| the same shall remain to and be enjoyed by the said states and the
citizens thereof forever."'
Jeremiah S. Black of Pennsylvania, and William A. Graham of North Carolina, were selected as
arbitrators with the power to appoint a third.'`' Black and Graham selected Charles A. Jenkins of
Georgia.'-' Graham died in 1875 and was replaced by J.B. Beck of Kentucky. ''8
Maryland was represented in the arbitration by William Pinkney Whyte, whose term as
Maryland's Governor had just ended, as well as by Isaac D. Jones, one of the three Maryland
Commissioners in 1872-73 who had submitted the report on the boundary dispute to Governor
Whyte."' Whyte and Jones submitted to the arbitrators Maryland's claim as to the "true
boundary .,,13' The description was the same as the one proposed by the Maryland
Commissioners in 1873.'3'
''`5 1874 Va. Acts c. 135; 1874 Md. Acts c. 247.
126 Id.
12' 1875 Va. Acts c. 48.
''8 Id.
''9 See William P. Whyte, Isaac D. Jones, Boundary Line Between the States of Maryland
and Virginia, Before the Hons. Jeremiah S. Black, William A. Graham, and Charles J. Jenkins,
Arbitrators upon the Boundary Line between the States of Virginia and Maryland 1 (June 26,
1874) [hereinafter "Whyte & Jones, Boundary Line"]; W. Pinkney Whyte, Synopsis ofArgument
made by Mr. Pinkney Whyte, of Counsel for Maryland, Boundary Line Between the States of
Maryland & Virginia, Before the Board of Arbitrators (Aug. 26, 1876) [hereinafter "Whyte,
Synopsis ofArgument"]; W. Pinkney Whyte, Isaac D. Jones, Evidence to Sustain the Claim of
Maryland that the Charter to Lord Baltimore Granted to Him the Bed of the Potomac River, Vand
All the Islands in it, to the South-Western Bank of that River (1876) [hereinafter "Whyte & Jones,
Evidence"].
'3o See Whyte & Jones. Boundary Line, supra note 129.
'3' Compare id. at 1 with Commission (Maryland) on Boundary Lines between Virginia
and Maryland (1870-1874), supra note 13, at 53, 42, 140.
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