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[7] Thursday January 4 1827

Mr Francis of Kennebec member elect of the Senate appeared and having been qualified by the Governor & Council took his seat.

On motion by Mr Elwell ordered that this day at 11 o’clock be assigned for coming to the choice of Chaplain and that nomination lists be suspended

[Report, returns of votes for Governor] Mr Dennett from the Committee on the Returns of votes for Governor reported that they had examined the same and found the whole number of votes duly returned to be twenty one thousand and sixty three, necessary for a choice ten thousand five hundred and thirty two, and that Enoch Lincoln, esquire, has twenty thousand six hundred and eighty nine and is chosen Governor of this State

And the Committee report further that the votes from the following towns and plantations are rejected viz: from the town of Bristol because the return of said votes does not appear to have been duly attested by the town clerk, from the plantation of Appleton, because the return is not attested by the plantation clerk; from the town of Thorndyke because the Return is signed by only one of the Selectmen, from the town of Wayne because the same was not received within the time prescribed by the Constitution; from the town of Denmark, because the number of votes is expressed in figures only, from Dixfield, because the same is not attested by the town clerk; from a plantation in the County of Washington because it does not appear in what plantation the votes were given; from plantation No. 7 in said county because the return is not signed by the Assessors or attested by the plantation clerk; from the town of Charlotte because the return appears