Section 1. Be in enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all that part of Bedford county lying east of the following line, to wit: Beginning on the line between the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland, at a point where the western boundary line of Bethel township, in Bedford county, intersects said State line, thence north along said township line to the south-eastern corner of East Providence township, thence along the southern line of said township to the top of Rays hill, thence along the top of said Rays hill to the line between the townships of East Providence and Wells, in said county, thence along said line to the point where it is intersected by the line between the township of Wells and Broad Top, and thence along said line to the Huntingdon county line, including the townships of Air, Belfast, Bethel, Dublin, Licking creek, Taylor, Thompson, Tod, Wells, and part of East Providence, shall be, and the same is hereby erected into a new county to be called Fulton.