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20 [upper left corner] In Senate, Saturday, January 10, 1835. [underlined, bold header] A message was received from the House of Representatives, concurring in proposition of the Senate yesterday for a Convention of the two Houses this day at eleven o'clock for the purpose of choosing Counsellors and a Secretary of State.

In Convention. [underlined, bold header] The two Houses of the Legislature, agree- ably to assignment, met in Convention for the pur- post of choosing seven Counsellors to advise the Governor in the executive part of Government for the current political year, and a Secretary of State. Messrs. Burnham, Farnham and Smith of the Senate, and Messrs. Woodman of Buxton, Greely, Spaulding, Vose and Lowell of the House were appointed a Committee to receive, sort and count the votes for Counsellors; which Committee having attended the duty assigned them reported that the whole number of votes given is 185. Necessary to a choice [space] 125, Jabez Bradbury, [space] 127, Edmund Mann, [space] 127, Seth Labarre, [space] 127, Edward Williams, [space] 127, Thomas Crocker, [space] 126, Benjamin Carr, [space] 127, Daniel Emery, [space] 127,