Washington County is bounded by beginning on the Mississippi River, at a point where the line between townships nineteen and twenty intersects the same; thence east on said township line to the line between ranges five and six, west; thence south on said range line to the line between townships sixteen and seventeen; thence east on said township line to the center line of Sunflower River; thence in a southerly direction with the meanderings of Sunflower River and along its center line to the township line between townships fourteen and fifteen; thence west on said township line to the northwest corner of section three, township fourteen, range seven, west; thence south on section lines to the line between townships thirteen and fourteen, at the northwest corner of section three, township thirteen; thence west to the Mississippi River; thence up said river to the beginning. The county site is Greenville.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 3, art 2; 1857, ch. 2, art 33; 1871, § 84; 1880, § 92; 1892, § 416; 1906, § 480; Hemingway's 1917, § 3902; 1930, § 3963; 1942, § 3098; Laws, 6/4/1800.
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