AN ACT supplementary to an act to designate the arbitrators to ascertain and fix the boundary be-tween the States of Virginia and Maryland, approved April the eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy four.

WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter two hundred and forty-seven, entitled " an act to designate the arbitrators to ascertain and fix the boundary between the States of Virginia and Maryland; " it was provided, that the settlement and determination of the true line of boundary between the States of Virginia and Maryland, be referred to the Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, and the Honorable William A. Graham, of North Carolina, and a third person to be selected by them, and they did select accordingly as a third person, the Honorable Charles A. Jenkins, of Georgia, but the said William A. Graham has since departed this life; now for filling the vacancy thereby created, and for carrying out the purposes of the said act; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be, it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, with the concurrence of the State of Virginia, That the said Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, and the Honorable James B. Beck, of Kentucky, and the said Honorable Charles A. Jenkins, do proceed to ascertain and determine the true line of boundary between the States of Virginia and Maryland, and do make and deliver their award in writing, any two of them concurring therein. Each

Commission to determine boundary line

State shall have the right to be represented by counsel before the arbitrators under such regulations as they may prescribe, and the State of Maryland hereby pledges its faith to accept and abide by the award of the said arbitrators in the premises, as final and conclusive; provided, however, that neither of the said States, nor the citizens thereof, shall by the decision of the said arbitrators, be deprived of any of the rights and privileges enumerated and set

Right to be represented.