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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 80,81. 1881. 35] the benent of the pensioners without deduction for nnes or penalties under regulations to be established by the managers of the home, said payment to be made by the pension agent upon a certificate of the proper officer of the home that the pensioner is an inmate thereof and is still living. Any balance of the pension which may remain at the date of the pensioner’s discharge shall be paid over to him; and in case of his death at the home, the same shall be paid to the widow, or children or in default of either to his legal representatives. Approved, February 26, 1881. CHAP. 81.-An act concerning settlement of boundary lines between New York and Feb. 26, 1881, Connecticut. m.m_ Whereas, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the State of Boundary line New York, and commissioners duly appointed on the part of the State between $***08 Of of Connecticut,-for the purpose of settling the boundary line between §§g,gQ;k“s£€fQ` said States, did execute an agreement in the words following, to wit; ment Off ` “ Memorandum of agreement by and between the subscribers, commis- Preamble. sioners of the States of New York and Connecticut, respectively, to settle M*’m°m¤d¤m ef the question of the boundaries between said States, being thereunto ”‘gr°°m°”J°' authorized by the resolutions of said States, respectively, passed by them as hereunto annexed. That is to say, we, Allen C. Beach, secretary of State, Augustus Schoonmaker, attorney-general, and Horatio Seymour, junior, State engineer and surveyor, commissioners of the State of New York; and we, Origen S. Seymour, Lafayette S. Foster, and 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 denned 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 Lyons 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 center of the channel about six hundred feet south of the extreme rocks of Byram Point, marked number 0 on appended United States Coast Survey chart; thence running in a true southeast course three and one quarter 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 long east three-quarters north sailing course drawn on said map, and is about one thousand feet northerly from the Hammock or N. Dumpling Light House; thence following the said east three-quarters north sailing course as laid down on said map, easterly to a point marked number two on said map, thence Southeasterly toward a point marked number three on said map, so far 3»S Said States are coterminus: Provided, however, That nothing in the Proviw 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 deline, limit, or interfere with any such right, rights. or privileges, whatever the same may be.