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Precepts in the form following were issued to the Selectmen of the several Towns, and to the Assessors of the several Plantations, composing the Somerset and Penobscot District.

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State of Maine.

To the Selectmen of the Town of __________ in Somerset and Penobscot District.

Greeting:

Whereas it is provided by law, that, if it shall appear, by the return of votes, from any District for a Representative in Congress, that no person is chosen, by a majority of all the votes returned, the Governor shall cause precepts to issue to the Selectmen of the several Towns, and Assessors of the several Plantations within such District, directing and requiring them to cause the Inhabitants of their respective Towns and Plantations, Qualified therefor, to assemble and give in their votes for a Representative in Congress: And whereas it appears from the votes duly returned from the several Towns and Plantations in said Somerset and Penobscot District, for a Representative in Congress that no person has a majority of all the votes.

These are in the name of the State, to require you, in manner as the law directs for calling Town Meetings, to cause the Inhabitants of the Town of ___________ duly qualified to vote for Representative in the Legislature of this State, to assemble on Monday, the eighteenth day of December next, to give in their votes to the Selectmen who shall preside at said meeting for a Representative, that is an Inhabitant of the said District, to represent the Inhabitants of this State, in the Congress of the United States. And you the said Selectmen, or a major part of you, shall, in open Town meeting, sort and count the votes, and form a list of the names of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person written in words at length against his name; and the Town clerk shall make a record thereof. And you the said Selectmen, shall in such meeting make public de-

[The following is in the left margin under the seal]

Enoch Lincoln

A List

Of the persons voted for in Somerset and Penobscot District, showing the number of votes for each person according to the first return.

William D. Williamson 1427

Jacob McGaw 1162

Simon Harriman 211

Jonathan Farrar 169

David Perham 117

Jedediah Herrick 92

Daniel Wilkens 46

Benjamin Nourse 29

Zebulon Smith 15

Scattering 12

William Marsh 9

Mr[?] Williamson 7

Isaac Farrar 4

Hiram Nourse 4

Alden Nickerson 4

Levi Bigelow 3

Samuel Call 3

Abraham Wyman 2

Amos Patten 2

Samuel Butman 2

Daniel Ladd 2

Joshua Hathaway 2

David Kidder 1

Obed Wilson 1

Asa Clark Jun 1

Enoch Lincoln 1

Thomas A. Hill 1

Major Harriman 1

William Neil 1

Isaac Hodsdon 1

Thornton McGaw 1

Charles Smith 1

Ezra Patten 1

Noah K. George 1

Simon B. Harriman 1

[Total] 3.337