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The committee, appointed to receive, sort and count the votes for Counsellors, having attended to the duty assigned them, reported that the whole number of votes given in was 191. Necessary to constitute a choice 96. Nathaniel Clark has 129. Allen H Cobb " 132 Hezekiah Prince " 133. Alfred Peirce " 132. William B. Webber " 116. Charles Peavey " 125. Samuel P. Strickland " 69. Nathaniel Hobbs " 61. Noah Hinkley " 63. Lucius Barnard " 61. Eleazer Coburn " 60. Ezra Fish " 62. Andrew Witham " 62. Moses Fuller " 62. Sewall Prescott " 61. and that there were 26 scattering votes. The six Gentlemen first named were declared duly elected; and no choice of a seventh Counselor being effected, the Convention proceeded to second ballot and the same committee, having received sorted, and counted the votes, reported that the whole number of votes given in was 183. Necessary to constitute a choice 92. Samuel P. Strickland has 87. Eleazer Coburn " 47. Sewall Prescott " 42 and there were seven scattering votes. No person having received a majority of all the votes given in, the Convention proceeded to a third ballot, and the same committee were appointed to receive, sort and count the votes, who having attended to the duty assigned them, reported