| line has been undisturbed by the subsequent acts of the
parties; but where acquisitions have been made by one
from the other of territory bounded by bays and rivers
.such acquisitions extend constructively to the middle of the
water.
Maryland is by this award confined everywhere within
the original limits of her charter. She ie allowed to go to
it nowhere except on the short line running east from
Watkins Point to the middle of the Pocomoke. At that
,place Virginia never crossed the charter to make a claim.
What territory we adjudge to Virginia north of the char-
ter line she has acquired either by compacts fairly made
or else by a long and undisturbed possession. Her right
to this territory, so acquired, is as good as if the original
charter had never cut it off to Lord Baltimore. We have
nowhere given to one of these States anything which fairly
or legally belongs to the other; but in dividing the land
:and the waters we have anxiously observed the Roman
role, su:cm cuique tribuere.
J. S. Bi.ecg,
Pennsylvania.
CHAS. J. JENKINS,
Georgia.
A. W. GRAHAM,
Secretary.
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