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On motion by Mr Grover, Ordered, that a message be
sent to the House of Representatives informing that body that there is a deficiency of one Senator in the District of
Hancock and a deficiency of one Senator in the District
of Washington and that Joshua Hall and Joseph
Shaw in Hancock District, John Balkam and Ichabod 
Bucknam in Washington District are the constitutional 
candidates and proposing a convention at 11 oclock this
forenoon for the purpose of supplying said deficiencies - 
concurred

Order of the House of Representatives appointing Messrs 
Carpenter, Swan and Ingalls with such as the Senate may join to contract with some suitable person to draft Bills and 
Resolves for the Legislature the present session was read
and passed in concurrence and Messrs Mace & Kavanagh
were joined

Mr Williams from the Committee to examine and 
report upon the returns of votes for Governor given in
the several towns and plantations in this State reported
that the whole number of votes given by the qualified electors and returned according to the provisions of the Constitution is Twenty thousand four hundred &
fifty eight, necessary to constitute an election Ten
thousand two hundred and thirty - that Enoch
Lincoln has Nineteen thousand nine hundred and sixty nine and is duly elected Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year by a majority of all the votes returned agreeably to the provisions of the Constitution - The Committee have rejected the votes of the town of Freeport in the County of Cumberland for uncertainty as to the number of
votes given, the return stating that the votes were for Enoch
Lincoln  nine one votes
Joel Kelsey   one vote     They have also
rejected