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The Compact of 1785


by Carl Everstine (1946)
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38	The Compact of 1785

carries with it a concurrent power of judicial en
forcement. There is nothing in Article 8 which re
quires that a citizen of one state who violates such
a law must be tried in the courts of his own state.
Hendricks v. Virginia.

( i)	The "piracies, crimes and other offenses" mentioned
in Article 10 do not include violations of the fishing
laws, since that subject must be held to have been
dealt with exclusively in Article 8. Hendricks v.
Virginia.

(j)	The "piracies, crimes and other offenses" mentioned
in Article 10 refer only to those by a citizen of
one state against a citizen of the other; they do not
refer to offenses against one of the states as such.
Hendricks v. Virginia.

(k)	The provisions in Article 10 for a citizen of either
state being tried in the courts of his own state were
contingent upon the boundary line being uncertain;
the boundary now being certain in the waters be
tween Smiths Point and Watkins Point, and in the
Potomac River, these provisions are no longer effec
tive in these areas. Ex parte Marsh; Barnes v. Mary
land.

(1)	Maryland has jurisdiction over common law crimes
committed on the Potomac River, and Virginia's only
jurisdiction is over violations of the fishery laws.
Biscoe v. Maryland; Barnes v. Maryland.

(m) Article 12 does not prevent Maryland from prohibit
ing her own citizens from importing their own prop
erty from Virginia. Negro Delilah v. Jacobs.



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