§ 6. Pennsylvania boundary line. The boundary line between the states\nof New York and Pennsylvania is as follows:\n Commencing at said intersection of said meridian line of cession, and\nrunning thence south to the shore of Lake Erie at initial monument set\nby A. Ellicott in 1790 as above; thence true south 440 feet to a large\nmonument of Quincy granite, set in 1869, in latitude 42Á 16' 5.39", and\nlongitude 79Á 45' 45.26", as deduced by the United States lake survey,\nmarked 1869, latitude 42Á 15' 57.9", longitude 79Á 45' 54.4", by\ncommissioners duly authorized on the part of the states of New York and\nPennsylvania as stated in reports of regents boundary commission in\n1886; thence south on said meridian line 13.895 miles to Fourteen Mile\npoint; thence south 4.647 miles at an angle of 4' west to a large\nterminal monument; thence on the same line 100 feet to the southwest\ncorner of New York marked by monument (in latitude 42Á 0' 1.42", as\ndetermined by state survey) set in 1787 by A. Hardenburgh and W. W.\nMorris, commissioners on the part of New York, and A. Ellicott and A.\nPorter, commissioners on the part of Pennsylvania; thence due east on\nparallel of latitude of 42Á, as surveyed and marked by monuments by said\ncommission, to the ninetieth mile stone erected in 1786 by James Clinton\nand Simeon De Witt, commissioners on the part of New York, and Andrew\nEllicott, commissioner on the part of Pennsylvania, on the west side of\nthe south branch of the Tioga river in latitude 42Á 0' 1.3" as deduced\nby the state surveyor in 1879; thence due east on line established and\nmarked by the last mentioned commission to a point in the center of\nDelaware river, such line passing through a monument set in the year\n1884 by H. W. Clarke, surveyor, on the part of the state of New York,\nand C. M. Gere, surveyor, on the part of the state of Pennsylvania, and\nlocated six hundred feet west of the center of said river (all of the\nabove line passing through monuments placed between the years 1881 and\n1885 by said H. W. Clarke and C. M. Gere, of which a schedule is given\nin their report to the commission appointed by virtue of the provisions\nof chapter three hundred and forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and\neighty, and dated December 1, 1885, showing angular deflections at each\nmile stone, with distances between each, summarized as follows:\nSouthwest state corner to Chautaugua county corner 36.090 miles; to\nCattaraugus county corner 38.743 miles; to Allegany county corner 28.769\nmiles; to Steuben county corner (mile post eighty-two) 40.411 miles; to\nTioga county corner, on the left bank of the Chemung river, 21.066\nmiles; to Broome county corner 23.387 miles; to the center of the\nDelaware river 38.396 miles; thence down the center of the Delaware\nriver about eighty-five miles to its junction with the Neversink river;\neach of the states of New York and Pennsylvania having concurrent\njurisdiction within and upon the waters of that portion of the main\nchannel of the Delaware river between the lines of low water at either\nbank thereof; then S. 51Á E. on prolongation of boundary line between\nNew York and New Jersey, to "tri-state monument," set in 1882 by joint\ncommission, over bolt in bare lime-stone rock near the confluence of the\nNeversink and Delaware rivers as settled in 1769 by commission appointed\nby king of Great Britain, and marked by a crow foot cut into its upper\nface, in latitude 41Á 21' 22.63", and longitude 74Á 41' 40.70" west as\ndetermined by the United States coast survey in 1874. The said metes and\nbounds are in accordance with and subject to the agreement between\ncommissioners of the states of New York and Pennsylvania, which took\neffect August 19, 1890, the date of the approval of the act of Congress\nconsenting thereto. The ratification and confirmation by this state of\nsuch agreement is continued in force. The following is a copy of such\nagreement:\n "An agreement made the twenty
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