Box 2

Scope and Contents Includes memorandum of papers delivered to the commissioners of Massachusetts and Maine by the treasurer of Massachusetts, some versions of which are in this file; records regarding debt of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for which the newly formed state of Maine was partly responsible; accounting of payments due Maine or Massachusetts from the other; lists of funds acquired prior to separation from taxes, stock sales, and societies; schedule of notes and bonds; and other...

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Includes list of Massachusetts state pensioners (1759-1819) and account of state salaries detailing titles and payments by the Massachusetts treasurer, listed as pertinent to any forthcoming settlement between Massachusetts and Maine (includes, on page 3, "Hon. L. Lewis, Surveyor Gen[eral]," paid $175.56).

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Memos and correspondence related to various resolutions and decisions of town selectmen, councils, Land Office commissioners, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the certificate of appointment of Lewis as Surveyor General (1817), and affirmation of his continued service from Governor King, Maine's first governor, after separation (1820).

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Includes order of Board of Commissioners under Act of Separation to Lewis to inspect and inventory military stores in Massachusetts and Maine, and subsequent inventory lists and related records, such as payments made to individuals performing inventories.