§ 6. Pennsylvania boundary line. The boundary line between the states
of New York and Pennsylvania is as follows:

Commencing at said intersection of said meridian line of cession, and
running thence south to the shore of Lake Erie at initial monument set
by A. Ellicott in 1790 as above; thence true south 440 feet to a large
monument of Quincy granite, set in 1869, in latitude 42Á 16' 5.39", and
longitude 79Á 45' 45.26", as deduced by the United States lake survey,
marked 1869, latitude 42Á 15' 57.9", longitude 79Á 45' 54.4", by
commissioners duly authorized on the part of the states of New York and
Pennsylvania as stated in reports of regents boundary commission in
1886; thence south on said meridian line 13.895 miles to Fourteen Mile
point; thence south 4.647 miles at an angle of 4' west to a large
terminal monument; thence on the same line 100 feet to the southwest
corner of New York marked by monument (in latitude 42Á 0' 1.42", as
determined by state survey) set in 1787 by A. Hardenburgh and W. W.
Morris, commissioners on the part of New York, and A. Ellicott and A.
Porter, commissioners on the part of Pennsylvania; thence due east on
parallel of latitude of 42Á, as surveyed and marked by monuments by said
commission, to the ninetieth mile stone erected in 1786 by James Clinton
and Simeon De Witt, commissioners on the part of New York, and Andrew
Ellicott, commissioner on the part of Pennsylvania, on the west side of
the south branch of the Tioga river in latitude 42Á 0' 1.3" as deduced
by the state surveyor in 1879; thence due east on line established and
marked by the last mentioned commission to a point in the center of
Delaware river, such line passing through a monument set in the year
1884 by H. W. Clarke, surveyor, on the part of the state of New York,
and C. M. Gere, surveyor, on the part of the state of Pennsylvania, and
located six hundred feet west of the center of said river (all of the
above line passing through monuments placed between the years 1881 and
1885 by said H. W. Clarke and C. M. Gere, of which a schedule is given
in their report to the commission appointed by virtue of the provisions
of chapter three hundred and forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and
eighty, and dated December 1, 1885, showing angular deflections at each
mile stone, with distances between each, summarized as follows:
Southwest state corner to Chautaugua county corner 36.090 miles; to
Cattaraugus county corner 38.743 miles; to Allegany county corner 28.769
miles; to Steuben county corner (mile post eighty-two) 40.411 miles; to
Tioga county corner, on the left bank of the Chemung river, 21.066
miles; to Broome county corner 23.387 miles; to the center of the
Delaware river 38.396 miles; thence down the center of the Delaware
river about eighty-five miles to its junction with the Neversink river;
each of the states of New York and Pennsylvania having concurrent
jurisdiction within and upon the waters of that portion of the main
channel of the Delaware river between the lines of low water at either
bank thereof; then S. 51Á E. on prolongation of boundary line between
New York and New Jersey, to "tri-state monument," set in 1882 by joint
commission, over bolt in bare lime-stone rock near the confluence of the
Neversink and Delaware rivers as settled in 1769 by commission appointed
by king of Great Britain, and marked by a crow foot cut into its upper
face, in latitude 41Á 21' 22.63", and longitude 74Á 41' 40.70" west as
determined by the United States coast survey in 1874. The said metes and
bounds are in accordance with and subject to the agreement between
commissioners of the states of New York and Pennsylvania, which took
effect August 19, 1890, the date of the approval of the act of Congress
consenting thereto. The ratification and confirmation by this state of
such agreement is continued in force. The following is a copy of such
agreement:

"An agreement made the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, between Henry R. Pierson, Elias W. Leavenworth
and Chauncey M. Depew, commissioners on the part of the state of New
York, and Christopher M. Gere and Robert N. Torry, commissioners on the
part of the state of Pennsylvania.

WHEREAS, By the first section of chapter four hundred and twenty-four
of the laws of the state of New York, for the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-five, the regents of the university of the state of New York
were authorized and directed to resume the work of 'examination as to
the true location of the monuments which mark the several boundaries of
the state,' as authorized by the resolution of the senate of April
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and in connection with the
authorities of Pennsylvania, to replace any monuments which may have
become dilapidated or been removed on the boundary line of that state;
and,

WHEREAS, The said board of regents of the university did through a
committee of said board, previously appointed for the purpose, under
said senate resolution of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, proceed to
carry out the instructions contained in said chapter four hundred and
twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five; and,

WHEREAS, By chapter three hundred and forty of the laws of the said
state of New York for the year eighteen hundred and eighty the said
regents of the university were further authorized and empowered to
designate and appoint three of their number as commissioners to meet
such commissioners as may have been or may be appointed on the part of
the state of Pennsylvania, and with such last-named commissioners as
soon as may be, to proceed to ascertain and agree upon the location of
the boundary line between said states, as originally established and
marked with monuments, and in case any monuments are found dilapidated
or removed from their original location, to replace them in a durable
manner in their original position, and to erect such additional
monuments at such places on such lines as they may deem necessary for
the proper designation of the boundary line between said state; and,

WHEREAS, The above-named Henry R. Pierson, Elias W. Leavenworth and
Chauncey M. Depew were by resolution passed on the thirteenth day of
July, eighteen hundred and eighty, duly designated and appointed by the
said regents of the university of the state of New York as commissioners
on the part of the state of New York for the purposes mentioned in said
act; and,

WHEREAS, Also, by an act of the legislature of the state of
Pennsylvania, entitled 'An act in regard to the boundary monuments on
the line between the state of Pennsylvania and New York, with an
appropriation for expenses of the same,' passed May eighth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, the governor of the state of Pennsylvania was
authorized and empowered 'to appoint three persons to be a commission to
act in conjunction with a similar commission of the state of New York,
to examine as to the true location of the monuments which mark the
boundary line between this state and the state of New York, and in
connection with said commission of the state of New York, to replace any
monuments which may have been dilapidated or been removed on the
boundary lines of said states'; and,

WHEREAS, The governor of the state of Pennsylvania, under authority of
said act, did duly designate and appoint James Worrall, Christopher M.
Gere and Robert N. Torry, to be a commission for the purposes of said
act; and,

WHEREAS, James Worrall, the first-named member of said commission,
died during the progress of the work on said boundary line; to wit, on
April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the surviving
members, to wit: Christopher M. Gere and Robert N. Torry, have continued
the work of said commission on the part of the state of Pennsylvania, as
authorized by the aforesaid act.

NOW, THEREFORE, the said commissioners for and on behalf of their
respective states, having duly performed the duties imposed upon them by
the said acts, and having examined said boundary line, and replaced in a
durable manner the monuments to mark the same in pursuance of the
authority duly given as aforesaid, have agreed and do hereby agree as
follows:

First. The channel of the Delaware river, from a line drawn across
said channel, from a granite monument erected upon the eastern bank of
said river in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, by the joint
boundary commission of the states of New Jersey and New York to mark the
western extremity of the boundary line between said states of New Jersey
and New York, in a westerly prolongation of said boundary line up and
along said channel of said Delaware river as it winds and turns, for a
distance of eighty-five miles or thereabouts, to a line drawn east
across said river from a granite monument erected upon the west bank of
said river in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, by H. W.
Clarke and C. M. Gere, to mark the eastern extremity of the first line
hereinafter described, shall continue to be a part of the boundary or
partition line between the said two states; provided, however, that the
limit of territory between the said two states shall be the center of
the said main channel, and provided further, that each state shall enjoy
and exercise a concurrent jurisdiction within and upon the water of said
main channel between the lines of low water at either bank thereof,
between the limits hereinbefore mentioned.

Second. The line extending from the Delaware river aforesaid, at a
point upon said river fixed and marked with monuments (which have since
disappeared), by David Rittenhouse and Samuel Holland, in the month of
November, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-four, west, as the
same was surveyed and marked with monuments in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty-six, as far as the ninetieth milestone, by James
Clinton and Simeon De Witt, commissioners on the part of the state of
New York, duly appointed for that purpose by the governor of said state,
in pursuance of an act of the legislature of said state, entitled 'An
act for running out and marking the jurisdiction line between this state
and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,' passed seventh March, seventeen
hundred and eighty-five, and David Rittenhouse, Andrew Porter and Andrew
Ellicott, commissioners on the part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
duly appointed for that purpose by the supreme executive council of said
commonwealth in pursuance of an act of the general assembly of said
commonwealth, entitled, 'An act to authorize and enable the supreme
executive council to appoint commissioners to join with the
commissioners appointed, or to be appointed, on the part of the state of
New York, to ascertain the northern boundary of this state from the
river Delaware westward to the northwest corner of Pennsylvania,' passed
thirty-first March, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and from the said
ninetieth milestone west, as the same was surveyed and marked with
monuments and posts in seventeen hundred and eighty-seven by Abraham
Hardenbergh and William W. Morris, commissioners on the part of the said
state of New York, duly appointed in the place of Simeon De Witt and
James Clinton aforesaid, by the governor of said state in pursuance of
the act aforesaid, and the act supplementary thereto, passed by the
legislature of said state, twenty-first April, seventeen hundred and
eighty-seven, and Andrew Ellicott and Andrew Porter aforesaid,
commissioners on the part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the
point where said line is intersected by the line of cession or meridian
boundary hereinafter described, which said line so surveyed and marked
in the years seventeen hundred and eighty-six and seventeen hundred and
eighty-seven has since been acknowledged and recognized by the said two
states as a part of the limit of their respective territory and
jurisdiction, shall notwithstanding any want of conformity to the verbal
description as written in the charter of the province of Pennsylvania,
granted to William Penn in the year sixteen hundred and eighty-two, or
as recited by the commissioners aforesaid, continue to be the boundary
or partition line between the two said states, from the Delaware river
aforesaid, to the said point of intersection with the said line of
cession; provided that wherever upon said line the locations of any of
the monuments, or posts, erected by the said commissioners in seventeen
hundred and eighty-six and seventeen hundred eighty-seven have been lost
and cannot otherwise be definitely fixed, then and in that case, and in
every case where it is required to establish intervening points in said
line, a straight line drawn between the nearest adjacent monuments whose
localities are ascertained shall be understood to be, and shall be, the
true boundary line.

Third. The line of cession, described as a meridian line, drawn from
the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, south through the most
westerly bent or inclination of Lake Ontario, in the deed of cession to
the United States of certain territory claimed by the state of New York,
lying west of said line, executed first March, seventeen hundred and
eighty-one, by James Duane, William Floyd and Alexander McDougal,
delegates in congress of said United States from the said state of New
York, in pursuance of an act of the legislature of said state, entitled
'An act to facilitate the completion of the articles of confederation
and perpetual union among the United States of America,' passed February
nineteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty, which said territory was
afterward conveyed by the United States aforesaid to, and became a part
of the territory and jurisdiction of the said commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, as the said line was surveyed and marked with posts and
monuments of stone in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, by Andrew
Ellicott, who was duly appointed for that purpose by the president of
the United States, in pursuance of a resolution of congress, passed
nineteenth August, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, which said line,
and its prolongation due north into the waters of Lake Erie until it
intersects the northern boundary of the United States aforesaid, have
since been acknowledged and recognized by the said two states, as a part
of the limit of their respective territory and jurisdiction shall,
notwithstanding any possible want of conformity to the verbal
description thereof, as contained in said deed of cession, continue to
be the boundary or partition line between the two said states, so far as
said line so surveyed and marked in seventeen hundred and ninety shall
extend.

Fourth. The monumental marks by which the said boundary line, except
such portions thereof as may be within the waters of the Delaware river,
and Lake Erie, shall hereafter be known and recognized, are hereby
declared to be---

I. The original monuments of stone, erected in the years seventeen
hundred and eighty-six and seventeen hundred and eighty-seven by the
commissioners aforesaid, and in the year seventeen hundred and ninety by
Andrew Ellicott aforesaid, as the same have been restored and
re-established in their original positions, or have been replaced by
granite monuments erected in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-five,
by H. Wadsworth Clarke, surveyor on the part of New York, and
Christopher M. Gere, surveyor on the part of Pennsylvania, duly
appointed by the parties hereto.

II. The new monuments of granite, erected in the years eighteen
hundred and eighty-one to eighteen hundred and eighty-five, inclusive,
by the aforesaid surveyors, at intervals of one mile, more or less, and
numbered consecutively, along said line originally surveyed and marked
in the years seventeen hundred and eighty-six and seventeen hundred and
eighty-seven, beginning from the Delaware river, and severally marked on
the north side with the letters 'N. Y. ,' and on the other side with the
letters 'Pa.' and along said line originally surveyed and marked in the
year seventeen hundred and ninety, beginning at the shore of Lake Erie,
and severally marked on the east side with the letters 'N. Y. ,' and on
the west side with the letters 'Pa.'

III. The new monuments of granite erected by the said surveyors, in
the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one to eighteen hundred and
eighty-five, inclusive, aforesaid, at intervening points on said line,
and at its intersection with public roads, railroads and rivers, and at
other points, and severally marked on the one side with the letters
'N.Y. ,' and on the other side with the letters 'Pa.'

IV. A large monument of granite, erected in the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-four by the said surveyors six hundred feet west of the
center of the Delaware river in the said line originally fixed in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty-six, to mark its eastern terminus; a
large monument of granite erected in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-four by the said surveyors in the said line or meridian boundary,
as originally fixed in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, one
hundred feet north from its intersection with the line originally
surveyed as aforesaid, in the years seventeen hundred and eighty-seven,
which said point of intersection is marked by a small monument of
granite buried in the center of the highway, in eighteen hundred and
eighty-four by the said surveyors; and also a large monument of granite
erected in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine by John V. L. Pruyn,
George R. Perkins, Samuel B. Woolworth, and George W. Patterson on the
part of the state of New York, and William Evans on the part of the
state of Pennsylvania, four hundred and forty feet south of the original
monuments erected in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, by Andrew
Ellicott aforesaid, upon the south shore of Lake Erie, in the line
originally surveyed and marked by him as aforesaid.

Fifth. The field book of said surveyors containing the notes of the
re-surveys along said line in the years eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine; also the 'record of monuments' prepared by said
surveyors, containing the descriptions of the locations of the several
monuments erected by them, and of the witness marks thereto; also the
maps of said line, and the vicinity thereof, showing the locations of
said monuments; and also the 'diary of operations' of said surveyors
under the direction of the parties hereto; the same having been duly
authenticated by the signature of the said surveyors, and the several
documents and books of record containing the transactions of the parties
hereto; all of which being placed on file in the office of the secretary
of state of New York, and the office of the secretary of internal
affairs of Pennsylvania, shall constitute the permanent and authentic
records of said boundary line, and are hereby adopted by the parties
hereto, and made a part of this agreement.

Sixth. This agreement shall become binding upon the two states when
ratified by the legislatures thereof, respectively, and when confirmed
by the congress of the United States.

In witness whereof the said commissioners have hereunto set their
hands and seals in duplicate, the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, aforesaid.

Executed in the presence of witnesses:

As to Henry R. Pierson: Edward I. Devlin,--- H. R. Pierson, L. S.

As to E. W. Leavenworth: H. W. Clarke,--- E. W. Leavenworth, L. S.

As to Chauncey M. Depew: Edward I. Devlin,--- Chauncey M. Depew, L. S.

As to C. M. Gere: A. D. Birchard,--- C. M. Gere, L. S.

As to Robert N. Torry: Andrew Thompson,--- Robert N. Torry, L. S. "