Chapter XXVIII. to authorize the Attorney-General to represent the United States in the Proceeding in Equity, now pending in the Supreme Court between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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Chap. XXVIII.— An Act to authorize the Attorney-General to represent the United States in the Proceeding in Equity, now pending in the Supreme Court between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.Feb. 9, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Attorney-General isThe Attorney-General authorized to intervene, and to consent, &c. hereby authorized and directed to intervene and represent the United States in the proceeding in equity now pending in the Supreme Court between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and to consent on behalf of the United States, to the adjustment of said suit by a conventional line to be agreed upon by the parties, and confirmed by a decree of said court, if, in his judgment, the rights and interests of the United States will not be prejudiced thereby.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That in case such suit shall be adjustedConventional line to be true boundary line. as aforesaid and a conventional line shall be agreed upon, and confirmed by a decree of the court as aforesaid, such line shall be taken 383THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28, 33. 1859. and deemed to be, for all purposes affecting the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any department of the government thereof, the true line of boundary between said Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Approved, February 9, 1859.