECTION 8.  That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of said county, on the first Thursday and Friday of February next, to open and hold an election for field officers in the regiment of militia in said county, which shall compose the regiment and be attached to the brigade, and said election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as are by law provided in similar cases.

Passed:  October 16, 1823.

COMPILER'S NOTE:  The other sections of this Act did not concern Dyer County and are not repeated here.