The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-22
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Executive Department.

more rfl3N one iniFN hl tue G''''
fed electors of thar portion Of CIar
endou County proposed 70 be Gu
off and annexed to williamsburg
County, in this State. therein SET
out. was fled in this office on ti:t
10th dav of August, 1913, which
proposed cutoff embraces the fol
lowing lines. to wit:
''All that portion of the County o
Clarendon, known as the Southeast
ern portion Of Midway township, and
the southeastern section OF Sandy
Grove township. beginning at cN'
press On Black River. aud runninS
niueteeH degrees and two minutes
west for one hundred and ten and
thirtv-Seven one hundreds chains &c
4 stake; thence, North. nineteen dc
gIreS aud seventeen minutes west
for one hundred aud tifty-nine and
eishtv-tive Que hundreds chains to a
stake; thence, North forty six de-
grees east for three hundred and
thirty and thirty one-hundredS cha ms
to poiut where the Cade Road III
terSects the LvuchburS Road; thence
along the Cade Road. which has the
bearing of North lightweight de
grees and thirty-tive 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 seven and
seveuty-five one hundreds chains at
u "a n
Cade stoad and continues with the
last bearing mentioned, for dis
tance of sixty and twenty-tour one
hundreds chaius TO an iron axle.
which is placed ON the intersection
of this line aud the old Williamsburg
County line; thence along the old
Williamsburg aud Clarendon Coun
" iiue to the point from which the
description began. which has the
following distances and courses:
South twenry-four degrees and
fourteen minutes west for niuety
seven and sixty five oue-hundreds
chains to a pine stump; thence South
twenty three degrees and twenty
eight minutes west for four hundred
and seventv-siX and twenty five one
hundreds chains to {. Cypress ON
Black River;th"nce up Black River
for adisrance of about siXtv 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 aud incorporated into the County
of Williamsburg, lies on the north
west side of the Williamsburg Couu-
ty line. and the said area as therein
proposed to be taken from the Coun
tv of Clarendon and added to the
County of WILLIAMSBURG, contains
by actual survey made thereof.
twelve and nipety-six one hundreds
square miles. as IS represented on
survey or plat of the same, made by
II II Fioyd. Surveyor and Civil sn
gine.r. in the mouth Of May, A. d
1918"
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 rs the
other facts necessary to De stated
under the laws OF this State.
AND WHEREAS, the report Of
the Commissioners appoiuted to as
certain the facts as provided for by
law as to whether the provisions Of
the Constitution aud Laws of this
Stat, as to population, area. wealth
distance from the courthouse, 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 he reduced to less than fifteen
Thousand inhabitants and that the
proposed line does not run nearer
than eight miles 10 the courthouse
of said Clarendon County.
NOW, THEREFORE. I, COLE.
L. BLEASE, as Governor Of the
State Of South Carolina, by virtue
of the power conferred upon me by
the constitution and laws Of this
State. 60 hereby order:
FIRST: That an election be held
in the territory embraced within the
proposed lines aforesaid on the 4th
day of November A. D. 1918. upon
the Question Of annexiug said terri
torv TO the County Of Williamsburg
and that at said election the quail
6ed electors within the proposed
area shall be allowed to vote upon
said question, those favoring the
proposed annexation to vote "l ES'
and those opposing it to vote NO.
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 TIE said territory
proposed to BE- ut,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 {. Burgess,
who lives and resides within the
territory sought to be cut off 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 cleo
ton.
FOURTH: That said election shall
be held under the same rules aud
regnlations as are provided by law
for regular county elections: that
the mnil::-ors shall he sworn before
eut. ring up"u the discharge OF their
du1;-s; rh { they shall open the polls
at s. ven o'cioch in the morning and
keep he same open until four O'Clock K
iu th. AFTERNOON. when the polls
eb.,Ij ha closed the yO,eS cOurItptl q