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Appendix. 
CHAPTER: EXXXE 
Of the United States Statutes, passed at the Third Session of the 
Forty-sixth Congress, 1880-81. 
AN ACT CONCERNING THE SETTLEMENT OF BOUNDARY LINES BETWEEN 
NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT. 
Whereas, Commissioners duly appointed on the part of the State of 
New York, and Commissioners duly appointed on the part of the State 
of Connecticut, for the purpose of settling the boundary line between 
said States, did execute an agreement in the words following, to wit: 
“Memorandum of agreement by and between the subscribers, Com- 
missioners of the States of New York and Connecticut, respectively, to 
settle the question of the boundaries between said States, being thereunto 
authorized by the resolutions of said States, respectively, passed by them 
as hereunto annexed. That is to say, we, Allen C. Beach, Secretary of 
State, Augustus Schoonmaker, Attorney General, and Horatio Sey- 
mour, Junior, State Engineer and Surveyor, Commissioners of the State 
of New York; and we, Origen S. Seymour, Lafayette S. Foster, and Wil- 
liam T. Minor, Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, have agreed 
and do hereby agree, to fix, determine, and establish the boundaries 
between our respective States, subject to the approval and ratification of 
the Legislatures of our respective States, in the following manner: We 
agree that the boundary on the land constituting the western boundary 
of Connecticut and the eastern boundary of the State of New York 
shall be, and is, as the same was defined by monuments erected by 
Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of the State of New York, 
and completed in the year eighteen hundred and sixty; the said boun- 
dary line extending from Byram Point, (formerly called Lyons Point), 
on the south to the line of the State of Massachusetts on the north. 
And we further agree that the boundary on the Sound shall be, and is, 
as follows: Beginning at a point in the center of the channel, about six 
hundred feet south of the extreme rocks of Byram Point, marked num- 
ber O on appended United States Coast Survey chart; thence running in 
a true southeast course three and one-quarter statute miles; thence in 
