FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AN ACT
To repeal section 46.144, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the description of the Ste. Genevieve County boundaries.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 46.144, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 46.144, to read as follows:
46.144. Beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River, opposite the mouth of the St. Laurent Creek; thence in a direct line to the point of intersection of the principal forks of Saline Creek; thence in a direct line to the southwest corner of section one, township thirty-four, north, range eight, east, of the fifth principal meridian; thence [in a direct line to a rock, around which several trees are notched and blazed, it being at] northwesterly along the line as surveyed by Henry Nations, county surveyor of Ste. Genevieve County, and Lovel Turley, county surveyor of St. Francois County, surveyed between October 26, 1925, and June 23, 1926, and recorded in the Ste. Genevieve county clerk's office in roller number 2, map number 29, dated July 23, 1926, to the point of intersection with the line surveyed by J. M. Stevenson, M. Frissel and W. B. Wilkenson in pursuance of act entitled "An act to ascertain the line between St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve Counties", approved February 15, 1841; thence [south forty-five degrees and fifty-two minutes, west, on a direct line] southwesterly along the line as surveyed by Henry Nations, county surveyor of Ste. Genevieve County, and Lovel Turley, county surveyor of St. Francois County, surveyed between October 26, 1925, and June 23, 1926, and recorded in the Ste. Genevieve county clerk's office in roller number 2, map number 29, dated July 23, 1926, to a rock from which the corner of sections six and seven, on the line between ranges seven and eight, east, township thirty-four, north, bears north twenty-eight degrees, west eight chains and forty-eight links, and a black oak, nine inches in diameter, bears north eight degrees, east one hundred and seventeen links, and a post oak, twenty inches in diameter, bears north seventy-seven degrees, west eighty-nine links distant; thence [north forty-four degrees and eight minutes, west, on a direct line] northwesterly along the line as surveyed by Henry Nations, county surveyor of Ste. Genevieve County, and Lovel Turley, county surveyor of St. Francois County, surveyed between October 26, 1925, and June 23, 1926, and recorded in the Ste. Genevieve county clerk's office in roller number 2, map number 29, dated July 23, 1926, to a rock, from which the corner of sections twenty-six and twenty-seven, thirty-four and thirty-five, township thirty-seven, north, range five, east, bears north twenty-five degrees, east fifteen chains and seventy-eight links, and a black oak sixteen inches in diameter marked S.T.G.C., bears south seventy-three degrees, east eighty-six links, and a post oak, seven inches in diameter, marked S.T.F.C., bears south twenty-eight degrees, west, forty-four links distant; thence [north forty-five degrees and fifty-two minutes east, to a post with three rocks around it, on a line passing through the southeast corner of section twenty-three, township thirty-eight, north, range six, east, six chains and forty-three links, south fifty-one and a half degrees east of the southeast corner of said section, from said post and rocks, a sugar tree, twenty inches in diameter, marked S.T.G.C., bears south thirty degrees, west fifty links, and a white oak, thirty inches diameter, marked S.T.F.C., bears south eighty-one degrees, west one hundred and thirty-one links distant] north 45 degrees 57 minutes 31 seconds east, a distance of 54,243.81 feet along the line as shown on a survey examined and approved by the St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve County presiding commissioners on December 3, 1991, and filed as document number 750-26038 in the state land survey repository, to the corner described on certified land corner document number 600-47786 filed in the state land survey repository; thence in a direct line as shown on document number 750-26038 toward the southeast corner of township thirty-nine, north, of range five, east, so far as to intersect the Platten Creek; thence in a direct line to Skagg's Spring, on the Isle au Bois Creek, in section fourteen, township thirty-nine, north, of range six, east, and to said Isle au Bois Creek and to the middle of the main channel thereof; thence down the middle of the main channel of said Isle au Bois Creek to the slough bank; thence in a northeastern direction to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River; thence down the middle of the main channel of said Mississippi River to the place of beginning.