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[Order.] Order, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to enquire into the expediency of passing a Law to prevent fraud in the attachment of real and personal property. read and passed, sent down for concurrence.

[Order from the House.] Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the same Committee to enquire into the expediency of amending an Act, entitled "An Act additional to an Act to provide for the sale and distribution of Ministerial and School funds. Read and passed in concurrence.

Adjourned. Attest, Nathaniel Sweat Littlefield, Secretary

Friday, January 14, 1831.

[Message to the Govr.] Mr. Hall was charged with a message to the Governor, informing him that William Emerson had been duly qualified as a councillor.

[A. Smith & R.C. Johnson Councillors elect signifying their acceptance.] Communications were received from Abijah Smith and Ralph C. Johnson, councillors elect, signifying their acceptance of that office. read and sent down.

[Order.] On motion of Mr. Ingalls, Ordered, that the Secretary of State, be directed to lay before the Senate, the lists of the amount and description of property, as returned to that office from the several towns and plantations in this State, and all other papers relating to the valuation. Sent down for concurrence. concurred.

["] On motion of Mr. Megquier, ordered, that