Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-03-20
mo. 6.1

The states Of Virginia aud kentucky, hs-
ing BY their respective commissioners, Benla-
min Watkins Leigh, and denry Clay, this day
entered into convention, making certain ar
engagements and stipulations ior organizing a
ooard OF CO nlnissiorers to determine all mat
,era OF complaint or dispute between them, ara.
SIM under the act OF the 18th day OF December,
80, entitled, 8. An act concerning IA cree
On Of the district of Kentucky into an Inic-
,endent state" passed by the General Assem-
vof virginia; and the said comm ,soners,
,ieeminS it proper that certain contingent pro
visions should be made, dependent npon the de.
clsiCn ofthe said b., q, have enGered into these
separate articles, proposed on the part of Ken.
lucky, that Is TO say:
|. That, ifthe decision of the board of com.
mis,lJners, to be organized as aforesaid, shall
be in favor of Kentucky, on the claim asserted
to nave permission now to locate below the
Tennessee river, all INDICATED land warrants
granted by Virginia to .er state line, the state
OF Virginia shall and 10th nereby layantce
to Kentucky, that the proprletors OF all such
INDICATED warrants, shall submit to. and abide
by the SAID decision and also, sd all and doth
hereby agree 10 indemnify Kentucky against
anv claim which they, or any of them, may
subsequently, assert against Kentucky, or a.
gainst persons deriving titles to land from Ken.
tuckv, on account of the said nlocated war.
rants, if the said proprietors, or any of them,
should refuse to submit to, and abide by the
sand decision.
II. That in no event isthe decision of the said
board of commissioners to AFFECT the sales o.!
land bror ghL into market by the act of the Ge.
ne al Assembly of Kentucky, ent tied, "an act
providing for the sale of the vacant lands west
of the Tennessee river" passed on the zist Dec.
1921: but, on the contrary, the said land is to
b. considered as altogether reserved by Ken
lucky, aud to be exempt from all and C, cry
claim brought forward by Virginia.
If. That is understood and a. eed bv the
contracting parties, that the amount OF unloea-
ted warrants, aranted by Virg mia to her state
line prior to the Ist of Nav, 1872, does not ex-
coed 1903 ,+49 acres that the amount of those
granted subsequent to that day to the said line
does not exceed "a 400 l-5 acres; and that
the amount OF those granted prior and suisse
auent to that day, 'especting which the line,
,Shether continental or state, has not been dts
signated. does NOT exceed iS6,52O acres And
|, It be,rg unknown what part of this latter guam.
titv-has been located, it IS further agreed be.
tweea the contracting arties, that. it the deci-
sion of the said hoard OF commissioners shall
be in favor of the claim now to locatc unloca.
ted warrants, it shall nevertheless he compe.
tent 20 kentucky TO require the production Ct
satisfactory proof of the facts, both OF the line
to which any of the said warrants were grant.
ed, and that they have not been previously 10.
Gated.
". That, ifthe said hoard shall decide in IA
| vor Of the claim now brought forward to make
locations below the Tennessee river, >entucky
| retains to herselfthe power to regulate the ma
king of such locations, in some convenient ard
| equitable mode, allowing the claimants thetu!l
substantial benefit Of the original appropriation
! for their bounties and also, the power TO pre-
| scribe a reasonable time within which, If the
proprietors OF anv warrants, who may be I'd
| Judged now to have such right of location. dc
| not make their locations in conformity witt
the mode so prescribed, their rights shall b
forfeited.
V. These articles are to be binding on th'
parties when ratified nv them respectively, ane
are to have the same effect as If inserted in anc
made a part of the convention which has thi:
day been agreed upon.
IN faith wnereof, we, the commissioners a
| foreseid, have respectively signed this agree
nent. and have hereunto affixed or seals.
Done, in duplicate, at Lexington, the iit'
" of June. ono thousand eight hundred an,
wenty-,,so, r. W. LEiCI.
II. CLAY.