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the Commissioners appointed by Virginia and Maryland to
run and mark the boundary line between those States. Col.
Lee mentions his report to the Governor in October, 1858,
which this Committee has not been able to find; but he states
that in it, he informed the Governor of this proposition "to
cause a minute survey to be made of the Eastern Shore sec-
tion of the boundary, that he might more understandingly
locate the true position of Watkins' Point, and obtain other
necessary local information. That survey, he states, is com-
plete, and the maps finished, with the exception of a single
point on Smith's Island, which Lieut. Michler is about to
visit—December 1859.

Col. Lee states that it results from these surveys that the
old Scarburgh line is not an east line, but is inclined five de-
grees and fifteen minutes (5°, 15") to the north of east. He
states that the original line run by Calvert & Scarburgh in
1668 was an east line. "This," says Col. Lee, "must have
been by compass, no doubt, the only means at their command
in those days, as it appears that its inclination is a very close
approximation to the magnetic variation in this locality at
that period."

Col. Lee adds, "Whether or not Maryland shall insist that
this line be an east line as called for by her charter, and so
intended to have been by those Commissioners, thereby claim
an area of some twenty-three square miles from Accornac
county, Virginia, is for your Excellency and the Legislature
to determine."

"The foregoing data would, in either case, throw the
southern portion of Annamessex into Virginia, and in what-
ever part of Annamessex Watkins' Point may be placed,
either Somerset must loose or Worcester gain a portion of
territory."

Col. Lee suggests that perhaps the only mode of recon-
ciling existing difficulties would be that Maryland relinquish
her claim upon the northern portion of Accomac county, pro-
vided that Virginia consent that the shores of Pocomoke Bay
and Tanger's Sound, from the present commencement of the
line in Pocomoke River to Jones' Island, should be recognized
to be the boundary between that river and the bay; the line
across the bay to Smith's Point remaining as now recog-
nized."

Thus the matter remains unsettled.

The committee have received information from a member of
the Virginia Committee, that the Legislature of that State
have appointed a committee of three members of their Legis-
lature, to meet a similar committee from Maryland, to adjust
and mark the Eastern Shore boundary between the two States,
the results of their work, to be submitted to the Legislatures
of the said States, respectively, for approval or rejection.

The committee therefore recommend the appointment of