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Court of the Commonweath of Massachusetts to treat with and assign certain lands to the Passamaquoddy Indians and others connected with them, agreeable to a Resolve of said General Court of the 26th of June, in the year of our Lord 1794 of the one part, and the Subscribing Chiefs and others for themselves and in behalf of the said Passamaquoddy tribe and others connected with them, of the other part, Witnesseth, [underlined] that the said Committee in behalf of the Commonwealth aforesaid, and in consideration of the said Indians relinquishing all their right, title, interest, claim or demand of any land or lands, lying and being within the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also engaging to be peaceable and quiet Inhabitants of said Commonwealth without molesting any other of the Settlers of the Commonwealth aforesaid in any way or means whatever, in consideration of all which, the Com-mittee aforesaid for and in behalf of the Common-wealth aforesaid, do hereby assign and set off to the aforesaid Indians, the following tracts or parcels of land lying and being within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Viz: All those Islands lying and being in Schoodic river between the falls at the head of the tide, and the falls below the forks of said River where the north branch and west branch parts, being fifteen in number, containing one hundred acres, more or less; also Township No. 2, in in the first Range surveyed by Mr. Samuel Titcomb, in the year of our Lord 1794, containing about 23,000 acres, more or less, being bounded as follows: Easterly by Tomers[?] River and Township No. 1. - first-Range; northerly by Township No. 2. second Range; westerly by Township No. 3-first Range; Southerly by the west branch of Schoodic River & Lake; also Lires[?] Island lying in front of said Township, containing ten acres more or less, together with one hundred acres of land lying on Nemcass point adjoining the west side of said township; also Pine Island lying to the westward of said Nemcass[?] Point, containing one