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school under the controll and direction of the two corporations of Bowdoin College, and which sum has been annually paid out of the treasury, agreeably to the provisions of said Act. Read and passed in concurrence and Messrs Manning, Knowlton, Pierce, Bradbury & Prescott are joined.

Mr Emmons from the Committee on the Judiciary made a report on petition of Elliot G. Vaughan. Read and accepted. Sent down for concurrence. Concurred.

Resolve in favor of Elliot G. Vaughan, reported by Mr Emmons was read once and Monday next at eleven o'clock assigned for a second reading.

Petition of Committee of Pittsfield for a toll bridge came from the House referred to a Joint Select Committee consisting of Messrs Whitney of Pittsfield, Metcalf of Mercer, Small of Monmouth, Plummer of Alfred, and Crane of Whitney, with such as the Senate may join. Read and referred, and Messrs. Porter, Tobin and Allen are joined in concurrence.

Remonstrance of the Selectmen of Friendship against the petition of Robert Gay and George Davis, praying that Crotch Island may be set off from the town of Friendship and annexed to the town of Cushing, read and referred to the Committee on Division of Towns in concurrence.

Petition of Nathan Stanley and others praying that township marked A, first Range, may be incorporated into a plantation, read and referred to the Committee on Incorporation of Towns, in concurrence.

On motion of Mr. Labaree, ordered that the Joint Select Committee on Literature and Literary Institutions be requested to enquire into the expediency of a Resolve