Some Remarks On the History And Uses of Potomac Park
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" Lord Baltimore contended that these words impera- tively carried the meridian line unto the further bank of *1 Mackay 226, R. R. & Bridge Co. Vs. District of Columbia. 6 the river at high- water mark on the southern or further bank. The only question that could be made as to the cor- rectness of this construction arose out of the apparent ambiguity of the words "the same, " which, it was argued, might refer to "the river" instead of "the bank. " But a reference to the original Latin of the ch...arter re- moved the supposed doubt, for its words are, "deinde vergendo versus meridiem ad ulteriorem dicti fluminis ripam, et earn sequendo, " etc. — and as the feminine pronoun "earn, " translated "i/ie same, " must agree with the feminine ripam, instead of the neuter noun flumen ; it demonstrated that the charter undeniably declared that the entire southern boundary was to follow the further hank, at high-water mark, instead of following the middle thread of the river. All these rights to the river and the soil beneath, thus belonging to the State of Maryland, fully devolved by the cession upon the Government of the United States, precisely as they had belonged to Maryland.
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