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office he now holds under this State - read & passed - Sent up for concurrence.

[Committee - admeasurement of Boards &c]

Ordered that Messrs Call, Drummond & Small be a committee to consider the expediency of amending the law entitled "an Act for the admeasurement of Boards and regulating the tale of Shingles, Clapboards, Hoops and Staves and for other purposes" with leave to report by bill or otherwise - read & passed.

[petitions]

Petitions of the first Baptist Society in Bath for authority to raise a tax on the Pews in their meeting house - of Nehemiah Adams of Union for leave to execute a deed of certain lands &c - of Selectmen & School Committee of Whitefield that certain doings of the town may be made valid - of Gershom Flagg & others for an amendment of the Pauper law - were severally read and referred to the committee on new trials - Sent up for concurrence.

[same]

Petition of James Bates, a physician residing in Norridgwock [Norridgewock] for the allowance of a certain account - read and referred to the committee on accounts - Sent up for concurrence.

[same]

Petitions, of Selectmen of Addison for authority to erect a bridge across the West branch of Pleasant River - of Isaac Abbot & others for a law to prohibit the proprietors of the Bridge in Fryeburg from taking toll - were severally read & referred to the committee on turnpikes, bridges & canals. Sent up for concurrence.

[same]

Petitions of John Plummer & others of Harrington to be annexed to Addison - of David Winslow & others of Westbrook to be annexed to the town of Portland -

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