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Afternoon.

[Message to the House proposing a Convention to choose councillors] On motion of Mr. Ingalls, Ordered, that a message be sent to the House of Representatives, proposing a convention of the two Houses in the Representatives chamber tomorrow at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of choosing seven Councilors to advise the Governor in the Executive part of the Government the present political year, and also to choose a Secretary of State, which message was communicated to the House by the Secretary.

A message was received from the House, concurring in the foregoing proposition.

[Report of the Committee to whom was refered the returns of votes for Governor.] The joint Select Committee to whom were referred the returns of votes for Governor in the several towns and plantations in this State, reported, as follows The joint Committee appointed to examine the returns of votes for Governor from the several towns and plantations in the State, have performed that service, and Report, that the whole number of votes, allowed by the Committee to have been duly returned is fifty nine thousand and ninety two. That of this number Samuel E. Smith has Thirty Thousand, Two hundred and Fifteen; Jonathan G. Hunton has Twenty Eight Thousand Six Hundred and Thirty Nine; that of said first number all other persons have Two hundred and Thirty Eight.

That the number necessary to constitute an election is Twenty Nine Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Seven.

That Samuel E. Smith having Thirty Thousand Two hundred and Fifteen votes, and Thirteen Hundred and Thirty Six votes more than all other persons, is duly elected.