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Public Acts of 1973 Chapter 102

COMPILER'S NOTE:  Although this is a public act rather than a private one, its provisions have special effect and cannot be found in Tennessee Code Annotated.

SECTION 1.  The tracts of lands, hereunder described, are shown on the tax rolls of Greene and Washington Counties as being divided between the 17th Civil District of Greene County and the 7th Civil District of Washington County after historically being entirely within the 7th Civil District of Washington County and are removed from Greene County into the 7th Civil District of Washington County.

The county line between Greene and Washington Counties at this place shall hereafter run with the boundaries of said tracts so as to exclude said lands from Greene County and include the same in Washington County.  The tracts of land are generally bounded and described as follows:

TRACT NO. 1.  Lying and being in the 7th Civil District of Washington County, Tennessee adjoining the lands of Moody, Hall, Hooper and Duncan and bounded as follows:

BEGINNING in center of branch below spring, running N 45½ W 14 and 20/25 poles to a stake; thence S. 52 W 4½ poles to a set stone; thence N 46 W 5 and 5/25 poles to a stake; thence S 71 W 3 and 20/25 poles to a stake; thence N 30 W 18 and 10/25 poles to a stake in the road; thence S 62 W 20 and 19/25 poles to a set stone, Bolens Corner; thence S 52 E 11 poles to a stake; thence S 57 W 11 poles to a stake; thence N 39 W 11½ poles to the center of the road; thence S 63 W 94½ poles to a stake Moody's corner; thence S 3 E 87 poles to a set stone Moody's and Hall's corner; thence with Hall's line S 85 E 74 poles to a stake near a white oak stump; thence S 3 W 56 poles to a set stone; thence N 87 E 10½ poles to a stake in the Greene County Line, thence with County line N 5 E 153 poles to Duncan's corner; thence S 76 E 27 poles to corner of Graveyard; thence S 74 E 14 and 5/25 poles to a set stone by the road; thence N 18 E 54 poles to the beginning, containing eighty four acres more or less.  Being the same property conveyed to Alvin Dolen and wife, Theora Dolen, by deed of J. E. Nelms and wife Nora B. Nelms, dated July 5, 1919, and appears of record in Deed Book 143, page 252, Register's Office in Washington County.

TRACT NO. 2.  Situate in District No. 7 of Washington County, Tennessee:  BEGINNING at a stake in the road near a large Hickory tree, thence N. 59 ¾ E 11 poles to a stake in the road.  Thence S. 30 ¼ E. 11 poles to a stake.  Thence 59 ¾ W. 11 poles to a stake; thence N. 30 ¼ W. 11 poles to the beginning and containing by estimation three fourths of an acre more or less.  Being the same property conveyed to Alvin Dolen and wife, T. O. Dolen, by deed of J. E. Barnes and wife, Pearl Barnes, dated July 23, 1920 and appears of record in Deed Book 152, Page 245, Register's Office of Washington County.

TRACT NO. 3.  Situated in the 7th Civil District of Washington County, Tennessee, and described as follows:

BEGINNING in old line between Dolen and J.E. Duncan running N W 65 feet to the Greene Co. line, then with the Greene Co. line 143 feet to a post and rock in said Greene Co. line then N E 148 feet to the beginning corner in line between Dolen and J. E. Duncan.  Being the same property conveyed to Alvin Dolen and wife, by deed of John E. Duncan and wife, Grace Duncan, dated April 4, 1918 and appears of record in Deed Book 143, Page 251, Register's Office of Washington County.

SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect on becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  April 17, 1973.