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Resolve on the petition of the Trustees of Williams
College. January 27th, 1820.


Sprague's Journal of Maine History No.  II Vol.  VII
AUG. SEPT. OCT 1919 pages 96-97

Resolve on the petition of the Trustees of Williams
College. January 27th, 1820.

RESOLVED, That the Commissioners of the Land Office
be, and they hereby are authorized and empowered, to
satisfy a grant of a township of land, of the contents
of six miles square, made by a resolve of the
nineteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and
five, to the President and Trustees of Williams
College, by locating the same, and conveying to said
Corporation, Township number three, second range,
(editors note: maybe now called Carmel?) north of
Bingham's Penobscot purchase, the same being number
four, as surveyed by Alexander Greenwood:  PROVIDED,
said grantees, or their assigns, shall first pay to
said Commissioners, the expense of surveying and
locating said township, and give security of the
Commonwealth, in a manner satisfactory to said
Commissioners, that they will, within one year from
the passing of this resolve, cut out a road tow rods
wide, from the termination of the road, commonly
called the St. John's road, (which has been opened
under the direction of said Commissioners, from
Penobscot River into township number two, the first
range, editors note: (maybe now called  Newburg?) to
said township; to be conveyed, and clear a travelled
path therein, of one rod in width; and that within two
years, they will clear a like road through said
township, so to be conveyed, and make the necessary
causeways and bridges thereon, all in a manner to be
directed by said Commissioner; and within three years,
will place on said township thirty families, as
settlers, of the description named in the act, for
promoting the sale and settlement of the public lands,
in the District of Maine; and also, reserving in said
township the usual public lots.

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