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12 The Report of the Joint Select Committee appointed to examine the returns of votes for Governor, given in in the several towns and plantations in this State, that the whole number of votes allowed by their Committee to have been duly returned is Forty nine Thousand three Hundred and fifty two that of this number Robert P. Dunlap has Twenty five Thousand seven Hundred and thirty one votes - David Goodenow has Eighteen Thousand and one hundred and Twelve votes - Samuel E. Smith has Three Thousand and twenty four votes - Thomas A. Hill has Two thousand three hundred and eighty four votes and of said first number all other persons have one Hundred and one votes - that the number necessary to constitute an election is Twenty four thousand six hundred and seventy seven votes - that Robert P. Dunlap having Twenty five thousand seven Hundred and thirty one votes and two thousand one hundred and ten votes more than all other persons voted for, is constitutionally elected Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year - came from the Senate accepted for concurrence and the House concurred - sent up.

Ordered, that Messrs. Pierce of Portland, Robinson of Hallowell Moore of Dover Boynton of St George and Meldrum of Wells be a Committee with such as the Senate may join to wait on Robert P. Dunlap and inform him that he has been elected by the people Governor of the State of Maine for the current