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Acts of 1801 Chapter 51

SECTION 1. That from and after the passing of this act the bounds and limits of Montgomery County shall be as follows, viz. Beginning one hundred and fifty yards east of Captain Joseph Woolfork's house, on the Sulphur fork, thence east to a point twelve and a half miles east of the meridian of the court house in the town of Clarksville, thence south to the point twenty-five miles south of the Kentucky line, thence west to the Indian boundary line, thence with said boundary line to the Kentucky line aforesaid, thence with said line east to a point from which a due south course will strike the beginning.

SECTION 2. That Henry Johnson and Benjamin Weekley, or either of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to run and mark the lines which shall divide Montgomery from Robertson County, who shall be allowed the sum of two dollars per day each, and the chain carrier and market one dollar per day each, for every day they shall be necessarily employed in running said lines, to be paid by the county of Montgomery.

Passed: October 29, 1801.

COMPILER'S NOTE: Because of the condition of the original act some portions that were illegible were omitted