The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-11-26
IL. CLAY, (Seal.
Il. ". LEIGH, Seal. !
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B.
The states of Kentucky and Virginia,
having, by their respective commissioners,
Henry Clay and Benjamin Watkins Leigh,
this day entered into a convention, making
certain arrangements aud stipuatIons for
organizing board of commissioners 10 de
termine all matters of complaint or dispute
between them, arising under the act of the
18th December 1893, entitled IAN act con-
corning the erection Of the District of ken-
tacky into IA independent State" passed
by the General Assembly of Virginia /; and
the said commissioners d"cmng IT proper
that certain contingent provisions should
be made dependant upon the decision OF
the said board, have entered into the sepa-
rate article proposed on the part Of Ken
lucky that is to say:
|. That if the decision of the board o.
commissioners,to be organized as aforesaid
shall be in favor of Kentucky, ON the claim
asserted to have permission new to locate,
below the Tennessee river, all Indicated
warrants granted by Virginia 10 her state
line, the state ofNrginja shaiand doth here
b. guarantee to Kentucky, that the pro
plictors OF al such INDICATED warrants
saul submit to, and abide by the decision
aud Also shall and doth hereby agree to IN
demnty kentucky against any cialm which
they, or any them may subsequently as
sert against persons deriving titles TO land
rom Kentucky, on account of the sad um,
Ionatcd warrants, If the said proprietors, or
aay Of them, should refuse to submit to,
and abide by the sad decision.
III. That no event IS th' DECISION oi the
said board al commissioners 10 Affect the
sales of land brought iato market by the
act of the General Assembly of kentucky,
eatited "an act providing for the sale OF
vacant lands west of the Tennessee river,
passed Oh the 21st December 1921 but,
on the contrary the said land is 10 be
considered as altogether reserved by ken
lucky, aud 10 be exempt from all and every
claim brought forward by Virginia.
ILL., That it is understood aud agreed by
the contracting PATHS. that the amount oi
Indicated warrants, granted by Virginia To
her state line, prior TO the first OF May Nv
does not exceed l09,1 19 acres that the
amount ofthose gfautcd subsequent tothit
day, tn the said line, does not exceed 81
4OJ,l-3 acres; and that the amount ot
those granted prior and subsequent 10 that
day, respecting which tie line, whether
continental or state, has not been dcsl%na-
ted, does not exceed I8B,JG0 acres. And
1t being unknown what part OF lhls latter
quantity has been located, II IS further
agreed between the contracting parties,
In It, if the decision of the said board Of
commissioners shall be in favor of the claim
now to locate INDICATED warrants, 1t shall
nevertheless be competent to Kentucky 10
require the production of satisfactory proof
OF the facts, both of the line to which any
of the said warrants We're grtn'ed, ~ y
that they have not been previously located.
". That if the said board shall Il, eide in
favor Of the claim now brought forward, to
make locations below the Tennessee RIVER,
Kentucky retains to herself the power To
regulate the making OF such locations, IN
some convenient and equitable mode, al
i1wirg the claimants TIE full substantial be-
neft OF the original app opriatlon Tor Their
Counties aul aIso, the power To prescribe
i reasonable time within which, If the pro t.
prictors Of any warrants, who may be ad-
judged now 10 have sGch right OF location,
do moi make then; locations, il conformity
with the mode SO prescribed, Their rights
shall he forfeited.
V. These articles are to be- binding on
TIE nartes, when ratified by them resPrc-
tivciv.>s are to have the same effect as ii IN
ser,ca in, and made part of the con
rrntiol which has been this day agreed up
Oh.
In faith whereof, we, the commissioners
aforesaid, haze respectively signed this a.
greement, and have heremto affixed our
sa.lr.
Done, in duplicate at Lexington, the fifth
day Of JuGe, 1922.
II. CLAY, Seal
B. w. LEIGH, Seal.
Mr.. McAfgc, from the committee OF the
Senate, to whom this subject was referred,
has laid the following resolutions on the la