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Resolve in favor of Erastus Foote, was read once & tomorrow at 10 o clock assigned for a second reading.

Bill - ceding to the United States the jurisdiction of Mount Desert Rock, was read 1st & 2d time & tomorrow at 10 o clock assigned for a 3d reading.

Resolve in favor of Day & Fraser, came from the Senate passed to be engrossed in a new draft for concurrence - The House recede from their former vote so far as to adopt the new draft & pass the Bill to be engrossed with the Senate

Resolve providing for the printing & distribution of Blank Returns of votes, was read & passed to be engrossed in concurrence with the Senate

Bill - additional to an act ascertaining what shall constitute the legal settlement, & providing for the relief & support, employment and removal of the poor was read 1st & 2d time and tomorrow at 10 o clock assigned for a 3d reading.

Bill - authorizing Mechanics & others to sell property on which they have a lien, was read 1st & 2d time & tomorrow at 10' o'clock assigned for a 3d reading.

Bill - defining the duties & powers of Justices of the Peace respecting Actions of Replevin, came down amended - The House adopted the amendments & passed the Bill to be engrossed in concurrence with the Senate.

The Committee on the Judiciary to whom was referred an Order of 28th of Jany directing them to enquire into the expediency of authorizing Judges of Probate to allow Widows all the personal property of their deceased husbands &c reported that they be discharged from the further consideration thereof - and the same