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SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 12.-Prayer by Rev. Mr..
Lewis, of the House.
On motion of Mr.. Talbot,
Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate
and Clerk of the House prepare Legislative
Manual, and that 300 copies be printed for the
Senate and the usual number for the House.
On motion of Mr.. Gushing,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judic-
larry inquire if any legislation is necessary in
relation to the manner of engrossing the acts
and resolves and for preserving the same.
On motion of Mr.. Minot,
Ordered. That the Committee on Education
inquire into the expediency of amending chap.
II section So of the Revised Statutes.
On motion of Mr.. Reed,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judic-
larry inquire into the expediency of requiring a
record of notes containing stipulations that
the chattels for which notes are given shall re-
main the property of the payee until payment.
On motion of Mr.. Cleaves,
Ordered, That the Committee on Legal Re-
form inquire into the expediency of making an
appropriation for the purchase of the second
volume of Virgins Digest.
Petitions, Bills, &C., Presented and Refereed
By Mr.. Cleaves, petition of William Woodbury.
"AA0 oehShst VI 1siCASOs iOT dUdltmtub VI oldlt
tax-referred to Committee on Claims; peti-
ton of r. NJ. Edmunds and others to be set eff
from Mexico and Byron and annexed to Rum
form-referred to Committee on Division of
Towns; petition of VIM. K Kimball and
others, OF Oxford county, for the restoration of
the December term Of the s. j. Court for said
county-referred to Committee on the Judic-
larry; by Mr. Lane, bill an act to authorize the
formation and regulation of railroad corpora
tions-referred to Committee on Railroads and
Bridges
HOUSE
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Lewis, of the House.
Messrs. Cushing, of Sidney, Whdden, of
Calais, Dunning, of Bangor, Spaulding, of
Richmond. Crockett, of Rockland, Nickerson,
of Swanville, and Moulton, of Porter, were
appointed on the part of the House, on Com
mittee on State Printing and Binding.
Messrs. BARKER, of Stetson, Stone, of Ken
pebunk, Powers, of Houlton, Kinks, of Bucks
port, Slower, of Harpswell, Hartman, of Bel
fast, and Gannett, of Bath, were appointed on
the Committee on Governors Message.
A communication was received from the Ad
jutant General, in response to an order of the
House, transmitting certain information in re-
gard to money due the State from the several
towns.
Orders Passed BY Mr.. Barker that the
Committee on the Judiciary inquire into the
expediency of amending the fee bill of officers
serving precepts, so that no,constructive travel
shall be allowed; by Mr.. Whdden, that the
committee on Printing and Binding inquire
ln'o the expediency of substituting the Maine
STATE Political Manual and Annual Register
iof 'ne Legislative Manual; by Mr.. Vose, that
tne committee on Manufactures inquire into
the expediency of distributing copies of the
Report on the Water Power of Maine to the
manufacturing corporations in the New Eng.
land States, New York, England, France and
Germany; by Mr. Mulliken, that the Adiutapt
General furnish the House with a statement of
the accounts between cities and towns and the
State for war purposes.
Petitions Bills, &C., Referred-Bill, an act to