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ton purchase; then following a line constituted by the west bounds of the following lots and lines, at right angles to the same, connecting them, namely: number twelve, twenty-nine, fifty-two, sixty-nine, ninety-two, one hundred and nine, one hundred and thirty-two, one hundred and forty-nine, one hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and twelve, two hundred and thirty, two hundred and fifty-one, two hundred and seventy, two hundred and ninety-one, three hundred and ten, three hundred and thirty, three hundred and fifty-one, three hundred and seventy, three hundred and ninety-one, four hundred and ten, four hundred and thirty-two, four hundred and forty-nine, four hundred and seventy-two, four hundred and eighty-nine, five hundred and thirteen, five hundred and thirty-eight, five hundred and fiftythree, and five hundred and sixty-eight: Northerly and Easterly by a line beginning at the northwest corner of lot number five hundred and sixty-eight, and running thence east along the south bounds of the north tier of short or square lots, so called, of said Boston purchase, to the Tioughnioga branch of the Susquehanna river, then along the same to the south bounds of the township of Cincinnatus; then along the same east, to the county of Chenango; then southerly and easterly along the county of Chenango, to the county of Delaware; and then southerly along the county of Delaware, to the south bounds of the state, and on the south, by the south bounds of the state.

38. The county of CORTLAND shall contain all that part of Cortland. this state, bounded as follows: East, by the east bounds of the military tract: North, by a line beginning at the southeast corner of lot number fifty, in the township of Fabius, and running thence west along the line of lots to the southeast corner of lot number fifty, in the township of Tully; and then west along the line of lots to the west bounds of the township of Tully: Westerly, by the west bounds of the township of Tully, Homer, and Virgil: and Southerly, by the counties of Tioga and Broome.

39. The county of TOMPKINS shall contain all that part of Tompkins. this state, bounded as follows: on the North, by a line beginning at the northeast corner of lot number sixty, in the township of Locke, and running thence west along the line of lots to the northwest corner of lot number fifty-one in said township; then north along the west bounds of said township, to the northeast corner of lot number fifty, in the township of Milton; then west along the line of lots to the east bounds of lot number forty-one, in said township; then along the same north, to the northeast corner of said lot; then west along the north bounds thereof, and the same continued to the middle of the Cayuga lake; then southerly along said middle to a point opposite the southeast corner of the township of Ovid; then with a straight line to the said southeast corner; then westerly along the south bounds of said township, and the

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same continued to the west shore of the Seneca lake; Westerly and Southerly, by the west shore of said lake, and the county of Tioga: and Easterly, by the counties of Tioga and Cortland.

40. The county of TIOGA shall contain all that part of this state, bounded as follows: beginning in the south bounds of this state, at the commencement of the pre-emption line, as established by law, and running thence north along the same, till it is intersected by a western continuation of the south bounds of the military tract; then along said continuation to the southwest corner of the military tract; then east along the south bounds of the military tract, to where the same is intersected by a line drawn north and south from the middle of the bridge that crosses Balding's mill creek, so called; then south along said line, until the same is intersected by a line drawn from the middle of the east bounds of the southeast section of township number seven, westerly and parallel with the south line of said township, and the same continued; then easterly along the said last mentioned line, to the west bounds of township number ten; then southerly along the same, to the north bounds of the second tier of lots in the southwest section of township number ten; then easterly along the same to the section line of number ten; then along the same northerly, to the southwest corner of the northeast section of township number ten; then easterly parallel with the south bounds of township number ten, to the west bounds of township number eleven; then southerly along the same, sixty chains; then easterly parallel with the south bounds of township number eleven, to the west bounds of section number six, on Owego creek; then southerly along the said west bounds, to the southwest corner thereof; and then easterly along the south bounds of the last mentioned section, to the Owego creek; then northerly up said creek, to the southwest corner of lot number five hundred and eighty-one, of the grand division of the Boston purchase; then easterly on the south line of the north tier of the short or square lots, so called, to the southeast corner of lot number five hundred and ninety-two, of said purchase, being the northwest corner of the county of Broome; then southerly along the west bounds of the county of Broome, to the south bounds of the state; and then westerly along the same to the place of beginning.

41. The county of STEUBEN shall contain all that part of this state, bounded as follows: Southerly by the south bounds of the state: East, by the counties of Tioga and Tompkins: North, by the counties of Yates, Ontario and Livingston: and Westerly, by the west line of the sixth range of townships in Phelps and Gorham's purchase.

42. The county of ONONDAGA shall contain all that part of this state, bounded as follows: beginning in the east bounds of the military tract, at the northeast corner of lot number

sixty, in the township of Fabius, and running thence northerly along the east bounds of said tract, to the Oneida lake; then northwesterly along the Oneida lake, to the place where the Onondaga or Oswego river issues therefrom; then northerly, southerly and northwesterly along the said river as the same winds and turns, to the southeast corner of lot number thirty-three, in the township of Lysander; then westerly along the south line of said lot and the lots in the same range, to the west line of said township; then southerly along the west line of said township, to the Cross lake; then west to the middle of said lake; then through the middle of said lake, and the middle of the Seneca river, to a continuation of the west line of the township of Camillus; then along the same, and along the west line of the said township, to the southwest corner of the said township of Camillus: then easterly along the south bounds of said township, to the northwest corner of the township of Marcellus; then along the westerly and southerly lines of the township of Marcellus, to the Skeneateles lake; then southeasterly along the shore of the same, to the northwest corner of the county of Cortland; and then easterly along the north bounds of said county, to the place of beginning.

43. The county of CAYUGA shall contain all that part of Cayuga. this state, bounded as follows: beginning at the northeast corner of the county of Tompkins, and running thence westerly along the north bounds of said county, to the middle. of the Cayuga Lake; then down the middle of said lake, to the outlet thereof; then down the said outlet, to the west line of the township of Brutus; then north along the west lines of the townships of Brutus and Cato, and the same line continued to the north bounds of this state; then northeasterly along the same, to the county of Oswego; and then southerly along the westerly bounds of the counties of Oswego, Onondaga and Cortland, to the place of beginning.

44. The county of SENECA shall contain all that part of this Seneca. state, bounded on the North, by the county of Wayne: on the East, by the county of Cayuga: on the South, by the county of Tompkins: and on the West, by the west shore of the Seneca lake, and from the north end of said lake by the pre-emption line, as established by law.

45. The county of ONTARIO shall contain all that part of Ontario. this state, bounded as follows: beginning at the northeast corner of the county of Yates, and running thence along the bounds of the said county, to the southwest corner thereof; then westerly along the north line of townships number six in the fourth and fifth ranges of Phelps and Gorham's purchase, to the southeast corner of the county of Livingston; then along the bounds of the said county, to the south bounds of the county of Monroe; then along the bounds of the said county, to the southwest corner of the county of Wayne; then along the south bounds of the said county, to the north

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west corner of the county of Seneca; and then southerly along the west bounds of the said county of Seneca, to the place of beginning.

46. The county of YATES shall contain all that part of this state, bounded as follows: beginning on the west margin of the Seneca lake, at the termination of an east and west line between lots number seven and eight, of the tract lying between the new pre-emption line and the Seneca lake, and running thence west along the said line to the new preemption line; then along the same north to the northeast corner of lot number fifteen of the tract between the old and new pre-emption lines; then west along the north bounds of lot number fifteen to the old pre-emption line; then northerly along the same to the northeast corner of township number five, in the first range of townships in Phelps and Gorham's purchase; then west along the north bounds of said township to the southeast corner of township number six of the second range; then along the east bounds thereof north, to the Crooked lake; then northwest to the middle of the east arm of said lake, then southwesterly and northerly through the middle thereof and of the west arm of said lake to the north bounds of township number six of the second range; then west along the same and the north bounds of township number six of the third range to the southeast corner of township number seven of the fourth range; then north along the east bounds of said township to the southwest corner of township number eight of the third range; thence east along the south bounds of said township to the middle of the Canandaigua lake; then northerly along said middle to the north bounds of said township; then east along the same and the north bounds of township number eight in the second and first ranges and the same continued to the Seneca lake; then along the west margin thereof to the place of beginning.

47. The county of WAYNE shall contain all that part of this state, bounded as follows: beginning at the southeast corner of the township of Galen, and running thence north along the west bounds of the county of Cayuga to the north bounds of this state; then westerly along the said north bounds until intersected by a continuation of the west bounds of the third range of townships in Phelps and Gorham's purchase; then along such continuation and the said bounds south to the southwest corner of township number twelve of the third range; then east along the south bounds of said township to the southeast corner thereof; then north along the east bounds thereof to the southwest corner of township number twelve of the second range; then east along the south bounds thereof to the northeast corner of township number eleven of the second range; then along the east bounds thereof south, until intersected by a continuation of the south bounds of the township of Galen; then east along said continuation and bounds to the place of beginning.

48. The county of LIVINGSTON shall contain all that part of Livingston. this state, bounded as follows: beginning in the south bounds of township number seven, fifth range of Phelps and Gorham's purchase, at a point five and a half miles east of the southwest corner thereof, and running thence west along the south bounds of said township and of township number seven of the sixth range to the northwest quarter of township number six of the sixth range; then along the east, south and west bounds of said quarter to the northeast corner of township number six of the seventh range; then along the north bounds of said township west, to the southwest corner of township number seven of the seventh range; then along the west bounds thereof north, till intersected by a continuation of the north bounds of township number seven in the first range of the Holland Company's purchase; then west along the said continuation to the middle of the Genesee river; then down the said middle to a continuation of the east bounds of the Ogden tract; then north along said continuation and said bounds, and the same continued north, to the division line between lots number nineteen and twenty of the forty thousand acre tract; then east along said division line to the southeast corner of lot number twenty-seven of said tract: then north along the east bounds of lots number twenty-seven, twenty-six and twenty-five to township number one in the second range of Phelps and Gorham's purchase on the west side of Genesee river; then along the south bounds thereof to the southwest corner of lot number one hundred and seventeen, in said township; then north along the line of lots so far as that a line drawn due east will strike one mile north of the house now or late of Peter Bowen; then east along said line to the middle of Genesee river; then along the said middle to the northwest corner of township number ten in the seventh range of townships in Phelps and Gorham's purchase; then easterly to the west bounds of township number ten in the sixth range of said purchase; then northerly to the north bounds of said township; then easterly along the north bounds thereof, and of township number ten in the fifth range to the middle of the Huneoye creek; then along said middle to the south bounds of said last mentioned township; then west on the division line between townships number nine and ten to the northeast corner of a tract called the Oblong tract, lying east of township number nine in the sixth range; then south along the said tract to the north bounds of township number eight in the fifth range; then west along the north bounds of said township and of township number eight in the sixth range to the east shore of the Hemlock lake; then southerly and westerly along said lake to the west bounds of township number eight of the fifth range; then along the same, south, to the southwest corner thereof; then along the south bounds thereof, east five and a half miles; then with a line parallel

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