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Monday, January 9. 1832.

Mr Goodwin, Senator elect from the District of York, appeared, was conducted to the Governor and Council, and qualified, and took his seat at the Board.

Mr Meqquire from the joint select committee, to whom was referred the votes for Governor, given in the several towns and plantation in this State, reported "that the whole number of votes for Governor, which have been legally and constitutionally returned from the several towns and plantations in the State is Fifty thousand two hundred and nineteen, that the number necessary to constitute an election is twenty five thousand one hundred and ten: that Samuel E. Smith has twenty eight thousand two hundred and ninety two votes; that Daniel Goodenow has twenty one thousand eight hundred and twenty one votes; that other persons have one hundred and six votes - and that Samuel E. Smith, having received six thousand three hundred, and sixty five votes more than all other persons voted for, is constitutionally elected Governor of the State of Maine. The returns of votes from the town of Biddeford and Dixmont were not attested on the outside by the town Clerk; the votes were counted. The return from Limerick is dated the second Monday of September, 1830, on the inside, and on the outside, the date is the second Monday of September, 1831 - the votes were counted. The name of the town does not appear on the inside of the return from Sebago, but does appear on the outside; the votes were counted.