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a straight line (the arc of a great circle) northeasterly to a point four 
statute miles true south of New London lighthouse; thence northeast- 
erly to a point marked number one on the annexed United States Coast 
Survey chart of Fisher’s Island Sound, which point is on the long east 
three-quarters north sailing course drawn on said map, and is about 
one thousand feet northerly from the Hammock or N. Dumpling 
lighthouse; thence following the said east three-quarters north sailing 
course as laid down on said map, easterly to a point marked number 
two on said map; thence southeasterly toward a point marked number 
three onsaid map, so far assaid States arecoterminus: Provided, how- 
ever, That nothing in the foregoing agreement contained shall be con- 
strued to affect existing titles to property, corporeal or incorporeal, held 
under grants heretofore made by either of said States, nor to affect ex- 
isting rights which said States, or either of them, or which the citizens 
of either of said States, may have by grant, letters patent, or prescrip- 
tion of fishing in the waters of said Sound, whether for shell or floating 
fish, irrespective of the boundary line hereby established, it not being the 
purpose of this agreement to define, limit, or interfere with any such 
right, rights, or privileges, whatever the same may be. 
“In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand to this instru- 
ment, and to a duplicate thereof, December eighth, eighteen hundred and 
seventy-nine. 
“ ALLEN C. BEACH, 
“ Secretary of State, 
* AUGUSTUS SCHOONMAKER, 
“ Attorney General; 
“HORATIO SEYMOUR, JR. 
“ State Engineer and Surveyor; 
“ Commissioners of the State of New York. 
“QORIGEN Ss. SEYMOUR; 
CARA Ad 8S. OS TER, 
‘WILLIAM T. MINOR, 
“Commissioners of the State of Connecticut.” 
And, whereas said agreement has been confirmed by the Legislatures 
of said States of New York and Connecticut respectively; therefore, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of 
the Congress of the United States be, and hereby is, given to said agree- 
ment, and to each and every part thereof; and the boundaries estab- 
lished by said agreement are hereby approved: fArovided, however, 
that nothing herein contained shall be considered to impair or in any 
manner to affect any right of the United States or jurisdiction of its 
courts in and over the islands or waters which form the subject of said 
agreement. ~ 
Approved February 26, 1881, 
