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[1824 February 18. Report on Petition]

Mr. Usher from the committee on petition of sundry inhabitants of Hancock County for a division of said County, reported that they have leave to withdraw their petitions : Read and accepted with an amendment by ordering Philip Morrill and als of Belfast to cause an attested copy of their petition with this order thereon to be published in the Eastern Argus, Portland Gazette, & Independent Statesman, newspapers printed in Portland, and also in the Hancock Gazette & Penobscot Advertiser, printed at Belfast, three weeks successively, the last publication to be sixty days at least before the first Wednesday of the first session of the next Legislature: sent down for concurrence.-

Mr. Wilkins from the committee on an order upon that subject reported a

[Bill]

Bill to prevent foreigners from cutting timber on the lands belonging to the Passamaquoddy Indians, which was read once and committed, and 3 oclock P.M. assigned for a 2d reading.-