Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-04-18


property Of said State Of Maine, and said
State Of Maine be entitled to receive from
said Commonwealth one third part of all
moneys, stock or other proceeds hereafter
obtained from the United States, on account
Of the claim of said Commonwealth for dis
bursements made, and expenses incurred for
the defence Of the State, during the late war
with Great-Britain agreeably to the terms of
the act Of separation. And whereas there
exists sundry adverse claims between the two
States, the settlement Of which, according to
the terms of the act of separation, must nee
essarily be attended with much delay and ex-
pense, and probably not without disagreement
and controversy the parties aforesaid, to pre-
serve harmony and avoid the evils Of conten-
tion, have agreed as follows: That the sums
Of money which have been or may be receiv-
ed by the County Treasurers in the State of
Maine, which by law would be payable to
the Treasurer of Massachusetts,, shall be paid
to the Treasurer OF the State of Maine, for
the use of said State of Maine. And the par
ties aforesaid, hereby further agree that sun
dry notes, accounts and contracts, bonds and
awards and other documents, relating thereto
contained in the schedule hereto annexed,
and now in the Land Office, in Boston, a.
mounting to the sum of SIS, 1861, estimat-
ed to be worth the sum Of SIS, 124,34, shall
be transferred to the State of Maine with au-
thority from said Commonwealth to collect,
adjust, settle and receive the contents thereof
for the sole benefit of said State of Maine;
and said State of Maine viii assume and
hereby agrees to pay all pensions to which
any person nonresident in said State Of Maine
to be settled underany grant or resolve of the
Legislature of Massachusetts made before the
10th day Of March, in the year Of our Lord
1920.
And thereupon the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts and the State of Maine, do fur
ther mutually agree to release each to the
other, all debts, annuities expenses, contribu-
tons to expenses to State Prison, Arsenals,
Hospitals, Colleges, or other corporations in
said Commonwealth and said State of Maine,
and all claims and demands of every descrip-
ton whatsoever, excepting such as proceed
from, or grow out of this contract. And all
other property, of every description whatsoev-
er, not embraced in this agreement, belonging
to the Commonwealth at the time the District
of Maine became an Independent State,
shall continue to belong to the Common
wealth.
And the State of Maine will indemnify the
State or Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
from and against all claims and demands of
every description whatsoever, which now ex-
list or may arise hereafter by reason of any
gift, grant, sale, contract, or other disposition
at any time before the sixteenth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1920, made by said
Commonwealth, of lands in the limits of said
State of Maine, or by reason of any con-
tracts or agreements at any time before said
period made by said Commonwealth, relative
to laying out of said lands, making roads,
surveys for agencies of any kind or for or by
reason of any other act or thing whatsoever,
by which any expense or charge has been
OF must necessarily be incurred by said Com
monwealth in any way relating to said lands
Provided, however, that the ratification and
allowance Of all such claims and demands
shall first be subject to the judgment of the
Legislature of the State of Maine, and after
wards to the judgment and ratification Of the
Legislature of Massachusetts. And it is fur
ther agreed that the expenses and allowance
to the Commissioners appointed by the Ex-
ecutives of said States under the act of sep
aration shall be borne up to the present time
by the two States in equal proportion.
This agreement to be subject to the ratifica-
tion of the Legislature of the said States re-
spectively. And the deeds of the respective
parties and the said Notes to bear date from
the date of the last ratification to be made as
aforesaid; provided, however, that if this
agreement shall not be ratified by both the
said States within three months from the date !
hereof, the same shall be null and void. To
which said agreement the said committees
have hereunto set their hands the day and
year first above written.
JAMES BRIDGE, PETER C. BROOKS.
BENZ. ]. PORTER, JONA. DWIGHT, JR.
LOTHROP LEWIS, SAMUEL HUBBARD. 4
DANIEL ROSE, HUGO BURGHART.
NICHOLAS EMERY, JOHN HOOPER.
scHEDULE ANNEXED TO SAID ARTICLES OF
AGREEMENT.
Land Office, Sd Feb. 1921.
TO THE HON. COMMISSIONERS.
Gentlemen-At your request | herewith
transmit a statement of the amount due for
Notes, contracts, &c. given on account of
The consideration for the purchase Of lands,
cutting timber, grass, &c.
- Respectfully your most obedient servant,
GEO. w. COFFIN, agent for Eastern Lands.
Amount due on contracts as per
schedule, see volume of Re-
solve 24th Feb. 1890, pages
167 and 1853, 1884 as
Deduct contract with Benz. and
w. Davis, lit being discharg-
ed, y: 700 s2a
Deduct contract to John Dick
inson, do. to John Brewer,
Notes in the Treasury, 10 $40