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Acts of 1851-52 Chapter 221

COMPILER’S NOTE: This is the only section which affected Knox County. The remaining sections of this act have been intentionally omitted.

SECTION 1. That the line between the counties of Grainger and Knox, be altered and changed in the following manner: Beginning on a flat-rock, a corner of the two counties, some five or six hundred yards above Sebinah Mynatt’s house, towards and on the side of Clinch Mountain; thence running so as to include the Smith Mynatt houses, now owned by James Cannon, in the county of Knox; thence a direct line to Silas Mynatt’s house at the head of Crooked Run; thence a due west to the original county line, including Hardin W. Mynatt’s house, Preston Mynatt’s house, James Cannon’s Plantation, Preston Mitchel’s plantation, all in the county of Knox.

Passed: February 21, 1852.