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enquire into the expediency of amending the act providing for the sale & distribution of ministerial and school lands so as to include also organized plantations – read & passed. Sent up for concurrence.

The committee on the petition of Charles Hilman & others reported leave for a Bill, and the report was accepted.

Petition of Timothy Fergurson, referred in this House on the 10th inst. to the committee on the Judiciary, came down nonconcurred & referred to the committee on so much of the Governors Message as relates to internal improvement – and the House concurred in the reference.

Petition of Bowdoin College for aid in the erection a College Chapel, referred in Senate to the committee on Literature came down for concurrence and the House concurred.

Ordered that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to enquire if any alteration or addition is necessary in the laws defining the powers & duties of Gaolers. Read & passed. Sent up for concurrence.

Ordered that the committee on the Judiciary be instructed to enquire into the expediency of so amending the laws that the expense of making County roads should be defrayed by the County in which any such road may be laid out. read and passed. Sent up for concurrence.

The committee to contract with some suitable person to draft, Bills, Resolve, &c reported that they had contracted with William B Sewall Esquire – The report accepted in Senate came down for concurrence and the House concurred.

Petition of Cyprian Cole & als Selectmen of Greenwood