The following described portion of Charleston County is hereby transferred and annexed to Dorchester County:

All that tract of land now situate and lying in Charleston County, being a portion of property formerly known as "Middleton Tract" and more commonly known as "Middleton Place", said tract containing 1,085 acres more or less and constituting the southernmost portion of Middleton Place to the west of South Carolina Highway 61 and more particularly shown on the tax maps of Charleston County as T.M.S. Number 301-001 and also shown on a plat recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County in Plat Book 21, at page 42, and in the R.M.C. office for Charleston County in Plat Book AC, at page 144; and

All that tract of land now situate and lying in Charleston County, being a portion of property formerly known as "Middleton Tract" and more commonly known as "Middleton Place", said tract containing 130 acres, more or less, of highland and 49 acres, more or less, of marshland, and constituting the southernmost portion of Middleton Place to the east of South Carolina Highway 61 and more particularly shown on the tax maps of Charleston County as T.M.S. Number 364-011 and also shown on a plat recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County in Plat Book 21, at page 42 and in the R.M.C. office for Charleston County in Plat Book AC, at page 144.

The proper proportion of the existing Charleston County indebtedness of the area so transferred shall be assumed by Dorchester County.

Upon application, the clerk of court, register of deeds, sheriff, and probate judge of Charleston County shall furnish certified copies of any judgment roll, entry on abstract of judgment book, will, record, execution, decree, deed, mortgage, or other papers signed or recorded in the office of such officers, upon payment of proper fees and when such certified copy is filed or recorded in the proper office of Dorchester County, the same shall have the same force and effect in Dorchester County that it had in Charleston County and any record not so transferred shall continue in force and effect and each shall have the same force and effect in Dorchester County as if it had been transferred and made a record in the proper office in Dorchester County.

HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 295; 1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, eff January 1, 1998.

Code Commissioner's Note

1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.