The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-11-13
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, November Is, 1907.
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Whereas, Petitions signed by more
than one-third of the qualified elec-
tors of those portions of Orangeburg
and Lexington Counties proposed to
be cut, Off to form the new county
commonly known as Calhoun County,
and embraced in the following lines,
to wit:
Beginning in Lexington County on
the Congaree River at point where
the land line between lands of G. M.
Cromartie and vandy .speers strikes
said river and running the land line
between said parties (Cromartie is in
and Speers is out of the new county,
crossing the state road on this same,
land line, continuing straight line 125
chains to. pine on the. Pine Plain
road, thence South twenty-one and a
half, west sixteen and one-half chains
to pine on same road. Then South
ten west II chains to stake on Nina
Davis land, then; South q east on said
line Davis out and Geiger in) cross
ing Savanna Hunt Creek (Crawley out)
at 46 chains to pine, total distance
103 chains, then South eleven west to
dead pine on Pine Plain Road, dis
tance three miles, south two east with
road, twenty chains, same line fifty
five chains to Big Sandy Run near the
South Of Huchabaas Mill, continuing
to one mile, then south 36-a west IS
chains to pine near Pine Plain Road,
South 29-11a west said road the line,
twenty three chains and a half, dead
pine, then south 50 west SO chains to
pine and stake on Rast land, then
south 9-k west II chains pine. South
one east straight line to Mrs. M. L.
Bakers line, then the said line to a
corner near Camp Ground Road, then
straight line to Orangeburg road
near Porterfeld Mill, then direct
line to the head of Branham Branch,
said branch the line to Beaver Creek,
then Orangeburg and Lexington line,
southwest to the corner of Cav Cav
and Elizabeth Townships, said line
southeast to the Joe Amaker old mill
on Lime Stone Creek, then north
forty-five east to little Lime Stone,
then same creek the line south to
poplar on Robertson plantation road,
crossing the Kennerly road one half
mile south of Moody Godwin's house,
continuing the same line crossing the
Columbia road nine miles north of
Orangeburg, continuing to the South
ern Railway crossing s-h miles north
east of Orangeburg Court House, con-
tinuing from said point on Southern
Railway 81 miles northeast of Orange
burg Court House to point on -Four
Hole Creek marked and designated by
an Ash tree x and witnesses by maple
and gum trees, said line having the
following course, S. $4,000 E. and be-
ing about 1850 feet, thence the creek
the line to the land line of Jacob
Riley, the said land line out to State
Road near Fred Dantzler's, down said
road to the land corner of Fred Dantz-
ler's, then the Dantzler land line to
point on Haigler land line, Haigler's
land line the line to public road, Oak
K 3N near David Smiths residence,
said road the line to branch south
west of r. V. Bair's residence, then
up said branch 40 chains to stake q 3
n then northeast across A. G. L. R. R.
to stake 66 feet from center of track,
then up said right of way north 57-H
west 120 chains to stake on the Orange
burg road 66 feet from center of A. c.
L. r. r. track, Orangeburg Road the
line to Moncks Corner Road, then
north 73 east passing at the north edge
of the old Santee Grave Yard, con-
tinuing to stake x N north OF G..
w. Shumaker's residence, then south
81 east to stake by road on Capt. /.
George D. Rast's Estate Land, then
north 70 degrees and 45 minutes east
to an oak on the road near Trinity
Grave Yard then north 50 east to a
stake on Two Chop Road by neigh
borhood road intersecting on J.. A.
Johnson's land, then South Two Chop
Road the line to little Poplar Creek,
distance 81 chains, then down the said
creek the line to McC Cords Ferry Road,
said road the line south 45 degrees
east 2c9 chains, to Hydrick's old mill,
on Big Poplar Creek, said creek the
line to Santee River, up the Santee
River to the Congaree River, up the
Congaree River to commencement
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