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233 The Committee on Engrossed Bills reported as duly Engrossed Bill for the preservation of Bridges - to incorporate the Mercantile Bank - to prevent the destruction of Pickerel _ to prolong the Charter of the Bath Bank - to incorporate the Pucianian Society of Bowdoin College - to annex the Westford Academy Grant to the town of Hodgdon - additional to an Act to provide for the packing and inspection of Pickled and smoked fish - to increase the Capital Stock of the Manufactures and Traders Bank which were severally passed to be enacted - sent up. Bill in addition to an Act authorizing the sale of the School lands in the town of New Gloucester to raise a fund for the support of Schools in said town and for appointing trustees for that purpose was taken up and passed to be engrossed. Resolve for the promotion of primary Schools in the town of Brooksville, laid on the table by Mr. Peirce of Gorham was read once and tomorrow at ten o'clock assigned for a second reading. Bill ceding to the United States Jurisdiction of a lot of land - in addition to an Act to prevent the introduction of paupers from foreign ports or places - to incorporate the Eastport Salt Works Company - in addition to the several Acts for the preservation of fish in the waters of the Penobscot River and its tributary streams - giving remedies on Judgements rendered by Courts of County Commissioners & prescribing the mode of levying executions against towns & plantations - were read a first & second time and tomorrow at ten o'clock assigned for a third reading.