Resolve for Laying Out Towns on the River St Croix. Commonwealth of Massachusetts In Senate March 1784Whereas it is expedient that a Number of Towns Should with all convenient dispatch be laid out upon the western side of and adjoining the River St Croix; the eastern boundary of this Commonwealth & of the United States of America; therefore Resolved that six Townships each to contain a Number of Acres equal to six Miles square shall be laid out upon and adjoining the western side of the said River, to begin as near the mouth or entrance of the same as may be convenient and so to extend in succession and if practicable adjoining each other up the said River And it is further Resolv'd that each of the said Townships shall be laid out into lots of. fronting upon and towards the said River and extending back in succession in an equal width each as near as may be; the whole of the said Townships to be bounded on the back parts thereof by a direct Line drawn from the western termination of the northern boundary of the uppermost of the sa Townships. be a Committee And it is further Resolv'd that to lay out the said Townships & to employ in behalf of this Commonwealth a Surveyor or Surveyors & Chainmen sufficient to lay out and take an actual Survey & plan of the said Townships And it is further Resolved that when the said Committee have effected the business herein assigned them they are hereby directed to make return of their doings together with a plan of the s Townships to the General Court and to report whether it may be expedient in their opinion to lay out any greater Number of Townships upon the said River or in any other part of the unappropriated Lands within the County of Lincoln And it is further Resolved that the sum of be allowed & paid out of the public Treasury of this Commonwealth to the said Committee in order to enable them to pay the Surveyor or Surveyors & Chainmen and others that may be employed by them as aforesaid the said Committee to be accountable for the sum aforesaid, and the said Committee are also directed to lay an Account of their own particular time & expenditures while engaged in the business aforesaid before the General Court for examination & allowance. Resolve Empowering the Committee of York & Cumberland Appointed on Eastern Lands to Consider the Pejepscot Claims. Commonwealth of Massachusetts In Senate March 15 1784 A resolve Relative to the Unappropriated Lands belonging to this Common Wealth in the Eastern Counties. Whereas the Committee Appointed by a Resolve of the General Court of May 1, 1781, for examining into all trespasses & illegal entries on the unappropriated lands belonging to this Commonwealth, & to whom further or other powers or orders were given by a Resolve of July 11, 1783 the transacting of which business was on the twenty eighth of October following considered to be so extensive as to require the Attention of two Committes, at which time therefore the said Committee was excused from attending to any concerns that might fall within their Commission in the County of Lincoln. And Another Committee was Appointed to conduct the Affairs therein, by which division A difficulty arises from the Pejepscot Claim (so called) laying on each Side of Androscoggin River, which River for a considerable length of way is the Boundary line between the counties of Cumberland & Lincoln Therefore Resolved that the Committee Appointed May the 1, 1781 who have the Settlement of the lands in the Counties of York & Cumberland According to the two before mentioned Resolves, be & they hereby Are Authorised & directed to settle the Pejepscot claim (so called) on the Easterly or NorthEasterly Side of Androscoggin River, as far as the said Claim may Appear to them to be well founded, in the same manner as they might or ought to do, if the said Claim layed wholly in the County of Cumberland, agreable to the two Aforesaid Resolves, And the Committee Appointed to Settle & Ascertain the bounds of the lands in the County of Lincoln Are hereby excused from Attending on Any Settlement on the Aforesaid Claim, Any thing in the Resolve of October the 28. 1783. to the contrary notwithstanding. And it is further Resolved, that Either of the Above named Committees be & they are hereby Authorised & impowered to summons such Evidence before them in behalf of this Commonwealth, in the prosecution of their respective Commission, as they may think necessary, & have the same sworn Accordingly In the House of Representatives March 16th 1784 Sent down for Concurrence Read & Nonconcurred S Adams Presid Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tristram Dalton Spk' In Senate March 16th 1784 Ordered that Cotton Tufts & Nathaniel Wells EsqTM be appointed a Committee on the part of the Senate with such as the Honble House may join, to confer upon the Subject matter of a Resolve of the Senate relative to the Pejepscot Claim (so called) Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives same day Read & concurred & Mr Sullivan & Mr Hosmer are appointed on the part of the House. Tristram Dalton Spk' Bill Granting a Lottery to the Inhabitants of Fryburgh. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty four An Act, granting a Lottery, for the purpose of removing a Jam of Timber in the Town of Fryburgh on Saco River in the County of York. Whereas it appears of great Utility, that said Jam of Timber should be removed, and whereas a number of inhabitants in Said town, and the towns adjacent, have in their petition, represented their inability to remove the same, & praying that a Lottery may be granted them for that purpose, Be it therefore enacted by the Senate & house of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that a sum not exceeding three hundred pounds, be raised by a Lottery or Lotteries, for the purpose aforesaid, and that Joshua B Osgood Esq' Mr Richard Kimball, Capt Benjamin Hooper, Benja Meads Lord Esq & Mr Josiah Thatcher or any three of them, be managers thereof, who Shall be Sworn to the faithful discharge of their trust, and shall, as Soon as may be, publish a Scheme of such Lottery or Lotteries, in such public newspaper as they may think most proper; and the said managers shall keep just and regular accounts of their proceedings, and of the monies they may receive in their Said Capacity, which Shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Treasurer of the said town of Fryburgh for the time being; and within one month after they Shall be requested thereto by vote of the Said town, Shall compleat drawing any Such Lottery or Lotteries, and Shall pay the net proceeds thereof in Such manner as Shall be ordered by the Said town, or their Committee, for Such purpose to be chosen; and if the said managers, or any of them, Shall neglect payment as afore Said, for the Space of fourteen days after receipt of such order, the said Treasurer is hereby authorized and impowered, to sue for and recover, for the use of said town, Such monies neglected to have been paid as afore said, by action, in any Court proper to try the Same; and furthermore, the said managers, within three months after the last drawing of said Lottery or Lotteries, Shall settle & finish their accounts of the Said Lottery or Lotteries, and in case they, or either of them, Shall neglect or refuse so to do, or shall refuse or neglect to finish drawing Such Lottery or Lotteries, in manner as afore said, they Shall severally forfeit the Sum of six hundred pounds, for the use of the said town, and to be recovered by the Said Treasurer in manner afore said, And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, that the Said Town of Fryburgh, Shall, in the most prudent and expeditious way and manner, apply all the net proceeds of the Said Lottery or Lotteries to the purpose of removing said Jam, and in case the Said town Shall convert the said proceeds to any other use or purpose, or shall unreasonably delay to apply the Same as is herein before directed, the said town Shall forfeit and pay, to the use of the Commonwealth, the sum of six hundred pounds, to be recovered by the Treasurer of the said Commonwealth, by action, in any Court proper to try the same. And be it further enacted, that all prizes drawn in the |