SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 70. 1925. 737 dated December 8, 1879; thence in a strai ht line the arc of a .B°¤¤ d°S¤*iP· great circle) north seventy-four degreeg thirty-lwo minutes mm—Cg:g¤u°d` thirty-two seconds east four hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and ninety-four feet to a point (numbered 171})) in latitude forty-one degrees fifteen minutes thirty-one and t ree hundred and twenty-one one-thousandths seconds, and longitude seventy-two degrees five minutes twenty-four and six hundred and eighgy-Eve one-thousandths seconds, four statute miles true south of ew London Lighthouse; thence north fifty-eight degrees fifty-eight minutes forty-three seconds east twenty-two thousand six hundred and four feet to a point (numbered 17 2) in latitude fortyqone degrees seventeen minutes twenty-six and three hundred and forty-one one-thousandths seconds, and lon `tude seventy-two degrees one minute ten and nine hundred andglhirt -seven onethousandths seconds marked on the United States Cbast Survey Chart of Fishers Island Sound annexed to said memorandum, which point on the long east three-fourths north sailing course drawn on said map) one thousand feet true north from the Hammock or North umpling Lighthouse; thence following said east three·fourths north sailing course north seventy-three degrees thirty-seven minutes forty-two seconds east twenty-five thousand seven hundred and seventeen feet to a point (numbered 173) in latitude forty-one degrees eighteen minutes thirty-seven and eight _ hundred and thirty-five one-thousandths seconds, and longitude seventy-one degrees fifty-five minutes forty-seven and six hundred and twenty-six one—thousandths seconds marked (numbered 2) on said map; thence south seventy degrees seven minutes twenty-six seconds east six thousand four hundred and twenty-four feet toward a point marked (numbered 3) on said map until said line intersects the westerly boundary of Rhode Island at a point (numbered 174) in latitude forty-one degrees eighteen minutes sixteen and two hundred and forty-nine 0ne—thousandths seconds, and longitude seventy-one degrees fifty-four minutes twenty-eight and four hundred and seventy-seven one—thousandths seconds as determined by the joint commissioners of Connecticut and Rhode Island by a memorandum of agreement dated March 25, 1887. " The geodetic positions given in this description are based on Clarke’s S heroid of 1866 and the astronomical data adopted by the United) States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1880, and are computed from data given in Appendix Numbered 8 to the report of the said survey for 1888, entitled ‘Geographical , positions in the State of C0nnecticut.’ _ “And we agree that the boundary line hereinbefore described and determined is fully and accurately laid down on a map, a copy of which we agree shall be deposited with the secretary of each State. "Prom2led, however, That nothing in the foregoing agreement contained shall be construed to affect any existing title to property, corporeal or incorporeal, held under grants heretofore ma e by either of said States, nor to affect existing rights which said States, or either of them, or which the citizens of either_0f said States may have, by grant, letters patengil or girescrigtion of fish' , in the waters of said sound, whe er or she or iloatingnigsh, irrespective of the boundary line herelgl it not being the purpose of this agreement to de e, limit, or mterfere wg: any such right, rights, or privileges, whatever the same may . “AudweagreethatassoonasthisagreementshaHhgv¤ been ratified and confirmed by the o States, copies of the Acts of ratification duly au shall
