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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 some informalities as to the officers who acted officially in the meeting when the senatorial votes were given, but the return has not been rejected all which is respectfully submitted. William D. Williamson Chairman

Read & accepted & sent down

[Message sent down]

Hon. Mr Foxcroft was charged with a message to the Hon. House to acquaint them that the Senate propose forming a consonance of the two branches of the Legislature in the Representation chamber this day at half past eleven o'clock for the purpose of filling the vacancies at the Senate board occasioned by the full number of Senators not having been elected by the people in the District of Cumberland, Lincoln, & Hancock & to request the concurrence of the House herein [?].