OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, AT THEIR SESSION HOLDEN AT THE CAPITOL IN CONCORD, COMMENCING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1840. PUBLISHED IN CONFORMITY TO LAW. CONCORD: CYRUS BARTON, STATE PRINTER. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE SESSION, 1840. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1840. A quorum of the whole number of Representatives elected in the several towns and districts of the State of New-Hampshire, being convened in the Capitol at Concord, in said State, on the first Wednesday of June, A. D. 1840, His Excellency the Governor attended by the Honorable Council, came into the Representatives Hall, and the following gentlemen presented their credentials, and were duly qualified as members of the House of Representatives, agreeably to the constitution, namely,— Albany & Chatham, Russel Charles, Madbury, Samuel Davis, Jr., Meredith, Joseph Ela, Abel B. Eastman, Rochester, Algernon S. How ard, Sandbornton, Daniel Taylor, William Durgin, Bedford, John French, Benjamin Stevens, 2d., Greenfield, William Whittemore, Hancock, David Patten, Hillsborough, Albert Baker, Elijah Munroe, Hollis, Leonard Farley, Hudson, Jabez P. F. Cross, Lyndeborough, Daniel N. Boardman, Manchester, Charles Stark, George W. Morrison, Mason, Ebenezer Hill,' Merrimack, Francis Odell, Milford, Humphrey Moore, Isaac Spaulding, Josephus Baldwin, New Boston, Asa McMillen, Timothy K. Ames, FROM CHESHIRE COUNTY. Alstead, Joseph Kingsbury, Chesterfield, Oscar Coolidge, Asa Hamilton, Dublin, Rufus Piper, |