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Wednesday February 7th 1827

Met according to adjournment

Ordered that the Senate be requested to send to this House the Bill - additional act for securing to owners their property in logs, masts, spars & other timber in certain cases - read & passed. Sent up.

Bill - providing for the appointment of Sheriffs in the several counties, and defining their general powers & duties, laid on the table by Mr McCobb, was referred to the committee on the Judiciary. Sent up for concurrence.

Report on the petition of Thomas Kendall & others, granting leave to withdraw, came from the Senate accepted for concurrence and the House concurred.

Report on the Bill additional to an act to establish the Kennebec & Androscoggin Canal Association, granting an order of notice, came from the Senate accepted for concurrence - and the House concurred.

Report on the petition of Henry W Fuller & others, taken from the last years files of the Senate, came from the Senate referred to the next Legislature for concurrence - and the House concurred.

Remonstrance of George Roberts & als against a division of the town of Mount Desert, was read & referred to the committee on the incorporation of towns. Sent up for concurrence.

Resolve establishing the seat of Government, was called up and the vote passing the same to be engrossed was reconsidered; McCobb of Waterville moved a dispensation of the rules & orders so far as to admit a proposition to and by striking