Bill 4735

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                    4735
Ratification Number:            468
Act Number:                     341
Type of Legislation:            General Bill GB
Introducing Body:               House
Introduced Date:                19980226
Primary Sponsor:                Boan
All Sponsors:                   Boan and Walker 
Drafted Document Number:        pt\1740dw.98
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:   19980527
Governor's Action:              S
Date of Governor's Action:      19980608
Subject:                        State Government, boundaries
                                between South and North Carolina;
                                portion to be revised

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________

------  19980617  Act No. A341
------  19980608  Signed by Governor
------  19980604  Ratified R468
Senate  19980527  Read third time, enrolled for
                  ratification
Senate  19980513  Read second time, notice of
                  general amendments
Senate  19980415  Committee report: Favorable              11 SJ
Senate  19980324  Introduced, read first time,             11 SJ
                  referred to Committee
House   19980320  Read third time, sent to Senate
House   19980319  Read second time, unanimous
                  consent for third reading on
                  Fridy, 19980320
House   19980318  Committee report: Favorable              25 HJ
House   19980226  Introduced, read first time,             25 HJ
                  referred to Committee

(A341, R468, H4735)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1-1-10, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE JURISDICTION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE, SO AS TO REVISE A PORTION OF THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Boundaries changed

SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Section 1-1-10 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 375 of 1996, is further amended to read:

The northern line beginning at a point at the low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern shore of Bird Island, runs in a northwest direction through monuments established at latitude 33° 51' 07.8792" N., longitude 78° 32' 32.6210" W., at latitude 33° 51' 36.4626" N., longitude 78° 33' 06.1937" W., and at latitude 33° 51' 50.7214" N., longitude 78°33' 22.9448" W., (coordinates based on North American Datum 1927), following existing monuments to a stake in a meadow; thence, in a direction due west, a distance of sixty-two miles, to a point where it intersects the Charleston Road (at sixty-one miles) near the Waxhaw Creek; thence N. 2° 12 1/2' E. eight miles to a gum tree on the southeastern corner of the Catawba Indian Reservation as laid out in 1764; thence following the eastern and northern boundary lines of said Catawba Indian Reservation to where such northern boundary line crosses the thread of the Catawba River; thence up the thread of said river to the confluence of the north and south forks thereof; thence west to a stone on Tyron Mountain marked "S. C. and N. C., September 15th, 1815"; thence from said stone set up and marked "S. C. and N. C., September 15, 1815" west four miles and ninety poles to a stone marked "S. C. and N. C."; thence S. 25° W. 118 poles to a chestnut tree on the top of a ridge dividing the waters of the north fork of the Pacolet River from the waters of the north fork of the Saluda River; thence along the various courses of said ridge (agreeably to the plat and survey of the commissioners and surveyors accompanying their report, dated November 2, 1815) to the ridge that divides the Saluda waters from those of Green River; thence along the various courses of said ridge, agreeably to said plat and survey, to a stone set up where said river joins the ridge which divides the eastern and western waters which is marked "S. C. and N. C., September 28th, A.D. 1815"; thence along the various courses of said ridge, agreeably to said plat and survey, to latitude 35° 05' 07.96924" N. and longitude 082° 47' 01.49862" W., North American Datum 1983-86 (NAD 83-86), marked by the "• inside a triangle on a brass disk stamped with "BLACKBURN, 1996, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, STATE BOUNDARY LINE" and set in a concrete monument; thence from said point following a geodetic line to latitude 35° 00' 04.88130" N. and longitude 083° 06' 30.84455" W., NAD 83-86, marked by the "+" in the inscription "LAT 35, AD 1813, NC + SC" chiseled on Commissioners' Rock on the east bank of the Chattooga River; thence following a geodetic line with a geodetic azimuth of 270 degrees to the centerline of the Chattooga River."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Approved the 8th day of June, 1998.