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The Compact of 1785


by Carl Everstine (1946)
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6 	The Compact of 1785

	(d) All piracies, crimes and offenses committed on
	any of the same waters, by a citizen of either Virginia or
	Maryland, either against the other, are to be tried in the
	courts of the offender's state.

(e) The jurisdiction of each state over the Potomac
River shall be the same as in the waters described above,
except that piracies, crimes and offenses committed by
persons not citizens of either state, upon persons not citi
zens of either state, are to be tried by the state to which the
offender is first brought.

	The balance of this Article concerns details of civil
	process and practice.

	[Summary: Jurisdiction over the Chesapeake Bay and
	Pocomoke River is covered by Paragraphs a, b, c, and d.
	Jurisdiction over the Potomac River is covered by Para
	graphs a, b, d, and e.

	11. Any vessel entering any port on the Potomac River
	may be attached for debt by process from the state into
	which such vessel entered; if the commercial regulations
	of either state are violated by a vessel entering into either
	the Potomac or Pocomoke rivers, the vessel and its cargo
	may be seized by process from the state whose laws are
	violated; any person who shall flee from justice in a civil
	or criminal case, or attempt to defraud creditors by re
	moving his property may be taken on any part of the
	Chesapeake Bay or of the Potomac and Pocomoke Rivers,
	by process of the state from which he fled, or any property
	so removed may be taken similarly; process from either
	state may be served on any part of the said rivers for an
	indebtedness or injury suffered by a citizen of that state,
	upon any person not a citizen of the other state. In all
	trials resulting from the jurisdiction settled by this com
	pact, citizens of either state shall attend as witnesses in
	the other, upon a summons being properly served.



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