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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
at Austin on the first Monday in September, 1839.30 Largely
through his influence, Congress passed, on November 28, "an act
better to define the boundaries of the county of Fannin," which
provided that:
Hereafter the boundaries of the county of Fannin shall be as
follows: Beginning at the mouth of Bois D'Arc Creek on Red
River; thence up said creek with the meanders thereof to the cross-
ing at the residence of Carpter P. Clifft; thence south so far as to
make sixty miles from the place of beginning on a straight line;
thence west to a point south of the head of the upper Wichita;
thence north to Red River and down the same with the meanders
thereof to the place of beginning."
The territory comprised within the boundaries set forth by this
act covered the magnificent area of over twenty-four thousand
square miles, an addition of probably 22,500 square miles. It
included within its limits the present-day counties of Fannin, Gray-
son, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Montague, Wise, Clay, Jack, Wichita,
Archer, Young, Wilbarger, Baylor, Throckmorton, Hardeman,
Foard, Knox, Haskell, Stonewall, King, Cottle and Childress, with
a greater portion of Hunt and half of Collingsworth.
The first regular session of the commissioners court held in the
new court house at Warren met January 8, 1840. The court ap-
pointed Solomon Chambliss county tax assessor and directed him
to remain at the house of Captain James Hart in Warren while in
discharge of his duties. The amount of taxes to be raised for the
year 1840 for county purposes were to be equal to the amount of
revenue due to the Republic of Texas from Fannin County. The
court also appointed two boards of road reviewers, one to lay out
a road from Warren to "the Honey Grove," and the other to assume
the duties of the group previously appointed to mark out the way
from Warren to Coffee's Station.32 At the April term of court it
developed that through carelessness this second board of reviewers
had not been properly sworn in the preceding January and it be-
came necessary to reaffirm their nomination. At the same time
Jacob Ketchum and William Cox reported that they had selected
the following route from "the Honey Grove" to Warren:
Commencing at Honey Grove on the old way from Mark R.
"Brown, History of Texas, II, 168.
"Sayles, Early Laws of Texas, I, 194.
'2Records of the Commissioners Court for Fannin County, A, 17-18.282
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