The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-03-05
.,snARY OF MISSOURI AND

,|,ousDARY OF MISSOURI AND
IOWA.
] !, he 4th ult. Mr. g. DAVIS, from the
' ,;,,ee on Territories, introduced a
y on the subject Of our disputed
In line accompanied by a Bill,
e h.a been read twice and commit
committee Of the whole House
.,ate Of the Union. We give the
,,in fall, and 50 much Of the able and
s..,ory Report Of Mr. Davis as our
N allow. The following extracts
I. Report will be found interesting
J, territorial readers
-. noint in debate between the au-
~ e the State and Territory, which
ae' 1sss Ne whole difficulty, is the loca
4 The northern boundary line of
M The act for the admission of
| 4 Slals into the Union was passed in
, :, add as Iowa was erected into a
y ss ..;,or long subsequently,, if there is
s Kit between their organic acts, the
~ ~ Il Missouri would be paramount.
H. southern boundary of Iowa calls
i, northern boundary line of Mis-
j. 50 that the ascertain,nent of the
ss necessarily demonstrates the for
in ls 8, treaty was made between
;,ossges and our Government, by which
sstribe coded all their lands situated
a. Al Of the Missouri river. The Iowa
/ a confedera,ed Sac and Fox tribes had
anne claim TO the same country or por-
snofi ii, and there was no known divis-
.a,l lines between their respective in,e-
q. nor indeed any definite boundary to
i, cession of the Osages. As emigra-
M pressed westward i. was thought ne
,sary by some of the Government, a.
,u,s, in 1916, that the country to which
he Osages has transferred their title
,bould be definitely ascerlained by SUR
rev; and their authority to have i, execu-
led no.being full, Captain John Sullivan,
deputy surveyor operating in that dis
Incl made 4 survey Of it under the in.
,ru.lions of General William Rector,
sureyor Of the public ands in the Hi
,ss and Missouri Territories. This was
line in the presence Of the Indian agent
ahc part Of the United States, and the
.iisis Of the nation acting for the 0sages.
Sar as the boundary then agreed upon
y The parties, bears upon the point in
it defined the western boun-
Iuy line Of the session as running on a
leridlan line, passing through the mouth
the kan:as river where it emp,ies in
B The Missouri river north, one hundred
lies, aud thence east to the River Des
Hines. The latitude of this northern
is has been recently ascertained to be
bout 400 So north"
"Tae Des Moines rapids of the River
isslssippi commence about fifteen miles
boye the mouth Of the River Des Moines
ID extend eleven niles down the Ms
ssippi Their fall is upward of twenty
,ur feet, and they had long and general
losoiely from forming SO great an OBJ.
iruclion to the navigation Of that river
ascending the Des Moines river, seve-
rapids also are encountered: the first
ngn the great bend Of that river, about
g miles north Of the parallel of latitude,
'rsec,ing the head of the Des lNoines
ids of the Mississippi, and are gene
y designated 1.-The rapids Of the Great
d." About nineteen miles farther
III there is another rapids, until lately
led ",he Appanoosa,' now "the Keo-
( rapids; and above the mouth of the
dar fork of the River Des Moines, and
put one degree north Of the Indian
andary line, there are succession of
plds, greater and more destructive than
her Of the two before named as of this
es. 1t has been ascertained. by calcu-
ION upon the basis of some surveys
viously made, that the northern point
termination of the western Indian
lndary line is one mile 2,7l9 feet north
he parallel passing the head of the
5 Moines rapids Of the Mississippi. Il
is demonstration Of the position of this
porlant terminus is not perfectly salts
tory, especially as the computed diff
ence between its parallel and that pass
the head of the last named rapids is
slight as, when connected with other
Cts and considerations, as strongly to
rs1ade one that they were probably in
ded to be, for series Of years were
ugh, to be, and possibly may be, in
c!ly the same parallel. But conced-
that the relative position of the north
tern corner of the Indian boundary
the Des Moines falls OF the Missis-
y riveris here accurately given, it fol-
$, necessarily, that no parallel of lati-
cutting any Of the rapids that have
. brought into view, would intersect
the northern termination of the
tern Indian boundary line. The
stlon then arises, is there any thing
ne calls and descript on of the western
ndary line Of the State of Missouri
conflicts with the requisition that her
Ehern boundary line shall be the paral-
d latitude passing through the rapids
ne Des Moines river! The boundary
Missouri, as given in The law, does not