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PUBLIC LAW 87-783-OCT. 10, 1962
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Public Law 87-783 JOINT RESOLUTION October 10, 1962 Granting consent of the Congress to a compact entered into between the State of [H. J. R e s. 659] Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia for the creation of the Potomac River Compact of 1958. Whereas the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia Potomac River have entered into a compact, known as the Potomac River Compact ^^ns^ent of cfoiiof 1958, by means of concurrent legislation for that purpose, being gress. chapter 269 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1959 and being found in chapters 5 and 28 of the 1959 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of Virginia: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the Congress, subject to the provisions and conditions of section 2 of this joint resolution, is given to the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Potomac River Compact of 1958 and for each and every part and article thereof: Provided, That nothing in this compact shall be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the United States in or over the region which forms the subject of the compact or the power of Congress pursuant to the United States Constitution over interstate or foreign commerce. The compact reads as follows: "POTOMAC R IV E R COMPACT O F 1958 "PREAMBLE
"Whereas Maryland and Virginia are both vitally interested in conserving and improving the valuable fishery resources of the Tidewater portion of the Potomac River, and "Whereas, certain provisions of the Compact of 1785 between Maryland and Virginia having become obsolete, Maryland and Virginia each recognizing that Maryland is the owner of the Potomac River bed and waters to the low water mark of the southern shore thereof, as laid out on the Mathews-Nelson survey of 1927, and that Virginia is the owner of the Potomac River bed and waters southerly from said low water mark as laid out, and that the citizens of Virginia have certain riparian rights along the southern shore of the river, as shown on said Mathews-Nelson survey, and, in common with the citizens of Maryland, the right of fishing in said river, Maryland and Virginia have agreed that the necessary conservation and improvement of the tidewater portion of the Potomac fishery resources can be best achieved by a Commission comprised of representatives of both Maryland and Virginia, charged with the establishment and maintenance of a program to conserve and improve these resources, and "Whereas, at a meeting of the commissioners appointed by the Governors of the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia, to-wit: Carlyle Barton, M. William Adelson, Stephen R. Collins, Edward S. Delaplaine and William J. McWilliams, Esquires, on the part of the State of Maryland, and Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Howard H. Adams, Robert Y. Button, John Warren Cooke and Edward E. Lane, Esquires, on the part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Mount Vernon, Virginia, on the twentieth of Decemfer, in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, the following Potomac River Compact of, 1958 between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland was mutually agreed to by the said Commissioners: Now, therefore, be it
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