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[190] [1822 Feb. 8-]

office of Secretary of State, Treasurer and Adjutant General with leave to report by Bill or otherwise

[Report on petitions] Mr. Bond from the Committee on New Trials reported on the petition of Edmund Knight and others for a repeal of the law authorizing the Court of Sessions to erect a bridge across Presumpscot bridge - that the same be referred to the next Legislature - and that the petitioners cause the bill filed with the report, entitled "An Act supplementary to the laws respecting bridges over Presumpscot river to be published in the Eastern Argus three weeks successively the last publication to be thirty days before the next Legislature. Report read and accepted - Sent down for concurrence - came up concurred -

[Report of Committee on bank returns &c] Mr. Tallman from the Committee appointed to consider and examine the returns of the several Banks and report on the expediency of appointing a Committee who should personally examine the actual state and condition of the several banks in the State reported - that the Committee have examined said returns and do not discover that said banks or either of them have exceeded the limits of their charter, unless the Bangor Bank may be so considered - for your committee and ask leave to state that they do not clearly comprehend the meaning of their returns - They make one return dated December 26th 1821 in which they state the debts due them to be $ 166,311.89 and that they had at that time in the hands of agents in Boston the sum of - 101,410.24 Now if this last sum is considered as a debt due said bank they both make the sum of - 267,722.13 which exceeds the sum that they are allowed to have owed to them, at any one time. This bank makes one return dated January 7, 1822 - in which they state to have debts due them to the amount of 193,798.12 and that they have funds in the hands of agents - to