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Afternoon. Met according to adjournment.

[Rep - punishment of Convicts -]

Committee of both Houses to whom was referred the consideration of the law of the last Session relating to the punishment of convicts - Report an Order and a Bill. Read and Report accepted. Sent up for concurrence.

[Bill - punishment of Convicts -]

Bill "repealing part of an act relating to the punishment of Convicts. In Senate March 12th 1821 Passed to be engrossed. Sent down for concurrence. Read a first, second and third time and passed to be engrossed in concurrence with the Senate

[Committee to be raised to consider Subject of Convicts &c]

Ordered, that a committee consisting of one from the Senate and one from the House of Representatives be appointed to consider the subject of punishing convicts; the best establishment of a penitentiary: a plan of the proper buildings and appendages, having in view any probable future enlargement of the same: an estimate of the expense, including buildings, materials, implements, the government and support thereof; also the income and profits; the mode of discipline; the character & effects, and generally the benefits to be expected and disadvantages to be apprehended from a penitentiary in Maine: report to be made at an early day of the next Legislature. In Senate March 12th 1821 Read and passed. Sent down for concurrence Read and passed in concurrence with the Senate.