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were severally read and referred to the Committee who have under consideration so much of the Governors Message as relates to the North Eastern Boundary in concurrence.

Bill to incorporate the Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Rail Road Company; came from the House passed to be engrossed as taken into a new draft. The Senate recede from their former vote passing said Bill to be engrossed and pass the same to be engrossed as taken into the new Draft in concurrence.

A Message came from the House informing the Senate that the Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, on a Bill relative to the fees of Clerks of Courts &c, had not been erected upon in that branch, and requesting the same to be returned to the House; Whereupon the Senate reconsider the vote whereby they accepted said Report, and the same was retuned in compliance.

The memorial of Denny McCobb and others for a law prohibiting Judicial Officers from interfering with the religious tenets of Witnesses. Read and referred to the joint Select Committee who have the same subject under consideration. Sent down for concurrence.

On motion of Mr Herrick, Ordered, that the Committee on State Lands be instructed to enquire into the expediency of giving to Joseph Bartlette Esq. a title to a lot of land on which he now lives in Township No. 1 in the Third Range in the County of Oxford, he being the first and only settler on a large tract of States land in that vicinity, with leave to report by Resolve or other-