Decree reciting and confirming the report by commissioners of
the survey, location, and marking of a part of the boundary between
Texas and Oklahoma along the Fort Augur Area, adjudging that the
line shown by the report and maps be established as the true
boundary between the two states along the part of Red River so
designated, subject to future changes by erosion and accretion, and
directing transmission of authenticated copies of the decree and
maps to the chief magistrates of the two states.
Announced by MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER: [
Footnote 1]
On consideration of the report of the commissioners heretofore
selected to run, locate, and mark portions of the boundary between
the states of Texas and Oklahoma along the south bank of the Red
River, showing
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that they have run, located, and marked the portion of such
boundary along the Fort Augur Area, such report being as
follows:
"To the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States:"
"Continuing our work as commissioners designated in the decree
of March 12, 1923 (
261 U. S. 261 U.S. 340), in the
above-entitled cause, we have run, located, and marked upon the
ground the boundary between the States of Texas and Oklahoma along
the Red River from the Big Bend Area westward to a southerly
extension of the west line of range sixteen west in Oklahoma, in
accordance with the decree and the principles announced in the
opinion delivered January 15, 1923 (
260 U. S.
260 U.S. 606,), and in the manner stated in our report
of April 25, 1924, on the Big Bend Area. We have called this
portion of the boundary the 'Fort Augur Area.'"
"The maps, which accompany and are made a part of this report,
are identified as follows:"
"Map No. 4: Cadastral map of the Texas and Oklahoma boundary,
Fort Augur Area, scale 2,000 feet to the inch;"
"Map No. 5: Topographic map of Texas and Oklahoma boundary, Fort
Augur Area, in four sheets, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, scale 500 feet to
the inch, contour interval 2 feet, and a"
"Road Map: Showing location of reference monuments, scale one
mile to the inch."
"There are no oil wells within 300 feet of the boundary in the
Fort Augur Area."
"The survey of this area was begun June 13, 1923, and completed
October 10, 1924, the triangulation being done in 1923, and the
other work being done after June 1, 1924."
"The location of the boundary, reported herein, is that position
which existed on September 3, 1924. "
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"The field notes of the boundary survey and tabulations of
technical data follow: [
Footnote
2]"
"Five copies each of the report and maps have been today sent by
registered mail to the Attorney General of the United States, the
Attorney General of Texas, and the Attorney General of Oklahoma. We
have also filed with the clerk of the court fifty copies of the
report and maps for the use of such private interveners as may
apply for them. Thirty additional copies of the report and maps
have been filed with the clerk for such disposition as the court
may direct."
"The originals of the three maps hereinbefore named are bound
with the original report, and appear in the following order: Road
Map, showing location of reference monuments; Map No. 4, and Map
No. 5, sheets Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4."
"Respectfully submitted."
ARTHUR D. KIDDER
ARTHUR A. STILES
Commissioners
"Washington, D.C. January 5, 1925."
And no objection or exception to such report being presented,
although the time therefor has expired,
It is now adjudged, ordered, and decreed that the said report be
in all respects confirmed.
It is further adjudged, ordered, and decreed that the line
delineated and set forth in the report and on the maps accompanying
the same and referred to therein be established and declared to be
the true boundary between the States of Texas and Oklahoma along
the part of the Red River designated in such report, subject,
however, to such changes as may hereafter be wrought by the
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natural and gradual processes known as erosion and accretion as
specified in the second, third, and fourth paragraphs of the decree
rendered herein March 12, 1923,
261 U. S. 261 U.S.
340.
It is further ordered that the clerk of this Court do transmit
to the chief magistrates of the States of Texas and Oklahoma copies
of this decree, duly authenticated under the seal of this Court,
together with copies of the maps which accompanied the report of
the commissioners.
[
Footnote 1]
Other orders in the case of this date will be found among the
per curiam decisions,
post, pp. 580, 582.
[
Footnote 2]
The field notes and tabulations, covering 30 pates of the
report, are here omitted, as are also the maps. Copirs of these
matters, when desired, may be obtained in the Clerk's Office, or in
the offices of the Chief Executives of the States of Oklahoma and
Texas.