The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-26
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Zine Ques4ign.,
a Richmond correspondent OF the wash
ington Patriot gives the Virgins side Of the
disputed boundary guestiorfas follows:
g From d conversation with General Henry
A.. Wise and memoranda he has kindly fur
ui5hcd me l CLEAN the following IN regard to
tie Maryland and Virginia b0uudary-iine
question, its history, present Status, and tk.
doings sof the commission, which, ] think,
win prove interesting to . large class Of the
Patriots readers both in Virginia and Mary
land. The joint commission came to no
conclusion, but their proceedings and re-
searches led to a great many interesting de-
selopments in the way Of historical mat
ter and local traditions. The Virginia
commission have claimed the line Of Philip
Calvert and Edmund Scarborough Of 1888.
These commissioners Of that date were
appointed at the instance Of the Governor OF
the Province OF Maryland. the representa-
tive Of Lori Baltimore, and were instructed
to find out and report, what point was Wat
kins Point, and, having located it. to run IN
east and west line from Il to the sea. They
reported that the point of land lying be-
tween Big Annamessex and the Pocomoke
sound was Watkins Point, and that they
had run the line from the westernmost angle
OF that point across the Pocomoke river,
east TO Swansecute creek, and thence east to
the sea. The States Of Maryland and Vir-
ginia then signed and sealed eompacts:
First, that said point should be Watkins
Point; second, that the line thus run from
its westernmost angle should be forever
deemed and held the divisional line be-
tween the two provinces land third, that all
patents and titles, reciproc1lly and mutually,
should be confirmed, north and south Of that
line. These records Maryland has. and Viz
ginia shows numerous patents calling for the
line along its whole length. Maryland has
numerous like records. Accordingly, the
Virginia commissioners have found no less
than twenty-seyen marks OF this boundary,
and pointed them out. upon the Eastern
Shore. Yet the commissioners of Maryland
aIicge that this il not the true Watkins Point,
and not the true line. They do not show,
however, what they deem to he the true
Watkins Point, nor what is the true line,
but ask for time to find both. The western
most angle OF Watkins Point is shown by the
point itself and every monument pointing
to it. There were no monuments anywhere
else, and those discovered are all on IN east
and west line with the north headline or
p%roTnontnry Of Little AnlmmcSscX, half way
between Big hnnameaScX and Pocoinokc
sound. The terminus of the railroad ut
Cristield touches the line traced 10y the old
marks, according to Micller's survey. The
western shore boundary Virginia claims TO
he the north bank of the Potomac, from the
Fairfax stone, under The grant to Lord Hop
ton III 1851, Maryland claims the southern
bank of the river under the charter Of 1862.
1t il considered more than likely that the
channel Of the Potomac to its mouth, and
thence the SSH, parallel north latitude. will
be fixed as the true boundary. Maryland is
now. under the Loret temporary cOmpro-
misc, holding for south of the Calvert and
Scarborough line. The Joint Commission
meets again in September"