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250 [1823 February 7.] principles and practices ought not at this time of the Session to be passed without more deliberate consideration. For these causes the undersigned beg leave respectfully to protest against the passage of the Bill to be enacted, and request that this protest may be entered upon the Journal of the Senate. In Senate Feb. 7th 1823 Abraham Morrill Samuel Whitney Thomas Bonds Mark Dennett Daniel Rose John McDonald Obed Wilson Rufus Burnham

Adjourned to half past two oclock P.M.

Afternoon. [Bill enacted] The committee on engrossed Bills reported the following to be truly copied, viz. Bill to provide the erection and government of a State Prison, Bill to divide the State into districts for the choice of Representatives to Congress, and prescribing the mode of elections, Bill to incorporate Anson Academy, Bill additional to an Act directing the method of laying out and making provisions for the repair and amendment of Highways, Bill repealing an Act regulating the taking of fish called alewives in the town of Boothbay in the County of Lincoln, Bill to incorporate the Maine Stage Company, Bill to annex Porter Willis and others of Anson to Industry, Bill