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[Report Bill in add to an Act entitled an act to prevent frauds &c] Mr. Williams from the Committee reported Bill in addition to an act entitled an Act to prevent frauds and perjury and the same was read a second time and passed to be engrossed Sent down for concurrence.

[Resolve making appropriations for expenses of the State Arsenal.] Resolve making appropriation for expenses of the State Arsenal was taken up and committed to Messrs. Dennett, Washburn and Gardner.

[Order. Bill add. to an Act to secure to the owners their property in Logs, Masts, Spars &c.] Order of the House of Representatives that the Senate be requested to send down the Bill additional to An Act to secure to the owners their property in Logs, Masts, Spars &c, was read and requested granted.

[Report. Bill in further add. to an Act to provide for the education of youth] Mr. Grover from the Committee reported Bill in further addition to An Act to provide for the education of youth as amended and the same was passed to be engrossed as thus amended sent down for concurrence.

[Motion relative to compensation to be made to Judges Mellen & Weston.] On motion by Mr. Stebbins Ordered that the Committee on Salaries be instructed to inquire whether any compensation ought to be made to Judges Mellen and Weston and if any, to what amount, for their increased labor and expense occasioned by the long indisposition of Judge Preble, Sent down for concurrence Concurred

[Order relative to the mode of collecting debts in sums of less than $20.00] Order of the House of Representatives that Messrs. Farnsworth, Adams and Abbot with such as the Senate may join be a Committee to provide a less expensive mode of collecting debts in sums less than twenty Dollars, with leave to report by Bill or otherwise was read and passed in concurrence and Messrs Stebbins and Dennett were joined

[Order relative to the compensation of Chaplain of the Senate & House] Order of the House of Representatives, that the joint select Committee on Salaries be instructed to inquire and report what sum ought to be allowed the Chaplain of the Senate and the several