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 860 FIFPY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 394. 1907. “‘AR•r. IV. Immediately upon the execution hereof the legislature of the State of New Jersey shall appoint three commissioners to confer with three commissioners to be immediately appointed by the general assembly of the State of Delaware for the pu se of drafting uniform laws to regulate the catching and takin of fislhoin the Delaware River and Bay between said two States, which said commissioners for each State, respectively, shall, within two years from the date of their appointment, report to the legislature of each `of said States the proppsed laws so framed and recommended by said joint commission. pon the adoption and passage of said laws so recommended by the respective legislatures of said two States said laws shall constitute the sole laws for the regulation of the taking and catching of fish in the said river and bay between said States. Said laws shall remain in force until altered, amended, or repealed by concurrent legislation of the said two States. Said commissioners shall also ascertain the dividin line between said river and ba, and upon each of the shores of said two States where said dividing line extended shall intersect the same, shall, at the joint expense of said States, erect a suitable monument to mark the said dividing line. Said dividing line between said monuments shall be the division line between the said river and bay for the interpretation of and for all purposes of this compact, and of the concurrent legislation provided for therein. , "The faith of the said contracting States is hereby pledged to the enactment of said laws so recommended by said commissioners, or to such concurrent legislation as may seem judicious and proper in the premises to the res ctive legislatures thereof. "Each State shall? have and exercise exclusive jurisdiction within said river to arrest, try, and punish its own inhabitants for violation of the concurrent legislation relating to fishery herein rovided for. "Am·. V. All laws of said States relating to the reguliition of fisheries in the Delaware River not inconsistent with the right of common fishery hereinabove mentioned shall continue in force in said respective Stgtes until the enactment of said concurrent legislation as herein provided. "Am‘. VI. Nothing herein contained shall affect the planting, catching, or taking of oysters, clams, or other shell fish, or interfere with the;] oyster industry as now or hereafter carried on under the laws of eit er State. "‘A1z·r. VII. Each State may, on its own side of the river, continue to exercise riparian jurisdiction of every kind and nature, and to make grants, leases, and conveyances of riparian lands and rights under the ws of the respective States. °‘ART. VIII. Nothing herein contained shall affect the territorial limits, rights, or jurisdiction of either State of, in, or over the Delaware River, or the ownership of the subaqueous soil thereof, except as herein eyresslyr set forth. "Am. I. This agreement shall be executed by the said commissioners when authorized to doso by the legislatures of the said States. It shall thereupon be submitted to Congress for its consent and approval. Upon the ratification thereof by Congress it shall be and become binding in perpetuity upon both of said States; and thereupon the suit now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the State of I ew Jersey is complainant and the State of Delaware is defendant, shall be discontinued without costs to either party and without prejudice. Pending the ratification hereof by Congress said suit shall remain in statu quo. '“ Done in two parts (one of which is retained by the commissioners of Delaware, to be delivered to the governor of that State, and the other one of which is retained by the commissioners of New Jersey, to