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Top Cops From Vt. and NH to Inspect Joint Border

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NORWICH, Vt. -

The attorneys general of New Hampshire and Vermont are going to honor a 69-year-old requirement to inspect the border between the two states to ensure all markers and monuments are properly maintained.

New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney and Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell are scheduled to meet at 11 a.m. Monday on the bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Norwich, Vt., and Hanover, N.H. They don't plan to walk the entire 150-mile border.

The laws require the attorneys general to "perambulate" the border every seven years.

The laws followed a 1935 decision by a special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled the boundary between the two states is the high-water mark on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River.

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