DECREE
IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED THAT:
1. The boundary line between the States of Tennessee and Arkansas in the area in controversy is fixed as geodetically described in Exhibit A, appended hereto, and as shown on Appendix E to the Special Master’s Report filed with this Court on April 13, 1981. Said Exhibit E is incorporated by reference herein.
2. The costs of this proceeding shall be divided equally between the parties.
EXHIBIT “A”
TENNESSEE-ARKANSAS STATE BOUNDARY IN THE ELMOT BAR-ISLAND 30 SECTOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
The following is a description, by geodetic position (North American Datum) of the locus of the Tennessee-Arkansas State Boundary that became fixed in the abandoned Fletcher Bend Channel that bounds Elmot Bar-Island 30 on the North and West. This boundary, lying between North Latitude 35° 40' 30.8" and North 35° 45' 34.6" and West Longitude 89° 52' 35" and West Longitude 89° 57' 31.5", begins at the head of Elmot Bar-Island 30 Chute Channel and thence runs Northwestward, Southwestward, Southward and Southeastward, along fixed (dead) thalweg and last steamboat navigation course in the abandoned Fletcher Bend Channel to the foot of Elmot Bar-Island 30 Chute Channel.
The Locus of the said Tennessee-Arkansas State Boundary is depicted on the 1973-1975 Mississippi River Hydrographic Survey and is described as beginning at the head of the Elmot Bar-Island 30 Chute Channel at Point P-1 at North Latitude 35° 44' 30.8" and West Longitude 89° 52' 35";
Thence North to Point P-2, Lat. 35° 44' 16.8" and Long. 89° 52' 35";
Thence Northward to Point P-3, Lat. 35° 44' 28.7" and Long. 89° 52' 38";
Thence Northwestward to Point-4,, Lat. 35° 44' 42" and Long. 89° 53';
Thence Northwestward to Point-5, Lat. 35° 45' and Long. 89° 53' 22";
Thence Northwestward to Point-6, Lat. 35° 45' 10" and Long. 89° 53' 35";
Thence Northwestward to Point-7, Lat. 35° 45' 17.8" and Long. 89° 53' 47";
Thence Northwestward to Point-8, Lat. 35° 45' 25.5" and Long. 89° 54';
Thence Northwestward to Point-9, Lat. 35° 45' 34.6" and Long. 89° 54' 18";
Thence Westward to Point-10, Lat. 35° 45' 33.5" and Long. 89° 54' 30";
Thence Southwestward to Point-11, Lat. 35° 45' 29.7" and Long. 89° 54' 40";
Thence Southwestward to Point-12, Lat. 35° 45' 23.8" and Long. 89° 54' 47";
Thence Southwestward to Point-13, Lat. 35° 45' 15.6" and Long. 89° 55';
Thence Southwestward to Point-14,, Lat. 35° 45' and Long. 89° 55' 30";
Thence Southwestward to Point-15, Lat. 35° 44' 46.5" and Long. 89° 56';
Thence Southwestward to Point-16, Lat. 35° 44' 36.6" and Long. 89° 56' 20";
Thence Southwestward to Point-17, Lat. 35° 44' 27.9" and Long. 89° 56' 40";
Thence Southwestward to Point-18, Lat. 35° 44' 18.9" and Long. 89° 57';
Thence Southwestward to Point-19, Lat. 35° 44' 10.1" and Long. 89° 57' 14";
Thence Southwestward to Point-20, Lat. 35° 44' and Long. 89° 57' 23";
Thence Southwestward to Point-21, Lat. 35° 43' 39.2" and Long. 89° 57' 31";
Thence Southward to Point-22, Lat. 35° 43' 23.9" and Long. 89° 57' 31.5";
Thence Southward to Point-28, Lat. 35° 43' and Long. 89° 57' 28.5";
Thence Southward to Point-24, Lat. 35° 42' 42.6" and Long. 89° 57' 25";
Thence South to Point-25, Lat. 35° 42' 21.3" and Long. 89° 57' 25";
Thence Southward to Point-26, Lat. 35° 42' and Long. 89° 57' 23";
Thence Southward to Point-27, Lat. 35° 41' 43.6" and Long. 89° 57' 23.5";
Thence Southward to Point-28, Lat. 35° 41' 26.1" and Long. 89° 57' 21";
Thence Southeastward to Point-29, Lat. 35° 41' 11.4" and Long. 89° 57' 12";
Thence Southeastward to Point-80, Lat. 35° 41' and Long. 89° 57' 03.5";
Thence Southeastward to Point-31, Lat. 35° 40' 56.4" and Long. 89° 57';
Thence Southeastward to Point-32, Lat. 35° 40' 30.8" and Long. 89° 56' 34" at the foot of the Elmot Bar-Island 30 Chute Channel.
What follows is an opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States. Your task is to determine the ideological "direction" of the decision ("liberal", "conservative", or "unspecifiable"). Use "unspecifiable" if the issue does not lend itself to a liberal or conservative description (e.g., a boundary dispute between two states, real property, wills and estates), or because no convention exists as to which is the liberal side and which is the conservative side (e.g., the legislative veto). Specification of the ideological direction comports with conventional usage. In the context of issues pertaining to criminal procedure, civil rights, First Amendment, due process, privacy, and attorneys, consider liberal to be pro-person accused or convicted of crime, or denied a jury trial, pro-civil liberties or civil rights claimant, especially those exercising less protected civil rights (e.g., homosexuality), pro-child or juvenile, pro-indigent pro-Indian, pro-affirmative action, pro-neutrality in establishment clause cases, pro-female in abortion, pro-underdog, anti-slavery, incorporation of foreign territories anti-government in the context of due process, except for takings clause cases where a pro-government, anti-owner vote is considered liberal except in criminal forfeiture cases or those where the taking is pro-business violation of due process by exercising jurisdiction over nonresident, pro-attorney or governmental official in non-liability cases, pro-accountability and/or anti-corruption in campaign spending pro-privacy vis-a-vis the 1st Amendment where the privacy invaded is that of mental incompetents, pro-disclosure in Freedom of Information Act issues except for employment and student records. In the context of issues pertaining to unions and economic activity, consider liberal to be pro-union except in union antitrust where liberal = pro-competition, pro-government, anti-business anti-employer, pro-competition, pro-injured person, pro-indigent, pro-small business vis-a-vis large business pro-state/anti-business in state tax cases, pro-debtor, pro-bankrupt, pro-Indian, pro-environmental protection, pro-economic underdog pro-consumer, pro-accountability in governmental corruption, pro-original grantee, purchaser, or occupant in state and territorial land claims anti-union member or employee vis-a-vis union, anti-union in union antitrust, anti-union in union or closed shop, pro-trial in arbitration. In the context of issues pertaining to judicial power, consider liberal to be pro-exercise of judicial power, pro-judicial "activism", pro-judicial review of administrative action. In the context of issues pertaining to federalism, consider liberal to be pro-federal power, pro-executive power in executive/congressional disputes, anti-state. In the context of issues pertaining to federal taxation, consider liberal to be pro-United States and conservative pro-taxpayer. In miscellaneous, consider conservative the incorporation of foreign territories and executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states or judcial authority vis-a-vis state or federal legislative authority, and consider liberal legislative veto. In interstate relations and private law issues, consider unspecifiable in all cases.