they may encounter a problem with the grandfathering here

if it had affected only hopkinton & north stonington
where there is very probably a long enough adverse possession
to easily satisfy the proverbial 9 tenths of the law
there might have been no problem at all

they could have just grandfathered those 22 acres as you
suggest

& that might still be the best & easiest resolution
assuming it is even possible to do just that & nothing else
which i doubt because everything is interconnected

& from the lack of commotion everywhere else along the line
it appears that the same unratified offset has run properly
unobserved all this time everywhere else from there to ctmari &
thus along the boundaries of about a dozen other towns
which seemingly arent & havent been involved in the
misapprehension at all & for which any change at this point
would represent an injustice & a disservice

so basically i think the states in their entirety & all the affected
towns with them will either have to adopt the 1941 resurvey in its
entirety or fall back to the previous & still legal 1840 survey in its
entirety
or in other words do nothing

& these states have been famous for foot dragging & having as
little as possible to do with each other & their border since 1703
whenever they are not overtly squabbling & arresting each other
so i think we can expect a long & drawn out continuation of the
same basic themes

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "kontikipaul"
<contikipaul@h...> wrote:

> As a resident of Rhode Island........
>
> This was in the news about 15 months ago when a court

case

> about (I think) drunk driving caused a lawyer to go out with a

GPS

> system to the scene of the crime. The aftermath is the border

as we

> know it is probably about 40 feet wrong with Rhode Island

having too

> much property. A town in Connecticut wants the property taxes

of the

> new border. The RI legislator working on it has a

considerable

> amount of pull (ie. he is a Kennedy) and they may resolve it in
> Rhode Islands favor. The town in Connecticut is looked upon

as being

> a bit of a money-grubber here in Rhode Island. There is one

old lady

> on the RI medical plan and about 3 kids who will have to move

schools

> if it works in Connecticuts favor.
>
> Cleary to the letter of the law and the GPS system they are
> actually in Connecticut. What they want to do is 'grandfather'

those

> houses' into Rhode Island. In the article it mentioned that tax
> bills were sent to the 15 or so houses' The town was stupid

enough

> to put Rhode Island as the state on the envelopes of those

bills and

> that might swing it enough for a federal court.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"

<orc@o...> wrote:

> > here goes
> > wishing them & me luck
> > http://tinyurl.com/g11i