Wayne County, NC – Wayne & Duplin - Act Mark Dividing Line

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1823-25, Chapter XLV - An act 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 therefore 
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 John Watkins and John T. Bryan, of 
Duplin, be, and they are hereby authorized, with the assistance of the 
surveyors of each county, to run and mark the line dividing the counties 
of Wayne and Duplin, as now by law established. 

II. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall prevent 
any sheriff, or other officer having collection of any taxes, due on any 
land or other property, on either side of said line from collecting, under 
process or list of taxes, which was due either county before said line 
was run.

III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of aforesaid 
commissioners, after running the aforesaid line agreeable to this act, 
with the certificate of the surveyors and the plat there from, to return 
one fair plat of the same to each of the aforesaid counties of Wayne and 
Duplin; which plat and certificate shall be recorded by the clerks of the 
courts of pleas and quarter sessions of the counties aforesaid, and shall 
thereby become a matter of record. VI. And be it further enacted, That 
each county court shall make such allowances to the commissioners, chain-
carriers and markers for their services in running the said line, as they 
may deem proper and sufficient.

Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina

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