OF THE 11212 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1856. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE. BOSTON: WILLIAM WHITE, PRINTER TO THE STATE. 1856. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1856. At a General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Boston, on the first Wednesday of January, being the second day thereof, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the eightieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, the members elect of the House of Representatives, having convened in the Representatives' Chamber, in the State House, were called to order at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, by Hon. LEVI THAXTER, of Watertown, the oldest member present. |