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Boston Post

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1849

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2

Senate Adopts Rules and Elects Officers Amid Session

The Senate opened at 11 o clock with a prayer from Rev Isaac P Langworthy. Motions by Gent of Middlesex Illsley of Suffolk and Bullock of Worcester notified councillors secretary and treasurer elect of their offices. Wentworth from the joint committee on rules reported adoption of last year s rules without amendment. Simmons reported the same for the rules committee. Standing Committees announced Judiciary Nelson Devens Goodrich Probate and Chancery Giles Bullock Lord Treasury Brooks Sargent Ryder. Bills in Third Reading Nelson Devens Goodrich Giles Bullock Lord. Engrossed Bills James Balch Adams Borland Harding Phelps.

Senate Isaac P. Langworthy Messrs Sargent Middlesex Illsley Suffolk Bullock Worcester Wentworth Special Committee On Simmons Committee On Judiciary Nelson Devens Goodrich Giles Lord Treasury Brooks Sargent Ryder James Balch Adams Borland Harding Phelps Sargent and Baker Leonard and Kingman Torrey and Crockett Hazen and Whitin Wright and Keyes Balch and Jenkins Giles, Wright and King Hale and Washburn Simmons Militia Devons and Keyes Illsley and James Parsons and Spencer Bullock and Preston Ammidown Devons Blake Bristol Joseph T. Adams New Bedford Keyes Isaac Pratt Fitchburg Railroad Company Lancaster and Sterling Leonard Jona Oaks Malden Winthrop Billerica Branch Railroad Corporation Plymouth Scituate Jenkins Barnstable Dennis Norfolk Wm. Savage Boston Bank of Middlesex East Cambridge Manufacturers’ and Merchants Bank of Nantucket House Wright Hampshire Board of Overseers Harvard University Messrs Wilder Tolman Chapman Wood Bliss Messrs Chapman Bliss, Ward Wilder Eastman Opeland Langworthy Schouler Messrs Schouler Atkinson Newbury White Breck Brighton Putnam Orange Kellogg Pittsfield Mitchell Nantucket Freeman Murdock Winchendon Safford Woodruff West Stockbridge Leominster Baldwin Wayland Davis Rutland Cooley Longmeadow Pratt Dighton Williams Taunton Bartlett Lowell Starbuck Sandford Perkins North Bridgewater Dawes Wetherbee Acton Reed Erving Westfield Upham Salem Hopkins Northampton Motley Bigelow Walpole Norton Lovett Beverly Lombard Wellfleet Friend Gloucester Stevens Truro Huse Newburyport Peck Shattuck Smith Lee Brownell Merrick Palmer Palmer, Holbrook West Boylston Hull Howe Brookline Healey Hilliard Provincetown Barstow Rochester Fairhaven Schoyler Russell Lexington Stone Goshen Clark Gill Longley Belchertown Pynchon Springfield Sleeper Roxbury Barton Story Bennett Hubbardston Ruggles Dorchester Barber Ashfield Borden Fall River Soule Stackland Sandisfield Hallock Plainfield Banks Allen Bacon Brigham Tenny Methuen Griswold Greenfield Enfield Hadley Corliss Robins Mason Fitchburg Barney Tyngsboro Gray Cowdry Boutwell Groton Stowe Walker North Brookfield Cogswell Mayhew Tisbury Tucker Lenox Joy Commington Wyman Cambridge Bagles Princeton Hubbard Brinsfield Silver Chelmsford Norwich Farwell Dalton Sawyer Lancaster Gould Wenham Kinsley Canton Emmons Hinsdale Tilden Hanson Locke Lamson Shelburne Pembroke Johnson Stoughton Denton Pierce Wardwell Carroll Marblehead Braley Mansfield Rice Newton Baton Corbett Hingham Woodbury Sutton Hildreth Bates Pawtucket Bisco Leicester Kendall Kingsbury Needham Burt Westhampton Abbott Andover West Bridgewater Townsend Morrissey Brewster Proctor Rowley Glazier Gardiner Claflin Hopkinton Charles Hurlbert James Wellington Medford Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad Corporation C.—Of Mutual Fire Ins. Co Fitchburg Mutual Fire Ins. Co Isaac P. Osgood Fulton Bank Mansur W. Marsh West Cambridge Marsh Committee On Elections Messrs George Bliss John Chapman Marshall P. Wilder Thomas Tolman Samuel Wood

Extra Session of the Senate in March 1849

President Polk issues circular calling the United States Senate to meet on March 5 at 10 in the forenoon to receive communications from the executive. Reports note market declines for stock and bonds, plus local elections in Pittsburg and Allegany, and Baltimore maritime updates as winter ice and cold threaten harbor activity.

United States London Musical Magazine Parson Murray Boston John Murray Mr Murray New York Broadway Barclay Streets Messrs Taber & Bagley P.S H. B New England England London Liverpool Washington South Boston Commonwealth Senate James K. Polk Journal of Commerce Pittsburg John Herring Jonathan Rush Allegany City Baltimore Reading Railroad Albany Genesee Philadelphia Delaware New Orleans Mobile W. B. Palmer Congress Street B. Palmer Cole American Art Union America Connersseurs Courier Binghampton Adee

Congressional action in Senate and House on private bills and mileage

The Senate discussed and postponed John P. Baldwin's claim while passing Bentons synoptical index bill. The California bill was set as Monday week’s order. In the House, printing copies for Buffalo harbor report faced debate with Hall defending cost and Toombs’ remarks. The civil and diplomatic bill proceeded in committee, mileage pay debates followed, and the House adjourned after a Belcher report.

New York Congress Senate John P. Baldwin Benton United States Douglass California House Buffalo Harbor Hall Toombs Georgia Buffalo War Department Smith Embree Venable Mr Greeley Greeley Vinton Belcher

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