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In Convention [underlined]

Agreeably to assignment the two Houses of the Legislature met in Convention in the Representatives' Hall, for the purpose of choosing a Treasurer of State. Messrs, Smith and McLellan of the Senate and Messrs, Weeks of Parsonsfield, Phelphs of Fairfield and Curtis of Freedom were appointed a Committee to receive, sort and count the votes, who, having attended the duties assigned them, reported that the whole number of votes is 192. Necessary to a choice 97, As a Redington, Jr. has 124, William Dewey 45, Asa Redington 4, Major Jack Downing 2, Joshua Downing 1, Mr Hill of New Portland1, Mark Harris 1, Mr. Frost of Standish 1, Mr. F. O. J. K. S. Y. Smith 2, Blanks 11, As a Redington Jr. was declared duly elected Treasurer of State for the current political year, and the Convention separated. In Senate