Section 1859 - Boundary from the Delaware to the line of cessionII. The line extending from the Delaware river aforesaid, at a point upon said river fixed and marked with monuments (which have since disappeared), by David Rittenhouse and Samuel Holland, in the month of November, in the year 1774, west, as the same was surveyed and marked with monuments in the year 1786, as far as the ninetieth mile-stone, by James Clinton and Simeon Dewitt, commissioners on the part of the state of New York, duly appointed for that purpose by the governor of said state, in pursuance of an act of the legislature of said state, entitled "An act for running out and marking the jurisdiction line between this state and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania," passed seventh March, 1785, and David Rittenhouse, Andrew Porter and Andrew Ellicot, commissioners on the part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly appointed for that purpose by the supreme executive council, "to appoint commissioners to join with the commissioners appointed, or to be appointed, on the part of the state of New York, to ascertain the northern boundary of this state from the river Delaware westward to the northwest corner of Pennsylvania," passed thirty-first March, 1785, and from the said ninetieth mile-stone west, as the same was surveyed and marked with monuments and posts in 1787 by Abraham Hardenbergh and William W. Morris, commissioners on the part of the said state of New York, duly appointed in the place of Simeon Dewitt and James Clinton aforesaid, by the governor of said state in pursuance of the act aforesaid, and the act supplementary thereto, passed by the legislature of said state, twenty-first April, 1787, and Andrew Ellicot and Andrew Porter aforesaid, commissioners on the part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the point at which said line is intersected by the line of cession or meridian boundary hereinafter described, which said line so surveyed and marked in the years 1786 and 1787 has since been acknowledged and recognized by the said two states as a part of the limit of their respective territory and jurisdiction, shall notwithstanding any want of conformity to the verbal description as written in the charter of the province of Pennsylvania, granted to William Penn in the year 1682, or as recited by the commissioners aforesaid, continue to be the boundary or partition line between the two said states, from the Delaware river aforesaid, to the said point of intersection with the said line of cession:1887, June 6, P.L. 353, Preamble No. 2.