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Portrait of John Hessin Clarke John Hessin Clarke Georgia v. South Carolina (257 U.S. 516…

South Carolina, on the other hand, admits in its answer that where there are no islands the line between the states is the 'middle thread of the stream where the rivers flow in one stream or volume,' but at the bar and in its brief it is argued, strenuously, that the true line is the low-water mark on the southerly or Georgia bank of each river.
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