CHAP. 35.—An ACT to repeal an act confirming and establishing
the boundary line between this state and the state of Tennessee
as ascertained and adjusted by certain commissioners passed
January 22d, 1803.

Approved January 31, 1890.

Whereas the true boundary line between the state of
Virginia and the state of Tennessee was fixed by the
ancient charters of Virginia and North Carolina, in lati-
tude thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north, a line
due east and west; and

Whereas at the time the state of Tennessee was ceded
to the general government and admitted into the Union as
a state she refused to recognize the line agreed upon
between the state of Virginia and the state of North Car-
olina as the true line; and

Whereas pursuant to an act passed November thirteenth,
eighteen hundred and one, this state appointed commis-
sioners who met commissioners similarly appointed by
the state of Tennessee, and agreed upon a compromise
line as being the true line, in latitude thirty-six degrees
and thirty minutes north, which was reported to the gen-
eral assembly and confirmed by an act passed January
twenty-second eighteen hundred and three; and

Whereas the compromise line agreed upon had in the
year eighteen hundred and fifty-six become uncertain and
unknown, causing much inconvenience and difficulty be-
tween citizens of the. two States; and

Whereas this state, on the eighteenth day of March,
eighteen hundred and fifty-six, passed an act reciting the
facts providing for the appointment of commissioners to
re-run and re-mark the line, and the state of Tennessee
by an act passed March first, eighteen hundred and nity:
eight, passed a similar act; and

Whereas the said commissioners made their report to
the general assembly, which was disapproved by an act
passed March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty, and pro-
vision therein made for the appointment of other commis-
sioners; and

Whereas the state of Tennessee then declined to ap-
point other commissioners; and

Whereas on the fourth day of February, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, this state passed an act providing for the
appointment of commissioners to act with commissioners
to be appointed by the state of Tennessee, to ascertain
and locate the true boundary line; and

Whereas on the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, this state again passed an act
authorizing the governor to confer with the governor of
Tennessee, and to proceed in such manner as he might
deem advisable to settle the boundary between the states ;
and

Whereas the state of Tennessee has persistently refused
to take action looking to a settlement of the question,
which has necessitated the institution of a suit in the
supreme court of the United States against the state of
Tennessee to settle the same; and

Whereas the line agreed upon January twenty-second,
eighteen hundred and three, was, by reason of mistake, in
fact caused by defective instruments and incompetent
observers, run several miles north of the true line in lat-
itude thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north, and is
not obligatory on the state; therefore

1. Be it enacted by the ‘general assembly of Virginia,
That an act entitled an act for confirming and establish-
ing the boundary line between this state and the state of
Tennessee, as ascertained and adjusted by certain commis-
sioners, passed January twenty-second, eighteen hundred
and three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.