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[also appointment of joint standing committees] pointment of the following joint standing committees - viz- on the Judiciary, on State Lands, on Literature and Literary Institutions, on Incorporation of towns, on Turnpikes, Bridges and Canals, on Incorporation of Parishes and other Religious Societies, on Interior Fisheries, on Military Affairs, on the State Prison and Criminal Code - on Application from Sick and Wounded soldiers and on Accounts and proposing that these committees should be joined by the Senate

[Rules & orders adopted & to be printed] Mr Dane from the Committee reported Rules and Orders for the Government of the Senate - read and accepted and 100 copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate -

[person to draft bills engaged] Mr Phelps from the Committee appointed to engage some suitable person to draft bills and resolves, reported that they had engaged Randolph A. L. Codman at three dollars per day - the Report was read and accepted as amended by adding “not including Sundays” sent down for concurrence

[order concerning joint standing committees] On motion by Kingsbury Ordered that the Senate appoint the Joint Standing Committees proposed by the House

[Convention to elect Counsellors] Agreeably to assignment the two branches of the Legislature met in convention for the purpose of electing seven counsellors to advise the Governor in the Executive part of the Government for the current political year Mesrrs Dane, Phelps, Emerson, Boutelle, Ruggles, Pond, Cummings and Kent were