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MSA SC 5796-11-4
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1885-1946
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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December 9, 1885 Opinion of I. Nevett Steele concerning the applicability of the Compact of 1785 to the Potomac and Pocomoke rivers, as filed in the Appellant's brief, pp. 5-30, Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1893, no. 1054, Robert L. Wharton vs. John H. Wise, Sheriff of Accomack county, Virginia. Typescript made in 1946 for Chief Judge Ogle Marbury from MSA S 434-26 (MdHR 9881-18) as a supplement to his opinion in the Barnes case. [See also Steele's biography in John Thomas Scharf's Baltimore County, 1881, p. 715-716, the accompanying image listed below, and extracts of references to Steele opinion from Westlaw in Ex Parte Marsh, et. al (1893), Wharton vs. Wise (1894), and Barnes v State (1946).]

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