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9 Afternoon.

Met according to adjournment. Mr. Clark, from the Joint Select Committee to which was referred the votes for Governor for the current political year, given in the several towns and plantations in this State, reported, that the whole number of votes allowed by the Committee to have been duly returned, is seventy one thousand six hundred and two; of this number Robert L. Dunlap has thirty seven thousand four hundred eighty one, Peleg Sprague thirty two thousand nine hundred and sixty seven, Thomas A. Hill one thousand and seventy six; and of said first number all other persons have seventy eight; that the number necessary to constitute and election is thirty five thousand eight hundred and two; that Robert P. Dunlap, having thirty seven thousand four hundred and eighty one, votes and three thousand three hundred and sixty more than all other persons voted for, is Constitutionally elected Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year. In many of the returns allowed by your Committee to have been duly made, the name of the town was not added to that of the Selectmen in their signature on the inside nor on the outside of said returns, but there being enough in the body of the returns to show from what downs they came, your Committee have considered them as duly made - Of the returns delivered into the office of the Secretary of State, those from Brunswick, Edmonds, Belgrade, Monson and Industry were never sealed up and were for that cause rejected and not allowed by your Committee. In several instance the votes were not written in the