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The Committee further report, that the return from the Town of Gilead does not appear to have been received at the office of the Secretary of State, until the eleventh day of December, and the return from the Town of Dearbon [Dearborn], was not received until the sixteenth day of December, but they were allowed, and the votes counted, to wit: One Hundred and Fourteen for Samuel E. Smith, and Thirty Nine for Jonathan G. Hunton. In the return from the Town of Atkinson, after the account of the other votes, it is added, "two votes were given for Jonathan G. Hunton after the above were counted and declared," these two votes were counted. The returns from the town of Winslow and Plantation No. 17 are not attested on the inside by the Clerk, but are so attested on the outside; they were allowed and counted, to wit: Samuel E. Smith fifty five, and Jonathan G. Hunton one hundred & three. By a return from the Officers of the Town of Orono, it appears that sundry persons living in an unincorporated place called Argyle voted in that town; the officers of said Town express no opinion as to the right of said persons to vote, but state certain facts in their return, which with the evidence, received by the Committee, on a paper marked A. is herewith submitted; by said return it appears that Thirty Eight votes were given for Samuel E. Smith, these votes were allowed and counted. By the return from Houlton plantation, it appears that Eighteen votes were received for Samuel E. Smith, and one for Jonathan G. Hunton, from persons residing in an adjoining unorganized Plantation, said votes were not counted; And by the return from Hodgdon plantation it appears that Three votes were received for Samuel E. Smith from persons stated by said return to be legal voters, but who did not reside in said Plantation, these votes