Public Acts of 1821 Chapter 32

COMPILER'S NOTE:  Only those sections of the act which apply to Carroll County are reproduced below.

[SECTIONS 1 AND 2 OMITTED].

SECTION 3.  That all the territory included in the lines hereafter mentioned shall constitute a county by the name of Carroll county:  Beginning on West boundary of Humphreys at the the (sic) south east corner of Henry county; running thence west with the south boundary of said county to the south west corner of Henry county; thence south parallel with the range lines to a point two and a half miles south of the line dividing the 9th and 12th districts; thence east parallel with the sectional line to the second range line in the 9th district; thence north to the north east corner or range 2, section 11, in said 9th district; thence east with the district line to the west boundary of Perry county; thence northwardly with the west boundary of Perry and Humphreys counties to the beginning.

[SECTIONS 4-9 OMITTED].

SECTION 10.  That for the due administration of justice, the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in said counties shall be held at the following places & times:  For the county of Henry, at the house of Henry Wall, on the first Monday in December, March, June and September; for the county of Carroll, on the second Monday in December, March, June and September, at the house of R.E.C. Doherty; for the county of Madison, at the house of Adam R. Alexander, on the third Monday in December, March, June and September; for the county of Henderson, at the house of Samuel Wilson, on the fourth Monday in December, March, June and September; at which places the said courts shall be holden until otherwise provided for by law, under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, and shall exercise the same power and jurisdiction that is possessed by said courts in other counties of this state.

SECTION 11.  That the sheriffs of the counties of Henry, Carroll, Madison and Henderson shall each hold an election at the places appointed for holding courts in said counties on the first Friday and Saturday in March next, for the purpose of electing field officers of the militia for said counties, under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as are pointed out by law in similar cases; and the militia of the county of Henry shall compose the ______ Regiment, and shall be attached to the _______ Brigade; and the militia of the county of Carroll shall compose the _______ Regiment and be attached as aforesaid; and the militia of the county of Madison shall compose the ______ Regiment, and be attached as aforesaid; and the militia of the county of Henderson shall compose the _______ Regiment, and be attached as aforesaid.

SECTION 12.  That it shall be the duty of the commandants of said ______ and _______ Regiments, having first been commissioned and sworn according to law, to divide their regiments into such number of companies as they shall think best for the convenience of said companies and it shall be the duty of each of said commandants to issue writs of election for company officers according to law.

[SECTION 13 OMITTED].

November 7, 1821.

COMPILER'S NOTE:  Section 10 of Private Acts of 1821, Chapter 201 (reproduced on the following page), corrects an error in the boundary description of Carroll County which appeared in Public Acts of 1821, Chapter 32, above.