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several times in giving in their votes for three Senators, and the same names are certified on each ballot. The returns from Thompson's Pond Plantation in the County of Cumberland, & Palmyra in the County of Somerset state a certain number of votes with and particular discrimination, thus in the former are "for Lathrop Lewis, Archelaus Lewis, Barnes Potter seventeen" - in the latter are "for John Moore & William Kendall fourteen votes ", for Obed WIlson & James Bawell twenty nine votes. " The committee therefore have rejected these returns on account of this uncertainty. The committee feel it their duty to state, that the returns of votes from Falmouth in the County of Cumberland and Friendship in the County of Lincoln certify the number of votes given, in numerical figures instead of words. The committee have accepted & counted there in the foregoing statement But they have rejected the return from Brookkville in the County of Hancock because it sates the votes to be "for Abel W. Atherton & Andrew Witham forty eight votes" & for George Ulmer & Leonard Paris six votes" without distinguishing the member for each of them severally [?]. The return from the plantation of Mountville is the County of Lincoln contains source informalities