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petition of the Selectmen of Greene, read and accepted. Sent down for concurrence. concurred.

[Bill to set off Jno. Grindle.] An Act to set off John Grindle and others from the Town of Sedgwick to Bluehill, reported by the Committee on the division of Towns, was read a second time and passed to be engrossed. Sent down for concurrence.

[Order.] Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to enquire into the expediency of so altering the law relating to highway districts, as to make them corporate bodies to prevent the evils arising to Towns on Account of fines occasioned by the indolence or negligence of certain Districts, read and passed in concurrence.

[Order.] Order from the House, instructing the same Committee to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the Governor, with the advice and consent of council, to appoint some one living in Aroostook settlement, to perform the duties required of the Town Clerks in publishing intention of marriage, and to appoint some suitable person or persons living in that settlement to solemnize marriages with leave to report by Bill or otherwise, read and passed, in concurrence.

[Bill to annex Hermon &c.] An Act to set off part of Hermon and annex the same to Hampden, was read a second time and passed to be engrossed in concurrence.

[Order.] Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the committee on the Judiciary, to enquire into the expediency of changing the existing law relative to the compensation of the Clerks of the Courts in the several counties of this State, and so establish a law that said compensation shall be fixed