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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
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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 lien of the lands sett off by the Commissioners, under the act aforesaid, as an indemnification to Maine for having assumed to perform certain obligation towards the Penobscot tribe of Indians. This sum has since been paid by Massachusetts into the Treasury of this State.