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28 The same Committee proceeded a fourth time to receive sort and count the votes for a Senator to fill said vacancy and reported the following statement of facts - that Anson G. Chandler had seventy seven votes - Moses Fuller had thirty one votes and there forty six blanks (The return of the convention was 178) The report was read and accepted and Anson G. Chandler was declared elected. Agreeably to assignment the convention proceed to the choice of seven Councillors to advise the Governor in the Executive department of the Government for the current political year and also the choice of a Secretary of State - Messrs. Bradbury and Farnsworth of the Senate Messrs. Moore of Durham Sylvester of Hope and Robinson of Hallowell of the House were appointed a Committee to receive sort and count the votes for Councillors who attended to the duty assigned them reported that the whole number of votes given in was one Hundred and Eight one necessary to constitute an election ninety two - Nathaniel Clark had one Hundred and Forty, Edmund Mann had one Hundred and thirty nine John O'Brien had one Hundred and Thirty seven Edward Williams had one Hundred and Thirty Eight Samuel Moor had one Hundred and Forty John H. Jarvis had one Hundred and Thirty nine and Asa Clark had one Hundred and Thirty nine and were declared elected. Messrs Cobb and Prescott of the Senate Messrs. Hubbard of Berwick Hall of Hartford and Moore of Gouldsborough of the House were appointed a Committee to receive sort and count