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62 Saturday, January, 12. 1833. [double underscored]

Order from the House of Representatives appointing Messrs. Clapp of Portland Emmons of Augusta and Chase of Calais with such as the Senate may join a Committee to enquire into the expediency of making a law whereby the present mode of compensation to the instructors of Colleges in Maine by salaries be changed, as also the expediency of recommending to the same instructors the establishment of a system of education adapted not only to the higher professions but the more useful occupations of life, with leave to report by Bill or otherwise.

Read and passed in concurrence and Messrs. Webb and Warren were joined.

Order from the House of Representatives directing that the Senate be requested to take from their files of 1824 the Petition of Peletiah McDonald, praying that land granted to him by the State of Massachusetts may be confirmed to him, and refer the same to the Joint Standing Committee on State Lands. Read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Committee on the Militia to enquire into the expediency of prohibiting by law any Company, Regiment or Brigade of Militia from parading, exercising, or marching within the distance of rods of any Court House in this State which any court shall be actually holding a term in such house. Read and passed in concurrence.

The report of a Select Committee of the