Public Acts of 1977 Chapter 309

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

SECTION 1.  The boundary between McNairy County and Chester County is changed by detaching from the 17th Civil District of McNairy County and attaching to the 12th Civil District of Chester County certain lands belonging to Roy R. Whitten and his wife, Carol Dee Whitten, so that these lands will be located entirely within Chester County.  The lands to be included within Chester County consist of five (5) tracts described as follows:

TRACT 1:  Located partly in the Second (Old 17th) Civil District of McNairy County, Tennessee, and partly in the twelfth Civil District of Chester County, Tennessee.  BEGINNING at a rock an interior corner of the Brown tract of land; runs thence east 184 poles with Brown, Ferguson and McKenzie to a stake, small hickory pointer, a southwest corner of Gaddy; thence north with the west boundary line of Gaddy, crossing a County gravel road at 89 poles, in all 143 poles to a stake and black oak pointer in the south boundary line of Davidson; thence west with Davidson and Smith, crossing the said County gravel road at 45.5 poles, in all, 184 poles to a stake, the northeast corner of Holmes; thence south 143 poles with Holmes and Brown to the point of beginning, containing 164 acres, more or less.

TRACT 2:  Located in the Second (Old 17th) Civil District, McNairy County, Tennessee.  BEGINNING at a stake at the northeast corner of this tract; runs thence west 143 poles to a stake; thence south 54 poles to a stake with 3 black jack pointers; thence east 46 poles to a post oak and 2 Spanish oak pointers; thence south 30 poles to a stake and 3 post oak pointers; thence east 97 poles to a stake and 3 black jack pointers; thence north 84 poles to point of beginning, containing 61 acres, more or less, known as the J. F. Bray tract.

TRACT 3:  Located in the Second (Old 17th) Civil District, McNairy County, Tennessee.  BEGINNING at a point 88 poles west and 4 poles south of the mile tree that stands at the west corner of Range 4; runs thence west 113 poles to a stake; thence south 140 poles to a stake with oak pointers; thence east 113 poles to a black jack; thence north 140 poles to the point of beginning, containing 99 acres, more or less, known as the Spencer tract.

TRACT 4:  Located in the Second (Old 17th) Civil District, McNairy County, Tennessee.  BEING a triangular strip of land containing by estimation 2 acres, be the same more or less, being the northwest corner of a tract of land conveyed to J. A. McKenzie by J. E. Holdges and wife, Vina Holdges, by a deed of record in Deed Book 33, page 454, Register's Office of McNairy County, Tennessee, to which reference is made.  The two acres, more or less, herein and herewith conveyed is set apart from the main body of land conveyed by the above mentioned deed by a dirt road.  Said triangular tract of land is bounded on the north by the Second Tract of land above described known as the Bray tract; on the west by the Third tract of land above described known as the Spencer tract; and the same is bounded on its other side by said dirt road.

TRACT 5:  Located in the Second (Old 17th) Civil District, McNairy County, Tennessee, BEGINNING at a stake, the north corner of the Spencer tract (the Third tract above described;) runs thence west 114 poles to a hickory and post oak pointers; thence south 140 poles to a stake, black jack and chestnut pointers; thence east 114 poles to a stake, the southwest corner of the above mentioned Spencer tract; thence north 140 poles to the place of beginning, containing 100 acres, more or less.

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

Passed:  May 11, 1977.