Appointed in pursuance of an Order of the Legislature, [WM. T. JOHNSON, Printer to the State.] STATE OF MAINE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ORDERED, That a joint select committee be appointed to inquire what claims, in the name of this State, are now under the charge of our Agent at Washington, against the General Government of the United States, and in what manner the same are being prosecuted against said government, with authority to send for persons and papers. Read and passed. February 28, 1845.-Messrs. Allen of Alfred, Perkins of Augusta, Chapman of Nobleborough, Paine of Bangor, Prentiss of Lee, Chadwick of Portland, and Cannell of Napples, appointed on the part of the House. Sent up for concurrence. SAM'L BELCHER, Clerk. Read and passed, and Messrs. Sherburne, Smiley, and Frye joined in concurrence. JAMES O. L. FOSTER, Secretary. REPORT. THE joint select committee appointed to inquire what claims in the name of this state are now under the charge of our agent at Washington, Samuel L. Harris, esquire, against the general government of the United States, and in what manner the same are being prosecuted against said government, have attended to that duty and ask leave to submit the following KEER HET: In answer to the first inquiry as to "what claims in the name of this state are now under the charge of our agent," &c., the committee have prepared the following statement, collated from the appended report of Mr. Harris and the papers therein referred to, and also from his Report of October 12th, 1843; which it is believed exhibits correctly the aggregate amount of the claims of the state against the United States, in charge of Mr. Harris, specifying the several sums that have been paid and the amount which still remains in the course of liquidation at the treasury department at Washington. CLAIMS UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 13, 1842. ACCOUNTS for military expenditures incurred by Maine for the protection of her northeastern frontier in the year 1839, made up by A. B. Thompson, A. Q. M. General, March 31, 1840, Accounts additional, made up November 20, 1840, $204,485 60 5,089 45 $209,575 05 Amount brought forward, A portion of these claims has been audited and adjusted by the accounting officers of the United States treasury, and the following sums admitted and paid over to the State, to wit: By settlement dated Feb. 10, 1843, "6, 1845, $209,575 05 $76,786 73 94,775 31 $114,799 74 Some of the items originally charged in the above ac counts have been withdrawn therefrom, and included with the claims under the Treaty of Washington, to wit: Accounts of towns for supplies, &c., $21,435 32 CLAIMS UNDER THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. Amount of indemnity under the fifth article of the Amount of Account No. 1, for expenditures made by Maine, “in maintaining an armed civil posse on that portion of her territory claimed by Great Britain, to resist the unlawful intrusion of trespassers and depredators from the neighboring British Provinces," under resolves of January 24, February 20th, and March 19th and 23d, 1839, Amount of Account No. 2, "for expenditures on account of her northeastern boundary, in accordance with the resolves of the Legislature, and under the authority of the Governor and Council," $150,000 00 195,402 32 17,767 66 $363,169 98 From which the following deductions have been made, to wit: For supplies sold and credited by the U. S. Net amount of Military claims under the act of Congress of June 13, 1842, $182,909 17 Net amount of claims under the Treaty of Washington, 433,445 85 $164,644 92 Balance now in the course of adjustment by the account ing officers, The answer to the second branch of the inquiry of the order under which your committee have acted, as to the |