JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 437

dred and seventy-six, chapter one hundred and
ninety-eight, it was provided that the settlement and
determination of the true line of boundary between
the States of Virginia and Maryland should be re-
ferred to the Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, of Penn-
sylvania, the Honorable James B. Beck, of Ken-
tacky, and the Honorable Charles A. Jenkins, of
Georgia, with power to make and deliver their award
in writing, any two of them concurring therein, and	.
did thereby pledge the faith of this State to accept
and abide by the award of said arbitrators, as to said
boundary line as final and conclusive, with the
proviso and saving clauses, as to private rights, as in
the said act set forth ; and, whereas the said arbi-
trators did proceed in the premises to examine into
and ascertain the true line of said boundary, and
did award as to the same in words following, to wit :
Award. — And now to wit: January sixteenth,
Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,
the undersigned, being a majority of the arbitrators
to whom the States of Virginia and Maryland, by
acts of their respective legislatures, submitted the
controversies concerning their territorial limits, with
authority to ascertain and determine the true line	Award.
of boundary between them, having heard the allega-
tions of the said States and examined the proofs on
both sides, do find, declare, award, ascertain and
determine that the true line of boundary between
the said States, so far as they are conterminous with
one another, is as follows, to wit :
Beginning at the point on the Potomac River
where the line between Virginia and West Virginia
strikes the side river at low water mark, and thence
following the meanderings of said river by the low
water mark to Smith's Point, at or near the mouth
of the Potomac, in the latitude 37° 53' 08' and lon-
gitude 76° 13' 46''; thence crossing the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay by a line running north 65° 30'	Point of be-
east, about nine and a-half nautical miles, to a point	ginning.
on the western shore of Smith's Island, at the north
end of Sassafras Hammock, in latitude 37° 57' 13',
longitude 76° 02' 52''; thence across Smith's Island
south 88° 30' east, five thousand six hundred and
twenty yards, to the centre of Horse Hammock, on