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246 [1823 February 7.] [Order for a Bill] Oder of the House that the Senate be requested to send down the Bill to prevent the creation of unnecessary costs in Criminal prosecutions, was read and concurred, and the Bill was sent down.

[Committee to confer with Penobscot Indians] On motion ordered that Messrs. Bond, O'Brien and Case be a Committee to confer with the Governor and Lieut. Governor of the Penobscot Tribe of Indians.

[Report on Petition] Mr. Witham from the Committee, on the petition of Benjamin Shaw and others, reported that they have leave to bring in a Bill: Read accepted and sent down for concurrence.

[Pet. Jos H. Becket] On motion of Mr. Kelleran, ordered that the petition of Joseph Becket, with the accompanying papers, be taken from the files and laid on the table; Referred to the Joint Standing Committee on New Trials, sent down for concurrence: came up concurred.

[Report on Petition] Mr. Small from the Committee on the petition of Thomas Haven and others, reported that the petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition with the order thereon to be published three weeks successively in the Portsmouth Journal and New Hampshire Gazette printed in Portsmouth, N.H. the last publication to be sixty days at least before the first Wednesday of the first session of the next Legislature. Read, accepted and sent down for concurrence: came up concurred.

Mr. Small from the same Committee, on the