West Virginia Code § 1-3-7

Filing plat of new county after its creation; change of boundaries
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If the proposed new county be created with the boundaries specified in the plat and
certificate of survey mentioned in section four of this article, a copy of such plat and
certificate showing the courses and distances of the boundary line of such new county, and
the streams and other natural objects or points referred to in the act creating the same, shall
be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and a similar copy in the officee of the clerk of
the county court of such new county. But if such new county be created with different
boundaries than those so specified, the lines thereof, so far as they diffrer from those
originally run as aforesaid, shall be run and marked by the surveyor of such new county and
the surveyors of the counties out of which the same may be formed. They shall make a report
of their proceedings to the Secretary of State, and also to the clerk of the county court of
each of such counties, accompanied by a plat similar in all retspects to the one hereinbefore
provided for. Such surveying shall be done at the expense of such new county.

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