Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all that part of the counties of Haywood and Macon included within the following bounds, to wit; Beginning on the extreme height of the Scott's Creek mountains, where the State road crosses; thence with the top of that mountain, which divides the waters of Pigeon River from the waters of Tuckasegee, near to the line that divides the counties of Henderson and Haywood; thence with said line to the line which divides the States of North and South Carolina; thence with a line to be run from said line to the top of the Fodderstack Mountain, so as to include William Barns' plantation within the new county; thence with the top of said mountain to the Whiteside Mountain; thence to the top of the Cowwee Mountain, to where the State Road crosses it, thence with the top of the said mountain, which divides the waters of Tuckasegee River from the waters of the Tennessee River to the top of the mountain at the head of Alarka Creek; thence along the top of said mountain, and the ridge that divides the waters of Alarka Creek from those of Tuckasegee River to the Tuckasegee River opposite the mouth of Forncey's Creek; thence with the top of the first ridge below said creek to the top of the Smokey Mountain, on the Tennessee line; thence with said line and the top of said mountain to where the Oconalufta Turnpike Road crosses it; thence with the top of said mountain to the Bald Mountain, that divides the waters of Oconalufta from the waters of Cattaloocha Creek; thence along the dividing ridge to where the Loco and Jonathan Creek Road crosses; thence on the top of the Balsam Mountain that divides the waters of Richland Creek from the waters of Tuckasegee River to the beginning, at the State Road; be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate and distinct county, by the name of Jackson, with all the rights, privileges and immunities that other counties in this State have and enjoy.

[Ratified 29th January, 1851.]

JAMES C. DOBBINS, S.H.C.
WELDON N. EDWARDS, S.S.

State of North Carolina:
Office of the Secretary of State
April, 1851.
I, William Hill, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the Acts and Resolutions contained in this Pamphlet are true copies of the original Acts and Resolutions, passed by the General Assembly of this State, at its late session.
WM. HILL, Secretary of State.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Superior Courts of Law and Equity and Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the counties of Haywood and Macon, respectively, shall have the same jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to the administration of public justice, within the county of Jackson, as said courts heretofore had and exercised therein.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the justices of the peace, constables and other public officers, heretofore appointed and living within the territory of Jackson, shall have and exercise the same powers and privileges, and be subject to the same penalties, and amenable to the same tribunals, as heretofore.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the sheriffs of Macon and Haywood counties, respectively, shall have power to execute all process directed to them within the territory of Jackson county, in the same manner, and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as before the passage of the Act establishing the said county of Jackson.

[Ratified 29th day of January, 1851.]

JAMES C. DOBBINS, S.H.C.
WELDON N. EDWARDS, S.S.

State of North Carolina:
Office of the Secretary of State
April, 1851.
I, William Hill, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the Acts and Resolutions contained in this Pamphlet are true copies of the original Acts and Resolutions, passed by the General Assembly of this State, at its late session.
WM. HILL, Secretary of State.