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[1824]

[Report on Petition]

Mr. Small from the committee on petition of John Spring and als. reported that the petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition with this order thereon to be published three weeks successively in the Independent Statesman and Maine Republican, printed in Portland, the last publication to be sixty days at least before the first Wednesday of the first session of the next Legislature : Read, accepted and sent down for concurrence : -

[Resolve]

Resolve in favor of the Adjutant General came up and the house indefinitely postpone the same : The Senate reconsider their vote by which they passed the Resolve to be engrossed; nonconcur the House in the postponement; adopt an amendment, and now pass the same to be engrossed as amended: sent down for concurrence.-

[Maj General Chosen]

The Senate then proceed to elect on their part, a Major General for the 7th Division of the Militia of this State : The whole number of votes given was twenty, necessary to a choice eleven, Brigadier General John Balkam had twenty, and was elected on the part of the Senate; And a Message was sent to the House informing them of the same.-

[Petition]

Petition of Cotton B. Brooks & Report thereon was referred to the committee on new Trials: sent down for concurrence: concurred.-