The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-15
Our Disputed boundary With Connec-

From the New Haven Jounall
The Connecticut Commissioners, TO act with New
1ork IN asccftaining and establishing the vague
and uncertain line between the No States have
made their report and il has beenbrinted for the
use OF the Legislature, with a MP, showing tie
facts OF the case. The conduct of New FORK in re.
ference TO this disputed boundary very singular.
Its Commissioners, after agreeing With the Connec.
tcut Commissioners three years ap, and after com
mencing TO run the line. found thd a few hundred
acres OF very poor land, which hid hitherto been
claimed by New York, rightfully belonged to Con
nectcut. They therefore refGsedto proceed, and
no efforts can prevail upon them 70 ascertain and
fix the boundary as il should be.
The facts are very simple and eaily understood.
In zoos the two states agreed that their boundary
should be q line twenty miles east OF the Hudson
with further agreement providing that Connect
cut should retain the towns on the Sound. Green
wch and Stamford, already settled by her. Les,
than twenty miles west OF the Hudson. and shOuld,
as an equivalent give New York strip along il
western boundary north of those towns. II was
found that Connecticut had oyeum the line Ia the
Sound towns 81 ,4i0 acres, and this amount was 20
be taken from its western portion uorfh of them.
This agreement was not carried out III 1881. whca
the true west line of Connecticut twenty miles east
OF the Hudson being established. the commission
ers proceeded TO ascertain the bte,dth of the
equivalent tract, not lay running parallel line
10 the east of Il. but by measuring Lom il east.
wardly, at points about two miles distant from
each other and placing stake and heap of stones
where they thought their measurements struck the
line agreed upon. Connecticut then In due form
ceded 80 New York the tract intended as the
equivalent, each State believing that the line be.
tween the heaps Of stone was straight line FROM
north 10 south, and that the same quantity of land
was conveyed TO New York which was taken from
1t in the towns on the Sound. The line itself was
never surveyed till 1856, when owing to the doubts
OF the people as to where the line was, Commis-
sioners, appointed by both States went over the
ground. They found about one-haf of the mona
ments, or supposed monuments, or tradtonalState
Inc fences, but few none of them at their proper
distances and none of them on the true line parai-
lel with the line twenty miles east Of the Hudson.
They also found that almost all the set-osf lines
from the line twenty miles east Of the Hudson were
too long, so that the land embraced by them gave
New York 2,714 acres more than she was entitled
10, and that the line described, so far a. IL was
described, was zigzag line like n Virginia
rail fence, instead Of a straight line. Ton
nectcut proposed new survey, but New
ERIK insisted on protitng by the mistake,
and demanded that the old. crooked, uncertain and
coniesscdy false line should be observed and rces
tablished, by renewing the monuments. Here the
two commissions stuck, aud the New York Lcgisla.
tufc has had the dscourtesy 10 order its own Com.
nissioners 10 go on. without consulting Connect.
cut, and put up monuments the false, crooked
and uncertain line.
The country over which the line passes IL gene
rally barren and uninhabtcd. Only few house.
holders are Interested. aud they are principally in
he village OF Hitchcock's Corners. In view Of the
acton OF New York. it does not seem a. IL thing
iould be dcne by Connecticut, except to order its