PUBLIC LAW 97-64—OCT. 16, 1981
95 STAT. 1019
Public Law 97-64 97th Congress
An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the agreement between the States of Kansas and Missouri establishing their mutual boimdary in the vicinity of the French Bottoms near Saint Joseim, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas.
Oct. 16, 1981 [H.R. 4048]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the KansasUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress consents to the agreement between the States of Kansas and Missouri Missouri. establishing their mutual boundary in the vicinity of the Gladden- Boundary agreement. French-Elwood Bottoms near Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas, as the thalweg line of the channel of the Missouri River abandoned by avulsion in April 1952, which is more particularly described in the project maps, repqrte, and documents submitted April 30, 1980, by Williamson Ei^ineering and Surveying, Saint Joseph, Missouri, consisting of sheets one to sixteen, inclusive, and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State for the State of Kansas, and in the Office of the State Land Surveyor, Division of Research and Technical Information, Department of Natural Resources, State of Missouri. Such agreement was approved by the State of Kaims on May 8, 1980, by the State of Missouri on June 25, 1981, and is sutetantially as follows: The true and permanent boundary line between the State of Missouri and the State of Kansas follows the thalweg line at the time of the April 1952 avulsion and sudden chimge of the Missouri River Channel and is more particularly described as beginning at the intersection of the present thalw^ line of the Missouri River Channel and the thalweg line of the Missouri River Channel as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion and having Kansas State coordinate of 540240.22 feet north and 2878720.31 feet east of the Kansas north zone; thence along the thalweg line as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion the following courses and distances: north 85 degrees 50 minutes 30 seconds west to an aluminum monument, 482.0 feet; south 67 degrees 13 minutes 0 seconds west, 814.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 51 degrees 09 minutes 0 seconds west, 693.0 feet; south 78 degrees 58 minutes 0 seconds west, 601.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 59 degrees 11 minutes 0 seconds west, 996.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 20 degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,725.0 feet; south 51 degrees 36 minutes 0 seconds west, 658.0 feet; south 42 degrees 12 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,596.0 feet; south 55 degrees 30 minutes 30 seconds west, 597.0 feet; south 60 decrees 26 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,601.0 feet; south 64 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,237.0 feet; south 87 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds west, 368.0 feet; south 73 degrees 47 minutes 30 seconds west, 602.0 feet; south 85 degrees 54 minutes 0 seconds west, 1,146.0 feet; north 75 degrees 38 minutes 30 seconds west, 565.0 feet; north 68 degrees 54 minutes 30 seconds west, 806.0 feet; north 61 degrees 58 minutes 0 seconds west, 787.0 feet; north 55 degrees 20 minutes 0 seconds west, 1,793.0 feet; north 48 degrees 13 minutes 0 seconds
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