 County Formation in Acts of Tennessee > Shelby County   "An Act
to form and establish a new county on the Mississippi River, in
the south west corner of this state."  WHEREAS it is represented
to this General Assembly, that there are many inhabitants, and
much business at and about the Chickasaw Bluff, and that to
those people the regular and convenient administration of the
laws would be greatly beneficial - wherefore:  SECTION 1. BE IT
ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, That
a new county be called and known by the name of Shelby, in honor
and to perpetuate the name of Issac Shelby, late Governor of
Kentucky, be, and is hereby established in the southwest corner
of this state, and that the county so established, shall be
bounded as follows, to wit: beginning in the middle of the main
channel of the Mississippi River, where the southern boundary of
this state, lately marked by General James Winchester, strikes
the western boundary of the state, thence east thirty miles
along said sout