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[Order to notify Mr. Foote]

Order, that the Secretary of State pro tempore forthwith notify Erastus Foote Esq, that he has been duly & constitutionally 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]

"The committee appointed to receive & examine the return votes given in the several towns & plantations for Governor made the following report. vig [?] 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 tempore to be twenty two thousand nine hundred & fourteen - 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 for the town of Greenwood in the County of Oxford- All of which is submitted Mr. Moody for order [?] " Read & accepted & sent down for concurrence. Came up concurred.

[Committee to wait on Mr King]

bidden [?], 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, Governor of the State Maine & that the two Houses join [?] convene in the Representatives chamber for the purpose of constitutionally qualifying him for that office, whenever it may be convenient for him to attend for that purpose. Read & sent down for concurrence. Came up concurred & Messrs Emery of Portland, Burgin of Eastport -