The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-04

Dat Of fractions Of driiager and Jsasnon soan-
ties, bat no line II such ncW soanty shall lneluda
any part Of 0raingsr county noFtA Of Holaton
River, nor ahall any liue thereof approach the
eouFi hsuie Of Jsaerson county nearer than alsT-
On miles; sugh new county may inelado any other
terTiton which u not ekeladed By any general
provisions Of tha Constitution, out Of freedoms Of
Jackson and OTort0n counties, bat no lineo { such
new county shall approach the court housa Of
Jackaon OF Overton eountiss nearer than ten
miles, nor shall such county contain hSs than four
hundred qualified yoiers nor shalt the srs. Of
either Of the old counties b reduced below four
hundred and any square milal. Out Of fractions
Of Roans, Monroe and Blouat counties, around
tho town Of Loudon, but no line Of such new
county shall every approach the towns Of Mary
vile, Kingston OF Madisonville nearer than eleven
miles, except that on tho south side Of the Ten
nsssee River, said lines may approach a. near a
ten milea to the court house Of Roane county.
The counties Of LAWS heathAm aud Bsquatehie
10, as now established by legislative enaeeuanta,
are herebJ declared 10 DO constitutional eOun,iss.
No part q Bledsoe county shall DO taken to form
a new county, ora part thereof, or attached 10
any adjoining county.
That portion Of Marion county insladed within
tho following boundaries, to-Wit; Beginning on
the Grundy and Marion county line, At the Nick
a jack fnee, and running about six hundred
yArds ives, Of Ben Poseys', to where the Tennessee
Coal Railroad crosses the line. running thsnes
southeast through the Pockai, near William sum.
mer's, crossing the Battle Crook Gulf At the cor
ner Of Thomas WoOten's field, thence running
across the Little GiEEard Gulf at Raven Point
thence i9a direct hno'tn tha bridge crossing IN,
Big Fiery Gizsard. thence In a direct line TO tn
mouth Of Holy Water Creek, thence up said creol
to the Grundy county line, and thence with ,aic
line 10 tho beginning, Is hereby detashsd from
Marion county aud attached 10 the county oil
Grundy.
No part Of a county shall DO taken of to form
a new county, or a part thereof without the son,
sent or two thirds Of tho qualified votsss In such
part taken Of. And where an old county Is 70.
duced tor the purpose Of forming a new one, The
seat Of justice in said old county shall not DO re.
moved without the concurrence Of tUo-thirds OIL
both branches Of the Legislature, nor shall thu
seat Of justice Of any county DO removed without
the concurrence Of two thirds Of the qualified vo-
ters Of tho county. But the foregoing provision
requiring a two thirds majority Of the voters Of
county TO removed Its county seat, shall not apply
to the counties of 0blon and Cooke.
Ths fractions taken from old counties to form
now counties, or taken from one county and adds;
to another, shall continue liable for their pro rats
Of all debts contracted by their respective eouu
ties prior to tho separation, and DO entitleiit,
thor proportion Of any stocks or credits belong
ing to such old counties.
SEc. 5. The citizens who may be ineladsd II
any new county shall VSts with the county o.
counties from which thoy may have bson stricken
of, for members Of Congress, for Governor, an
for members Of the General Assembly antl lh
next upportionmont Of members to the Genera
Assembly after the establishment Of sueA nsI
sounty.
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