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in Senate for concurrence - and the House concurred.

A message was received from the Governor as follows,

To the Senate and House of Representatives,

    Herewith are transmitted several communications from the Rev Thomas H Gallaudet, Principal of the American Asylum for the Education of the Deaf & Dumb.-
  By referring to the Resolve, entitled "Resolve for the assistance of the Deaf and Dumb,' passed the twenty second day of February, one thousand eight hundred & twenty five it will be found that the annual appropriation for the education of the Deaf & Dumb belonging to this State, will expire on the twenty second day of February next - And it is also the fact that the actual expenditure has nearly exhausted the fund appropriated.
 It is submitted to the consideration of the Legislature whether a further appropriation may not be expedient.
  The Rev Mr Gallaudet is now in Portland, accompanied by some of his pupils, and is, as I an informed, prepared to communicate personally such information as may enable any Committee you may appoint, to judge of the course and effects of instruction in relation to the objects of public bounty provided for in the Resolve to which I have referred.

Council Chamber Enoch Lincoln Portland Jan 21. 1829 which with the accompanying documents, was referred in concurrence with the Senate, to the committee on Literature & Literary Institutions

An order came from the Senate for concurrence directing the Committee on Literature & Literary Institutions to inquire into the expediency of authorizing school districts to raise a sum of money, not exceeding forty cents for each inhabitant of the district in addition to the sum raised at any town meeting under the act to provide for the Education of Youth 'and to