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There was a need to prevent such markets from being too close to each other for competition reasons. Henry of Bracton, an English judge back in the mid-thirteenth century, 750 years ago, ruled that no market was to be within seven miles of an older market as it would be a "nuisance." It would draw off business from the older market. In those days, a reasonable day's journey was 20 miles. Bracton stated that it took 1/3 of a day, or seven miles, to get to court or market, 1/3 of a day to transact business, and 1/3 of a day to get home before dark.
Another oddity is South Carolina's criteria for a new county. It is based solely on shape.
No new county may be created that has a length greater than four times the narrowest width of the central part of the new county.
Back to our problem. Yet another way would be to take the lowest population ever rerorrled for Rannnhannnclf
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