There has been ceded to the United States, for the purpose of constructing jetties for the improvement of the bar at the entrance of Winyah Bay, any and all rights of the State to the adjacent water-covered territory extending from high-water mark in certain lands granted by Bettie Mason Alexander and Edward P. Alexander to the United States of America by deed bearing the date September 17 1889, and recorded in the office of register of deeds for Georgetown County, in book K, pages 692 to 695, outward about five hundred (500) feet, and also from the jetties to be constructed by the United States outward about five hundred feet in every direction into the Atlantic Ocean and Winyah Bay, respectively, and any and all accretions to such territory growing out of the construction of such jetties or from any other causes, this territory having, when ceded, been bounded as follows, to wit:

(1) Land on North Island. - Beginning at a point on the west side of the southern point of said island at high-water line, about sixteen hundred (1,600) feet distant and S. 4° 39' E. from the center of the Georgetown lighthouse; and running thence due west about one thousand two hundred (1,200) feet; thence S. 47° 16' E. sixty-two hundred (6,200) feet; thence S. 63° 45' E. twenty-eight hundred (2,800) feet; thence S. 84° E. ten thousand two hundred (10,200) feet; thence north one thousand (1,000) feet; thence N. 84° W. ninety-nine hundred (9,900) feet; thence N. 63° 45' W. twenty-four hundred (2,400) feet; thence N. 47° 16' W. twenty-seven hundred (2,700) feet; thence N. 45° E. twenty-five hundred (2,500) feet; thence west to the high-water line on the east side of North Island Point; thence around said point toward Winyah Bay, with the various meanderings of said high-water line to the beginning;

(2) Land on South Island. - Beginning at a point on the beach of said island about twelve thousand five hundred and eleven (12,511) feet south of the eastern end of the southern boundary of land formerly belonging to W. C. Johnstone and from which the Georgetown lighthouse bears N. 28 1/2 ° E. and the center of the United States dyke across Lagoon Creek bears N. 33 1/2 ° W.; running thence in a southerly direction eight hundred (800) feet to a point on the high-water line; thence due east twenty-two thousand one hundred (22,100) feet; thence south one thousand (1,000) feet; thence due west to the high-water line on South Island; thence with the various meanderings of said high-water line to the second corner from the beginning (counting the beginning corner as the first corner).

All such lands and territory shall be exempted from all State taxes, assessments and other charges, as provided in Section 3-1-30.

The proper officers of the United States in charge of such jetties from time to time shall cause to be executed a plat of the lands which may be required for the purposes aforesaid and file such plats with the register of deeds for Georgetown County.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 39-130; 1952 Code Section 39-130; 1942 Code Section 2042; 1932 Code Section 2042; 1899 (23) 291; 1994 Act No. 474, Section 1, eff July 14, 1994.

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.

Effect of Amendment

The 1994 amendment, in the third undesignated paragraph, substituted "with the register of mesne conveyances for Georgetown County" for "in the office of the Secretary of State."