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25 [1824] Mr. Dunlap was ten accordingly added, & A message was sent to the House informing them of the same.

[Committee on a part of the Message] On motion of Mr. Parsons of L. Ordered that Messrs. Campbell, Parsons of L. Dunlap, Prime and Ripley, with such as the House may join, be a Committee to take into consideration so much of the Governors message as related to Gen. Lafayette, with leave to report by Resolve or otherwise. Sent down for concurrence.

[Notice to the Governor of the election of Secretary of State] Mr. Campbell was then charged with a message to the Governor and Council informing them that Amos Nichols Esq. had been duly elected Secretary of State, for the present political year by a Joint Ballot of the two Houses of the Legislature; that he has signified his acceptance and is now ready to take and subscribe the oaths required by the Constitution to qualify him to discharge the duties of that office.

[Committee on the purchase of Greenleafs reports] On motion of Mr. Dunlap, Ordered that Messrs. Dunlap and Fairbanks be a Committee with such as the House may join, to take into consideration the expediency of purchasing a sufficient number of the second Vol. of Greenleaf's Reports of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the use of the State: Sent down for concurrence, came up concurred and Messrs. Eveleth, Hathaway and Robins were joined.

[Petition referred] Petition of William Randall and others, for a new town to be formed from Litchfield and Bowdoin.