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greater part of their tires however, rues given to hUtDri-
cal rte, examining .amps aatd rummaging libraries to
find evidence by which the claims of each state might be
sustained. An went was made that the respective
claims of Maryland and Virginia, as to boundary, be
written out and prated in a joint meeting of the com-
missioners. Mr. Jones, on the part of Maryland, and
former Governor Wise, in behalf of Virginia, presented
claims. An attempt to reach a compromise then followed,
but the Maryland members could not agree to terms of
adjustment and the work of the commission ended?8
In the final report of the Virginia commissicxters the
claims of Maryland are stated as follows
(z ) "Maryland claims that by the charter of Lord Bal-
timore, the standpoint of the grantor was an the fortieth
parallel of north latitude . . . that is granted."
(2) "She next claims that the line running north to
the further bank of said river, necessarily ran to the right
bank of the Potomac. Virginia claims that this could not
be so from the course of the river, for by the survey of
Micbler,T' the left or north bank was the further bank of
the river, at the point where it was cut by the meridian
of the first fountain thereof, traced from the parallel of
forty degrees north latitude."
(3) "Maryland replied that whatever the map of the
river at its source, the line was to be run to a place called
Cinguadc, and the river was not to be crossed by it, but
the line was to continue on the same bank of its begin-
" For a foil account of these attempts to compromise see '1 Journal
of Proceedings of Boundary Commission," Maryland Strafe Docu-
ments, Doc. E. - Report of the Commissioners to adjust the
boundary hue between Maryland and Virginia, t8y4." p. r-2g.
79 Michler in his survey found the Potomac at its first fountain
canning eastward, then northward, turning to westward and fiaally
eastward again to the ocean. Of - course a line from the fortiem
parallel falling on the further bank, where the river flowed west-
ward, world make the northern bank of the main stream the
fnrther bank. Boundary Report of i$74. Sujbra.
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