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m.UfsrwT'Fx*'" -FebZ 8. 1910
|j>'^'New Orleans Picayune - The long ^ ^standing dispute between the states of ^'T-ouisLana and Mississippi over the ^dividing line in Mississippi Sound, for.
•	the catching of oysters, was settled for _all time yesterday when members of the.,. ^Louisiana Oyster Commission met the ^representatives of Gov. E. F. Noei of ^ Mississippi, and with E. H. Muller, one of the . members of the Coast Geodetic Dept, of the US Governsent, went over the _ lin*e ~and , found everything in r-perfectly
virtually a guest of honor aVV_dinner .J served on the New Orleans on her trip .! back to .the Riglets. *>?•»•*	•
The successful marking off of the
•-perfectly satisfactory shape to both
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lana1 was represented at the niarking of the boundary, by L. J. <Dossman,' President of the Oyster j/ CJomm., Frank T. Payne, chief surveyor ; ,*f the Oyster Comm.; Horace Harvey,
■ member of the Oyster Comm., and Major ; Frank M. Kerr, chief of the State Board ■ of Engineers.'	*
tV " These gentlemen left here yesterday f-morning and- went by train to the
will be required.
These buoys will be secured by Major Kerry who will advertise for them within the next 8 or 10 days, and as soon as they are secured they will be placed in position.	•	'
. Everyone of the gentlemen expressed themselves as being very well, satisfied with the marking of the line as , done by Mr. Muller, and he was
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•’Riglets , where they boarded the oyster comm, yacht, New Orleans,'and were, taken to the line. Here they were mpt by .
Col. Montgomery and Dr-. Riley, two of .
Mississippi’s most popular public men,"boundary line between the t&o states and E. W. Muller, the US GovermentTyesterday brings to jnind . the long expert from the Geodetic Department litigation that followed the arrest-of. who has been working on the marking • several Mississippi oyster fishermen by off of the line for the past two months. ’ the Louisiana Oyster Comm. Thecase* '] As soon as both parties had exchang-"' was hard fought on both sides and J ed felicitations,’the trip along the line Louisiana v wori_ _every '^’one , of her started and showed that, in all, some 100 ' : contentions, and it was by the order of J or more beacons had been'placed, and the Supreme Court of the US that the that about three times as many buoys ' 1:—"-----------’'~J u"
line'was marked off by Mr. MufleKl'4:-. . Louisiana is' paying ’ for,, all . the materjal used in marking ^ off., the boundary which will cost about $10,000 or more. The buoys will be put in position under the direction of the US Lighthouse Service.- ;
Another feature of the case was the amount it cost the Oyster Comm. - some $30,000 - that is still being paid to attorneys John Dymond. and _S. C. ;Zacharie, who fought the ’case.-•>.--
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See	SEA'FOOD INDUSTRY file under SKA FOOD with Map from
March 17, 1977, "Biloxi Press'* and Boundary Dispute during 190^