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186 Report of the committee of this House on the petition of the Selectmen of Kennebunkport, referring the same to the committee to be appointed on State valuation, was read & accepted as amended. Sent up for concurrence.

Adjourned until afternoon.

Afternoon. Met according to adjournment.

Report on the petition of Daniel Howe granting leave to withdraw was read & accepted. Sent up for concurrence.

Bill to change the names of certain persons was read a third time & amended & passed to be engrossed as thus amended. Sent up for concurrence.

Bill additional act to incorporate the Trustees of the Methodist Society in Portland, was read a third time & passed to be engrossed in concurrence with the Senate.

Bill - an additional act regulating elections, was read 1st & 2d time & tomorrow at 10 o'clock assigned for a 3d reading.

Bill an additional act respecting the Gardiner Lyceum, was read 1st & 2d time & tomorrow at 10 o'clock assigned for a 3d reading.

Bill to incorporate the town of Blanchard, was read 1st & 2d time & referred to the next Legislature in concurrence with the Senate.

Bill to incorporate the town of Argyle, was taken up, read a third time and indefinitely postponed, and this question decided by yeas & nays as follows Yeas 66 Nays 61 [see appendix page ]

Bill to apportion & assess on the Inhabitants of this State a tax of fifty thousand dollars, was read a third time, amend-