Resolves respecting the sale of eastern lands, 1781-1811.

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Resolves respecting the sale of eastern lands, 1781-1811.

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The General Court oversaw the surveying, sale, and other disposition of Massachusetts public lands in the District of Maine from 1781, and after its separation as a state in 1819 until 1861--to 1801 through a succession of appointive bodies generically known as the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, and then through various land agents/commissioners designated in 1816 as the Land Office. Resolves 1802, c 113 (1803) directed the state secretary to publish 300 copies of a transcript kept by the land agents of resolves and other legislative documents relating to such lands. Series includes transcript (to Mar. 8, 1803), published resolves, and a second similar compilation identified as being printed by order of the legislature of Feb. 14, 1811 (see below).

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Massachusetts. Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands.

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Massachusetts. Land Office

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The abolition of the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands did not signify a lack of interest in the development of Maine lands on the part of the Commonwealth. When the committee was abolished in June 1801, the General Court authorized the appointment of two land agents (Resolves 1801, c 46), who were directed to complete all contracts undertaken by the original committee, and to perform all other duties characteristic of it. With this action the legislature gave form to a land a...

Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...