Private Acts of 1923 Chapter 485

SECTION 1.  That an additional Civil District, to be known as the Ninth Civil District in Hawkins County, Tennessee, is hereby created from a part of the Seventh Civil District of Hawkins County, said new, or Ninth Civil District bounded as follows:

Beginning on north bank of Holston River at corner to Clay’s and Owen’s farms; thence down north bank of said river to corner of Flanagan’s and Hord’s farms, on said north bank of said Holston River; thence north with Hord’s line to southwest corner of Anderson and Neil Housewrights’s line; thence east with said Housewright’s line to H. E. Richardson’s line; thence with said Richardson’s and Housewright’s line to the road near the old Ike Myers’ house; thence east with said road to the road leading from Church Hill to Carter’s Valley road; thence northeast with this road to forks of road leading to Joe Calhoun’s place and said forks of road being near house of Rosanah Cooper; thence east with road leading by Calhoun’s place to forks of road near James Loyd’s house; thence south with road leading by Mack Loyd’s of corner of D.S. Mann’s and the Thompson Loyd place; thence east with said line of Mann’s and Loyd’s to Pearce Messick’s line; thence with Mann’s and Messick’s line to Mack Loyd’s corner; thence east to the northeast corner of W.R. Montgomery’s farm in Francisco’s line; thence south with Montgomery’s and Francisco’s line to Mrs. Owens’ corner; thence with Owen’s east line to the beginning.

SEC. 2.  That Election Commissioners for Hawkins County shall, within four months after the passage of this Act, call an election for the purpose of electing for the Ninth Civil District of Hawkins County, Tennessee, two Justices of the Peace and one Constable, who shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, and that the expenses of said election shall be borne and paid by the county as such elections are now provided for by existing laws, and Church Hill is hereby designated as the point to hold elections in said Ninth Civil District.

SEC. 3.  That the election law, known as the Dortch Law, which now applies to Hawkins County, shall apply to the district herein created, and that any law or part of law in conflict with this Section is hereby repealed as to this section, and that the Dortch Law shall apply to all of the districts in Hawkins County, including this one.

SEC. 4.  That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  March 29, 1923.