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[13] -ering four, these four votes are rejected

In the District of Penobscot the whole number of votes given and returned according to the provisions of the Constitution is 1800 Necessary to constitute an election 901 Samuel Butman has 1013 and is elected The votes of the town of Exeter are rejected because the list of them is not attested by the town clerk, and of Orono because the certified copy of the list of votes states that they were given for Senators for the District of Somerset and Penobscot and said report was read and ordered to lie on the table

[message to House proposing convention] On motion by Mr Parsons a message was sent to the House proposing a convention of both houses of the Legislature in the Representatives Chamber forthwith for the purpose of qualifying the Governor elect and a message was received from the House concurring in that proposition

[convention to qualify Governor] The Senate then repaired to the Representatives Chamber when Enoch Lincoln came in attended by the Council and the Sheriff of Cumberland before the President of the Senate in presence of both Houses of the Legislature took & subscribed the oaths required by the Constitution to qualify him to enter upon the duties of the office of Governor. The Secretary of State then made proclamation that Enoch Lincoln was Governor of the State of Maine, for the current political year and to be respected and obeyed as such. The Governor then read to both Houses of the Legislature a written communication, a copy of which with the accompanying documents was delivered to the President of the Senate, the Governor and Council then withdrew and the Convention separated