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An Act to establish and confirm the boundary line between St. Georges, Dorchester, and St. James, Goosecreek, which has been run out by commissioners appointed for that purpose, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1816 40 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0098 and id is 1 raw text is: -( 49 ) tament, the following slaves now belonging to hinT, to wit: a mulatto wench slave named Beck, and her chil- dren, ugmed Molsy, 14jaryan, Abram and Sylvia: Beit therefore enactedby the honorable the Senate and House of Representatites, now met and sitting in gene ralassembly, and by the authority of the same, That Serenus Mayer be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to emancipate and set free, by his last will and testament the ab6ve named'slaves, Beck, and her children, Mo sy, Maryan, Abram and Sylvia. * In the Senate House, the nineicentA Day of Decernln, in the Y1ar of our Lord one thowusand eiht hundred ndoixteen, andin the Forty. frt Year of the Inulependence of the United States of .merica. JAMES R. PRINGLE, Presidentofthe Seuate. THOMAS BENNETT, Speaker of thc House of Representaives. An ACT to establish aad coiy/rn the boundary line bc. tween St. Georges, Dorchester, and St. James, Goose- creeh, which has been run out by commissioners ap- pointed for that purpose, and for other puiposes therein mentioned. W HERE AS the legislature of this state, by an act passed at Columbia In December, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, appoint ed Elisha Mallard, Jaises Dehay, George Keckly, James R. Stew:irt, David Rumph, sen. and Jeremiah Russell, commissioners for, running out and marking the lines between the said parishes. And whereas, thu said commissioners have report: d thereon, and ertificd a plat of the lines between the said'parishes: Be it therefore enacted by the honorable .the Senate and fouse of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assenzbly,iznd by the athqity of the same, That the parish of St. JquesbGoose-creek, shall hereafier be bounded by aline begihning at the corner of the low- er line of the parish of St. George, and the upper line of St. Andrew's parish, where it intersects the parish line of St. James, Goose-creek; from thence a direct north-west course, until it strikes the Four-hole swamn; from thence taking the channel of the said Four-hole svamp until it intersects the Orangeburg line in the said swimp or bay, as is represented by a plat certified by John Wilson, esquire, employed for the purpose by commissioners appointed for the same. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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