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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the State of Virginia, by an act of its

General Assembly, entitled an act to designate the

arbitrators to ascertain and fix the boundary be-

tween the States of Maryland and Virginia, approved

on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of

our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-

four, has declared its willingness to submit the said

controversy to arbitration, and to accept as final and

conclusive, such award as may be made in the prem-

ises; therefore —

SECTION 1.. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Boundary line.

Maryland, That the settlement and determination of

the true line of boundary between the States of Vir-

ginia and Maryland, be referred to the Honorable

Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, and the Hon-

Arbitrators

orable William A. Graham, of North Carolina, and

a third person to be selected by them, who are-

hereby requested to act as arbitrators, and to ascer-

tain and determine the true line of boundary be-

tween the said States of Virginia and Maryland, and

deliver their award in writing, any two of them

concurring therein. Each State shall have the right

to be represented by counsel before said arbitrators,

subject to such regulations as they may prescribe;

and the State of Maryland hereby pledges its faith

to accept and abide by the award of said arbitrators in

Accept and
abilde by

the premises as final and conclusive ; provided, how-

ever, that neither of the States, nor the citizens

thereof, shall, by the decision qf the1 said arbitrators,

be deprived of any of the rights and privileges

enumerated and set forth in the compact between

them entered into in the year seventeen hundred

and eighty-five, but that the same shall remain to

and be enjoyed by the said States and the citizens

thereof, forever.

Final adjust-
ment

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That until the final ad-

justment and settlement of the said line of boundary,

the temporary line across the Chesapeake Bay,

known as the Lovett-Davidson line, shall be faith-

fully observed by the citizens of the said two States ;

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and the Governor is hereby requested to forward a

copy of this act to the Governor of Virginia.

In force

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be

in force from its passage.

Approved, April 11th, 1874.