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[9] A message from the House of Representatives by Mr Child Concurring in this proposition

[Report of the Committee on votes for Governor] Mr Holbrook from the Committee on Returns of votes for Governor in the several towns and plantations in this state reported that the whole number of votes for Governor given by the qualified electors and returned according to the provisions of the Constitution and Laws is twenty eight thousand one hundred and nine necessary to constitute a choice fourteen thousand fifty five that Enoch Lincoln has twenty five thousand seven hundred forty five votes and is duly elected Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year by a majority of all the votes returned agreeable to the provisions of the constitution. The Committee have rejected the votes of the town of Bremen in the County of Lincoln because there is no certificate that the return was sealed in open town meeting - they have also rejected the votes of the town of Charlotte in the county Washington because the copy of the list of votes is not signed by the Selectmen of the town of Howland in the County of Penobscot because it is not stated in the body of the return in what town or county or at what time the meeting was held, and of the town of chandlerville in the county of Somerset because the return does not state the number of votes given -

There are no returns of votes for Governor from Thompson Pond plantation in the county of Cumberland. The town of Hancock, plantation No. 8. No. 10. No. 15 and residue of Binghams purchase in the County of Hancock - plantations No. 1 & No. 3 first range plantations No. 3 No 13 No 14 No 17 and No. 18 in the second range county of Washington the town of Canaan in the county of Somerset - read & accepted s.d.f.c. concurred.