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Inspectors of the State Prison, which was read and referred to the joint standing committee on the State Prison. Sent down for concurrence.

The petition of Ebenezer Everett and others, in relation to the agricultural Law, was read and referred to the joint standing committee on Agriculture. Sent down for concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives, instructing the committee on Literary Institutions to require of every Literary Institution, praying for aid from this Legislature to present to that committee, an exact account of all donations by them received, whether from this State of Massachusetts, and the amount received from individual subscriptions, and the manner in which the same has been expended, and the salaries of their officers, the number of scholars, the amount of tuition, there present funds, the manner of investment, and any other information which the committee deem necessary to enable them to decide upon the claims and wants of such institution, read and passed, in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the committee on the Public Buildings to enquire into the expediency of removing from the Representatives' Hall the back or east row of desks and seats of members, read and passed in concurrence.

Order from the House of Representatives instructing the committee on State Lands to consider the expediency of purchasing of the Penobscot Indians such of their townships and islands as they may be disposed to sell, read and passed in concurrence.

The petition of the County Commissioners for the