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244. Tuesday, March 3,1835. Mr. Tobin, from the Committee on Turnpikes, Bridges and Canals, reported notice to next Legislature on petition of John White and others, Robert Tucker Jr. and others and Ichabod Jordan and others - read and accepted. Sent down for concurrence. Concurred.

Mr. Prescott, from the Committee on Claims, reported leave to withdraw on petitions of John B. Smith and town of Scarborough - read and accepted. Sent down for concurrence. Concurred.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of so altering the law entitled an Act to secure to owners their property in Logs, Masts, Spars and other timber, approved April 1,1831, as to allow a longer period of time to said owners of Logs &c to remove the same from any improved lands o n which they may be lodged by freshets; and of allowing the owners of said logs &c to the stream or other water from which they may have been carried by freshets, and also any damages he may have sustained by their remaining on his land -- read and passed, in concurrence.

A message was received from the Governor transmitting a letter from the Hon. Ether Shepley, one of our Senators covering a communication from the Secretary of War of the United States to the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State, in relation to the survey of route for a Rail Road, from some point on the direction of Quebec - read and sent down.