Pike County is bounded by beginning at the northwest corner of township four, north, range seven, east; thence east on the township line to the northeast corner of section two, township four, north, range nine, east; thence due south along the east line of sections two, eleven, fourteen, twenty-three, twenty-six and thirty-five of townships four, three, two and one respectively to the thirty-first parallel of latitude, being the line between the States of Louisiana and Mississippi; thence west along the said thirty-first degree, being the boundary line between the states aforesaid, to the range line between ranges six and seven, east; thence north along said range line to the point of beginning. The county site is Magnolia.Codes, 1871, § 70; 1880, § 74; 1892, § 399; 1906, § 463; Hemingway's 1917, § 3883; 1930, § 3944; 1942, § 3079; Laws, 2/9/1815; Laws, 1908, ch. 153.
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