This text of South Carolina § 4-3-233 (Dorchester County; additional area of Charleston County transferred to Dorchester County.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering South Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
The following described portion of Charleston County is hereby transferred and annexed to Dorchester County: All that area now situate and lying in Charleston County commencing at a point on the Northeast side of U.
S.Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street) - which said point is on the present Dorchester-Charleston county line, and proceeding along the present Dorchester-Charleston county line in a northeasterly direction for a distance of approximately two thousand five hundred (2500) feet to the intersection of said Dorchester-Charleston county line with the Berkeley-Charleston county line; thence in a southeasterly direction along the Berkeley-Charleston county line, approximately eighteen hundred (1800) feet to the northeast corner of the property owned by John Finucan and M
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The following described portion of Charleston County is hereby transferred and annexed to Dorchester County: All that area now situate and lying in Charleston County commencing at a point on the Northeast side of U. S. Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street) - which said point is on the present Dorchester-Charleston county line, and proceeding along the present Dorchester-Charleston county line in a northeasterly direction for a distance of approximately two thousand five hundred (2500) feet to the intersection of said Dorchester-Charleston county line with the Berkeley-Charleston county line; thence in a southeasterly direction along the Berkeley-Charleston county line, approximately eighteen hundred (1800) feet to the northeast corner of the property owned by John Finucan and Magie F. Peters; thence in a southwesterly direction along the property line of the real estate of John Finucan and Magie F. Peters, a distance of approximately fifteen hundred (1500) feet to a point on the northeast side of U. S. Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street); thence in a westerly direction along the northeast side of said U. S. Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street) for a distance of approximately seven hundred and sixty (760) feet to the southwest corner of the real estate of the said John Finucan and Magie F. Peters; thence in a southerly direction across said U. S. Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street) to the northeast corner of lot owned by W. C. Cumbee; thence along the southeastern line of the said lot of W. C. Cumbee, two hundred fifty-eight and five/tenths (258.5) feet to a point; thence northwest along the property of the said W. C. Cumbee and David H. Smith, a distance of three hundred seventy-nine (379) feet to the southwestern corner of a lot owned by David H. Smith, thence northeast along the property of David H. Smith, a distance of approximately three hundred and twenty-five (325) feet to a point on the northeastern side of said U. S. Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street); thence west along the northeast side of said U. S. Highway No. 78 (also known as Fifth North Street) to the point of beginning. The proper proportion of the existing Charleston County indebtedness of the area so transferred shall be assumed by Dorchester County. Upon application, the clerk of court, register of deeds, sheriff and probate judge of Charleston County shall furnish certified copies of any judgment roll, entry on abstract of judgment book, will, record, execution, decree, deed, mortgage or other papers signed or recorded in the office of such officers, upon payment of proper fees and when such certified copy is filed or recorded in the proper office of Dorchester County, the same shall have the same force and effect in Dorchester County that it had in Charleston County and any record not so transferred shall continue in force and effect and each shall have the same force and effect in Dorchester County as if it had been transferred and made a record in the proper office in Dorchester County.