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MSA SC 5796-5-1
CollectionPotomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates1927/06/23
MediumOriginal
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Letter from Virginia Attorney General to Swepson Earle, referenced in Annual Report and Official Opinions of the Attorney General of Maryland, 1927, 12:55/56. MSA S1041, Governor (General File). See the correspondence relating to this issue in MSA S 1041, Governor (General File) 1920-1935 Conservation folder re: Potomac Fishing Licenses. Included with the clippings and correspondence is the opinion by Judge Carroll T. Bond in Jacob M. Middlekauff, Lewis Downey, Harry Ash, William Walker, and Robert Lemon vs. E. Lee Le'Compte, Albert Crampton. Court of Appeals of Maryland, October Term 1925, No. 91. [The controversy over the interpretation of the Compact of 1785 is particularly relevant, as Maryland consistently argued that it applied only to the tidewater and not to fishing above tidewater which Maryland claimed the right to regulate (although not of an owner fishing off of his own land). Ecp]

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