Private Acts of 1835-36 Chapter 44

SECTION 1. That the dividing line between the counties of Robertson and Montgomery shall be a straight line.

SECTION 2. That Henry Johnson and George S. Wimberly shall be commissioners, whose duty it shall be to commence on the Sulphur fork of Red river, where the dividing line between said counties crosses the same, and to run and mark said line straight to the Kentucky line, so that the same shall be a straight line from the mouth of Sycamore creek to the Kentucky line.

SECTION 3. That said commissioners shall report to the county courts of the counties of Montgomery and Robertson, as early as practicable, the boundary so by them run; which shall be registered in each of said counties, and the same shall be the limits of said counties.

SECTION 4. That said commissioners be allowed the sum of four dollars per day, for every day they may be engaged in such service, to be paid by the county of Montgomery.

SECTION 5. That after the survey shall have been made by the commissioners herein named, that part now in the county of Robertson, from the point where it crosses the Sulphur fork creek to the Kentucky line, shall be and compose part of the county of Montgomery, and the citizens residing therein shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of other citizens of Montgomery county, and subject to the same pains and penalties thereof; Provided, that nothing in this act shall prevent the sheriffs, or any other officer in the county of Robertson from collecting their taxes, now due, from the citizens of that part of said county of Robertson stricken off by this act and attached to the county of Montgomery.

Passed: February 18, 1836.