| Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection |
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| 1831 |
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| Resolution 128. Committee's Report; details the history
of the border dispute, going back to
the original charters; says that
Virginia's recognition of Maryland's
charter rights in the Virginia
Constitution was "fit and proper" but
that "her reservation in regard to the
use of the rivers Potomac and
Pocomoke, were wholly gratuitous;
and the two states afterwards, by
compact, on the twenty-eight day of
March, in the year of our lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty
five regulated and settled the
jurisdiction and navigation of those
rivers, and that part of Chesapeake bay
within the territory of Virginia." Further
the report says that "if [Virginia] had
any possible imaginary right to any
territory within the limits of our charter,
it was all absolutely ceded and
relaeased by her constitution to
Maryland, although becoming subject
to the compact made afterwards in
seventeen hundred and eighty-five."
And further still: "The compact of
[1785], between the two states was
made to regulate and settle the
jurisdiction and navigation of the
Potomac, leaving the single question
of the first founation of that river open,
to be settled by some other
negotiation. It is indeed, matter of
great surprise to your committee, that
the Maryland commissioners, at the
time of that compact, did not make the
decision of that signle question
preliminary to every other
arrangement." Report indicates that
there was a correspondence between
Maryland and Virginia commissioners
in 1818 or so. [images are out of sequence; in process of being corrected. ecp 11/19/00]
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