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January 21st 1881 Friday

 Met according to adjournment

Ordered that Messrs Delesdernier of Calais Hamlin of Columbia and Farnsworth of Dennysville be a Committee with such as the Senate may join to inquire into the Expediency of parceling out into lots so much of Indian Township in the County of Washington as will give to each Indian family of the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indians a lot bounded by the water - also of laying out another part of said township for white settlers and the proceeds thereof to be applied to clearing and cultivating said Indian Lots and with leave to report by bill or otherwise sent up for concurrence

Ordered that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so altering the law that no person holding an office the tenure of which is now limited by law to four years shall after the expiration of said term be eligible to be reappointed until four years after his said term of holding said office shall expire sent up for concurrence

Om motion of Mr parks of Bangor Ordered that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law that no Judge of the Court of Common Pleas shall hold more than one term of said Court in any one County unless obliged so to do on account of the sickness or unavoidable absence of the Judge whose duty it may be to hold the same sent up for concurrence

A message from the Governor communicating the Report of the Land agent - also the following resolutions from other States communicated to him

  Resolutions of the General Assembly of Kentucky in favor of the American System and Internal Improvement