Public Acts of 1975 Chapter 141

COMPILER'S NOTE:  The following act is a public act of special application and is not codified in Tennessee Code Annotated.

SECTION 1.  The line between the counties of Chester and McNairy be, and the same is, hereby changed by detaching from the county of McNairy and attaching to the county of Chester all of the hereinafter described territory:

Five tracts or parcels of land now lying in close proximity to the Chester and McNairy County line, and more particularly described as follows:

The Pugh Property, to wit:

Beginning on an iron pin, the original southeast corner of Mrs. Pearl Anderson's tract and the original southeast corner of the 17-34/100 acre tract of which this is a part; runs thence west with the north line of E. E. Brooks 94-6/100 poles to a stake in the center of the Milledgeville-Center Point gravel road; runs thence north with the center thereof 318 feet to the southern margin of an intersecting gravel road that runs in a northeastern direction through the bottom land of the northernmost part of said 17-34/100 acre tract, runs thence in an eastern direction to the original eastern line of said 17-34/100 acre tract, at a point 14.51 poles south of the original northeast corner of said 17-34/100 acre tract in the western line of Freeman and at the southeast corner of a parcel thereof, runs thence south with the western line of the said Freeman 14.51 poles to the place beginning, this being a part and a parcel and the southernmost part of a tract of real estate conveyed on August 17, 1927, by C. A. Anderson and wife, Pearl Anderson, by deed recorded in Deed Book 34, page 107, Register's Office of Chester County, Tennessee.

SECOND TRACT:  Beginning at a stake in the center of the Milledgeville Center Point Gravel road at the original northwest corner of the tract of land of which this is a part; red oak and white oak pointers; runs thence east with the southern line of Mrs. Pearl Anderson 92-4/100ths poles to a stake; runs thence south with the western line of Freeman 14.51 poles to a stake; runs thence west to a stake in the center of said Milledgeville-Center Point gravel road passing just south and with the south margin of an intersecting gravel road that runs in a northeastern direction through the bottom land of this tract; runs thence north with the center of said Milledgeville-Center Point Gravel Road 211 feet to the place of beginning, including and excluding about ½ acre, conveyed to Willie D. Davis, this being the northernmost part and a parcel of a tract of real estate conveyed on August 17, 1927, by C. A. Anderson and wife, Pearl Anderson, by deed recorded in Deed Book 34, page 107, Register's Office of Chester County, Tennessee.

The Bethune property, to wit:

FIRST TRACT:  Beginning at a point in the center of the Milledgeville-Center Point gravel road at the northwest corner of Willie Davis; runs thence with the center of a small ditch north 87 degrees and 40 minutes east 1521 feet to a stake on the south side of a short gravel road in an old wire fence, the northeast corner of Howard Pugh and in the west boundary line of C. R. Freeman, gum pointers; runs thence with the west boundary line of Freeman and with an old fence north 3 degrees and 40 minutes west crossing said short gravel road at 64 feet, in all 418 feet to a stake in a small branch, 2 gums and 1 ash pointers, the northwest corner of C. R. Freeman; runs thence with the north boundary line of Freeman and an old fence and ditch north 76 degrees and 40 minutes east 750 feet to the mouth of a new ditch; thence north 89 degrees east 664 feet to a stake at an old snag, sweet gum pointers, the southwest corner of V. C. Pugh in the north boundary line of C. R. Freeman; runs thence with the west boundary line of Pugh north 0 degrees and 25 minutes east 1300 feet to a stake in the center of Middleton's canal; thence with the center of said canal north 43 degrees and 20 minutes west 245 feet to a stake in the center of said canal the southeast corner of Albert Blackstock, gum and poplar pointers; thence with an old creek run and its meanders south 55 degrees and 10 minutes west 146 feet; south 44 degrees and 20 minutes west 134 feet; south 43 degrees and 20 minutes west 350 feet; south 85 degrees west 380 feet; north 29 degrees east 87 feet; north 58 degrees and 10 minutes east 157 feet; north 44 degrees and 50 minutes east 117 feet; north 1 degree and 12 minutes west 82 feet; north 84 degrees and 48 minutes west 160 feet; north 4 degrees and 55 minutes west 31 feet; north 23 degrees and 52 minutes east 78 feet; north 33 degrees west 82 feet; north 80 degrees and 10 minutes west 323 feet to a stake in the center of an old creek run near the mouth of a small ditch; thence with said ditch south 89 degrees and 40 minutes west 210 feet to a stake in an old hedge row; thence with said hedge row south 86 degrees west 255 feet; thence with a turn row north 81 degrees and 15 minutes west 1188 feet to a stake in a large ditch with willow pointers near the corners of Albert Blackstock and Gordon Mitchell; thence with the center of a large ditch and with its meanderings north 55 degrees east 63 feet; south 61 degrees and 30 minutes west 800 feet to a stake in the center of a ditch and the center of a bridge over the old Milledgeville-Center Point Road, an inside corner of Mrs. Emma Harwell; thence with the center of the Old Milledgeville-Center Point gravel road south 26 degrees and 30 minutes east 1285 feet; south 16 degrees and 20 minutes east 140 feet; south 9 degrees and 34 minutes east 600 feet; south 3 degrees and 24 minutes east 184 feet to the place of beginning, containing 137 ½ acres, be the same more or less.

The Davis property, to wit:

Beginning in the center of the Milledgeville and Center Point road and on the south side of a road running from the above road to the Cagle place east of said road, thence east 3.6 chains with the south side of the Cagle Road to a stake, thence north .65 chains to a stake, thence west 3.6 chains to a stake in the center of said Milledgeville and Center Point road, thence south 1.65 chains with said Milledgeville and Center Point road to the beginning, and containing .59 acre more or less.

and the Brooks property, to wit:

Beginning at a stake it being a corner of the Isaac Crowder old place.  Stake and post oak pointers thence runs east 184 ½ poles to a rock, it being A. T. Johnson corner, thence north with said A. T. Johnson and V. T. Cagle line 75 poles to the C. A. Anderson land, thence west with said Anderson line 108 poles to a stake, thence south 33 poles to a post oak, thence west 34 poles to a stake thence north 30 poles to a stake and hickory pointers, thence west 48 poles to a stake, thence south 72 poles to the beginning, containing by estimation, 73 acres or the same more or less.

SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect on becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  May 5, 1975.