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[Bill - Bar Mill Bridge]

Bill additional to the act incorporating the Bar Mill Bridge Proprietors - was read a 3d time & passed to be engrossed in concurrence with the Senate.

[Resolve - fee bill-]

Mr Dunn having obtained leave for the purpose laid on table Resolve, providing for a revision of the fee bill, which was read twice & passed to be engrossed. Sent up for concurrence.

[Special report on subject of differences between House & Senate]

The committee to whom was referred an order of this House relative to the report of a joint committee of both branches of the Legislature on the petitions of sundry inhabitants of Hancock County and with power to send for persons & papers, have had the same under consideration & report that on the 13th inst. the Committee of both Houses to whom was referred the petition of a committee of the town of Belfast praying that a new County may be formed of several towns in the Counties of Hancock Lincoln & Kennebec, also other petitions of Camden, Knox, Swanville, Northport, Brooks, Prospect, Waldo plantation & Searsmont for the same object - also the petition of George Stevens & others for a division of the County of Hancock giving the petitioners leave to withdraw their petitions was made to the Senate & there read & referred to Messrs Usher & Steele with such as the House should join & sent down for concurrence, which was read & concurred in by the House & Messrs Watson of Belfast, Pierce of Greene & Clark of Wilton were joined - which Committee after hearing the parties agreed unanimously to report and on the 18th inst. did report to the Senate that the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition - and on the journal of the Senate is the following "Mr Usher from the committee on Petitions of sundry inhabitants of Hancock County praying for a division of said County reported that they have leave to withdraw their petition - read & accepted with an amendment by ordering Phillip Morrell & als of Belfast to cause an attested copy of their petition with this order thereon to be published in the Eastern Argus, Portland Gazette & Independent Statesman, newspapers printed in Portland & also on the Hancock Gazette & Penobscot