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This writing, indented and made this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by and between Lothrop Lewis of Gorham in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, Esquire Commissioner, appointed by William King, Esquire, Governor of said State, by and with the advise and consent of the Council, in conformity to a resolve of the Legislature of said State, passed the twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to treat with the Penobscot tribe of Indians, in said State upon the subject expressed in said Resolve, on the one part; and the said Penobscot tribe of Indians, by the undersigned, Chiefs, Captains, and men of said tribe, representing the whole thereof, on the other part;

Witnesseth, That, the said Penobscot tribe of Indians, in consideration of the covenants and agreements, hereinafter mentioned on the part of said Commissioners, in behalf of said State, to be performed, kept and fulfilled, do hereby grant, sell, convey, release and quitclaim, to said State, all their, the said tribe's right, title, interest and estate, in and to all the lands and possessions, granted, sold and conveyed by us, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by our writing of indenture, made with said Commonwealth by their commissioners, the Honourable Edward H. Robbins, Daniel Davis and Mark L. Hill, Esquires, June the twenty ninth, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; saving and excepting the reservations, in said indenture made and expressed, meaning and intending hereby, to substitute and place, the said State of Maine, in the stead and place of the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as it regards said indenture last mentioned, with the said tribe of Indians, so that all and singular, the lands, rights, immunities or privileges, whatsoever, which said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, did, might or could hold, possess, exercise and enjoy, under or by virtue of said indenture, or treaty, or by any other indenture, treaty or agreement whatsoever, shall be held possssed, exercised and enjoyed in as full and ample a manner by said State of Maine:

And, the undersigned commissioner, on this part in