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which he was appointed. In the month of July last, I received official information that Massachusetts, under the fifth article of the first section of the act relating to the separation of the two States, did elect to pay to this State the sum of thirty thousand dollars, in lieu of the lands sett off by the Commissioners, under the act aforesaid, as an indemnification to Maine for having assumed to perform certain obligations towards the Penobscot tribe of Indians. This sum has since been paid by Massachusetts into the Treasury of this State. I lay before the Legislature a copy of an agreement entered into by the Commissioners aforesaid, by which they have completed the distribution & assignment that remained to be made in the division of the personal property belonging to the two States. The small balance of money assigned to the share of this State has been paid into the Treasury. It will be perceived that the notes, bonds, and other securities, at the time of the assignment were, as they still are, principally in the possession of the agents by whom they were originally taken. I also lay before you a copy of another instrument, executed by said Commissioners, by which a further division is made of the public lands. This State now owns in severalty a number of valuable townships lying on the Penobscot and Schoodic waters, and a number more lying north of Bingham's Kennebec purchase, and between said purchase and the line of