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chard, and on the outside is a certificate in the following words and figures, to wit, "This contains a list of votes given by the inhabitants of Township No 3in 4. range and No 9. in 9. range for governor, on the second Monday of September, 1831. Seated up in open town meeting, by Aulger Chase Ephraim Packard} Selectmen of Blanchard James Pratt Attest, Aulger Chase, Town. Clerk." Said votes were counted. The return from Boydstown plantation is not certified to have been sealed up in open plantation meeting; the votes were counted. The return from the town of Milo is not attested on the inside by the Town Clerk, but it so attested on the outside; the votes were counted. The returns from the towns of Rome and Maxfield were not received at the office of the Secretary of State, until December 17, 1831. less than thirty days before the first Wednesday of January; the votes from the towns were counted. In the return from Eastport, it is stated that a vote was received, after the poll was closed, and in the return from Hartford, that three votes were received in that town, after the poll was closed; these votes were counted by the committee. By a return made by the assessors and plantation Clerk of Haskell Plantation, it appears that votes were received from inhabitants of an uncorporated place, called No. 7 in the 9th range: which votes were rejected. By the return from Danville, in the county of Cumberland, it appears that six hundred and forty three votes were given for sundry persons as candidates for Governor, which is known to be a much greater number of votes than there are constitutional votes in