Document: 434 U.S. 1 98 S.Ct. 42 54 L.Ed.2d NEW HAMPSHIREv.MAINE No. 64 Supreme Court of the United States October 3, 1977 On joint motion for entry final decree. DECREE 2 The a decree is granted. 3 IT IS Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed as Follows: 4 1. Report Special Master hereby approved, judgment by consent plaintiff defendant 5 2. This determines lateral marine boundary line between New hampshire Maine from inner Portsmouth Harbor to breakwater at end Gosport in Isles Shoals. 6 3. Order King Council April 9, 1740, pertinent part, provided: 7 "And Northern Boundary said Provinces, Resolve Determine, That Dividing Line shall pass up thro Mouth Piscataqua Harbour Middle River into Newichwannock (part which now called Salmon Falls) same furthest Head thereof thence North two Degrees Westerly until One Hundred Twenty Miles be finished aforesaid or it meets with His Majestys other Governments And part Shoals run Islands Sea on Southerly Side; that Southwesterly lye accounted Province Hampshire Easterly in, Massachusets Bay held enjoyed provinces respectively manner they do have heretofore . ." 8 4. terms "Middle River" Harbour," used above-quoted Order, mean middle main channel navigation Harbor. 9 5. River, commencing vicinity Fort Point, Hampshire, Fishing Island, Maine, proceeding southward, indicated range lights located Pepperrell Cove, Kittery follows marked Coast Geodetic Survey Chart 211, 8th Edition, Dec. 1, 1973. 10 6. terminates point whose position latitude 43x02'42.5" longitude 70x42'06" West. Said has computed bearing 194x44'47.47" true distance 1,554.45 metres (1,700 yards) Whaleback Lighthouse, 19, USCG-158, 43x03'31.213" 70x41'48.515" West (reference National Survey). 11 7. passes through bottom BW "IS" Bell Buoy symbol shown this 42x58'51.6" 70x37'17.5" scaled above-described chart. 12 8. 42x58'55" 70x37'39.5" 394x08'52.81" 1,674.39 (1,831 20, 42x58'01.710" 70x37'25.590" 13 9. connecting termination points described paragraphs (6) (8) above been determined basis "special circumstances" exception Article Convention Territorial Contiguous Zone (15 Treaties 1608) location were divided their colonial grants charters. 14 10. arc great circle (appears straight Mercator projection) length 9,257.89 (10,124.53 yards). 15 11. proceeds toward 139x20'27.22" true. 16 12. 319x17'25.43" 17 13. All positions preceding are referred American Datum 1927. 18 14. delimited hereinabove depicted heavy black words "Maine" "New Hampshire" below Eighth 1973, filed Motion Entry Judgment Consent. 19 15. State its officers, agents, representatives citizens, perpetually enjoined disputing sovereignty, jurisdiction dominion over area adjudged her decree; 20 16. costs action equally States, case retained docket further orders, fulfillment provisions

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