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or plantations held any meeting for the choice of a Representative on the second Monday of September A.D. 1825 but that the meetings for that purpose of all said towns and plantations were had on some day subsequent to the second Monday of September: - That the aforesaid gentlemen to wit, John Winslow, Phinehas S Bennet, Noah K George, Joseph McIntosh, Abraham Thomas, John Sargent, Rufus K J Porter, George Jewett, Jabez Mowry, Jonas Farnsworth and Daniel Emery have appeared and taken their seats in this House - Your committee therefore report that the subject of the election of the aforenamed gentlemen be referred to the Committee on elections - Your committee further report that Simon Strout Junior is returned from the town of Limington, that he has appeared and taken his seat in this House - that the certificate of the Selectmen of that town shews that the inhabitants of said town held a meeting on the second Monday of September A.D. 1825 for the choice of a Representative and at said meeting said Inhabitants voted not to elect a Representative - that the Selectmen of said town notwithstanding said vote did receive the votes of the minority of the Electors then present. Your Committee therefore report that the subject of the election of Simeon Strout Junior be referred to the Committee on Elections. There appears to be no returns from the town of Berwick in the County of York: - from the town of Harpswell in the County of Cumberland; from Northport and Isleborough, Castine and Brooksville, Penobscot & Orland, in the County of Hancock; from Steuben, Harrington & Cherryfield in the County of Washington - and the report was read and accepted, and referred to the Committee on Elections.

Mr. Boutelle from the Committee to wait on the Governor and inform him of his election &c &c reported that the Governor would attend in the Representatives Chamber at 12' oclock for the purpose of taking and subscribing the oaths necessary to qualify him to enter upon the discharge of the duties of the office to which he has been elected.