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instructing the committee on the Judiciary to enquire into the expediency of repealing, altering, or amending an act entitled "an act authorizing Courts to liberate or dispose of Poor Convicts, in services" passed March 17, 1821. read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the committee on the Militia, to enquire into the expediency of dividing the militia in this State into two general classes in the following manner viz. the first class to include all persons liable to do military duty, between the ages of eighteen and thirty years, to be denominated the active militia, and be liable to perform military duty in such a manner as is now, or may hereafter be directed, by law & receive a compensation for their services. The second class to include all persons liable by law to do military duty, except those comprising the first class, to be organized independently of the active Branch of the militia, and to be exempted from all military duty, except that of assembling annually by companies for the inspection of their arms and equipments, which it shall be their duty to keep constantly in good order read and passed, in concurrence.