Report and resolves in relation to claims under the Treaty of Washington.

[Augusta, Maine?] : Wm. T. Johnson, Printer to the State, [1854]

1 online resource (10 pages, 1 unnumbered page).

Document (Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives) ; 33rd Legislature, 1854, no. 10.

Includes report of the Committee on State Lands and State Roads, signed by J.B. Hill, Chairman; resolve, entitled "Resolve in relation to the claims of the state upon the United States for lands taken and required to be taken to satisfy claimants under the Treaty of Washington"; and resolve entitled "Resolve authorizing the appointment of commissioners to locate grants and determine the extent of possessory claims under the late treaty with Great Britain."
"The committee on State Lands and State Roads, to which was referred the petition of William Black, the petitions of Samuel Leavitt, of James Stickney, of Sanford Noble, and the petition of Joseph Nelson and sixty others, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report: That for many years prior to the treaty of Washington, negotiated in 1842, the jurisdiction and ownership of a large portion of the northern part of this state, including nearly all of the county of Aroostook, was in dispute, and a subject of controversy, between the government of Great Britain and that of the United States. The effect of the controversy was to retard the settlement of the country bordering on the St. John river, and the Aroostook river in said county, and to render titles to lands there uncertain. ... "--Page [1].
"State of Maine. House of Representatives, March 8, 1854."--Last page.

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Resolve in relation to the claims of the state upon the United States for lands taken and required to be taken to satisfy claimants under the Treaty of Washington.

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