94 fore;st commissioners report. 



LIST OF MAINE ISLANDS CONVEYED BY MAINE 

 AND MASSACHUSETTS. 



The islands of the state have always been the source of 

 much controversy and there is still much interest taken in them. 

 The bulk of the islands in which the state has or had an inter- 

 est have been disposed of by deed or grant. 



In 1876 an act was passed by the legislature authorizing and 

 requiring the land agent to sell, under the direction of the 

 Governor and Council, all the islands on the coast belonging to 

 the state. Acting under that order the majority of the unsold 

 islands were disposed of. 



Little account was taken at that time of many small islands 

 and ledges. Owing to the general increase of values in coast 

 property for summer resort purposes there has of late years 

 sprung up a demand for even the smaller of these. It has how- 

 ever, become the settled policy of the governor and council to 

 refuse all applications for these small islands and ledges, deem- 

 ing it of more general interest to retain these resting or landing 

 places for the general use of fishermen and the public. 



Frequent inquiries for information as to what islands have 

 been sold by the state, and the date of sale, are received at the 

 land office. With the idea of supplying this information the 

 following tables are printed, giving a list of sales of islands as 

 made by Massachusetts or Maine and recorded in this office : 



