A bill granting the consent of Congress to the agreement between the States of Kansas and Missouri establishing their mutual boundary in the vicinity of the French Bottoms near St. Joseph, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas.
PL 97-64 (H.R.4048), enacted 10/16/1981

PUBLIC LAW 97-64—OCT. 16, 1981 
95 STAT. 1019 
Public Law 97-64 
97th Congress 
An Act 
Granting the consent of Congress to the agreement between the States of Kansas 
and Missouri establishing their mutual boimdary in the vicinity of the French 
Bottoms near Saint Joseim, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Congress 
consents to the agreement between the States of 
Kansas and Missouri 
establishing their mutual boundary in the vicinity of the Gladden-
French-Elwood Bottoms near Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Elwood, 
Kansas, as the thalweg line of the channel of the Missouri River 
abandoned by avulsion in April 1952, which is more particularly 
described in the project maps, repqrte, and documents submitted 
April 30, 1980, by Williamson Ei^ineering and Surveying, Saint 
Joseph, Missouri, consisting of sheets one to sixteen, inclusive, and 
filed in the Office of the Secretary of State for the State of Kansas, 
and in the Office of the State Land Surveyor, Division of Research 
and Technical Information, Department of Natural Resources, State 
of Missouri. Such agreement was approved by the State of Kaims on 
May 8, 1980, by the State of Missouri on June 25, 1981, and is 
sutetantially as follows: 
The true and permanent boundary line between the State of 
Missouri and the State of Kansas follows the thalweg line at the 
time of the April 1952 avulsion and sudden chimge of the 
Missouri River Channel and is more particularly described as 
beginning at the intersection of the present thalw^ line of the 
Missouri River Channel and the thalweg line of tne Missouri 
River Channel as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion and 
having Kansas State coordinate of 540240.22 feet north and 
2878720.31 feet east of the Kansas north zone; thence along the 
thalweg line as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion the 
following courses and distances: north 85 d^rees 50 minutes 30 
seconds west to an aluminum monument, 482.0 feet; south 67 
degrees 13 minutes 0 seconds west, 814.0 feet to an aluminum 
monument; south 51 degrees 09 minutes 0 seconds west, 693.0 
feet; south 78 degrees 58 minutes 0 seconds west, 601.0 feet to an 
aluminum monument; south 59 d^rees 11 minutes 0 seconds 
west, 996.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 20 degrees 57 
minutes 30 seconds west, 1,725.0 feet; south 51 degrees 36 
minutes 0 seconds west, 658.0 feet; south 42 d^rees 12 minutes 
30 seconds west, 1,596.0 feet; south 55 d^rees 30 minutes 30 
seconds west, 597.0 feet; south 60 decrees 26 minutes 30 seconds 
west, 1,601.0 feet; south 64 d^rees 34 minutes 30 seconds west, 
1,237.0 feet; south 87 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds west, 368.0 
feet; south 73 degrees 47 minutes 30 seconds west, 602.0 feet; 
south 85 d^rees 54 minutes 0 seconds west, 1,146.0 feet; north 75 
degrees 38 minutes 30 seconds west, 565.0 feet; north 68 degrees 
54 minutes 30 seconds west, 806.0 feet; north 61 degrees 58 
minutes 0 seconds west, 787.0 feet; north 55 d^rees 20 minutes 0 
seconds west, 1,793.0 feet; north 48 degrees 13 minutes 0 seconds 
Oct. 16, 1981 
[H.R. 4048] 
Kansas-
Missouri. 
Boundary 
agreement. 
95 STAT. 1020 
PUBLIC LAW 97-64—OCT. 16, 1981 
west, 2,897.0 feet; north 43 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds west, 
902.0 feet; north 28 degrees 04 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,190.0 
feet; north 22 degrees 01 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,101.0 feet; 
north 10 degrees 19 minutes 30 seconds east, 825.0 feet; north 17 
degrees 07 minutes 30 seconds west, 662.0 feet to an aluminum 
monument; north 8 decrees 48 minutes 0 seconds east, 556.0 feet; 
north 4 degrees 33 minutes 30 seconds west, 692.0 feet to an 
aluminum monument; north 29 degrees 27 minutes 0 seconds 
east, 1,200.0 feet; north 44 d^rees 15 minutes 0 seconds east, 
1,096.0 feet to an aluminum monument; north 58 degrees 32 
minutes 30 seconds east, 1,112.0 feet; north 74 degrees 17 minutes 
0 seconds east, 1,181.0 feet; south 55 degrees 0 minutes 30 seconds 
east, 855.0 feet; south 89 degrees 49 minutes 30 seconds east, 
1,640.0 feet; south 78 degrees 07 minutes 30 seconds east, 996.0 
feet; south 89 degrees 07 minutes 0 seconds east, 650.0 feet to an 
aluminum monument; north 70 d^rees 10 minutes 30 seconds 
east, 781.0 feet; south 81 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds east, 
1,042.0 feet to an aluminum monument; north 69 d^rees 36 
minutes 0 seconds east, 1,707.0 feet; north 71 degrees 34 minutes 
0 seconds east, 2,498.0 feet to an aluminum monument; north 55 
degrees 57 minutes 0 seconds east, 1,098.0 feet to an aluminum 
monument; north 48 degrees 55 minutes 30 seconds east, 982.0 
feet to an aJuminum monument; north 19 d^rees 01 minutes 30 
seconds east, 491.0 feet to an aluminum monument; north 51 
degrees 47 minutes 0 seconds east, 503.0 feet; north 34 decrees 27 
minutes 0 seconds east, 521.0 feet; north 40 decrees 06 mmutes 0 
seconds east, 373.0 feet to the ^int of intersection of 
the thalweg 
line of the current Missouri luver Channel and the thalw^ line 
as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion and having Kansas 
State coordinate values of 549195.06 feet north and 2876850.19 
feet east of the Kansas north zone, according to a survey exe-
cuted by Williamson Engineering and Surveying dated April 30, 
1980, and hereby made a part of 
the l^al description. 
SEC. 2. Nothing contained m the agreement described in the first 
section of this Act shall be construed as impairing or in any manner 
affecting any right or 
jurisdiction of 
the Umted States in and over the 
re^on which forms the subject of 
the agreement. 
SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved October 16, 1981. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4048: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 97-239 (Comm. on the Judiciary). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 127 (1981): 
Sept. 29, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate.