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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 re-
spective Legislatures, submitted the controversies concern-
ing 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, ascertain,
and determine that the true line of boundary between the
said States, so far as they are conterminous with one an-
other, is as follows, to wit
Beginning 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 mean-
derings of said river by the low-water mark; to Smith's
Point, at or near the mouth of the Potomac, in latitude 37°
53' 08" and longitude 76° 131 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", longi-
tude 76° 02' 52"; thence across Smith's Island south 88°
301 east five thousand six hundred and twenty yards, to
the center 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 four thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty yards, to a point marked - A" on the
accompanying map, in the middle of Tangier sound, in
latitude 37° 56' 42", longitude 75° 56' 23", said point bear-
ing from Jane's Island light south 54° west, and distant
from that light three thousand five hundred and sixty
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