Il6 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



prabably be sold at an adjourned sale to be held in December, 

 unless previously paid for by the bidders. 



"The aggregate amount of money already received from 

 the sales is $1,109.15. The annexed schedule J contains a list 

 of all the islands thus sold, together with the names of the 

 purchasers and sums bid. With the exception of some small 

 unimportant islands lying in front of the County of IVashing- 

 ton, the above disposes of all the islands belonging to the 

 State, so far as has been possible to ascertain." 



The adjourned sale was held on December 28, 1876. This 

 report contains a schedule of all islands conveyed by Massa- 

 chusetts prior to 1852, and all islands conveyed by Maine prior 

 to November 24, 1876. 



The Council passed the following orders relative to this sale : 



Council order of October 26, 1876: "Ordered that the 

 Land Agent be and is hereby directed to advertise for sale all 

 the islands along the coast of the State of Maine belonging to 

 said State, at public auction, at Rockland, November 21, 1876, 

 at 10 o'clock A. M." 



Council order of November 17, 1876: "That the sale of 

 islands belonging to the State under the act of 1876 be made 

 under the conditions that if the title of any island fail or b^ 

 found not in the state, the consideration money paid therefor 

 shall be refunded, or if such title shall partially fail, then such 

 part of the consideration shall be refunded as in the opinion of 

 the Governor and Council shall be proportionate in value to 

 the whole. All deeds of islands sold under said Act, shall 

 describe only the right, title and interest of the State, and the 

 deed shall express in substance the purport of the foregoing 

 conditions." 



These sixty-six islands were for the most part sold for a few 

 dollars each, the price ranging from twenty-five cents to four 

 hundred and forty dollars. Thirty-four brought $5.00 and 

 under; ten more between $5.00 and $10.00; the whole yielding 

 $1,109.15. This sum could hardly have paid the expense of the 

 investigation. 



This investigation at this time must have covered exactly the 

 same field as I am at the present time, as its object was the 

 same, to wit : To determine what islands the State then owned ; 

 but outside of the list of islands conveyed prior to 1876, and a 



