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 FIFTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 804. 1800. 331 and in that case, and in every case where it is required to establish intervening points in said line, a straight line drawn between the nearest adjacent monuments whose localities are ascertained shall be understood to be, and shall be, the true boundary line. "Third. The line of cession, described as a meridian line drawn from the forty-fifth degree of north latitude south throu h the most westerlylbent or inclination of Lake Ontario, in the deed of cession to the nited States of certain territory claimed by the State of New York, llying west of said line, executed first of March, seventeen hundre and eighty-one, by James Duane, William Flo d, and Alexander McDougal, eleggtes in Congress of said United, States . from the said State of New ork, in pursuance of an act of the legislature of said State, entitled ‘An act to facilitate the completion of the articles of confederation and perpetual union among tile United States of America,’ passed February nineteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty, which said territory was afterward conveyed by the United States aforesaid to, and became a part of the territory and jurisdiction of the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as the said line was surveyed and marked with osts and monuments of stone in the year seventeen hundredp and ninety, by Andrew Ellicott, who was duly appointed for that purpose by the President of the United States, in pursuance of a resolution of Congress passed nineteenth August, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, which said line, and its prolongation due north into the waters of Lake Erie until it intersects the northern boundary of the United States aforesaid, have since been acknowledged and recognized by the said two States, as a part of the limit of their respective territory and jurisdiction, shall, notwithstanding any possib e want of conformity to the verbal description thereof, as contained in said deed of cession, continue to be the boimdary or partition line between the said two States, so far as said line so surveyed and marked in seventeen hundred and ninety shall extend. · "Fourth. The monumental marks by which the said boundary line, except such portions thereof as maly be within the waters of the Delaware River and Lake Erie shal hereafter be known and recognized, are hereby declared to be: "First. The original monuments of stone, erected in the years seventeen hundred and eighty-six and seventeen hundred and eighty- seven gy the Commissioners aforesaid, and in the year seventeen huudr and ninety by Andrew Ellicott, aforesaid, as the same have been restored and re-established in their original plositions, or have been replaced by granite monuments erected in the years eighteen hundre and eighty-one, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eighteen. hundred an eiglhig-four, and eighteen hundred and eigihty-five, by H. Wadswoit larke, surveyor on the Part of New ork, and hristoplier M. Gere, surveyor on the part o Pennsylvania, duly aptpointed y the parties hereto. "Second. The new monuments o granite, erected in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one to eighteen hundred and eighty- five, inclusive, b the aforesaid surveyors, at intervals of one mile, more or less, andy numbered consecutively along said line originally surveyed and marked in the years seventeen hundred and eighty-six and seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, befnning from the Delaware river, and severally marked on the nort side with the letters ‘N. Y.,’ and on the sout side with the letters ‘PA.,’ and along said line original] surveyed and marked in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, beginning at the shore of Lake Erie and severally marked on the east side with the letters ‘N. Y.,’ and on the west side with the letters ‘PA.’ " Third. The new monuments of granite erected by the said surveyors in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one to eighteen I