A new county to be called and known by the name of Shelby, in honor and to perpetuate
the name of Isaac Shelby, late governor of Kentucky, is hereby established in the
southwest corner of the state, and the county, so established, shall be bounded as
follows:
Beginning in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River, where the southern
boundary of the state, lately marked by General James Winchester, strikes the western
boundary of the state, thence east 30 miles along such southern boundary line, to
the eight-mile tree, thence north to a point, from which a due west course to the
center of the main channel of the Mississippi, and thence down the main channel of
the Mississippi to the beginning, will include a constitutional county of 625 square
miles.
(Code 1992, § 5-1; Priv. Acts 1819, ch. 218, § 1)
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