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(From an Act of Dec. 22, 1857)
SECTION I. Be it enacted, That there shall be a new county
formed from the counties of Irwin, Dooly and Pulaski, bounded
as follows: commencing on the Ocmulgee River at the north-west
corner of lot number twenty-five, in the eighth district of Pulaski
county, from thence to the south-west corner of lot number thirty-five,
in said district, and thence due west to the line of the sixth
district of Dooly county, thence running due south on the line
dividing the sixth and twelfth districts to Deep Creek, and running
down the east side of said creek until it strikes the south-east
corner of lot number one hundred and seventy-nine in the second
district of Irwin, thence running a straight line to the south-east
corner of lot number one hundred and sixty-seven, in the third
district of Irwin, from thence on a straight line to the south-east
corner of lot number one hundred and seventy-four, in the third
district of Irwin, from thence on a straight line to the south-east
corner of lot number two hundred and thirty-seven, in the third
district of Irwin, and from thence on a straight line to the
north-east corner of lot number two hundred and nineteen (219),
on the Ocmulgee River, and from thence up and along the bank
of said Ocmulgee River to the beginning. That the territory thus
included shall form a new county to be called Wilcox, to be attached
to the Southern Circuit and to the second Brigade of the thirteenth
division of Georgia Militia.
Source: Ga. Laws 1857, p. 46.
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