19-1-23 - Clarke County. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 19-1-23. Clarke County.
 

Clarke County is bounded by beginning on the Choctaw boundary line, where the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen, east, of the Choctaw meridian extended strikes the same; thence eastwardly with said Choctaw boundary line to the northwest corner of the Hiawanee reserve; thence direct to the northeast corner of said Hiawanee reserve; thence along the said Choctaw boundary line to the Alabama state line; thence nearly due north along said state line to the point where the township line between townships four and five strikes the same; thence west along said township line to the northwest corner of township four, range fourteen, east; thence due south along the range line to the point of beginning. The county site is Quitman. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 2, art 49; 1871, § 31; 1880, § 35; 1892, § 359; 1906, § 422; Hemingway's 1917, § 3836; 1930, § 3899; 1942, § 3034; Laws,  Dec. 23, 1833.