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332 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. S0-1. 1890. hundred and eighty-five, inclusive, aforesaid, at the intervening points on said hue, and at its intersection with lpublic roads, railroads, and rivers, and at other points, and severa y marked at the one side with the letters ‘ N. Y.’ and on the other side with the letters. ‘ PA.’ "Fourth. A large monument of granite, erected in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four by the said surveyors six hun red feet west of the center 0 the Delaware River in the said line originally fixed in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-six, to mark its eastern terminus, a large monument of granite erected in the _ year eighteen hundred and eighty-four by the said surveyors in thesaid line or meridian boundary, as originally fixed in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, one hundred feet north from its intersection with the line originally surveyed as aforesaid in the year seventeen hundred and eig ty-seven, which said point of intersection is marked by a small monument of granite burie in the center of the highway in eighteen hundred and eighty-four by the said surveyors; and also a large monument of granite erected in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine by John V. L. Pruyn, George R. Perkins, Samuel B. Woolworth, and George W. Patterson, on the part of the State of New York, and William Evans on the plart of the State of Pennsylvania, four hundred and fort feet sout of the original monuments erected in the year seventeen hundred and ninety b Andrew Ellicott aforesaid, upon the south shore of Lake Erie in the line originally surveyed and marked by him as aforesaid. " Fifth. The Held book of said surveyors containing the notes of the resnrveys along said line in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; also the ‘record of monuments prepared by said surveyors, containing the descrgptious of the locations of the several monuments erected bg them, an of the witness mark thereto; also the mags of said line an the vicinity thereof, showing the locations of said monuments; and also the ‘ diary operations’ of said surveyors under the direction of the parties hereto, the same havin , been uly authenticated by the signature of the said surveyors, and the several documents and books of record containing the transactions of the parties hereto; all of which being placed on file in the office of the secretary of state of New York and the office of the secretary of internal aifairs of Pennsylvania, shall constitute the permanent and authentic records of said boundary line, and are ereby adopted by the parties hereto and made a part of this agreemen . " Sixth. This agreement shall become bindingupon the two States when ratified by the legislatures thereof, respectively, and when confirmed by the ongress of the United States. • " In witness whereof the said commissioners have hereunto set. their hands and seals in duplicate the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-six aforesaid. " Executed in the presence of witnesses: "As to Henry R. Pierson—Edward I. Devlin. " H. R. Pmnson. [L. s.] "As to E. W. Leavenworth—H. W. Clarke. " E. W. Lnsvnuwonrn [L. s.] "As to Chauncy M. Depew—Edward I. Devlin. Cnsmvcr M. Dnrnw. [L. s.] "As to C. M. Gere—A. D. Birchard. C. M. Gunn. [L. s.] "As to Robert N. Torrey—Andrew Thonipson. Ronmzr N. ORREY. [L. S.] ; " and