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Legislature shall meet - with the expense to which the State will be subjected for the use of buildings for its accommodation, came up for concurrence. Read and concurred - and Messrs. Green, Pierce, Bond and Poor were joined.

[Petition committed] The petition of Zachariah Brackett and others praying that a duty may be imposed on tin ware manufactured out of the State, brought therein for sale - committed in the House to the Joint Committee on Manufacturing Corporation came up for concurrence. Read and committed to the same committee in concurrence with the House.

[Report on Committee on Bowdoin & Waterville Colleges -] Mr. Bond from the Committee on so much of the Governors Message as relates to the support and encouragement of the Literary Institutions at Brunswick & Waterville - reported as follows - The Committee have maturely considered the claims of these institutions upon the public patronage: From the evidence exhibited to your committee it appears that there are at this time one hundred and seventeen students at Bowdoin College. The number has greatly increased within the last year - and the buildings now erected are insufficient for their accommodation. Fifty seven students are under the necessity of hiring rooms in the town and of boarding in private families. This circumstance renders the education of young gentlemen expensive to their parents. The Trustees of this Institution have made a contract for the erection of a spacious and commodious edifice for the reception of students, which will cost nine thousand dollars. They possess funds applicable to this object to the amount of three thousand dollars and depend upon the munificience of the State, or a loan of money from individuals for six thousand dollars to enable them to carry this contract into effect. They have sustained great loss, to the amount of about seven thousand dollars, from the failure of several Banks in which they had taken stock