Eastern. TITLE 1. where it falls into Long-Island Sound, and running thence up along said river to a rock at the ancient road or wading place in said river, which rock bears north twelve degrees and forty-five minutes east, five hundred and fifty rods from said point; then north twenty-three degrees and forty-five minutes west, two thousand two hundred and ninety-two rods; then east-north-east thirteen miles and sixty-four rods, which lines were established in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five, by Francis Harrison, Cadwallader Colden, and Isaac Hicks, commissioners on the part of the then province of New-York, and Jonathan Law, Samuel Eells, Roger Wolcott, John Copp, and Edmund Lewis, commissioners on the part of the then colony of Connecticut, and were run as the magnetic needle then pointed: then along an east-north-east continuation of the last mentioned course, one mile three quarters of a mile and twenty-one rods, to a monument erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, by Cadwallader Colden, Gilbert Willet, Vincent Matthews and Jacobus Bruyn junior, commissioners on the part of said province, and Samuel Eells, Roger Wolcott and Edmund Lewis, commissioners on the part of said colony; which said monument is at the south-east corner of a tract, known and distinguished as the oblong or equivalent lands; then north twenty-four degrees and thirty minutes west, until intersected by a line run by said last mentioned commissioners on a course south twelve degrees and thirty minutes west, from a monument erected by them in the south bounds of Massachusetts; which monument stands in a valley in the Taghkanick mountains, one hundred and twenty-one rods eastward from a heap of stones, in said bounds on the top or ridge of the most westerly of said mountains; then north twelve degrees and thirty minutes east, from a monument, erected by said last mentioned commissioners at said place of intersection and standing on the north side of a hill southeasterly from the easternmost end of the long pond, along the aforesaid line to the aforesaid monument erected in the south bounds of Massachusetts, being the northeast corner of the oblong; then west nine degrees south along the north bounds of the oblong, one mile three quarters of a mile twenty-one rods and five links, to a monument erected by said commissioners at the northwest corner of the oblong, and at the distance of twenty miles from Hudson's river; which four last mentioned lines were established by said last mentioned commissioners, and were run by them as the magnetic needle pointed in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one; then north fifteen degrees twelve minutes and nine seconds east, along the line established in the year one thousand seven hundred and eightyseven, by Thomas Hutchins, John Ewing, and David Rittenhouse, commissioners appointed by the United States in congress assembled, fifty miles forty-one chains and seventy-nine links, to a red or black oak tree marked by said commissioners, which said line was run by TITLE 1. said last mentioned commissioners as the magnetic needle pointed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven; then north eighty-two degrees and twenty minutes west, as the magnetic needle pointed in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, fifty chains to a monument erected for the south-west corner of the state of Vermont, by Smith Thompson, Simeon De Witt and George Tibbits, commissioners on the part of this state, and Joseph Beeman junior, Henry Olin and Joel Pratt second, commissioners on the part of the state of Vermont, which monument stands on the brow of a high hill, descending to the west; then northerly in a straight line to a point which is distant ten chains, on a course south thirty-five degrees west, from the most westerly corner of a lot of land distinguished in the records of the town of Pownal, in the state of Vermont, as the fifth division of the right of Gamaliel Wallace, and which in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, was owned and occupied by Abraham Vosburgh; then north thirty-five degrees east, to said corner, and along the westerly bounds of said lot, thirty chains to a place on the westerly bank of Hosick river, where a hemlock tree heretofore stood, noticed in said records as the most northerly corner of said lot; then north one degree and twenty minutes west, six chains to a monument erected by the said commissioners, standing on the westerly side of Hosick river on the north side of the highway leading out of Hosick into Pownal, and near the north-westerly corner of the bridge crossing said river; then north twenty-seven degrees and twenty minutes east, thirty chains through the bed of the said river, to a large roundish rock on the north-easterly bank thereof; then north twenty-five degrees west, sixteen chains and seventy links; then north nine degrees west, eighteen chains and sixty links to a white oak tree at the southwest corner of the land occupied in one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by Thomas Wilsey; then north eleven degrees east, seventy-seven chains to the north side of a highway, where it is met by a fence dividing the possession of said Thomas Wilsey junior, and Emery Hunt; then north forty-six degrees east, six chains; then south sixty-six degrees east, twenty-six chains and twenty-five links; then north nine degrees east, twenty-seven chains and fifty links, to a blue slate stone anciently set up for the southwest corner of Bennington; then north seven degrees and thirty minutes east, forty-six miles forty-three chains and fifty links to a bunch of hornbeam saplings on the south bank of Poultney river, the northernmost of which was marked by said last mentioned commissioners, and from which a large butternut tree bears north seventy degrees west, thirty links, a large hard maple tree south two chains and eighty-six links, and a white ash tree on the north side of said river, north seventy-seven degrees east; which said several lines from the Northern. Western. TITLE 1. monument erected for the southwest corner of the state of Vermont, were established by said last mentioned commissioners, and were run by them as the magnetic needle pointed in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; then down the said Poultney river through the deepest channel thereof, to East Bay; then through the middle of the deepest channel of East Bay and the waters thereof, to where the same communicate with Lake Champlain; then through the middle of the deepest channel of Lake Champlain to the eastward of the islands called the Four Brothers, and the westward of the islands called the Grand Isle and Long Isle, or the two Heroes, and to the westward of the Isle-La-Mott, to the line in the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, established by treaty for the boundary line between the United States and the British dominions; then west along said line to the river St. Lawrence; then along the line established by the commissioners appointed under the sixth article of the treaty of Ghent, into and up the said river St. Lawrence to the waters of Lake Ontario; then along the said line through the waters of said lake and of the Niagara river to the waters of Lake Erie; then westerly through the same, and along the said line, until intersected by a meridian line drawn through the most westerly bent or inclination of Lake Ontario; then south along said meridian line to a monument in the beginning of the forty-third degree of north latitude, erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by Abraham Hardenburgh and William W. Morris, commissioners on the part of this state, and Andrew Ellicott and Andrew Porter, commissioners on the part of the state of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of marking the termination of the line of jurisdiction between this state and the said state of Pennsylvania; then east along the line established and marked by said last mentioned commissioners to the ninetieth milestone in the same parallel of latitude, erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, by James Clinton and Simeon De Witt, commissioners on the part of this state, and Andrew Ellicott, commissioner on the part of Pennsylvania, which said ninetieth milestone stands on the western side of the south branch of the Tioga river; then east along the line established and marked by said last mentioned commissioners, to a stone erected in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four on a small island in the Delaware river, by Samuel Holland and David Rittenhouse, commissioners on the part of the colonies of New-York and Pennsylvania, for the purpose of marking the beginning of the forty-third degree of north latitude; then down along said Delaware river to a point opposite to the fork or branch formed by the junction of the stream called Mahackamack with the said Delaware river, in the latitude of forty-one degrees twenty-one minutes and thirty-seven seconds north; then in a straight line to the termination, on the east bank of the Delaware river, of a line run in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, by Southern. William Wickham and Samuel Gale, commissioners on the part of TITLE 2. the then colony of New-York, and John Stevens and Walter Rutherford, commissioners on the part of the then colony of New-Jersey; then along said line to a rock on the west side of Hudson's river, in the latitude of forty-one degrees north, marked by said commissioners; then southerly along the west shore, at low water mark, of Hudson's river, of the Kill Van Kull, of the sound between Staten Island and New-Jersey, and of Rariton Bay, to Sandy Hook; and then to the place of beginning, in such manner as to include Staten Island, and the islands of meadow on the west side thereof, Shooter's Island, Long Island, the Isle of Wight, now called Gardiner's Island, Fisher's Island, Shelter Island, Plumb Island, Robin's Island, Ram Island, the Gull Islands, and all the islands and waters in the bay of NewYork, and within the bounds above described.1 TITLE II. OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION OF THE STATE. Sec. L. To what places they extend. 2. Duty of governor and subordinate officers to defend them. 3. Governor to employ counsel to defend suits concerning the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the state. 4. District attorney to report to governor persons intruding upon lands, under pretence of title inconsistent therewith. 5. Such persons to be removed by sheriff. $1. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this state extend to all the Extent. places within the boundaries thereof, as declared in the preceding Title; but the extent of such jurisdiction over places that have been or may be ceded to the United States, shall be qualified by the terms of such cession.2 tained. $2. It shall be the duty of the governor, and of all the subordi- To be mainnate officers of the state, to maintain and defend its sovereignty and jurisdiction. defended. 3. If any suit shall be instituted against this state, or against Suits to be any person deriving title therefrom, to recover any lands within this state, under pretence of any claim inconsistent with its sovereignty and jurisdiction, the governor, at the expense of this state, shall employ counsel and provide for the defence of such suit.1 public lands. 34. If any person, under such pretence, shall intrude upon any of Intruders on the waste or ungranted lands of this state, it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the county, immediately to report the same to the governor, who shall thereupon, by a written order, direct the sheriff of the county to remove from said lands the person so intruding.5 (1) Compiled from documents in the office of the secretary of state. (2) (3) (4) (5) Founded on 1 R. L. 127; Ib. 238; and laws of 1819, p. 302. TITLE 3. Duty of ster.. Montock Point, in Suffolk county. 35. The sheriff shall execute such order; and in case of resistance made or threatened, he may call to his aid the power of the county, as in cases of resistance to the writs of the people“. TITLE III. OF THE PLACES CEDED TO THE UNITED STATES. SEC. 1. Turtle Hill, a tract at Montock Point, Suffolk county; effect of the cession. 2. Tract of ten acres at Eaton's neck in the town of Huntington, Suffolk county; effeet of the cession. 3. Bedlow's, Ellis and Governor's Islands, in and about the harbor of New-York; effect of the cession. 4. Little and Great Gull Islands in the county of Suffolk; effect of the cession. 5. Sand's Point in the town of North-Hempstead, Queens county ; effect of the cession. 6. Tract at Bluff Point on Staten Island; effect of the cession. 7. Two tracts of land and water in the city of New-York; effect of the cession. 8. Tract of land covered with water at Wallabout bay; effect of the cession. 9. Half of an acre in Buffalo, Erie county; effect of the cession. 10. Tract in Greenbush, Rensselaer county; effect of the cession. 11. Thirty acres of land under water at New-Utrecht, Kings county; effect of the cession 12. Tract of land in the village of Rome, Oneida county; effect of the cession. 13. Lots 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66, at Rouse's Point, Clinton county; effect of the cession 14. Tract of five acres at head of Galoo Island in lake Ontario; effect of the cession. 15. Island Point, near Rouse's Point, on lake Champlain; effect of the cession. 16. Tract of six acres at mouth of Oswego river, in Oswego river; effect of the cession. 17. Tract of three acres and one hundred and fifteen rods, at mouth of Genesee river, in the town of Greece, county of Monroe; effect of the cession. 18. Tract in Sodus, in the county of Wayne; effect of the cession. 19. Effect of the cession as to lands described in the five last sections. 20. Tract of land at Oldfield on Long Island Sound, Suffolk county; effect of the cession 21. Two tracts lying in New-Utrecht in Kings county; effect of the cession. 22. Tract of land in Islip, Suffolk county; effect of the cession. 23. Tract of land in Haverstraw, Rockland county; effect of the cession. 24. Effect of the cession as to lands described in the four last sections. 25. Tract of land in Cornwall, Orange county; effect of the cession. 26. Tract at Tibbits' Point in Lyme, Jefferson county. 27. Tract at the west end of Plumb Island, Suffolk county. 28. Tract in the town of Westfield and county of Richmond. $1. The United States have jurisdiction over a tract of land at Montock Point, in the county of Suffolk, known by the name of Turtle-Hill, and bounded as follows: "Beginning at the beach, and at a rock laying on a hommock, at the bottom of the said hill, and runs thence north eighty-two degrees west, eleven chains and fifty-eight links; thence south five degrees west, five chains; thence south fifteen degrees east, nine chains, to a rock marked John Champlain, 1788; thence on the same course to low water mark; thence northeasterly along low water mark, until the point of beginning bears north, eighty-two degrees west; thence to the place of beginning ;" such jurisdiction having been ceded for the erection of a light-house on said tract, by the act entitled "An act to cede the jurisdiction of certain lands on Montock Point to the United States of America, for the purposes therein mentioned," passed December 18th, 1792. The jurisdiction so ceded does not prevent the execution on said tract, of any process civil or criminal, under the authority of this state, ex (6) See note to preceding sections. |