The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-25
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NATION.

WHEk petitions signed by
more than o. Third of the quail
fed electors of that portion of Mar
ion Courty to be out off to form
new county, called in the peti-
tion CalbGmz county, and en-
bracing t1eein, de-
scribed. Wsre Sd fnfhe& &88Ss of
the Governor 6f fkis Stare ia De-
cember, 1905, asking that said
portion of said county be permit
ted to vote On the establishment
of new county, and;
WHEREAS, commissioners
were appointed, as required by the
act of 1905 to ascertain and report
upon the allegations of the peti-
tion and to employ surveyors to
make survey and a map of the
proposed new county, and,
WHEREAS, the surveyors ap-
pointed made a map of the terri
tory and filed the same with the
commission which was filed with
me and which contains and en-
braces the following territory by
metes and bounds, to wit:
Beginning at the month of
Mill Greek where it empties into
Big Pee Dee River and in middle
of said river at said point; thence
up the run of said creek to the
bridge on the river road to stake
X Ill NJ; theme N. 1856 E 46
90 feet to stake X III N. at
the intersection of Gum Swamp
and Cud Swamp; thence up the
run of Cud Swamp to the public
road leading from L. D. Hasel-
den's to Sellers to a Stake near
bridge; thence N. 80. AZ E 3O61
feet along said road to the town
limits of Sellers to stake: thence
N. 1925 w. 1896. S feet to a
stake x; thence N. S7.43 E. 21O0
feet to a stake x; thence N. 53. .22
E. 1885 feet to a stake x; thence
S. 56.32 E. 11O7 feet to a stake X;
thence N. $3.50 E 11SO1 feet to a
stake; thence N. 6O.4O E. 5678
feet to an iron stake west side of
the Marion and Latta public road
near David Watson's; thence N.
$3.50 E. 2305 feet to an iron stake
on the public highway leading
from Latta towards Marion, S. c.
on the old Bryant place, the said
roads and points being the ones
heretofore referred to in the ORR
ginal petition setting forth the
boundary line of the proposed new
county; thence S. 1910 E. 694O
feet to stake X; thence S. 6S.27
E. 1920 feet to stake X; thence
5. oO.1O E. 20545 feet to stake
x at east side of railroad; thence
N. 51.37 E. 4242 feet to it's inter-
section with Buck Swamp; thence
down the run OF Buck Swamp with
its various courses and distances
to its junction with Little Pee Dee
River; thence straight line N.
4S.40 E. 1890 feet to a stake X
Ill NJ, thence a straight line s.
44.48 E. 1924 feet to a cypress
tree x 3 N. at the juncture of Ash
Pole Swamp and Lumber River;
thence Lumber River the line to
the North and South Carolina
State line; thence the North and
South Carolina State line;
the line to the point
where it inteEsects the line be-
tween Marion and Marlboro
Counties; thence the line between
Mrrion and Marlboro Counties to
the median line of the Great Pee
Dee River; thence down the me-
dian line Of said river to the be-
ginning corner"
WHEREAS, the boundaries of
the proposed new county, the num-
Der of inhabitants, the taxable
property, as shown by the last tax
return, and that the proposed lines
do not run nearer than eight miles
to any court house building now
established, are also set forth in
said petition,
AND WHEREAS, from the re-
port submitted to me by said COM
mission as provided for in the Act
of 1905, | am satisfied that the re-
quirementS of the constitution as
to area, distance, wealth, popula-
tion ct cetera have been complied
with and that the number of square
miles in the proposed new county
called in the original petition Cal
houn County is four hundred and
four plus square miles. leaving to
the County of Marion more that
FIVE hundred square miles,
NOW THEREFORE, I, M.F.