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20 In Senate, Saturday, January 10, 1835. 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. The two Houses of the Legislature, agreeably to assignment, met in Convention for the purpose 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 93, Jabez Bradbury, 125, Edmund Mann, 127, Seth Labarre, 127, Edward Williams, 127, Thomas Crocker, 126, Benjamin Carr, 127, Daniel Emery, 127,