Jones County is bounded by beginning at the point where the Choctaw boundary line crosses the center of range fourteen, west; thence easterly on said Choctaw boundary line to the line between ranges nine and ten, west; thence south with said range line to the township line between townships five and six; thence west with said township line to the center of range fourteen, west; thence north with the section lines, in the center of said range, to the beginning. The county sites are Ellisville and Laurel.Codes, 1857, ch. 2, art 31; 1871, § 49; 1880, § 53; 1892, § 377; 1906, § 440; Hemingway's 1917, § 3860; 1930, § 3921; 1942, § 3056; Laws, 1/24/1826.
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