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42 Wednesday January 12, 1831.

[Councillors signifying their acceptance] Communications were received from Isaac Lane, Allen H. Cobb, Joseph Howard, and Hezekiah Prince, signifying their acceptance of the Office of Councillors and read from the Chair. [Report of the Committee appointed to devise the best mode of a valuation committee] The Report of the Joint Select Committee appointed to devise the best method of raising a valuation committee, was received from the House, as taken, into a new draft, which was adopted by the Senate and referred to Messrs. Drummond, Megquier and Pike, and afterwards Messrs. Kingsley, Davee, Eastman, and Steele were added to said committee. The committee last mentioned report an order in a new draft which was accepted, read and passed, Sent down for concurrence. Concurred. [Communication from Albert Smith, Marshall of Maine.] A communication was received from Albert Smith, esquire, Marshall of Maine, accompanied with an abstract of the returns of the census of this State, which was read and referred to the Joint Standing Committee on the apportionment of Representatives &c, in concurrence with the House. [Order, for 300 copies of abstract of the census be printed] Ordered, in concurrence with the House, that the Committee on the Apportionment of Representatives, cause three hundred copies of such an abstract of the census as they may think proper, to be printed for the use of the Legislature. [Petition referred] The petition of the Inhabitants of Industry for their separate share of representation, read and referred to the Joint Standing Committee on the apportionment of Representatives & c in concurrence with the House