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Private Acts of 1941 Chapter 401

SECTION 1. That there are hereby created in Van Buren County five Civil Districts as follows:

The First Civil District shall be composed of the old Seventh District.
The Second Civil District shall be composed of the old Second and Third Civil Districts.
The Third Civil District shall be composed of the old Fourth Civil District.
The Fourth Civil District shall be composed of the old Fifth and Eighth Civil Districts.
The Fifth Civil District shall be composed of the old First and Sixth Civil Districts.

SECTION 2. That said Districts shall so remain until changed by the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee.

SECTION 3. That all election precincts now established in said County shall continue and shall be legal election precincts in and for the several Districts of said County herein and hereby established in which said precincts shall be established until changed by lawful authority.

SECTION 4. That in all new districts created by this Act thereby creating a vacancy in the office of Justice of the Peace, that the persons set out below are hereby designated as Justices of the Peace to serve until the next regular election in August, 1942, at which time their successors shall be elected.

First District: C. E. Sims and G. W. Grissom.
Second District: Tom Cole and L. C. Hodges, Chairman.
Third District: W. C. Davis and Ben Dewese.
Fourth District: C. R. Safley and Brady Roberts.
Fifth District: M. C. Hitchcock and Jim Grissom.

SECTION 5. That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this Act shall be held or declared to be unconstitutional and void, it shall not affect the remaining part or parts of this Act, it being hereby declared to be the legislative intent to have passed the remainder of this Act, notwithstanding the part so held to be invalid, if any.

SECTION 6. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed: February 7, 1941