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| + | A committee consisting of Messrs Drummond & Hinds of the Senate and Messrs Folsom, Chamberlain & McGaffey of the House were appointed to receive sort & count the votes for a Senator to supply the deficiency in Washington District - and having attended to the duty assigned them the Committee the whole number of ballots given to be eighty two - message to constitute an election forty two - that Obadiah Hill had eighty two - and he was declared elected. | ||
Revision as of 12:24, 15 October 2020
[XLIII]
Journal that sixteen Senators have been elected by the people, and that there is a vacancy existing in the District of Washington - and whereas it appears by the Records of the Governor and Council, and the proceedings of the Senate above referred to that the Constitutional Candidates in said District to supply the deficiency in the same, are Obadiah Hill, who had eight hundred & forty eight votes, and Charles Peavey who had eight hundred forty one votes.
Therefore, Resolved, that this convention now proceed to elect by Joint ballot on Senators from the two candidates above named to supply the deficiency in said District - read & passed.
A committee consisting of Messrs Drummond & Hinds of the Senate and Messrs Folsom, Chamberlain & McGaffey of the House were appointed to receive sort & count the votes for a Senator to supply the deficiency in Washington District - and having attended to the duty assigned them the Committee the whole number of ballots given to be eighty two - message to constitute an election forty two - that Obadiah Hill had eighty two - and he was declared elected.