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Monday January 27th 1834

Met according to adjournment

Bill additional regulating the tolls on the Stillwater Canal and also extending the time for completeing [completing] the same was taken up read a second time and tommorow [tomorrow] at 11 o clock assigned for a third reading

Mr. O'Brien of Machias rose in his place and said - The painfull duty devolves on me of announcing to this House, the solemn providence that has severed from us a highly valued member

The Hon. Mr. Cushman member from Winslow died at his lodgings this morning

His spirit has returned to him that gave it. The place that so recently knew him here will know him no more forever. He was one of the relics of another generation of men - one of the patriots of the Revolution that lingered among us a little behind their cotemporaries [contemporaries]. In that eventfull struggle, he was among the foremost. His then youthfull bosom was fearlessly bared to the bayonet of the enemy. He bears to his grave, honourable scars of that service

The voice of his fellow citizens has often called him to high and responsible places. His public acts are not only spread before the people of this State but before the Nation

To public opinion, that most unerring of human tribunals I fearlessly leave them