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Precepts in the form following were issued to the Selectmen of the several towns composing the Lincoln District, to wit.

State of Maine.

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

To the Selectmen of the town of _________________ in Lincoln District,

Greeting:

Whereas it is provided by law, that if it appears by the return of the votes for a Representative to Congress for any District, that no person is chosen by a majority of all the votes, 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 warn the qualified electors of said towns and plantations to given in their votes for a Representative for said District: And whereas it appears from votes duly returned from the several towns in said Lincoln District, 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 qualified electors of the town of _______ to assemble on the second Monday of September next, being the twelfth day of said month, to give in their votes to the Selectmen, who shall preside at said meeting, for one Representative, that is an inhabitant of the said District, to represent them in the Congress of the United States of America.

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 the names of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person, written in words at length against hi name; and shall make public declaration in Town meeting, 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 on the outside thereof, the District in which the votes were given, and transmit the same to the Secretary of this State on or before the second day of October next.

Given at the Council Chamber, in Portland this fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State

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

A List

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

Ebenezer Herrick 1960

Albert Smith 1254

Ebenezer Thatcher 596

Daniel Rose 79

Edwin Smith 20

Nathaniel Green 12

William King 4

Moses Carleton 4

Edmund Buxton 4

William J. Farley 3

James McLellan 2

John Ruggles 2

Ebenezer Delano 2

John Merun 2

Joseph F. Wingate 1

Israel Cox 1

Samuel F. Hinds 1

George Sprawl 1

Mark L. Hill 1

John Pattee 1

Crispus Graves 1

Henry True 1

[Total] 3.952