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MARYLAND. 



which first appeared in the Daily News. Her 

 smaller works and contributions to periodicals 

 she published under the title of " Health, Hus- 

 bandry, and Handicraft" (1861). She wrote 

 an autobiography, which was not published un- 

 til after her death, and an American edition of 

 which appeared in Boston in 1877. 



MARYLAND. Ex-Governor William A. 

 Graham, of North Carolina, one of the arbi- 

 trators chosen under the act of 1874 to deter- 

 mine the boundary-line between Maryland and 

 Virginia, having died in 1875, a new act was 

 passed at the legislative session of this year, 

 naming Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania; 

 James B. Beck, of Kentucky ; and Charles J. 

 Jenkins, of Georgia, as arbitrators for this 

 purpose, any two of them to have a decisive 

 voice. Their report was made in January, 

 1877, Messrs. Black and Jenkins concurring in 

 an award, and Mr. Beck dissenting from their 

 conclusions. The reasons were stated at length 

 on both sides for the conclusions reached. The 

 award of a majority of the arbitrators, which 

 both States have bound themselves in advance 

 to accept, is as follows : 



SEAL OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND. 



And now, to wit, January 16, Anno Domini 1877, 

 the undersigned, being^ a majority of the arbitrators 

 to whom the States of Virginia and Maryland, by 

 acts of their respective Legislatures, submitted the 

 controversies concerning their territorial limits, 

 with authority to ascertain and determine the true 

 line of boundary between them, having heard the 

 allegations of the said States and examined the 

 proofs on both sides, do find, declare, award, ascer- 

 tain, and determine that the true line of boundary 

 between the said States, so far as they are conter- 

 minous with one another, is as follows, to wit : Be- 

 ginning at the point on the Potomac River where the 

 line between Virginia and West Virginia strikes the 

 said river at low-water mark, and thence following 

 the meanderings of said, river by the low-water mark 

 to Smith's Point, at or near the mouth of the Poto- 

 mac, in latitude 37 53' 08* and longitude 76 13' 46*; 

 thence crossing the waters of the Chesapeake Bay 

 by a line running north 65 30' east, about nine and 

 a half nautical miles to a point on the western shore 

 of Smith's Island, at the north end of Sassafras 

 Hammock, in latitude 37 57' 13*, longitude 76 02' 

 52" ; thence across Smith's Island south 88 30' east 

 5,620 yards, to the centre of Horse Hammock, on 

 the eastern shore of Smith's Island, in latitude 37 



57' 08*, longitude 75* 59' 20' ; thence south 79 30' 

 east 4,880 yards, to a point marked "A " on an ac- 

 companying map, in the middle of Tangier Sound, 

 in latitude 37 56' 42", longitude 75 56' 23", said 

 point bearing from Jane's Island light south 54 

 west, and distant from that light 3,560 yards ; thence 

 soutn 10 30' west 4,740 yards, by a line dividing 

 the waters of Tangier Sound, to a point where it in- 

 tersects the straight line from Smith's Point to Wat- 

 kins's Point, said point of intersection being in lati- 

 tude 37 54' 21", longitude 75 56' 55", bearing from 

 Jane's Island light south 29 west, and from Horse 

 Hammock south 34 30' east. This point of inter- 

 section is marked ".B " on an accompanying map. 

 Thence north 85 15' east 6,720 yards along the line 

 above mentioned, which runs from Smith's Point to 

 Walking's Point, until it reaches the latter spot, 

 namely, Watkins's Point, which is in latitude 87 54 

 38", longitude 75 52' 44". From Watkins's Point the 

 boundary-line runs due east 7,880 yards, to a point 

 where it meets a line running through the middle of 

 Pocomoke Sound, which is marked " G " on an ac- 

 companying map, and is in latitude 37 54' 38", lon- 

 gitude 75 47' 50 ; thence by a line dividing the wa- 

 ters of Pocomoke Sound, north 47 10' east 5,220 

 yards, to a point in said sound marked u i>" on an 

 accompanying map, in latitude 37 56' 25", longitude 

 75 25' 26" ; thence following the middle of the Poco- 

 moke Kiver by a line of irregular curves, as laid 

 down on an accompanying map, until it intersects 

 the westward protraction of the boundary-line 

 marked by Scarborough and Calvert, May 28, 1668. 

 at a point in the middle of the Pocomoke River, and 

 in latitude 37 59' 37, longitude 75 37' 04" ; thence 

 by the Scarborough and Calvert line, which runs 5 

 45' nortli of east, to the Atlantic Ocean. 



The latitudes, longitudes, courses, and distances 

 here given have been measured upon the coast-chart 

 No. 33 of the United States Coast Survey (sheet No. 

 3, Chesapeake Bay), which is herewith filed as part 

 of this award and explanatory thereof. The origi- 

 nal charter-line is marked upon the said map and 

 shaded in blue. The present line of boundary, as 

 ascertained and determined, is also marked and 

 shaded in red, while the yellow indicates the line 

 referred to in the compact of 1785 between Smith's 

 Point and Watkins's Point. In further explanation 

 of this award, the arbitrators deem it proper to add 

 that 



1. The measurements being taken and places fixed 

 according to the Coast Survey, we have come as near 

 to perfect mathematicnl accuracy as in the nature 

 of things is possible. But in cnse of any inaccuracy 

 in the described course or length of a line, or in the 

 latitude or longitude of a place, the natural objects 

 called for must govern. 



2. The middle thread of Pocomoke River is equi- 

 distant as nearly as may be between "the two shores 

 without considering arms, inlets, creeks, or nfflu- 

 ents as parts of the river, but measuring the shore- 

 lines from headland to headland. 



3. The low-water mark on the Potomac, to which 

 Virginia has a right in the soil, is to be measured 

 by the same rule ; that is to say, from low-water 

 mark at one headland to low-water mark at another, 

 without following indentations, bays, creeks, inlets, 

 or affluent rivers. 



4. Virginia is entitled not only to full dominion 

 over the soil to low-water mark on the south shore 

 of the Potomac, hut has a right to such use of the 

 river beyond the line of low-water mark as may be 

 necessary to the full enjoyment of her riparian 

 ownership, without impeding the navigation or 

 otherwise interfering with the proper use of it by 

 Maryland, agreeably to the compact of 1785. 



In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our 

 hands the day and year above written. 



J. 8. BLACK, of Pennsylvania. 

 CHARLES J. JENKINS, of Georgia. 

 A. W. GRAHAM, Secretary. 



