JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 31?
CHAPTER 198.

AN ACT supplementary to an act to designate the
arbitrators to ascertain and fix the boundary be-
tween the States of Virginia and Maryland, ap-
proved 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 arbi- trators to ascertain and fix the boundary between the States of Virginia and Maryland; " it was pro- vided, that the settlement and determination of the true line of boundary between the States of Virginia and Maryland, be referred to the Honorable Jere- miah 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 Virgi- nia, That the said Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, and the Honorable James B. Beck, of Kentucky, and the said Honorable Charles A. Jenkins, do pro- ceed to ascertain and determine the true line of boundary between the States of Virginia and Mary- land, and do make and deliver their award in writ- ing, 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 regula- tions as they may prescribe, and the State of Mary- land 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.