Maxey v. Powers

The general assembly of Tennessee April 15, 1903 (Acts 1903, p. 1220, c. 424), passed an act for the purpose of redistricting Knox county, the caption and body of which are as follows:

“An act to abolish certain districts of Knox county, Tennessee, to redistrict county, to regulate the manner of increasing the districts in the county hereafter, and to abolish the offices of justices of the peace and other district officers in the abolished districts.

“Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly *384of the State of Tennessee, that the second, fourth, fifth, ninth, twelfth, fourteenth,…