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§ 7. New Jersey boundary line. The boundary line between the states of
  New York and New Jersey is as follows:
Commencing at the said "tri-state monument, " and running thence along
  the  line laid out by a joint commission from the states of New York and
  New Jersey in 1774, and which was more definitely marked with  monuments
  by  another  joint  commission in 1882, under chapter 340 of the laws of
  1880, on an average course S. 51° E. , with slight deflections as to the
  same as marked by mile monuments, a  distance  of  48.20  miles  to  the
  station  rock  on  the  west bank of the Hudson river, said station rock
  being in latitude 40° 59' 48.17" north and longitude 73° 54'  11"  west,
  as  determined  by  the  United  States  coast survey, and marked as the
  original terminal monument of the line as established in 1774, according
  to the report of the commissioners on the boundary between the state  of
  New  York  and  the  state  of  New Jersey, dated March 24, 1884; thence
  easterly to a point in the Hudson river in latitude 40° 59' 49.74" north
  and longitude 73° 53' 38.57" west; thence southerly along the middle  of
  said  river and of the bay of New York to a point opposite the northeast
  angle of Staten Island; thence westerly along the center of the Kill von
  Kull to a point opposite the northwest angle of  Staten  Island;  thence
  southerly  along the center of the Arthur kill or Staten Island sound to
  a point at the entrance of Raritan bay, such point being in latitude 40°
  29' 55.57" north, and longitude 74° 15' 33.31"  west,  as  the  same  is
  shown  on  maps  and  agreement  filed  by a joint commission of the two
  states in the office of the secretary of state, and dated  December  23,
  1889;  thence  easterly  through  the  center  of Raritan bay to a point
  between Sandy Hook and Coney Island as the same is shown on a map  filed
  with the secretary of state, and dated October 12, 1877, thence easterly
  to the main sea.
Such  metes  and bounds are as reported October 12, 1887, and December
  23, 1889, by commissioners to mark out and locate the boundary  line  in
  land under water, between the states of New York and New Jersey, and are
  in   accordance   with   and  subject  to  the  two  agreements  between
  commissioners of such states, made, respectively,  September  16,  1833,
  and June 7, 1883, and which took effect, respectively, February 5, 1834,
  and  May  23,  1884,  the dates of the approvals of the acts of congress
  consenting thereto. The ratification and confirmation by this  state  of
  such agreements are continued in force. The following are copies of such
  agreements, respectively:
"Agreement  made between the commissioners on the part of the state of
  New York, and the commissioners on the part of the state of  New  Jersey
  relative to the boundary line between the two states.
Agreement  made  and  entered  into by and between Benjamin F. Butler,
  Peter Augustus Jay and Henry Seymour, commissioners  duly  appointed  on
  the  part and behalf of the state of New York, in pursuance of an act of
  the legislature of the said  state,  entitled  "An  act  concerning  the
  territorial  limits  and  jurisdiction  of the state of New York and the
  state of New Jersey," Passed January 18, 1833,  of  the  one  part,  and
  Theodore   Frelinghuysen,   James   Parker   and  Lucius  Q.  C.  Elmer,
  commissioners duly appointed on the part and behalf of the state of  New
  Jersey,  in  pursuance  of  an act of the legislature of the said state,
  entitled "An act for  the  settlement  of  the  territorial  limits  and
  jurisdiction  between  the  states  of  New Jersey and New York," passed
  February 6, 1833, of the other part.
Article first.--- the boundary line between the two states of New York
  and New Jersey, from a point in the middle of Hudson river opposite  the
  point  on  the  west  shore  thereof, in the forty-first degree of north
  latitude, as heretofore ascertained and marked, to the main  sea,  shall
  be  the  middle of the said river, of the bay of New York, of the waters

  between Staten Island and New Jersey, and of Raritan bay,  to  the  main
  sea, except as hereinafter otherwise particularly mentioned.
Article  second.---  the  state  of  New York shall retain its present
  jurisdiction of and over Bedlow's and Ellis'  islands,  and  shall  also
  retain exclusive jurisdiction of and over the other islands lying in the
  waters above mentioned, and now under the jurisdiction of that state.
Article third.--- the state of New York shall have and enjoy exclusive
  jurisdiction  of  and over all the waters of the bay of New York, and of
  and over all the waters of Hudson river lying west of  Manhattan  island
  and  to  the  south of the mouth of Spuytenduyvel creek, and of and over
  the lands covered by the said waters  to  the  low  water  mark  on  the
  westerly  or New Jersey side thereof; subject to the following rights of
  property and of jurisdiction of the state of New Jersey, that is to say:
1. The state of New Jersey shall have the exclusive right of  property
  in  and  to  the land under water lying west of the middle of the bay of
  New York and west of the middle of that part of the Hudson  river  which
  lies between Manhattan island and New Jersey.
2.  The  state  of New Jersey shall have the exclusive jurisdiction of
  and over the wharves, docks and improvements made, and to  be  made,  on
  the shore of the said state, and of and over all vessels aground on said
  shore,  or  fastened  to  any  such  wharf or dock; except that the said
  vessels shall be subject to the quarantine or health laws, and  laws  in
  relation  to  passengers,  of  the state of New York, which now exist or
  which may hereafter be passed.
3. The  state  of  New  Jersey  shall  have  the  exclusive  right  of
  regulating  the  fisheries  on  the  westerly side of the middle of said
  waters, provided that the navigation be not obstructed or hindered.
Article  fourth.---  the  state  of  New  York  shall  have  exclusive
  jurisdiction of and over the waters of the Kill van Kull, between Staten
  Island  and  New  Jersey, to the westernmost end of Shooter's island, in
  respect to such quarantine laws and laws relating to passengers  as  now
  exists,  or  may  hereafter be passed under the authority of that state,
  and for executing the same; and the said state shall also have exclusive
  jurisdiction, for the like purposes, of  and  over  the  waters  of  the
  sound, from the westernmost end of Shooter's island to Woodbridge creek,
  as to all vessels bound to any port in the said state of New York.
Article  fifth.---  the  state  of  New  Jersey  shall  have and enjoy
  exclusive jurisdiction of and over all the waters of the  sound  between
  Staten  Island  and  New Jersey, lying south of Woodbridge creek, and of
  and over all the waters of Raritan bay lying westward of  a  line  drawn
  from  the  light-house  at Princess' bay to the mouth of Mattavan creek,
  subject to the following rights of property and of jurisdiction  of  the
  state of New York:
1. The state of New York shall have the exclusive right of property in
  and to the land under water, lying between the middle of the said waters
  and Staten Island.
2.  The state of New York shall have the exclusive jurisdiction of and
  over the wharves, docks and improvements made and to  be  made,  on  the
  shore  of  Staten  Island;  and  of and over all vessels aground on said
  shore, or fastened to any such wharf  or  dock,  except  that  the  said
  vessel  shall  be  subject to the quarantine or health laws, and laws in
  relation to passengers of the state of New Jersey which  now  exist,  or
  which may hereafter be passed.
3.  The state of New York shall have the exclusive right of regulating
  the fisheries between the shore of Staten Island and the middle  of  the
  said  waters,  provided  that  the  navigation of the said waters be not
  obstructed or hindered.
Article sixth.--- Criminal process issued under the authority  of  the
  state  of New Jersey, against any person accused of an offense committed
  within that state; or committed on board of any vessel being  under  the
  exclusive  jurisdiction of that state as aforesaid; or committed against
  the  regulations  made  or  to be made by that state, in relation to the
  fisheries mentioned in the third article; and also civil process  issued
  under  the  authority  of  the  state  of  New Jersey against any person
  domiciled in that state, or against property taken out of that state  to
  evade the laws thereof; may be served upon any of the said waters within
  the  exclusive jurisdiction of the state of New York, unless such person
  or property shall be on board a vessel aground upon, or fastened to  the
  shore  of  the  state  of  New  York,  or  fastened to a wharf adjoining
  thereto; or unless such person shall be under arrest, or  such  property
  shall  be  under seizure, by virtue of process or authority of the state
  of New York.
Article seventh.--- Criminal process issued under the authority of the
  state of New York, against any person accused of  an  offense  committed
  within  that  state; or committed on board of any vessel being under the
  exclusive jurisdiction of that state as aforesaid; or committed  against
  the  regulations  made  or  to be made by that state, in relation to the
  fisheries mentioned in the fifth article; and also civil process  issued
  under  the  authority  of  the  state  of  New  York  against any person
  domiciled in that state, or against property taken out of that state  to
  evade the laws thereof; may be served upon any of the said waters within
  the  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  the  state  of New Jersey, unless such
  person or property shall be on board a vessel aground upon, or  fastened
  to  the  shore  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  or fastened to a wharf
  adjoining thereto; or unless such person shall be under arrest, or  such
  property  shall  be  under seizure, by virtue of process or authority of
  the state of New Jersey.
Article eighth.--- This agreement shall  become  binding  on  the  two
  states when confirmed by the legislatures thereof respectively, and when
  approved by the congress of the United States.
Done  in four parts (two of which are retained by the commissioners of
  New York, to be delivered to the governor of that state, and  the  other
  two  of  which  are  retained  by the commissioners of New Jersey, to be
  delivered to the governor of that state), at the city of New York,  this
  sixteenth  day  of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
  hundred and thirty-three, and of the independence of the United  States,
  the fifty-eighth.
(Signed,) B. F. BUTLER,
PETER AUGUSTUS JAY,
HENRY SEYMOUR,
THEO. FRELINGHUYSEN,
JAMES PARKER,
LUCIUS Q. C. ELMER. "
"An  agreement  made  the  seventh  day  of June, in the year eighteen
  hundred  and  eighty-three,  between  Henry   R.   Pierson,   Elias   W.
  Leavenworth  and  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  commissioners on the part of the
  state of New York, and Abraham Browning, Thomas N. McCarter  and  George
  H. Cook, commissioners on the part of the state of New Jersey.
WHEREAS,  by  the  first section of chapter three hundred and forty of
  the laws of the state of New York for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and
  eighty,  it  was recited, among other things, that whereas, by an act of
  the legislature passed the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and
  seventy-five, the regents of the university of the  state  of  New  York
  were  authorized  and  directed,  in  connection with the authorities of
  Pennsylvania and New Jersey,  respectively,  to  replace  any  monuments

  which  have  become dilapidated or been removed on the boundary lines of
  those states, and it was thereby declared that the lines originally laid
  down and marked with monuments by the several joint commissioners,  duly
  appointed  for  that purpose, and which have since been acknowledged and
  legally recognized by the several states interested, as  the  limits  of
  their  territory and jurisdiction, are the boundary lines of said states
  irrespective of want of conformity to the verbal  descriptions  thereof;
  and  by  the second section of the same chapter of the laws of the state
  of New York, the said regents were authorized and empowered to designate
  and appoint three  of  their  number  as  commissioners,  to  meet  such
  commissioners  as may have been, or may be, appointed on the part of the
  states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, or either of them, and with  such
  last-named commissioners, as soon as may be, to proceed to ascertain and
  agree  upon  the  location  of  said lines as originally established and
  marked with monuments, and in case any monuments are  found  dilapidated
  or   removed  from  their  original  location,  said  commissioners  are
  authorized to replace  them  in  a  durable  manner  in  their  original
  positions, and to erect such additional monuments at such places on said
  lines  as  they  may  deem  necessary  for the proper designation of the
  boundary lines of said states; and
WHEREAS, Also the above-named Henry R. Pierson, Elias  W.  Leavenworth
  and  Chauncey  M.  Depew  have been duly designated and appointed by the
  said  the  regents  of  the  university  of  the  state  of  New   York,
  commissioners  on  the  part of said state for the purposes mentioned in
  said act; and
WHEREAS, Also by an act of the legislature of the state of New Jersey,
  entitled  'An  act  appointing  commissioners  to  locate  the  northern
  boundary  line  between  the  states  of  New York and New Jersey and to
  replace and erect monuments thereon,' approved April thirteen,  eighteen
  hundred  and  seventy-six,  the  governor of the state of New Jersey was
  authorized to appoint three commissioners with power,  on  the  part  of
  said  state  of  New  Jersey, to meet any authorities on the part of the
  state of New York,  who  may  be  duly  authorized,  and  with  them  to
  negotiate  and  agree  upon  the true location of the said boundary line
  between the states of New York and New Jersey, and also to  replace  any
  monuments  which  may  have become dilapidated, or been removed, on said
  boundary line, and to erect new ones, which  agreement  it  was  thereby
  enacted should be in writing and signed and sealed by the authorities of
  the  state of New York and the commissioners of the state of New Jersey;
  and
WHEREAS, The above-named Abraham  Browning,  Thomas  N.  McCarter  and
  George H. Cook have been duly appointed commissioners on the part of the
  state of New Jersey, under said act; and
WHEREAS,  By  a  supplement  to  the  last  said  act, approved on the
  twenty-fifth  day  of  March,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-one,   the
  commissioners under the last said act were, in addition to the authority
  conferred  by  the last said act, also authorized in their discretion to
  proceed to ascertain  and  agree  upon  the  location  of  the  northern
  boundary  line  between  the  states  of  New  York  and  New Jersey, as
  originally established and  marked  with  monuments,  and  in  case  any
  monuments   are  found  dilapidated,  or  removed  from  their  original
  location, said commissioners were authorized to renew and  replace  them
  in  a  durable  manner  in  their  original positions, and to erect such
  additional monuments, at such places on said  line,  as  they  may  deem
  necessary  for  the  proper  designation  of  the  boundary line of said
  states; and
WHEREAS, The said commissioners, acting for and  on  behalf  of  their
  respective  states,  have  entered  upon  the  performance of the duties

  imposed upon them by the said  acts,  and  have,  in  pursuance  of  the
  authority  to  them  severally given as aforesaid, agreed, and hereby do
  agree, as follows:
First.--- The lines extending from the Hudson river on the east to the
  Delaware  river  on  the west, as the same was laid down and marked with
  monuments in seventeen hundred and seventy-four, by William Wickham  and
  Samuel  Gale,  commissioners on the part of the then colony of New York,
  duly appointed for that purpose in pursuance of an act of  the  assembly
  of  the  colony  of  New  York, passed on the sixteenth day of February,
  seventeen hundred and seventy-one, entitled 'An act for establishing the
  boundary or partition line between the colonies of  New  York  and  Nova
  Caesarea,  or New Jersey, and for conferring titles and possession,' and
  John Stevens and Walter Rutherford, commissioners on  the  part  of  the
  then  colony of New Jersey, duly appointed in pursuance of an act of the
  assembly of the colony of New Jersey, passed on the twenty-third day  of
  September,  seventeen  hundred  and  seventy-two,  entitled  'An act for
  establishing the boundary or partition line between the colonies of  New
  York  and  Nova  Caesarea,  or New Jersey, and for conferring titles and
  possession,' which said line has since been acknowledged and  recognized
  by  the  two  states  as  the  limit  of  their respective territory and
  jurisdiction, shall, notwithstanding  its  want  of  conformity  to  the
  verbal description thereof as recited by said commissioners, continue to
  be  the boundary or partition line between the said two states; provided
  that wherever upon said  line  the  location  of  one  or  more  of  the
  monuments,  erected  by  said  commissioners  in  seventeen  hundred and
  seventy-four, has been lost and cannot be otherwise definitely fixed and
  determined, then, and in that  case  and  in  every  case  where  it  is
  required  to  establish intervening points on said line, a straight line
  drawn  betwen  the  nearest  adjacent  monuments  whose  localities  are
  ascertained shall be the true boundary line.
Second.  The  monumental  marks  by  which  said  boundary  line shall
  hereafter be known and recognized are hereby declared to be, first,  the
  original   monuments   of   stone   erected  in  seventeen  hundred  and
  seventy-four, along said line, by the commissioners  aforesaid,  as  the
  same  have  been restored and re-established in their original positions
  by Edward A. Bowser, surveyor on the part of New Jersey,  and  Henry  W.
  Clarke,  surveyor on the part of New York, duly appointed by the parties
  hereto; second, the new monuments of granite erected  by  the  aforesaid
  surveyors  at  intervals  of one mile, more or less, along said line and
  numbered consecutively, beginning from the Hudson river,  and  severally
  marked  on  the  northerly  side  with  the  letters  N. Y. , and on the
  southerly side with the letters N.  J.;  and  third,  the  monuments  of
  granite erected by the aforesaid surveyors at intervening points on said
  line  at  its  intersection with public roads, railroads and rivers, and
  severally marked by them, on the northerly side with the letters N. Y. ,
  and on the southerly side with the letters  N.  J.  ,  and  fourth,  the
  terminal  monuments  erected at the western terminus of said line at the
  confluence of  the  Delaware  and  Navesink  rivers,  and  the  terminal
  monument  erected on the brow of the rock called the Palisades, near the
  eastern terminus, and the rock lying  and  being  at  the  foot  of  the
  Palisades  on  the  bank of the Hudson river, and marked as the original
  terminal monument of said line  established  in  seventeen  hundred  and
  seventy-four,  as  the  same are described in a joint report made to the
  parties hereto by Elias W. Leavenworth, commissioner on the part of  New
  York, and George H. Cook, commissioner on the part of New Jersey.
Third.  The  field books of said surveyors containing the descriptions
  of the locations of the several monuments erected by  them  and  of  the
  witness  marks  thereto,  the  report  of  said surveyors containing the

  account of their work in ascertaining and marking  said  line,  together
  with  the  topographical  map of said line and the vicinity thereof, and
  the several documents and books of record containing the transactions of
  the  parties  aforesaid,  having been duly authenticated and attested by
  the signatures of the said commissioners, and  placed  in  file  in  the
  offices  of the secretaries of state of the two states, shall constitute
  the permanent and authentic records  of  said  boundary  line,  and  are
  hereby adopted by the parties hereto, and made part of this agreement.
Fourth.  This  agreement  shall  become binding on the two states when
  confirmed by the legislatures thereof, respectively, and when  confirmed
  by the congress of the United States.
In witness whereof, the said commissioners have hereto set their hands
  and  seals,  in  duplicate, this seventh day of June, in the year of our
  Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
HENRY R. PIERSON.
E. W. LEAVENWORTH.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.
A. BROWNING.
THOMAS N. McCARTER.
GEO. H. COOK.
  Executed in the presence of:
  Witness as to Henry R. Pierson, A. C. Judson, Albany, N. Y.
As to Chauncey M. Depew, W. J. Van Arsdale.
As to commissioners of New Jersey, B. Williamson.
Witness to the signature of E. W. Leavenworth, A. F. Lewis."
Trenton, January 18, 1890.
An agreement, made the twelfth  day  of  October  in  the  year  1887,
  between  Mayo  W.  Hazeltine, Robert Moore and Lieut. G. C. Hanus, U. S.
  N., commissioners on the part of the state of New York,  and  George  H.
  Cook, Robert C. Bacot and A. B. Stoney, commissioners on the part of the
  state of New Jersey.
WHEREAS,  By  chapter 69, of the laws of the state of New York for the
  year 1887, the governor was authorized to appoint three commissioners on
  the part of the state of New York, with full  power  to  meet  with  the
  commissioners  duly  authorized  on the part of the state of New Jersey,
  and with them locate and mark out by proper monuments and buoys the true
  boundary line between the two states in lands  under  water  in  Raritan
  bay; and
WHEREAS,  The  said  Mayo  W. Hazeltine, Robert Moore and Lieut. G. C.
  Hanus, U. S. N. , were duly appointed commissioners on the part  of  the
  state of New York for the purposes mentioned in the said act; and
WHEREAS,  By  an  act  of  the legislature of the state of New Jersey,
  passed April 20, 1886, entitled  a  "Joint  resolution  authorizing  the
  appointment  of  a commissioner to locate and mark out the boundary line
  between the state of New Jersey and the state of  New  York  in  Raritan
  bay,"  the governor of the state of New Jersey was authorized to appoint
  three commissioners, with power on the part of the  state  to  meet  any
  authorities  duly  authorized  on the part of the state of New York, and
  with them locate by proper buoys  the  boundary  line  between  the  two
  states of lands under water in Raritan bay; and
WHEREAS,  The  said  George H. Cook, Robert C. Bacot and A. B. Stoney,
  were duly appointed commissioners for the purposes of said act; and
WHEREAS, The said commissioners, acting for and  on  behalf  of  their
  respective  states,  have  entered  upon  the  performance of the duties
  imposed upon them by said act, and have in pursuance of the authority to
  them severally given as aforesaid agreed and  hereby  do  agree  upon  a
  boundary  line  between  the  two states in lands under water in Raritan
  bay, and locate the same as follows:
First. From the "Great Beds Lighthouse" in Raritan bay north  20°  16'
  west,  true,  to  a  point in the middle of the waters of Arthur kill or
  Staten Island sound, equidistant between the southwesterly corner of the
  dwelling-house of David C. Butler, at Ward's Point, on Staten Island, in
  the  state  of  New  York,  and  the  southeasterly  corner of the brick
  building on the lands of Cortlandt L. Parker, at the intersection of the
  westerly line of Water street with the northerly line of  Lewis  street,
  in Perth Amboy, in the state of New Jersey.
Second.  From "Great Beds Lighthouse" S. 64° 21' E.  true, in the line
  with the center Waackaack or Wilson's Beacon, in  Monmouth  county,  New
  Jersey,  to  a  point  at  the intersection of the said line with a line
  connecting "Morgan No. 2" triangulation point U. S. coast  and  geodetic
  survey in Middlesex county, New Jersey, with the granite and iron beacon
  marked on the accompanying map as "Roamer Stone Beacon," situated on the
  "Dry  Roamer  Shoal;"  and  thence  on a line bearing N. 77° 9' E. true,
  connecting "Morgan No.  2" triangulation point U. S. coast and  geodetic
  survey  in Middlesex county, New Jersey, with said "Roamer Stone Beacon"
  (the line passing  through  said  beacon  and  continuing  in  the  same
  direction)  to a point at its intersection with a line drawn between the
  "Hook Beacon" on Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and the triangulation point  of
  the  U. S.  geodetic survey known as the Oriental Hotel on Coney Island,
  New York; then southeasterly at right angles  with  the  last  mentioned
  line to the main sea.
Third.  The  monumental  marks  by  which  said boundary line shall be
  hereafter known and recognized are hereby declared to be as follows:
1. The "Great Beds Lighthouse."
2. A permanent monument marked "State Boundary Line, New York and  New
  Jersey," and to be placed at the intersection of the line drawn from the
  "Great  Beds  Lighthouse"  to  "Waackaack  or Wilson's Beacon," Monmouth
  county, New Jersey, and the line drawn from "Morgan No. 2" triangulation
  point U. S. coast and geodetic survey, in Middlesex county, New  Jersey,
  to the "Roamer Stone Beacon."
3.  Eight  buoys  or spindles to be marked like the permanent monument
  above mentioned, and placed at suitable  intervening  points  along  the
  line from the said permanent monument to the "Roamer Stone Beacon."
4. The "Roamer Stone Beacon."
Fourth.  The  maps accompanying and filed with this agreement, showing
  the location of the above described boundary line between the  state  of
  New York and the state of New Jersey in Raritan bay to the main sea, and
  of  the  monumental  marks  by which it is marked and to be marked, duly
  authenticated and attested by the signatures of the said  commissioners,
  and  placed  on  file  in the offices of the secretaries of state of the
  respective states, shall constitute the permanent and authentic  records
  of said boundary line, and are hereby adopted by the parties hereto, and
  made a part of this agreement.
In witness whereof, the said commissioners have hereto set their hands
  and  seals in duplicate, this twelfth day of October, in the year of our
  Lord 1887.
M. W. HAZELTINE. [L. S.]
GEO. H. COOK. [L. S.]
ROBERT MOORE. [L. S.]
ROB'T C. BACOT. [L. S.]
G. C. HANUS, LIEUT. U. S. N. [L. S.]
A. B. STONEY. [L. S.]
Certified to
EDWARD P. DOYLE,
Secretary of Joint Commission.
An agreement made the  twenty-third  day  of  December,  in  the  year
  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  between  Mayo W. Hazeltine, Robert
  Moore and Lieut. G. C. Hanus, U. S. N. , commissioners on  the  part  of
  the  state of New York, and Robert C. Bacot, William M. Oliver and Edwin
  A. Stevens, commissioners on the part of the state of New Jersey.
WHEREAS, By chapter 69, laws of 1887, the governor of the state of New
  York  was  authorized  to appoint three commissioners with full power on
  the part of the state of  New  York,  to  meet  with  the  commissioners
  appointed,  or  to  be  appointed, for a like purpose on the part of the
  state of New Jersey, and with them to locate  and  mark  out  by  proper
  monuments  and  buoys  the  true boundary line between the two states in
  lands under water in Raritan bay; and
WHEREAS, The jurisdiction of the said commissioners was continued  and
  extended by chapter 159, laws of 1888, and chapter 212, laws of 1889, so
  as  to  include  the  Arthur  kill,  Kill von Kull, New York bay and the
  Hudson river; and
WHEREAS, The said Mayo W. Hazeltine, Robert Moore  and  Lieut.  G.  C.
  Hanus,  U.  S. N. , were duly appointed commissioners on the part of the
  state of New York, for the purposes mentioned in said acts; and
WHEREAS, By an act of the legislature of  the  state  of  New  Jersey,
  passed  February 14, 1888, entitled, "A joint resolution authorizing the
  appointment of a commission to locate and mark  out  the  boundary  line
  between  the  state  of  New  Jersey and the state of New York, in lands
  under water in the Arthur kill, Kill von Kull,  New  York  bay  and  the
  Hudson river;" and
WHEREAS,  George  H.  Cook, Robert C. Bacot and William M. Oliver were
  duly appointed commissioners for the purpose of said act; and
WHEREAS, George H. Cook having died, Edwin A. Stevens was appointed in
  his stead, clothed with the same powers; and
WHEREAS, The said commissioners acting for  and  on  behalf  of  their
  respective  states,  have  entered  upon  the  performance of the duties
  imposed upon them by the said acts of their respective legislatures, and
  have,  in  pursuance  of  the  authority  to  them  severally  given  as
  aforesaid,  agreed  and hereby do agree upon a boundary line between the
  two states in lands under water in the Arthur kill, Kill von  Kull,  New
  York bay and the Hudson river, and do locate the same as follows:
First.  Starting  from a point (at the conclusion of the boundary line
  in Raritan bay) and marked for the purposes of this agreement, A.
This point is equidistant between  the  southwesterly  corner  of  the
  dwelling-house of David C. Butler, at Ward's point, on Staten Island, in
  the  state  of  New  York,  and  the  southeasterly  corner of the brick
  building on the lands of Cortlandt L. Parker, at the intersection of the
  westerly line of water street with the northerly line of  Lewis  street,
  in Perth Amboy, in the state of New Jersey.
The  line  runs  thence  in a succession of straight lines through the
  Arthur kill, the Kill von Kull, New York bay and the Hudson river, to  a
  point marked "JJ," for the purposes of this agreement.
This point "JJ," is at the extreme northern limit of the boundary line
  in  lands  under  water, and from this point the line runs westerly to a
  rock which is described in the report of the New  York  and  New  Jersey
  boundary  commission  of 1883 as marking the eastern end of the boundary
  line between New York and New Jersey, as determined upon  by  the  royal
  boundary commission of 1769.
The  absolute  geographical  locations  of  the  point at the place of
  beginning and the point of conclusion are as follows:
POINT A (PLACE OF BEGINNING).
Latitude. Seconds in meters. Longitude. Seconds in meters (Latitude
and longitude not given. Description sufficient.)
POINT JJ (PLACE OF CONCLUSION).
  ________________________________________________________________________
  Latitude.      Seconds in meters.     Longitude.      Seconds in meters.
  ________________________________________________________________________
  40° 59' 49"     74 N. 1534.38         74° 53' 38"       57 W. 901.46
  ________________________________________________________________________
 
  The  points  at  which  changes of direction occur in the boundary line,
  from the place of beginning to the place  of  conclusion,  are  for  the
  purposes of this agreement lettered or numbered, and their determination
  and absolute geographical positions are as follows:
 
  ________________________________________________________________________
LATITUDE.                                LONGITUDE.
  ________________________________________________________________________
Seconds                            Seconds
in                                 in
  Degrees.  Minutes.  Seconds.  meters. Degrees.Minutes. Seconds.  meters.
  ________________________________________________________________________
B 40    30      31    N.    956.2    74     15     30.74 W.    723.9
C 40    30      56    N.  1727.33    74     15     16.22 W.     382.
D 40    31      15.07 N.    464.8    74     14     47.15 W.   1109.9
E 40    32      31.9  N.     984.    74     15     02.5  W.     58.8
F 40    32      57.38 N.   1769.9    74     14     52.42 W.   1233.9
G 40    33      32.68 N.    1008.    74     13     54.57 W.    1284.
H 40    33      25.03 N.     772.    74     13     06.29 W.     148.
I 40    33      37.54 N.   1157.9    74     12     53.95 W.   1269.4
J 40    34      25.03 N.     772.    74     12     38.   W.    893.7
K 40    35      16.12 N.     498.    74     12     27.55 W.    647.9
L 40    35      51.87 N.   1599.9    74     12     00.   W.       0.
  No. 1 40    36      01.   N.     30.8    74     12     00.   W.       0.
  No. 2 40    36      21.45 N.    661.6    74     12     18.88 W.    443.9
  No. 3 40    36      51.02 N.   1573.7    74     12     15.48 W.    363.9
  No. 4 40    37      00.   N.       0.    74     12     10.21 W.     240.
O 40    37      27.36 N.    844.1    74     12     15.61 W.    366.9
P 40    37      43.24 N.   1333.7    74     12     09.69 W.    227.9
R 40    37      53.36 N.   1645.9    74     12     10.12 W.     238.
S 40    38      04.86 N.    149.9    74     11     54.87 W.   1289.3
Position Center of Baltimore and Ohio Bridge Pier.
40    38      15.31 N.    472.3    74     11     47.97 W.   1125.9
A'40    38      30.92 N.    953.7    74     11     30.63 W.    719.8
B'40    38      45.38 N.   1399.8    74     11     09.79 W.    229.9
C'40    38      47.13 N.   1453.7    74     10     55.42 W.   1301.8
D'40    38      30.79 N.    949.7    74     08     36.68 W.    861.9
E'40    38      36.89 N.   1137.9    74     08     00.   W.      0.0
F'40    38      31.37 N.    967.6    74     07     35.15 W.    825.8
G'40    38      52.66 N.   1624.3    74     06     36.94 W.    867.9
H'40    38      52.66 N.   1624.3    74     05     37.88 W.    889.8
I'40    39      05.05 N.   155.77    74     05     14.64 W.   343.09
J'40    39      04.94 N.   152.38    74     03     22.25 W.   522.65
K' or
AA 40    42      00.   N.     0.0     74     01     36.50 W.    857.0
BB 40    43      04.68 N.   144.36    74     01     26.59 W.   624.07
CC 40    45      26.82 N.   827.30    74     00     52.   W.  1219.66
DD 40    49      26.82 N.  1096.61    73     57     50.38 W.   1180.6
EE 40    51      03.62 N.   111.67    73     57     11.69 W.   273.78
FF 40    53      19.05 N.   587.64    73     55     48.77 W.   1141.7
GG 40    55      40.03 N.  1243.13    73     54     52.82 W.  1235.61
HH 40    56      48.22 N.  1487.48    73     54     33.35 W.   780.06
II 40    58      54.39 N.  1677.82    73     53     47.63 W.  1113.58
JJ 40    59      49.74 N.  1534.38    73     53     38.57 W.   901.46
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Second.  The  monumental  marks  by  which  said  boundary  line shall
  hereafter be known and recognized have been carefully  described,  their
  absolute geographical positions given, and this description and location
  will  be  filed  in the office of the secretary of state of New York and
  the secretary of state of New Jersey.
Third. The maps accompanying and filed with  this  agreement,  showing
  the  location  of the above-mentioned boundary line between the state of
  New York and the state of New Jersey in  lands  under  water  in  Arthur
  kill,  Kill  von  Kull,  New  York  bay and the Hudson river, and of the
  monumental marks by which such line may be distinguished and known, duly
  authenticated  and  attested  by  the  signatures   of   the   aforesaid
  commissioners,  and  placed on file in the offices of the secretaries of
  state of the respective  states,  shall  constitute  the  permanent  and
  authenticated  record  of  said boundary line, and are hereby adopted by
  the parties hereto and made part of this agreement.
In witness whereof, the said commissioners have hereto set their hands
  and seals in duplicate, this twenty-third day of December, in  the  year
  of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
M. W. HAZELTINE. [L. S.]
ROBERT MOORE. [L. S.]
G. C. HANUS. [L. S.]
R. C. BACOT. [L. S.]
W. M. OLIVER. [L. S.]
E. A. STEVENS. [L. S.]
Attest:
EDWARD P. DOYLE,
Secretary Joint Boundary Commission.