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Precepts i the form following were issued to the Selectmen of the several towns and to the Assessors of the plantations composing the Oxford District

State of Maine.

To the Selectmen of the town of in Oxford District

Greeting:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Whereas, it is provided by the law, that whenever any vacancies shall happen in the representation of this State in the Congress of the United States, the Governor shall cause precepts to issue to the Selectmen of the several towns, and the Assessors of the several plantations within such District, directing and requiring them to cause the Inhabitants of their respective towns and plantations to assemble and give in their votes for a Representative to supply such vacancy. And whereas the Hon James W. Ripley, has resigned his seat in the twenty first Congress, there is now a vacancy in Oxford District.

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 Monday the thirteenth day of September next, 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. And you the said Selectmen, or a major part of you, shall, in open town meeting, sort and count 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 to the Secretary of this State, on or before the twenty third day of October next.

Given at the Council Chamber in Portland this third day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor.

Edward Russell, Secretary of State