CHAP. 304.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 90,
Acts of 1878-79, in relation to the boundary line between Virginia
and Maryland.

Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section one
of chapter ninety of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight and seventy-nine, entitled an act in relation to the boun-
dary line between Virginia and Maryland, approved April
second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the governor to nominate and appoint a
commissioner, who, together with a commissioner or commis-
sioners to be appointed by the state of Maryland, shall, in
concert with each other, have the said line surveyed, and, so
far as practicable and necessary, shall have the same marked
art- and designated by suitable monuments; and, to the end tha
el said line may be run by persons of the highest skill, and as the
len- same is a matter of Federal concern, the governor is directed tc
xthe solicit the war department at Washington to detail one or more
ntsto Of the topographical engineers of the United States, who shall
with the commissioners appointed by the states of Virginia and
pme Maryland, run and mark and bound said line with such monu.
ments to be placed thereon of the kind, number and description
that the said commissioners and engineer shall order and direct,
neto it being the purpose and intention of this act, first, to mark and
sated designate the water line from Smith’s point to the land on the
Pocomoke river.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.