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[Bill - mode of transferring Real Estate &c] Bill reported by the Board of Jurisprudence, "directing the mode of transferring Real Estates by Deed and for preventing fraud therein" Read a first and second time and tomorrow at 10 oclock assigned for a third reading and committed to Messrs Stebbins of Alna; Spofford of Deer Isle and Little of Bucksport.

[Bill restraining usury] Bill, reported by the Board of Jurisprudence "for the restraining the taking of excessive usurey" Read a first and second time and tomorrow at 10 oclock assigned for a third reading and committed to Messrs Abbot of Castine, Scammon of Saco and Miller of St. George.

[Bill - wills & testaments] Bill, reported by the Board of Jurisprudence "respecting wills and testaments and regulating the descent of Intestates Estates" Read a first and second time and tomorrow at 10 oclock assigned for a third reading and committed to the same Committee as the proceeding Bill.

[Resolves - pension to Jn Carlton 2nd & Elisha Douglass] A Message came from the Senate requesting a return of the Resolves granting a pension to John Carlton 2nd & Elisha Douglass with the papers accompanying the same. The House granted the request of the Senate and the papers were sent up by the messenger.

[The Senate concurred in the election of John Holmes as Senator to Congress] Agreeably to assignment the Senate on their part proceeded to the choice of a Senator to represent the State in the Senate of the United States from and after the 3d day of March next: upon taking the ballot, the whole number of votes given