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Resolve in favor of the Road leading through the Notch of the White Hills was taken up and the House having received the report of their Conferees reconsider their vote passing this Resolve to be engrossed amend the same as on sheet annexed marked B - and order the same to be re engrossed as thus amended sent up for concurrence

Resolve on the PayRoll of the Senate was read 1 & 2d. time & passed to be engrossed in concurrence

Resolve respecting the use of the Public Buildings at Portland was read 1 & 2d. time and passed to be engrossed sent up for concurrence

Mr. Harris of Portland laid upon the Clerks table the following order which being read by the Clerk was unanimously passed

Ordered that the thanks of this House be presented to Benjamin White Esquire for the faithful able impartial and dignified manner in which be has discharged the duties incumbent on him as Speaker of the House of Representatives

The Speaker then addressed the House as follows

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives For the kind expression of approbation you have been pleased to bestow upon me for the course pursued during the short period I have had the honor of presiding over your deliberations I cannot but feel the liveliest emotions of gratitude - It is the more gratifying emanating as it does from one towards whom there is a general sentiment of respect & esteem - To deserve your approbation has been my anxious endeavor and if in any small degree I have succeed to your indulgence and assistance must it be attributed - It is true the present had been a session of unusual length and it is also true that it has been one of unusual labor. In no former Legislature since the organization of the State (if we except