Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all of that area in the Township of Bethesda, in the County of York, embraced in the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point established on bank of Fishing Creek on lands of Thomas Boggs, and running thence N. 73 E. 144.50 chains to pile of stones on land of B. F. Rawlinson; thence S. 23 E. 240 chains to haw bush on land known as McCant's land; thence S. 67 W. 345.50 chains to pile of stones on land of Mrs. A. P. Harris; thence N. 9 E. 78.00 chains to stone on land of Mrs. Mary Byers; thence N. 6 W. 185 chains to rock on Johnston's land; thence N. 67 E. 35 chains to Fishing Creek at corner of Adkins and Johnston's land, and thence with the meanderings of Fishing Creek to the beginning, be, and the same is hereby, created a Special School District in the County of York, to be known as the Bethesda School District.

Sec. 2. That said School District is hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, with all the rights, powers, privileges and liabilities as are provided for School Districts by the General School Law of South Carolina, and also with all the rights, powers, privileges and liabilities as are provided for and conferred in an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of separate School Districts in the several cities, incorporated towns and villages in this State, to authorize the levy and collection of special taxes therein, and to authorize the levy and collection of special taxes in the several School Districts now formed, or hereafter to be formed, outside of cities, incorporated towns and villages," approved December 24th, 1888.

Approved December 24th, A.D. 1890.

Benjamin R. Tillman, Governor.
Eugene B. Gary, President of the Senate and Lt. Governor.
Ira B. Jones, Speaker of the House of Representatives.