Subject: Finding MENHUS<br/>
Date: Dec 15, 2003 @ 06:27<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-758179818">A few days ago, after I had found LAMSUS, Mike challenged me to assist with two<br/>
other elusive off-shore US tripoints:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & if you wouldnt mind hat tricking it by also nailing the elusive<br/>
&gt; latxus or menhus while you are at it<br/>
&gt; well that would be absolutely trifecta or beyond<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I have given some attention to MENHUS, something about which I knew nothing<br/>
previously.  I find that the Supremes decreed a boundary in New Hampshire v.<br/>
Maine, 434 U.S. 1 (1977), based on a 1740 decree by George II.  I know that Mike<br/>
already knows this.<br/>
<br/>
The trouble seems to be that the Supremes stopped their decreed boundary at an<br/>
interstate breakwater in the Isles of Shoals, which were divided by George II,<br/>
and did not extend it beyond to the 3nm line to which Atlantic states may reach.<br/>
(The isles are close enough to the mainland that no federal waters intervene<br/>
between mainland and isles.)  I think that the boundary stopped at the<br/>
breakwater because the royal decree of 1740 presented no delineation beyond the<br/>
harbor in the midst of the Isles of Shoals.<br/>
<br/>
New Hampshire, at least, has passed legislation specifying a boundary beyond the<br/>
breakwater.  New Hampshire Revised Statutes, Title 1, Section 1:15 says:<br/>
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<br/>
..and crossing the middle of the breakwater between Cedar Island [Maine] and<br/>
Star Island [New Hampshire] on a course perpendicular thereto, and extending on<br/>
the last-mentioned course to the line of mean low water; thence 102%A1 East<br/>
(true) to the outward limits of state jurisdiction...<br/>
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<br/>
I suspect that the curious course &quot;102%A1 East (true)&quot; is an artifact of a poor<br/>
conversion of the text from some word processor format to HTML.  Perhaps, it<br/>
means &quot;102° East (true).&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Both the Constitution and the Revised Statutes of Maine are silent on the<br/>
location of its boundaries.  Until and unless Maine differs with New Hampshire<br/>
beyond the breakwater, the Supreme Court won&#39;t have anything to say.<br/>
<br/>
I hope this helps a bit.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>