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Saturday, January 8, 1831.

[Report of the Committee appointed to wait on the Governor.] Mr. Hall, from the Committee appointed to wait on Samuel E. Smith, esquire, and inform him of his election to the Office of Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year, and that both branches of the Legislature are now ready to meet in Convention for the purpose of administering the oaths of Office required by the Constitution, reported, that the committee had performed the duty assigned them, and the Governor elect was pleased to say that he accepted the office, and would meet the two branches of the Legislature in the Representatives chamber, at ten o'clock in the forenoon this day, for the purpose of being qualified, according to the provisions of the Constitution.

[Message from the House.] A message was received from the House of Representatives, proposing to meet the Senate in Convention at ten o'clock this forenoon, in the Representatives chamber, for the purpose of administering the oaths of Office to the Governor elect, and requesting the concurrence of the Senate; and the Senate concurred.

In Convention 10 o'clock A.M.

[Governor Qualified.] Agreeably to assignment the two Branches of the Legislature met in Convention in the Representatives chamber, when the Hon. Samuel E. Smith came in, attended by the Council, and the Sheriff of Cumberland county, and before the President of the Senate, and in presence of both Houses of the Legislature, took and subscribed the oaths required by the Constitution to qualify him to enter upon the discharge of his official duties. The Secretary of State then made