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Precepts in the form following were issued to the Selectmen of the several towns, and to the Assessors of the Plantations composing the Hancock and Washington District.

State of Maine.

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

To the Selectmen of the Town of in Hancock and Washington 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 the 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 fro the votes duly returned from the several towns and Plantations in said Hancock and Washington 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 Representatives in the Legislature of this State, to assemble on Monday the fourteenth day of September next, to give 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 hte 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 declaration of the persons voted for, and of the number of votes they respectively have; and shall in open town meeting seal up the said list, certified by you, expressing upon the outside of said list the District in which the votes were given, and transmit the same to the Secretary of this State on or before the twenty fourth day of October next.

Given at the Council Chamber in Portland this twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State

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

A List

Of the persons voted for in Hancock and Washington District, showing the number of votes for each person according to the third return.

Joshua W. Hathaway 937

John G. Deane 909

Leonard Jarvis 878

Samuel Upton 757

Jeremiah O Brien 666

Philip Morrill 297

Joshua Hathaway 23

John Wilson 12

Edward Ilsley 11

Ezekiel Dyer 4

John Burnham 4

Jeremiah Lothrop 3

Joseph Williamson 3

William Abbot 2

Sewall Watson 2

Thomas Marshall 2

Joshua Hall 2

Joseph Sellers 3rd 1

Daniel Merrill 1

Francis B. Morgan 1

John Whitman 1

Jonas Farnsworth 1

William W. Chapman 1

Daniel Poor 1

John Simpson 1

Mark L. Chase 1

Timothy Mayo 1

Joshua Perkins 1

Jonathan Pressey 1

Benjamin Hook 1

William H. Bartlett 1

[Total] 4520