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97 [Order] Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary, to inquire into the expediency of amending the law relating to donations to pious and charitable uses, so far as to render all devices and bequests of real or personal estate to the user aforesaid absolutely void unless the same be made by will duly executed in the presence of five competent witnesses and six calendar months before the death of the devisor or testator, read and passed in concurrence. [order] Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the same committee to inquire into the expediency of so altering the act directing the method of laying out and making provision for the repair of highways, that towns may be empowered to discontinue any town road or private way laid out by the Court of Sessions, as a town or private road when a large majority of the Inhabitants of said town are opposed to it. Read and passed in concurrence. [Bill reported entitled "An Act regulating Banks and Banking"] Mr. Kingsbury from the joint standing committee on Banks and Banking reported a Bill entitled an Act regulating Banks and Banking in this State, which on motion, was ordered to lie on the table, and three hundred copies to be printed for the use of the Legislature. Adjourned Attest Nathaniel Sweat Littlefield

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