The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1871-05-18
Acts And Joint Resolutions.
Passed by the Legislature
SESSION 1870 AND 1871.
AN ACT

TIE COUNTIES RE BARNWELL, EDGE
FIELD, LEXINGTON AND oRANaEBuRa,
TO BE KNOWN AS AIKEN COUNTY.
SECTION l. BE it enacted jy the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
Of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That new Judicial aud Elcc-
tion County, with lis scat of justice located
at the town of Aiken, which County shall
be known a, Aiken County, shah be form
ed, and is hereby authorized to be formed,
from portions of the present Counties of
Barnwell Edgciold, Lexington and Or
angeburg, with the mctcs and bounds here.
lnaiter described, TO wit: commencing at
the mouth OF Fox's Creek, in Edgofcld
County, where it cmptes into Savannah
fltiver, thence in straight line to where
the South branch Of Chinquepin Falls
Greek, Ga tributary Of the North Edisto
River) intersccts the Edgefcld and Lex
ington line; thence down said creek to
where 1t emptics into the North Fork of
the Edisto River, and down the said North
fork to where the dividing line between
Lexington and Orangeburg Counties (run.
ming from Big Beaver Creek to the North
fork OF the Edisto) touches said river;
thence In a straight line to the head of
Thinkers Crock, in BarnwelI County: thence
| down said creek to where it empties into
the Upper Three Runs. and down said
Runs Creek to wherc it empties into the
Savannah River thonco up the Savannah
River to the initial point at the mouth OF
| FoI's Creek.
SEC. 2 That Frank Arnim, NJ. f. Ma
loncy, p. r. Rivers, j. j.. Jamison. T.
Ferguson, j. N. Hayne, Il. J.C. Wood,
L. IL. Rockwell, j. A. Greene, w. III.
Kecdish and B. Byas, be, and are hereby,
appointed Commissioners to run out and
properly make and define the said bounda.
ry lines, with tho assistance of two compe
tent surveyors, to be selected by them.
SEC. 3 That S. j. Ice, Frank Arnim,
p. K. Rivers, g. d. Hayne, John Wooley,
f. j. q. Wood, j. N. Iiayne, Levi Chnvis'
w. FL. Reedish and j. ii. Cornish, be. and
arc hereby, appointed Commissioners to
provide suitable buildings for the several
Courts and County officers, and to select
and purchase, or procure sites for the usual
puClic buildings, and to contract for a, d
supcrIntend the erection of the Court House
and Jill thereon; aud that said public
buiid'nSs ehail be built at tho OK ponse Of
the citizens Of said County, and to meet
the said demands, a special tax on the us
sessed value of real and personal property
in said County be levied.
SEC. 4. That nh election shall be held
IN the County Of Aiken, as established by
this Act, on tho third Wednesday OF Oc-
tobcr, a. ID. 1872, Tor members of the Gen
cral Assembly, and the regular County
Ohcers provided for by the Constitution
and laws OF the State, and The officers 50
elected shall, before entering upon tho du
ties OF their respective ofices, be required
to give bond, with surctios, as is now or
may be required by law
SEC. 5. That until tho next anportion-
| mcnt oil Representatives, the representa-
ton OF the several Counties of this State
Affected by this Act shall ronan as now
established.
SEC. g. That tho County of Aiken be,
and it is hereby, attached to the Third
Congressional District, aud shal! form bart
and parcel of the Sixth Judicial Circuit
and that the regular terms OF the Courts
OF General Sessions and Common Plea,
shall be held in the Town of Aiken, on the
second Monday of January, May and Sop
tember of each year, ana that the Justices
# the Peace, Consiablcs, in the several
Counties affected by this Act, who shall be
in office at the time this Act goes into cf-
feet, Shall continue in Office until their sue
cessors shall have been elected, and shall
have been qualified Provided, however,
That the Justices of the Peace and Con-
stables now in Office shall, from and after
the time this Act goes into effect be con-
fined and limited in their official capacity,
duty and power to the limits of their res
pective Counties, as altered by this Act.
and the said officers residing in Aiken
County shall, in like manner, be restricted
In their official function to said County OF
Aiken.
SEC. 7. That from md after the fourth
day OF October, A. d. 1872, all suits pend
ing in the Courts of Barnweli, Edyefield.
Lexington and Orangeburg, of Which the
defendants reside in those portions of the
said Counties now established us the Coun
ty OF Aiken, and all indictments now pen
ding in the Courts of said Counties, where
the offence was committed in those paris