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390 to wait on the Governor and inform him that the two Houses have passed upon all the probable business before them and are ready to adjourn without day and to enquire if he has any further communication to make - read and passed, sent up for concurrence.

Mr. Abbott of Vassalboro rose in his seat and after making very appropriate remarks, laid on the clerk's desk the following order which was read by the Clerk and unanimously adopted by the House. Ordered, that the thanks of this be presented to Nathan Clifford Esq Speaker with assurances of the deep sense they entertain of the ability correctness and impartiality with which he has discharged the duties of high and responsible office ____ and the Speaker replied as follows Under all circumstances in life I shall cherish in grateful remembrance the courtesy and kindness you have manifested towards me during the period I have had the honour to preside over your deliberations. The tribute of respect contained in the resolution just passed adds much to the debt of gratitude which I owe to the members of this body for the generous support they have given me on all occasions in the discharge of the various and responsible duties of the chair to which I have been twice called by the unanimous voice of the party with which I am associated and which I am now about to relinquish without any expectation of ever resuming it again. This expression of your approbation is the more gratifying to my feelings emanating as it does from a gentleman with whom I have