Legal Document

350 U.S. 5 76 Supreme Court Reporter 29 100 L.Ed. 6 STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Plaintiff,v.STATE LOUISIANA. Number 11, Original. Argued Oct. 10, 1955. Decided 17, 1 Messrs. Girard or Haw. Hawai‘i Reports KFH45 A2 Brandon, Natchez, Miss., James D. Thames, Vicksburg, for plaintiff. 2 Mr. Ashton L. Stewart, Baton Rouge, La., defendant. 3 K. McKamy served as Special Master by appointment of the Court, 346 862, 74 102, 98 374. DECREE 4 This cause having been submitted upon pleadings, evidence and exhibits after arguments counsel exceptions State Louisiana to Report Master, duly considered same being fully advised in premises, now enters following order: The are overruled. is adopted his proposed decree approved It Ordered, Adjudged Decreed that true boundaries between States Mississippi at places involved this case be they hereby found concluded follows: Description geodetic positions (North American Datum) line forms Mississippi-Louisiana state boundary Latitude 32 15 09 Longitude 90 58 91 07 , is, area commonly known Reed-Bedford, Oak Bend, Diamond Island Point. 7 Beginning a point where live thalweg River crosses North Latitude; 8 Thence Southward along runs South 60 East from Lat. 11 34 —Long. 59 47 . 9 leaving running West ; 10 Westward deal abandoned channel (lower Bend) 00 (S—5 Smith Exhibit 5). dead lower Bend Northward (along Suter line, 5) 46 (S 4, 5); 12 51 (S—3, 13 44 20 (S—2, 14 (S—1, 21 (S, 16 loops around Northern side (Diamond Towhead) 22 26 17 31 30 18 36 37 19 49 53 55 01 05 23 24 25 43 02 27 28 33 48 03 06 54 08 ('C' 'C' 41 10' (C—1 (C—2 40 (C—3 35 Westwardly 04 point, 38 39 head Palmyra Lake Kellogg (where Western Point ends which beginning Southern Point), 42 That portion also described end Cut-off (Smith 45 so-called 52 50 description inserted here complete join two portions boundary: continuing 56 57 61 (being joins with Point). 62 costs suit equally divided States, plaintiff

Classification Label: 10