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FORSST commissioner's RljPORT. 



veyed during the latter period is abstracted from the printed 

 report of the Land agent in 1820, but the amount of considera- 

 tion and average price per acre is only an estimate from the 

 average of the preceding sales. In February, 1814, a report of 

 a committee of the Legislature gives a different result; but this 

 is to be accounted for upon the supposition that the report 

 omitted lands which had been contracted for and not fully con- 

 veyed, and included, in the account of moneys received, pay- 

 ments of interest as well as of principal. In the table are 

 included all the lands sold, and no account of interest on the 

 original purchase money ; the result therefore shows correctly 

 the average price per acre of the land conveyed in each year. 



If the account of interest on each year's sales were brought 

 down to the close of the period, it would exhibit fairly the then 

 present worth of the sales to the Commonwealth. 



Besides the lands sold and conveyed, as in the preceding table, 

 there were others under contracts, which were not fully executed 

 until since the separation of the States, and are not included in 

 the table. Their amount as stated in the report of the Land 

 agent, February ist, 1820, is as follows: 



Acres. Consideration. Average per acre. 

 In Penobscot County (lots to set- 

 tlers) 5 ,481J $6 ,139 08 $1 12 



Hancock (4 islands) 1 ,185i 2 ,131 00 1 80 



Washinsston (18 islands) 1,314 75170 57 



Oxford .' 320 400 00 1 25 



Total 8 ,301i 9 ,421 78 113 



In addition to the foregoing, there were lands sold and con- 

 veyed (exclusive of free grants) between February ist, 1820. 

 and February ist, 1826. in pursuance of Acts and Resolves 

 passed in or prior to 1820, the account of which belongs to that 

 of the sales before the separation. The amount of these lands 

 is as follows. 



Acres. Consideration. Average per acre. 



In Oxford County 16 ,280 3 ,023 10 18* 



Penob.«cot 3 ,697 2 ,291 45 62 



Hancock and Washington 3 ,042 2 ,264 77 74^ 



Hancock in 33 islands 2 ,023*- 1,77139 87i 



Total 25 ,042^ $9 ,350 71 37i 



The Acts of separation provided that the public lands, within 

 the then District of Maine, should, as soon as convenient, be 

 surveyed, and divided equally between the Commonwealth of 



