The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-10

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ryland.
Mr.. Mcdonald procured a large
amount of documentary evidence
on these boundary questions and
subsequently, made a report and re-
turned this evidence to the COVER
nor Of Virginia, but nearly, if not
all of it has been lost or was de-
stroyed during the late war and
cannot now be obtained.
But on the fifth Of March, 1860,
the Legislature of Maryland passed
can act for the establishment Of the
southeastern. and northwestern
boundary line between this State
and Virginia, and making further
appropriation to complete the sur
yey and mark the same" (See
acts 1860, CHI. 1851
Said act is as follows, so far as it
relates to the western boundary:
Section 2. And be it further en-
acted, That the northwestern line
of this State is line connecting at
Fairfax stone, at the head of the
North Branch of the Potomac river,
and running thence due north to a
southern line of Pennsylvania as
surveyed in the year 1859 by the
commissioners appointed by the
States Of Maryland and Virginia in
conformity with the laws passed
by the said states for that purpose.
Section 3 appropriated $4,000
"for the payment of the States
proportion of such expenses as may
be required to complete the survey
and record of said line" &C., Sc.
MICHLER LINE MARKED BY MARY
LAND.
Mr.. Lee as commissioner of the
State of Maryland in the summer
Of 1870, employed two surveying
parties to continue tracing the
line between the points determined
by Lieut.. Mlchler, &C., "and to
mark the line at every prominent
point and on an average about
every half mile" SC. And in
August Of that year he reported to
the Governor of Maryland that the
work was about completed. See the
correspondence of Commissioner
Lee, copy of which is filed here
with as above stated as Exhibit
X" and the State of West Virginia
also files herewith as part of their
answer a copy Of the map made by
Lieut.. Michler marked "Defend-
ants Exhibit O." and in the mes
sage Of Governor Hicks, of Mary
land, to the Legislature at the
January session, 1862, he says:
Report of the commissioners on
the part of Maryland to ascertain
and define the southeastern and
northwestern boundaries between
Maryland and Virginia are herewith
submitted.
| am informed by the commits
sioner that the tracing and marking
of the western line of the State from
the Fairfax stone to the northern
boundary Of Maryland was compile
ted the summer of 1860, the work
was commenced IN 1859, with the
cooperation of Virginia in confor-
nifty with chapter 275 of the acts of
1852. The commissioners of Vir-
ginia failed to join in the compile
ton Of the survey, but it being
matter Of great Importance to Ale
gheny county that it should be no
longer delayed, the commissioners
for Maryland completed the work
as required by chapter 385 of the
acts of 1860.
Mr.. Lee in his letter to Mr.. Nc
Donald, Of May s, 1860, says:
"In the'act of 1852, in relation
to retracing and marking the
western line, Maryland yielded, as
she has unfortunately too often
done, the point of issue between
the commissioners of 1878" sc.
BETWEEN MICHLER's
AND DEAKINS' LINES.
The report of Lieutenant Mich
Ter shows the meridian line run by
him strikes the Pennsylvania line
about three quarters of a mile west
of the old line run by Francis Dea-
kins, which he says is that "gener-
ally adopted by the inhabitants as
the boundary llne," and he further
says that if this line sis adopted it
will cause great litigation, as the
patents Of the lands call for the
boundary as their limits"
CLAIMS TO MICHLER'S
LINE.
1t Will be seen that between the
Michler line of 1859 and the Dea-
kins line of 1888 there is triangu-
lar shaped strip of land having its
apex at Fairfax stone and its base,
three-quarters of mile IN length,
on the Pennsylvania line, on an
altitude of thirty-seven miles.
The state Of Virginia has granted
notoDtu for lands on tbn UoCt of +bo