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[57] [Bill additional to incorporate Portland Mutual Fire Insurance Company] ditional to incorporate the Portland Mutual Fire Insurance Company and the same was read a second time and passed to be engrossed. Sent down for concurrence.

[Order for the Secy of State to lay the returns of banks &c] On motion by Mr Kingsbury ordered that the Secretary of State be directed to lay before this Board the last semiannual returns of the Several Banks in this state

Adjourned

Attest Eben. Hutchinson Secy

[Order appointing a committee on primary schools] Thursday January 22 1829

Order of the House that Messrs Harvey of Carmel Cummings of Paris and Witt of Washington be a committee with such as the Senate may join, with instructions to inquire what further provision is necessary to be made for improving the condition of our primary schools, with leave to report by Bill or otherwise the Senate concur and Messrs Cushman and Emerson were joined.

[Order appointing a committee on the law relative to building Houses of Correction] “ that Messrs Shapleigh, Megray and Smith of Newfield be a committee with such as the Senate may join to inquire what alteration is necessary in the law authorizing towns to build houses of correction - the Senate concurred and Messrs Usher and French were joined

[order to enquire as to altering the time of holding courts in waldo county] “ that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire as to the expediency of altering the times of holding the Supreme Judicial and Common Pleas Courts for the County of Waldo

“ that the same committee be instructed to inquire