No. 129, Original

In the
Supreme Court of the United States

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Plaintiff

v.

STATE OF MARYLAND, Defendant

Before the Special Master
the Hon. Ralph I. Lancaster, Jr.

SELECTED AUTHORITIES CITED BY
THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA


TAB
AUTHORITY
Volume 1
Compacts
1
 Compact of 1785, 1785-86 Md. Acts c. I, 1785-86 Va. Acts c. XVII, reprinted in 12 Hening’s Statutes at Large 50 (1823)
Maryland Act appears at MSA SC 5330-3-64
Virginia Act appears at MSA SC 5330-2-43
2
 Black-Jenkins Award, 1878 Md. Acts c. 274, 1878 Va. Acts c. 246, Act of March 3, 1879, ch. 196, 20 Stat. 481
Chapter 274 of Md. Acts appears at MSA SC 5330-3-65.
Maryland passed another act this year, 1878 Md. Acts c. 374 is posted at MSA SC 5330-3-55,which allowed for the appointment of a commissioner to conduct a survey.
Chapter 246 of Va. Acts was passed during the 1877-78 session, and is posted at MSA SC 5330-2-78
Congressional Act of March 3, 1879 appears at MSA SC 5330-9-101
3
 Potomac River Compact of 1958, 1959 Md. Acts c. 269, 1959 Va. Acts c. 28, Pub. L. No. 87-783, 76 Stat. 797 (1962)
Maryland's recording of the Compact is in the Laws of 1959, not 1958 as cited in VA's Table of Authorities, and is posted at MSA SC 5330-3-61
Annotated Code of Maryland appears at MSA SC 5330-11-3
1959 Va. Acts c. 246 appears at MSA SC 5330-2-75
Cases
4
 Binney’s Case, 2 Bland 99 (1829) MSA SC 5330-10-11
5
 O’Neal v. Virginia & Maryland Bridge Co., 18 Md. 1 (1861) MSA SC 5330-16-56
6
 United States v. The Great Falls Manufacturing Co., (Montgomery Co. 1858), reprinted in Sen. Ex. Doc. 42, 35th Cong., 2d Sess. 2 (1859)
MSA SC 5330-9-70

The opinion from Lexis-Nexis appears at MSA SC 5330-16-85

Also see Dave Shackelford's notes on this case at MSA SC 5330-24-5, MSA SC 5330-24-6, MSA SC 5330-24-10, and MSA SC 5330-24-13. Dave's timeline for events in this case appears at MSA SC 5330-24-11.
Statutes
7
 1755 Va. Acts. C. XII, reprinted in, 6 Hening’s Statutes at Large 494 (1819) MSA SC 5330-2-2
8
 1757 Va. Acts c. X, reprinted in 7 Hening’s Statutes at Large 125 (1820) MSA SC 5330-2-3
9
 1761 Va. Acts c. IX, reprinted in 7 Hening’s Statutes at Large 401 (1820) MSA SC 5330-2-4
10
 1765 Va. Acts c. XXXII, reprinted in 8 Hening’s Statutes at Large 146 (1821) MSA SC 5330-2-6
11
 1766 Va. Acts c. XLIII, reprinted in 8 Hening’s Statutes at Large 263 (1821) MSA SC 5330-2-7
12
 Act of June 15, 1768, Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland 1766-1768, 61 Md. Archives 427 (1944) MSA SC 5330-3-2
13
 1769 Va. Acts c. XXV, reprinted in 8 Hening’s Statutes at Large 368 (1821) MSA SC 5330-2-8
14
 1772 Va. Acts c. XXVII, reprinted in 8 Hening’s Statutes at Large 554 (1821) MSA SC 5330-2-9
15
 1772 Va. Acts c. XXXI, reprinted in 8 Hening’s Statutes at Large 570 (1821) MSA SC 5330-2-10
16
 1776 Va. Const., reprinted in 9 Hening’s Statutes at Large c. II (1821) MSA SC 5330-2-11
17
 1784-85 Md. Acts c. XXXIII MSA SC 5330-3-6
18
 1784-85 Md. Acts, Resolution (appointing Commissioners) MSA SC 5330-3-37
* listed as No. 19 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 1 as exhibit 18
19
 1784-85 Va. Acts c. XLIII, reprinted in 11 Hening’s Statutes at Large 510 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-12
* listed as No. 18 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 1 as exhibit 19
20
 1784-85 Va. Acts c. XLIV, reprinted in 11 Hening’s Statutes at Large 525 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-13
21
 1785-86 Md. Acts c. III MSA SC 5330-3-38
22
 1785-86 Va. Acts c. XI, reprinted in 12 Hening’s Statutes at Large 42 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-14
23
 1785-86 Va. Acts c. XXIII, reprinted in 12 Hening’s Statutes at Large 68 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-15
24
 1786-87 Md. Acts c. II MSA SC 5330-3-39
25
 1787-88 Va. Acts c. XXIV, reprinted in 12 Hening’s Statutes at Large 508 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-16
26
 1789-90 Md. Acts c. XXXV
This act was actually passed during the November-December 1790 session, and appears at MSA SC 5330-3-63
27
 1789 Va. Acts c. XXXII, reprinted in 13 Hening’s Statutes at Large 43 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-30
28
 1791-92 Va. Acts c. XXXIV, reprinted in 13 Hening’s Statutes at Large 275 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-18
* listed as No. 29 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 1 as exhibit 28
29
 1790-91 Va. Acts c. LVII, reprinted in 13 Hening’s Statutes at Large 187 (1823) MSA SC 5330-2-17
* listed as No. 28 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 1 as exhibit 29
30
 1793-94 Va. Acts c. XXVII MSA SC 5330-2-19
31
 1797-98 Md. Acts c. XCIII MSA SC 5330-3-41
32
 1797-98 Va. Acts c. 3 MSA SC 5330-2-20
33
 1800 Va. Acts c. 42 MSA SC 5330-2-45
Virginia's exhibit contains chapter 42, not 62 as cited in their table.
34
 1802-03 Md. Acts c. LXXXIV MSA SC 5330-3-42
35
 1802-03 Va. Acts c. LXXV MSA SC 5330-2-21
36
 2 Code of Virginia c. 237, 8 (1819)MSA SC 5330-2-28
37
 1820-21 Md. Res. No. 26 MSA SC 5330-3-62
38
 1820-21 Va. Acts c. 62 MSA SC 5330-2-22
39
 1823-24 Va. Acts c. 38 MSA SC 5330-2-23
40
 1824-25 Md. Acts c. 79 MSA SC 5330-3-9
41
 1859-60 Va. Acts Res. No. 20 MSA SC 5330-2-32
* listed as No. 42 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 1 as exhibit 41
42
 Act of Mar. 3, 1825, ch. 25 Stat. 802 (1925) MSA SC 5330-9-100
* listed as No. 41 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 1 as exhibit 42
43
 1874 Md. Acts c. 247 MSA SC 5330-3-16
44
 1874 Va. Acts c. 135 MSA SC 5330-2-25
45
 1875 Va. Acts c. 48 MSA SC 5330-2-24
46
 1894 Md. Acts c. 63 MSA SC 5330-3-43
47
 1894 Va. Acts c. 564 MSA SC 5330-2-26
48
 1896 Va. Acts c. 627 MSA SC 5330-2-27
49
 1896 Md. Acts c. 427 MSA SC 5330-3-44
50
 1949 Md. Acts c. 484 MSA SC 5330-3-24
51
 1957 Md. Acts c. 766 MSA SC 5330-3-26
52
 1957 Md. Acts c. 767 MSA SC 5330-3-27
53
 1957 Md. Acts c. 770 MSA SC 5330-3-28
54
 Va. Code Ann. 7.1-1, 7.1-3, 7.1-7 (Mitchie 1999) MSA SC 5330-2-29
55
 2000 Md. Laws c. 557 (S.B. 729) MSA SC 5330-3-60
Other Authories
56
 1 W.W. Abbott & Dorothy Twohig, Eds., The Papers of George Washington (Colonial Series) (1983) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-34
pp. 8-36, 178-183, 196-199
57
 8 W.W. Abbott & Dorothy Twohig, Eds., The Papers of George Washington (Colonial Series) (1983) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-32
pp. 284-295, 324-325, 348-353, 356-363, 632-633 (partial index)
58
 2 W.W. Abbott & Dorothy Twohig, Eds., The Papers of George Washington (Confederation Series) (1992) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-8-11
pp. 18-19, 50-51, 86-143, 154-157, 164-169, 176-177, 180-187, 194-199, 222-223, 228-245, 248-257, 260-285, 296-299, 306-315, 328-333, 362-367, 378-383, 390-393, 396-399, 446-451, 456-459, 472-473, 562-567, 588-591
Washington's correspondence pertaining to the Compact of 1785 previously posted at MSA SC 5330-11-6
59
 Answer of the State of Maryland to the Cross-Bill of the State of West Virginia, Maryland v. West Virginia, No. 1, Orig., Transcript of Record, Vol. I (U.S. Jan 30, 1893) MSA SC 5330-8-22
Volume II
60
 Answer to the Bill of Complaint, Virginia v. Maryland, No. 12, Orig. (U.S. Feb. 19, 1958) MSA SC 5330-8-23
61
 Attorney General of Maryland, Brief of Appellant, Wharton v. Wise, No. 1054 (U.S. 1893) MSA SC 5330-8-24
62
 Cora Bacon-Foster, Early Chapters in the Development of the Patomac Route to the West, (1912) MSA SC 5330-9-68
63
 Bill of Complaint (Commonwealth of Virginia), Virginia v. Maryland, No. 12 Orig. (1957) MSA SC 5330-8-25
64
 Board of Arbitrators to Adjust the Boundary Line Between Maryland and Virginia: Opinions and Award of Arbitrators on the Maryland and Virginia Boundary Line (M’Gill & Witherow 1877) MSA SC 5330-8-12
65
 Brief for the State of Maryland, Maryland v. West Virginia, No. 1, Orig. (Oct. 19, 1909) MSA SC 5330-14-7
66
 Brief on Behalf of West Virginia, Maryland v. West Virginia, No. 1 Orig. (Oct. 21, 1909) MSA SC 5330-14-7
67
 Brief of Counsel for West Virginia on Points Involved in the Settlement of the Final Decree, Maryland v. West Virginia, No. 1, Orig. (May 12, 1910) MSA SC 5330-14-7
68
 Commission (Maryland) on Boundary Lines Between Virginia and Maryland (1870-1874), Report and Journal of Proceedings of the Joint Commissioners to Adjust the Boundary Line of the States of Maryland and Virginia. Authorized by the act of 1872, chapter 210 (Annapolis 1874) MSA SC 5330-8-5
69
 Correspondence of Governor Horatio Sharpe, Volume 1 (1753-1757), 6 Md. Archives (1888) MSA SC 5330-10-16
title page, preface, pp. 185-187, 196-205, facsimile of Cresap's map
Volume III
70
 Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, H.R. Rep. No. 90, 19th Cong., 2d Sess. (1827) MSA SC 5330-23-37
71
 Decree Proposed by the State of Maryland, Maryland v. West Virginia, No. 1, Orig. (U.S. Apr. 20, 1910) MSA SC 5330-14-7
72
 Edward S. Delaplaine, The Life of Thomas Johnson (1927) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-18
title page, pp. 59-84 (Chapter VII), 384-396 (Chapter XXIV)
73
 Carl N. Everstine, Research Division, Maryland Legislative Council, Research Report No. 26: The Compact of 1785 (1946) MSA SC 5330-9-1
74
 Carl N. Everstine, The Potomac River and Maryland’s Boundaries, 80 Maryland Historical Magazine (1985) MSA SC 5330-9-8
75
 Final Report of the Special Master, Virginia v. Maryland, No. 12, Orig. (U.S. Dec. 10, 1962) MSA SC 5330-16-260
Virginia has included Appendix A, which is not posted on mdag.net
76
 2 John C. Fitzpatrick, The Diaries of George Washington (1925) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-49
pp. 279-285, 306-313, 316-337, 350-357, 372-379, 400-405
77
 1 John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington (1931) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-29
pp. 100-101, 511-515
78
 3 John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington (1938) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-28
pp. 17-21
79
 27 John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington (1938) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-31
pp. 372-377, 470-481
80
 28 John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington (1938) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-44
pp. 8-13, 16-23, 30-33, 48-55, 76-87, 182-189, 278-281, 302-305
81
 James Haw, Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase (1980) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-9-51
pp. 130-143
82
 Helen Hill, George Mason: Constitulionalist (1938) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-9-90
pp. 180-213 (Chapter XII)
83
 Washington Irving, George Washington: A Biography (1994) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-40
pp. 622-635 (Chapter 49)
84
 Merril Jensen, The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation 1781-1789 (1950) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-20
title page, pp. 342-343
85
 Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1777) (White Ed. 1827) MSA SC 5330-2-36
Virginia has only included pp. 64-66, 70-74 of the October 20, 1777-January 24, 1778 session
86
 Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1784) (White Ed. 1828)
October 18, 1784-January 7, 1785 session appears at MSA SC 5330-2-39
87
 John Kobler, They’ve Been Fighting 173 Years, The Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 1, 1958 MSA SC 5330-9-88
88
 Letter from John T. Mason to Joseph Carlton of 1/11/1804, Records Group 79, Entry 164 "Legal Proceedings 1792-1828," National Archives II, College Park, Maryland (and accompanying Declaration of Zayne Tweed) MSA SC 5330-9-98
89
 Douglas R. Littlefield, Master’s Thesis, University of Maryland, A History of the Potomac Company and its Colonial Predecessors, 1748-1828 (1979) (Excerpt) MSA SC 5330-23-4
Virginia has only included pp. 1-26 (Chapter 1)
90
 Douglas R. Littlefield, The Potomac Company: a Misadventure in Financing an Early American Internal Improvement Project, 58 Business History Review 562 (1984) MSA SC 5330-23-27
91
 Jean B. Lee, In Search of Thomas Stone, Essential Revolutionary, 92 Maryland Hist. Mag. 285 (1997) MSA SC 5330-9-87
92
 Jean B. Lee, The Price of Nationhood: the American Revolution in Charles County (1994) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-24
pp. 222-239 (portion of Chapter 8)
93
 William H. Lowdermilk, History of Cumberland (1878) (1971 ed.) MSA SC 5330-23-17
title page, pp. 96-109
94
 Maryland Gazette, Nov. 3, 1774 MSA SC 5330-8-21
95
 Maryland Journal, Feb. 18, 1785 MSA SC 5330-8-19
96
 Angus W. McDonald, Report to Gov. Letcher [of Virginia], reprinted in 9 The Historical Magazine and Notes & Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History & Biography of America 13 (1865) MSA SC 5330-23-11
97
 John V.L. McMahon, An Historical View of the Government of Maryland: from its Colonization to the Present Day (1831) MSA SC 5330-23-21
title page, pp. 1-72 (Chapter 1)
98
 Penelope M. Osburn, Seven Ferries Served Loudoun in the 1700s, The Loudoun-Times Mirror, Sep. 26, 1957 MSA SC 5330-23-41
Volume IV
99
 Potomac River Basin Report, H.R. Doc. 343, 91st Cong., 2d Sess. (1970) (Excerpt) MSA SC 5330-23-42
This exhibit only contains excerpts from Volume I.
100
 Potomac River from Washington, .D.C. to Cumberland, Md., H.R. Doc. No. 893, 63rd Cong., 2d Sess. (1914) MSA SC 5330-23-25
101
 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland at a Session Held at Annapolis, February 22-March 26, 1755, 52 Md. Archives 280 (1935) MSA SC 5330-3-68
title page, pp. 280-283
102
 John J. Reardon, Edmund Randolph: A Biography (1975) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-35
pp. 72-87, 400-405
103
 Report Relative to the Boundary Line Between Maryland and Virginia, Virginia Sen. Doc. No. 21 (1874)
 MSA SC 5330-9-18
* listed as No. 104 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 4 as exhibit 103
104
 Commission (Virginia) on Boundary Lines (1870-1874), The report of the Commissioners on Boundary Lines Between the State of Virginia, and the States of Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee [microform]: read in the Senate, Jan. 17, 1872
MSA SC 5330-9-40
* listed as No. 103 in Virginia's Table of Authorities, but appears in Volume 4 as exhibit 104
105
 Report of the Commissioners to the Governors of Maryland and Virginia, The Potomac River Compact of 1958, reprinted in Virginia House Document No. 22 (1960) MSA SC 5330-9-14
106
 Kate Mason Rowland, The Mount Vernon Convention, XI The Penn. Magazine of History and Biography 410 (1887) MSA SC 5330-9-86
107
 2 Kate Mason Rowland, The Life of George Mason (1892) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-9-53 and MSA SC 5330-23-26
title page, pp. 68-99 (Chapter III)
108
 1 Robert A. Rutland, The Papers of George Mason (1970) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-30
various prefatory/introductory pages, pp. 3-11, 220-225
109
 2 Robert A. Rutland, The Papers of George Mason (1970) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-38
pp. 746-757, 812-829, 834-839, 843-845
110
 8 Robert A. Rutland, The Papers of James Madison (1973) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-39
pp. vii-xv (table of contents), 6-15, 18-23, 34-39, 88-91, 222-235, 264-273, 292-295, 324-329, 336-339
111
 9 Robert A. Rutland, The Papers of James Madison (1974) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-36
pp. 230-231
112
 2 J. Thomas Scharf, History of Maryland (1879) (1967 reprint) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-19
pp. 518-541 (Chapter XXXI)
113
 Sen. Doc. 610, 26th Cong., 1st Sess. (1840)
(Only pp. 74-75 appear at MSA SC 5330-23-12)
114
 Virginia Gazette, Oct. 28, 1775
(Oct. 27, 1775 issue appears at MSA SC 5330-8-18, but advertisement appears to be the same one that appears in Oct. 28th issue. Oct. 28th issue not present on microfilm at Nimitz Library.)
115
 Virginia Journal, Nov. 25, 1784
116
 Virginia Journal, Mar. 10, 1785
117
 Virginia Journal, Mar. 17, 1785
118
 George Washington Ward, The Early Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Project (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-23
Virginia has only included page 1 of introduction, pp. 9-13, 15-17 (pp. 9-17 compose Chapter 1)
119
 John M. Wearmouth, Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Historic Resource Study (1988) MSA SC 5330-23-15
120
 Frank F. White, Jr., The Governors of Maryland (1970) (Excerpts) MSA SC 5330-23-22
pp. 2-9 (Chapter 1, Thomas Johnson), 178-183 (Chapter 35, William Pinkney Whyte)
121
 William P. Whyte, Isaac D. Jones, Boundary Line Between the States of Maryland and Virginia, Before the Hons. Jeremiah S. Black, William A. Graham, and Charles J. Jenkins, Arbitrators upon the Boundary Line between the States of Virginia and Maryland (June 26, 1874) [Virginia State Library and Archives copy] MSA SC 5330-9-82
122
 W. Pinkney Whyte, Isaac D. Jones, Evidence to Sustain the Claim of Maryland that the Charter to Lord Baltimore Granted to Him the Bed of the Potomac River, and All the Islands in it, to the South-Western Bank of that River (1876) MSA SC 5330-8-4
123
 W. Pinkney Whyte, Synopsis of Argument made by Mr. Pinkney Whyte, of Counsel for Maryland, Boundary Line Between the States of Maryland & Virginia, Before the Board of Arbitrators (Aug. 26, 1876) MSA SC 5330-9-43
124
 Woodrow Wilson, The Making of the Nation, 80 Atlantic Monthly 1 (1897) MSA SC 5330-9-89