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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