PROCLAMATION
By Newton Cannon, Governor of the State of Tennessee.
WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly supplemental to an act entitled an act to establish a new County of the name of Cannon, to be composed of parts of the counties of Warren, Rutherford and Smith," passed February 19th 1836, it is made the duty of the Surveyor of Sumner Ct'y. or some other good surveyor of that county, to be selected by the Senator and Representatives of Sumner County, to run and mark the dividing line between the counties of Wilson and Cannon, agreeably to the provisions aforesaid act, and return a fair plat thereof to the Governor, who is thereupon required to issue his proclamation to that effect: Now, therefore, I, Newton Cannon, Governor as aforesaid, do hereby declare, make known and proclaim, that Thomas Anderson, late surveyor of Sumner County, selected as aforesaid, has returned to me a fair plat of the line run, and marked by him dividing the counties of Wilson and Cannon, beginning at a double lynn, a corner between Wilson and Rutherford Counties, standing on the eastern point of a spur of the ridge which divides the waters of Stones river and Smith's Fork, running thence N 80 degrees East to the Smith County line. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed, at Nashville, the 19th day of December 1836. Newton Cannon By the Governor, Luke Lea, Secretary of State |