Public Acts of 1899 Chapter 256

SECTION 1. That the county line between the counties of Knox and Sevier be, and the same is hereby, so changed as to include in the county of Knox all the land in the fourteenth district of Sevier county, which belongs to H. C. Blair and wife, J. G. Cannon, E. W. Houseley, J. N. McMillin, Rufus Kelly, Lula J. Walker, S. G. Randles, and J. W. Creswell, and the county line is so changed as to run with French Broad river from the point where the Knox county line comes to said river, near the house of Alex Ferguson, a southwest course to a point where the line of said county again comes to said river, near the butt of Bois mountain.

But this act shall in no way effect the right of Sevier county to collect all taxes due on said land, prior to and including the taxes of 1899.

SECTION 2. That this act take effect from and after passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: April 14, 1899.