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the Senate proceeded to ballot for the choice of a Senator from this State in the Congress of the United States. Messrs. Bradbury, Boutelle and Talbot were appointed a Committee to receive, sort and count the votes, who having attended to the duty assigned them, reported the whole number of votes given in to be 24 Necessary to a choice 13 Ether Shepley has 14 Simon Greenlief " 10 Ether Shepley was then declared elected on the part of the Senate in concurrence with the House of Representatives and a message was sent communicating the result to the House.

On motion of Mr Cobb, Ordered that the Secretary of State be directed to notify the Governor that the Legislature on the seventeenth instant by a concurrent vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, elected Ether Shepley of Saco in the County of York a Senator to represent this State in the Congress of the United States for six years from and after the third of March next, and that the Governor be requested to furnish him with certificates and testimonials of his election, to enable him to take his seat in the Senate of the United States from and after the time aforesaid. Read and passed. Sent down for concurrence.

Adjourned.

Attest Timo J. Carter. Secretary