Rhea County, TN Private Acts: 1812

Compiled by the County Technical Assistance Service

NOTE: The CTAS compilation includes many acts which are not necessarily of interest to the family history researcher. Therefore, this page will list only those acts which involve county boundaries, boundary changes and acts which pertain to individuals. 

ACTS of 1812

Chapter 18, Page 17, recited in the preamble that the General Assembly passed an act on November 11, 1811, to lay of the town of Washington, on the Tennessee River in Rhea County and the Commissioners appointed did not have the power to procure an eligible site for said town on the River, and have laid out the said town at the head of Spring Creek at high water mark. This act proclaims that the town of Washington shall be permanently established where the same is now located and shall proceed under the same rules and regulations.

Chapter 68, Page 65, Section 3, reset the opening dates for the terms of the Circuit Court in Rhea County to the third Monday in March and September.

Chapter 5, Page 6, established eight Presidential Electoral Districts in Tennessee. The Fourth district was composed of the Counties of Rhea, Bledsoe, Overton, White, Warren, Franklin, and Jackson, all polls to be compared and counted at Sparta in White County.

Chapter 27, Page 23, divided the State into six U.S. Congressional Districts. The Third District contained the Counties of Anderson, Campbell, Roane, Rhea, Bledsoe, Overton, White, Warren, and Franklin.

Chapter 57, Page 56, apportioned the State for representation in the General Assembly. Of the 20 Senators, the Counties of Roane, Rhea, Anderson, and Bledsoe would elect one jointly while Rhea County was alloted one Representative alone.