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in behalf of said State of Maine, in consideration of the premises, and of the foregoing covenants and engagements of said tribe, does hereby, covenant with said tribe that they shall have and enjoy, all the reservations made to them, by virtue of said treaty of the twenty ninth of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. ____ And the under-signed Commissioner, in behalf of said State of Maine, does hereby further covenant and agree with said tribe, that, as soon as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, shall have made and fulfilled, the stipulations on her part, to be done and performed, under and by virtue of the fifth article of an act relating to the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts Proper, and forming the same into a separate and independent State, passed June the nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, then the said State of Maine, shall and will annually and every year in the month of October, so long as they shall remain a nation, and reside within the said State of Maine, deliver for the use of the said Penobscot tribe of Indians, at old Town, the following articles; to wit; five hundred bushels of corn, fifteen barrels of wheat flour, seven barrels of clean pork, one hogshead of molasses, and one hundred yards of double breadth broadcloth, to be of red colour one year, and blue the next year, and so on alternately, fifty good blankets, one hundred pounds of gun powder, four hundred pounds of shot, six boxes of Chocolate, one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, and fifty dollars in silver.

It being meant and intended, to assume and perform all the duties and obligations of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts toward the said Indians, whether the same arise from treaties or otherwise, and to substitute and place the said State of Maine in this respect to all intents and purposes whatever, in the stead and place of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, so that said tribe may have continued to them, all the payments and enjoy all the immunities and privileges, in as full and ample a manner, under this indenture or treaty, as they could have received or enjoyed under the said treaty of the twenty ninth of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, if this