The county of Anderson is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of Franklin county; thence south with the west boundary of Linn county, to the southwest corner of said Linn county; thence west with the section lines, to the corner to sections fourteen, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-three, of township twenty-three south, of range seventeen east; thence north with the section lines between the second and third tiers of sections, to the southwest corner of Franklin county; thence east with the south boundary of Franklin county, to the place of the beginning.