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MEMORIAL.
Eon. D. G. Sruce,
House of Delegates of Maryland:
In 1852, '56, '58 and '60. the Legislatures of Maryland
and Virginia passed joint resolutions to have the two parts of the
boundary that had not been fixed before, viz : the line on the
Eastern Shore and the western line of Maryland, run and
marked, and pledged themselves to defray the expenses incur-
red, to equal parts.
The Commissioners entrusted with the matter, Th. J. Lee,
Esq., of Maryland, and Angus. W. McDonald, Esq., of Vir-
ginia, secured Lieut. N. Michler, Topographical Engineer,
for the superintendence of the survey, who, aided by J. de
la Camp, C. E., made the survey of the part on the Eastern
Shore in the iall of 1858. The summer of 1859 was then
occupied with the commencement of the survey of the so-
called meridian line, the western line of Maryland, about 38
miles in length. This line was understood to run from the
so called Fairfax Stone, a mark stone put at the very source
of the N. Branch of the Potomac, in a true north line to the
Pennsylvania line, and authorization had been given by the
General Assemblies of both States to run and mark this line,
and to survey an area of reference of a few miles in width,
on both sides of the line. During that summer, the line was
tiaced ovet the tops of the mountains to the intersection of
the Pennsylvania line, and run and cut through the woods
in a distance of about 16 miles from the southern starting
point. Strong square wooden posts were put at the intersec-
tion of every road, and 8 cut stone monuments were put at
the following points.
1. At the Fairfax Stone.
2. On the summit of the Backbone.
3. At the intersection of the N. W. Va. Turnpike.
4. On Lauer Hill.
5. At the intersection of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
6. On Snaggy Hill.
7. On Tike's Hill.
8. At the intersection of the Pennsylvania line.
Whilst Lieut. Michler, aided by L. Daser, determined, by
a great many series of astronomical observations, the direction
of the line on the ground, the second part of the agreement
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