Norfolk Landmark, June 19, 1877

Not Kettled.

reprinted from Alexandria Gazette

It now seems that the rumor published some time ago, to the effect that the commission apponted to define the boundary between the States of Maryland and Virginia had agreed upon their report. was incorrect. There is still a point in controversy, and that is the original location of Fox Island in Chesapeake bay, which, it appears, has been changed by the action of the wind and tides since the line was first drawn. Senator Beck contends for the original site, three miles above its present one, Judge Black proposing that the boundary line shall divided that island, but as the latter proposition would give much the larger part of all the valuable oyster beds in the Chesapeake to Maryland, it is not probably the Virginia commissioners will agree to it.