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[WM. R. SMITH & Co.....Printers to the State.]

STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, February 2, 1813.

THE Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of John Doggett, have had the same under consideration and ask leave to

REPORT

a Resolve, which is herewith submitted.

Your committee further report that the allegations contained in the Petition of the said John Doggett, were not denied, but were admitted to be true, by the party opposed to the prayer of the said petition, and were fully proved. And in order to present the facts upon which the Resolve, reported by your committee, was predicated, they ask leave to submit as a statement of the facts in the case, the petition of said Doggett; the petition or memorial of William Emerson before the board of commissioners, appointed under a Resolve of March, 1841; together with the award of the commissioners upon the said memorial of William Emerson; and also the report of Drummond Farnsworth and Atwood Levensaler, a committee appointed by Resolve, approved March 17, 1842, in relation to sale of township number three, in range thirteen.

VIRGIL D. PARRIS, Chairman.

PETITION.

To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of Maine, at the January session thereof, A. D. 1842.

THE petition of John Doggett, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, respectfully represents :

That in February, 1835, William Emerson of Bangor, in company with certain other with certain other persons, became the purchaser, from the State, of township No. 3, range 13, of the townships west from the cast line of the State, containing 19,825 acres, at $3,25 an acre;

That the said purchasers, through the instrumentality of John Williams, sold your petitioner one eighth part of the said township, at the rate of more than double by them given therefor. They also sold, through the instrumentality of the said Williams, four tenths of the said township to Ichabod Bartlett and others, for more than double the price by them given therefor, and the said Bartlett and others conveyed their four tenths to your petitioner, and he assumed their obligations therefor to the said Emerson and others;

That your petitioner has paid the said Emerson and others about $17,000 on account of his said purchases, and has also reconveyed three tenths of the said land to the said Emerson;

That the whole amount paid by the said Emerson and others to the State for the whole township is about $21,500, so that your petitioner has paid the said Emer

son and others about $25,500 more than they have paid for the whole township;

That in April last, the said Emerson, then having become solely interested in twenty six fortieth parts of the township, and being indebted to the State for the residue of the purchase money of the whole then remaining unpaid, viz: $42,953 16, presented a memorial to the commissioners appointed "to settle the claims between certain individuals and the State," under the resolutions of March 31, 1841, praying that the notes held by the State against him, for the sum above mentioned, might be cancelled, on the ground that the said township was worth much less than the said sum of three dollars and twenty five cents per acre, and, indeed, much less than the sum previously paid therefor to the State;

That upon a hearing of the memorialist the commissioners were of opinion that it would "be just, equitable and expedient, that the grantees and their assigns should have the full benefit of all that remained due from the said Emerson to the State" for the said township, and they accordingly ordered and decreed that a sum corresponding to the said Emerson's interest in the said town, namely, twenty six fortieths of the said sum of $42,953 16 due the State from the said Emerson, should be deducted from his notes, and that on payment of the residue, the same should be delivered up to be cancelled;

And, that, on the report of the said commissioners and in compliance with their decree the said sum of twenty six fortieths of $42,953 16 was endorsed by the Land Agent on the said Emerson's notes:

Inasmuch, therefore, as the decree of the said commissioners was predicated upon the opinion formed by them, that the State had already previously received the

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