HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS HISTORY - County Boundaries - January 1850 This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Michael J. Vaughn June 1, 2005 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** SOURCE: H. P. N. Gammel, compiler, The Laws of Texas: 1822-1897, 10 volumes (Austin: The Gammel Book Company, 1898), Volume III, pages as noted below: Acts of the Third Legislature of the State of Texas: Pages 527 & 528, 28 January 1850: “An Act more particularly defining the boundaries of Henderson County. “Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the following shall be the permanent boundaries of Henderson county, to wit: Beginning at the northwest corner of Anderson county; thence with the upper boundary of said county of Anderson to the north-east corner thereof; thence up the Neches river to the south-east corner of A. Sidney Johnston's twelve hundred and [eighty] acre survey; thence west to the Trinity river; thence down said river with its meanders to the place of beginning. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That John Brown, (red.) John Ledbetter, Samuel Whitehead, Samuel Huffer, J. B. Luker, Amham, Avant, Sullivan and Helms, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners with authority to select not more than two places to be put in nomination as the county seat of said county, one of which shall be at the center of said county, to be ascertained by actual survey, which survey said Commissioners are hereby authorized to have made, at the expense of the county, and the other place shall be within three miles of the centre of said county, and the said Commissioners shall then proceed to order an election, which shall be conducted in accordance with, and in every respect governed by, the provisions of an act entitled an "act to create the county of Wood," when the same do not conflict with the provisions of this act. “Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the returns of said election shall be made to the Chief Justice of Henderson county; that all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.”