S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-20
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SECTION 3-3-20. Certain beacon or lighthouse sites.
Official statutory text
There has been ceded to the United States: (1) A site on Morris' Island in Charleston County for a beacon or lighthouse; (2) A site on Thomas' Island, for a beacon or lighthouse; (3) Sites for three beacons to be placed on or near North and South Island points in the vicinity of Georgetown in Georgetown County; (4) A site on Cape Island in Charleston County on some point in the immediate vicinity of the lighthouse in existence there in the year 1853 on Cape Romain for a lighthouse; and (5) A site on the east battery, in the city of Charleston, for a beacon or harbor light. None of the sites so ceded, as described in this section, exceed ten acres in any one case, nor may such sites be used for any other purpose than the purposes specified. Nothing in such cession shall exclude or prevent process, civil or criminal, issuing from the courts of this State from being served or executed within the limits of such cessions.
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