Private Acts of 1937 Chapter 512

SECTION 1. That Chapter No. 542 of the Private Acts of 1911, which is entitled "An Act to create and establish five Civil Districts in the County of Scott in lieu of fourteen Civil Districts as therein now existing and to define the boundary of same," be and the same is hereby amended so as to establish and fix the boundary lines between the Third and Fifth Civil Districts of said Scott County as created by Section 2 of said Act as follows:

Beginning on the west bank of New River in the Old Second District line above or up the River from the Junction of Paint Rock Creek with New River at the eastern line of what was formerly the John B. Jeffers lands around the mouth of said Paint Rock Creek and now Paint Rock Coal Company lands; and thence running northwardly with the eastern boundaries of said lands and the lands of Abraham Strunk so as to include them in the present Third District of said county, to the County Pike Road leading from Winona in the Fifth District over the hill to Huntsville in the Third; thence westwardly with said Winona County road to State Highway No. 63 and the Cross Roads, near the top of the Paint Rock hill and west of the Richard Crowley residence; thence crossing said State Highway and running with the County Pike Road leading by the Annadel School house 30 poles to a stake and stone, thence east 40 poles to the old District line near the Allen McDonald old place in the flats between Paint Rock and Buffalo Creeks; and with said old district line, north twenty (20) degrees west two and three fourths (2 3/4) miles to a sugar tree and black oak on a branch near the Gilbert Smith residence and old place, passing east of the lands of Henry Byrd, A. K. Byrd and Frank Chambers near the Annadel School so as to continue them in the Third District. And so as to contain the lands of John Botts in the Fifth Civil District of said County.

SECTION 2. That the lands and territory east of said lines set out in Section 1, hereof extending northwardly from New River, shall be and constitute part of the Fifth District and that the lands of territory west thereof shall be and constitute part of the Third District of said Scott County.

SECTION 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be and the same are repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: May 10, 1937.