Ordered, That the bill be read a third time to-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock. Mr. Baker, from the committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of licensing Judges of Probate to license administrators and guardians to sell wood and timber standing upon land to enable them to perform their trusts, made a report, Whereupon Resolved, That it is inexpedient to legislate upon the subject. Mr. Baker, from the same committee, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the law regulating the taking of depositions, made a further report, Whereupon Resolved, That it is inexpedient to legislate upon the subject. Mr. Baker, from the same committee, to whom was referred an act entitled "An act to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the proprietors of the Coventry Turnpike Road in New Hampshire," reported the same without amendment. Ordered, That it be read a third time to-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock. Mr. Baker, from the same committee, to whom was referred the petition of the firewards and inhabitants of Dover for an additional number of Engine men, made a report, Whereupon Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciciary be discharged from the further consideration of the same, and that said petition be referred to the committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Baker, from the same committee, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of revising the statute laws of New Hampshire, reported the following resolution : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That three suitable persons be appointed by His Excellency with advice of Council to revise, codify and amend the statute laws of New Hampshire, and report to the Legislature at some subsequent session as soon as may be consistent with the public interest, Which was read a first and second time Ordered, That it be read a third time to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock. Mr. Baker, from the same committee, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing so much of an act for the limitation of actions, as exempts the accounts between merchant and merchant, their factors and servants from the operation of said act, reported a bill entitled "An act in amendment of an act entitled an act for the limitation of actions and preventing vexatious suits," Which was read a first and second time. Ordered, That it be read a third time to-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock. Mr. Sanborn of East Kingston, from the committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Theodore F. Rowe, reported a bill entitled "An act in favor of the Portsmouth Artillery Company in the first regiment of New Hampshire mili Which was read a first and second time. Ordered, That it be read a third time to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock. On motion of Mr. Ayer The House resumed the consideration of the bill entitled an act to provide for the compensation of the person doing the duties of Quarter Master General from July 6, 1839 to July 6, 1840; Mr. Ayer moved sundry amendments to the bill; On motion of Mr Chamberlain Ordered, That the bill be re-committed to the committee on Military Affairs with instructions to report the name of the person, to whom compensation is to be made, and the amount of such compensation. On motion of Mr. Wells The House resumed the consideration of the bill entitled an act in addition to an act entitled an act to incorporate the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, with the amendment thereto which was proposed by Mr. Sawyer of Nashua; Mr. Jenness of Portsmouth moved sundry amendments to the amendment, which were accepted by Mr. Sawyer and made a part of his amendment; Mr. Baker moved that the bill and amendment lie on the table. Mr. Jenness of Portsmouth moved that the House adjourn; And the question being put It was decided in the negative. On the question, Shall the bill and amendment lie on the table? It was decided in the negative. Mr. Leavitt of Chichester moved a further amendment to the amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Sawyer, and made a part of his amendment; The question recurring, Shall the amendment proposed by the gentlemen from Nashua, Mr. Sawyer, be adopted? The Ayes and Noes were called for Those who voted in the affirmative are-Messrs. Blake Thayer White Vennard Furber Hilton Stickney Currier of Newtown Batchelder of North Hampton Hill of Northwood Crawford George of Plaistow Robinson of Poplin Jenness of Portsmouth Lord Treadwell Moses Kelsey Langdon Poor of Raymond Jenness of Rye Brown of Seabrook Fifield Simpson McDuffie Burleigh of Brookfield Thom Sawyer of Dover Townsend Horne Drew Burnham Dame Towle of Freedom Lawrence Davis Berry of Milton Frost Locke of New Durham Howard of Rochester Weeks of Strafford Wentworth Griffin Morrill of Somersworth Hall Thompson of Wolfeborough Perkins of Allenstown Little of Boscawen French of Bedford Bailey Moore of Milford McMillen Smith of New Ipswich Moor of Peterborough Wheeler Whittiker Kingsbury Coolidge Piper Parker of Fitzwilliam Smith of Gilsum Dickinson Patrick Wilson of Keene Chamberlain Batchelder of Marlborough Atwood Converse Buckminster |