William T. Minor, commissioners of the state of Connecticut, have agreed and do hereby agree, to fix, determine and establish the boundaries between our respective states, subject to the approval and ratification of the legislatures of our respective states in the following manner: We agree that the boundary on the land constituting the western boundary of Connecticut and the eastern boundary of the state of New York shall be and is as the same was defined by monuments erected by commissioners appointed by the legislature of the state of New York and completed in the year eighteen hundred and sixty. The said boundary line extending from Byram point, formerly called Lyon's point, on the south, to the line of the state of Massachusetts on the north. And we further agree that the boundary on the sound shall be and is as follows: Beginning at a point in the centre of the channel about six hundred feet south of the extreme rocks of Byram point, marked No. o, on appended United States coast survey chart; thence running in a true southeast course three and one-fourth statute miles; thence in a straight line (the arc of a great circle) northeasterly to a point four statute miles true south of New London light-house; thence northeasterly to a point marked number one on the annexed United States. coast survey chart of Fisher's island sound, which point is on the longitude east three-quarters north sailing-course drawn on said map, and is about one thousand feet northerly from the Hammock or North Dumpling light-house; thence following said east three-fourths north sailing course as laid down on said map easterly to a point marked number two on said map; thence southeasterly toward point marked number three on said map, so far as said states are coterminous; provided, however, that nothing in the foregoing agreement contained shall be construed to affect existing titles to property corporeal or incorporeal, held under grants heretofore made by either of said states, nor to affect existing rights which said states, or either of them, or which the citizens of either of said states may have, by grant, letters-patent or prescription, of fishing in the waters of said sound, whether for shell or floating fish, irrespective of the boundary line hereby established, it not being the purpose of this agreement to define, limit or interfere with any such right, rights or privileges, whatever the same may be.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands to this

instrument and to a duplicate thereof, December eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

ALLEN C. BEACH,

"Secretary of State.

AUGUSTUS SCHOONMAKER, JR.,

Attorney-General.

HORATIO SEYMOUR, JR.,

State Engineer and Surveyor.

Commissioners of the State of New York.

ORIGEN S. SEYMOUR,

LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER,

WILLIAM T. MINOR,

Commissioners of the State of Connecticut."

§ 3. Massachusetts boundary line. The boundary line between the states of New York and Massachusetts is as follows:

Commencing at the said monument erected in 1731 as the northeast corner of equivalent or oblong in that year ceded to New York by Connecticut, and standing in a valley of the Taghanic mountains 160 rods east from the southeast corner of Massachusetts, and 122 rods eastward from a bolt placed in a rock on the top of the most westerly of said mountains, where the southerly Massachusetts line crosses it; thence along the southern bounds of Massachusetts N. 81° 44′ 56′′ W. 40 chains, to a marble post marked on the south and west sides "N. Y." and on the east side "Ms," and on the north side " 1853," which stone marks the southeast corner of Boston corner as established by Commissioners J. Z. Goodrich of Massachusetts, and R. G. Dorr of New York, on report of survey by J. T. Hogeboom, dated December 20, 1853; thence by true meridian N. 12° 57′ 16′′ W. 207.49 chains to a marble post marked on the east side "Ms," on the west side "N. Y." and on the south side " 1853," thence along the line as the same was laid out by the United States commissioners in 1787, N. 15° 12′ 9′′ E. 47 miles 73.81 chains to a marble post marking the junction of the New York and Massachusetts line with the southern line of Vermont; thereby including within the state of New York that portion of the former territory of Massachusetts known as the district of Boston corner, situate formerly in the southwesterly corner of Massachusetts, and westerly of the southwest line of the town of Mount Washington, in the county of Berkshire, and ceded to the state of New York

upon certain conditions by an act of the legislature of Massachusetts passed in* May 14, 1853, entitled "An act relating to the separation of the district of Boston corner from this commonwealth, and the cession of the same to the state of New York."

The acceptance by this state of sovereignty and jurisdiction of such ceded territory which took effect January 3, 1855, the date of the approval of the act of congress consenting to such cession, is continued in force, subject to the retention by the state of Massachusetts of jurisdiction in any cause which arose or was pending before the date of the issuing of the proclamation provided in the third section of such act of the legislature of Massachusetts.

§ 4. Vermont boundary line. The boundary line between the states of New York and Vermont is as follows:

Commencing at the said marble post marking the junction of the New York and Massachusetts line with the southern line of Vermont; thence along the southern boundary of Vermont as the same was laid out by joint commission of the two states in 1813, N. 82° 20' W. 50 chains to a rough stone supported by a heap of stones on the brow of a high hill descending to the west; thence N. 5° W. 3 miles 72 chains; thence N. 35° E. 30 chains to a hemlock tree on the westerly bank of the Hoosick river; thence N. 1° 20′ W. 6 chains to a hewn marble stone; thence N. 27° 20′ E. 30 chains through the bed of said river to a large roundish rock on the northeasterly bank thereof; thence N. 25° W. 16.70 chains; thence N. 9° W. 18.60 chains; tehnce N. 11° E. 77 chains; thence N. 46° E. 6 chains; thence S. 66° E. 26.25 chains; thence N. 9° E. 27.50 chains to a blue slate stone marking the southwest corner of Bennington; thence from the Bennington corner N. 7° 30' E. 6 miles 52 chains to the northwest corner of the town of Bennington; thence N. 8° 20' E. 6 miles 44.50 chains to the northwest corner of the town of Shaftsbury; thence N. 9° E. 13 miles 2.50 chains to the northwest corner of the town of Sandgate and the southwest corner of the town of Rupert; thence N. 8° E. 1 mile 41 chains; thence N. 10° 15′ E. 55.50 chains; thence N. 9° 15′ E. 19.70 chains; then N. 8° 45′ E. 4 miles 18.40 chains to the northeast corner of the town of Rupert; thence N. 8° E. 6 miles 31.15 chains to the northwest corner of the town of Pawlet; thence N. 70° 30′ E. 6 miles 6.25 chains to the northwest corner of the town of Wells; thence N. * So in the original.

7° E. 1 mile 12.50 chains to a bunch of hornbeam saplings on the south bank of the Poultney river; according to the report made October 25, 1814, of commissioners appointed by the states of New York and Vermont ; thence along the middle of the deepest channel of said river to East bay; thence along the middle of the deepest channel of East bay and the waters thereof to where the same communicates with Lake Champlain; thence along the middle of the deepest channel of Lake Champlain to the eastward of the islands called the Four Brothers and westward of the islands called Grand isle and Long isle or the Two Heroes, and to the westward of the Isle La Mott, to the parallel of the fortyfifth degree north latitude, as run by Valentine and Collins, 17711774; according to report dated October 7, 1791, of commissioners appointed by chapter eighteen of the laws passed at the thirteenth session of the legislature of this state in 1790; thereby including within the state of New York, all that portion of the former town of Fair Haven, formerly in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont, lying westerly from the middle of the deepest channel of Poultney river as it now runs, and between the middle of the deepest channel of such river and the west line of the state of Vermont, as established on March 19, 1879, as the same is described in an act of the legislature of Vermont entitled "An act annexing that portion of the town of Fair Haven, lying west of Poultney river, to the state of New York," and approved by the governor of Vermont November 27, 1876. The acceptance by this state of sovereignty and jurisdiction of such ceded territory which took effect April 7, 1880, the date of the approval of the act of congress consenting to such cession, is continued in force.

§ 5. The Canada boundary line.-The boundary line between the state of New York and Canada is as follows:

Commencing at the intersection of the parallel of the fortyfifth degree of north latitude with the middle of the deepest channel of the Richelieu river and running thence westerly along said parallel of forty-five degrees north latitude as originally run by Valentine and Collins, 1771-1774, to a point on the south shore of the St. Lawrence river (but shown by the United States survey of boundary line in 1845, under treaty of Washington 1842, on sheet maps XXVI to XXX to vary from true parallel of forty-five degrees, as follows: monument 645, on bank of Richelieu river, is .822 miles north of parallel of 45° and .02 miles

west from river; thence westerly 14.68 miles to monument 673, at .336 miles north; thence westerly 6.56 miles to monument 685, at .353 miles north; thence westerly 9.20 miles to monument 703, at .004 miles south; thence westerly 7.43 miles to monument 717, at .429 miles south; thence westerly 10.02 miles to monument 737, at .475 miles south; thence westerly 6.34 miles to monument 749, at .140 miles south; thence westerly 5.88 miles to monument 762, on true parallel of 45°; thence westerly 4.20 miles to monument 774, at .030 miles north on bank of St. Lawrence river S. 74° 45′ W. 1840 yards distant from the stone church in the Indian village of St. Regis, this line being recognized as the boundary line by article one of said treaty of Washington). Thence beginning at aforesaid point on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence river, marked by monument 774, under the treaty of Washington, 1842, and in 1817 by a stone monument erected by Andrew Ellicott (the location of which point is described above), and running north 35° 45' west into the river, on a line a* right angles with the southern shore, to a point 100 yards south of the opposite island, called Cornwall island; thence turning westerly and passing around the southern and western side of said island keeping 100 yards distant therefrom, and following the curvatures of its shores, to a point opposite to the northwest corner or angle of said island; thence to and along the middle of the main river until it approaches the eastern extremity of Barnhart's island; thence northerly along the channel which divides the last mentioned island from the Canada shore, keeping 100 yards distant from the island, until it approaches Sheik's island; thence along the middle of the strait which divides Barnhart's and Sheik's islands to the channel called the Long Sault, which separates the two last mentioned islands from the lower Long Sault island; thence westerly (crossing the centre of the last mentioned channel) until it approaches within 100 yards of the north shore of the Lower Sault island; thence up the north branch of the river keeping to the north of and near the Lower Sault island, and also north of and near the Upper Sault, sometimes called Baxter's island, and south of the two small islands marked on the map A and B, to the western extremity of the Upper Sault or Baxter's island; thence passing between the two islands called the Cats, to the middle of the river above; thence along the middle of the river, keeping to *So in the original.