Decree reported:
397 U. S. 397 U.S.
91.
DECREE
This Court on February 25, 1970,
397 U. S. 397 U.S.
88,
397 U. S. 91,
having entered a decree and appointed a Boundary Commissioner to
survey the boundary between Arkansas and Tennessee, and, pursuant
to that decree, the said Commissioner having filed a "Report on
Commission to Survey" in which he sets forth the General Location
and Specific Location of such boundary to which the parties have
approved and consented,
It ordered, adjudged, and decreed That such boundary
shall be fixed as follows:
GENERAL LOCATION
The state boundary line involved herein is located between
Crittenden County, Arkansas, and Shelby County, Tennessee, in an
area formerly known as Cow Island Bend, and more recently called
Scanlan Chute, Frog Chute, Ike Chute or Lake, and 96 Chute, and is
generally within a rectangle between latitudes 35� 00' and 35� 03',
and longitudes 90� 15' and 90� 19', and is more particularly
described as follows:
SPECIFIC LOCATION
"Beginning at a point, designated as Station No. 1, which point
is, S 6� 34' E, at 1,359.0 feet from, Mississippi River Commission
Permanent Bench
Page 399 U. S. 220
Mark 'Scanlan,' whose coordinates are latitude 35� 02' plus
1,555.76 feet, and longitude 90� 15' plus 1,014.42 feet. (Reference
for PBM 'Scanlan,'
see page 118 of Permanent Marks, Volume
One of Mississippi River Commission.) Said above beginning point
being on a line running, S 75� 39' E, 3,500.0 feet more or less
from, the present Steamboat Channel (thalweg) of the Mississippi
River; thence N 75� 39' W, 645.8 feet to a point; thence N 75� 54'
W, 2, 112.0 feet to a point; thence N 17� 18' W, 920.4 feet to a
point; thence N 35� 25' W, 436.3 feet to a point; thence N 62� 36'
W, 491.3 feet to a point, designated as Station No. 2; thence S 85�
53' W, 2, 161.6 feet to a point; thence S 82� 00' W, 1,443.3 feet
to a point; thence N 87� 38' W, 2,739.7 feet to a point; thence S
79� 35' W, 1,808.5 feet to a point; thence S 38� 47' W, 1,033.1
feet to a point; thence S 24� 52' W, 811.0 feet to a point; thence
S 7� 38' W, 2,085.5 feet to a point; thence S 11� 29' W, 1,725.2
feet to a point, designated as Station No. 3; thence S 23� 31' W,
3,098.3 feet to a point; thence S 0� 51' E, 1,370.5 feet to a
point; thence S 13� 15' E, 1,258.1 feet to a point, designated as
Station No. 4; thence S 38� 45' W, 814.5 feet to a point; thence S
23� 55' W, 864.1 feet to a point; thence S 12� 30' W, 644.4 feet to
a point; thence S 6� 30' W, 1,270.5 feet to a point, which point
is, S 81� 52' E (Mag.), 2,736.5 feet from United States Engineer
Arkansas Levee Bench Mark for Mile Post 170/171; thence S 17� 40'
E, 1,627.0 feet to a point; thence S 6� 50' E, 1,485.0 feet to a
point; thence S 22� 10' E, 2,500.0 feet more or less, to the
present Steamboat Channel (thalweg) of the Mississippi. "
Page 399 U. S. 221
The above surveyed boundary line between the States of Arkansas
and Tennessee in the area involved is shown by a broken line marked
on the attached 1965 aerial photograph of said area, which aerial
photograph is also designated Appendix A-I to this Court's decree
of February 25, 1970.
*
* [REPORTER'S NOTE: The aerial photograph is not reproduced
here, since it has been published in connection with the Court's
previous decree.
See 397 U. S. 91
(immediately following 92).]