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(79) Daniel Steward Jr. Eighty seven. David Dunlap Seventy six Isaac Lane Seventy four Allen H. Cobb Seventy four Benjamin Riggs Seventy four Joseph Southwick Seventy three John H. Smith Seventy three Ralph C. Johnson Seventy five Charles Peavey Seventy five Phinehas Varnum Seven Joshua W. Hathaway Five Parker McCobb Three Nathaniel Hobbs Three Ichabod Bucknam Three Drummon Farnsworth Two Caleb Emery One Edward Butler Two [Councillors elected] Thereupon Elisha Allen, David Crowell, Lemuel Paine, Otis Little, John Burgin and Daniel Steward Jr. were declared duly elected Councillors to advise the Governor in the Executive Department during the current political year.

[committee to receive, sort & count votes for Sec. of State] On motion, Messrs. Megquier of Cumberland, Phelps of Somerset, Clark of Hallowell, Howard of Brownfield, and Kent of Bangor were appointed a committee to receive, sort and count the votes for a Secretary of State; and after having attended to that service, Mr. Megquier from said committee reported; That the whole number of votes given was One hundred fifty nine. Necessary to a choice Eighty. That Edward Russell had Eighty four. Roscoe G . Greene Seventy four. Elias Thomas One. [E. Russell elected] Thereupon Edward Russell was declared duly elected.