Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: dcmdvan & mdvawv retries continued<br/>
Date: Oct 02, 2004 @ 00:15<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1321919027">I&#39;m not sure which three you meant when you wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & this without a single approval by the united states congress of<br/>
&gt; any of these 3 unwitting but effective border changes<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>..but I should say that the Congress consented to the Black-Jenkins Award of<br/>
1877 on March 3, 1879.  See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.virginiaplaces.org/pdf/mdvaappd.pdf">http://www.virginiaplaces.org/pdf/mdvaappd.pdf</a> .<br/>
The Compact of 1785 was made prior to the Constitution, and was never ratified<br/>
by the Confederation Congress, but the Supremes said in Wharton v. Wise at 153<br/>
U.S. 155 (1894) that no such ratification was needed.<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>