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within the meaning of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.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





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