8 FOURTH REPORT OF SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS 
Hill light-house. But where the dividing line between Connecticut 
and Rhode Island may be on the water at the east end of the Sound, 
the Commissioners have been unable to determine. They have met 
the Fish Commissioners of Rhode Island in conference upon the sub- 
ject, hoping that there might be found some evidence by which they 
could be guided. But after diligent inquiry, no one seems to know 
of any dispute or any agreement about sucha line. The thread of 
Pawcatuck River, which forms the division line between these two 
States, on the land, for some distance above its mouth, runs north-east 
and south-west, so that a considerable portion of the territory of 
Rhode Island lies south-east of Connecticut. From Watch Hill a 
narrow sand bar extends about one and a half miles to the westward; 
it then turns at an angle of go degrees and runs the same distance a 
little west of north, terminating at Sandy Point and shutting in or 
forming Little Narragansett Bay. Sandy Point is a little south of 
east, from Windmill or Stonington Point, about a mile away; and it 
is also distant about a mile and a half west from the mouth of Pawca- 
tuck River. 
Three laws have been passed establishing the line between Connec- 
ticut and Rhode Island, from which the following extracts are taken, 
being all that has been found pertaining to the southerly end of the 
line. 
The first law was passed May 12, 1703, and may be found in Vol. 
II. of Private Laws of the State, page 1527. The boundary com- 
menced as follows: ‘‘ That the middle channel of Paquetuck River, 
alias Narragansett River, as it extended from Saltwater upwards till it 
comes to the mouth of Ashaway River, where it falls into said Paque- 
tuck River * * * shall be the fixed and stated line between the 
said colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island.” 
The next law was passed September 27th, 1728, and may be found 
in the said volume of Private Laws, page 1552. By this law the 
southerly portion of the boundary line is as follows: ‘‘and from said 
heap of stones, being the corner of Warwick as aforesaid, we extended 
a line dividend between said colonies unto the mouth of Ashaway, 
whence it falleth into Paquetuck River, and in said line we made 
many monuments of stone, &c.” But southerly or south-westerly 
beyond this point, nothing is said about the line. 
The third law was passed in 1840 and entitled ‘‘A law designating 
the line between Connecticut and Rhode Island, as surveyed and set- 
tled.” It may be found in Private laws of the State of Connecticut, 
Vol. iv., pp. 839 and 840. With reference to the southern end of the 
