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(From an Act of Feb. 25, 1856)
SECTION I. Be it enacted &c., That from and after the
passage of this Act, a new County be, and hereby is laid out,
to be called Berrien County, out of the Counties of Lowndes,
Irwin and Coffee, the lines and boundaries of said new County
shall be as follows: commencing where the district lines dividing
the tenth and eleventh districts in Lowndes County. cross the
Alapaha River, thence up said river to the dividing line between
the Counties of Coffee and Irwin, thence north a long the line
between the Counties of Irwin and Coffee, to the North-East corner
of lot of land number two hundred and sixty-eight, (268) in the
fifth district of Irwin county, thence West along the North line
of the same range of lots as that upon which said two hundred
and sixty-eight is located, to Little river in the sixth district
of said Irwin county, thence in a Southernly direction down to
the point where said Little river enters the ninth district of
Lowndes county, thence down the main prong of said Little River
to where the same crosses the dividing line between lots of land
number four hundred and ninety-five, and four hundred and ninety-four,
thence North along said line to the North West corner of lot
of land, four hundred and seventy-two, thence East along the
land line to Mill Creek, thence in a Southernly direction down
said creek to the North East corner of lot of land, number five
hundred and seventy-three, East to the North East corner of said
lot of land, thence South along the line of said lot of land
to the line dividing the ninth and twentieth district of Lowndes
County, thence East along said district line to the Alapaha River
at the starting point.
Source: Ga. Laws 1855-56, p. 112
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