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Wednesday, January, 16. 1833

The petition of Daniel Tower praying to be set off from the town of Dover & annexed to the town of Foxcroft. Read and referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Incorporation of Towns. Sent down for concurrence.

Mr Cogswell from the Committee appointed to consider and report the time place and manner to be prescribed in making choice of a Senator of this State in the Congress of the United States, made a Report That to constitute an election of a Senator of this State in the Congress of the United States shall require the concurrent vote of both branches of the Legislature, and a majority of all the votes given in each branch respectively; that the House of Representatives shall on Thursday the seventeenth day of the current month at ten of the clock in the forenoon proceed to the choice of a Senator on their part by ballot, and continue to ballot until a choice on their part be effected or until they shall have balloted four times, without effecting a choice, and thereupon the House shall cease to ballot, and inform the Senate by Message of the election or failure to elect on their part; whereupon the Senate shall at twelve of the clock of the same day, proceed to elect a Senator on their part by ballot; and if an election is made on the part of the House, and the Senate concur in electing the same person on their part, it shall constitute an election. But if the Senate elect on their part a person other than the one elected on the part of the House, the Senate shall notify the House