Acts of 1855-56 Chapter 165

SECTION 1. That the County line of Union County, designated and established in section one, chapter two, of the act of 1853, be, and the same is hereby, altered as follows:-- Beginning on a poplar marked "D," on the top of Chestnut Ridge, where the line runs by Armstrong intersects the dividing line between Knox and Anderson; then running south fifty-six degrees, east one mile and one hundred and twenty poles to Bull Run Creek; then north three eighths of a mile, passing Levi George's, leaving him in Knox County; then south, forty-five degrees, east to Bull Run Creek; then down the creek to a point where it is intersected by the line running south, fifty-six degrees east; then south seventy degrees, east including Joseph McHaffee, in Union County, one and a half miles to the road leading from C. B. Hansard's to Knoxville; then north forty-five degrees, east one mile and three-eights to a stake on the north side of Bull Run Creek, in Parrick George's farm; then north seventy-five degrees, east two miles to a white oak, about forty poles north of David Hawkins', leaving him in Knox County; then south fortyfive degrees east seven-eighths of a mile to a stake on the top of a spur; then south seventy degrees, east three-fourths of a mile to an oak in a field on the top of Copper Ridge; then by the shortest course to the line known as the Big Survey Line; then following the said line to the line of Grainger County, so as to include C. Cox, Edward West, Jacob Mittenberger, and John Cox, but no other person, on the south side of Copper Ridge; then with the line of Grainger County to the line of Union county; and the said County is declared to be organized with the boundary designated in the act of 1853, chapter two, section one, except the alteration herein made.

SEC. 2. That the proceedings of the County Court, and the official acts of the several County officers of Union County are hereby declared to be legal and valid, to the same extent as similar proceedings and official acts of the County Courts and County officers of other Counties under previously existing laws.

SEC. 3. That the several County officers of said County, and their official securities shall be held liable upon the respective official bonds for official misconduct, or default for all revenues, taxes, or privileges, and for registration of deeds and other moneys in the same manner, and to the same extent, as similar officers in other Counties under existing laws.

SEC. 4. That the several Justices of the Peace resident within the limits of Union County, elected and commissioned, as Justices from either of the Counties from which the said County of Union was composed, are hereby declared to be Justices of the Peace for Union County in their respective civil districts, and they shall continue in office as such Justices of said County until the expiration of their respective official commissions, except in cases or removal, resignation, or death; and the present County officers shall hold and exercise the functions of their respective offices until the next regular election, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

SEC. 6. This section did not apply to Union County.
Passed: January 23, 1856.