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88 [Report on the pet. of Lewis Everett] Mr. Sweat, from the Committee on State Lands, reported leave to withdraw on the petition of Lewis Everett, read and accepted. Sent down for concurrence. Concurred.

[Remonstrance referred] The remonstrance of John Hall and others, against the petition of James Dyer and others, read and referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Turnpikes, Bridges and Canals, in concurrence.

[Order] Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of providing by law that no Judge of the Court of Common Pleas shall hold more than one term in any one county in the same year, unless obliged to do so on account of the sickness or unavoidable absence of the Judge whose duty it may be to hold the same, read and passed in concurrence.

[Order] Order from the House of Representatives appointing Messrs. Delesdernier, Hamlin and Farnsworth with such as the Senate may join, a committee to inquire into the expediency of parceling out into lots suitable for families so much of the Indian township, so called, lying in the county of Washington as will give each Indian family of the Passamaquoddy tribe a lot, and that said lots be laid out in that part of said township which is bounded by water and also of laying out that part of said Township near which the Houlton road passes, into lots suitable for white settlers and the proceeds thereof be appropriated to the clearing and cultivating five or more acres on each of the lots which are laid out for the Indians, thereby inducing them to engage in habits of industry and tilling the soil, and to report by bill or otherwise,