Chapter 49. giving the consent of Congress to an agreement or compact entered into between the States of New York and Vermont respecting the boundary between said States
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CHAP. 49.— An Act giving the consent of Congress to an agreement or compact entered into between the States of New York and Vermont respecting the boundary between said States.April 7, 1880. Preamble.Whereas, the general assembly of the State of Vermont at its October session, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, passed an act which was approved on the twenty-seventh day of November of the same year, declaring that “ all that portion of the town of Fair Haven, in the county of Rutland, and State of Vermont, lying westerly from the middle of the deepest channel of Poultney River as it now runs, and between the middle of the deepest channel of said river and the west line of the State of Vermont as at present established, is hereby ceded and relinquished to the State of New York in full and absolute right and jurisdiction.
” And also declaring that “this act shall not take effect until the State of New York shall have assented to the same, nor until the same shall have been approved by an act of the Congress of the United States”; and Whereas “ the people of the State of New York represented in Senate and assembly” did by act approved March twentieth, anno Domini Boundary line between the States of New York and Vermont.eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, enact that “sovereignty and jurisdiction over all that portion of the town of Fair Haven, iu the county of Rutland and State of Vermont, lying westerly from the middle of the deepest channel of Poultney River, as it now runs, and between the middle of the deepest channel of said river and the west line of the State of Vermont, as at present established”, “ and the same is described in an act of the legislature of the State of Vermont entitled ‘An act annexing that portion of the town of Fair Haven, lying west of Poultney River, to the State of New York’ and approved by the governor of the said State of Vermont November twenty-seventh, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the cession of the same to the State of New York is hereby accepted by the State of New York”; and also enacting that “this act shall take effect when the Congress of the United States shall consent to such cession and annexation”:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Consent of Congress., That the consent of the Congress of the United States is hereby given to the said agreement, compact, and cession, and every part and article thereof. Approved, April 7, 1880.