Indiana § 1-3-1-1 - Boundary
Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 1-3-1-1 — Boundary, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1-3-1-1. Boundary
Sec. 1. Upon the approval and consent of the Congress of the United States to the compact hereby effected, the boundary line between the State of Indiana and the Commonwealth of Kentucky is as follows:
Commencing at a point on the line between Sections 15 and 14, Township 7 South, Range 10 West, and 67.25 chains south of the northeast corner of Section 15, the same being the beginning point in the description of the part of the boundary line as fixed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Indiana v. Kentucky, decided May 18, 1896, and reported in 163 U.S. Reports 520, thence south 0 degrees 53 minutes 15 seconds west to the low water mark on the right side of the Ohio River and thence upstream at low water mark on the right side of the Ohio River. Also beginning at the same beginning point to-wit: The beginning point in the description of the part of the boundary line between the State of Indiana and the Commonwealth of Kentucky as fixed by the Supreme Court in 163 U.S. 520 and following that line to the end of so much of the boundary line as was fixed by the decree; thence due west to the low water mark on the right side of the Ohio River and thence downstream with the low water mark on the right side of the river.
[Pre-1995 Title 14 Recodification Citation: 13-5-6.5-1.]
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.32.
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