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Met according to adjournment. Mr. Clark, from the Joint Select Committee to which was referred the votes for Governor for the cur- rent political year, given in the several towns and plantations in this State, reported, that the whole num- ber of votes allowed by the Committee to have been duly returned, is seventy one thousand six hun- dred and two; of this number Robert L. Dun- lap [underlined bold] has thirty seven thousand four hundred eighty one, [underlined bold] Peleg Sprague [underlined] thirty two thousand nine hundred and sixty seven, Thomas A. Hill [underlined bold] one thousand and seventy six; and of said first number all other persons have seventy eight; that the number necessary to constitute and election is thirty [underlined bold] five thousand eight hundred and two; [underlined bold] that Robert P. Dunlap, [underlined extra bold] having thirty seven thou- [underlined bold] sand four hundred [underlined bold] and [unbold] eighty one, [underlined bold] votes and three thousand three hundred [underlined bold] and [unbold] sixty [underlined bold] more than all other persons voted for, is Constitutionally [underlined bold] elected Governor [underlined bold] of the State of Maine [underlined bold] for the current political year.

In many of the returns allowed by your Committee