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20.[underscored] proclamation that Samuel E. Smith, was Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year, and to be respected and obeyed as such.

The Governor and Council then withdrew, and the Convention separated.

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Committee to wait on the Gov'r and inform him the Legislature are ready to receive any Communication. On motion of Mr. Steele, Ordered, that Messrs. Steele, Fuller and Goodwin, with such as the House may join, be a committee to wait on the Governor, and inform him that the Legislature are ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make. Sent down for concurrence, came up concurred, and Messrs. Witham, Small, Sweat, Lord of Gardner, and Shaw were joined.

Order relative to State printing. Order the House of Representatives, requesting that the papers relating to the State printing for the last two years, be sent down to the House, read and passed.

Repeat of the Committee to wait on the Gov'r. Mr. Steele, from the Committee appointed to wait on the Governor, and inform him that the two Houses of the Legislature are now ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make them, reported, that the Committee had attended to the duty assigned them, and the Governor was pleased to say that he would make a written communication to both Houses of the Legislature forthwith.

Message from the Governor. The Secretary of State then came in and laid on the table a written message from the Governor, which was read from the chair.