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[Report of Committee of Elections]

[R.K.J. Porter]

The report on the subject of the election of Rufus K. J. Porter was called up and on motion ordered to be recommitted.

[petition]

Petition of John G. Coffin of Boston Guardian of William Turner a non compos mentis, for authority to sell the lands in Maine belonging to his ward &c &c was read & referred to Messrs Joseph Adams of Portland Hopkinson & Spring of Saco.

[Annual Report of Treasurer]

A communication was received from the Commissioner of the Treasurer transmitting an Annual Report on the State of Finances, which was read & ordered to lie on the table - and two hundred copies in the meantime to be printed for the use of the members.

[Scribe to be employed]

Ordered That the Secretary of State be requested to employ some suitable person as a scribe whose duty it shall be to assist the members of this House in drawing & copying Bills, Resolves & Reports &c.

[R.K.J. Porter & Thomas Allen to vacate seats, until &c.]

Ordered that Messrs R. K. J. Porter & Thomas Allen Esqr who both claim seats in this House as Representatives from the class composed of the towns of Phillips, Freeman & Kingfield be requested to vacate their seats until the decision of the House as to which of them if either was duly elected - read & passed.

[Report of Committee of Elections]

The committee to whom was recommitted the report of the committee on the subject of the return of members from the District composed of Phillips &c &c made a further report and tomorrow at 10 oclock assigned to take it into consideration & 200 copies ordered to be printed.

[petition]

Petition of Saml Gibson & als of Denmark for an alteration of the time of holding the Courts in Oxford - was read & referred to committee on New trials. Sent up for concurrence.