surveying the lots claimed by the settlers under the provisions of the said Treaty, the undersigned have heard the statements and proofs of the claimants, and have determined the extent of their several claims, and that the persons whose names are here underwritten are entitled to the following lots or parcels of land respectively, to be so surveyed and described, as best to include their improvements made thereon, viz.

On the townships belonging to the State of Maine in severalty, many of the settlers had purchased their lots previously to the date of the Treaty, and had given their notes to the State payable one quarter in cash in four years, and three quarters in labor on roads under the direction of the Land Agent in three years, and at the date of the Treaty were claiming their lots by virtue of deeds from the Land Agent, conditioned for the payment of said notes. Some of these purchasers have fully paid the amount of their notes in cash and labor, and thus have an indefeasible title to their lands. Most of them have paid nearly or quite the amount payable in labor on the roads; and a few have paid nothing.

On township D in Range 1, and F in Range 2, some of the

settlers, subsequently to the commencement of their improvements, received deeds under grants made by the State of Maine previously to the Treaty, for the encouragement of mills and thus have absolute titles to their lots.

In both these classes of cases, the occupants who had been in possession more than six years before the date of the Treaty, deem themselves to have, equitably, as strong a claim to the consideration and bounty of the government, as those who had been in possession for no longer period, and had made no contract with, or payment to the State.

But it appeared to the undersigned, that, as they had already acquired a title to their lands by contract with the State, their claims are not within the powers conferred by the Resolves upon the Commissioners.

These claimants are the following:

On the Township in Range 1, granted to the town of Plymouth, and on the part of Township H, in Range 2, granted to General Eaton, a large number of settlers had located themselves more than six years before the date of the Treaty, some of whom had resided thereon more than twenty years. These settlers, having encountered the hardships and privations, always to be endured by the pioneers of the forest, in so inhospitable a climate, consider that they are as much entitled to the favorable consideration of the Government, and have as good a claim to have their lands secured to them, or an equivalent, as those who happened to settle upon lands belonging to the States; and in that view have presented and urged their claims upon the attention of the Commissioners.

But the undersigned were of opinion that the fourth article of the Treaty ought not to be construed to extend to embrace those lands which had been previously granted by the States to corporations or individuals, so as to divest the title from such grantees and give it to persons who had' held by mere possession more than six years before the date of the Treaty, and that the Resolves aforesaid had conferred no power upon the Commissioners to set off lots to the settlers upon those townships. Yet the undersigned, at their earnest request, have taken their statements and the proof of their claims, and respectfully submit, whether some provision should not be made for them by the Legislatures of the two States, or by Congress.

The settlers or claimants are the following: