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Precepts in the form following were issued to the Selectmen of the several towns composing the Hancock & Washington District, to wit:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

“State of Maine.

To the selectmen of the town of ________ in Hancock & Washington District;

Greeting:

Whereas it is provided by law, that if it appears by the return of the votes for a Representative to Congress for any District, that no person is chosen by a majority of all the votes, the Governor shall cause precepts to issue to the Selectmen of the several towns, and the Assessors of the several Plantations within such District, directing and requiring them to warn the qualified electors of said towns and plantations to give in their votes for a Representative for said District: And whereas it appears from votes duly returned from the several towns and plantations in said Hancock and Washington District, that no person has a majority of all the votes.

These are in the name of the State, To require you in manner as the law directs for calling town meetings, to cause the qualified electors of the town of _______ to assemble on monday the thirtieth day of june next, to give in their votes to the Selectmen, who shall preside at said meeting, for one Representative that is an inhabitant of said District, to represent them in the Congress of the United States of America: And you the said Selectmen, or a major part of you, shall in open town meeting, sort and count the votes, and form a list of the names of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person, written in words at length against his name; and shall make public declaration in town meeting, of the persons voted for, and of the number of votes they respectively have; and shall in open town meeting seal up the said list, certified by you, expressing on the outside thereof the District in which the votes were given, and transmit the same to the Secretary of this State, on or before the twenty first day of July next:

Given at the Council Chamber, in Portland, this nineteenth day of may, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, and in the forty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor,

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.”

[the following list is on the left of the page under the seal/signature]

A List of the persons voted for in Hancock & Washington District showing the number of votes for each person according to the first return.

Jeremiah O Brien, 1248 William Abbot, 1010 Alfred Johnson Jun., 963 Aaron Holbrook, 372 Alfred Johnson, 158 Jonathan D. Weston, 150 Jeremiah O. Balch, 36 Elijah P. Pike, 8 John Holbrook, 3 James W. Webster, 3 Daniel Lane, 2 William Avery, 2 Ebenezer Calderwood, 2 J. Weston, 2 John Wilson, 1 Charles Jarvis, 1 David Billings, 1 Henry Little, 1 Edmund Abbot, 1 Josiah Fernald, 1 Thomas Haskell, 1 Ebenezer Williams, 1 David Braley, 1 Jonathan Weston, 1 Frederick A. Ruggles, 1 Enoch Low, 1 J. Stickney, 1

[Total,] 3, 972