The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-29
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Executive Department.

ueO electors Ol tIldt l'oI ItAoAi VA O
endon County proposed to be cut
off and annexed to Williamsburg
County, in this State, therein set
out, was filed in this office on the
10th day of August, 1913, which
proposed cutoff embraces the fol-
lowing lines. to wit:
"All that portion of the County Of
Clarendon, known as the Southeast
ern portion of Midway township, and
the Southeastern section Of Sandy
Grove township. beginning at q cy-
press on Black River, and running
nineteen degrees and two minutes
west for one hundred and ten and
thirty-seven one hundreds chains to
a stake; thence, North. nineteen de.
gIees and seventeen minutes west
for one hundred and fifty-nine and
eighty-five one hundreds chains to q
stake; thence, North forty-s;x de
grees east fer three hundred and
thirty and thirty one-hundreds CHAINS
to g point where the Cade Road In
tersects the Lynchburg Road; thence
along the Cade Road, which has the
bearing of North eighty-eiSht de-
grees and thirty-five minutes east
for forty-nine and fifteen one-hun-
dreds chains; thence along the said
Cade Road which has the bearing Of
North sixty-three degrees and fifteen
minutes east for thirty.Seve and
seventy-fve one-hundreds chains at
which said point it leaves the said
Cade Road and continues with the
last bearing mentioned, for a dis
tance of sixty and twenty-four one
hundreds chains to an iron axle,
which is placed on the intersection
of this line and the old Williamsburg
County line; thence along the old
Williamsburg and Clarendon Coun-
ty line to the point from which the
description began, which has the
following distances and courses:
South twenty-four degrees and
fourteen minutes west for ninety
seven and sixty-fve one-hundreds
chains to a pine stump; thence South
twenty.three degrees and twenty
eight minutes west for four hundred
and seventy-six and twenty five one
hundreds chains to a Cypress on
Black River;thence up Black River
for adistance of about si9ty chains
to a cypress, this being the one at
which the description began it also
being on the old Williamsburg and
Clarendon County line"
That the territory contained in
the area sought to be taken 5rom
the County of Clarendon and added
to and incorporated into the County
Of Williamsburg, lies on the north
west side of the Williamsburg Coun-
tv line, and the said area as therein
proposed to be taken from the Coun
ty of Clarendon and added to the
County of Williamsburg, contains
by actual survey made thereof,
twelve and ninety-six one-hundreds
square miles, as is represented on a
survey or plat of the same, made by
G. T. Floyd, Surveyor and Civil En-
'gineer, in the month Of May, A. y.
l9l3.'
AND WHEREAS, the boundaries
OF that portion of Clarendon County
sought to be cut off and annexed to
Williamsburg County are fully set
out in said petition as we'll as the
other facts necessary to be stated
I:,..-f tGa w T.. t!I:S St%s,.
AND WHEREAS, y..@ raport Of
.2e .a.G;.!s !s~jurors :.-:,-''.!'@d to as
2t-r.,:y. ~. fs.:.: < - provided for by
law 70 rle:&s~ -ha Iro"isionS OF
.Ee ..t1-ion ct Avs of this
:s5Eatp. r. - poy:2 @3'"Q. &:2a. wealth
,::ss3...c 5rUM Tie -o:.- use, etc,
have been complied with, was filed
in this Office on the Goth day Of
August, 1918, which report states
that the law has been complied with
leaving less than FIVE hundred square
miles Clarendon County. and not
less than two million dollars OF taxa
BILE property and that the population
of the said County of Clarendon will
not be reduced to less than fifteen
thousand inhabitants and that the
proposed line does not run nearer
than eight miles to the courthouse
of said Clarendon County.
NOW, THEREFORE. l, COLE
L. BLEASE, as Governor of the
State Of South Carolina, by vrtue
of the power conferred upon me by
the constitution and laws Of this
State, do hereby order:
FIRST: That an election be ue:d
in the territory embraced within the
proposed lines aforesaid ca the 4th
day of November A. D. 1918, upon
the question Of annexing said terri
tory to the County Of Williamsburg
and that at said election the quail
fed electors within the proposed
area shall be allowed to vote upon
said question, those favoriug the
proposed annexation to vote YES
and those opposing it to vote MOP.
SECOND: That the Commission
ers of Election for State and County
Offices for Clarendon County shall
make all necessary arrangements
for holding said election; shall ap-
point managers and do all other
things necessary for the holding Of
said election, that the County Sup.
ervisor of Clarendon County shall
have prepared printed tickets and
furnish same to the Commissioners
of Election to be sent out to the
managers of election for the use Of
the voters.
THIRD: That the said territory
proposed to be cut, t,off from Claren-
don County and added to Williams
burg County, containing no polling
or voting place, as now prescribed
by law. the store of r. G. Burgess,
who lives and resides within the
territory sought to be cutoff from
Clarendon County and added and
incorporated into Williamsburg
County. is hereby designated and
named as voting or polling place
for the purpose of holding said elec-
tion.
FOURTH: That said election shall
be held under the same rules and
regulations as are provided by law
for regular county elections; that
the managers shall be sworn before
entering upon the discharge of their
duties; that they shall open the polls
at seven O'Clock in the morning and
keep the same open until four o'clock
in the afternoon, when the polls
shall be closed, the votes counted, q
retnrn of the number of votes Dolle6