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ioners of insolvency - read & passed. Sent up for concurrence.

On motion of Mr Alden of Brunswick Ordered, That the committee on the Judiciary be directed to inquire, into the expediency, of passing a law, for the admission, of those who have sold their shares, in any incorporated Bank, as competent witnesses, in the trial, of any cause, wherein, the Bank, in which they have been thus interested is or may be a party, with leave &c - read & passed. Sent up for concurrence.

Bill - to authorize the Court of Sessions in the County of Lincoln to lay out a road across Friendship River, reported by the committee on the Judiciary, was read 1st & 2nd time & tomorrow at ten o clock assigned for a third reading.

Petition of the Selectmen of Thomaston, and accompanying papers, taken from the last years files & sent down at the request of this House, was read & referred to the Committee on Manufactures, Sent up for concurrence.

Message was received from the Governor as follows,

To the Senate & House of Representative [Representatives] I communicate for your consideration a letter from Major Clark, the commanding Officer at the Military post of the United States, on our North Eastern Frontier. I have been deterred from making this communication at an earlier period by some doubts relating to several points in the case; but now beg leave to submit to you the direction of the concern to which the letter refers. I have been induced, most particularly, to do so from respect to the correct judgment of the Officer whose letter I transmit and his friendly regard for the interests of this State as evinced by verbal communication and many other testimonials calculated to interest the citizens in