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alteration in the laws relative to the Inspection of Butter & Lards, was read & referred to the joint special committee on that subject. Sent up for concurrence.

Petition of the Proprietors of the Baptist parsonage in Shapleigh to make valid certain of their doings, was read & referred to the Committee on Parishes - Sent up for concurrence.

Petition of James L Bishop & others praying for the abolition of Capital Punishment, was read & ordered to lie on the table.

Petition of Otis Strickland & others to be set off from Embden to New Portland was read & referred to the Committee on Division of Towns. Sent up for concurrence.

Petition of Elbridge G. Haynes & others, of River township numbered one in the sixth range of townships west of Penobscot River, old Indian Purchase in the County of Penobscot to be incorporated by the name of Edingburg - of William Preston & others of No. 14 east division in the County of Washington to be incorporated as a town were severally read & referred to the committee on incorporation of towns, Sent up for concurrence.

Remonstrances of Daniel Merrill & als - of Daniel Morgan Junr - of Jonathan Allen & others [right column] all against the petition for a Bridge at Bluehill were severally read & referred to the Committee on Turnpikes, Bridges & Canals. Sent up for concurrence.

Report of the joint standing committee to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Sherman & others, granting leave to withdraw was read and accepted. Sent up for concurrence.