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Friday January 29th 1830

Met according to adjournment

Mr Boutelle of Waterville moved the following preamble and Order

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"Whereas the Legislature of this State assembled on the first Wednesday of January 1830, and the House was organized by the choice of a Speaker & Clerk a n the third day of the session, and was then ready to proceed on the public business, but the Senate was not organized by the election of a President & Secretary till the eighth day of the session - and whereas on the ninth day of the session a committee was appointed by the Senate to report on the elections of Senators, which committee did not report till the twentieth day of the session, and which report was not finally disposed of till the twenty second day of the session - and whereas the Constitution manifestly contemplates an organization of all the branches of Government at an early day after the meeting of the Legislature and yet we present the singular & unparalleled spectacle of having spent twenty four days in session - have a President of the Senate of last year claiming to act as Governor, when it is evident a Governor has been elected by the people - the vacancies in the Senate not filled & no Councillors for the present year chosen - and whereas the Constitution provides that the members of the House of Representatives and such Senators as have been elected shall "in the manner therein prescribed," elect by joint ballot the number of Senators required," and whereas it appears by the Records of the Governor & Council, that on the ninth day of December last, the votes for Senators in the several Senatorial Districts were counted, and that sixteen Senators were elected, and that there were three vacancies in the District of York, and one in the District of Washington - - and whereas it it appears by report abovementioned made to the Senate, & the votes & proceedings of that body on the same, as is proved by their Journal, that the full number of Senators to be elected from each District have not been so elected - and that the