Subject: Re: Finding MENHUS
Date: Dec 15, 2003 @ 17:58
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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> A few days ago, after I had found LAMSUS, Mike challenged me toassist with two
> other elusive off-shore US tripoints:well but first please understand
> > & if you wouldnt mind hat tricking it by also nailing the elusivenothing
> > latxus or menhus while you are at it
> > well that would be absolutely trifecta or beyond
>
> I have given some attention to MENHUS, something about which I knew
> previously. I find that the Supremes decreed a boundary in NewHampshire v.
> Maine, 434 U.S. 1 (1977), based on a 1740 decree by George II. Iknow that Mike
> already knows this.boundary at an
>
> The trouble seems to be that the Supremes stopped their decreed
> interstate breakwater in the Isles of Shoals, which were divided byGeorge II,
> and did not extend it beyond to the 3nm line to which Atlanticstates may reach.
> (The isles are close enough to the mainland that no federal watersintervene
> between mainland and isles.) I think that the boundary stopped atthe
> breakwater because the royal decree of 1740 presented nodelineation beyond the
> harbor in the midst of the Isles of Shoals.boundary beyond the
>
> New Hampshire, at least, has passed legislation specifying a
> breakwater. New Hampshire Revised Statutes, Title 1, Section 1:15says:
> _________________[Maine] and
>
> ..and crossing the middle of the breakwater between Cedar Island
> Star Island [New Hampshire] on a course perpendicular thereto, andextending on
> the last-mentioned course to the line of mean low water; thence 102%A1 East
> (true) to the outward limits of state jurisdiction...artifact of a poor
> _________________
>
> I suspect that the curious course "102%A1 East (true)" is an
> conversion of the text from some word processor format to HTML.Perhaps, it
> means "102° East (true)."on the
>
> Both the Constitution and the Revised Statutes of Maine are silent
> location of its boundaries. Until and unless Maine differs withNew Hampshire
> beyond the breakwater, the Supreme Court won't have anything to say.
>
> I hope this helps a bit.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA