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[150] [1822 Feb. 1] [Governor's message respecting lands & other property of Massachusetts & Maine] The Secretary of State came in and laid on the table the following message from the Governor to wit "To the Senate and House of Representatives - The Commissioners appointed on the part of Massachusetts and Maine, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Separation having made a representation of their proceedings up to the seventeenth of November last, I communicate the same to the two branches of the Legislature for their information. From their report there is reason to expect that in the course of the ensuing season, much progress will be made in effecting a just division of the personal property belonging to the two States, and that such a portion of the public land will be divided as will enable the Commissioners "to set off by metes and bounds" so much from the share of Massachusetts, as in their estimation shall be of the value of thirty thousand dollars, whereby the parent state may be enabled to make the election of assigning the land, so set out, to this State as an indemnification for having assumed the performance of all the duties and obligations of the Commonwealth towards the Indians. As this will probably be effected and such election made on the part of Massachusetts, previous to October next, and as by treaty with the Penobscot tribe, to which treaty this State has become a party, under the fifth article of the first section of the Act of Separation, sundry articles of provisions and clothing are to be furnished for their use in the month of October annually, - the attention of the Legislature is invited to the expediency of making such an appropriation as a full performance of the treaty on the part of this State would require. There having been no appropriation by the Legislature of either State, for meeting the expenses incident to such surveys as may be directed by the Commissioners, and as surveys to a certain extent are to be made the ensuing season, the Commissioners of both States have suggested the necessity of making such provision, as in the opinion of the respective Legislatures the circumstances may require. I find by a Resolve of the 26th of June, 1820, the Governor, by and