Acts of 1809 Chapter 42

Whereas the people who reside near to the lower end of Robertson County, and in the upper end of Montgomery, labor under inconveniences in discharging their public duties and dues, owing to the distance they have to go to attend elections, and general and battalion musters, and present uncertainty of the line between said counties; and dissatisfied with the manner in which said line has been directed to be run, as a dividing line between said counties, it being a crooked one: To remedy which,

SECTION 1. That Joseph Woolfolk, Esquire, of Montgomery County, be, and he hereby is appointed a commissioner for the purpose of running and plainly marking a line, beginning at a point, twelve and a half miles due east of the meridian of Clarksville, which point is a corner of an offset in the present line near Capt. James Blackwell's on Parson's Creek, thence a direct course to a point on the south bank of the Sulphur fork of Red river about mid way between the dwelling houses of Maj. James Norfleet and Cordall Norfleet, thence down Sulphur fork, with its meanders, to the point where the present line of the county now crosses the river, thence with said line, due north, to the Kentucky line; which line when run, shall be the true dividing line between the aforesaid counties of Robertson and Montgomery; and such persons as are or may be found to reside west of said line shall, from and after the running of said line, be considered as inhabitants of Montgomery, and those on the east thereof, to belong to the county of Robertson, any other or former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SECTION 2. That the sheriff of Robertson county shall be, and hereby is, authorized to collect the state and county taxes due from those who had returned their tax bill in said county, who will, by the running of said line, be found to be added to the county of Montgomery, as effectually as if this act had not been passed.

SECTION 3. That the said Joseph Woolfolk shall be allowed the sum of three dollars per day for each day he may be necessarily engaged in running said line, and that the person marking the same shall be allowed per day the sum of one dollar for each and every day he may be necessarily engaged in marking the same, to be paid by order of the county court of Montgomery out of any county monies.

SECTION 4. That it shall be the duty of said Joseph Woolfolk, to make out two fair plats of said line and return one to the clerks of each of the counties of Robertson and Montgomery, who shall record the same in their offices respectively; for the recording of which each clerk shall be allowed the sum of fifty cents.

COMPILER'S NOTE: Sections 5 and 6 concerned only Montgomery County and are not repeated here.

Passed: November 8, 1809.