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Wednesday January 16th 1828.

Met according to adjournment.

Reports on the petitions of Samuel T Mallet - " " of Margaret Minot granting leave to withdraw, came from the Senate accepted for concurrence - and the House concurred.

Reports, on the petition of Benjamin Nourse & als - " " of Samuel L. Valentine & al - " " of Horatio G Balch & als - " " of Joseph Allen & al. - " " of Wm Allen, President of Bowdoin College - " " of the Selectmen of the town of Bath - granting leave for Bills, came from the Senate accepted for concurrence - and the House concurred.

The joint standing committee on Literature & Literary Institutions, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Speech as relates to a Map and Statistical View of the State of Maine have had the subject under consideration, & reported, That they have examined a plan, Sketches, and specimens of a Map and statistical view of the state exhibited by Moses Greenleaf Esqr, and find to be a work on which great attention and labor have been bestowed, and which promises to be executed with skill, accuracy & judgment, and believing it to be replete with knowledge highly useful to the people and important to the State, recommend it to the favorable notice & liberal patronage of the Legislature - and the report was accepted in concurrence with the Senate.

On motion of Mr. Smith of Nobleboro' Ordered, that the committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a Bill, providing