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Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia
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The American Agent, surveyors, and party completed the boundary survey between the US and British Canada under the Treaty of Ghent's 6th article, arriving at Black Rock in the schooner Hannah on Saturday last. They will complete maps near Buffalo before a board meeting in Utica to divide valuable islands and enable settlement, reducing smuggling.
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We learn the surveyors will be engaged for several weeks in the neighborhood of this place, in completing their maps, &c. after which a meeting of the Board for a final decision and report under this article, will take place in Utica.
We anticipate, with much interest, the publication of the correct and splendid charts which this survey will furnish, of all the navigable waters, channels and bay between St. Regis, on the St Lawrence, and Lake Superior ; embracing an extent of more than 1000 miles, and comprehending, as we are informed, not less than 2500 Islands.—These Islands, many of which contain from 10,000 to 100,000 acres of land, and are extremely valuable, will be divided by the Commissioners, and it is to be hoped that the two governments will immediately take possession of such as may fall to them respectively, and put them in a train for sale and settlement, by which means we shall get rid of the hordes of smugglers and renegadoes who now infest many of them.
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Buffalo
Event Date
July 31
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surveys completed; maps to be finished; board meeting planned in utica; islands to be divided for sale and settlement to reduce smuggling.
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The American Agent, Surveyors, and party arrived at Black Rock in the schooner Hannah after completing boundary line surveys under the 6th article of the Treaty of Ghent. They will work on maps near Buffalo for several weeks, followed by a board meeting in Utica for final decision and report. Charts will cover navigable waters from St. Regis on the St Lawrence to Lake Superior, including over 2500 islands.