Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] library of congress
Date: Apr 07, 2005 @ 17:24
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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Good work!

If you should strike out on the 1905 DENJ compact maps at the Library of
Congress, perhaps they can be found in the state archives at Dover or Trenton,
now that you know exactly what is needed.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA


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From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] library of congress


>
>
> still waiting for my researchers
>
> re the denj arc
> no maps have yet been found associated with the 1905 denj compact that
> the special master based his recommendation on in 1934
> & which i may only have wrongly presumed was the basis for the location
> of the arc
>
> & the text of the compact makes no specific mention of the location of
> this arc either
> but only refers to the 12 mile circle generally
> yikes
>
> so that is a most peculiar apparent dead end
>
> & they are going to have to get back to me on it in case they missed
> something
>
> i am still pretty satisfied tho that i did find among the map exhibits
> at least a 1925 regeneration of whatever map was used to set the
> location
> whenever & however it actually was agreed upon
>
> so the graphical source of the determination of the location is known
> even if not yet the exact cause of its weirdness
>
>
>
> & the 1893 hodgkins & 1908 mathews reports from the bus&ss bibliography
> that are indispensable for other & related questions have been acting
> similarly elusive
>
> so i may have hit a multiple brick wall here
> especially as my researcher is about to head out to lunch now
>
> but more later