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WILL OKntb LLtCOONays,REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONIal: i ERS BEFORE GOV. ANSEL.Igb Ioil-1 ---DtilThe Question of the Addition of aheysayingPortion of Berkeley to Orangech-ay.:ralmde.layev-ualburg Will Soon be Decided.revtry•edrillaf-meis-heed t Ishey-'»gtobye-st?vs-1-UGov. Ansel will order an election to be held on February 3 to decide as to the annexation of a part of Berkeley county to Orangeburg.Tho voting precincts in the territory are Holly Hill and Eutawville. A petition was recently filed with Governor Ansel by the voters of the section desiring annexation.Several weeks ago the members o? the Berkeley ceunty registration board were ordered to appear before Governor Ansel to snow cause why they should not be removed from office on the charge that they had notattended three consecutive meetings of the board. At the hearing, when satisfactory excuses had been givento Governor Ansel, the charges were dismissed. Sickness, either on thepart of the members of the boardor their families was the defence. It was charged that LhoSe desiriugto vote in election hud not beengiven a chance to register.Governor Ansel named the following commissioners: T. L. Cju-nor. R. H. Moss, J. St. Clair Whiteand G. M. Norris to investigate and report as to the petition filed relative to the annexation of a portion of Berkeley county to Orangeburg. Tho commissioners selected T. C. Hamby, of Columbia, and Frank W. Frederick, of Orangeburg, as surveyors to make joint survey. The commissioners investigated statements in the petition for the election and the , following facts were presented:“I. We find that- the petition for said annexatio: .ontains more thanone-third of the qualified* electors of Berkeley county, residing In such ''I territory as appears from a certifi-f I cate of supervisor of registration for Berkeley county attached to the p I original petition.M “2. We find that more than two million dollars in taxable property s will still remain in Berkeley county, if said territory is cut off as appears from the certificate of the county auditor of Berkeley county attached in said petition.11.IrlcrtvTatis;ii0aitiaiclse)F,crncUor4,Nc3. We find from the United'. 9States census that the poulation in Berkeley county, if the said territory J c is cut off, will not be less than fif-teen thousand inhabitants. I e'*’4. We find that the area left in Berkeley county, if such territory in eI S0(annexed, will not be less than five hundred square miles.5, We find that the lines sur- T, rounding the proposed territory will not run within eight miles of any ° 1 county seat, and that no incorporat- * £ed .town or city has been cut by1 assaid lines. asc‘‘6. We find, that the territoryproposed to be annexed contains one ahundred and thirty and sixty one-hundredths (130 60-100) squaremiles as appeals from the map of said proposed territory, siyveyed by Messrs. T. C. Hamby and Frank W. Frederick, the duly appointed surveyors for the joint survey, wrhicb map or plat was surveyed in December, 1909, and attached as a part of this report, together with the affidavits of said surveyors appended to said map or plat.The remainder of the report is given up to the enumeration of the cost of the survey.fell8tUtheusuha\atmaidiaexeOCC!LOboyontiray
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The Times And Democrat
Orangeburg, South Carolina, US
Tue, Dec 21, 1909
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