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Precepts in the form following were issued to the Selectmen of the several Towns, and Assessors of the several Plantations, composing the Oxford District, to wit:

State of Maine.

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

To the Selectmen of the Town of __________ in Oxford District,

Greeting:

Whereas the Constitution of the United States provides, that when vacancies in Congress happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such vacancies:

These are in the name of the State, To require you, in manner as the Law directs for calling Town Meetings, to cause the Inhabitants of the town of _____________ duly qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature of this State, to assemble on the second Monday of September next, being the eleventh day of said month, to give in their votes to the Selectmen, who shall preside at said meeting, for a Representative, that is an Inhabitant of the said District, to represent the Inhabitants of this State in the Congress of the United States, in the room of the Honorable Enoch Lincoln, who has resigned his seat as a Representative. And you the said Selectmen, or a major part of you, shall, in open town meeting, sort and county 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 the Town Clerk shall make a record thereof. And you the said Selectmen, shall in such meeting, make public declaration 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 upon the outside of said list the District in which the votes were given, and transmit the same, within forty days, next after said meeting, to the secretary of this State.

Given at the Council Chamber, in Portland, this fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,