Duplin & Wayne County, NC – Act to Mark Dividing Line, 1826 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An Act to appoint commissioners to run and mark the dividing line between Duplin and Wayne counties Whereas there have been disputes as respects the boundary line between the counties of Wayne and Duplin: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Ezekiel Slocumb and Stephen Smith, of Wayne county, and Daniel Glisson, senior, and John Watkins, of the county of Duplin, be, and they are hereby authorised, with the assistance of two surveyors, one from each of the counties aforesaid, to run and mark the line dividing the counties of Wayne and Duplin, according to the boundary which has been supposed to exist between the two counties respectively; and the said commissioners, within three months after running the same, shall make out and deposite in the clerk's office of each county, a fair plat of said line; which plats shall be recorded by the clerks of the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the counties aforesaid: and the line so run and marked, shall be deemed and held the true line dividing said counties. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners and chain carriers, for their trouble in superintending and marking said line, shall receive such compensation as the County Courts of each county may allow them, to be paid by the county trustees: Provided always, that the ascertaining the dividing line aforesaid shall not affect any title or titles to lands in either of the counties. And be it further enacted, That all laws and clauses of laws which come within the meaning of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. Source: NC Archives Public and Private Laws of North Carolina 1826 Chapter CXVII Page 67 ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts - gpotts1@nc.rr.com ______________________________________________________________________