SEC. 19-1-121. Rankin County.
Rankin County is bounded by beginning on Pearl River, in township nine, range five, east, where the old Choctaw boundary crosses said river; thence southeast with said boundary to where the same intersects the line between ranges five and six, east; thence south with said range line to the line between townships two and three, north; thence west on said township line to Pearl River; thence up said river, with its meanderings, to the beginning. The county site is Brandon.
SOURCES: Codes, 1871, Sec. 73; 1880, Sec. 78; 1892, Sec. 403; 1906, Sec. 467; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 3887; 1930, Sec. 3948; 1942, Sec. 3083; Laws, Feb. 4, 1828.