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Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into expediency of authorizing the Secretary of State to distribute by mail (instead of the manner now provided by law) to each town, plantation and City in this State a sufficient number of blank returns of scholars required by the 15th and 20th sections of an Act entitled an Act for the Instruction of youth, passed March 11th, 1834, said blanks to be done up in newspaper form and directed to the Selectmen of the several towns and assessors of plantations -- read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Joint Special Committee to which were referred petitions for an alteration of the Constitution to inquire into the propriety of so amending the Constitution as to secure to any Constitutional voter who may remove from one town to another within the term of three months prior to the annual State meeting, the right of suffrage in the town from which he removed, until he shall have obtained the Constitutional right of voting in the town to which he removed --read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of exempting from attachment, execution and distress the small boats usually employed in the Fishing business -- read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting by law, complainants of public highways from receiving fees for travel and