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[Communication from Councillors accepting]

Written communications were received from Samuel Paine, David Crowell, Daniel Steward Jr & Phinehas Varnum, Councillors elect, signifying their acceptance of that Office, and informing that they were ready to take and subscribe the oaths necessary to qualify them to discharge the duties thereof They were severally read and sent down.

[Order relative to Ministerial & School Lands.]

On motion by Mr Davee; Ordered, that the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so far modifying "An act to provide for the sale and distribution of ministerial and school lands" passed 12th February 1824 - that the annual rents & profits of lands granted and reserved for the use of the ministry, and the interest accruing from monies arising from the sale of the same, may by a vote of Towns, be appropriated for the maintenance and support of Schools therein. Sent down for concurrence - Concurred.

[Pet. of J. Drummond & als. & J. Stockbridge & als.]