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