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A message was received from the house of representatives, that they had taken a fourth Ballot for the purpose of filling the vacancy in the office of Major General of the fourth Division of the Militia of this State, had again chosen Richard T. Dunlap and request the concurrence of the Senate,

Bill additional for carrying into effect certain stipulations in the Act for erecting the Districts of Maine into a separate State was read a second time and passed to be engrossed. Sent down for concurrence

Order of the House of Representatives that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Secretary of State to purchase fifty copies if Greenleaf's Reports of the Supreme Judicial Court of this State for distribution to such towns and Plantations/organized as have not already been furnished with the same

" That the Committee on the Judiciary be required to take into consideration the expediency of passing an Act exempting from Attachment, Execution or distress [?] all pews in the several meeting Houses within the State, and that they have leave to report by Bill or otherwise

and

" That the Committee on Literature and Literary Institutions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of adopting measures to procure such books and other publications as may enable members of the Legislature and other persons connected with the government of the State to obtain, at any time, necessary information in relation to any subject upon which