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General & Land Agent, proceeded by the Sheriff of the County of Kennebec, came in, when the members elect took and subscribed the oaths of affirmations required by the Constitution to qualify them to enter upon the discharge of their official duties.

A committee consisting of Messrs. Jarvis of Ellsworth, Vose of Augusta, Brooks of York, Weeks of Jefferson, & Carpenter of Howland, was appointed to receive, sort and count the ballots for a Clerk, who having attended to the duty assigned them, reported that the whole number of ballots given in was One hundred & seventy - necessary to constitute an election, eighty six - that James L. Child had One hundred & twelve Daniel Pike had fifty seven & Eliakim Scammon one, and James L. Child of Augusta was declared elected, and being present, signified his acceptance and took and subscribed the following oath administered to him by Asaph R. Nichols, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Kennebec - viz " I, James L. Child do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge to the best of my abilities the duties incumbent upon on me as Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Maine during the current political year. So help me God.

The Clerk presided in the further organization of the House.

A committee consisting of Messrs. Lowell of East Machias, Chase of Sebec, Jewett of Portland, Robinson of Hallowell & Woodman of WIlton was appointed to receive sort and count the ballots for Speaker, who having attended to the duty assigned them, reported