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["Order to notify Mr. Foote" written in left margin.]

    Ordered, that the Secretary of State pro tempore forthwith 

notify Erastus Foote Esq, that he has been duly & constitu- tionally elected by the people, a Senator for the County of Lincoln, & that he is requested, immediately to attend & aid the Senate in his charge of public business.

["Report of committee on votes for Governor" written in left margin.]

     "The committee appointed to receive & examine  

the return votes given in the several towns & planta- tions for Governor made the following report. viz.

     The committee of both Houses to whom was referred 

the returns of votes for Governor, given in the several towns & plantations within this state. - Have attended to that service and [rule?] leave respectfully to report - that they find the whole numbers of votes given in the several towns & plantations which have been duly returned to the Office of Secretary of State pro tem to be twenty two thousand nine hundred & four- teen - Necessary to a choice - 11,458 and that the Hon. William King has 21,083 votes & he is chosen.

        And the committee further report that they find 

no return form the town of Greenwood in the County of Oxford-

            All of which is submitted 
                            Mr. Moody per order "
     Read & accepted & sent down for concurrence.
            Came up concurred. 

["Committee to wait on Mr King" written in left hand margin]

      biden [?], that the Hon. Messrs Moody & Ripley with 

such as the Hon. House may join be a committee to wait on all the Hon. William King & inform him that he has been elected agreeably to the provisions of the constitution, Gover- nor of the State Maine & that the two Houses will convene in the Representatives chamber for the purpose of con- stitutionally qualifying him for that office, whenever it may be convenient for him to attend for that purpose. Read & sent down for concurrence. Came up con- curred & Messrs Emery of Portland, Burgin of East-