Resolves of the Legislature of the State of MaineF. Douglas, 1839 |
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66 John 66 William advertising agreement allowed and paid Amount allowed Amount of Claims appointed Approved February Approved March 23 Aroostook River Bangor Bounty on Militia Bowdoinham Britain British Brunswick Chapter Charles Charles Waterhouse Claims rendered Commissioners copy COUNCIL CHAMBER COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT Daniel disputed territory Dixfield due north line duty East Machias EDWARD KENT eighteen hundred expenses February 25 George Government Governor and Council Gun House hereby is authorized herewith lay highlands House of Representatives hundred dollars interest James JOHN FAIRFIELD Joseph Kennebec Kennebunk Land Agent Legislature Lubec Maine March 14 March 23 Mars Hill Massachusetts NAMES OF TOWNS northwest angle Portland proceedings Province public lands publishing laws relation request Resolve authorizing Resolve in favor Road Samuel Sebec Secretary Senate and House Sir John Harvey survey Surveyor Thomaston thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion Total am't townships Treasury treaty trespassers Wheat
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Страница 137 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Страница 86 - That the governor be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in the congress of the United States.
Страница 169 - Whereas, by an Act of the State of Massachusetts, passed on the nineteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act relating to the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts, Proper, and forming the same into a separate and independent State...
Страница 159 - ... is possible that in thus abridging a voluminous correspondence, commencing in 1825 and continuing to a very recent period, a portion may have been accidentally overlooked ; but it is believed that nothing has taken place which would materially change the aspect of the question as therein presented. Instead of sustaining the assumption of the British functionaries, that correspondence disproves the existence of any such agreement.
Страница 162 - The undersigned can not acquiesce in the supposition that, because the agent of His Britannic Majesty thought proper in the proceedings before the commissioners to lay claim to all that portion of the State of Maine which lies north of a line running westerly from Mars Hill, and designated as the limit or boundary of the British claim, thereby the United States or the State of Maine ceased to have jurisdiction in the territory thus claimed. In the view of this Government His Britannic Majesty's agent...
Страница 141 - ... have agreed to consider the award of the King of the Netherlands as binding upon neither party, and the two Governments, therefore, are as free in this respect as they were before the reference to that Sovereign was made. The British Government, despairing of the possibility of drawing a line that shall be in literal conformity with the words of the treaty of 1783, has suggested that a conventional boundary should be substituted for the line described by the treaty...
Страница 156 - ... command the unqualified approbation of everyone having a just regard for the honor of his State. It is in the true spirit, and I have every reason to believe that the same spirit animates the whole body of our citizens. While it prevails, though success will be deserved, defeat can bring no disgrace. You will see by the accompanying papers (and I take great pleasure in communicating the fact) that Mr. Mclntire and his assistants have been released. It was, however, upon their parole of honor...
Страница 59 - All judicial officers now in office or who may be hereafter appointed shall, from and after the first clay of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty, hold their offices for the term of seven years from the time of their respective appointments (unless sooner removed by impeachment or by address of both branches of the Legislature to the Executive) and no longer unless re-appointed thereto.
Страница 156 - ... terms. Since my last communication the land agent's forces at the Aroostook have been reenforced by about 600 good and effective men, making the whole force now about 750. I have a letter from Mr. Jarvis dated the i9th, before the reenforcement had arrived, and when his company consisted of only 100 men.
Страница 165 - New-Brunswick, or otherwise, that he has abandoned all idea of occupying the disputed territory with a military force, and of attempting an expulsion of our party, that then, the Governor be authorized to withdraw our military force, leaving the Land Agent with a sufficient posse, armed or unarmed, as the case may require, sufficient to carry into effect your original design, that of driving out or arresting the trespassers, and preserving and protecting the timber from their depredations.