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Saturday January 6th 1827

The President announced to the Board the appointment of the following Standing Committees viz.

[Committee on Bills in 2nd Reading] On Bills in the Second Reading Messrs Williams Churchill Stebbins Dennett Hathawy Parsons and Washburn

[Committee on Engrossed Bills] On engrossed bills Messrs Dunn Emery Southwick Kimball and Grover.

[Consellors accepted] Communications were received from Daniel Wood, William Chadwick, Jonathan Thayer, Joel Wellington, and Samuel Whitney, Counsellors elect, signifying their acceptance and reading to be qualified and the same were read and sent down.

[Convention to qualify counsellors] On motion by Mr Hathaway a message was sent proposing a convention forthwith for the purpose of qualifying such counsellors elect as had signified their acceptance.

A message was received from the House communicating their concurrence.

[Counsellors qualified] Agreeably to assignment the two Houses met in Convention when Daniel Wood, William Chadwick, Jonathan Theyer, Joel Wellington and Samuel Whitney Councellors elect came in and took and subscribed the oaths required by the Constitution to qualify them to enter upon the discharge of the