Pennsylvania Act 1897-152 — CONFIRMATION OF COMMISSION REPORT ON NEW CASTLE CIRCLE

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CONFIRMATION OF COMMISSION REPORT ON NEW CASTLE CIRCLE
                 Act of Jun. 22, 1897, P.L. 182, No. 152              Cl. 71
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the acceptance, approval and confirmation of the
        report of the commission appointed in pursuance of the act
        approved the fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand
        eight hundred and eighty-nine, authorizing the examination,
        survey and re-establishment of the circle of New Castle, as
        the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Delaware.

        Whereas, By authority of the act of the General Assembly
     approved the fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight
     hundred and eighty-nine, the Governor was authorized to appoint
     three persons as commissioners to represent this Commonwealth,
     and acting in conjunction with a like number of persons
     appointed as commissioners to represent the state of Delaware,
     were as a commission representing the two states authorized to
     re-survey and re-establish the boundary line that separates the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the State of Delaware, and to
     mark or indicate the location of such boundary line by the
     erection of enduring monuments; and,
        Whereas, The commission, constituted as aforesaid, were
     authorized and required to make a detailed report of their field
     work with descriptions of monuments which might be erected to
     indicate the location of the line referred to, which report,
     together with all correspondence relating thereto, was required
     to be filed with the Secretary of Internal Affairs; and,
        Whereas, Such report, together with maps, details of field
     work and descriptions of monuments erected, was filed in the
     office of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, January twenty-
     nine, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and a
     duplicate thereof filed with the proper authorities in the State
     of Delaware; which report was signed by the commissioners on the
     part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and which report
     indicates that the line of the circle of New Castle was surveyed
     and re-established in substantially the same location as it
     originally had, and that enduring monuments were erected to
     indicate the location of the line of the circle, all in
     conformity with the provisions of the act of one thousand eight
     hundred and eighty-nine, authorizing the formation of the
     commission aforesaid; therefore,

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the report of the
     commissioners appointed under the provisions of the act of
     General Assembly approved the fourth day of May, Anno Domini one
     thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, to examine, survey and
     re-establish the line of the circle of New Castle as the
     boundary between Pennsylvania and Delaware, be and the same is
     hereby accepted, approved and confirmed, and that the line
     established by and under the authority of said commissioners,
     which is now marked by the erection of monuments to show its
     location, be and the same is hereby accepted, approved and
     confirmed as the proper and acceptable line to indicate the
     limits of the respective states of Pennsylvania and Delaware
     with reference to each other.