Private Acts of 1949 Chapter 789

COMPILER'S NOTE: See also Private Acts of 1961, Chapter 8, immediately following this act, and which is amendatory to it.

WHEREAS, the existing Districts of Johnson County, Tennessee, were laid out by Commissioners appointed pursuant to Chapter 1, Public Acts of 1836; and,

WHEREAS, the Fifth Civil District of Johnson County, Tennessee, is being, to a large extent, inundated by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watauga Lake; and,

WHEREAS, the Town of Butler, Tennessee, which was the principal center of population in the District, has been abolished and the population thereof entirely removed;

SECTION 1. That the part of the Fifth Civil District of Johnson County, Tennessee, lying North of the center of the bed of Roans Creek as it meanders from East to West through the old Fifth Civil District and lying West of the center of the bed of Doe Creek as it meanders from North to South through the old Fifth Civil District to Roans Creek be and the same is hereby attached to, incorporated in and made a part of the Sixth Civil District of said Johnson County, Tennessee, the boundaries of which are hereby enlarged so as to encompass all of said old Fifth Civil district lying North of the center of the bed of Roans Creek and West of the center of the bed of Doe Creek.

SECTION 2. That all of the old Fifth Civil District of Johnson County, Tennessee, lying East of the center of the bed of Doe Creek as it meanders from North to South to Roans Creek and all of the old Fifth Civil District of Johnson County, Tennessee, lying South of the center of the bed of Roans Creek as it meanders from East to West through the old Fifth Civil District, whether East or West of Wautauga River, be and the same is hereby attached to, incorporated in and made a part of the old Tenth Civil District of said County, hereinafter renumbered the Fifth Civil District, the boundaries of which are hereby enlarged so as to encompass all of said Fifth Civil District lying East of the center of the bed of said Doe Creek and South of the center of the bed of said Roans Creek, whether East or West of Wautauga River.

SECTION 3. That the present Fifth Civil District is abolished and the present Tenth Civil District, as enlarged, is renumbered Civil District No. 5.

SECTION 4. That the officers elected from and for Civil Districts Six and Ten, herein renumbered Five, shall continue to serve as the officers of these Districts as extended and regardless of the renumbering thereof, it being the expressed intent of the Legislature that no change shall be effected by this Act, with regard to this matter, other than the abolition of the old Fifth Civil District and the addition of the territory formerly embraced in the old Fifth Civil District to the adjacent Sixth Civil District and Tenth Civil district, renumbered Civil District No. 5.

SECTION 5. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: April 13, 1949.