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Friday January 4th, 1833.

Mr. Davee from the joint select Committee to whom was referred the votes for Governor given in the several towns and plantations in this State reported that the whole number of votes allowed by the Committee to have been duly returned is Sixty thousand five hundred and ninety seven, that of this number Samuel E. Smith has thirty one thousand nine hundred and eighty seven votes. Daniel Goodenow has twenty seven thousand six hundred and fifty one votes. Moses Carleton has eight hundred and sixty nine votes, and that of said first number all other persons have ninety votes. That the number necessary to constitute an election is Thirty thousand two hundred and ninety nine votes. That Samuel E. Smith having thirty one thousand nine hundred and eighty seven votes, and three thousand, three hundred and seventy seven votes, more than all other persons voted for is constitutionally elected Governor of the State of Maine for the current political year.

The return of votes from the town of Cranberry Isles, being sixteen for Daniel Goodenow, and the votes returned from the town of Vinalhaven being eighty five for Samuel E. Smith and seventy eight for Daniel Goodenow; and also the return of votes from Greenfield Plantation being seventeen for Samuel E. Smith and seventeen for Daniel Goodenow, were allowed & counted although the Selectmen of these towns, and Assessors of that Plantation omitted to certify that their returns were sealed up in open town or plantation meeting.

From the fact that these returns came into the hands of the Committee, sealed up, and finding them in all other respects regular, the Committee were constrained to believe, that the requisites of the law have been complied with.

Notwithstanding the Committee have come to this conclusion, they regret that any inaccuracy in the