(From an Act of May 11, 1803)

Be in enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Territory south of the Oconee and Alatamaha rivers, that is to say: -- Beginning at the upper extremity of the High Shoals of the Appallachee river, the same being a branch of the Oconee river, and on the southern Bank of the same; running thence a direct course to a noted ford of the south branch of the Little river, called by the Indians, Chato-chue-co-hatchee; thence a direct line to the main branch of Commissioners' creek, where the same is intersected by the path leading from the Rock-Landing to the Oakmulgee Old-Towns; thence a direct line to Palmetto creek, where the same is intersected by the Uchee path, leading from the Oconee to the Oakmulgee river; thence down the middle waters of the said creek to Oconee river, and with the western Bank of the same, to its junction of the Oakmulgee river; thence across the Oakmulgee river to the south bank of the Alatamaha river, and down the same, at low water mark, to the lower bank of Goose-creek, and from thence by a direct line to the mounts on the margin of Okefinocau swamp, raised and established by the commissioners of the United States and Spain, at the head of St. Mary's river; thence down the middle waters of said river, to the point where the old line of demarkation strikes the same; thence with the old said line to the Alatamaha river, and up the same to Goose-creek, to which the Indian title has been extinguished by treaty, concluded near Fort Wilkinson, on the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and two; shall, in conformity to the twenty-third section of the first article of the constitution of this State, be laid off into three counties in the following manner, that is to say: -- that part of the said territory lying south of the Alatamaha, to form and constitute one county, to be called Wayne; and that part of the said territory lying south of the Oconee river, to be divided by a line to be run according to the true meridian from the Oconee at Fort Wilkinson, south forty-five degrees west, to the Indian boundary line, into two counties, the eastern to be called Wilkinson, and the western to be called Baldwin; . . . .

Source: Ga. Laws 1803 Extra. Session, p. 3.