Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1905-03-30
MAP DOES NOT
HAVE TO CHANGE

L he map will not have to be
changed. The State OF Delaware will
not make Newcastle point of tri-
angulation, and with twelve-mile
sweep of the surveyors theodolite dis
sever large circular section OF Salem
county from the State of New Jersey
and annex it, including it's capital
city, to the former estate OF Lord De
La Ware. This is what our southern
neighbor has sought to do for half
century past, but at last the second
smallest State in the Union has utterly
and entirely and forever abandoned
the idea that it can, upon any pretext
whatever, increase it's own general
acreage OF territory and verge of in.
telllgence by reducing that of the
much larger and more important COM
monwea1th east of the river which
Nature manifestly intended should be
the dividing line between them.
In word, the boundary controversy
has been settled. After riots, battles
and bloodshed after quarrels innumer.
| able over the rights Of fishermen on
the Delaware Bay; after twenty eight
years Of litigation, the bone of con-
tention has been removed, and what
there is left of it is wholly within the
possession of New Jersey. Several
weeks ago commission was appointed
by Governor Stokes to represent New
Jersey. in a conference with similarly
appointed commission representing the
State OF Delaware. In a few hours
the joint commission agreed upon
terms OF settlement of the vexatious
boundary question. A week or so ago
the Delaware Legislature ratified the
| agreement for that state, and yester-
day the Senate at Trenton followed
the example recently set by the House
and ratified the terms of settlement
for the State of New Jersey. Cover
nor Lee, of Delaware, and Governor
Stokes, OF New Jersey, have signed the
acts. and the compact is now complete,
! permanent, perpetual.
Delaware abandons all claim to New
Jersey territory under the twelve
mile from Newcastle legend, therefore
Salem county will all remain in New
Jersey, the centre of the Delaware
River will be the boundary line, and
the map will not have to be changed
in any particular whatever. 1t must
be said that this consummation could
long since have been realized had Del
| aware been reasonable. A similar
commission was appointed a few years
ago, but Delaware refused to ratify
the terms of agreement then con-
cluded. Several informal efforts to
bring about settlement proved futile,
until Attorney General McCarter and
Chauncey G. Parker pressed the mat
ter to final hearing in the United
States Court. to which it had been
previously taken by Attorneys General
Vanatta. Stockton and Grey.
The exact terms upon which fish
may be taken, and many OF the details
of jurisdiction yet remain to be deter
mined by the joint commission pro-
vided for under the terms of agree
ment, but the boundary controversy
as such is at an end, and New Jersey
has succeeded in establishing practi-
cally every claim insisted upon, and
in resisting every incursion sought to
be made by the State of Delaware.
Henceforth fishermen from the two
adjacenu States may ply their vocation
in peace, and without feeling it in
cumbent to shoot each other as poach-
ers and thieves.
Time Changed for Holding Court
For very many years now the regu-
lar terms of Cumberland County