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Assistant Secretary of the Senate: the Clerk and Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives: the person employed to draft and copy Bills, and Chaplains of the Senate & House of Representatives; Messenger to the Governor and Council, Senate, and House of Representatives; Assistant Messengers; and Page to the House of Representatives; also what allowance shall be made to the Treasurer of State, Secretary of State & Adjutant General for Clerk hire in their respective offices during the ensuing political year; and the House concurred and Messrs Adams of Portland, Burr of Litchfield and Adams of Cherryfield were joined

Ordered that Messrs Cobb of Durham, Clark of Hallowell & Houdlette of Dresden be a committee to take into consideration the rules & orders of the House in relation to the joint standing committee on the Judiciary, to enquire if any & what alterations are necessary &c. – read & passed.

Ordered that the Committee on Finance be instructed, in apportioning the sum to be assessed on the several towns and plantations, to take into consideration the increase of the valuation of taxable property in the town of Lebanon, and the diminution of taxable property in the town of Shapleigh in the County of York occasioned by the annexation of estates formerly lying within the said town of Shapleigh to the said town of Lebanon by an act of the last Legislature passed February 23 1825 – read and passed.

Ordered that Messrs Smith of Newfield, Parcher[?] of Saco and Pierce of Greene be a Committee, with such as the Senate may join to enquire into the expediency of fixing on a compensation for the Sheriffs of the several Counties within this State and regulating their fees and those of their deputies & providing for a more equitable regulation in the concerns of said offices, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Sent up for concurrence.