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owned on the first day of April, shall be taxable and inventory thereof shall be taken in the month of april instead of May, read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the joint select committee, to whom was referred the subject of the laws relating to Retailers &c to consider of the expediency of repealing an act passed February 25, 1829, entitled "an act in additional to the several acts for the regulation of Innholders, Retailers and Common Victuallers, read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the committee on Turnpikes, Bridges, and Canals, to enquire into the expediency of making provision by law for the more effectual preservation of our public roads and highways by prohibiting after years the use of narrow rimmed wheels thereon drawn by oxen, and also to enquire into the expediency of providing by law for some suitable compensation to be made to present owners of narrow rimmed wheels, provided they alter them to wide ones within months, either by giving them a bounty or abating part of their taxes, or in any other way which the committee may think proper to remedy the existing evil of the use of narrow rimmed wheels, read and passed in concurrence.