sistent with a certain provision or restriction, contained in the Constitution of the State of Maine; Therefore,

Resolved, That the consent and agreement of the Legislature of this Commonwealth be, and the same is hereby given to any alteration or modification of the aforementioned clause or provision in said act, relating to Bowdoin College, not affecting the rights or interest of this Commonwealth, which the President, and Trustees, and Overseers of said College, or others having the authority to act for said Corporation, may make therein, with the consent and agreement of the Legislature of said State of Maine; and such alterations or modification, made as aforesaid, are hereby ratified on the part of this Commonwealth.

CHAP. V.

Resolve on the petition of the Trustees of Hopkins' Academy. June 12th, 1820.

Whereas it appears that sundry donations and grants of money and lands, have already been made by the Town of Hadley, and by several individuals, constituting a permanent fund of more than three thousand dollars, in addition to their buildings, for the use and benefit of Hopkins' Academy:

Resolved, That there be, and hereby is granted to the Trustees of Hopkins' Academy, their successors in said office, or assigns, for the sole use and benefit of said Academy, one half township of six miles square, from any of the unappropriated lands in the State of Maine, which, on the division of said lands, shall fall to the share of this Commonwealth; and to be subject to all the reservations usual in grants of this kind; the same half township to be vested in said Trustees, their successors in said office, and assigns, forever, for the sole use and benefit of said Academy, reserving four hundred acres, one half for the use of schools, and the other half for the use of the ministry therein; the said half township to be laid out under the direction of the Commissioners for the Sale and Settlement of Eastern Lands, at the expense of said Trustees: Provided, the said

Trustees, within five years from and after the laying out and location of said half township, cause ten families to be settled thereon; and provided, also, that said Trustees give bond to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, faithfully to apply the proceeds and avails of said half township, to the sole use and benefit of said Academy.

And be it further resolved, That the said half township of land, shall be located agreeably to the foregoing provision, within ten years from the first day of January next, otherwise this grant shall be void.

CHAP. VI.

Resolve regulating the choice of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States.

June 15th, 1820.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, That the choice of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, shall be made in the following manner, viz: Each of the present districts for the choice of Representatives to Congress, shall form one district, for the choice of one Elector, and the two remaining Electors shall be chosen by the people at large; for which purpose, the several towns, districts and places, shall assemble in town meetings, to be notified in the usual manner, and five days at least, previous to the first Monday of November next, on which day the said meetings shall be held; and each person qualified to vote for Representatives to the General Court, shall have a right to vote in the choice of Electors, the persons so voted for, not being a Senator or Representative in Congress, or holding any office of trust or profit under the United States; and the people shall vote by ballot, on which shall be designated who is voted for as Elector for the district, and who are voted for as Electors at large. And the Selectmen shall preside at such meetings, and receive, sort, count, and declare, and the Town Clerks respectively, shall record the votes given in; and exact returns thereof, designating as aforesaid, those voted

for as Elector for the district, and those voted for as Electors at large, shall be made under the hands of a majority of the Selectmen, and of the Town Clerk, who shall seal up and deliver the same to the Sheriff of the county, within one week from the time of the election, to be by him transmitted to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on or before the twentieth day of November next; or the Town Clerk or Selectmen shall themselves transmit the same to said office, on or before said twentieth day of November next; and all votes not so returned, shall be rejected in the counting; and the Governor and Council shall open and examine the returns aforesaid, and count the votes. And His Excellency the Governor is hereby requested to transmit to each person appearing to be elected, by a majority of votes, a certificate of his election, on or before the thirtieth day of November

next.

Be it further resolved, That the Electors so chosen, shall meet at the State House, in Boston, on the first Tuesday of December next, at four o'clock in the afternoon; and in case of the death or absence of any Elector, or in case the whole number of Electors to which the Commonwealth is entitled, shall, from any cause, be deficient, the deficiencies shall forthwith be supplied from the people, by a majority of the votes of the Electors present; and the Electors thereafter, on the first Wednesday in December next, shall vote by ballot, for one person for President, and one for Vice President of the United States; and that, for their travel and attendance, they shall receive the same compensation as Members of the Legislature are entitled to. And all laws now in force, regulating the duty and conduct of Sheriffs, Magistrates, and Voters in the election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Counsellors, Senators and Representatives, shall, as far as applicable, apply and be in force, as to the meetings to be holden, and elections and returns made, or to be made, under this resolve, and under the like forfeitures and penalties.

CHAP. VII.

Resolve granting $300 for building a Meeting House, &c. for the Chappaquiddick Indians. June 15th, 1820.

Resolved, That for reasons stated by a Committee of the Indian inhabitants of Chappaquiddick, in the Town of Edgarton, in their petition, that there be granted and paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, three hundred dollars, for the purpose of building a house of public worship, and a school house, on the Island of Chappaquiddick, for the use of said natives; and that the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, draw his warrant on the Treasury for that sum, to be paid to the Guardians of the natives on Chappaquiddick, they to account to the Governor and Council for the expenditure of the same.

CHAP. VIII.

Resolve directing the payment of Israel Morgan's Pension to the Overseers of the Poor of Beverly.

June 15th, 1820.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Beverly, fifty dollars, in full for a pension, which Israel Morgan, of said Beverly, an insane person, is entitled to receive from this Commonwealth, for one year, ending the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to be by them applied towards the support of said Morgan.

Resolved, That said pension to said Morgan, be annually paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Overseers of the Poor of said Beverly, so long as said Morgan shall continue insane, and remain under their care, to be by them applied towards his support.

CHAP. IX.

Resolve on the petition of Joseph Stanwood and others, Agents for the Town of Parsons, authorizing the Court of Sessions to amend the assessment of the County Tax. June 15th, 1820.

Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the Court of Sessions for the County of Essex, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to amend the assessment of the County Tax for the present year, so far as to apportion the sum assessed on the Towns of Newbury and Parsons, in the proportion of two thirds to Newbury, and one third to Parsons.

CHAP. X.

Resolve granting $351 21 to Charlotte Herbert, for the services of the late George Herbert, Esquire.

June 16th, 1820.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to Charlotte Herbert, widow of the late George Herbert, Esquire, the sum of three hundred and fifty one dollars and twenty one cents, being the balance of his account rendered June the eighth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the said sum being a final payment and full settlement of all claims whatever, for services rendered by the said George Herbert to the Commonwealth, before or subsequent to the date above mentioned; and His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the amount.