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said Commissioners shall be authorized to enquire into such title, determine to whom such damages rightfully belong and order payment to be made accordingly. And also to enquire as to the expediency of providing that the amount of damages sustained by any individual shall be finally determined without the intervention of a Jury read and passed in concurrence.

On motion of Mr. Scammon, Ordered that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet at half past nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

Order from the House, instructing the Joint Standing Committee on Interior Fisheries to enquire into the expediency of passing an additional Act to prevent the destruction of Alewives in Little River in the town of Perry. Read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to enquire whether the State of Massachusetts has by her Legislature assented to the provisions of an act passed 1832 appropriating the income of certain ministerial Funds to the support of schools, and if not, what steps should be taken to obtain that assent, and to report accordingly. Read and passed in concurrence.

Mr Keith from the Committee to whom was recommitted the order, authorizing said Committee to employ a Draftsman made a second Report accompanied with proposals from Asa Redington Junr. to perform the duties of Draftsman which Report was read and